Don’t even think about starting a business or in fact anything if you are guilty of the following:
1. Do you ever ask “Why should I try to be successful?”2. Do you consider money dirty , un-cool , or pretentious?
3. Do you have negative opinions about wealthy people?
4. Are you afraid of making more money than […]

 
2050 Britain could have hundreds of thousands of millionaires if more people sign up to pensions saving schemes. Impossible? In fact, all it takes is £300 per month.
If a couple aged 25 both start saving £300 per month, then by the time they reach the official retirement age of 68, they will have a fund […]

 
The reason why you aren’t a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it’s because you aren’t earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you make. […]

When life throws you some failure, turn it around!
Florist Moya Topsom was upset when she lost her job as manageress at a florist in Wymondham, but she then branched out on her own.
The 21-year-old had been working at Jasmine florists for three and a half years when the owners shuttered the business because of soaring […]

 
Shaun Fanning, founder of Napster, Boston University
“My roommate had a bunch of friends from back home come visit. They asked him how he got this insane music collection — he was particularly into obscure rap–and there was no easy way to describe how to do it. It was pretty remarkable how difficult it was to […]

 
I have been blogging about business for over a year now and I have never really blogged about my specific businesses, successful and failures.
So over the next few weeks I want to write a little about them. But before I write about the first failure I wanted to just take a look at the word […]

 
I recently found an amazing (and I don’t use that word lightly) resource from Google that I think is completely under-used and seriously under-marketed. This resource is called Google Talks and it contains over 170 fascinating lectures, given to the very lucky and privileged Google staff, most around 1 hour long.
Google TechTalks are designed to […]

 
About time a initiative to inspire and help people get businesses off the ground. When I first attempted a business some years ago I went down all the Government support routes such as Business Link, Princes Trust and my local enterprise agency but I found them of no help whatsoever and its pretty disappointing to […]

 
Videoconferencing specialist ICU Global is cashing in on the public’s ever-growing awareness of environmental issues as well as the desire of many business people to spend less time in airports.
Founder and CEO Stephen McKenzie says even though videoconferencing has been around for years, there’s huge potential in this business technology area.
“You save money on travel, […]

I have been down the patent route twice before and what a minefield it was, I also lost a lot of money because I wasn’t aware of the cheaper routes available to me.
Europe’s 500, the association of the European top growth companies, calls upon the European Commission and the Member States to introduce a simplified […]