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Tag: Alternative Funding

How to start your own UK business with no money

September 27, 2025

By Joshua Stanley

Funding and capital are often the biggest hurdles to overcome when starting a business. If you’re short on start-up funds …

How to get A Small Business Grant?

December 23, 2021

By Sebastian Duncan

1500 original Are you eligible for a small business grant? Getting a small business grant can be a valuable lifeline …

Alternative finance can offer a quicker solution to SME event-driven borrowing needs

June 7, 2018

By Dave Sherrington

SME event-driven finance is fast becoming the natural terrain of the alternative finance industry.

What makes a successful scale-up company and do businesses and investors agree

November 13, 2017

By Letitia Booty

A recent study has found that there is something of a perception gap between businesses and investors in terms of what makes a successful scale-up company.

While smaller than the industry in the UK, alternative finance in Europe cannot be ignored

February 20, 2015

By Shane Schutte

While previous studies have charted alternative finance in the UK, the market in 2014 at £840m and the year on year growth rate of 90 per cent, EY and the Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School are the first to cover the whole of Europe in detail.

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