Friday 6 May

Today on StartupSmart, we comb through the winners of this year’s Webby Awards to find out what online start-ups can learn from the world’s leading websites.

Whether it’s a solid online strategy or proper use of animation, the army of Webby winners are leading the way. We’ve picked out the 10 lessons you should be gleaning from their success.

Elsewhere, Peter Vitale and James Omond look at the legalities of employment probation periods and Ms Manners aims to solve the dilemma of who picks up the bill following a meeting.

Oliver Milman, editor