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Number of small business start ups falls
After achieving record highs last year the number of small business start ups fell in the first quarter of 2005 from 129,500 in Q1 2004 to 116,300, according to data released by Barclays last week. [June 27, 2005]

Teenage summer camps for would-be entrepreneurs
Gordon Brown is backing a scheme to develop summer camps for budding teenage entrepreneurs, according to a report in The Guardian today. [June 27, 2005]

How they deal with "Happy Slapping" in the USA!
We received quite an unusual email response to a recent article "Businesses want resort yob crackdown", following the negative effect of thug behaviour on small businesses in coastal towns. [June 26, 2005]

Where can you find decent staff these days?
We received an email from a Bytestart visitor, who has found it almost impossible to find decent staff despite all her best efforts [June 23, 2005]

Never Run Out of Cash
Next month's edition of Reader's Digest contains a good article entitled "Extra Cash Now" - Your hobby + computer = money. [June 22, 2005]

UK business letting ideas 'slip through fingers'
Vodafone UK has called on British businesses to do more to encourage their staff to put forward innovative ideas. [June 22, 2005]

EU "Sun Directive" branded absurd by pressure group
A proposed EU directive which will force bosses to make daily risk assessments on the strength of the sun, is being branded unworkable and absurd by a leading business pressure group. [June 21, 2005]

Small business survey reveals sectoral and regional growth disparity
The biggest quarterly report of UK small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has revealed a striking variation in expectations of sales growth in 2005. [June 20, 2005]

Carphone Warehouse targets small firms with cheaper calls
Carphone Warehouse is expanding its fixed-line operations into the business market with the launch yesterday of TalkTalk Business. [June 16, 2005]

Number of bosses who say "never again" doubles
A staggering 41 per cent of company bosses say they would be unlikely to set up in business if the opportunity arose again. [June 16, 2005]

Tax and Red Tape the top two small business concerns
Government regulations and the total tax burden are now the top two problems facing Britain's small firms, according to the latest NatWest Quarterly Survey of Small Businesses. [June 15, 2005]

Frustration as Government snubs reduced VAT scheme
A leading business pressure group says the war against the shadow economy had been dealt a blow by the Government's continued refusal to run a pilot scheme for reduced VAT on labour intensive industries [June 13, 2005]

IOD says interest rate "no change" is the right call.
Today’s decision by the Bank of England to leave interest rates at 4.75% was the right one, the Institute of Directors have said. [June 9, 2005]

Google becomes the biggest media company in the world
An interesting piece in last night's Evening Standard shows that Google, the friend all small business websites depend on more than any other, is now the world's biggest media company. [June 8, 2005]

Who will back your business plan?
More women are setting up businesses as they seek autonomy and a better balance between home and work. But they often struggle to find the money needed to start and develop a firm. [June 6, 2005]

Business Link proves a massive success in its first year
The Government small business website has had 8 million visits in its first year! [June 2, 2005]

Euro businesses slam working time directive 'opt out' curb
UK and Polish business leaders have condemned the EU’s latest attempt to scrap the ‘opt-out’ of the Working Time Directive. [June 2, 2005]

New service to help small businesses "get on the map"
A new service has been launched which provides route planning and mapping technology to help small businesses. [June 1, 2005]

Why small businesses fail
Starting a business from scratch is not easy. In fact, more than half of all new ventures in Britain close within three years of opening - that's a scary thought... a decent article on the Motley Fool site this week [June 1, 2005]

Most SME's find it hard to trust "home alone" staff
New research, which questioned the attitudes of over 400 HR managers at SMEs across the UK, found that 44% of managers do not trust all staff to work from home effectively [May 30, 2005]

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