Startups
Growing health and beauty franchise Biothecare Estetika is celebrating the opening of its new Ipswich Centre.
By Brooke DuBois
Do you know more about business than the stars of TV’s The Apprentice, including Season Six semi-finalist Jamie Lester? You’ll have your chance to find out at The Business Startup Show, at London’s ExCel on Thursday and Friday, 19 and 20 May.
By Brooke DuBois
Prime the business cards, charge up the iPad and prepare your brain for an influx of invaluable business knowledge - it's time to start or grow your business with help from The Business Startup Show.
By Brooke DuBois
Estimates have been made regarding the number of jobs that will be lost in the public sector over the next six years as an outcome of the spending review. The totals ranged from 300,000 in May 2010 to 600,000 in June 2010. Finally, in November 2010, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) calculated that there would be losses of about 330,000.
By Brooke DuBois
With over 100 franchise brands from across the globe, one-to-one advice from experts, opportunities to chat with current franchisees and over 90 seminars and workshops, The Franchise Show can help you decide whether franchising is for you, and which franchise model will best suit your interests and aspirations.
By Brooke DuBois
All big businesses have to start small – and Kirsty Henshaw's started in a tiny kitchen in Preston, while she was a struggling uni student.
Find out how this young mum from Preston went from here to securing a £65,000 investment from TV 'Dragons' Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones for her range of frozen desserts.
By Brooke DuBois
A few months back, our sister publication, StartupTV digital business magazine together with the Entrepreneurs' Business Academy (EBA) launched a competition to find the UK's top fledgling entrepreneur.
By Brooke DuBois
Have you ever wondered how big companies like Coca-Cola and Sony started? Although those were different times, you basically need the same thing to establish your own international business: a bit of courage and good planning.
By Christian Arno
The tools to move or expand your business overseas will be at the fingertips of participants of a very special event happening this month.
By Brooke DuBois
Issue 14 of StartupTV digital magazine is hot off the press.
By Brooke DuBois
As a large, economically vibrant and fairly homogenous market, the United States has long had strong appeal for foreign companies...
By Brooke DuBois
It may surprise some but many business leaders believe the recession offers unparalleled opportunities for those willing to quit the corporate rat race and set up their own businesses.
By Brooke DuBois
Online entrepreneur magazine Startup TV will provide the official film crew for In 48 Hours, the unique startup bootcamp hosted by Doug Richard in Sheffield this week.
By Brooke DuBois
Looking for ways to start or grow your business? Then look no further!
By Brooke DuBois
With the franchise industry contributing £11.8 billion to the country’s GDP last year, more entrepreneurs are looking at franchise opportunities as a lower-risk way of going into business for themselves, but not by themselves.
By Brooke DuBois
If you are considering taking on a franchise, prepare to be like a kid in a candy shop at these major upcoming franchise exhibitions.
By Brooke DuBois
A record number of people will start their own business this year in the face of rising unemployment, an industry group has predicted.
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A new free event being held in Manchester in September is set to help budding business people bloom.
By Brooke DuBois
You’re looking for a franchise but the amount of choice is making you want to hide under your desk. Fast food or financial services? Party planning or plumbing? Cleaning or car repairs? With so many options available, how do you find the right franchise for you?
By Brooke DuBois
With the economies of South-East Asia set to expand by 50 per cent by 2015, UK businesses are being urged to act now to seize opportunities in these fast-growing markets.
By Brooke DuBois
Stop what you’re doing. Issue seven of digital business mag, Startup TV, is here. Forget broadsheets – this is business news with bite!
By Brooke DuBois
Master franchises may well be the best kept secret in the investment world.
By Aimie Noble
The number of new businesses starting up in Britain has increased by 19%, according to new figures.
Direct marketing company Selectabase recently conducted a survey that showed that from January to May this year, 36,179 new enterprises were launched, approximately 240 start ups per day.
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With scissors, stanley knives and the odd chainsaw poised, a new Cabinet committee with the task of reducing the heavy burden of red tape on business met for the first time yesterday.
By Brooke DuBois
Are you an inspirational business woman, or do you know of one? Time is running out for applications for the NatWest everywoman Awards. Get in quick for your chance to receive the recognition you deserve and join a list of past winners who are not only giving the chaps a run for their money – they’ve left them well in their wake.
By Brooke DuBois
Property investor, business coach and philanthropist Caroline Marsh has come a long way.
By Brooke DuBois
Issue six of Startup News' sister publication, Startup TV digital business magazine, has been lobbed into subscribers’ inboxes and this one’s a beauty.
By Brooke DuBois
The UK business community has welcomed a number of initiatives in the Coalition Government’s emergency budget, announced today. But if any small to medium-sized businesses are celebrating, they should prepare for one hell-of-a hangover in the form of a significant increase in VAT scheduled for 4 January next year.
By Brooke DuBois
Want to start up a pub in Porto, a newsagent in Nicosia, a restaurant in Rotterdam or a boutique clothing store in Brussels? Where do you start?
By Brooke DuBois
Business secretary Vince Cable has announced the coalition's plans to reduce what he describes as "the excessive regulation that is stifling business growth" in the UK. But, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is questioning the need for these red tape-cutting measures, saying the UK has one of the easiest regimes in the world for setting up a business.
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Behind-the-scenes at digital magazine HQ.
By Dutch Schaeffer
The story of Scottish businessman Shaf Rasul’s success reads like a film script. It starts with a chance meeting on a train, and ends with millions of pounds.
By Brooke DuBois
Home-based businesses offer more flexibility and lower overheads as there's no need to rent out office space. But entrepreneurs working from home also face a unique set of challenges.
By Jason Okuma
Startups could well be missing out on new business due to perceptions of being too ‘financially unstable’ to trade with.
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This reporter has never been good at sports. I am very good at attracting the ball however, in terms of getting hit in the back of the head with them when walking past schoolyards and community sporting events.
By Brooke DuBois
It’s that time again. The summer music festival season is awakening from its slumber, the sun is winking away at you ever so naughtily, and you’d put up your first born as collateral on the sure bet that the beer never tasted this good last year.
By Brooke DuBois
An uncomfortable off-stage exchange between one of the original panelists on BBC Two series Dragons’ Den, and ‘The Ed’, editor of digital business magazine, Startup TV, has been caught on camera.
By Brooke DuBois
The wait is over – issue five of StartupTV, our free, fortnightly business magazine, is here.
By Brooke DuBois
Entrepreneurs who are a little confused about how to start doing business in European markets can now cast aside their concerns, as expert advice about expanding your business abroad is only a click away.
By Brooke DuBois
Cat Stevens got it right when he warbled: ‘Oh baby, baby, it’s a wide world.’ But, doing business in its far reaches just got that bit easier.
By Brooke DuBois
