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Get started with advice on starting a new business. Read articles on how to start a small business including how to raise finance, franchising options, resources for start-ups and glossary of business terms.

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  • Recession-proof industries
  • A guide to businesses that are immune from recession, and those which are robust by dint of being the right side of history.
  • 10 recession-proof businesses to buy
  • It's likely to be a brief recession and any notion that boom and bust exists only in economic history is well and truly discredited. Suddenly, how recession-proof a business is matters.
  • Financing a franchise purchase
  • Some useful pointers about how to persuade banks to fund your franchise purchase, from Nazir Daud of CityLocal, the UK business directory and guide.
  • Dance through the downturn
  • Leading authority on corporate finance Tom Ferns of Rosenblatts describes how nimble footwork and drive can help business buyers beat the downturn.
  • Earn-outs – a business broker's view
  • Don Glossop, who heads up business brokerage Andon Fréres, discusses, among other things, how linking payments to future performance is playing a prominent role in business sales during the credit squeeze.
  • The work-from-home cafe owner
  • Working from home for part of the week is one of many benefits having a business partner gives mum-to-be Jill Willis, who has cleverly negated any potential hazards of working with her husband.
  • How to improve your credit score
  • It's harder to raise finance than ever, so enhancing your credit rating is imperative for those of you with a chequered credit history.
  • Crunch time for small-business finance
  • The credit crunch looms large over every aspect of the economy – so what does it mean for entrepreneurs wanting finance to start or buy a business?

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