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Business borrowers receive Queen's Speech help
Small businesses should get a better deal from credit crunched banks following today’s Queen’s speech..
By News Desk Dec 03,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Economy ‘at heart’ of Queen’s Speech
The Queen’s Speech will focus on measures to relieve small businesses under pressure because of the turbulent world economy, it has been reported..
By News Desk Dec 03,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Behind every good small business there’s…
A supportive spouse. That’s according to the latest research from Bibby Financial Services, which shows a supportive partner is the key ingredient to success as an entrepreneur..
By LaunchLab.co.uk Dec 03,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Enduring slowdown raises rate cut hopes
Fresh signs of Britain’s week economy have raised expectations of another cut in interest rates by the Bank of England this week..
By News Desk Dec 02,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (0 votes)

New £30m tech investment fund
The government has unveiled a new £30m investment pot for small businesses in the technology field..
By LaunchLab.co.uk Dec 02,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Queen’s Speech gets last minute re-write
Business secretary Lord Mandelson is rumoured to be involved in an eleventh-hour re-write of this Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech, raising hopes that it will contain more economy-boosting measures..
By News Desk Dec 01,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

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Queen’s speech, the small business reaction
Like the pre-Budget report before it, this year’s Queen’s Speech was (unusually) highly anticipated..
By Dan Matthews Dec 03,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (0 votes)

Who you should copy
As we keep saying here at LaunchLab, even though the economy is spluttering and wheezing certain well-placed companies are sprinting ahead of the pack..
By Dan Matthews Dec 02,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

A lesson in competitive intelligence
Duane Jackson’s small business accountancy software vendor KashFlow can afford to pay for market research, but sometimes hearing it from the horse's mouth is best. .
By Dan Matthews Dec 01,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Lessons from Woolworth’s for small firms
The credit crunch didn’t do it for Woolworth’s as some newspapers would have you believe, the former British icon has been limping along for years. Here’s why it went under – small ....
By Dan Matthews Nov 28,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Stringfellow acts like an entrepreneur - shock
Think you have a hard time complying with government red tape? Then spare a thought for entrepreneur Peter Stringfellow..
By Dan Matthews Nov 27,2008 - Comments (0) - Rating (1 votes)

Are you a secret millionaire?
Or even a brazenly flash one? For some reason researchers at Channel 4 thought I was (they can’t have seen my bank balance) and recently invited me to appear on ‘The Secret ....
By LaunchLab.co.uk Nov 24,2008 - Comments (1) - Rating (2 votes)

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