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The majority of tax legislation in the UK is confusing, and support for SMEs is often ineffective, so why is S/EIS any different?
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A successful entrepreneur or founder of a start-up needs to use many of the same techniques as a successful athlete or sports team.
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Funding in 2023
Founders and entrepreneurs have to have a determination and resilience that often distinguishes them from those that are paid employees. It is not only that they have to find...
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Funding in 2023
Getting funding to scale a business in 2023 is certainly more of a challenge than it has been in more recent years. This does not mean that it is not possible. It does however...
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Funding in 2023
Valuing any business can be a complicated and often inexact procedure, but arriving at a valuation for an early-stage business is so much more difficult...
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Funding in 2023
When considering raising equity finance, most early-stage businesses would often have to turn to angel investors or crowdfunding as was explained in last week’s article...
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Funding in 2023
Having decided to scale your business and having concluded that the only way to make that happen in a meaningful way is to raise equity funding, there are then some very obvious...
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Funding in 2023
Pitch decks and business plans are a very common area for discussion amongst founders and early-stage business owners, especially if those businesses are seeking to raise...
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Funding in 2023
Having made the decision to raise equity funding, and assuming that you know how much you are looking to raise, you must then decide the best place to raise that funding. This...
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Funding in 2023
Funding for your business can, in theory, come from many different places. It can be self-funded from your own resources, otherwise known as bootstrapping, or you can ask...
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Funding in 2023
Many hundreds of thousands of new businesses are set up each year in the UK. Indeed, according to Companies House, just over 200,000 new businesses were established in the first...
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Funding in 2023
Ask any early-stage business owner and they will tell you that getting funding to scale can be tough. Very tough. All will tell you that it takes much more time and effort and take
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Challenges & Top Tips
When starting a new business, founders tend to fit into one of two categories. There are founders whose plan it is to scale their new business as aggressively as possible and to...
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Challenges & Top Tips
If you want to scale your early-stage business, and to grow it quickly, then it is quite possible that you will need to raise investment by selling part of your business to new...
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Challenges & Top Tips
It has been said that ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going’. But in reality, when a recession is looming and the business environment gets even tougher than normal...
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Challenges & Top Tips
Most entrepreneurs, and indeed the early-stage businesses themselves, share many of the same challenges and experiences along their journey. This is basically true irrespective...
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Challenges & Top Tips
Working with the right partners can make the difference between success and failure in almost any scenario, but this is even more true when running an early-stage business. As...
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Top Tips
When establishing a start-up, or later on during the whole scale-up journey, there is one general concept that holds good, and that is that you should try to under promise and...
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Challenges & Top Tips
One of the most difficult things to being a founder or running an early-stage business is the lack of human resources and the sheer amount and diversity of work that needs to be...
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Challenges & Top Tips
These are tough times for many businesses. Rapid inflation and so rising input costs. Rising interest rates leading to increased financial costs. Squeezed consumers buying less...
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Challenges & Top Tips
To be a successful entrepreneur means that you have to run a successful business. That in turn requires your business to sell products or services that customers want to buy and...
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