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Five start-ups have been chosen to film the highs and lows of setting up a business in Britain in 2013 by national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain.

Having owned my own businesses for seven years (and starting four from scratch!), I understand how much money and time it can cost.

Facebook pages for business. You’ve heard about them, but are they any good?

StartUp Britain has celebrated its second birthday with a happy birthday message at the top of the iconic BT tower, courtesy of campaign sponsor BT Business.

The benefits of business mentoring

Shirley Munro Florist is thriving – with the help of BT.

Greetings from the other side!

Firstly, apologies for going AWOL for a bit. But I had the best of intentions for going missing!

Have you tried the Vegan Cakery yet?

Meet Sara Beaumont – another satisfied BT customer

What can the internet and social media do for a small business? Well, quite a lot actually, if Jo Peters', owner of Handmade in Hartlebury, experience is anything to go by.

After a Brighton break with the family, it only seems fitting to categorise my latest trials and tribulations by the activities that temporarily occupied my nearest and dearest.

Apologies for a slightly delayed update, things slipped away a bit…

Got your numbers?

In the last week, the fundraising mission continued. I’m amazed at how much time this actually absorbs; hence a lot of other parts of the project are delegated, or rushed in between finance tasks. We had a great meeting last week at a restaurant in Noho, and I knew the grub would be up to standard as Ester Rantzen was dining behind me. The man-in-common was delayed in a taxi and so the meeting kicked off with a get-to-know-you session with a very impressive global chair/CEO of many-a company. We were also joined by a potential investor that has been mentoring me over the past few weeks.

Guest blogger, Maria Albertsen was made redundant from her job when her youngest child was just six months old.  Here she tells us how she turned her situation around and found a new career she loves!

Firstly a quick update on the ‘investor’ meets from last week. I think for a mixture of reasons, I’ll stop referring to most of these as such. In summary I think the last week has been incredibly productive and every Friday, though I look back and think I could have done more, it’s not a bad effort for a ‘second job’, fitting around childcare…

Posts are written by Tim Buick, founder of StreetPin, as he leads the team through development, marketing, supplier relationships and hopefully investment rounds.

Posts are written by Tim Buick, founder of StreetPin, as he leads the team through development, marketing, supplier relationships and hopefully investment rounds.

We’re catching up with Amanda from Bravura to find out how she got started in business and what she’s discovered along the way.

Our last week has been predominately about being ‘investor ready'. We're liaising with a couple of good potential seed investors, but of course no chickens are being counted at this stage. It inevitably becomes a waiting game, and I'm not the sort of person to put all eggs in one basket. I'm limbering up and fully prepared to jump through a number of concurrent hoops.

Posts are written by Tim Buick, founder of StreetPin, as he leads the team through development, marketing, supplier relationships and hopefully investment rounds.