Being a great football fan, I travel regularly all over the UK watching my favourite team (won’t say here for fear of comments!). But one issues that really annoys me is parking. Roads are closed around the ground, and even expensive NCP carparks are full. I got 3 tickets in one month alone last [...]

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 [...]

I didn’t bother blogging about the posh barrister who had no experience or ‘will’ to be a businessman, I’m talking about Nicholas De Lacy Brown, a 24-year-old trainee barrister living in West London when he entered The Apprentice series 4. But here is one guy who may be a little outspoken at times and portray [...]

  Terry Loebel wasn’t looking to start an advertising phenomenon when he went to his mailbox in 1967 and inspiration struck. Valpak, the company Loebel soon started, is today an advertising giant, sending its trademark blue coupon-stuffed envelope to 45 million homes each month. Valpak wasn’t the first company to start targeting consumers by mail, [...]

  Rightly or wrongly, the UK no longer enjoys a reputation for military prowess, especially when it comes to equipment and infrastructure. But one company is flying the flag for British military engineering – and is doing a roaring trade with the Americans. Engineering excellence, attention to detail, and delivering on time are three reasons [...]

  Entrepreneur Crispin Thomas’s TMTI has become one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies by teaching customers how to work the bewildering features on their mobile phones and other gadgets. He had the “eureka moment” for his new business at the launch of Vodafone Live: “I asked a salesperson to show me how to send a [...]

  I came across this article about a web 2.0 from back in 2007and thought what a great idea it was, but can’t seem to find out what has happened? The story: When Oxford student Thomas Whitfield put forward his idea in the university’s own version of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, he hoped for nothing [...]

  As we approach the new 2008 Apprentice Series, UKpreneur takes a look back at last years entrepreneurs that didn’t get the job: Ghazal Asif Ghazal Asif has just been headhunted to overlook new business in the UK for an IT services company. With fingers in many pies, she is now a master practitioner of [...]

  When Ed Reeves, co-founder of Moneypenny, realised that responses to their direct mail were drying up, he introduced PURL – personalised web pages. Response rates have soared by 70 per cent. “One needs to be more clever with their marketing today,” says Reeves, “Sending someone a letter and a brochure doesn’t really cut it [...]

  Family, friends and admirers of millionaire Steve Fossett have gathered to remember him as an energetic, upbeat adventurer seven months after his small plane disappeared over the Nevada desert. About 200 people attended the memorial service in Colorado. His wife, Peggy, sat in the front row with other family members. James Stephen Fossett (April [...]