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Business Basics
From finance to the practicalities of setting up a company, you can't ignore the basics of business when you're setting out to develop your new idea or product.
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How To Fund A Start-Up
Recorded Workshop by Paul Grant
Need cash for your start-up? As a serial entrepreneur who has successfully won cash investment for his own businesses, and gone on to run an established UK funding network of angel investers, Paul Grant knows how the funding game REALLY works. He shares his insights in this recorded webinar . . .
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How To Fund A Start-Up - The Basics of The Funding Game
Recorded Workshop by Paul Grant Part 1 of 8
In Part 1 of his workshop, Paul Grant talks about his experiences, how to get funded without losing ownership, the four levels of the funding game, why only 1% of entrepreneurs usually get the cash, and the successful approach to winning funding . . .
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How To Fund A Start-Up - Banks and Alternatives
Recorded Workshop by Paul Grant Part 5 of 8
In Part 5 of his workshop, Paul Grant talks about the changing environment for bank borrowing, the Small Loans Guarantee Scheme and the current Enterprise Finance Scheme, why overdrafts are good, and alternatives like crowdfunding . . .
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How To Fund A Start-Up - Alternative Sources Of Funding
Recorded Workshop by Paul Grant Part 7 of 8
In Part 7 of his workshop, Paul Grant looks at alternative sources of capital like vendor funding, renting not buying equipment, factoring and invoice discounting, hire purchase and leasing, and the benefits of using overdrafts and credit cards . . .
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TSB Grant for R and D - Insider Insights
Cally Robson August 2011
In April 2011 the Technology Strategy Board re-launched the government's grant for research and development. Aimed at providing financial support to single companies toward proof of market research, proof of concept and development of prototype, the jury was out as to how accessible it would be to small companies and start-ups. Here are some pointers a few months in . . .
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A Business Plan For Investors - Vital Questions Your Plan Should Answer
Cally Robson 9 August 2010
Try to fill out a business plan proforma or template, and chances are you'll end up stumped. There's no such thing as a standard business plan. Precisely because every new business idea is different. Better to approach your business plan by answering the questions that will be top of an investor's mind . . .
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For Profits Or Purpose?
Celia Gates
What kind of an inventor are you? The type who puts purpose above profit, and dies penniless? Or one of the new breed of inventor-entrepreneurs who reap the just rewards of bringing solutions to the world? Celia Gates inventor of Doctor Cook saucepans, argues for why every inventor should make the transition to entrepreneur . . .
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Have You Got The Makings Of An Entrepreneur?
Cally Robson 12 Nov 2009
Every innovative person has an entrepreneur hidden somewhere inside them. In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, here's my checklist of the entrepreneurial traits needed to unleash the business success in a great idea . . .
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How To Know If Your New Product Will Make Money
Don Debelak
Will your new product make you money? Or lose it? US invention expert Don Debelak's guide to understanding product pricing, manufacturing costs and the pricing structure in different distribution channels, is relevant wherever you plan to launch your product . . .
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What Does It Take To Get Investment?
Cally Robson 3 Sept 09
Rather than credit crunch gloom this summer, I've heard of more investment funds and initiatives springing up in search of the RIGHT innovative products and technologies to put money into. So what does it take to have the "right" kind of idea for investment? . . .
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