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A worrying new trend is threatening businesses: the trademark trolls. This is when a “troll” registers trademarks relating to your business in an effort to make money from you. If you are not savvy in protecting your brand by registering all the relevant trademarks relating to your product in all the markets you are going…
When it comes to the world of designer brands, and both High and High Street Fashion, few countries parallel the success of the UK fashion industry. Around the world British brands earn billions, but to keep the business profitable for everyone concerned there needs to be strict and enforced royalty audit agreements between all relevant…
There are numerous different types of management style and over the years there have been hundreds (if not thousands) of books written about them, with each one usually claiming to be the best. Many of these management styles result in an increase in bureaucracy as a unintended consequence. A holacracy is a way of dividing…
Sometimes getting your startup off the ground is the most difficult step. There are just so many different questions that you need to consider before investing all your time and effort into a business venture. For example: Is there a market for the products or services that you want to provide? Do you have enough…
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” That’s what Ken Olsen said, back when his company DEC dominated the computer systems industry between 1960 and 1990. But, in the words of the wise proverb, there truly is nothing new under the sun. And now, instead of the issue…
“Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I’d toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy… Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.” – Mark McCormack, US entrepreneur (1930-2003) Do you agree with McCormack’s statement that business plans lose their effect…
We could finally be moving closer to an interest rate increase in the UK, as the number of people out of work fell by 167,000 in the three months to November to 2.32 million. This is the largest drop since 1997 as ONS figures suggested that 280,000 found employment to take the total number of…
Invariably, if you decide to embark on an internship it is either to improve your C.V. for the benefit of prospective employers or with the aim of getting a job with the company that you intern at. Given a choice most people will intern at a company that they admire or wish to be a…
It is estimated that nearly 9,000 businesses are started each week in the UK and there are various reasons why someone would want to start being an entrepreneur in this country. Whether they have lost their own job and need to start earning money again or because they have a brilliant idea that is so…
For all our entrepreneurial readers that run their own businesses, the main priority in their lives is to ensure that their business is a success. Everything else about their lifestyle is most likely based on their business success and perhaps even the lifestyle of their family also depends on it too. But despite the importance…
