Recently I felt overwhelmed. On an impulse a few weeks ago I sent out a tweet.Can twitter find great people? I’m looking for an intern who, in return for small pay, will shadow me for 6 months and help with my work. 10:41 AM Jan 21st...
Recently I felt overwhelmed. On an impulse a few weeks ago I sent out a tweet.Can twitter find great people? I’m looking for an intern who, in return for small pay, will shadow me for 6 months and help with my work. 10:41 AM Jan 21st...
I think one of the reasons I’ve always found businesses easier to start and grow than most people, is that I have such simple objectives. I like spending money for stuff I want and on people I like. To do that I need income. Therefore, within broad parameters, I like businesses that make the numbers in my bank accounts go up more quickly rather than less quickly. I do not like to own businesses that make the numbers go down.
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It is not enough for UK entrepreneurs to create a great product or service, it must be easy to buy, easy to get support for and easy to recommend.
Come to our interactive coaching session hosted by Doug Richard where startup entrepreneurs will discuss their business propositions and learn about how to apply Low Cost Fast Growth Marketing techniques.
Yesterday I attended and participated in an event hosted by UKTI, The Prime Minister, and Lord Mandelson. The purpose of the event was to communicate directly with the CEO's of some of the world's most important large companies who already have a presence in the UK or who are considering inward investment into the UK.
School for Startups Featured Entrepreneur Lizzie Fane's success with Third Year Abroad, just announced as a Smarta100 company, demonstrates that entrepreneurs profit by turning problems into solutions.
Welcome to part two of our series on the Naked Business, where each member of our team shares their thoughts from within our growing startup. Doug has asked us all to reveal some of the shortfalls and inefficiencies we all occasionally suffer from as well as our successes and accomplishments in an effort that the s4s community can benefit from our candid experiences.
Mike Beech, Ross Williams, Guy Harrington (pictured left to right) and Tom Packer (not pictured), demonstrate that it takes very little in the way of hard cash investment to found a successful business.
Doug Richard has asked me to pen a blog for the Naked Business. Although Doug said this blog is where we would explore the struggles, trials and tribulations associated with launching a high profile startup, I must confess that all I can usually see is the things we do right.
This is an article for all of us: for anyone who runs a small business or who is thinking about starting a small business. And when I say small business I mean stretching from one person to a couple of hundred.