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     <title><![CDATA[Space: The final entrepreneurial frontier]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite it taking until 2013 for the UK to have its first &#8216;official astronaut&#8217;, Britain&#8217;s space industry offers many opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Acting quickly to capitalise on a new market]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Time was&#160;of the essence when&#160;Mario Di Giorgio,&#160;CEO of&#160;e-cigarette brand&#160;Salmon &amp; Trout, launched his business.&#160;He explains how being proactive worked.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Diversifying the client base at launch and learning to say &#8216;No&#8217;&#160;]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[David Barker reflects on resisting the temptation to say &#39;Yes&#39; to the first offer when he opened his data centre, and how choosing instead to diversify his client base at launch&#160;has enabled 4D Data Centres to maintain rapid growth in a recession.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Promoting the brand directly to the consumer]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[To allow his brand to stand out in a crowded market,&#160;John Bramm decided that shaking up the marketing strategy was the best way to make it stand out.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Switching operations to purely business-to-business]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Focusing on the right customer base is important for businesses &#8211; and for Omnifone CEO Jeff Hughes, it was a case of B2B is best.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Taking a chance with Groupon]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Elliot Grove explains why his&#160;Raindance Film Festival and film school might not have survived without the website and Groupon.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Investment for business growth: Springfield Healthcare Group]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Care home operator Springfield Healthcare Group has already begun to use its Business Growth Fund cash to get acquisitive. We find out how progress has been since the investment as part of an exclusive portfolio roundtable.]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Investment for business growth: Broadbandchoices.co.uk]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Advertising can often be a difficult thing to gauge in terms of return on investment, but is pivotal for the future success of Broadbandchoices.co.uk]]>
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     <title><![CDATA[Investment for business growth: Cennox]]></title>
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        <![CDATA[Back in June 2012, ATM services business Cennox became the Business Growth Fund&#39;s (BGF) 10th investment &#8211;&#160;at which point the company had already developed technology which was being used by the London cycle scheme to prevent card skimming.]]>
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