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 [...]

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 [...]

In the first two parts of this post we have looked at what you will need by way of furniture for your office and also what communications equipment you will need to consider.
In this part we will now look at office equipment: what you are likely to need, what your options are, and how to [...]

In the first part of this post we looked at what you needed to furnish your office. Now we consider what equipment you will need in order to connect to the outside world.
 
Communications
 
The one item you are certain to need in your office is a telephone line. Even if you have a mobile for [...]

Ask most business owners what a business plan is for and they will say that you need it when starting a business to get a bank account opened or when you try to get funding for a new project.
There is some truth in that but it is only part of the story. A business plan [...]

Everyone knows that starting a business is risky but once over that stage most entrepreneurs look to the next challenge – growing the business. In many ways this is much more of a risk as if you get it wrong - and the line between success and failure can be a very fine one – [...]