Funding

Accounting Practices are a generally accepted set of rules - or regulations - that you must follow if you wish to submit yearly accounts relating to your endeavours as a sole trader or limited ...

Thinking of yourself as an entrepreneur rather than ‘just’ an inventor is a necessary step on the path to success. Or perhaps more accurately actually becoming an entrepreneur is the important bit. ...

When you have finally managed to begin selling your products either home or abroad you need to start thinking about how much it is actually costing you to do so. This is important as it will help ...

The DTI's Grants for Research & Development, administered through the regional development agencies, are a good source of matched early-stage funding for developing an invention into a successful ...

There are a number of grants available to help inventors turn their innovations into businesses. This article looks at the most significant of these, the DTI's R & D grants, and also some ...

The initial funding for independent inventions normally comes from ‘friends family and fools’, but once this is exhausted, and you need to progress to the next stage of development, you will need to ...

Venture capital is most often appropriate for inventors who have made significant progress with their invention and are well on the way to turning it into a successful business. In this sense it ...

Thinking about and presenting your invention as part of a new business, is important to securing a favourable loan, and in the process is crucial to transforming you from an inventor into an ...

To take invention ideas further many inventors will seek loans from high street banks' small business programmes. Depending on your circumstances, these can be a good option, with the attendant ...

It seems that just as many inventors and entrepreneurs are self-taught or taught in the ‘University of Life,’ as are graduates in disciplines relevant to their businesses, and it’s clear that there ...

If you wish to become a limited company in its own right then there are several things you must do in order to make everything legal.

The first thing to remember about a Limited Company is ...

Business banking is different from personal banking in that all of your company's financial requirements such as money transfers, BACS payments, salary payments, overdrafts etc are all looked after ...