When you talk about the most exciting startup scenes across Europe, the cities of London, Berlin and Stockholm are usually on the tips of most tongues while Hungary and its capital Budapest aren’t traditionally associated with the startup community. Better know for its hot springs and the Chain Bridge that links the two separate areas…
“You don’t learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.” That was a quote by the famous Irish writer George Bernard Shaw and it can be applied to your everyday life as a small business owner. If you want your business to grow, you have to…
It’s great when your business starts to grow. But frantically pushing for faster and faster growth without laying the proper groundwork first may mean that you are not adequately prepared to cope with the changes as they happen. Here are our Top 5 Tips for growing at a steady pace to avoid potential pitfalls: 1.…
The official economic figures from the Office for National Statistics for the first quarter of 2013 are in and they were exactly as expected when estimated last month – a growth of 0.3%. This has meant that the UK has avoided the dreaded triple-dip recession that we all feared. But we are not exactly out…
In Sir Mervyn King’s final quarterly inflation report as the governor of the Bank of England, he has predicted modest economic growth for the remainder of 2013 and also a fall in inflation. The rise in growth for the second quarter of 2013 is likely to be 0.5%, which will add to the 0.3% growth…
I was thinking about what to write today and I couldn’t get my mind off something that I had written earlier in the year as a manifesto across at Changethis.com. This is quite a long post and is mostly the same as the manifesto but it’s message is simple and bears repeating, I believe. However,…
