NEW START // ISSUE 6 // 03
IN THIS ISSUE
COVER STORIES
12 Latest show news - What’s lined up for New Start
Scotland 2009
17 Funding - How to make your business an attractive
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investment
26 In my life - From selling up to supporting start-ups,
SHOW NEWS
Sir Tom Farmer speaks to New Start
48 Time for a change - Why diversifying in business
could be the key to success
REGULARS
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6 Letters - From you to us
7 Breaking news - Keep up to date with the latest
DEAD GOOD
business goings-on in Scotland
23 Small Business Clinic - Should the Scottish
Government be taking a leaf out of President Obama’s book?
34 Forum burning question - Homecoming the answer
to Scotland’s ailing economy?
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54 Diary of an entrepreneur - One of Scotland’s top
modern day innovators, David Hamilton
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60 How to - Ride out the recession
SIR TOM FARMER
62 Do’s & Don’ts - Networking
FAKING IT
64 Review - The latest Netbook and our business book
review section
AND THE REST
20 Faking it in business - How artificial tan means big
business for one Scottish entrepreneur
30 Bedlam - Having survived the previous recession,
Bedlam Paintball post a 123% increase in business
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33 There must be money in - Weddings
36 Stormy start - We follow four new-start entrepreneurs
41 Cash flow - How late payments are costing SMEs £8.3bn
TIME FOR A CHANGE
46 They said what - Top tips from those who have been
there and done it
52 Why innovation - Is the key to survival
56 Dead Good - A dead good business idea
58 Using market research - To get ahead
Editor Paul Murricane
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Deputy Editor Carrie Wallace
Business Editor Sabina Kadic
Contributors Jan Peacock
editorial queries 0141 889 6868 carrie@newstartscotland.com
DIARY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR Advertising Manager Phil Hall - 0845 290 3190
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