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A great British renaissance has been taking place. From Aberdeen to the West Country, the zing is back in manufacturing. It’s about time this spectacular story was told.

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“Labour’s lost my vote”
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“Before the pre-budget report, I thought the government supported entrepreneurs,” says Sahar Hashemi, who started the Coffee Republic empire with her brother in the mid-nineties. “I was wrong.”

November 12, 2007 4:59pm
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Entrepreneur backs new CGT plans
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The CBI is giving nothing away following a meeting with the Treasury about its capital gains tax alternatives.

November 09, 2007 5:13pm
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Waging war on CGT
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Duncan Cheatle runs an entrepreneur networking group called The Supper Club and he’s been speaking out about the Chancellor’s new 18% flat rate capital gains tax.

November 09, 2007 10:35am
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Choose investment with care
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Beware Dragons' Den-style investment where you sacrifice a lot of your company for minimal cash, warns Spannerworks CEO Arjo Ghosh.

November 05, 2007 11:36am
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Gaga for Google
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What higher accolade for a technology company than a $25m investment from Google, the Brobdingnagian icon of internet searching?

November 01, 2007 4:54pm
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Postal strike hell
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Have you sat down with your FD to work out how much the postal strike has cost your company?

October 30, 2007 10:33am
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Darling unlikely to scrap CGT plans
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But the chancellor indicates he will consider alternative proposals for areas of concern.

October 23, 2007 1:05pm
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Higher prices get results
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If you want to get ahead, put your prices up. That’s the advice from Serious Readers founder Alex Pratt.

October 18, 2007 10:14am
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Entrepreneurs in new "climate of fear"
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By scrapping business taper relief the government has reversed all its good tax incentives and created a "climate of fear", says one leading entrepreneur.

October 15, 2007 11:07am
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Chris Lewis's letter to the PM
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PR entrepreneur Chris Lewis is so unhappy about the abolition of business taper relief, he's fired off this letter to the PM.

October 15, 2007 11:01am

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Dragons’ Den: Where are they now?

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - August 21, 2008 5:02pm GMT

If you (like us) were wondering whatever happened to all those businesses that faced the Dragons’ wrath in the Den over the past six series, look no further.

How do you fund your growth?

By Zarrin Lilani - August 20, 2008 4:09pm GMT

As the economic situation worsens in the UK, we’re hearing reports that smaller businesses aren't managing their finances in the best way.

Ten lessons for entrepreneurs from Team GB at the Olympics

By Stuart Rock - August 20, 2008 11:59am GMT

Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Ben Ainslie: entrepreneurs can learn from all of them

Is Bob Dylan the entrepreneur's soundtrack?

By Matthew Rock - August 20, 2008 10:07am GMT

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Apprentice star gets nobbled by wall

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - August 19, 2008 4:57pm GMT

Nicholas De Lacy-Brown thought being fired by Alan Sugar was bad. Little did he know that a few months later, he’d receive a far more crushing blow.

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