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The fiery five party this week with pitches for grown-up summer camps, an upside-down house for taking selfies in, and an erotic handbag business
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This week's episode of The Apprentice involves a two-day non-alcoholic bender and a surprise departure. Get the lowdown here
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This week the candidates were asked to create an electric toothbrush and accompanying app for children. Let's find out how they got on
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This week’s show was all about green products from compostable paint trays and eco body products to real-grass indoor toilet training for puppies
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New dragon Stephen Bartlett unfurled his wings on this season’s opening episode – and immediately singed Peter Jones and Touker Suleyman
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Government teams up with BT, SSE and NatWest to find Britain’s greenest small businesses
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The Start-Up Series competition is back after a month's holiday, giving your business a chance to secure up to £250,000 in equity funding
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Winner of The Apprentice will pen a monthly column for SmallBusiness.co.uk on the ups and downs, challenges and rewards of running your own business
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You’ve got some inspirational market insight and created the killer idea for a business. You can see where the revenue will come from, and with a healthy margin. But what about the investment you’ll need to get it up and running?
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James Cadbury was already waiting for new chocolate moulds shipped from China for his Love Cocoa brand when COVID-19 struck. And then lockdown shut 80% of his retail outlets. Here he talks about scrambling to keep up with online orders and receiving the most bizarre phone call of his life
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The British Business Bank does not live up to its name and is not fit for purpose, argues Greg Taylor. What SMEs need is a proper nationwide small business bank
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Small business website achieves record readership, with 1.3m owner-managers turning to the site for industry news in March
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Companies need to evolve and vendors need to innovate, at this time more than any other, says Adrian Overall of CloudStratex
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Caroline Plumb OBE, serial entrepreneur and founder of cash flow management app Fluidly, reacts to the Cabinet reshuffle bombshell and asks, ‘Now what?'
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Now valued at €1.82B, PayFit aims to strengthen its position in its current markets
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Simon Cureton, CEO of Funding Options, walks us through the 'green boom' in eco-friendly businesses along the growth of green finance
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This article from Tracc looks at the changing funding landscape and how business owners can improve their chance to secure funding themselves
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We explore five online tools that you can use to help you monetise your content in 2022