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Hunter Ruthven graduated from the university of Sussex in geography and politics before joining Vitesse Media. He was the Editor for GrowthBusiness.co.uk from 2012 to 2014, before moving on to Caspian Media Ltd to become Editor of Real Business.

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Growth up while risk down as SMEs face challenges of 2014

British businesses are experiencing the lowest level of recorded risk in 18 months, new figures reveal.

Entrepreneurs

Nurturing a new generation of British entrepreneurs

With the Year of Code now up and running, is the UK education system finally about to start equipping children with the requisite skills necessary to build businesses?

Managing

Why it’s time to apply responsive web design principles to business

As technology develops to accommodate the much-hyped ‘internet of things’ and the virtues of a single universal code which can be read across multiple devices take centre stage; Ray Kieser, group managing director of SGK, considers how people in business first need to develop a code that helps them talk to each other – understood from the boardroom to the production line.

News

Manx Telecom backers HgCapital and CPS Partners set to exit through IPO

Isle of Man-based communications provider Manx Telecom has outlined plans to join London's Alternative Investment Market.

News

Roman Abramovich’s Ervington Investments backs biotech company Weedingtech

Weed management business Weedingtech has added to the funding it received in the summer of 2013 by bagging a further £750,000.

News

Terry Leahy continues angel investing by joining Atterley Road funding round

Fashion brand aggregator Atterley Road has closed a £2 million investment round with contributions coming from The William Currie Group, Terry Leahy, Robert Willett and Artemis.

Growth Planning

Don’t let big businesses call the shots

Having first raised the argument that SMEs are failing to connect with enterprises, Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng looks at how smaller businesses should not be bullied by the big boys.

News

Business bank-backed Angel CoFund joins investors at BaseKit

London-based technology company BaseKit has netted £4.5 million of new investment capital.

Growth Planning

UK SMEs should engage in the Chinese way to boost investment flows

Howard Leigh, Lord Leigh of Hurley and senior partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, uses his experience of global business to point out ways for British SMEs to reap the benefits of a growing Chinese market.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Zynga acquires UK gaming business NaturalMotion and announces 15 per cent job cut

Struggling social games company Zynga has snapped up UK-based NaturalMotion in a deal worth £259 million.

Financial Management

Five ways to make your business more competitive through better energy management

To mark Big Energy Saving Week, Phil Scholes, SME sales and marketing director at npower, offers advice on how small and medium sized businesses can give themselves an edge over their competitors by reducing their cost base through better energy management.

News

Zopa looks to build P2P lending offering after netting £15 million investment

Peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa has raised £15 million of new investment capital ahead of a projected lending target of £500 million by April 2014.