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Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurs archive offering advice and tips to help small businesses start and succeed in business.

Business management

Rising star: Emmy Scarterfield

Emmy Scarterfield, creator of wedding collection Emmy Shoes and descendant of Harrods founder Charles Digby Harrod, has proved that when it comes to business she has a lot of sole.

Business management

Will next year be a better for UK businesses?

Here we speak to entrepreneurs and financial experts to find out how confident they are that we will see a recovery next year.

Business management

Rising Star: Rosalind Rathouse

Rosalind Rathouse quit teaching and started her company Cookery School six years ago.

News

Adversity creates entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs owe their success in business to personal adversity, reveals a new study.

Business management

Rising Star: Tony Burns

Tony Burns has come a long way from sleeping rough on the streets of Liverpool. He is now managing director of legal helpline Claim Angel.

Business management

Rising Star: Andrew Valentine

Revved up with the idea for a pay-as-you-go car hire company five years ago, Andrew Valentine has since steered his business Streetcar on to fast-track success.

News

Richard Branson voted top business guru

Despite their omnipresence on our screens, TV celebrity entrepreneurs would be a less popular ‘hire’ than Richard Branson for a business guru.

Blog

Hustlers and Gurus – 2 self-help books on business

Self-help books on business are often contradictions in terms. They're the equivalent of playing The Beatles: Rock Band on a games console - in your head, you're on the rooftop of Apple Records in Savile Row, playing Get Back to hundreds of people, whereas in reality you're a friendless adult, alone in a living room, frantically pressing coloured buttons.

Blog

Get back to the future

Failure, not necessity, is the mother of invention.

Finding and selling to customers

‘Do your research,’ says Peter Jones

Serial entrepreneur and Dragons' Den investor Peter Jones says that many small business owners fall short when it comes to appreciating the importance of research.

Business management

Rising Star: Richard Stobart

Richard Stobart founded web and software development consultancy Unboxed Consulting four years ago.

News

Entrepreneurs in business for more than the money

Contrary to popular opinion, people set up in business to improve their quality of life rather than make their millions.

Business Technology

Why you should upgrade your tech now rather than later

To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis

Investing in a franchise

Should I buy a franchise or go solo?

Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.

Partner content

16 ways to improve your business cash flow

Read here for 16 tried and tested tips and tricks to improve potential cash flow problems

Business management

How to create good cashflow habits

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