About

Hunter was the Editor for GrowthBusiness.co.uk from 2012 to 2014, before moving on to Caspian Media Ltd to be Editor of Real Business.

Growth Planning

Why a non-executive advisor may be just the tonic your growth strategy needs

Alex Arnot, a non-executive board advisor to a range of SME organisations, outlines six reasons why you can't afford NOT to appoint one.

News

LOVEFiLM backer DFJ Esprit invests in SportPursuit again

A £5 million investment round has been closed by British e-commerce site SportPursuit to help with international expansion.

Opinion

Coding in the UK curriculum – can I go back to school?

The Year of Code is upon us, and with it a generation of coders could be born.

News

Growth up while risk down as SMEs face challenges of 2014

British businesses are experiencing the lowest level of recorded risk in 18 months, new figures reveal.

Entrepreneurs

Nurturing a new generation of British entrepreneurs

With the Year of Code now up and running, is the UK education system finally about to start equipping children with the requisite skills necessary to build businesses?

Managing

Why it’s time to apply responsive web design principles to business

As technology develops to accommodate the much-hyped ‘internet of things’ and the virtues of a single universal code which can be read across multiple devices take centre stage; Ray Kieser, group managing director of SGK, considers how people in business first need to develop a code that helps them talk to each other – understood from the boardroom to the production line.

News

Manx Telecom backers HgCapital and CPS Partners set to exit through IPO

Isle of Man-based communications provider Manx Telecom has outlined plans to join London's Alternative Investment Market.

News

Roman Abramovich’s Ervington Investments backs biotech company Weedingtech

Weed management business Weedingtech has added to the funding it received in the summer of 2013 by bagging a further £750,000.

News

Terry Leahy continues angel investing by joining Atterley Road funding round

Fashion brand aggregator Atterley Road has closed a £2 million investment round with contributions coming from The William Currie Group, Terry Leahy, Robert Willett and Artemis.

News

Don’t let big businesses call the shots 

Having first raised the argument that SMEs are failing to connect with enterprises, Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng looks at how smaller businesses should not be bullied by the big boys.

News

Business bank-backed Angel CoFund joins investors at BaseKit

London-based technology company BaseKit has netted £4.5 million of new investment capital.

News

UK SMEs should engage in the Chinese way to boost investment flows

Howard Leigh, Lord Leigh of Hurley and senior partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, uses his experience of global business to point out ways for British SMEs to reap the benefits of a growing Chinese market.

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