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‘Student Loans’ for budding entrepreneurs!

You may or may not have heard the cries from UK entrepreneurs over the past week, all of whom are calling for the government to introduce a new funding scheme for young entrepreneurs based on the student loan system.   Unsurprisingly, these calls have been led by jack of all trades and general business provocateur [...]

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Looking for investment? CapLinked is where it’s at.

Founded by former PayPal marketing exec Eric Jackson and funded by a number of well known members of the PayPal mafia, CapLinked is fast becoming a choice tool for both entrepreneurs and investors alike. The startup that describes itself as “LinkedIn-meets-Salesforce for private investing” was recently accused of being a lesser AngelList, to which the young [...]

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Powwownow get involved with StartUp Britain

Launching this morning, Startup Britain will deliver the very best in support and advice for startup companies, Supported by 62 organisations including Powwownow, Google, Barclays, Microsoft and eBay, the scheme will offer discounted services and initiatives to the 270,000 companies that are started every year. Pledges include benefits such as advertising and marketing, office space, broadband, finance [...]

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How will Private Business Benefit Under the Coalition

In the wake of last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review and the knowledge that 500,000 public sector jobs are going to go, I was keen to learn just how the government intended the  private sector absorb these redundancies. On Monday the PM gave a speech at the CBI Annual Conference, I had high hopes for what [...]

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Karma & the Bank Manager

I read this article today and it reminded me of the issues I had funding my first business. My first Business in my early 20s’ involved cleaning people’s wheelie bins. We would leaflet drop, and get people to agree to a clean every 6 weeks at a cost of £2.50 per clean, the business grew [...]

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