So, this six-step guide to setting up your own business has come to an end and I hope it’s proved useful to those of you thinking of jumping into the entrepreneurial breach. The feedback to date has been extremely positive and it seems there are a large number of people out there who have been [...]
Guide to setting up a business
Six easy steps to set up a UK business – Part Five
This is the fifth episode in the six-step guide to setting up your own business and, as a Cat Stevens song once explained, we’ve come a long way. We have already spoken about how easy it is to get started and how these straitened and austere times mean that becoming an entrepreneur is not only [...]
Six easy steps to set up a UK business – Part Two
There’s nothing like setting up a company for making you feel good. Instead of describing yourself as a consultant or between jobs or even freelancing, knowing that you are a founder and CEO does wonders for self-esteem and those awkward dinner parties. Moreover, as the Bard once said, necessity is the mother of invention and [...]
Six easy steps to set up a business – Part One
Many years ago I came back to the UK after a long time on the road to a Thatcherite revolution where the markets had been unleashed and poor little wannabe Commies such as I were yesterday’s news. It was a nightmare. Mammon ruled OK and the country’s assets were being sold off to investors. What [...]
