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Entrepreneurs! Fancy a hot date

Inspiration comes from the strangest things. Last week I was having a conversation with Joanna Van Vleck, founder of a rockin' new company called The Trunk Club. It’s the States' hottest new Web 2.0 business: an online  clothes shop for men with expert style advice thrown in. It's catching on like wildfire. With this rapid growth and notoriety comes a need for risk capital of the best kind – venture capital. And you wouldn't believe how similar the venture capital process is to another risky enterprise: dating.

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Friday, 29 May 2009

Exhaustion starting to hit with a vengeance. Right hand still off and sales office starting to look pale and over stretched. 

Opinion 2 min read

Another victim: Wolseley crumbles

As building materials giant Wolseley sees profits drop 77 per cent after being hit by the US and UK housing slowdown, plumbing entrepreneur Charlie Mullins warns that the industry needs to adapt to weather the economic storm.

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