One of the greatest skills of an entrepreneur is decisiveness. The ability to make a decision quickly that could change the course of a business’ future is perhaps not as common as it should be and it’s a talent that sets the best very much apart from the rest.
Having founded Chillisauce, an events company specialising in group activities and corporate events in 2001 from a bedroom with three of his friends from university, James Baddiley takes the time to look back on progress to date and explains how he’s scaled his multi-million pound enterprise.
Kate Lester, CEO and founder of Diamond Logistics, is a businesswoman on a mission to revolutionise the UK logistics industry, we found out in the aftermath of our First Women Awards recognition.
As someone who now has three successful businesses under his belt, Ed Bussey is an example of an entrepreneur who has built companies under a number of different governments – so is perfectly placed to share his thoughts on the next administration.
Despite having only set up his business last year, entrepreneur Sean Mallon knows exactly what is needed from the next government to make his life easier. He shares his thoughts with Real Business.
According to the Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise, there are 4.17m self-employed workers in the UK, of which 42 per cent are over 50. Here are five entrepreneurs, aged 52 and over, that didn’t let old age stop them.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, has announced further plans for his Internet.org scheme in a Q&A hosted on his social-networking site last night. His initiative to connect two-thirds of the world without internet access will be rolled out into Europe.
Entrepreneurs are less confident about business growth, according to the latest results for Smith & Williamson’s quarterly Enterprise Index.
Building a business is like getting pregnant and falling in love even if it’s an ugly baby. At least, that’s what Sofia Fenichell, CEO and founder of Wonder Place said at the First Women Summit. Becoming an entrepreneur is all about having the confidence to transform ideas and let go when you know it’s a sinking ship, something which the panel agreed on.
By Henry Oakes
We hear from an entrepreneur who has taken the “lean startup” model devised by Eric Ries and applied it to his own business.
