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- The first ten customers: where new businesses get stuck
- The most automatable job in Britain is the one writing this
- More capital, fewer founders: the real state of play for young entrepreneurs across EMEA, APAC and the Americas
- Quantum computing meets AI: a plain-English guide to what’s real, and what to do now
- Everyone has the idea. Few make the move: what actually turns a small idea into a business
- Identity verification is now the law: what every UK founder must do before the 2026 deadline
- Rates, NI and the corner shop: will Burnham’s small-business promises survive contact with the Treasury?
- The £1bn playbook: how the Good Growth Fund spends, and how to be on the receiving end
- Manchesterism goes national: what a Burnham government could mean for founders outside London
- What is a fractional project manager, and does your business need one?
- Is your business AI-ready? A grounded checklist
- What a business process review actually finds
- Do you actually need custom software? A five-minute test
- How to turn an idea into a business: start with one move
- High-frequency formation statistics became a useful demand indicator
- Expanded EMI, EIS and VCT limits strengthened the founder-finance toolkit
- Business formation data showed a deep pipeline, but applications are not companies
- Scale-up policy focused on direct capital and reducing growth friction
- The UK Budget leaned into scale-up finance, procurement and AI adoption
- US reciprocal tariffs turned supply-chain assumptions into pricing risk
- Britain’s AI plan shifted emphasis from debate to adoption
- The UK digital-markets regime went live
- UK business numbers slipped while SMEs still carried most employment
- The Bank of England made its first cut of the cycle, but money stayed expensive
- London rewrote its listing rules to compete for growth companies
- Digital markets and consumer enforcement became a board-level issue
- The FTC moved to ban most non-competes nationwide
- Spot bitcoin products entered mainstream US exchange infrastructure
- The US AI executive order moved AI governance into procurement
- Companies House began shifting from passive register to active gatekeeper
- The post-SVB review sharpened the lesson: growth can outrun controls
- The UK chose a regulator-led, principles-based approach to AI
- Silicon Valley Bank failed, and startup treasury stopped being a back-office issue
- ChatGPT made generative AI legible to ordinary businesses
- The small-business base remained huge, but below its pre-pandemic peak
- CHIPS turned semiconductor capacity into an industrial-strategy market