Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs

Examples, case studies and real-life stories about entrepreneurs and their working lives. Learn from the success and failure of others to save you money and time and ultimately help you succeed.

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Achieving Millionaire Status
ByPeter Harrington August 31, 2012June 18, 2020

Salespeople regularly offered me lifts back in the eighties. It’s fair to say I enjoyed the banter. Their cars went faster too. London bound, one bright weekday winter’s morning, I was hitching a lift onto the M1. Without warning, a car was jamming on its brakes and pulling into the empty slip road ahead of…

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Recommended Reading for Ambitious Innovators
ByPeter Harrington August 20, 2012September 18, 2018

Reading should never be a guilty pleasure. But it can get that way if work pressures really grip and/or family demands mean those precious grains of free time are lost before sleep…

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Find New Business Ideas to (kick) Start your Business
ByPeter Harrington July 1, 2012May 7, 2020

If you read the post ‘How to Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time‘, you’ll be aware I recommended the ‘Springwise‘ website. It’s just one place to find new business ideas to kick-start your thinking and get your daily fix of innovative and entrepreneurial thoughts…

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Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time
ByPeter Harrington May 28, 2012February 4, 2019

Our planet hosts 4 billion people who scrape by on less than $2 a day. Yet, perverse as it may sound, 24 hours in a day is not enough time for many people who work in industrialised economies. Lack of time rather than lack of money is an increasingly common complaint amongst the 100,000 million…

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Going faster by slowing down
ByPeter Harrington April 19, 2012September 18, 2018

In my earliest hitchhiking days, any stopping vehicle was an opportunity to travel. The excitement of the moment put me in the car. Going faster by slowing down was a concept outside my impatient grasp…

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Men Behaving Badly*
ByPeter Harrington March 14, 2012September 18, 2018

A surprise meeting with Martin Clunes (he of Men Behaving Badly) at a ‘Dodgy’ Concert in the intimate ‘Bush Hall’ in London provided the light-bulb moment for this article…

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Teenage Love Fires Entrepreneurial Spirit
ByPeter Harrington March 5, 2012May 31, 2020

To describe one of my first loves as a ‘big bag’ might be a little misleading, but it is quite true. Like any other 16 year-old, relationships were important to me. I wasn’t necessarily looking for love. But back then I had no idea how or why teenage love fires entrepreneurial spirit. Fast-forward. Thirty years…

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It is your business to make it happen
ByPeter Harrington February 2, 2012September 18, 2018

Escaping the clutches of suburban Northampton by hitchhiking to west London might not be everyone’s idea of fun on a late Friday afternoon, but I was really up for it…

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