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For a successful business, you need a viable business idea, the skills to make it work and the funding. Discover whether your idea has what it takes.

Forming your business correctly is essential to ensure you are protected and you comply with the rules. Learn how to set up your business.

Advice on protecting your wellbeing, self-confidence and mental health from the pressures of starting and running a business.

Learn why business planning is an essential exercise if your business is to start and grow successfully, attract funding or target new markets.

It is likely you will need funding to start your business unless you have your own money. Discover some of the main sources of start up funding.

Businesses and individuals must account for and pay various taxes. Understand your tax obligations and how to file, account and pay any taxes you owe.

Businesses are required to comply with a wide range of business laws. We introduce the main rules and regulations you must comply with.

Marketing matters. It drives sales and helps promote your brand and products. Discover how to market your business and reach your target customers.

Some businesses need a high street location whilst others can be run from home. Understand the key factors from cost to location, size to security.

Your employees can your biggest asset. They can also be your biggest challenge. We explain how to recruitment and manage staff successfully.

It is likely your business could not function without some form of IT. Learn how to specify, buy, maintain and secure your business IT.

Few businesses manage the leap from start up to high-growth business. Learn what it takes to scale up and take your business to the next level.

Start up business ideas

For a successful business, you need a viable business idea, the skills to make it work and the funding. Discover whether your idea has what it takes.

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If you make deliveries, your service must be reliable: it can differentiate you from competitors. How can you make your delivery service superior?
How to design your products and services for sustainability - from development through to production and delivery to end of life and disposal.
Quality assurance is paramount in the development of new products. It helps build brand reputation, customer loyalty and minimises the risk of launching new products.
Launched in early 2010, following 18 months of R&D, SnoozeShade™ is a blackout blind for pushchairs designed to help babies sleep during the day.
Simon Pitkeathley, chief executive of regeneration agency Camden Town Unlimited, explains how to set up a pop-up business
How Charlie Low and Dale Comley wrote a best-selling book about converting vans into off-grid mobile homes and created their award-winning business, Climbingvan.
How ex-bartenders Matt Mahatme and Jordan Palmer created Lixir Drinks, a tonic water and mixer brand that "combines big flavours with less sugar, fewer calories and nothing artificial".
West-Midlands-based entrepreneur Surlender Pendress looks back on starting her business with Mark Sherwood and shares her start-up top tips.
In this start-up story episode, we speak to Troy Johnson, co-founder of Sweet Dee's Jerk, award-winning Caribbean food brand, kitchen and meal-kit maker, which is based in Tooting, South London.
Starting a business can be exhilarating, but it has its downsides and risks. How to appraise whether you have what it takes to run a business.
Oliver Bell, who co-founded Oliver's Travels with best mate Ravi, shares the perils and pitfalls of starting and running a business with a friend.
Wondering if you can start a business? Sarah Giblin, founder of RiutBags, answers common start up questions from would-be entrepreneurs.
Fiona Graham of Family Business UK explains why it can pay to keep it in the family when starting and running a business.
Some people prefer to retain full ownership of a business and call all the shots, but having a partner can provide a way to share responsibility.
This guide covers the key issues for starting and running your own aerial installing business.