Start-up guide: insurance
Insurance may not be top of your to-do list when starting your business, but it’s essential to get it right.
Your accountant: the essentials (part 6)
Six things your accountant should tell you but probably won’t. Plus our guide to choosing an accountant.
Farewell sticky bum; hello removable gum
A British company is on the verge of the long-awaited chewing gum breakthrough having secured investment to continue research into non-stick gum.
Your accountant: the essentials (part 4)
Six things your accountant should tell you but probably won’t. Plus our guide to choosing an accountant.
“You can’t do it all,” says female entrepreneur
Hotelier Avril Owton insists that women entrepreneurs balancing work and family life mustn’t try to be Superwoman.
Business banking: a start-up guide
Your relationship with your bank could last decades, so get it right from the outset.
Biggest business annoyances
A modern day wise man told me that it’s never the big things that truly annoy people, it’s the small things that really get to them. And I reckon he was right. Here’s what gets my goat in the business world.
Web hosting: start-up guide
Yes, we know, it doesn’t sound exciting. But effective web hosting will give you, and your business, real reassurance.
Scars, blisters and sores – all in the name of charity
I have to confess, I had very high hopes when a squad from our office set off to take part in the Monster Bike & Hike, a 73-mile trek to raise funds for the Maggie’s Centre cancer charity.
Your accountant: the essentials (part 5)
Six things your accountant should tell you but probably won’t. Plus our guide to choosing an accountant.
Sir Terence Conran prepares to sell up
Sir Terence Conran has become the latest entrepreneur to make plans to sell part of his stake in his restaurant empire.
Entrepreneurs flee the country
Serial entrepreneur Hugh Osmond is considering relocating Pearl Assurance, his financial services group, outside the UK for tax reasons. He’s not the only one to lose faith in the government and turn his back on Blighty.