The urge to quit your nine to five and set up that crab shack or tennis coaching job you’ve always dreamed of is a vision shared by a significant chunk of the UK population. A study by Samsung Electronics UK, in association with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) and YouGov, has found that more than one in
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How four pre-revenue companies are plotting success
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Some 600,000 businesses were started in 2015, according to the think tank Centre for Entrepreneurs. Clearly, it is an exciting time for entrepreneurship in the UK, but you don’t often hear about the pre-revenue early-stage companies until they achieve some measure of success: which, naturally, is often based on how much money they are making. The following companies haven’t made any
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Odd businesses that shouldn’t have succeeded, but did
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Today’s business world is competitive. The incredible idea you’ve just had for a steam room dehumidifier or velcro court tennis club has, in all likelihood, already been done. However, that didn’t stop these three wacky visionaries from unfurling their odd businesses on the world and making their mark. Hopefully, you can learn from their outside-of-the-box thinking to come up with
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How tech entrepreneurs turned their creativity into a business
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All companies have to start from somewhere, and the journey from idea to execution can be an exciting one in which a vision is made reality, and tech entrepreneurs in particular arguably have the most valuable skills to launch a company from a standing start. Antony Chesworth, owner and founder of e-commerce firm EKM started
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