Shared Experiences

Trenton Moss, founder of Webcredible:

‘I started Webcredible as a limited company right from the beginning, even though I didn’t really need to. The limited liability wasn’t much of an issue for me as the business didn’t have large overheads or cost of sales, at that stage when it was just me. It was the fact that people at a certain level expect to deal with limited companies, and it seems more professional. It gives you a certain credibility. It also saved me having to convert from being a sole trader to being a limited company at a later date once we’d really started to grow.’

Sahar Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic:

‘When we did the business plan, we calculated we needed £90,000 so we went to the banks to try and get ...

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