A relatively dry column this month, but important for any business looking to raise funding from equity investors. You should already know about the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). If not, then this column on SEIS is still relevant. With...
For most start-ups, cash is precious, resources tight and there’s never enough time. Hence even more than for other businesses, it’s essential to make effective decisions about where to focus. A priority missed, or an unnecessary distraction that eats up effort and resource, could mean the...
There is one business column I read religiously each week – Mark Ritson, a Marketing Professor who writes for Marketing Week. I’m loath to tell you about him as he is the insightful, entertaining, provocative columnist that I aspire to be. You’ll read him and...
The Start-Up Series is our competition to find new consumer businesses – we say it’s for ‘products and services we buy and the ways that we buy them’. It’s a deliberately broad definition but all new consumer businesses need to influence consumers to change their behaviour...