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Entrepreneurs

Private equity

Entrepreneur’s guide to embarking on a private equity ‘marriage’

Clive Kahn, CEO of business payments company CardSave, offers some advice to business owners considering a private equity deal.

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Starting as a one-man band leads to greater entrepreneurial success rate, report finds

Entrepreneurs which decide to work alone during the early days of their business venture are more likely so succeed, research shows.

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UK’s Global Entrepreneurship Week looks to encourage start-up ventures

Global Entrepreneurship Week has kicked off in the UK with some 3,000 events set to be staged over the seven-day period.

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Entrepreneurial Brits want to do it their way

A third of workers in the UK believe they could run the business they work for better than the current set-up, new research shows.

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Why Dyslexia Makes For Great Entrepreneurs

What do Richard Branson, Stephen Spielberg and the late Steve Jobs all have in common?

Entrepreneurs

5 entrepreneurs who chanced it all but came out on top

Entrepreneurs are well known for their risk taking strategies, an important part of starting up any business. GrowthBusiness meets five business leaders to find out how taking the plunge paid off in the long run.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.