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Sara Williams was executive chairman of AIM-listed Vitesse Media (the original publisher of GrowthBusiness.co.uk), the company she started in 1997. A former investment analyst with Kleinwortt Benson, Sara is the author of The FT Guide to Business Start Up. She has written for several national newspapers and appears regularly in broadcasts on television and radio.

Human Resources

Q&A: Hiring a foreign national

What paperwork is required to employ a foreign national?

Financial Management

What to do when a company runs out of money

Quite the most painful moment in business is the realisation that your company is running out of money. It hits you in the pit of your stomach, believe me, and the first reaction is often absolute panic. But don't despair. Here are some ideas that might work.

Entrepreneurs

Be strategic, be opportunistic

Janus, the Roman god of doorways and bridges, faces two ways. That's just the dilemma faced by many an entrepreneur. A great opportunity drops in your lap – but will it drive you off the strategy your business has set? Michael Jackson asks how this dilemma is resolved?

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquisition dangers

Acquisitions can fail spectacularly. Instead of creating extra wealth, they destroy it. Step forward the latest apparent victim – Ken Morrison of Morrison Supermarkets, a man with a 37-year unblemished record of success.

News

Adamind heads for AIM

Israeli mobile-messaging technology specialist Adamind is looking to raise up to £15 million ahead of a mid-February AIM flotation.

News

Cash incentive for charity donations

Most businesses do not have a payroll charity donation scheme, according to a survey of workers from accountant and business adviser KPMG, and are unaware that a grant of up to £500 is available to help set one up.

News

Keeping staff in the loop

The Government has announced groundbreaking legislation designed to harmonise relationships between bosses and their employees.

News

Acquisitions on AIM

AIM has long been regarded as Europe’s most successful growth company market, however, it is also a hive of mergers and acquisition activity – as new research from Business XL magazine reveals.

News

One Small Step for YFM

The Capital Fund – YFM Venture Finance’s £50 million London-focused venture capital vehicle – has invested £250,000 in children’s footwear retailer One Small Step One Giant Leap, as part of a £1 million total funding package.

News

Ofex boss ponders AIM move

As Deutsche Borse and Euronext slug it out with each other and dissident shareholders in a £1.5 billion battle for control of the London Stock Exchange, one City luminary is quietly licking his lips.

News

Sector Watch – January ‘05

This month…pub chains toast a bumper Christmas, insurers look to the future with optimism and telecoms firms contemplate the rising profile of VoIP.

Legislation and Regulation

Murphy to advise on retail red-tape

Gerry Murphy, chief executive of pan-European DIY store group Kingfisher, has been recruited by the DTI to investigate methods of reducing the regulatory burden on UK retailers.