How to Conduct Customer Trials
Customer trials are an excellent way to test your product or service and gain a better understanding of how your target audience will...
Ian Hobday
- Mar 4
- 3 min
How To Scale Up Your Business
Scale up, what does it mean? You’ve started making sales, revenue is hitting your bank, your target market is responding well, your...
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Ian Hobday
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Business Plan 2.0
When you eventually finish your Business Plan (including Financials, Executive Summary and Pitch Deck) you can breathe a huge sigh of...
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Ian Hobday
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Skills Gap Analysis
Consider these familiar startup stories, all likely to end in failure. Four engineers get together to create the next generation...
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Ian Hobday
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Build A Credible & Investable Team
Is your team credible and investable? With a successful MVP (Minimum Viable Product), a patent or two and LoL’s (Limits of Liability)...
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Ian Hobday
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Execution Plan: What is it and why do you need one?
Your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) has attracted the attention you’d hoped for – clients want to buy once it’s ready; investors are lining...
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Ian Hobday
- Feb 16
- 5 min
How To Build a Team For Your Startup
You can’t have a successful startup without a solid team behind you. Here are some tips on how to put together a team that will set up...
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 28, 2020
- 2 min
Startup Guide: Introduction
Welcome to the ultimate guide for startups, where we cover key topics to help you launch a successful startup!
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Maxwell
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
Is it more than just a good idea?
Having a great idea is a good start, but if it's not relevant to enough people, then you might need to think of something else.
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Validate your solution
People might like your idea, but would they pay for it?
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Maxwell
- Aug 20, 2020
- 5 min
Startup Traction and Social Proof
Startup traction and Social proof are key factors in building a successful startup. Read on to find out why.
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Maxwell
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
How to pitch your startup
A bad pitch can have dire consequences on your chances of finding funding. So make sure you do it right. Here's what you'll want to do...
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 15, 2020
- 6 min
How to write a Business Plan
How do you write a business plan that will attract investors? Keep it clear, easy to read - oh, and definitely do not forget to...
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Maxwell
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
How to market your startup
Marketing your startup is a big - and vital - step in ensuring your startup's success. So make sure you nail it.
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 11, 2020
- 7 min
How to fund your startup
Funding a startup is one of the biggest challenges an entrepreneur faces. Learn more about different types of investments and investors.
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min
Startup Checklist
Make sure you've checked off all of these steps before you launch yourself head first into your startup.
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Ian Hobday
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
Startup FAQ
We've done our best to cover the most we could in our startup guide, but here are the answers to a few more questions you might have.
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Maxwell
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
Startup Resources
If all of this is too overwhelming or not your speciality and you’d like us to take care of it - just contact us and we’ll coordinate things
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Mustafa Omar
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Business banking - new accounts made easy with one of the fastest growing challenger banks
Metro Bank first opened its doors in the summer of 2010, the first high street bank to open in the UK in over 100 years. We keep our...
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Tony Fields
- Jul 20, 2020
- 5 min
Great business idea…but is your financial plan in place?
As an entrepreneur you are by nature a risk taker and have made huge sacrifices to get your business to where it is today. This may not...
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