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![Accounting Practices](images/110x80/12954.jpg)
Accounting Practices
This article looks at what make up the most common accounting practices and how you - as a sole trader or limited company - can use them to help your business...
![Applying for a Loan](images/110x80/6759.jpg)
Applying for a Loan
Loans from high street banks are a common route for inventors to raise finance to take their inventions further, but soft loans obtained through government initiatives…...
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Transforming yourself from inventor to entrepreneur is the crucial part of turning your invention into a business, and you may need to change the way you think as well…...
![Covering the Cost of Exporting Your Product](images/110x80/17163.jpg)
Covering the Cost of Exporting Your Product
This article looks at how - as a newly set up business with a new product - you can cover the cost of exporting to other countries...
![Funding your Business - Small Business Loans](images/110x80/15249.jpg)
Funding your Business - Small Business Loans
If you have a small business and need financing what do you do? We look at Small Business Loans (SBLs) and offer some advice...
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Government Programs
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…...
![How Do I Raise Money for an Invention?](images/110x80/6757.jpg)
How Do I Raise Money for an Invention?
Grants, loans and venture capital are all methods of helping develop an invention into a viable business, and in each case it's important to see your invention in…...
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Investor Venture Capital
For an invention which has already progressed to being a business, securing venture capital investment is a common way to fund expansion and continued development....
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Loan Applications For Your Invention
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…...
![Maintaining an Agreed Overdraft](images/110x80/14620.jpg)
Maintaining an Agreed Overdraft
This article looks at how to maintain an agreed overdraft and what steps a small business or sole trader can take to safeguard themselves from large debts if a…...
![Securing Funds against Assets](images/110x80/5266.jpg)
Securing Funds against Assets
This article looks at ways to secure funds for your business against assets the business already owns....
![Student Programmes and Young Inventors](images/110x80/6762.jpg)
Student Programmes and Young Inventors
Studying design and engineering can be an excellent way for a young inventor to gain expertise and a background which will make independent invention and new product…...
![Submitting Inventions to Competitions](images/110x80/33751.jpg)
Submitting Inventions to Competitions
Submitting an invention to competitions is a great way to achieve funding and publicity. There are organisations around the world looking for new product ideas....
![Tax Returns & VAT Inspections](images/110x80/6347.jpg)
Tax Returns & VAT Inspections
This article looks at Tax Returns and the subsequent VAT inspections which may occur if there are what Her Majesty's revenue and customs deem to be inaccuracies...
![The Importance of Company Incorporation When Setting Up a Limited Company](images/110x80/12922.jpg)
The Importance of Company Incorporation When Setting Up a Limited Company
This article looks at how to register your company as a limited company...
![Types of Grants Available](images/110x80/6758.jpg)
Types of Grants Available
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…...
![Using a Business Angel](images/110x80/35645.jpg)
Using a Business Angel
Business angels may expect a high return on their investments, but inventors who use them can have the double benefit of funding and expert advice....
![What is Business Banking?](images/110x80/12950.jpg)
What is Business Banking?
This article looks at business banking and how it can be useful to your company...
![Yearly Finances and Dividends in Business](images/110x80/2554.jpg)
Yearly Finances and Dividends in Business
This article looks at how the yearly finances are measured against sales and also how year end accounts are put together; the article also looks at dividends for…...