Cambridge University Entrepreneurs’ 5K challenge; 5 Feb 11

I attended, and participated in, the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE; www.cue.org.uk) ‘Entrepreneurs’ 5K challenge’ training event today. It was attended by about 70 very keen (it was Saturday afternoon) and clearly smart budding entrepreneurs from Cambridge University and I was one of 5 speakers. My topic was ‘routes to market’ and I had a brief which [...]

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When you’ve really got to cut costs …

 When I’m not helping the owners and directors of smaller enterprises to run their businesses well I spend some of my time trying to get a fair deal for local people from local government. I am, in fact, an elected councillor! And in common with all councils the one on which I serve is grappling [...]

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Five accounting pitfalls for small companies

This is a guest blog entry from Lynn Munday of Forecast Flow. Click here for Forecast Flow’s web-site. The biggest problems that small companies, and that includes start-ups of course, encounter often relate to not knowing how well they’re doing, not knowing what’s coming along next month or even next week and not having enough cash. There are [...]

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New rules for directors: be wary!

I attended another excellent seminar at the St John’s Innovation Centre (www.stjohns.co.uk) last week. This time it was on directors’ responsibilities. It was delivered by a team from Mills & Reeve (www. mills-reeve.com) and was another of the series organised by St John’s and supported by the Greater Cambridge Partnership with government money. There are [...]

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Recession no longer so bad say SMEs

Following an unscientific poll of contacts David Jenkins of i2i-management.com reports that most SMEs which he’s spoken to say that business is not as bad as it has been but still a long way short of being as good as it was before the recession started to bite. David spoke to a mix of retailers in Cambridge, exhibitors at [...]

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