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Light touch regulation: Friend or foe? 

Stifling business: Regulation on markets like AIM makes it hard for SMEs

Stifling business: Regulation on markets like AIM makes it hard for SMEs

Business Regulations

Sophia Harrison, director of financial and professional services at Grayling, looks at how a new exchange platform out of Sweden could strike the right chord of regulation for SMEs.

Corporate leaks: How to prevent and investigate if they occur

Business Tools

Bob Mecrate-Butcher, partner at Charles Russell, looks at how corporate leaks can first be prevented and then plugged when they do occur.

Getting it right: Hiring a first country manager can be difficult logistically

Getting it right: Hiring a first country manager can be difficult logistically

How to hire your first country manager

Human Resources

Peter Linas, international managing director of recruitment software provider Bullhorn, advises how to find and hire a successful country manager.

Procurement: do you sell around them, or with them?

Business Tools

David Freedman, associate director at behavioural change consultancy Huthwaite International, looks at how best to approach to issue of procurement – and the people that pull the strings.

And again: Alex Ferguson has created countless new teams during his 27 years

And again: Alex Ferguson has created countless new teams during his 27 years

How the skills of Manchester United's Alex Ferguson can be used to construct a winning business team

Leadership & Mentors

By looking at the skills and leadership qualities of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Simon Swan, co-founder of Hiring-Hub.com, looks at how this can be applied to the business world and the success of growth companies.

Fairline Boats plots course for calmer seas as Better Capital support brings return to profit

Business Finance

Despite being located in land-locked Northamptonshire, Fairline Boats is making steady progress and has used its turnaround investment from Better Capital to launch a new manufacturing facility. GrowthBusiness visits the yacht builder to find out more.

Chewing the fat: The roundtable discussion centred on why funding was taken

Chewing the fat: The roundtable discussion centred on why funding was taken

Investment for business growth video: Deciding when and how to take on backing

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Knowing the right time to take on an external investor was the question posed to four companies already backed by the Business Growth Fund.

Investment for business growth video: How acquisitions can accelerate growth

Merger & Acquisition

As part of an exclusive roundtable hosted by GrowthBusiness, we speak to four Business Growth Fund investments to see how M&A is working now capital is on the table.

Deal activity: The BGF wants to be closing 30-40 investments a year

Deal activity: The BGF wants to be closing 30-40 investments a year

The Business Growth Fund: Two years of operation in numbers

Business Finance

With two years having passed since the Business Growth Fund was backed by four of the UK's biggest high street banks, GrowthBusiness looks at what the firm has achieved.

Market & Sector View

Most Popular Growing a Business

The annual investment allowance explained

Financial Management

How the skills of Manchester United's Alex Ferguson can be used to construct a winning business team

Leadership & Mentors

Directors - trying times ahead?

Business Regulations

The Annual Investment Allowance explained - 2013 update

Business Finance

Smokers cost UK employers up to £2.1 billion a year

Human Resources

The annual investment allowance explained

Financial Management

Directors - trying times ahead?

Business Regulations

The Annual Investment Allowance explained - 2013 update

Business Finance

The rise of cash shells

Company Flotations

Breaking into supermarkets

Business Planning & Expansion

Trending

Financial Management And Forecasting

Venture Capital Funding

UK Inspirational Business Leaders

Sources Of Business Finance

Lessons From An Entrepreneur

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Midven has invested in Warwickshire-based Aeristech for the second time in three years.

The Entrepreneur

Quality not quantity: David Barker was careful not to get clients from one sector

Diversifying the client base at launch and learning to say ‘No’ 

David Barker reflects on resisting the temptation to say 'Yes' to the first offer when he opened his data centre, and how choosing instead to diversify his client base at launch has enabled 4D Data Centres to maintain rapid growth in a recession.

Comment & Analysis

Channeling Instagram for start-up success

That a team of 13 could build a business worth $1 billion should be the inspiration that all entrepreneurs need.

Research

Source of growth: There are 64 UK-listed cash shells holding £237.9 million

The rise of cash shells

New research from GrowthBusiness shows that the number of UK cash shells is climbing. We speak to new entrants to the market and those that have recently closed deals to find out what’s driving shells’ increasing popularity.