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I thought you might be right, but the business seems to have been around for a while as a mother and daughter partnership.

https://www.spears500.com/adviser/4455/claire-sweetingham

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

All-in-all, toe-curling.

But my guess is that they only need 3 or 4 clients a year to run it as a sideline.




It appears she ironically started the company after her husband left her and their 4 children and they were broke:

https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-millionaires-ma...


> But my guess is that they only need 3 or 4 clients a year to run it as a sideline.

I mean, keeping a website and limited company running for a year costs a lot less than the minimum £15k quoted in TFA. They could have had one client since they incorporated in 2009, and be in the black.


I wonder if the author is just being incredibly naive about the real business here.


I think they were just being playful.




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