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  • What makes a successful joint venture?

    Making joint venture partnerships work
  • How do I choose a payment provider?

    In going global, our social web platform has experienced a major problem with the payment provider we signed with, as it couldn’t process pa...
  • How can I export on a budget?

    I run a small four-year-old business, which sells high-value specialist computer and electronic components and accessories to the consumer h...
  • How do I navigate an acquisition?

    I am at the end of an option to acquire agreement and my business is about to be acquired by a parent company, which will help it to grow internationally and attract bigger clients...
  • Going green: where do we start?

    I own a mid-sized manufacturing business, having taken over from my father last year. One of the things I’ve been keen for us to look into is what we can do to be more green. With...
  • How do I avoid fluctuations?

    We’ve had a great early summer selling a Japanese gadget, which I started importing last year, to the extent we were guilty of overtrading. This has left us with cashflow issues. W...
  • How can we agree a valuation?

    I’ve put a lot of effort and intellectual property into getting my business to its current position, but I now need an investor to provide funding to grow. The problem is that I ne...
  • How do we keep web projects on track?

    My accountancy firm is considering a website redesign to make us more visible to Google, and equally importantly, to make the site more user-friendly and easier to navigate once cu...
  • How can we cope with large orders?

    My healthy food brand had a surprisingly strong 2009 and managed to break into a few major supermarkets. While they stocked only relatively small volumes, one of them recently plac...
  • Is a pre-pack appropriate?

    My business, which provides outsourced sales support, has fallen on very tough times and has been leaching money for the last few months. We’re now facing serious financial issue...
  • Mergers: how do we avoid a culture clash?

    I’ve just completed a merger that sees me take control of an enlarged marketing group. My head office is in London and the deal gives us a national spread by adding a number of r...
  • Understanding compromise agreements

    A few months ago, one of my managers started a disciplinary process with one of his team due to poor performance. The employee put a compromise proposal forward in a letter, which...

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