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The Round-Up: Highlights from this week’s enterprise news

by Zarina | 30 September 2011 | no comments

This week’s round-up takes a look at the new Google startup centre in London, Mary Portas’ new high street venture, Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, and UK bosses who are scared of speaking in public. Our …

Who will be September’s Pioneer of the Month? You Decide!

by Zarina | | no comments

Vote for the Pioneer that you’d like to see as  September’s Pioneer of the Month. Keep up your own good work in the community, in the future it could be you! Meet the contenders: This …

A guide to HMRC compliance checks on small businesses

by Zarina | 29 September 2011 | no comments

HMRC are now running random spot checks on small businesses in order to ensure that shoddy record-keeping no longer affects underpayment of tax. By keeping yourself organized, a compliance check will be easy. What is …

Pioneers News 238: Don’t miss out on Pioneer opportunities and news!

by Zarina | 28 September 2011 | no comments

A surprisingly sunny hello to all our new members from the VMP HQ in London today. We’ve got 3 fantastic Pioneer Opportunities to get involved in plus blog highlights and our video of the week …

Flip Camera or Netbook Anyone?

by Erica | | 7 comments

  First up, we’ve got a shiny new flip camera to giveaway to the Virgin Media Pioneer that completes this sentence. If I had a brand new flip camera I’d be able to promote my… …

Tech Tuesday: Changes to Facebook in a nutshell

by Zarina | 27 September 2011 | no comments

Social Media is an important aspect to how you market your business. It’s really important that you stay up-to-date with all the new changes to sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The ever evolving Facebook …

3 great ecological and sustainable business ideas

by Zarina | 26 September 2011 | no comments

Let’s begin the week with some inspirational businesses ideas from the Eco and Sustainability sector, starting the week as we mean to go on. We love Films on Fridges, and Paperflops are pretty great too! …

Win an all star mentor for your business!

by Erica | 23 September 2011 | 8 comments

If you’ve been trapped under a rock somewhere you may have missed the blog posts, tweets and Facebook messages detailing the launch of our new campaign, Control Shift: The Rise of Young Entrepreneurs. So what’s …

The Round-Up: Must-know enterprise news!

by Zarina | | no comments

This week’s enterprise news includes Google + going public, thriving UK fashion businesses, the stabilization of shares plus the launch of Google Juice Bar offering free digital consultation for small businesses in Liverpool. Why Google …

Pioneer Of The Week: Ronke Ige – Emi & Ben

by Zarina | | one comment

A big congratulations to Ronke Ige who has been chosen as this week’s Pioneer of the Week! She’ll join the September running for Pioneer of the Month. Why Ronke is our Pioneer of the week: …