Fail File: Nicola Taylor, Tax Traders and Taxi co-founder

Fail File: Nicola Taylor, Tax Traders and Taxi co-founder
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Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Nicola Taylor, co-founder of Tax Traders, a fintech that builds software tools for accountants, and of Taxi, which enables small businesses to borrow against their provisional tax. Simplicity recently took an 18% stake in their holding company.I was really disappointed when: Well, so many of us were disappointed when covid hit. We had invested and reinvested in the business we launched at the kitchen table. &nbs...

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