Forbes has valued the online learning industry at $107 billion. You want your slice. You have an idea for a video course that deserves the cherry on top. But how do you get that slice? It seems so far away. Only the professional cake climbers can reach it. You just need to get your grip
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How one company used alternative funding as a core business strategy
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The year 2008 was life changing for Reginald Larry-Cole. Having quit a steady and reliable business manager role in 2003 to fulfil his ambitions of running his own business, Larry-Cole graduated from night school and launched his own car finance firm, providing credit-challenged individuals with access to finance. Entirely funded by the banks, the £5 million
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The contractor who started a business for contractors
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Dave Chaplin is CEO of Contractor Calculator, an online portal that has been providing free advice and information to freelancers and contractors every month since it launched in 1999. Before he launched the service, Chaplin was an IT contractor and the proposed introduction of the IR35 tax legislation in November 1999 gave him the impetus needed to help
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Should you go for Limited Liability Partnership or Limited Company?
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It can be argued that the first requirement of the ‘successful’ business structure is limited liability: without this protection against failure, many businesses would simply not assume the commercial risks necessary to succeed. If this is correct, then the available choice of structure is straightforward: a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) or Limited Company? An LLP
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Why GoCardless founder Matt Robinson is now shaking up the property industry
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He’s responsible for one of Europe’s leading Direct Debit providers, processing in excess of £1 billion of payments each year. But now, GoCardless co-founder Matt Robinson has started afresh with Nested, a new property technology company that promises to sell your house in 90 days or buy the property itself. Robinson got the idea after feeling
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Everything you need to know about going self-employed
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How do you feel when Sunday evening draws to a close? Do you feel a kernel of dread in the pit of your stomach when you think about going to work on Monday morning? Well, if so, you might want to consider doing something else. After all, the way we spend our days is the
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How to launch an insect-based food product
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While travelling in Cambodia, Christine Spliid was overwhelmed with how many people seemed to be eating insects and insect-based food. ‘I didn’t immediately connect the dots, but I follow food trends closely and noticed how Dutch and American companies were slowly starting to incorporate insects in food in different ways, and when I started researching the environmental benefits, I was
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How one business flourished despite an initial lack of sector knowledge
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Adam Carnell and James Kinsella were at university when they started printing company instaprint.co.uk during their final exams. Kinsella says, ‘As friends from school we’d always been involved in running small business ventures and at university-run student nights which meant buying flyers and posters for the events. ‘When we came to the end of university, we decided that this was
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Starting a limited company? Be aware of these new requirements
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If you’re planning on setting up a new limited company, there’s a multitude of things that you need to consider first, such as how much tax relief you can claim on your costs, how easily you’ll be able to attract investment and whether receiving limited liability protection is worth all of the extra paperwork and
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