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Wol Kolade: Leaner machines

ISIS Equity Partners managing partner Wol Kolade joins GrowthBusiness as a blogger. In his first post, he explains why entrepreneurial businesses have the opportunity of a decade to help improve public services.

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Why VCTs work

Comments from Chancellor George Osborne that there is a 'question mark' over the merits of VCTs have caused alarm among investors and fund managers.

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Sustainable energy?

A bit like spring mating, the rush to match investors with companies and projects looking for funding is hotting up.

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Crafting a killer business strategy

What does strategy in business actually mean? There’s so much business babble out there on the subject, you’ll probably get 100 different answers from 100 different people.

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Rates should be kept low

Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG in the UK, explains why the economy needs interest rates to remain low.

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Fighting short-termism

Short-term thinking is a natural consequence of recession. Simply put, you're focused on getting through the next week, not mulling over your ten-year plan.

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Paternal peril

The government's planned changes to parental leave will mean nothing short of a nightmare for small businesses.

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Box clever

It seems obvious to state that good management is the key to business success, but in boom times this can all too easily be forgotten.

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Paternal peril

The government's planned changes to parental leave will mean nothing short of a nightmare for small businesses.

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Box clever

It seems obvious to state that good management is the key to business success, but in boom times this can all too easily be forgotten.

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New Year newsmakers

If you didn’t like the news last year, go out and make some of your own this year.

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Generation why

Apparently, I'm at ease with technology and have an egocentric, cynical attitude in the workplace. Or at least I would if I shared the archetypal characteristics of Generation Y, to which I (just) belong.

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More unequalled nonsense from the Equality Act

The Equality Act is making an unwelcome reappearance with the addition of a further and still more fatuous and irrelevant provision.

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Power shift

From the Irish bailout to the EU inquiry into Google, we are seeing an increasing power shift away from sovereign nations.