Start-ups can apply for £1m in funding from investors sourced through Seedrs with the Million Pound Start-Up competition. All you have to do to win is convince the panel of judges why your business will be worth £100m in five years' time.

Creating a brand and selling great looking, high quality suits has gone hand in hand for Johnny Tuxedo. By using experience in tailoring and building a very British brand, Johnny Tuxedo are becoming a huge part of the suit market both in this country and globally. Catch up with their start-up in 60 seconds here.

In episode four, The Apprentice showed again that it believes selling is the most important skill an entrepreneur can possess. Here's our review of the farm shop task, where our original favourite candidate dived out in an unspectacular fashion.

More employees than ever before are dissatisfied with their day jobs, according to the latest YouGov survey, and a lack of career progression is to blame. If you're looking for motivation outside of climbing the career ladder, starting your own business could be exactly what you need. And if you dream of starting-up a business, here's why launching while still being employed is a great time to start.

Doug Richard is asking entrepreneurs to pitch to him for a £10,000 loan. But this isn't your average Dragons' Den pitch, this time you have just six seconds to impress Richards, and you have to present your business through Vine, Twitter's new video blogging format.

An online presence has never been more important, with tech-savvy businesses continually seeking new ways to understand and reach their target market. Here Richard May from leading social media monitoring and analysis firm Spotter gives his top tips on how any business can use social media data to build their online brand.

British customers are demanding more goods and services than they have for years, and small businesses will be investing £20.2bn to keep up. Manufacturers are leading the way, with new staff and machinery at the heart of the spending.

$1.1bn is a lot of money. The kind of money entrepreneurs lay in bed and dream their start-ups could be worth. But seven years on from David Karp's first thought of Tumblr, it's grown immeasurably in potential and has been sold to Yahoo for $1.1bn. We take a look at how it all started, and how Tumblr became worth more than the GDP of several small countries.

It costs less than you might think to start your own business. The average cost of starting-up is £312. That's less than a new iPad, a third of the price of an arsenal season ticket and, most importantly, less than what the average employee earns in just one week at work.

Running your own business brings freedom, flexibilty and the privilege of making your own decisions about well, everything. But with great power comes great responsibility and with that comes pressure.  Dealing with pressure effectively is essential to running a successful business. With that in mind we persuaded Michael Neill, bestselling author of The Inside-Out Revolution to give us a guest blog about pressure with a few tips on how you can use it to your advantage.