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Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurs archive offering advice and tips to help small businesses start and succeed in business.

Business Ideas & Planning

How to innovate: Creating new and groundbreaking products

Brigette Bard discusses the hot topic of innovation; taking an idea from brainstorm, to concept, to strategy, to launch.

Business Ideas & Planning

Creating the next big food start-up: Do you have what it takes?

Here, Tom Mercer talks to the owners of two early-stage food businesses about why they started and the hurdles they faced.

Business management

From good to great: How scaling is the next stage in innovation

To scale or not to scale? Arina Osiannaya discusses why now might be the time for high-growth ambitions.

News

Business owners bullish about growth over coming years

Two thirds of SME business owners are optimistic about the growth of their business over the next five years, research finds.

News

Business owners confident about the future of their company

Owner-managers are more optimistic than they were 12 months ago, research finds.

News

Small business owners ready to fight for their company

More than two thirds of small business owners around the world have dived into personal savings or re-mortgaged their homes to make a success of their company, research finds.

Advice

The importance of small businesses in the UK economy

Here, we look at the challenges on the path to prosperity for small businesses, including regulation, red tape and access to finance.

Work life balance

Family friendly working: It’s now or never

Rebecca Bridges discusses the modern requirement to allow more flexible working arrangements for employees looking to have a family.

Blog

Achieving more through stress avoidance

In this piece, David Cliff ruminates on striking the right balance between acquiring luxuries and having the time to enjoy them.

Advice

Five steps to cutting entrepreneurial excuses

Beatrice Bartlay discusses why being honest with oneself and stopping making excuses is worthwhile behaviour as a business owner.

Advice

The ups and downs of life as an entrepreneur

Here, Eugene O'Sullivan looks into exactly what to expect when embarking on your own venture.

Productivity Zone

Five tips to improve productivity in the last week of summer

Niall O'Loughlin of 99designs explores a number of ways to spike the productivity of your small business.

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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