Stamp duty relief fails housebuilders
The government’s stamp duty relief is “too little too late” and will not stimulate the housing market, according to Chesterton CEO Robert Bartlett.
Domains, dodgy deals, sofas and strippers
When Pat Reeves and Rohan Blacker decided on the domain name sofa.com for their online sofa retailer, the acquisition trail took them to the US – and into a whole heap of trouble.
Healthcare entrepreneur: “Credit crunch? What credit crunch?”
Despite the headlines of doom and gloom and dried-up funding, entrepreneur Arthur Robinson didn’t have any trouble bagging £6.1m of development capital for his Cheshire-based healthcare firm.
FD watch
A new finance director has been appointed at Anglo Platinum
Credit crunch and the property market: where are we now?
A chart that places the UK on the edge of fear
New angel service is launched
The founder of a London-based company claiming to offer one of the most advanced entrepreneur and investor capital matching services says he’s responding to Dragons’ Den-induced frustration at finding capital or exciting businesses to invest in.