RAISING capital and manpower problems are still the main issues facing start-ups, but fewer firms seem bedevilled by them, according to a new survey.

The poll compared results gleaned from companies in 2007 with those collated late last year, and the signs were clear - doing business in Singapore is getting easier.

DP Information Group and Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), a movement launched to foster go-getters, polled 1,808 businesses that had been in operation for less than three years. In 2007, 1,521 start-ups were surveyed.

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