Leadership
Tax regime holding back SME growth
Britain’s complex tax regime is holding back small businesses from reaching their maximum growth potential. At a time when SMEs need all the help that they can get, changes need to be made.
Published 4 days ago by Jason Hesse.
Tulsi Tanti: the poster boy for entrepreneurial India
Tulsi Tanti’s journey began with a decision to run the family’s cold-storage business instead of a cinema hall in his hometown in Gujarat. Today, Tanti’s firm Suzlon is the world’s third largest wind-turbine business.
Published 7 days ago by Vikas Pota.
Cleveland Cascades: "Specialist firms are the future of British engineering"
Real Business came across this speech by Ian Barnard, managing director of Cleveland Cascades – manufacturer of retractable loading chutes and winner of the Queen’s Award for Export in 2009. An inspiration to all entrepreneurs out there.
Published 11 days ago by Kate Pritchard.
Bigmouthmedia merges with LBi to create "super agency"
Search heavyweight Bigmouthmedia today merged with LBi to create "Europe's largest digital agency". Following the announcement, Bigmouthmedia founder Steve Leach tells Real Business about sabbaticals and sleepless nights.
Published 12 days ago by Kate Pritchard.
Hold on tight and look further afield, says Lord Davies
"Too many British entrepreneurs are selling their businesses at an early stage, rather than being ambitious in building up their businesses."
Published 13 days ago by Jason Hesse.
The latest court ruling on non-doms: stay away or pay
Thousands of tax exiles could potentially face huge tax bills after a British entrepreneur based in the Seychelles lost a landmark court battle over his residency earlier this week.
Published 19 days ago by Jason Hesse.
"Hawkish" UK entrepreneurs on acquisitions war path
Are you planning on making any acquisitions this year? If so, you're not alone – research shows that UK entrepreneurs are much more focused on acquisitions than their foreign counterparts.
Published 20 days ago by Jason Hesse.
Is now the time to sell your business?
Jo Haigh, head of corporate finance at ATF Group, has been involved in more than 300 business transactions over the past 20 years – in economic periods both buoyant and depressed. She gives us her take on whether conditions are ripe for a business disposal.
Published 21 days ago by Jo Haigh.
John Thurso on "setting business free"
Which political party will get your business vote at the general election (which will be held on May 6, according to the defence secretary Bob Ainsworth)? Last week, we published interviews with Lord Mandelson and Ken Clarke. This week, we give you John Thurso's pitch.
Published 22 days ago by Peter Curtis.
Inventor of the Frisbee dies
"He was an entrepreneur. He was a nice guy. He was always looking for something to do," says Walt Morrison, son of Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the Frisbee, who died this week aged 90.
Published 25 days ago by Jason Hesse.
