June « 2012 « The Foundation East Blog

What’s In A Coach?

One of the ways in which we as an organisation strive to help the businesses we support is providing access to a group of highly experienced and knowledgeable coaches. These coaches are an important stage in helping our clients to succeed in a tough economic climate. We would like to introduce one of our [...]

Are the banks backing small business or not?

Figures have revealed that in the last year of the 827,000 applications from SMEs to banks for credit (e.g. loans, overdrafts and credit cards) were 86% approved. In these ongoing times of a depressed economy and possible collapse of the Euro zone surely this is good news, isn’t it? It is a demonstration that [...]

Are you a necessity-based or opportunity-based entrepreneurs

Towards the end of Hugh Muir’s often insightful, quietly brilliant and (I hasten to add) ironically-titled Hideously Diverse Britain column in the Guardian yesterday there was a reference which piqued my interest. He quotes someone referring to ‘necessity-based’ as opposed to ‘opportunity-based’ entrepreneurs. Not constructions I’d ever come across before but from the context [...]