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Businesses to run in a recession: part three
by Rebecca Burn-CallanderEven in a recession, a good entrepreneur is always on the look-out for the next hot spot. Don’t wait around for the upturn. These are the businesses you want to be in now.
July 02, 2009 4:43pm - Sales and marketing
Access takes another step towards sales target
by Catherine WoodsAccess founder Alistair O’Reilly has embarked on a “brand elevation” exercise as he aims to grow turnover at his consulting and software company to £100m.
July 02, 2009 4:33pm - Sales and marketing
Tech entrepreneur: "The banks won't lend you an umbrella when it rains"
by Rebecca Burn-CallanderAt a roundtable hosted by Dell this morning, Real Business heard three technology entrepreneurs talk about the challenges of growing a business during the recession. People aren't the problem, they say. It's the mindset of banks and other financial institutions that needs to change if we're to come out of recession.
July 02, 2009 4:22pm - Business technology
Government fund provides a "timely injection of capital"
by Catherine WoodsOctopus Ventures, which invests in entrepreneurial businesses, has welcomed the governments’ proposed £1bn innovation fund, saying it will support entrepreneurialism.
July 02, 2009 4:06pm - Finance and banking
Businesses confident about surviving recession
by Catherine WoodsMost mid-size businesses believe they will survive the recession and most believe the downturn will end during the next 12 to 24 months.
July 02, 2009 2:36pm - Finance and bankingBUSINESS COMMENT >>
That's right. "Pre-stained". Suspend your disbelief for a moment. Canadian entrepreneur Philip Watson founded Easy Tiger Corp to peddle underwear that has been - ahem - ready-soiled, shall we say. And he reckons these nasty knickers will be a surefire hit with "the dudes".
June 22, 2009 2:54pm GMTAs swine flu hits the headlines for the second time, the swine flu jokes are just pouring in! Laugh till you oink, readers.
June 12, 2009 12:16pm GMTFurther to popular demand, this week we're devoting a whole section of our jokes blog to our hapless prime minister, Gordon Brown.
June 05, 2009 12:14pm GMTCOLUMNISTS >>
BUSINESS TV >>
Emma Jones, editor of Enterprise Nation, on the most popular start-up location in the UK....
"I did a live cooking demo on TV in a blue pinny." Hear how Hotel...
Our Company of the Year, Will "King of Shaves" King, on beating Wilkinson Sword, building a brand, and surviving the recession.
Customer Kings winner Harry Briggs on how he's kept the "personal touch" as his business has skyrocketed.
Great piece by The Telegraph's Richard Tyler today about the confirmed appointment of Sir Alan Sugar to the post of enterprise tsar. "A tentative date of July 20th has been pencilled in for his hairiness to don the rabbit fur," he says.
July 01, 2009 1:12pm GMT