Category Archives: Finance in Business

The subject covers many aspects of finance in business and entrepreneurship including: raising money; financial strategy and planning; profit margins; costs and investments

Top 10 websites for entrepreneurs

Tweet For the past 2 months I’ve conducted some basic research to establish the very best websites that help people start and stay in business in the UK. Over 500 individuals (who work in an advisory and business support capacity … Continue reading

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Look after the pounds & the millions will look after themselves

Tweet Salespeople regularly offered me lifts back in the eighties. It’s fair to say I enjoyed the banter and their cars went faster too. London bound, one bright weekday morning, I was hitching a lift onto the M1 when a … Continue reading

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Figuring out pricing

Tweet Many start-ups wrongly copy the hitch hiker when it comes to pricing. An outstretched thumb works by the road, but a finger in the air almost always plucks financially flawed figures. Pricing products or services (especially the first time) … Continue reading

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Bootstrapping: My way on the business highway

Tweet Failure has a wonderful capacity to reveal opportunities that otherwise remain hidden. Disastrous ‘A’ Level results in 1984  forced me to take a gap year. Whilst I envied friends destined for university, part of me delighted in the chance … Continue reading

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