Comments on: Can EIS make your business more attractive to Investors?

By: Kevin Edgar

Kevin Edgar — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:41:44 +0000

Whilst such schemes are laudable, I think a degree of joined up collaborative thinking wouldn’t go amiss. Having recently offered my business & IT knowledge on a pro bono basis to the excellent new business mentoring scheme supported by the Chamber of Commerce, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how well this was also being supported by many highly skilled and knowledgeable individuals prepared to devote their time to helping start up and young businesses avoid common pitfalls and maximise their potential. Whilst many private investors may be prepared to commit capital to a new or burgeoning business, they may not always have the time or requisite skills to help ensure its success and would probably welcome some collaborative thinking between groups with the same objective of assisting small and growing businesses in the UK to succeed.
There would appear to be a wealth of experienced business people prepared to freely devote their skill and knowledge to supporting new and growing businesses without expectation of payment or vested interest who are infinitely better qualified to provide guidance to auntreprener than any government department that I ‘m aware of .

By: Andries Smit

Andries Smit — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:43:19 +0000

Hi Tanya
Why don’t you try freelance websites..? With your skillset you might find some excellent opportunities there! Just google freelance work uk – just note that most of these sites tend to specialise in some industry (IT / design / copywriting). Hope it helps!
All the best! Andries

By: Tanya Petrena

Tanya Petrena — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:24:36 +0000

Sadly that scheme wouldn’t help someone like me, who needs to work from home because my disability. Unfortunately in these types of schemes, you must have money to begin with, but when you are disabled and on benefit, you haven’t got a chance in hell of ever finding enough money to fund a business opportunity or ever finding a scheme that would help and individual like me.

I have struggled to put up a website, I am trying my best to reach businesses to ask for work by even offering to work for free for a month or a bit longer if they were really struggling, so that they could see if I was suitable for their company, which to me sounds a fair proposition.

However, sadly I haven’t had an takers for offer which is 100% genuine. Sadly I haven’t got a clue of what else I can do.