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Entrepreneur Q&A: Joshua Akorah, creator of My Valentine Watch

Joshua Akorah is a 22 year old solo game developer who is in the throes of launching his own creation, The Valentine Watch. He’s also one of 24 young innovators who have won an Ideas Mean Business award from The Prince’s Trust and Innovate UK. Here, he tells us more about his work and how
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How virtual reality can revolutionise the way you train your staff

Emanuel Tomozei, co-founder and head of development at InSilico, explains how his business is creating virtual reality (VR) training for companies to help cut costs and boost skills acquisition amongst workers. Tell me a bit more about your company and how you set it up InSilico is a VR and AR training company was formed in
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Entrepreneur Q&A: Ryan Palmer, co-founder of London Sock Co.

How did London Sock Co. start? My co-founder Dave Pickard and I both came from the corporate world where there was limited opportunity to add style and express personality in a professional environment. It was really an observation where we saw socks as a great opportunity to help men achieve this as people really do
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Entrepreneur Q&A: Jason Goldberg, director of SpaSeekers.com

When was SpaSeekers.com founded and what was your motivation for starting the business? SpaSeekers.com was founded in July 1989 and was originally trading as ‘Healthy Venues’, a free central reservations and unbiased advice service for UK health farms. The seed was sown when my mother wanted to go to a health farm with a friend
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Q&A: Mark Johansen, owner of SkateHut

For over 10 years, Mark Johansen has overseen the evolution and expansion of SkateHut. Born online in 2007 after a family holiday in Florida (where he spotted a gap in the UK skate market), the company was run out of his home until it entered the leagues of a respectable, multi-million-pound e-commerce business. To celebrate
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