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Entrepreneur Q&A: Mark Gurtler, CEO of Greenbrokers

Tell us more about Greenbrokers and how it came about. I started my career as a management consultant which paid incredibly well and gave me an opportunity to work with some fascinating companies and people at the top of their game. However, it didn’t provide the freedom or flexibility I needed.  I wanted to work
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Entrepreneur Q&A: Andrea Guzzoni

What inspired Rentuu? I worked in tech for the last five years and I’ve successfully managed and launched operations working under large corporations. The idea of an online rental service was sparked when I was working with booking and events platforms. Particularly when I worked in hospitality, I realised that a lot of places needed
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Entrepreneur Q&A: Matt Turner, founder and MD of Clownfish Events

Describe your business model and what makes your business unique What is actually unique these days? There are very few businesses that can truly say what they do is unique apart from companies like Uber and Airbnb who start a completely new business model. We’re not the only events company in the UK but we
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Single and pregnant with no funding: how one woman made her online business a success

How did Centre of Excellence come about? What’s its USP? I started off doing classroom-based neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy training which I did for four years before starting my online business. I came out of a long-term relationship of six years and as we went our separate ways, I found out that I was
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Entrepreneur Q&A: ‘We are the underdogs when it comes to funding’

How did PACK’D come about? What is its USP? I had the idea for PACK’D because I wanted natural, targeted nutrition to fuel my performance at work and in sport. I saw PACK’D as an antidote to unhealthy bottled drinks and a shortcut to the ultimate homemade smoothie. I did my research and there was
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How this entrepreneur created the ASOS of women’s sportswear

Entrepreneur Kamil Bajolek saw a gap in the online women’s sportswear market and decided to create his own company. What is the business, when was it started and what were you doing beforehand? Flybery is a shopping portal specialising in women’s sportswear. We currently partner with more than 60 different stores such as ASOS, Nike,
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What Estonia’s youngest inventor can teach us about entrepreneurship

Estonian entrepreneur Karoli Hindriks is a formidable character. Her achievements include helping the government of Estonia design and launch the world’s first Digital Nomad Visa, being the youngest inventor in Estonia’s history, being named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women and graduating from NASA’s Singularity University. She has also founded three and directed five
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