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Advice on how to start your own business, with guides to help you plan, develop and finance a start-up company, plus recommendations on registering the business, its legal structure and finding financial backing for growth. Whether you are just beginning or have already taken the first steps and want to keep everything on track, our expert articles will give you the knowledge to help lead you to success, whilst maintaining a good work-life balance.

Starting a business can initially seem daunting, but with good support and a strong idea you can quickly pass through the key stages of the setting-up process and be able to launch your company with a solid foundation.

Topics covered include: regulations and requirements for company owners, finding and selecting the professional services you may need (such as banking, insurance, accountancy etc.), legal structure options (self-employed person, sole trader, a partnership or a limited company), business planning, UK start up funding sources and finding your first customers.

Top ten places to launch your start-up

Choosing where to launch your start-up is a huge decision that can literally make or break your business. Here, we look at the top candidates.

Business Ideas & Planning

Advice

Five steps to a thriving business

If you’re wondering how you begin to expand your business, think about some of these ideas to help get you started.

Advice

Business ownership and how management teams can impact growth

How are management teams impacting growth, and where does the responsibility lie – with them or the owners? Here, Darren Holdway of Haines Watts discusses the matter.

Advice

Come to a free seminar and learn from two highly successful entrepreneurs

Trunki entrepreneur Rob Law MBE and media guru Tim Weller will be offering top quality business advice at the E2E ScaleUp2Success seminar series taking place at the Reading Regus offices.

Advice

The 15 best cities in the UK to start a business

Picking a location to start up your business can be tricky, with outlying costs and likely survival of your business a priority. We break down the 15 best cities to start a business.

Advice

The small business fairytale toolkit

Here, Richard Stonier, founder of online accountancy provider, Tally Accounts, turns the page on top tips for small business owners to live happy ever after.

Work life balance

Overwhelming workloads tip the scales on work-life balance

The Qualtrics Employee Pulse, taken every quarter, asks 4,000 employees about the state of their workplace including how an overloaded work schedule effects their work-life balance.

Startup Funding and Grants

Why do companies outside of London not use EIS?

More than half of businesses who have received EIS investment are based in London, despite only making up a quarter of the economy.

Work life balance

Overwhelming workloads tip the scales on work-life balance

The Qualtrics Employee Pulse, taken every quarter, asks 4,000 employees about the state of their workplace including how an overloaded work schedule effects their work-life balance.

Startup Funding and Grants

Why do companies outside of London not use EIS?

More than half of businesses who have received EIS investment are based in London, despite only making up a quarter of the economy.

Business Ideas & Planning

Why starting up in a ‘dry’ industry can give you the edge you need

In this piece Cat Pinkney, co-founder of Paycircle, explains why launching a product in a dull sector has been the key to the company's success.

Investing in a franchise

How do I know if franchising is for me?

Here, we look at how to ensure you're making the right decision to invest in a franchise.

Advice

How to start a financial company

The financial sector can be an attractive way of starting a company in a European country, as we explore here.

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How listening to business advice can make you £2 million

Everyone gets business advice. But, as ISL recruitment director Alan Furley argues, it only starts to pay when you start listening.

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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.

Partner content

16 ways to improve your business cash flow

Read here for 16 tried and tested tips and tricks to improve potential cash flow problems

Business management

How to create good cashflow habits

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