I’m infuriated by the election campaign. When things were booming, the Government poured more petrol on the fire, preventing any correction and encouraging the whole population to binge on debt. Then times turned bad, so they borrowed even more. Spending has to reduce because we’re spending more than we’re earning. We understand that on a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘money’
Stop the credit rot
Posted in Finance, tagged credit, Debt, election, Finance, government, Greece, money, spending on 27 April, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s my greatest challenge as an aspiring mumpreneur?
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, tagged challenges, competition, maternity leave, money, mumpreneur, time on 12 March, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What’s my greatest challenge as an aspiring mumpreneur? Not enough time or money. Oh and not forgetting the lack of sleep (milk in the washing machine, dirty socks in the fridge – you get the picture).
Advertising your business on a low budget
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, tagged blog, facebook, Links, Marketing, money, networking, press release on 10 March, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When starting a business it is difficult to put aside an amount for marketing and it’s hard to justify how much should be spent.
Money, money, money
Posted in Finance, tagged bank, money on 8 March, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I developed a business idea which I know is a strong, feasible proposition but, with only having normal jobs, no mummy or daddy to hand in large amounts of cash and no major savings in the bank, I knew that I would need external funds to realise the plan.
Organisation – the key to making tax less taxing
Posted in Finance, Tax, tagged Bookkeeping, HMRC, money, PAYE, Tax, VAT on 26 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tax is never a popular subject – made even less so by recent revelations that HMRC has got many of our tax codes wrong, meaning excessive charges for some. Mistakes by HRMC aside, ‘tax doesn’t have to be taxing’, as the saying goes. If small firms take the time to keep their books in order throughout the year, a mad dash at key dates in the taxation calendar can be avoided.
Sources of start-up funding
Posted in Finance, tagged angel investor, capital, Finance, investment, money, start-up, venture capital on 8 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the mid-1990s, my company, Actinic, was set up using my own money and some I borrowed from family and friends. My business partner and I then raised £165k from an angel investor, and later a further £1.5m from venture capitalists, 3i.
If you’re good at what you do, you won’t need to compete on price
Posted in Finance, tagged false economy, money, product, quality, service on 22 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly” my mum always used to say. We never had much money when I was growing up, but whenever mum did buy something, she’d always make sure it was of the best quality she could afford.
The problem with money (too much)
Posted in Finance, tagged Cashflow, failure, Finance, money, time on 17 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last month we talked about starting a business on very limited resources. This time, I would like to think about the problem of having too much time or money.
