Business
to totally redo
Plan
- https://www.gov.uk/write-business-plan
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2943252.stm
- http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/need_help/enterprise_programme/help_with_your_business_plan.aspx
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/small-business-network/2012/jul/06/business-plan-writing-tips
Legal
- http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm.htm - trademark
Sole Trader
Limited Company
You must set up the company with Companies House and let HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) know when the company starts business activities.
Every financial year, the company must:
put together statutory accounts send Companies House an annual return send HMRC a Company Tax Return The company must register for VAT if you expect its takings to be more than £77,000 a year.
If you’re a director of a limited company, you must:
fill in a Self Assessment tax return every year pay tax and National Insurance through the PAYE system if the company pays you a salary
Information
- Docracy - Open Legal Documents
- http://www.businessinsider.com/document-center - american
Contract
Software licensing
Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English.
Trading
Payment gateways
- http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/good-riddance-paypal/ - don't use paypal
- http://www.binkd.com/general/why-we-no-longer-accept-paypal/
- https://gocardless.com/ - 1% per transaction up to a maximum of £2.00
- http://simplifiedecommerce.com/
- Authorize.Net - Payment Gateway
Funding potentials
- Funding Scotland - Signposting funding opportunities for Charities, Community Groups and Businesses around Scotland.
Marketing and freelance PR
CV
Articles
Services
- oDesk is the world’s largest and fastest-growing online workplace, ranked #1 by annual contractor earnings.
- Freelancer.com is the world's largest outsourcing marketplace,
empowering entrepreneurs & small businesses worldwide.
- stackoverflow: Careers 2.0
Gumtree
- http://www.gumtree.com/telecoms-computer-services/edinburgh
- http://www.gumtree.com/tuition-lessons/edinburgh
- http://www.gumtree.com/computing-it-jobs/edinburgh
- http://www.gumtree.com/marketing-jobs/edinburgh
- http://www.gumtree.com/media-design-creative-jobs/edinburgh
- http://www.gumtree.com/volunteer-charity-work-jobs/edinburgh
Freelancing
- Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
- First month freelancing.
- Ask HN: How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?
- http://mrooney.github.com/blog/2012/07/01/freelancing-a-6-month-retrospective/#content
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471030
- http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas
- career.fork() - How To Thrive As A Freelance Developer, book
Startups
- http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/ - #startups, non-official hn channel (see also ##hackernews)
Hiring
- Hiring your first employee (a UK guide)
- How I hire writers
- http://ryancarson.com/post/26412233938/hiring-your-first-employee
- http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/
Management
Social
Ideas and other
to sort
- Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?
- Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell
- Making Sense of Minimum Viable Products
- Finding Your Voice With the Media: How to Pitch a Journalist
- http://www.jamiebegin.com/how-to-become-a-successful-freelance-web-developer-and-not-kill-your-career/
- Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
- Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
- http://www.learningjar.com/publishedSkill?learningPathId=4f960132e4b02d171fd681e1
- http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/gamification-the-art-of-attracting-and-k/240003409
- http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/07/traction-mistakes.html
- http://blog.press42.com/index.php/2012/11/05/storytelling-video-pitch/
- https://brandyourself.com/
- http://www.peterjthomson.com/2011/06/how-to-choose-tagline-for-tech-startup.html
- http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
- http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
- http://appbot.co/blog/lessons-learned-launching-a-minimum-viable-product
- http://refer.ly/blog/most-revealing-interview-question/
- http://www.inigo.net/ - edinburgh web design
https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook
- http://dandreamsofcoding.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/why-wont-anyone-talk-to-me-what-recruiters-look-for-in-a-resume/
- http://mattsencenbaugh.com/on-being-a-junior-developer/
- http://steveblank.com/2012/11/27/open-source-entrepreneurship/
- http://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html
- https://hackpad.com/EgXuEtSibE7#Web-And-Mobile-Revenue-Models-(final)
- http://www.pfinn.net/markets-not-ideas-for-bootstrappers-founders.html
- VoiceBunny - Fast and professional voices for any type of project.