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Business inspiration

Looking for inspiration to start your own business this year? These articles provide the best business ideas and advice, to help give you an insight into the most successful and viable businesses in the UK today.

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The UK’s most exciting start-ups inspired by founders’ travels

Business ideas inspired by travel, flags marking locations on a map

The fantastic stories behind the best British businesses inspired by their founders’ trips overseas. Could your holiday inspire the Next Big Thing?…

Best business books

10 business books you MUST read in 2018

With our #BeYourOwnBoss2018 campaign in full swing, we've compiled a roundup of entrepreneur-recommended business books that could inspire you…

Alejandro Artacho, CEO and co-founder of Spotahome

Inspired by travel #15: Spotahome

How living in China and later working across Lisbon and London inspired Alejandro Artacho to simplify property rental for the online, digital age...…

Boa Vida Stephanie Brooks

Inspiring female-founded businesses of 2017: Boa Vida

Supplier of premium acai purees, sourced responsibly from the Brazilian Amazon…

Why start-up chaos is good but has to be conquered fast to grow big

Why start-up chaos is good but has to be conquered fast to grow big

It’s easy to get addicted to the chaotic life of a start-up but, as these award-winning entrepreneurs attest, business success demands greater control……

In Blog

How we started a multi-million pound company with nothing but a fax machine

How we started a multi-million pound company with nothing but a fax machine

From re-mortgaging their houses to pitching on Dragons' Den, here's how Oly and Toby Richmond turned a love of cars into a national servicing enterprise...…

In Success stories

One minute with… Savsé founder Guka Tavberidze

One minute with… Savsé founder Guka Tavberidze

Inspired by family recipes, smoothie brand Savsé has achieved multi-million-pound revenues. We talk business with its founder in this quickfire Q&A…

In Blog

One minute with…Dalston Cola Co’s founder Duncan O’Brien

One minute with…Dalston Cola Co’s founder Duncan O’Brien

From hand-making sodas in his kitchen to running a brewery with thousands of sales, read our 60 second interview with the chef-turned-entrepreneur…

In Blog

Immigrant entrepreneurs behind fantastic UK businesses

Many successful UK start-up founders weren’t born here. Startups’ takes a closer look at inspiring immigrants helping the UK economy to thrive……

In Success stories

Five trailblazing young eco-entrepreneurs to watch in 2017

Five trailblazing young eco-entrepreneurs to watch in 2017

A new wave of young entrepreneurs are breaking ground in sustainability. We look at five founders whose businesses are making the world a greener place…

In Sustainability

How I started an online TV channel without funding or equipment

How I started an online TV channel without funding or equipment

Rudolf Brenyah was unemployed when he decided to start up Unashamed TV. A year on, he shares how The Prince's Trust and his own network helped him to build a successful broadcasting business…

In Small business grants

Successful entrepreneurs who risked everything to start a business

Successful entrepreneurs who risked everything to start a business

Remortgaging their homes, quitting university, and spending their life savings: Read on to get inspired by these start-up stories from UK entrepreneurs…

In Success stories

Inspiring women: Virginie Charles-Dear

Inspiring women: Virginie Charles-Dear

The entrepreneur whose kid’s craft box business has raised over $4.6m from the BGF and the founders of Innocent Drinks……

In Women entrepreneurs

101 British tech start-up ideas that caught our eye

101 British tech start-up ideas that caught our eye

They say the best way to predict the future is to invent it. Find out more about the latest up and coming British tech ideas and get inspired……

In Tech start-ups

Low risk ways to start a business: Care services

Low risk ways to start a business: Care services

If you’re passionate about helping others then starting a care franchise could be the perfect business opportunity for you……

In Introduction to franchising

How I combined profit with purpose to create a thriving social enterprise

How I combined profit with purpose to create a thriving social enterprise

It's not easy to start a business to drive social change. Lauren Roffey, founder of Baked: Cake with a cause, shares tips for budding social entrepreneurs…

In Sustainability

How I created a multi-million pound company despite A-Level failure

How I created a multi-million pound company despite A-Level failure

Rachael Flanagan traded going to university to start Mrs Bucket. 11 years on, she employs 300 staff, has offices across Wales and boasts a £2.5m turnover…

In Women entrepreneurs

14 new food businesses redefining healthy eating

From "stupidly healthy" raw juice, to meat-free jerky and fermented yoghurt, Startups brings you the start-ups shaking up the UK food and drink industry…

Healthy food business: Spoon Cereals

Healthy food business: Spoon Cereals

Granola but not as you know it; Spoon Cereals is backed by Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones and wants to shake up your breakfast routine...…

Healthy food business: MOJU

Healthy food business: MOJU

Determined to ‘ban the boil’, MOJU is to cold-pressed juice what Innocent Drinks is to smoothies. Find out why this raw juice start-up is on the rise…

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