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Stephen Oates

Stephen Oates

Tax Director and Head of Entrepreneurial Taxes

17 January 2023

  • Employee Share Incentives
  • Enterprise Management Incentive Scheme
  • Start-up & Entrepreneurial
Top five tips when considering employee share options

One of the more popular routes to incentivise employees without increasing the wage cost is to offer employee share options. When these plans work well they can drive fantastic results and we share our top five tips to heed from the outset.

Ryan Milne

Ryan Milne

Business Advisory Senior Manager

30 November 2022

  • Technology & Life Sciences
  • Start-up & Entrepreneurial
Supporting businesses on their scaling-up journey

Ryan Milne, Business Advisory Senior Manager, reflects on a week supporting FutureX as part of their “Scale-up with Purpose” programme. The concept of scaling-up will be familiar to most. But doing so “with purpose” challenges businesses to have a clear understanding of their reason for being, and how they plan to make an impact on their purposeful vision.

Kirsty Irvine

Kirsty Irvine

Business Development Senior Manager

05 April 2022

  • Technology & Life Sciences
  • Start-up & Entrepreneurial
California Dreaming: key learnings from the Valley

‘Disneyland for start-ups’ is how one CEO described Silicon Valley, the 1,854 square mile region of northern California that serves as the world’s hot spot for technology, talent, and innovation.

Kirsty Irvine

Kirsty Irvine

Business Development Senior Manager

21 September 2020

  • Technology & Life Sciences
  • Start-up & Entrepreneurial
Live pitching & tips for success

With the Scottish EDGE 16 Grand Final taking place next week, now is a prime time to make sure your pitches are detailed, concise and winning. I’ve compiled my top five tips to help you perfect your pitch.

20 April 2020

  • Start-up & Entrepreneurial
  • Coronavirus
Coronavirus – Government support for entrepreneurial businesses

Following lobbying by a number of the UK’s largest and most influential start-ups, as well as various representations being made by a host of bodies who seek to support these companies, the Chancellor has announced an initial scheme to assist entrepreneurial businesses impacted by the coronavirus crisis, and there is likely to be more to come.

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