I was very sad to learn of the news that Dame Anita Roddick had passed away yesterday evening, she was a great inspiration to many people, including myself and touched many peoples lives.
Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were with her when she died at 1830 BST on Monday at St Richard’s Hospital […]

 
Mark Mills has to be one of my favourite and inspiring entrepreneurs of the times. From a young age of six Mark was making money selling boxes of broken biscuits to his mates that his aunt brought home from the factory she worked at. He then moved into crisps using his fathers cash and carry […]

 
Whats the secret to serial success in some entrepreneurs? It can take a life time, a trail of failed attempts and a load of money before some people bring an indea to market or a business to success, others just keep doing it.
Take these two Toms for instance, five years ago, Tom Scott and Tom […]

 
UKpreneur catches up with Ben Way to hear more about his latest project -the Horses Mouth.
If you don’t know who Ben Way is then let me give you some history, Ben was one of the first dot com millionaires after developing a search technology called Waysearch which later became a business-to-business product called Pulsar. He was reportedly […]

 
Since my previous post on Vance Miller - Kitchen King i have received quite a lot of feedback from people and all of it is positive, comments from people inside Trading Standards that dealt with this case against Vance, a reporter who filmed Vance for a documentary, and a few customers who have bought kitchens […]

I have had two failed businesses and i am always having problems day in day out in my current business. I try to learn from mistakes and problems that i face on a daily basis, but sometimes problem after problem does get to me and gets me down, it loses my focus and motivation.
So i […]

 
JK Rowling - If you don’t know who she is, where have you been?
Joanne “Jo” Rowling who writes under the name J. K. Rowling, the writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million books. The last four Harry Potter books have been […]

 
On my recent trip to Turkey i took Michelle Dewberry’s book with me ‘Anything Is Possible’ which details Michelle’s life from her turbulent childhood (which involved violent abuse from her father and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her sisters death). It gives a realistic insight into how Michelle made it.
Obviously the media has spun its own […]

 
Putting its money where its mouth is on social issues and the non-profit sector, GOOD magazine donates every penny raised from subscription fees to charity. That’s already helped founder Ben Goldhirsh do good by raising more than $380,000 in just three issues!
Ben Goldhirsh founded GOOD Magazine and Reason Pictures in 2004. Starting from the back […]

 
Anyone who knows me, will know i love butterflies and can name around 40 different types (and my mates mock me for this) so this is a inspiring story to hear how one man accepted a bet to start a business selling butterflies.
Jose Muñiz’s career began when a friend bet him $100 that he could […]