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Steve Jobs launched Apple from a garage. Mark Zuckerberg’s entrepreneurial journey with Facebook began in a university dormitory. Over 500,000 new UK firms are created each year and many start life as a bedroom business. Given the financial pressures faced by young people, is it any surprise that bedroom entrepreneurship is growing in popularity? There’s…
Teaching budding entrepreneurs about finance, marketing and business plans etc. is commonplace. But why is it so many courses forget to include a fundamental issue virtually all start-ups face?
Following graduation in 1989 I rented a tiny, cell-like office in York for £17 a month. My entrepreneurial career had started. But getting to that point (and years later being able to create and grow a company on a global stage) was the result of one man’s inspiration and devotion to flipping classrooms.
Hold onto to your festive hats folks. It’s emerging billions of people worldwide may have been mis-sold Christmas. You may be affected. Mis-sold Christmas – what, more porky pies? Stories about flying reindeer, sacks of presents disappearing down chimneys and a white-bearded jolly soul riding a sky-high sleigh, may, just may, contain a whiff of…
Last month’s post was published days before I completed my first marathon. For me, the run was three hours of joy followed by 96 minutes of unrelenting pain. Finishing provoked elation, tears and disbelief…
In fewer than 7 days I embark on another uncertain journey in search of meaningful success. But, unlike my current solo visit to Colombia, I am questioning my ability to complete the ‘trip’ and know ‘pain’ will be a regular companion…
IEEC 2016 delegates on your marks… And get set for this unique opportunity to take the unofficial title of Olympic Champion at this year’s event in Liverpool.
‘Cash is king’ is a phrase every adviser has shared with me. Run out of money and your business dies…