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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.

Paternity leave proposals unattractive for fathers

Fathers will not take up the new paternity leave entitlement set out by the government, claims the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Work life balance

Business Ideas & Planning

EU citizen

What are the requirements for a European citizen to start a small business in the UK?

Advice

The importance of fitness and wellbeing for entrepreneurs

Whether you’re scaling mountains, racing cars or going to the gym, undertaking some form of healthy activity will not only help you to combat rising stress levels, you might actually live longer too.

Business Ideas & Planning

Interview with Jennifer Irvine

Jennifer Irvine, founder of The Pure Package, talks about her business.

Business Ideas & Planning

Start a business for under £200

SmallBusiness.co.uk has a wealth of articles and guides to help you save money when starting out in business.

Startup Funding and Grants

How to survive the Dragons’ Den

Aside from the entertainment value, there are a number of valuable lessons to be taken from the BBC’s Dragons’ Den. Here are the top five from Smallbusiness.co.uk.

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Peter Jones’ school for entrepreneurs

Multimillionaire and star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones talks to SmallBusiness.co.uk about training the next generation of entrepreneurs through his National Enterprise Academy (NEA).

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Sister act

More female entrepreneurs are discovering how a mentor can reinvigorate their business.

Advice

Peter Jones’ school for entrepreneurs

Multimillionaire and star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones talks to SmallBusiness.co.uk about training the next generation of entrepreneurs through his National Enterprise Academy (NEA).

Work life balance

Sister act

More female entrepreneurs are discovering how a mentor can reinvigorate their business.

Startup Funding and Grants

Start-up funding

Although winning the lottery to get funding for your start-up might seem like an easier option than getting a bank loan, there are still other forms of finance out there.

Business Ideas & Planning

Information memorandum

I have been asked for an 'information memorandum' but am struggling to understand how this differs from the business plan. Could you please advise?

Success stories

Rising star: Jo Young on starting her Urban Sprawl sofa covers business

It's brave to start a business, but even braver to ditch it in favour of something else. Jo Young did just that and has turned her sofa throw company, Urban Sprawl, into a spreading success.

Business Ideas & Planning

Starting your own hairdressing salon business – A guide

Hairdressing tops other professions for happiness levels and as an industry that attracts 340 million client visits a year, you can see why. So get chopping with our guide and start making waves as a salon owner.

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