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  • Essence Peldon Rose (2)

    Gardening leave: why are offices turning into botanical spaces?

    Amazon has tree houses in its offices and Microsoft employees work in the woods. Companies reveal why they are using plants to boost productivity
  • Bandeau Arancia, item from Salvatore Ferragamo collection which uses waste orange peel to make textiles

    Nice threads: the waste-based fibres cleaning up fashion

  • Woman on train

    Journey to work a daily grind? How to make your commute more productive

  • Colleagues discussing plans remember the office<br>Three colleagues discussing plans in a modern high-tech office

    What makes you a disruptor? 'Not knowing the rules'

  • Cobra Beer Founder And Chairman Karan Bilimoria<br>Karan Bilimoria, founder and chairman of Cobra Beer Ltd., poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. U.K. stocks rose, following five weeks of gains, as London Stock Exchange Group Plc's advance outweighed Petrofac Ltd.'s plunge. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    'A strong brand will get you through a crisis': Meet the Mentors with Cobra beer's founder

  • Still life bookkeeping photo of a sales ledger with a pile of receipts, invoices and a print calculator.<br>CFRD24 Still life bookkeeping photo of a sales ledger with a pile of receipts, invoices and a print calculator.

    How can my small business prepare for Brexit?

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Resources

  • Chichi Eruchalu sits behind her laptop

    Stop saying yes to everything: how to set boundaries for your business

  • people around table

    Charisma isn't elusive, train yourself to become magnetic

  • Girl rock climbing

    Eight dos and don'ts for launching a successful business

  • women in office with baby

    How to juggle babies and business

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Adventures in business podcast

  • Emma Sheppard, journalist and content coordinator, Guardian Small Business Network; Isabella Lane, co-founder of Smarter Applications; Rich Pleeth, founder of SUP; Emily Forbes, founder of Seenit

    'The journey is nothing but extraordinary' – Confessions of a Startup

  • John Stapleton, co-founder of New Covent Garden Soup Co, Glencoe Foods and Little Dish. Confessions of a small business. Hiscox Evening Seminar. Scott room. Kings Place 6/2/17

    'Embrace adversity' – Confessions of a Small Business

  • Isabella Lane

    'Have faith in what you're doing' – Confessions of a Startup

  • Efe Cakarel

    'It takes longer and costs more than you think' – Confessions of a Startup

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Accessing expertise

  • Brant Richards and Ed Oxley, founders of HebTroCo

    Bringing trousers back to Trouser Town: the small businesses reviving heritage industries

  • Ruby Warrington and Alexandra Roxo co-founders of The Numinous with members of the company’s Moon Club in New York.

    Crystals, potions and tarot cards: the mystical rise of new age businesses

  • Feeling flexible: GoYoga in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

    Pounds to shed: the rise of the luxury workout

  • St Ives Etsy

    Deck the stalls: Christmas markets and pop ups – in pictures

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Adventures in business

  • Måns Ulvestam

    Podcasts were guys talking about tech, then along came Serial

  • Suranga Chandratillake, partner at VC firm Balderton

    'Now's the time for change in venture capital': meet the unicorn hunters

  • Sophia Miran in her arts center in Erbil

    ‘People take a chance on you here’: female entrepreneurs in Iraqi Kurdistan

  • whitney wolfe

    Bumble's Whitney Wolfe: 'I'm worried we're alienating the good guys'

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Business made simple

  • UK businesses are faced with great uncertainty, from the impact of rapidly advancing technology on jobs, to a lack of clarity over Brexit. But businesses have survived – if not thrived – during periods of upheaval, so how can firms stay on track in the face of change?

    Four ways to futureproof your business – video

  • Bosses should involve employees in coming up with solutions to a problem.

    The road to resilience: how firms can navigate turbulent times

    Top tips from our Business Made Simple panellists on steering a business through a period of uncertainty
  • Chef putting toppings on a pizza

    Could this startup shame restaurants into wasting less food?

    Winnow, a smart tech business, is on a mission to combat the hospitality industry’s $100bn food-waste crisis
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The disruptors

  • Women work at a counter as part of co-working session organised by Kitchin Table, a new startup

    Would you let strangers work at your kitchen table?

  • A rogue sunflower growing taller than the rest of the field as they bathe in the early morning sunshine.

    Ask the experts: how can your business stand out in a crowded market?

  • Pique Tea, a crystallised instant tea that dissolves in hot and cold water

    Storm in a teacup: could instant tea overtake the classic bag?

  • One in four people who want to start a business want to create a social enterprise.

    'Social enterprises go bust all the time' - how the sector is tackling its image problem

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Live chats

  • Flock of sheep and goat in the mountains at summer

    Ask the experts: how to be an industry disruptor

  • cup of coffee and pastry

    Ask the experts: the secrets to customer loyalty – as it happened

    • hand reaching for lighbulbs

      Ask the experts: how to be more creative – as it happened

    • woman on train holding tablet

      Ask the experts: how to build your business reputation – as it happened

    • How would your team rate you?

      Live chat: how to be a good boss – as it happened

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