The majority of small business owners are classed as being self-employed. Whilst we all know that this has many great benefits (“Freedom from bosses forever” is one that springs to mind!), there are a few drawbacks that I saw pointed out on Work Your Way earlier. For one thing, you most likely will not be…
When starting a business on your own for the first time, it can be very different to doing an ordinary job in a typical office for reasons good and bad. On the plus side, you exert total control on what your new venture does, but you find yourself burdened with extra responsibilities such as meeting…
Recently, I was going through my Evernote archives of articles that I had ‘clipped’ over the last month and that I thought would be good feedstock for blog posts. As I was going through all of the articles, I came across Most small business owners have skipped paychecks from Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. When I…
Unemployment a big problem for the unemployed and the economy as a whole. Unemployed can’t find the jobs they are looking for and end up living of the meager unemployment payment the state hands out. Unemployment payments, while essential for the unemployed, are a waste of money as far as the economy is concerned, since…
How did it get to November? Already I am being inundated with pictures of friends of mine growing their ‘Movember‘ moustache for charity, a sure sign that the year is marching on! November is a key time in the calendar of those involved in supporting small businesses and start ups in the UK, and there…
I went to a Kleinwort Benson Entrepreneur Forum last night and invariably cloud computing came up as a discussion point. On the way home it got me thinking about what makes my customers special, is it all about cloud computing, do they get it or is it even important to them? We recently had looked…
The economy is struggling and with it many private households. More and more of us have to fend for ourselves and start a small business, either full time or on the side. While I think this is a good thing, people learning to become more self-reliant, it does not make it any easier. Ebay is…
I ran one of the largest ISPs in the 90’s and it was not always easy (the understatement of my life), we were growing so fast, that we never had any money, our cash-flow was catastrophic, always. During those years my CFO and I had a saying, “It’s going to be another interesting day!” –…
Job security is a thing of the past, no ifs & buts, it is. Why then are still so many hell bend on getting a job in a company? Here are a couple of things to consider when considering your future: ☺ Income Security: You lose your job, you lost it all. You lose a…
The Open University just published their Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain and I want to share one graph with you here. As you can see micro and small business are suffering in this economic climate more than the mid-size and large businesses – why do you think that is? This graph has been…
