Start-ups

Four in 10 UK start-up businesses will fail in the first five years. Why is this? There are numerous reasons identified as the causes of why fledging businesses with so much promise, shrivel and wilt away before they had chance to grow and blossom. One reason is cash flow. A stuttering, intermittent flow of cash…

Starting a new engineering firm is an excellent idea if you want to make a killing this year. People with the right backgrounds could earn a fortune if they get things right. However, it’s possible to make mistakes when it comes to planning your budget. With that in mind, we’ve included some often overlooked costs…

Have you always wanted to invest in a business start up but don’t know where to start? Are you a future business angel just waiting to get their wings?  Start up business investment is smart forward thinking that helps to grow the economy as well as supports the next generation of business entrepreneurs. Start up…

Everyone who has started their own business will know just how much energy and time go into running it. It can be completely exhausting at the time and yet when you start to experience the sweet taste of success, you know that it was all worth it. All of the gruelling years that you spent…

As a startup, knowing where to spend your money is difficult. There are almost limitless opportunities, but very few of them will actually generate a return. According to Entrepreneur magazine, there are definitely some expenses you should avoid. These including buying expensive clothes just to massage your own ego, or buying a swanky downtown office,…

When you set up a new business, you will doubtless want to make as much profit as possible from it. For some enterprises, that means securing lucrative contracts from a few key high net worth clients. As you might suspect, these are individuals that usually run a string of successful and profitable businesses. If ever…

It’s a question you had better answer before the business is put at serious risk. If you’re having trouble keeping hold of employees, it’s more than an annoyance. The cost of undergoing the hiring process and training new recruits will build up to the point your business can’t sustain them. You need a serious look…

When you open up a new IT business, you must avoid making some of the most common mistakes. If you make any blunders early on, you can almost guarantee that your business won’t survive the first year. Instead, it will be pushed out of the market by other IT companies who began their journey on…

You might think that you shouldn’t be going after the big guns in business just yet and you’re probably right, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be learning from the things they’ve done in the past and the steps they’ve taken to success. Innovate and Imitate Amazon, ask most people what it’s the name…

It’s no big secret: everyone tells you to spend as little as possible when you start a new business. After all, you want to make sure that your new enterprise can grow and not get into any financial trouble! There are plenty of guides on the Internet that tell you how can you be savvier…