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With BusinessWings Starting a Business channel find out how to start a small business by reading articles and guides on all elements of the startup process – from starting a new business, to how to raise finance and how to write a business plan, to choosing a name for your business and forming a company, BusinessWings has helpful hints, tips and guides to get you started. So if you’re thinking of starting a business, or you’re in the early stages of establishing a business start-up, you’ll find plenty of valuable businesses help from business experts and entrepreneurs.
Are banks lending enough?
With Vince Cable still scornful of banks' efforts, a finance broker can see both sides of the argument.
The fish and chip shop entrepreneur
Our blogger Stelios describes the biggest challenges facing the industry and recalls his all-time favourite chippy.
Starting a business later on in life
They've got the money, maturity and desire; baby boomers are increasingly entrepreneurial.
Business plans: vital details overlooked
BusinessWings asked a range of SME owners for their tips on formulating a business plan.
How to start a coffee shop
The York Cofee Emporium is no ordinary coffee shop - it's also a wholesaler and holds seminars.
Starting a leisure business
Going into an unfamiliar industry can be tricky business, Mike Petrouis admits, but he survived and thrived.
The manufacturer & online retailer
Jerry Ranger discusses how and why he focused on selling portable charges through the internet.
Other Starting a Business Articles
- Cable unconvinced by banks' lending approval claims
- Claims that 80% of loan applications were being approved have been met with derision by the Business Secretary.
- Financial directors: the benefits
- How employing an FD can make a difference to your bottom line.
- A positive approach to cost management
- Why a positive attitude to spending could ultimately make you more money.
- Access to business finance remains difficult says IoD
- Banks are still declining two thirds of loan applications and have tightened lending criteria.
- Demand for business loans remains weak
- Fewer than one in five SMEs have applied for new borrowing in the previous 12 months.
- Profit warnings fall to seven-year low
- However, the figure is set to rise again due to spending cuts, the VAT increase and an anticipated rise in interest rates.
- Loan-guarantee scheme lending plummets 23%
- A flagship scheme instituted under the Labour government has not boosted lending in the way hoped.
- Cable revives Mandelson's lending forum
- The Lib Dem business secretary is seeking to make good on his promise to get banks lending again.
- £1bn regional fund launched and RDAs axed
- Nick Clegg yesterday launched a fund to foster private enterprise beyond London and the south-east.
- Business location dilemma
- Reiki practitioner Amber on how she came to decide that working from home was the wisest option.
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