Epic Christmas: How Small Businesses Do It?
We’re only one week away from Christmas and as a startup we’re rightfully excited about spending the Holidays as a team for the first time. Who knows, maybe in the coming years we’ll become as impressed as Grinch, but for now we’re enjoying every song on our hours long jingly playlist.
This whole Christmas mood made us reach out to other small companies and ask them how they’re celebrating the birth of Jesus. You’d be surprised to learn that most of them have ditched the old office Christmas party concept and have gone for more fun and bonding team building activities for small business.
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Accountants “losing clients” as contractors opt for PAYE to avoid IR35 pitfalls
Accountants are saying some of their private sector clients, opting to go PAYE ahead of the IR35 2020 deadline, no longer require their services.
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Bonuses Are Not Public Enemy No1
I write in response to Anthony Hilton’s article “A new take on productivity could bring us all a bonus” (1 October), in which he reviewed Productivity and the Bonus Culture by Andrew Smithers.
Smithers has focused on the big bonus as being an enemy to productivity in the UK, but the statistics tell a different story.
Small business support is ‘nothing but window dressing’, says former Government advisor
A former leading advisor to the UK government says the support shown for small businesses is “nothing but window dressing”.
Duncan Collins, principal advisor appointed by the Thatcher and Blair governments, said that since the closure of Government initiative Business Link (nothing to do with the BLM Group) in 2012 there has been nothing but window dressing and no prospect of improvement.
Why working from home is a win-win for SMEs and their people
A recipe for flexible working success (and why happy people are the secret ingredient)
Imagine if your morning commute only took as long as it takes to boot-up your laptop. That your office is anywhere you can get online. And that your working hours fit around your home life. How does that make you feel? In control? Liberated? Happy? Everyone in your business could feel like this, every day. This is the promise of working from home.
Runagood®: The AI Business Advisor Attracts International Interest
Runagood®: The AI Business Advisor attracts international interest as it seeks to raise £1m of equity funding.
AI-Driven Business Advisor Attracts International Interest
Runagood®, the AI Business Advisor, has attracted international interest as it seeks to raise £1m of equity funding in exchange for 20% of the company.
CEO and Founder of Runagood, Duncan Collins says the London based start-up firm has received enquiries from North America, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
World’s first AI driven business advisor attracts global interest
AI could be set to save businesses money on consultancy fees thanks to London based start-up Runagood®, the world’s first AI Business Advisor®.
The AI-driven software acts as a one-stop shop for business owners – identifying issues around company performance and then offers solutions/actions to improve the business. The powerful automated system also provides a business valuation within minutes as a key benchmark of business health.
Runagood® explains how AI diversifies an accountancy practice
Is the combined onslaught of reducing audit requirements, the rise of low-cost, online, DIY systems and the inclination of most start-ups to be self-sufficient and tech savvy, unstoppable? The bigger firms have developed bargain deals for very small companies in the hope of spotting and getting alongside the winners of the future.
Our small business problem - and how technology can solve it
It could be argued that the typical small business is founded by someone who is passionate about what they do and working for themselves rather than passionate about building a new Amazon or Apple. They are not motivated to strive for growth, profits or corporate power. They just want to own the business that employs them comfortably. Well OK, 10% are motivated, which is about 550,000 in the UK right now. But how to support them? And if we could where is the budget? And what about the other 5m SMEs that are not driven to increase productivity? How can they be helped to run more ambitious businesses?
Tech Series: An AI programme which does business consultancy for you
Runagood CEO Duncan Collins on how AI has taken over the role of business consultants - and how the role of the accountant will be critical.
How did you come to set up Runagood?
I left corporate life in 1988 to become a business consultant, and I was appointed by the Thatcher government to lead their work on small businesses. The first job was to set up the Training and Enterprise Councils, and the second job was to set up 110 Business Links, which worked out of the Training and Enterprise Councils. Throughout that period, we had quite a large team of consultants, and directly or indirectly we worked with a million businesses, and more than 2,000 consultants whom we had to train. By 2010, the international competitiveness of very small businesses in the UK had risen from 21st to 7th place.
The Fintech times on Runagood®'s bid to raise £1m
Runagood® the world’s first AI business advisor is fundraising for £1m of equity funding for 20% of its company.
The business aims to use the funds to launch its innovative technology and start marketing to Britain’s 5.5 million small businesses nationwide, including sole traders.
CEO Duncan Collins is a business consultant turned tech entrepreneur who has spent the last seven years developing the world’s first AI business advisor®, which reduces consultant time by up to 90%.
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Business Advice For £5 A Day? - Yes, We're Talking Algorithms
You can learn a lot from short phone conversation - and it isn’t always comfortable.
Take my call with Duncan Collins, founder and CEO of UK business advisory service provider, Runagood. In the course of a call lasting thirty minutes or so, I found myself thinking about how my own freelance writing businesses was shaping up when compared with others operating in roughly the same corner of the media marketplace. No, I didn’t really know how good I was at acquiring and retaining clients. Nor did I have any real notion of how productive my days are when compared to others. And when it comes to investment in technology - well, my now venerable and slightly battered windows laptop is testament to the fact that I could probably do a bit more of that.
3 Ways to Double Profits and Increase Efficiency For Your Accounting Firm
One of the bigger challenges an accounting practice now faces is the ever growing need to double profits, without losing any sort of efficiency...and bring in winning clients. How can a practice balance these needs, while still diversifying enough to keep their firm growing?
How accounting firms can tap into benefits of AI
The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) sometimes leads to contemplation of a future in which robots will do some of the most important jobs in the world. Doctors, lawyers, and accountants would all be affected by a machine-intensive world, and it would mean the end of millions of jobs as we know them today.