Catalyst For Business

Funding Entrepreneurs

The Catalyst funded initiative was launched to offer up to 50% funding, up to a maximum of £2,000, for IT and internet projects. To date the project delivered over 120 projects to businesses across the region with the help and hard work of over 80 Catalyst-approved suppliers (details of which are available on supplier matrix).

The first phase of the Catalyst project has now closed and we will not be part-funding any further ICT projects.

We are however, developing a second phase of activity to assist and support the region's businesses and details of these future activities will be available on this website very soon. In the meantime, please feel free to follow the links below to: enterprises.

Despite the difficulties there are many opportunities to be found in turbulent markets, as older established players faultier, human resources are released and shaken up and with the speed that Information technology is changing the business environments these opportunities are increasing.

Some new internet projects benefiting from Catalyst for Business:

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Catalyst for Business has funded a variety of different projects which were decided upon because of their perceived potential to work and grow. Examples of companies we have helped include an air duct cleaning business, electronic component sales, security company and many more. Without the initial support they needed many businesses would’ve found it difficult to begin their ventures.

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The entrepreneurial spirit drives commerce. We are forever seeking out the innovative, creative and new. Check out some of our clients. The projects we've funded range from personalized ornaments to Christmas gifts, to everyday household items, and even manufacturing equipment. The clients are diversified but the goal is identical: to foster creation of new endeavors in an expanding market.

Entrepreneurs are a necessity in any economy which is why many governments tend to encourage entrepreneurial active which can evolve or begin in any business i.e. Lunar caravan dealers . Without governmental input it is believed that a given economy would fail to grow at an acceptable rate, a rate which is suffering at present in the UK economy.

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Nearly every businessman now has a iPhone or a Blackberry smartphone. It can be very helpful having some great apps especially office apps as found on this website. Apps can make your business so much more easy running, and save some very good time.

UK businesses are finding that now is a great time to export their goods overseas. Due to the weakness of the GB Pound the Euro to Pounds exchange rate is looking at becoming parity (one pound equals one Euro) by as early as January 2010. This may be good for exporters but what about importers? Goods bought overseas will cost a lot more

One of the most difficult tasks for budding entrepreneurs is finding the capital to start their business. Some entrepreneurs may decide to look externally for a financial adviser - advisor in Nottingham to receive advice in regards to what finance they could source which could range from grants, business loans and other forms of capital supply.

One of the most important considerations of building a company these days is brand management and ensuring your company is protected from malicious attempts to smear it. We often get asked how to remove bad links and the answer is always the same, you cannot remove instead you manage them and by this we mean you can only ensure they do not sit at the top of the results for your name instead are on page 10.

There are plenty of articles online which deal with removing bad links but the and there are generally many companies out there with advice and services to help, however, one should really preemptively tackle such problems as part of a general strategy.

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