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The entrepreneur’s guide to robots, IoT, VR and blockchain

As a tool for every budding entrepreneur, we’ve assembled an overview of the most important technologies to watch right now.

To be successful as an entrepreneur requires a keen eye for an opportunity, good spatial and market awareness, experience, and a significant degree of good luck. Nonetheless, along the way things don’t always go to plan. Even the most effective entrepreneurs don’t have a 100 per cent success record.

Of course, all business owners and managers strive for it, but there simply aren’t enough hours in a day to achieve perfection. Serving customers, finding new ones, managing staff, establishing processes, admin, expanding your market and world view – all this cuts into your time and potential effectiveness as an entrepreneur.

Then there’s technology. No longer a simple world of beige boxes and flashing lights, technology now runs through the arteries of most companies. Whether you’re recruiting customers, optimising customer experiences or developing new business models, IT is omnipresent. It can be argued that every company is an IT company now. It’s also important to remember that, as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to do all the technology heavy lifting yourself. You can spread the investigative workload, while at the same time benefitting from external expertise by working with the right suppliers and partners. These are companies that have already invested time and money in trialling and investigating new and emerging technologies to determine their worth and application. It means you can pursue the wider aims of your idea, while your technology partners provide the best possible technology to make them happen. Read more…