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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.

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.

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.

News

Support for South West start-ups

A new £20 million fund has been launched to fill the gap left by the South West Ventures Fund, which will receive no further government cash.

News

LinkedIn founder set to invest in UK

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, is making a return to the European start-up market, announcing he is closing an investment in the UK.

News

Great time for start-ups, says Playfish founder

Entrepreneurs should brush aside economic doom and gloom because now is a great time to start a company or sell a young business, according to leading European entrepreneur Kristian Segerstrale.

Legislation and Regulation

Is the notion of a single country legal structure for start-ups relevant in the 21st century?

Simon Cook, the CEO of venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, questions the relevance of a geographic home and single country legal structure for start-ups.

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