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LendInvest publishes a blueprint for government treatment of property SMEs

LendInvest, the online property finance marketplace, is calling on the government to revise its treatment of small and medium-sized property investment and development companies, and recognise the positive contribution they can make to resolving the UK’s deep-rooted housing crisis. In a new report entitled Starting Small To Build More Homes: a blueprint for better policymaking
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Mind the gap: What you need to know about liability insurance

Small business owners would be forgiven for thinking that they’re covered by their public liability and/or occupiers’ liability insurance when it comes to protecting themselves against personal injury (PI) claims. But increasingly, companies are finding that they’re not as protected as they might think and are exposed to claims because of something known as the
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What your office design says about you as a leader

According to Entrepreneur, a good leader should be focused, innovative, confident, open-minded, positive and a whole host of other things. While your personality can make up a large part of your identity as a boss, the working environment you preside over can also present a message to your staff – and visitors – as to
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Budget 2017: Tax breaks for SMEs key to PM’s productivity drive

The government has been urged to make four key changes in the March Budget to encourage SMEs to make long-term investment plans for growth by Funding Options, the online business finance supermarket. Theresa May has often linked investment in business technology to Britain’s long standing productivity problem, and Funding Options says that the Chancellor can
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SMEs fail to receive benefits of sterling depreciation post Brexit

The number of small businesses planning to expand their UK customer base has risen in the last year, from 42 per cent to 51 per cent, despite the post-Brexit fall in sterling making it cheaper for businesses to export internationally, reveals research by Moore Stephens. Moore Stephens, in their annual survey of owner managed businesses,
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Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy

Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto for Facebook, Building Global Community, outlining the company’s ambitions for the future. What is clear from the piece are Facebook’s ambitions as a social media platform, and brings to light some of the challenges it is confronted with in order to develop secure, informed and open communities. Zuckerberg touches
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Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy

Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto for Facebook, Building Global Community, outlining the company’s ambitions for the future. What is clear from the piece are Facebook’s ambitions as a social media platform, and brings to light some of the challenges it is confronted with in order to develop secure, informed and open communities. Zuckerberg touches
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CMI calls for greater diversity and gender parity in apprenticeships

Degree-level apprenticeships will be key to filling ‘missing middle’ of women in management, with 1.5 million more needed by 2024 to achieve gender parity. At the start of National Apprenticeship 2017, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is calling on employers to start higher-level apprentices as a route to promoting gender diversity in their workforces. CMI’s
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CMI calls for greater diversity and gender parity in apprenticeships

Degree-level apprenticeships will be key to filling ‘missing middle’ of women in management, with 1.5 million more needed by 2024 to achieve gender parity. At the start of National Apprenticeship 2017, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is calling on employers to start higher-level apprentices as a route to promoting gender diversity in their workforces. CMI’s
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Six tactics to get more clients for your start-up social media agency

So, you’ve decided to quit your day job to get your very own social media agency off the ground. Congratulations! The road ahead is going to be a challenging one, but at the same time extremely rewarding. With so many powerful social media management tools available to help you make a success of it, there
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