10 February 2023

Monitoring your cash-flow might not sound like the most interesting aspect of running a business, but trust us when we say it’s probably the most important! It can be easy to get caught up in the more exhilarating tasks – especially when you first start up – like closing sales and perfecting your product, but […]

Choosing where to base your business might be the difference between floundering and flourishing, but it’s not easy to get it right. Now, that the property market is picking up again, commercial tenants or even prospective buyers, don’t wield the same power they might have done five years ago, so you should research locations, prices

When the going is good for your business, business planning for catastrophe is probably at the bottom of your list of priorities. But, it’s estimated that every business hits a crisis, at least once every five years and a large proportion never recover. How would you cope with fires, floods or burglaries, or even more

From the best of Bordeaux to the toast of Tuscany, if you need business capital, a well-stocked wine cellar could be a very viable asset to raise finance against.

If you need finance to invest in property, whether that’s to buy your own business premises, renovate a disused building and let it out or anything in between, Funding Guru can arrange or provide the right deal. The commercial property finance market is starting to thrive again, since 2014 we have seen the biggest surge

Challenging the myths behind business loans for women Business loans for women can be difficult to arrange. It’s hard to say whether this is because of a lack of financial confidence after a spell out of the marketplace, or because of a perception that finance providers are less interested in the structure of female-owned businesses that

If you have a bright business idea and can formulate it into a plan, you’ve taken the first step towards entrepreneurial success. But, unfortunately, even with the most innovative concept in the world, you’re only part of the way there. Because what the plethora of business programmes on TV don’t show, is that behind every

Deciding whether to access a secured or unsecured business loans is a big business decision. More often than not it isn’t a decision, rather a necessity. But that doesn’t explain why some business owners weigh up their options and still choose the unsecured funding.

Money makes the world go round and without it, you won’t be getting your business startup off the ground. The economy might be growing, but getting banks to lend to business startups is still frustratingly difficult. It has spawned a rise in alternative finance and increased peer-to-peer lending, invoice finance, business angel funding, crowdfunding and