Money-saving Mastermind
‘Cash is king’ is a phrase every adviser has shared with me. Run out of money and your business dies…
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De-mystifying finance and making money | Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice | SimVenture: Global impact of a business simulation
How to Make a Fast Entrepreneurial Fortune
If you want to make a fast entrepreneurial fortune today, buy a lottery ticket. But if you possess some skills, resilience, patience and a preparedness to read the rest of this post, there is an alternative…
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Crowdfunding Challenges Banks
Following a short interview at Cumbria’s ‘Wasdale Head Inn‘ I secured my first-ever paid job in 1984 as a kitchen porter. Fresh out of school, my new hotel home was at the end of a long valley, 8 miles from the nearest shop and another 3 to the nearest town. And that’s where I found…
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Understand Business Startup Insurance
As my first year of business in York neared its end I arrived at work one Monday only to discover a ransacked office. Cables were ripped out of walls, paper covered the floor and my only computer was gone. Pants.
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Common-sense sales & marketing: What works? | De-mystifying finance and making money | Get yourself the job you want... | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs | Understand yourself and read behaviour quickly
Top 10 Entrepreneur Websites
To discover the top 10 entrepreneur websites, I polled the views of over 500 people involved with the industry. All respondents worked in an advisory/business support capacity in academia, and/or the public/private sectors. Some people ran their own businesses. To keep things simple, I asked the single question: “What websites do you recommend entrepreneurs use..?”
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De-mystifying finance and making money | Get yourself the job you want... | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs | Understand yourself and read behaviour quickly
Achieving Millionaire Status
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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Common-sense sales & marketing: What works? | De-mystifying finance and making money | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice
Figuring out pricing
Many start-ups wrongly copy the hitchhiker when it comes to figuring out pricing. An outstretched thumb works by the road, but a finger in the air almost always plucks financially flawed figures. Pricing products or services (especially the first time) isn’t easy, but considered calculation based on some key principles can make all the difference…
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De-mystifying finance and making money | Get yourself the job you want... | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs
Startup Business Bootstrapping
Failure has a wonderful capacity to reveal opportunities that otherwise remain hidden. Disastrous ‘A’ Level results in 1984 forced me to take a gap year. Whilst I envied friends destined for university, part of me delighted in the chance to step off the education treadmill…
