Samantha Binns

Content Marketing Manager
Marketing

I am the Brand & Innovation Project Manager for the UK & Ireland Marketing team. I co-lead on all the advertising and media brand campaigns for the UK. I also support all the marketing activity for all innovation in the UK, including Cisco BIG, Cisco CREATE and IDEALondon.

I studied Brand Management and Photography at University, with a personal interest in digital innovation and digital image-making.

Articles

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  Start-up Hub

  Start-up Hub Problem Page: How to build a board

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  Samantha Binns - February 9, 2017 - 0 Comments

  Wait, we’re a start-up. Why do we need a board of directors? A fair question, particularly as most new entrepreneurs’ minds are more focussed on finding customers and getting things

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  Common misconceptions about life at a start-up

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  Samantha Binns - December 21, 2016 - 0 Comments

  Free food, beanbags, pinball machines, parties, lie-ins, loads of money – that’s life at a start-up, right? Well no, not quite. Not even close, in fact. When we asked Tech

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  Start-up Hub Problem Page: Hiring challenges and tips for growing your team

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  Samantha Binns - December 16, 2016 - 1 Comment

  Ask any founder what the biggest challenge they face is when growing their start-up and they will most likely say “hiring people.” But don’t fear: just as in our previous

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  Unicorns, narwhals and cockroaches: Time to brush up on today’s start-up jargon

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  Samantha Binns - November 24, 2016 - 0 Comments

  There’s no shortage of jargon to get to grips with when you work in tech, and it’s no different for start-ups. Anyone with even a passing interest in our world

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  Start-up Hub: Teenage tech success stories – where are they now?

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  Samantha Binns - November 4, 2016 - 0 Comments

  They say wisdom is a virtue that improves with age, yet some of the world’s most prolific businesspeople were teenagers when they first saw success. In her latest Start-up Hub

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  #SundayStartup no. 30 – the top five stories for tech start-ups this week

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  Samantha Binns - October 30, 2016 - 0 Comments

  We’ve a very special edition of #SundayStartup this week, coming to you with an hour of extra sleep – absolutely FREE. Yes, the clocks have gone back today, so we

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  #SundayStartup no. 29 – the top five stories for tech start-ups this week

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  Samantha Binns - October 23, 2016 - 0 Comments

    We’re back for another edition of #SundayStartup, and bringing some welcome positive reports about UK tech funding. There’s more heart-warming news to add to that too, as we’ve also

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  #SundayStartup no. 28 – the top five stories for tech start-ups this week

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  Samantha Binns - October 16, 2016 - 0 Comments

  It’s time to serve up another helping of #SundayStartup. If you’re expecting eggs with that, you’re too late – apparently it was National Egg Day on Friday. So we’ll get

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  Start-up Hub

  #SundayStartup no. 27 – the top five stories for tech start-ups this week

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  Samantha Binns - October 9, 2016 - 0 Comments

    It’s been tough to keep up with the various ups-and-downs of #SundayStartup this summer, as Europe appears to have been locked in a battle over its start-ups. There’s better

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  Start-up Hub: Celebs who’ve caught the tech investment bug

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  Samantha Binns - October 6, 2016 - 0 Comments

  It’s not just the hardware that’s shiny in the world of tech – there’s an increasing number of big stars more commonly seen on glossy magazine pages dipping their toes

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