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Five top ideas for students to get on the career ladder

For students finishing their degrees, it can be hard to get started on their career. Here are five tips to help you get started.

Advice

News

SME owners aged 18-24 prioritise strategy over convenience

SME owners aged 18-24 twice as likely to prioritise strategy over convenience when setting up their business.

Advice

Five top ideas for students to get on the career ladder

For students finishing their degrees, it can be hard to get started on their career. Here are five tips to help you get started.

News

SME owners aged 18-24 prioritise strategy over convenience

SME owners aged 18-24 twice as likely to prioritise strategy over convenience when setting up their business.

Legal advice

Is there value in protecting IP you don’t intend to use?

In this piece Peter Finnie, patent attorney and managing partner at Gill Jennings & Every, discusses how defensive patents can be of value to your business.

Advice

Starting a business in Edinburgh: A small business guide

The location of a startup is important because it influences its rate of growth and expansion. Edinburgh has been named as the best place to start a small business in the UK.

News

Lack of proactive planning by business as they prepare for Brexit

Snap general election, hung parliament and and Brexit negotiations have thrown business planning into trouble.

Business Technology

Five video production techniques to wow small business audiences

Here, Ben Newth, founder at Reel Media, discusses his top five video production techniques to wow a small business audience.

Business Ideas & Planning

Proptech: How the estate agent business model is shifting

Gemma Young, CEO and co-founder of Settled discusses how an alternative to traditional business models is key, and how she aims to shake up the estate agent model.

Marketing

How a rebrand can boost business growth

Neil Everatt, CEO of Selenity, discusses how his company approached a rebrand and the lessons small business owners should learn from his experience.

Startup Funding and Grants

The business of self-funding

Here, Jake Madders, co-founder and director of Hyve, discusses how you can go about self-funding your own business.

Business management

Why it pays to be prepared when disaster strikes

Jo Gibson, operations director at First Capital Cashflow, explains why it’s vital for small businesses to have a contingency plan in place for unexpected events.

Business management

The UK is sitting on a workforce time bomb…here is how to diffuse it

We are sitting at the tipping point of a workforce revolution with forecasts that 50 per cent of the UK's workforce will be freelancing by 2020

Office & home working

London’s ten most iconic office spaces

They’re the prime London business addresses many company directors dream of operating from but a new study reveals they aren’t as expensive as you might think.

Business Loans

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.

Partner content

Small business owners: discover alternative funding solutions to help fuel your growth

Business Technology

Why you should upgrade your tech now rather than later

To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis

Investing in a franchise

Should I buy a franchise or go solo?

Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.