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Every little counts
Friday 17 July 2009I was lucky enough to be invited to a bit of a do at the Palace yesterday (yes - the Buckingham one!). Nothing really to do with the day job, but because I do some volunteer mentoring for the Princes Trust business programme in my spare time. It was a lovely ...[more] -
Shining a light on Home Enterprise
Friday 3 July 2009Home based businesses are just part-time pin money jobs...Home based businesses are largely e-Bay traders and others dependent on e-commerce...And anyway, they are an insignificant part of the whole small business scene. Wrong, wrong, wrong! According to a study by the University of Strathclyde, the majority of home based businesses have other ...[more] -
NES Entrepreneur of the Year announced
Monday 29 June 2009Norman Straight, owner of Straight Clean window cleaning in Norwich, was named NES Entrepreneur of the Year at a dedicated award ceremony in Birmingham last week. Norman founded Straight Clean in January 2008 as a means to move away from being unemployed, to a job with the flexibility to also allow ...[more] -
A gaggle of geese, a school of dolphins……a list of entrepreneurs?
Tuesday 6 January 2009I can't find a collective term for entrepreneurs, so I'm proposing that when more than three of them are together, we call them a list, a list of entrepreneurs. Why? Many of you will remember Rachel Bridge, small business editor of the Sunday Times, from when she came to speak to ...[more]