Posts Tagged ‘ government ’

On Startup Finance

Startups risk failure by ignoring business basics According to a recent survey by Simply Business, weak financial management, an absence of basic business planning, uninformed decision-making and inadequate contracts impose the greatest risk for early stage businesses. It seems that many startup businesses have become so focused on working in the business that their time [ READ MORE ]

Business Training Courses

  Course details Turn Your Idea into a Business Saturday, 25 September    Tuesday, 12 October     £ 95 + VAT 1-day course with handouts, tea, coffee & lunch Do you have idea that will make a great business? Then this course is for you! If you are starting a new business, you have to [ READ MORE ]

The Future of Startup Funding

I run a FastTrack meetup event in June on The Future of Startup Funding, where we were very lucky to have experts from all key areas of business funding: banks, investors, incubators and crowd funding.   In the present economic environment, raising finance is extremely challenging  for small companies that cannot promise rocket propelled growth rates and need modest sums (it [ READ MORE ]

How will the new Government’s financial policy affect your business?

Cutting red tape, introducing ‘sunset clauses’ on regulations, a review of employment law, and simplifying as well as lowering business taxes were widely welcomed by the business community after the Queen’s speech yesterday. When the UK’s entrepreneurs were polled prior to Gordon Brown’s last budget, by Simply Business, only 40% thought that the proposed measures [ READ MORE ]

Is Gordon Brown right to spend £30 million on an Institute of Web Science?

This week, the Government announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science; an announcement timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of broadband going live in the UK.  The new Institute will be run by the Universities of Oxford and Southampton and headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, and [ READ MORE ]

Obama’s new healthcare reform bill – what’s in it for the US?

On Sunday, the House passed the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) and the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872). The key points of the bills are: Insurers can no longer deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions  Uninsured and self-employed able to purchase insurance through state-based exchanges [ READ MORE ]

Newsletter – Issue 1, 2010

DID YOU KNOW  Firms given extra two weeks to adjust prices for January VAT rise The Government has bowed to pressure from business groups and given firms an extra 14 days to adjust their prices when the VAT rate returns to 17.5 per cent on 1 January.  This means that businesses will have 28 days [ READ MORE ]

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