Early Stage Businesses: Risk-Takers Who Will Rise to Challenge of the Future ; in the First of a Series of Weekly Columns On Early Stage Businesses, Advantage Business Angels Managing Director Neil Mackay Argues These Businesses Will Play an Increasingly Wide Role in Future Prosperity

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'E nterprise boosts productivity, increases competition and innovation, creates employment and prosperity and revitalises our communities.'

This heartening quote is from a recent Government action plan for small businesses supported by both the Prime Minister and The Chancellor of The Exchequer. Similar views are expressed by Tory politicians - a remarkable consensus. The most enterprising companies in the UK today are early stage businesses: start-ups, young growing businesses, re-starts and small management buy-out typetransactions. A desire to be more enterprising may not be the only reason why we need to start thinking more about these businesses. Based on today's trends more people are going to have to work in, or be dependant on, early stage businesses whether they like it or not.

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Early Stage Businesses: Risk-Takers Who Will Rise to Challenge of the Future ; in the First of a Series of Weekly Columns On Early Stage Businesses, Advantage Business Angels Managing Director Neil Mackay Argues These Businesses Will Play an Increasingly Wide Role in Future Prosperity

The trends we have heard about and which have become a bit boring to read - even a cliche - are still not going to go away. Relentless global pr...

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