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Hint or Tip: 10 ways to speed up your start up in the economic slowdown

Those fabulous folk at Google give us some helpful advice about boosting your business online.

Useful Link: Liverpool Business Centre

The Liverpool Business Centre's e-Business Manager works with small to medium sized companies and start-up businesses in central Liverpool to help them make the best use of ICT and the internet.

Useful Link: I-Sphere

The I-Sphere project helpings East Midlands companies achieve their potential using the internet. This grant-assisted programme helps companies with their e-business by giving them the tools to achieve an effective internet trading site.

Inspiring Story: Diving Into The Student Rental Market

LiveOut was started in November 2005, by four Oxford University students. It is an online database of student rental property, and it makes money by charging estate agents and landlords to list their properties on the site. We spoke to founder Richard Price about how they made their idea happen.

Inspiring Story: Funded By The Princes Trust

Michael Yee designed a website in just 24 hours for Marymount School. It was so good that some of the parents asked him to design websites for their business. It is from here that he established his business Wirral Wide Web Design.

Inspiring Story: The Youngest MD In Britain

At the age of 15 Liam Rhodes was named the youngest managing director in Britain, which generated vast amounts of media coverage. A few years on, iFuse Technologies is branching out.

Inspiring Story: Seeing Obstacles As Challenges

Rebecca Jordan & Kirsty Weir set up gap year information site gapwork.com, the first of several businesses together, in 1999. Since then, they've won a host of entrepreneurial awards. Their latest project PDC Education is a national resource for teachers.

Inspiring Story: Removing The Barriers Of Language And Culture

Daniel Rajkumar runs a successful web solutions company based in Wakefield called Wéb-Tränslatiôns

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