Starting a business during a recession is possible. People will still buy and other businesses still need services. However, this is not the easiest and you will need to take a number of steps to make sure that you succeed. Having a business plan is essential during a recession so you know the direction of […]
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Trevor Baylis has seen success with his inventions like the wind-up radio, but he cannot help but wonder why the government isn’t doing more to help inventors get going. So, he is doing something about it. He set up Baylis Brands to help inventors to patent their ideas and get them to market, and he
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Entrepreneurs are known for working long hours with few breaks. Well, UK entrepreneurs hope to change that next year by taking a little more time off. One in every five UK small business owners will be making a New Year’s resolution to take more time off, according to a survey by XLN Business Services. In
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There has been a lot of talk about the successes women have seen in business, but are those trends really stalling? The Australian recently mentioned a comment by Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, about women in the boardroom. “Women made tremendous gains in the 70s, 80s and 90s,” said Ms Whitman. “But the
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Fresh Business Thinking: The Sage Omnibus surveyed over 1,000 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from its 800,000 strong UK customer base and found that five per cent of business owners are planning on working on Christmas Day, seven per cent on Boxing Day and ten per cent on New Year’s Day. Furthermore, it showed
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InspiresMe.co.uk: The scheme, called Inspires Me Week, allowed more than 50 students aged 14 – 16 to spend a week working directly with companies in a variety of sectors including TV production, food, mobile applications, environmentally friendly baby retail and fashion. The budding entrepreneurs went behind the scenes, shadowing business leaders and company bosses. They
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A recent report analyzes the attitudes entrepreneurs have in six different countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain. According to Sys-Con Media, although business hasn’t been at its best, most entrepreneurs are still optimistic. Forty three percent reported negative or no growth in revenue last year. Despite this performance
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The Telegraph: Thirty technology experts, led by the ebullient Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and serial investor with stakes in the likes of Facebook and Zynga, are visiting Downing Street, London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’, and universities across the country to encourage the next wave of British dotcom entrepreneurs. Hoffman thinks the UK is ‘on its way’
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After John Sprange’s father developed Alzheimer’s, he couldn’t help but wonder if there was some way he could help fight to maintain some of his memories. When his father went into a home, he made a list of cherished memories for his father to look over. Unfortunately, it was constantly set away whenever staff would
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Sometimes when people think of porridge, they think of nursery rhymes. When Tim Evans thinks about it, he envisions his special bowl appearing on the table of every porridge-eating family. He has just launched his first product – the Oats Made Easy porridge bowl – to make measuring out the oats and milk a piece
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