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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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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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