Anyone who's owned a gym membership will be familiar with the guilt and frustration that comes with not using your subscription regularly enough. And pay-as-you-go options are often costly and prohibitive. But times are a-changin'. Neil Harmsworth, Jamie Ward and Michael Blake are shaking up the sector with their innovative start-up: PayasUgym. Take heart, casual and infrequent gym user. This one's for you.

Shed Simove, Ideas Man and entrepreneurial maverick, is back with his latest blog. He talks about his latest crazy mission to get a blank book to the top of the bestseller charts.

When the series returns in June, the winner of The Apprentice 2011 won't just end up working for Lord Sugar - they will launch a brand new company with the grizzled mogul.

The Graduate Internship Scheme is due to come to an end in March 2011. This scheme has supported paid internships for over 8,500 graduates. The FSB's new paper 'FSB plea to save the Graduate Intern Scheme' aims to convince government to extend the initiative. But does the scheme really warrant public money in this 'age of austerity'?

Luke Lang is the co-founder of Crowdcube, a brand new firm aiming to shake up the venture capital scene by changing the way small companies are 'matched' to VCs and angels. Here's the 60-second overview.

John Vincent is the co-founder of Leon, the healthy fast food restaurant chain. He is also the founder of FLATPLANET, a portfolio of companies dedicated to 'making things better'. As a serial entrepreneur and investor, he knows how to get products to market quickly and with minimum outlay. Here are his top tips for start-up companies.

Errol Damelin, founder and chief executive of Wonga, talks exclusively to Smarta about raising an eye-watering £73m from some of the world's top VC firms, and how he plans to spend the cash.

Phil Orford is chief executive of the Forum of Private Business (FPB). Today, the FPB launches the 'Get Britain Trading' campaign. The initiative is an effort to force government to cut red tape and boost support services for small businesses. In this exclusive blog for Smarta, Orford explains what the campaign hopes to achieve and why you, like Smarta, should back it.

As Ofcom relaxes the rules to allow product placements on UK television for the first time, we look at what this will mean for brands.

As the Budget draws closer, the lobby groups are unsurprisingly queuing up to give the government their two cents' worth on enterprise policy. The FSB wants NI holidays for start-ups to be extended to existing firms - but would this work?