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Entrepreneurs

Articles on growth business entrepreneurs. Featuring interviews with successful business creators driven by a passion for innovation, a desire for autonomy, and a vision for making a positive impact in the world.

Opinion

The true meaning of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are often portrayed as adrenaline-addled risk-takers, but is the willingness to take a gamble really their defining trait?

Entrepreneurs

Top 50 most innovative and influential UK entrepreneurs

The Power Top 50 ranking from GrowthBusiness.co.uk identifies the most innovative and influential UK entrepreneurs and investors.

News

Holmes sits atop the Power Top 50

Ben Holmes of Index Ventures has moved up three places to the top of the tree in Business XL's annual Power Top 50 list of influential entrepreneurs and investors.

Exit Strategies

Life after a business exit

What do you do when you’ve signed the deal, said goodbye to your business and, hopefully, become a multimillionaire overnight? GrowthBusiness speaks to those that have made the move.

News

Inquiry looks to boost entrepreneurship

The issues of unemployment, finance and skills were among the debated subjects at the first session of the Entrepreneurship Inquiry.

Entrepreneurs

Championing entrepreneurs

Shalini Khemka, CEO of the London Entrepreneurial Exchange, looks at what's needed to empower the leaders of growing businesses.

Entrepreneurs

Sanjeev Ahuja on fostering entrepreneurs

GrowthBusiness talks to Sanjeev Ahuja, president of the UK chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) about the best ways to promote entrepreneurship.

News

Chasing aces: Julie Meyer

Widely credited as a pioneer of the European technology start-up scene, Julie Meyer, who launched her first fund, ACE, this year, argues that entrepreneurs are still broadly underestimated by the financial services industry.

Opinion

Tidy desk, tidy mind?

There are two schools of thought about tidy people.

News

When pigs fly

Nick Jenkins, founder of online greetings cards business Moonpig, has cleverly tapped into the long-standing British fondness for a visual gag. GrowthBusiness finds out how he got started.

Opinion

The Role of Luck in Business

It’s funny how often the word luck comes into the conversation when people are discussing the subject of success in business.

Venture Capital Funding

New deal for UK entrepreneurs

Simon Cook, CEO of venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, sets out his wish list for the new government.