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Britain runs on small business. Nearly every business you pass on a UK high street, every van parked outside a job at 8 am, every one-person consultancy sending invoices from a kitchen table, is part of a population of 5.69 million private sector businesses, 99.85% of which count as small or medium-sized. Together they employ

A website used to be optional for a small business. It no longer is, anywhere in the world. How far along that shift a country is depends enormously on where you look. In some markets, more than three-quarters of small businesses are still without one. In the UK specifically, roughly a quarter still are, even