Back in January, a UKBF member called @Byzantium put up a complaint that'll sound familiar to a lot of business owners. He does his own books in Excel, properly - a chart of accounts matching what...
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If you run a business in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds or Bristol, you were probably told some good news this week. The Times reported on Wednesday that as many as 90,000 London roles in banking...
Ozzy
On 5 August, @Data Swami posted in the General Business Forum with a question that ought to have a short answer. He had spent six months building out an AI agent setup for his own business...
Ozzy
Companies House published a release on August 6th 2026 that every company director should read, even those who think none of it applies to them. The headline is this: 23 company directors were...
Ozzy
If you are a sole trader or landlord and your gross income from self-employment and property was over £50,000 on your 2024/25 tax return, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax now applies to you, and...
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If all goes to plan (or rather, to Labour's timetable), Andy Burnham will be sworn in as Prime Minister on 20 July. He is currently the only declared candidate to succeed Keir Starmer, having...
Ozzy
TL;DR Search has shifted from "ten blue links" to answer engines, and the click is dying: Google AI Overviews now cut organic click-through rates by around 58% for the top result (Ahrefs...
Ozzy
There's a comforting myth that you need a booming economy to start something. Cheap money, confident customers, the wind at your back. It feels true. It mostly isn't. Some of the most durable...
Ozzy
There's a question that a lot of small business owners never think to ask until they absolutely have to: if I wanted to sell this business tomorrow, could I? For many, the answer is more...
Ozzy
Every small business owner knows the moment. You're halfway through something important when a team member appears at your shoulder with a question you've answered before. Not once. Several times...
Ozzy
If you sell physical products online, you already know the feeling. You check your inbox, and there it is: another "delivered but not received" claim. Or a damage report. Or a courier compensation...
Ozzy
Somewhere between the headlines promising AI will transform everything and the frustrated forum posts from people who've been let down by it, there's a more useful conversation to be had. Not "is...
Ozzy
It started with a comment about music. @JEREMY HAWKE , a courier business owner from Exeter and long-standing UKBF member, mentioned in passing that he'd been listening to something he enjoyed...
Ozzy
Every few months on UK Business Forums, a thread appears that refuses to die. The "AI does have its uses" discussion — started back in February by long-standing moderator @fisicx — has now passed...
Ozzy
A thread appeared on UKBF this week that, on the surface, looks like a straightforward complaint about eBay. Look a little closer though, and it's actually a window into one of the most...
Ozzy
Three articles into a series on what crowdfunding actually costs, the practical question remains. If you are running a UK business in 2026 and considering a community-led raise, what should you...
Ozzy
How three letters from the early years of Star Citizen's development quietly set the governance structure of a business that is still, thirteen years later, being governed by them. And what that...
Ozzy
Why BrewDog's Equity for Punks investors were structurally locked out of the upside long before the administration happened, and what any founder running a values-led raise in 2026 should learn...
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What BrewDog's collapse and Star Citizen's billion-dollar climb are telling UK founders about the true cost of crowdfunded capital --- On Monday 2nd March 2026, BrewDog went into administration...
Ozzy
I'll be upfront: this article was written with the assistance of an AI. The irony of asking Claude to write about AI and intellectual property is not lost on me, and I think it actually...
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