Simply Business Features

1. Update your business plan When you were just a start-up, your business plan would have been your most important source of guidance, both financial and otherwise. But have you even looked at it since your first year? Most businesses...

T’is the season to be jolly, to take clients out for lunch, to put up decorations in the office and to put off some of your more tedious jobs until 2008. Perhaps even to temporarily forget about any cash flow...

by Rosie Beasley The season of goodwill was bound to bring out the Dragons’ generosity, even if only for a humanitarian cause. All five Dragons ended up investing equally in ROSS – the wheelie water filter designed for the parts...

by Rosie Beasley In the Dragons' Den, certain aspects of a contestant's pitch stand out as being more important to the Dragons than others. So important, in fact, that any business lacking these things is likely to find itself out...

By Rosie Beasley for Simply Business Television shows such as Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice have given lots of wannabe entrepreneurs in Britain the motivation they needed to make their dream business a reality. In the last few years...

By Karen Baldwin for Simply Business The 90’s hit film ‘Home Alone’ makes a joke out of a series of robbery attempts on a family home over the Christmas holidays while the owners are away, where the only thing standing...

by Karen Baldwin for Simply Business Despite the increasingly commercial times that we live in, the spirit of Christmas still should be about the importance of sharing and this is just as true in business as it is in life....

By Rosie Beasley In between the hammy comments from the Dragons and the stuttering presentations from the contestants, the Dragons’ Den does occasionally throw up some serious issues that face all small businesses in the early stages of their existence....