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WEBINAR

Start-ups: How to overcome common challenges

George Demetriou
George DemetriouLogistics Partners (MTD) Ltd

Posted: Tue 23rd Sep 2025

Many people aspire to start a new business. But the excitement of owning a business and being your own boss can lead would-be entrepreneurs to underestimate the enormity of the task they're about to undertake.

In this webinar, George Demetriou explores some of the common business challenges that start-ups face and explain how best to overcome them.

Topics covered in this session

  • The reasons why business start-ups fail within the first one to three years

  • The key challenges start-ups face

  • Action you can take to make sure your business sees success

About the speaker

George started his first business from scratch in 1980 after gaining experience in the corporate world.

He went on to start several more in the decades that followed, selling one of his businesses to Logistic Partners (MTD) Ltd 12 years ago and joining the company as business development director.

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George Demetriou
George DemetriouLogistics Partners (MTD) Ltd
Do you have a great idea, product or service that you'd love to bring to market but lack the funding, or perhaps the expertise, or resources to enable you to do so? Then the way forward may be to consider partnering with us. Logistic Partners (MTD) has 30 + years experience of supporting a whole host of independent businesses with their logistics and administrative requirements. In return for a small stake in your business we can provide funding, mentoring, office space, sales office admin, marketing support, book-keeping services, purchasing, storage and distribution, import/export services, shipping in fact just about anything and everything you need to get your project off the ground successfully in a novel and affordable way. Want to know more? Then please get in touch. George Demetriou gd@mtdgroup.co.uk

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