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Posts tagged "entrepreneuers"

You’re Not Dead at 50: The Best Entrepreneurs are Silver

As a very happy entrepreneur over fifty, I encourage my peers to join the entrepreneur revolution required to keep the UK wealthy and prosperous well into the next century. Innovation, invention, insight and good implementation can build a good business at any age.

Monday 8 March 2010

Simple Objectives, Simple Strategies, Simple Success

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 [...]

Friday 26 February 2010

Featured Entrepreneur: Lizzie Fane

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.

Monday 22 February 2010

Featured Entrepreneurs: ShoppingVouchers

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.

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Featured Entrepreneur: Nadeem Azam

Nadeem Azam is CEO of an award winning marketing firm Azam Marketing.  Nadeem illustrates the intelligence, hard work, determination, mental agility and sense of humor that lead to entrepreneurial success.
What does your business do?
Azam Marketing www.azam.net is a full-services online marketing and design agency which unleashes the potential of the internet to grow our clients’ [...]

Thursday 21 January 2010

S4S NEW Website! Blogs, News, Events, Video & Forums

S4S NEW Website!
Blogs, News, Nationwide Events, Live & On-Demand Video Content, Featured Entrepreneurs & Entrepreneur’s Networking Forum!
We are excited to welcome you to our smashing new website! If you hadn’t noticed we have been busy making important changes to our website, ensuring that we are constantly providing you with the most up-to-date information, articles, news and online resource that we can. All of us [...]

Friday 15 January 2010

Sex, Lies and the Bottom Feeders of the Angel Community

Not all angel investors are created equal. Some are real, some are actually corporate finance houses and should be judged on their track record and some are snake oil salesmen who are taking your money for no good reason. You need to be able to tell them apart.

Tuesday 27 October 2009

The Dirty Secret of Credit For Small Business: the Failure of the EFG Scheme

Small businesses do not benefit from the government schemes like the Enterprise Finance Scheme because the banks subvert the schemes to reduce their own risk rather than extending the scope of lending. The incoming government should beware.

Monday 26 October 2009

Why We All Should Care About Promoting Entrepreneurialism Globally

e face awkward economic times and the truth is that sustainable new jobs and increased productivity most often arise in the creation of innovation centric small businesses.

Thursday 27 August 2009

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