ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF April 10, 2011 BAD WEBSITES COST YOU MONEY A total of 46 per cent of British consumers have cancelled plans to spend with a small business after finding a poor quality website, according to research released today by 1&1 Internet Ltd, www.1and1.co.uk, a web hosting business. From a study of more than 1,800 UK adults, 37 per cent [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF March 20, 2011 TRAINING YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS Deloitte, 3i, Diageo and McKinsey are backing a new training programme to encourage young people to be more entrepreneurial. The programme is selective and runs for one year from September. It is aimed at motivated young people interested in business. 25 candidates will have a 12-month internship with an entrepreneur. In addition, [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF February 24, 2011 A Dragon in Romania The founding Dragons’ Den panellist Doug Richard has been drafted in by Romania’s Post-Privatisation Foundation (PPF) to deliver an intensive training course which aims to help Romanian entrepreneurs turn their ideas into fast-growth successful businesses. The program will train 250 Romanian entrepreneurs and thanks to the PPF, the School for Start-ups [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF February 13, 2011 BRANDS OF TOMORROW COMPETITION Walpole, the British trade body for the luxury industry, has launched a competition to find Britain’s brand of tomorrow. The prize is mentoring from the people behind Britain’s top luxury brands, including Liberty and Smythson. To be eligible, companies need an annual turnover between £100,000 and £2m per year. Visit www.thewalpole.co.uk [...]
Entrepreneurs selling entrepreneurs February 3, 2011 IPHONED Nick and said: it’s General Petraeus, he’s the man! This is our strategy,” says Michael Hayman, the co-founder of the campaigning start-up Seven Hills. He leans over his honey porridge and the rim of his glasses and says: “You see, General Petraeus – Bush’s general in Iraq – believed that if you are technically [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF January 20, 2011 START UP DISCOUNT WEBSITE LAUNCHED The National Business Awards Entrepreneur of the Year winner Nick Ogden launched a non-for-profit website (www.business.co.uk) that is designed to encourage entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. The website hopes to provide access to the discounts, offers and incentives that are available through partnership. The companies participating so far included [...]
A golden era for entrepreneurs November 11, 2010 HOW many times have you had an idea and wondered whether you could make some money from it? Probably most of us have several daily, but do nothing with them. Next week is Global Entrepreneurship Week however, and some influential people are saying that there has never been a better time to set up a [...]
Unite the Entrepreneurs’ Union October 28, 2010 A UNION for entrepreneurs might sound a little strange. But founder Doug Richard explains: “The origins of workers’ rights in society arose from the imbalance in power between the individual worker and the company they worked for, now that imbalance is between the entrepreneur and the government.” Richard’s Entrepreneurs’ Union might aim to give a [...]
Entrepreneurs get social in Sheffield September 2, 2010 NEXT week, the stars of BBC’s Dragons’ Den will be descending on Sheffield to help launch Made: The Entrepreneur Festival. Taking place in the city from 8-11 September, the festival boasts classes on how to pitch a business idea to a school for start-ups hosted by former Dragons’ Den star Doug Richard. Entrepreneurship can be [...]
Mortgage overhaul hurts entrepreneurs July 15, 2010 NEWS that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to overhaul the mortgage market may have left some entrepreneurs a little uneasy. From now on, to get a mortgage you need to pass an “affordability” check and self-certified mortgages will be banned. Business groups were quick to state the drawbacks of these plans: “Business owners who [...]