Tech founders admit their biggest mistakes

Stuart Sumner
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The founders and CEOs of some of the world's fastest-growing and most exciting startups and scale-ups tell Computing about the moments when it all nearly came crashing down around their ears...

Starting and growing a business is universally acknowledged as both incredibly stressful and challenging. Add a global pandemic into the mix and a tricky task can become almost impossible. Over ...

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