Funding
Explore funding pathways including angel investors, venture capital, grants, and crowdfunding options. Our guides explain how to approach each funding source and what investors typically expect from inventors.
Accounting Practices
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 end...
Applying for a Loan
To take invention ideas further many inventors will seek loans from high street banks' small business programmes. Depending on your circumstances, these can...
Becoming an Entrepreneur
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 be...
Covering the Cost of Exporting Your Product
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...
Funding your Business - Small Business Loans
If you have a small business or are starting a small business then you should be aware already of the variety of different small business loans that are avai...
Government Programs
As manufacturing has declined in the UK through cheaper competition from elsewhere and official policy to encourage a transition to a service, and latterly �...
How Do I Raise Money for an Invention?
The initial funding for independent inventions normally comes from ‘friends family and fools’, but once this is exhausted, and you need to progress to th...
Investor Venture Capital
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...
Loan Applications For Your Invention
Histories of technology often mention the inventor approaching a bank manager to whom he or she gives such an impressive demonstration in the office that the...
Maintaining an Agreed Overdraft
As a fledgling business you may well need to call upon your bank or building society for assistance in raising much need funds to get things off the ground....
Securing Funds against Assets
There are many businesses that currently have monies tied up in heavy duty machinery, stock and property which they cannot access without having to go throug...
Student Programmes and Young Inventors
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...
Submitting Inventions to Competitions
Submitting inventions to competitions can achieve a number of goals. If successful, an inventor may gain money, publicity and recognition for an idea. It’s...
Tax Returns & VAT Inspections
An important part of any business’ financial year is the production and completion of tax returns and any possible VAT inspections which may occur as a dir...
The Importance of Company Incorporation When Setting Up a Limited Company
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 reme...
Types of Grants Available
‘Enterprise’ and ‘innovation’ are common buzz-words in current political efforts to reinforce the ‘knowledge economy’ and as such there are a num...
Using a Business Angel
A business angel is an individual who supplies money for a commercial venture. Business angels may also act as a syndicate. When it comes to financial invest...
What is Business Banking?
Business banking is different from personal banking in that all of your company's financial requirements such as money transfers, BACS payments, salary payme...
Yearly Finances and Dividends in Business
When it comes to your first year in business either as a sole trader or a limited company finances are of the utmost importance. Every penny must be accounte...