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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 11th July 2007.
Ask business owners about their experiences of Business Link and you’ll often hear the negatives pile up.
Out of touch, lacking in real entrepreneurial experience, off-putting, too old, irrelevant. Not ideal feedback for an organisation that is increasingly positioned as the hub of public sector support for UK start-ups and small business.
However, lots [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 23rd April 2007.
Small businesses that sell over the internet could be crippled by increased costs or leave themselves open to significant legal risk, if an amendment to European Union (EU) legislation known as Rome I goes unchallenged.
In short, under the proposed regulation aimed at harmonising contractual agreements, companies selling to consumers in other EU member states would have [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 6th March 2007.
According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) today 20% of all crime in Britain is against businesses, but 40% of employers fail to report it because they feel the police will do nothing. The FSB has therefore launched a 10 point action plan designed to spur the Home Office to do more in this area.
Having been [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 20th February 2007.
Bureaucracy is almost a synonym for red tape. The EU is almost the apotheosis of bureaucracy.
Businesses large and small will therefore be welcoming the much heralded announcement yesterday that the EU will be aiming to cut red tape by 25%, purportedly creating growth across member states of 3.5% ‘over time’.
The EU industry commissioner, Gunther Verheugen made [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 31st January 2007.
Just a quick date for your diary.
Despite a certain amount of criticism from various quarters for last year’s event, Enterprise Week is set to continue and is scheduled to run from 12th-18th November this year.
Tags: small business, enterprise
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 23rd January 2007.
The stereotypical accountant is conservative with a small ‘c’ and it would appear with a large ‘C’ too, if a new survey of 1,246 bean counters is anything to go by.
Nearly 70% of accountants said that David Cameron was more likely than Gordon Brown to cut the red tape afflicting small businesses. The research conducted for [...]
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