Category - Funding

Do you really need / want funding?

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Do you really need or want funding? Perhaps the answer to that question is yes, in which case, why do you want that funding? Or perhaps asking the question about funding will help you better...

21 Tests for Successful Crowd Investing – Meet these tests and get your startup funded
Crowdfunding has recently spawned something more interesting for startups, and that is, crowd investing. So, how does a startup or growth business know if it is ready (or right) to seek equity crowdfunding? To help, we have devised 21 tests for Crowd Investing, so that you can begin to assess the strength of your investment […]
Home Business Owners: You are under cyber attack!
Author of the ‘CyberSafr Home Business Guide’, Neil Lewis, advises home business owners that they are under attack. “Despite the major 2017 hacks and ransoms at international companies such as Equifax, Uber and national health services across the world, the big and mid-sized organisations are stepping up their cyber security quickly and effectively. Lewis said […]
Impact Investing – what is it? And how can it help you launch a startup to change the world?
Impact Investing, a concept coined six years ago, has recently become quite hot, capturing significant mainstream attention and interest. At its core, impact investing seeks to harness the power of enterprise to address social and/or environmental issues. Is this the way to launch your startup and change the world?

Is your Smart Phone Cyber Safe?
Our smart phones are our digital wallets – increasingly carry our debit card, banking, passwords and personal information. They are the most expensive item most of us carry and yet they are frighteningly at risk of cyberattacks and data hacks. Now, under the GDPR rules (arriving 25th May 2018), anyone using their phone for work […]
Six Years Cyber Update Guarantee
We call on all manufacturers to provide at least six years of cyber security updates for their products, valid from the date of purchase. We are told – again and again – that one of the three essential keys to cyber safety is keeping software update. Look at this latest tweet from the UK’s National […]
10 Steps to GDPR Survival for Small & Micro Businesses and Organisations – BETA
Note: this is a work in progress (partly because some of the GDPR rules are not yet clear or yet to be clarified by new national Data Protection Bills, currently passing through parliaments) but also, because I’m learning too! Hence, I’ve labelled this as ‘Beta’ – feel free to critique / challenge or just ask […]

Home Business Owners: You are under attack!
Book launch: CyberSafr Home Business Guide In 2018 the home business owner – of which there are 5 million in the UK, and 50 million in the worldwide developed economies – will fast becoming the new target of cybercriminals. Last year, studies in the US noted that 7 out of 10 Android smart phones are insecure. […]
Co-Founder Fights – 5 Tips for Dealing With it Well
Your dream is that your start up can create the ideal working environment where everyone can achieve their full potential. And yet…. And yet, after a few months, a few years or too much stress and a few tears, you begin to dislike, hate or simply just fight with your co-founder. Why? And what can you […]
Dive in!
You have to start a business or something - to find out where it might take you. The secret is not so much in the idea - but in the starting.

It’s 2018 – Let’s Get Fit
Come and join me in 2018 and let’s get fit together. My goal is to lose the 5 Christmas kilos and get back to my ideal running weight! What’s your goal? Tell me – and let me see if I can help you achieve your fitness and weight management goals in... […]
Forever Clean 9 to Fit 15 – how to succeed
The new Fit 15 is out and designed to fit into your level of fitness in order to take you to the next level. Fit 15 – BEGINNER (read the Fit 15 BEGINNER Booklet) Fit 15 – INTERMEDIATE (read the Fit 15 INTERMEDIATE Booklet) Fit 15 – ADVANCED (read the Fit 15 ADVANCED Booklet) So,... […]