Entrepreneurship is hot. The idea of being your own boss, deciding your life and destiny and building something to make you a multi-millionaire in short order, is captivating a generation. I know how they feel. When I was 28 years old I decided I was never going to work for someone again. An end to
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How one student turned her babysitting and tutoring platform into reality
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I was a Psychology undergraduate with an idea, but I lacked self-belief. I wanted to create an online cashless babysitting and tutoring booking website called Zoo Town. I envisioned this website connecting many parents in London, to students who are fully vetted, experienced and ready to provide world class service to children in their care.
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Top small business ideas for students
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As a student, the thought of running your own business may appear like a distraction from ‘the point’ of going to school or university – that is, achieving an employable qualification. But why wait until graduation? As a student, there are a lot of excellent ways to create your own profitable side gig. Many have
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What questions should you be asking before you set up a business?
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Setting up a business is a challenging time, and in many cases, is the culmination of a life-long dream to go out on your own. However, it’s rarely as simple as transforming that dream into a reality. There are several key questions that need careful consideration before taking the first steps towards becoming a business
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Why being forewarned is being forearmed when starting a business
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Starting a new business is tough. Having gone through the process myself a number of times in different continents, I can testify to this. Not only are there long hours ahead and tough decisions to be made, it will likely come at a considerable financial cost. We conducted research which found businesses spent an average of
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Why air travel is a big opportunity for start-up businesses
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So what about air travel? It is an industry which is perhaps unique in having its own dedicated button on all of today’s mobile devices. However, ‘flight mode’ has long stood for being disconnected, for switching off from the rest of the world. As the world’s airlines roll out in-flight connectivity this will increasingly no
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How beauty and tech are making waves together in the start-up world
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Earlier this year, L’Oréal, one of the world’s largest, most powerful beauty industry corporations, announced it was teaming up with Founders Factory, an influential, London-based tech startup incubator co-founded by entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox and Jim Meyerle. The deal involves investing in five start-ups and co-creating two new companies from scratch every year.
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Is London the worst place for your start-up business?
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Starting a business has never been more accessible, yet new research by Expert Market shows that business survival rates are diminishing with a 58 per cent mortality rate across the UK, in the first five years, and more than 60 per cent of businesses failing to survive in London alone. London has the lowest survival rate for start-ups
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Four steps to building a successful small e-commerce business
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Setting up an online store may be an effortless procedure but make no mistake, running a small e-commerce business is no easy feat. As someone who has spent a career providing products and services to millions of online sellers, first at PayPal and now at ATG Media, the parent company of i-bidder and BidSpotter, I
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Brits dream up business ideas from their bed
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A third (32 per cent) of the nation’s budding entrepreneurs name their bed as the most inspiring place to dream up new business ideas, followed by the great outdoors (19 per cent). Other locations include when travelling (19 per cent) and when having a cup of tea of coffee (19 per cent), with the shower or bath (14 per cent)
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