The Banking Cabal And You

You don’t have to be a ‘trickle-down economics’ zealot to see the importance of supporting entrepreneurial spirit in vanquishing our current economic malaise. The current efforts by the government to get the banks to increase available loans to small business to the tune of £20 billion are quite comically called ‘Project Merlin’. Merlin, it has been suggested, was the result of a...

What Can You Learn From Groupon?

How do you become the fasting growing [profitable] company ever? If you’re like Groupon then it’s a heady mix of the internet’s love affair with money off deals combined with people’s desire to appear to be the first to share desirable content and business’s needs to break through the marketing noise that defines the 21st century, and all served in liberal doses of your own omnipresent...

Bank Lending Still Too Low

With their recent investments and profit reports, UK banks appear to be recovering quite well and once again beginning to live large. However, entrepreneurs in search of funding for starting a business should not expect to necessarily see a piece of that pie. Never mind that some of these institutions are now at least partially owned by the British public, after being bailed out with our hard-earned money; banks are...

Raising Seed Capital With Your Own Personal Manifesto

Raising seed capital in this day and age is a difficult task at best. Not only will this be obvious to anyone who has tried to approach their local bank for help to do so, but the waxy smiling figureheads of each political party have been spelling out the issue to everyone who’ll listen and pointing the finger of blame at one another these last few weeks. Small business funding has been hit hard by this recession...

It’s Time To Help Ourselves

No, this isn’t a rant about the rising problem of inner-city shoplifting, nor is it about the moral issues surrounding looting in the aftermath of a natural disaster when governments and aid agencies fail miserably in the role they were created for. This is my rant about how the looming elections in the UK are likely to affect new business funding, and whether we can expect any help from this or any subsequent...