What's your business worth? – part 1
By Andrew Heslop
Whatever figure you selected is almost certainly off the mark. But if you’re able to provide any kind of sensible answer to this question, you are way ahead of most business owners.

The 999 on start-up funding
By Kate Pritchard
Bureaucratic. Useless. A waste of time. That was Neil McCutcheon’s view of public-funded investment advice organisations – until one saved his York-based start-up.

Plum Baby's £1.5m growth spurt
By Catherine Woods
Susie Willis’s baby food company started life as a lusty infant but is quickly maturing into a precocious three year old, having just taken £1.5m from Noble Fund Managers Private Equity.

"Office rent? Pah!"
By Kate Pritchard
Mike Lawton wanted to base his fledgling company on Oxford’s Milton Park. But there was no way he could afford the sky-high rent. What did he do?

“Labour’s lost my vote”
By Kate Pritchard
“Before the pre-budget report, I thought the government supported entrepreneurs,” says Sahar Hashemi, who started the Coffee Republic empire with her brother in the mid-nineties. “I was wrong.”

Entrepreneur backs new CGT plans
By Catherine Woods
The CBI is giving nothing away following a meeting with the Treasury about its capital gains tax alternatives.

Waging war on CGT
By Jamie Oliver
Duncan Cheatle runs an entrepreneur networking group called The Supper Club and he’s been speaking out about the Chancellor’s new 18% flat rate capital gains tax.

Choose investment with care
By Catherine Woods
Beware Dragons' Den-style investment where you sacrifice a lot of your company for minimal cash, warns Spannerworks CEO Arjo Ghosh.

Gaga for Google
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
What higher accolade for a technology company than a $25m investment from Google, the Brobdingnagian icon of internet searching?

Postal strike hell
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Have you sat down with your FD to work out how much the postal strike has cost your company?