Archive for 'Starting a Business'
Online Business Name and Trademark Checker
A new website has just gone online which will be of great help to anyone starting up a new business. One of the most common complaints on a whole load of business forums is that of someone who has an established business and finds that someone else has set up another business with the same [...]
Full StoryWhat is Venture Capital?
The term Venture Capital refers to an investment made in a new or nearly new company either to get it off the ground (known as seed funding) or to provide capital for growth – surprisingly known as growth funding). Venture capital investments are usually made in cash in exchange for shares in the invested company [...]
Full StoryRunning Your Business – How to Present a Professional Image While Working From Home
In the current economic situation and with more people leaving regular employment and setting up as consultants, it has become much more acceptable to run your business from home. Apart from anything else, running a new business from the spare bedroom removes a whole layer of cost and risk, and makes it a lot more [...]
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You may not be aware that we offer a number of free business guides, usually around 12 pages long, on a wide range of subjects. You can access these via the “Downloads” tab on the menu bar above or by clicking here. The guides are all professionally written. New titles are added each week so [...]
Full StoryGordon Brown’s Business Loan Scheme is a Flop
Despite the Prime Minister hailing it as a success, it emerged over the weekend that only about £12 Million of the £1 Billion government loan guarantee scheme has actually been lent to companies. Last week Gordon Brown sought to defend the government’s record on helping business by repeatedly citing the £1bn loan guarantee scheme as [...]
Full StoryThe Companies Names Adjudicator : New Protection for Business Names
From 1 October 2008, there is a new right for individuals, partnerships or companies to object to the registration of a new company with the same or similar name as they use for their own business. This new right has been established under the 2006 Companies Act which itself is being introduced in stages over [...]
Full StoryStarting a Business? Don’t Overlook a Partnership
Ask most people how they would structure a new business and the chances are that they will talk about starting a company. That’s fine and works a lot of the time but usually only in conjunction with a shareholder agreement. One of the oldest forms of business structure is the Partnership – and this is [...]
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