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Articles and guides on Small Business Funding options, covering traditional sources such as government grants, bank loans, lines of credit, and personal savings, as well as alternative financing methods like crowdfunding, angel investors, and invoice finance.

Blog

Pitching to investors: A first-hand account

Bertie Stephens, founder of online shopping service Flubit, talks about his experience with two pitches for investment and what investors expect.

Blog

How opening up access to the UK’s pension funds can free up cash for businesses

In his third of a series of blogs, James King of venture capital firm Find Invest Grow (FIG) discusses why opening up access to pension funds as a source of VC finance would substantially increase the capital available to Britain's entrepreneurs.

Blog

How boosting the Enterprise Investment Scheme can lift start-ups and small businesses

In the second of a series of blogs, James King, founder of venture capital firm Find Invest Grow (FIG), discusses how extending the Enterprise Investment Scheme would incentivise investors to put more money into start-ups and kickstart the beleaguered British economy.

Startup Funding and Grants

How I financed my software business: Guy Mucklow, Postcode Anywhere

In the first of a new series of Q&As, SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to entrepreneur Guy Mucklow about raising money for his business, which offers web services and software to look up UK and international addresses.

Alternative finance

How start-ups can be helped by established businesses – in finance and beyond

In the first of a series of blogs, James King, founder of venture capital firm Find Invest Grow, discusses how existing businesses can play a major role in supporting start-ups.

Business Loans

Majority of small businesses bootstrapped initially – with just 3 per cent achieving a bank loan

Almost three quarters of small company owners launched their new business venture with working capital of £2,000 or less, research finds.

Financing

Businesses in the dark over some finance options

A lack of understanding of alternative forms of borrowing such as asset-based finance could be hampering UK business growth, a study suggests.

Blog

Start-up loans for young entrepreneurs expanded

Over the past year, we saw swathes of government policies aimed at getting business moving in this fetid economic climate, some promising, some half-baked. Now there's a new one, or at least a development of an old one, to inspire or deflate entrepreneurs for the new year.

Alternative finance

Raising money through the Angel CoFund 

SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to George Whitehead, chairman of the government-backed Angel CoFund, about the fundraising potential for small businesses.

Small Business Banking

How to win bank funding

Business owners and bankers share tips with SmallBusiness.co.uk on how to negotiate a financing deal.

Startup Funding and Grants

What is credit easing and how does it apply to small businesses?

What is credit easing and how does it apply to small businesses?

Government Grants

The green grant

Neil McManus, owner of telecoms provider GHM Communications, won a business grant of £1,000 from Sustainable Routes, an environmentally-friendly project that helps businesses in reduce the cost of business travel.

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