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Five Steps to starting your own business: Step 3 - Develop your Business Plan

This is a series of blogs that looks at the Five steps to starting your own business. It is not intended for those experienced entrepreneurs who have ‘been there, done that, got the t-shirt’, but as...
Helen Cooper
Posted on: 28th September 2018
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Five Steps to starting your own business: Step 2 - Understanding your Opportunity

In my previous blog I looked at Step 1 of the 5 Steps to starting your own business – Developing your core concept and proposition. In this blog I want to provide you with some thoughts on how you...
Helen Cooper
Posted on: 27th September 2018
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Release your Inner Entrepreneur

What’s your perception of an ‘entrepreneur’? For many it conjures up the vision of a lone worker toiling into the early hours doing everything themselves, from product development, to logistics, to...
Helen Cooper
Posted on: 23rd September 2018
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Sole trader or limited company?
Member role

I’m starting up a business: do I need to set up a limited company? Well, assuming that you are setting up by yourself, then your two main options are to set up as a Limited Company or as a Sole...
John Evans
John Evans
Posted on: 7th June 2018
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