Archive for 'Starting a Business'
Running 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 likely [...]
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The guides are all professionally written. New titles are added each week so please check back regularly or [...]
Gordon 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 evidence [...]
The 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 a [...]
Starting 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 often [...]
Setting Up an Office: Part 5 – Working from home
Many small start-ups find setting up an office at home the most attractive option. It is cheap and handy, but there may be drawbacks.
The Legal Position
The first thing is to consider is whether or not you can legally set your office up at home. If you rent your home there may very well be a [...]
How to Succeed in Business
Ever wondered why some people succeed in business and others don’t? Or why some of them are exceptionally successful?
Well some of it may be luck but there are common factors seen in all successful business people that would seem to indicate otherwise.
It appears that great entrepreneurs have 5 key qualities that help them succeed in situations that others [...]
