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Entrepreneurs

Can Tech City seriously challenge Silicon Valley as a hub for tech start-ups?

East London's Tech City is now five years old: so how is it faring and it is mounting a serious challenge to the world's top tech incubators?

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‘Good guys’ of medical science developing games to improve cognitive health

MyCognition founder and chairman Keiron Sparrowhawk tells us about the inspiration behind his business and how he hopes the technology will help mankind.

Entrepreneurs

Letting go: how to hand over the reins of your successful business

Letting go of control can be one of the hardest thing for a manager owner to do but it's a crucial part of any business's evolution: so what steps can make the transition as smooth as possible?

Entrepreneurs

Breaking good: Five successful entrepreneurs with criminal backgrounds

We all know entrepreneurs as the hard-working business owners who drive our economy: but some have travelled to their current status on a road you wouldn't describe as the straight and narrow.

Entrepreneurs

Some people ‘born to be employers’, says Swimming Nature founder and CEO

Brazilian entrepreneur Eduardo Ferre speaks exclusively to Growth Business about succeeding despite 'some bad advice' and the desire to pass on his experience to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs

Women-owned start-ups are real models for businesses

Women are increasingly leaving the corporate world to start their own businesses where the majority are achieving greater success. In this article, Ian Symes shares his insights from Right Management's research report - When Women Lead, Businesses do Better - to explain why women-owned businesses are powerful real models for other businesses.

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How to stop your golden business idea running away from you

Having that killer idea is an exciting time and acts as the springboard to business growth: but converting it into successful expansion and profit can be harder than it first seems.

Entrepreneurs

Harnessing my fear – my first year as an entrepreneur

Last year's Pitch to Rich winner Carl Thomas writes on how he has used fear to his advantage in his first year of running a business.

Entrepreneurs

How to stop your golden business idea running away from you

Having that killer idea is an exciting time and acts as the springboard to business growth: but converting it into successful expansion and profit can be harder than it first seems.

Entrepreneurs

Harnessing my fear – my first year as an entrepreneur

Last year's Pitch to Rich winner Carl Thomas writes on how he has used fear to his advantage in his first year of running a business.

Entrepreneurs

The Year of the Plane part 3: Productivity through connectivity

In his third of a series of blog posts about his life as an international business leader, Ben Hutt, CEO of digital recruitment marketplace Talent Party, shares the routines he has developed to help maintain connectivity and communication while he is on the road.

Entrepreneurs

Five lessons in entrepreneurship from The Simpsons

In The Simpsons plenty of characters start their own business: so what can others looking to do the same learn from their experiences?

Entrepreneurs

Are entrepreneurs actually cool?

For years now we've heard claims that entrepreneurs could be the new rock stars yet in truth its never really happened: so exactly how cool can entrepreneurs become?

Entrepreneurs

Top five reasons why start-ups fail

Entrepreneurs start businesses for a variety of reasons. But in truth there are very few for whom money isn't a primary concern.

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