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Ask a simple business question... but will you get a straight answer? (19 Aug 2010)
A phenomenon known as the 'entrepreneurial myth' is the mistaken belief that all businesses are started up and run by entrepreneurs. In fact, in the majority of cases, small businesses are started by people who know very little about how to run a business... read more

Business advice you will be wise to ignore (12 Aug 2010)
Our quick guide to six of the most common pieces of rubbish business advice you'll hear which you should ignore at all costs... read more

Small business owners are not very green or charitable... but they enjoy meeting people (05 Aug 2010)
EnterQuest's most recent survey looked into small business owners' attitudes and opinions about using business plans both at start up and at other key times in the business life cycle. The survey also sought our readers opinions about their management style, how they measure success, and what excites and frustrates them the most about running a small firm in the UK... read more

Test your red tape awareness (24 Jun 2010)
It's been aptly stated somewhere before that there are two types of people who know nothing about business. Those people who are in business, and those people who are not... read more

Small business winners and losers (10 Jun 2010)
Running a small business is in many ways a form of gambling. Why so? Because people are continually attracted into business with little or no entrepreneurial or marketing know-how , and often encouraged to do so by civil servants and ministers with too much emphasis on the rewards and very little regard for the risks... read more

The problem of entrepreneurs' 'denial' (03 Jun 2010)
Managing business finance - or more like not managing it - is an area of small business where we see too many entrepreneurs guilty of 'denial' behaviour... read more

The unique 'small business feeling' (27 May 2010)
Many people who run their own enterprise fail to appreciate that running a small business can give them several advantages over the bigger players in their sector or industry... read more

Writing a business plan - what's the point? (20 May 2010)
Plans. Planning. Business Plans. What are these all about then? Everyone you talk to and everything you read about starting up and running a business seems to say the same thing... read more

The 'proper' way to run your business (13 May 2010)
You will almost certainly have heard the expression, or seen it first hand, that "all's fair in love and war", and for a lot of people that applies to running their business as well... read more

8 tips to help you fail in business (07 May 2010)
Every year about 400,000 people start up in business, and some of them even do well enough to survive and continue trading successfully beyond those tricky first couple of years... read more