Employing People
As your organisation grows, you will want to bring more people on board. This guide from the government helps you understand your legal requirements and provides some guidance and support as you build your team.
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Members Blogs
A collection of thoughts and blogs from our team, some special guests and our community. If you have a subject you’d like to blog about, please let us know!
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Your First Employee
Employing your first person can be exciting and daunting at the same time! There are many things that you need to think about and have in place from a legal perspective. This government guide helps you understand what you need to do when you are bringing in your first employee.
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Protecting Intellectual Property
The intellectual property office is responsible for registering and managing the various
ways to protect your ideas and inventions. They provide a range of excellent resources to help you understand what intellectual property is and what options you have to protect it. If you are seeking intellectual property as a part of a settlement application, please contact us to discuss.
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R&D Tax Credits
R&D tax credits are a form of tax benefit provided by the government to support organisations that are active in groundbreaking scientific or technical research and development. This guide tells you a little about the scheme, but if you want an introduction to a trusted advisor in this area please contact us for further details.
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Preparing for Investment
There may be a time when your business requires investment. Many people think that getting investment is a relatively easy and straightforward process, but this is far from the truth. This excellent guide to the British business bank tells you how to prepare for the investment process and what to expect.
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Tax in the UK
The tax system in the UK can be quite complex and daunting until you understand how it works! This excellent article from the NerdWallet website explains the various different types of tax, what you will need to pay, and when you will need to pay it.
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Registering for Tax
When you are ready to register for tax, this government page provides you with all the information you need to know to set up an online presence and manage your tax affairs through the government portal.
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Innovate UK – Funding for Innovation
Innovate UK is the government’s innovation agency and invests hundreds of millions in the development and support of innovation projects every year. Applying for these projects can be challenging and highly competitive, but this website will tell you all you need to know.
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Finding Regional Support
There are many regional business support programs that help you get access to free support and engage with like-minded business founders. These are often provided and funded by your local councils. This list details a large number of the services available throughout the UK.
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Setting up your business
What you need to do to set up depends on your type of business, where you work and whether you take people on to help. This support guide from the UK Government tells you about the different types of business structures and how to set them up. REMEMBER – a good accountant can also provide this service if you need help.
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The 5 reasons why the “Disney Dream” causes start-ups to fail
Walt Disney once said “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. What he should have also said is “… but if you don’t research them probably, you’re probably going to fail”.
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How do good leaders give advice? The short answer: They don’t
people who can guide others to arrive at their own solutions, put them into action, and set goals
From Ted Talk
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4 Ways to Use AI to Enhance the Customer Experience
Global spending on AI is expected to double by 2024, but consumers won’t tolerate a bad CX.
From Entrepreneur Europe
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4 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From John Paul DeJoria’s Rags-to-Riches Story
Those who have had to claw themselves up from nothing tend to have characteristics that all entrepreneurs should try to emulate.
From Entrepreneur Europe
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Progressing to Innovator Founder
This guide helps you navigate the transition from a Start-up or Innovator Visa to the Innovator Founder Visa by addressing key questions about progress, preparation, and documentation. It outlines Home Office requirements, including business activity, progress against your business plan, and involvement in management.
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The Case for Displaying Your Failures
Melissa Bernstein, the co-founder of $500M toy company Melissa & Doug, details her journey through depression–and how she overcame her fear of taking risks and failing.
From INC.COM
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Einstein Applied the Concept ‘No Time’ to Boost His Creativity. What Does It Entail?
According to neuroscience, taking a break from our busy schedules and devoting some time to doing absolutely nothing is key to fostering creativity.
From Entrepreneur Europe
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Leadership Is Like Engineering: You Need to Start with Why
To address user challenges, they must first be understood. These principles of why, what and how also apply to management, especially in turbulent times.
From, Entrepreneur Europe
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Avoidance, Tolerance & Repair – about business survivability
How designing aircraft to survive in conflict provides some important business lessons on managing risk and resilience.
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7 steps to success (without the need for formal networking!)
The lack of “networking” won’t stop you from building a great business – but you will need to be totally honest with yourself and develop a series of ground rules to make things work.
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Developing an Innovative Workforce
Every company needs an Innovation Leader – a master, guru or champion to drive innovation agenda within the organisation.
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Embracing a culture of continual Innovation
All companies should have a portfolio of innovation projects – a series of activities with varying risk and reward which present short, medium and long term growth opportunities.
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Driving Innovation from within your business
When you’re looking to develop a culture of continual growth within your business, no one will know more about your business than the people working within it.
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Do grants stifle innovation?
Give a company a fish and you’ll feed them for a day; teach a company to fish and you’ll feed them for a lifetime.
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How does Innovation differ from Micro to Large businesses?
Do the rules of innovation differ for different size organisations? The answer is a resounding YES. Buy why?
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Developing ideas through Open Innovation
Open innovation is about looking outside your company boundaries to seek the best ideas and solutions for your innovation activities.
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Is your idea worth the paper it’s written on?
The phrase “your ideas can make you rich” contains a pretty substantial sub-clause – they can also make you very, very poor.
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Is marketing the dark side of the force?
If the same products are sold with different price tags, is it innovative marketing or blatant exploitation?
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Whatever company you work with, the questions, answers and solutions all lie in one common playing field – the combined mindset of the workforce.
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Innovation can help organisations self-heal minor problems and become more productive without the need for extensive managerial input.
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Business Planning for Innovation
The Business Planning Guide helps international entrepreneurs create a detailed plan and strategy for their business. This document offers practical advice and step-by-step instructions to support you in setting up your operations and improving your chances of success. It’s a useful resource for building a solid business foundation and managing your venture effectively.
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The basic human drivers for reward show four groups of factors the give people pleasure at work – understanding these can boost people performance.
Read Full BlogHow would you sell the answer to everything?
If you invented a single device which solved the problems of the world, the likelihood is you wouldn’t be able to sell it.
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