Home » Entrepreneurs » Page 64

Category

Entrepreneurs

Rising Star: Heather Gorringe

Nearly 20 years after launching her business, Wiggly Wigglers, Heather Gorringe has won £15,000 as the UK winner of the Dell Small Business Excellence Award.

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

Jane Asher on running her Party Cakes business

Jane Asher has starred in movies opposite Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier. She’s written novels and regularly treads the boards in the West End. Despite all that, nothing could prepare her for the highs and lows of running her own business, Party Cakes.

Entrepreneurs

Less lonely at the top with executive coaching

No one wants to see ignorance or indecision in their CEO, but leaders are human too. Here's how executive coaching can help.

Entrepreneurs

eBay for business sales

More than 1,000 UK businesses, many of them websites, are putting themselves up for sale on eBay.co.uk at the time of writing. BusinessesforSale.com offers 63,309 worldwide, roughly half of them in the UK, and DaltonsBusiness.com has just relaunched its site with more than 27,000 companies up for grabs across Europe.

Entrepreneurs

Object of desire: The MonoTracer

The thrill and glamour of a motorbike, without getting your leathers wet. That’s the proposition offered by the MonoTracer from Swiss company Peraves.

Entrepreneurs

Promoting from within

The average cost of bringing in a new employee is £4,500 to £8,000, according to figures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. So it’s no surprise that promoting internally is popular with employers.

Entrepreneurs

Jonathan Straight: specs appeal

The CEO of AIM-listed recycling products company Straight reveals why he loves making a spectacle of himself.

Entrepreneurs

Richard George touts Powerboat Promotion

Adventurous Devon-based entrepreneur Richard George is as passionate about powerboating as he is about helping other entrepreneurs launch businesses online. By racing a boat promoting his very own Scream-it.com venture, he is able to combine the two.

Entrepreneurs

Jonathan Straight: specs appeal

The CEO of AIM-listed recycling products company Straight reveals why he loves making a spectacle of himself.

Entrepreneurs

Richard George touts Powerboat Promotion

Adventurous Devon-based entrepreneur Richard George is as passionate about powerboating as he is about helping other entrepreneurs launch businesses online. By racing a boat promoting his very own Scream-it.com venture, he is able to combine the two.

Entrepreneurs

Rising star James Murray Wells of Glassesdirect.co.uk

James Murray Wells started online spectacles retailer Glassesdirect.co.uk with the last £1,000 of his student loan. With the help of VCs he is now aiming to turn it into a £1 billion company.

Entrepreneurs

Book review – The Balancing Act: Work-life solutions for busy people

The Balancing Act: Work-life solutions for busy people, by Fiona Parashar - reviewed by Kerry Glazer, chief executive, AAR Group.

Entrepreneurs

Economic insight: 2008 budget

As the storm of protest against chancellor Alistair Darling’s changes to capital gains tax dies down, Mike Truman, editor of Taxation Magazine, looks at the implications for growing companies.

Entrepreneurs

The electronic cigarette

They say there’s no smoke without fire, but that was before the electronic cigarette. The SuperSmoker uses a microchip and a harmless liquid made up of food products that, when the user inhales, turns into a virtually odourless vapour that looks just like smoke and provides the hit of nicotine.

Recommended Content