My fellow small business blogger Stefan Töpfer is the CEO of WinWeb a company that offers online software for small businesses, unfortunately both he and WinWeb are having a bad week. The problem is someone has registered the domain - WARINING DO NOT VISIT IT - winwebsecurity.com and is using it to promote an apparently [...]

Yesterday in the pre budget report the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling announced a number of measures designed to stimulate the economy and help SMEs through the financial crisis. The measures include:

Bringing forward £3Bn worth of capital investment by the Government, this should help inject so cash into the economy and create some jobs.
A [...]

Anyone considering starting a business, or who has recently started a business might find the Business Startup Show interesting. It’s taking place on the 28/29th November at the Olympia in London and tickets are FREE.
It’s many years since I’ve been to one, but it was an interesting show, we met some interesting people, got some [...]

Theo Paphitis the celebrity entrepreneur from Dragons’ Den is backing a new degree which will require the students to start and run a business. The new degree, which starts next September, is a BA Honours degree in Enterprise Development from Huddersfield University. It is the brainchild of one of the UK’s leading Professors of Entrepreneurship, [...]

I’m very pleased to see that the business reality TV show The Restaurant returns to BBC 2 this week with two episodes for its brand new second series Wednesday 10th September 20:00 on BBC2 and Thursday 11th September 20:00 on BBC2.
Why am I pleased to see it return? Quite simply because it is by [...]

Being the techie that I am, I downloaded Google Chrome onto a test PC as soon as it was available and I’ve been testing it. I had fun trying out Google Chrome, but I won’t be using it and I STRONGLY URGE YOU NOT TO EITHER.
Why?
Because as The Register points out the EULA grants Google:
‘a [...]

Business Angel Permot Valia is running a competition looking for the best elevator pitch. Here’s what he says about it:
Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan of the elevator pitch.  I have also been doing a great deal of work recently with a number of agencies and looking at different ways [...]

Just over a million businesses have started up in the past three years and the Startups Awards 2008 are on the hunt to find the best of those startup businesses. Organised by Startups.co.uk, the awards celebrate and reward the most outstanding start-ups in the UK. They are now accepting entries.
Previous winners have included GlassesDirect, eCourier, [...]

There are various reports about that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking part in discussions with TV producers to star in his own reality show. Apparently MP Hazel Blears was photographed carrying a print-out of email detailing the show to a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Apparently it has the working title Junior PM.
It’s claimed that [...]

Last year I wrote Is 30 Too Old To Start A Tech Business which referred to a list of Silicon Valley start-ups and the age of their founders published by Valleywag (the average age being 26). As I pointed out at the time the table misses out some important tech start-ups and is far too [...]