The small business panel of experts

BUSINESS GROWTH

David Wilkinson, Ernst & Young

Are you worried about how to grow business without losing control? Want to go public?

David Wilkinson, head of entrepreneurial growth markets at Ernst & Young, provided you with some guidance.

Click on the following links to read his answers to readers' questions:

Selling your business

Alternative ways of sourcing funding

Tips on share options and setting up a partnership

Rundown on investing in a friend's business

Starting a new business with venture capital

Whether to opt for "limited liability" when setting up a business

Valuing a business for attracting equity investment

The best time to grow a small business

How to grow your business and develop a new management style

How to persuade your boss to expand the business

Weighing up working from home with opening new premises

Finding grants for your particular niche

He has assisted his clients in a variety of advisory roles, including acquisitions, share flotations and providing general business advice.

David also helps smaller companies raise finance from a variety of sources, and in this capacity, reviews business plans regularly.

In addition, Ernst & Young runs the annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, which it dubs "the Oscars of the business world".