There’s a new breed of start-up – they’re younger, more optimistic and ready to innovate. This year’s DNA of an Entrepreneur Report – which explores the challenges of small business owners, along with what makes them tick – reveals that the recession has had a big impact on the way start-ups operate, leading to a…
“Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling.” – Anita Roddick The words “entrepreneur” and “entrepreneurship” are thrown around so often online by people who seemingly have very little…
An “entrepreneurial mind” is something that we often hear about as being a requirement for business success. But is it something that can be acquired through formalised learning processes or is it just a personality trait that you are born with? Education on the topic of entrepreneurship is only something that started in the US…
Collaboration is one of the best ways for a business to grow and develop, especially when it involves various young entrepreneurs teaming up to tackle problems as a collective force. The trouble is that it can be difficult to make the right connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs. You often need to meet an awful lot…
Teachers suffer from a problem in the U.S. in that they are not respected anywhere near as highly as in other countries. Such devaluing of the importance of educators also undermines the entire education system. A surprising number of professors are living below the poverty line in the States, suggesting that education is no longer…
Welcome to the latest in our occasional series of entrepreneur interviews for The Small Business Blog. These short Q and A sessions highlight some of the most interesting entrepreneurial figures in the business world. Our newest interviewee is also our very first international one: Sharon Jones, co-founder of FundWell, an online technology platform which matches…
There is an interesting article on the BBC Business website about how former athletes are making a success of their retirement by becoming entrepreneurs. Sportspeople have to face a massive change in their life at a relatively young age. Their chosen career is usually over by about the age of forty at the latest –…
Once you are bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, it can quite quickly become a way of life. Often the first startup business of an entrepreneur is not the one they have the most success with and it is only after a few tries that they manage to get things right. These individuals who start multiple…
Welcome to the latest in an ongoing series of entrepreneur interviews for The Small Business Blog. These short Q and A sessions feature some of the most exciting entrepreneurial figures in the business world today. Our latest interviewee is London born-and-bred self-funded entrepreneur and dad of two, Devin Chawda. Why did you become an entrepreneur?…
Tired of wasting time answering PPI calls? Fed up with learning yet again of an accident you can claim for, yet it never happened? According to a recent Which? Survey, the volume of unwanted phone calls has become more than just a nuisance – especially for people trying to run small businesses. So I…
