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Articles on Startups – newly established businesses most often characterised by innovation, agility, and high growth potential, pursuing disruptive ideas or technologies with the aim of addressing unmet needs or solving pressing challenges in the market.

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James Caan's Start-Up Loans scheme backs 1,000th entrepreneur

The £112 million Start-Up Loans initiative has seen its uptake double since an extension was announced in early January.

News

Start-up survival hinges on access to finance, survey suggests

New businesses are most likely to fail due to a lack of start-up finance, a new study shows.

Growth Planning

The importance of SMEs

Simon Blagden, non-executive chairman at Fujitsu UK & Ireland, believes SMEs are vital for the future growth of the UK economy and explains why.

Growth Planning

The golden age of start-ups

Richard Prime, founder of Sonovate, looks at how barriers to entry have dropped for today's entrepreneurs and why simpler times were not necessarily better.

Alternative Finance for Business

New investment practices for start-ups

Jonathan Lea, solicitor with law firm Bargate Murray, looks at how new government schemes could aid start-up development and the legal considerations that need to be addressed.

News

Belfast start-up acquired by DeskStream

DeskStream has agreed to buy Belfast-based cloud business WorldDesk for an undisclosed amount.

Opinion

Post-holiday blues

News that the national insurance holiday scheme for start-ups has cost more to run than it has saved businesses has raised an uproar.

Venture Capital Funding

Business Start-ups – Keeping up the pace

The government has thrown its weight behind seed investment, but there's no room for complacency if the aim is to match Silicon Valley as a global start-up destination.

Alternative Finance for Business

Enterprising Britain – Incentives and grants to stimulate start-ups

The government has introduced a raft of incentives and grants to stimulate start-ups and encourage entrepreneurship in the UK. We examine reactions to the schemes on offer.

News

MITIE acquires five of its start-ups for £14.6 million

Outsourcing company MITIE has agreed to acquire the remaining shareholdings of four start-up businesses, and the majority of a fifth, which had been backed by the outsourcing company's shared-equity model.

Alternative Finance for Business

GrowthBusiness StartUp Britain

There is more awareness than ever of the need for new and growing businesses to draw on every possible resource to bolster enterprise. Read the GrowthBusiness StartUp Britain guide to growing a start up.

News

Cameron launches start-up campaign

A campaign to increase the number of start-up businesses in the UK, titled StartUp Britain, has been launched.

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