Lucy Tobin
Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at The Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of The Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference....
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Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at The Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of The Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference.
Scrappy startups to industry giants: lessons from Dash Water
The latest ScaleUp Standard newsletter takes in marketing tips from the founders of Dash and breaking into the US with Perlego’s CEO Gauthier Van Malderen
‘We decided our mission was to make the world’s best muesli’
Just don’t use it as confetti, Camilla Barnard says
The clubs where mums chill to ‘stop going mad with parenting’
B_together’s restaurant, Feast, in St John’s Wood opened for business on the day that indoor dining was first permitted during the pandemic
The clubs where mums chill to ‘stop going mad with parenting’
Today, both the London and Singapore b_together sites have about 150 family members, each paying a fee starting at £185 a month
The best family-friendly afternoon tea in London
In her most delicious investigative reporting yet, Lucy Tobin tests out London’s best family afternoon teas
Man behind the miniliths has plans for a more Legible world
In the past five years, Applied has tripled turnover and it now works for corporate campuses including Google and Nike, universities including UCL and Princeton, and Nasa’s Pasadena campus
Big growth plans for the world’s smallest gelateria
‘The first 500 machines delivered from China were built upside down’
Paddle: Tech unicorn co-founder puts the accent on hunger to learn
He might not sound it, but Paddle founder Christian Owens is keeping it Corby
Taking a stylish lead in luxury home tech
How a firm fitting out million-pound homes with AV wizadry took off
The best places in London to eat with the kids
Eating out with children can be a challenge, but these restaurants make it easy, and without sacrificing on the food
Here’s to fruitier taste and less food waste from ‘Wonky HQ’
Dash’s Tottenham Court Road base is named “Wonky HQ” for the odd-shaped fruit that flavours its drinks
‘I was the only kid in my year who didn’t apply to university’
‘Once I got a taste of restaurants, there was no going back’
Doing a number on the modern business of work on your phone
YourBusinessNumber already works worldwide, with the US its second-biggest market; the founders are now plotting local pushes into Germany, Brazil and India
The friends proving a healthy London lunch need never be boring
When these entrepreneurs couldn’t find a great salad in their newly-adopted city, London, they built their own...
The friends proving a healthy London lunch need never be boring
The threesome didn’t quit their day jobs until July 2019, when their first site, in St James’s Park, opened — it’s still their busiest branch
Going it alone with a love of bright design
“I built this business by refusing to be frightened of failure,” says the founder of Sara Miller London
The entrepreneurs behind warehouse studios
Nicholas Sonuga and Amin Hamzianpour on setting up their studio empire
Branching out from a healthy taste in olives
Snack entrepreneur Olly Hiscocks made a move from medicine to olives