Julie Ronnins was working in two dead end jobs, she was overweight since having her 6 month old baby and was in £18k of debts. The final straw to push her to a change in life was when her partner and father of their baby walked out. Julie was left struggling not even able [...]

Many people hate the idea of having to sleep on a plane. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios thinks they can be persuaded otherwise and he has created a new kind of hostel to prove it. Dios says it is the world’s first jumbo jet hostel, an actual jet-plane at Sweden’s main airport outside Stockholm which [...]

Here is my advice for getting those sales in a competitive time! 1. Let money talk. Cash can be the best incentive when there’s aggressive competition in your niche market or where it has been historically difficult to motivate prospects to take action. For example, a study by Harris Interactive released in May revealed that [...]

  A local entrepreneur’s high-tech savvy and ability to land a punch have landed him in elite national company. Brian Pedone, 25, was nominated last week by BusinessWeek magazine as one of 25 young entrepreneurs under 25 in the United States. Pedone’s journey took him from Queens to Saylorsburg at age 10, then to school [...]

A pair of entrepreneurs have launched a website that helps homebuyers avoid the shaky property market, by swapping houses with each other directly. Property-swap-shop.com matches up its database of homebuyers who want to buy or sell houses in the UK or abroad. It was started just a few weeks ago by Birmingham entrepreneur Joe Kreft [...]

  WHEN Imran Hakim collected two awards at the Institute of Directors regional awards dinner last month, he paid tribute to his `fantastic team’ whom he credited with putting him where he is today. He has become one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country as his interactive teddy bear, the iTeddy, has [...]

A PRIMARY school pupil has made an early bid to become a dot com millionaire by setting up an internet business at the age of 10. Amy Yeo, who has turned 11 since starting Swapsies, has already secured the support of businesswoman Jo Cameron, a one-time contestant on The Apprentice. And Amy is hoping to [...]

  CURRY king Charan Gill MBE will play it for laughs when he launches a new career as a stand-up comedian. The former shipbuilder who founded his Harlequin Leisure Group in Glasgowin 1994 and built it into Europe’s largest chain of Indian restaurants before selling it in a multi-million pound deal in 2005 is now [...]

  A Walsall businessman who made a business worth more than a billion pounds after spotting a gap in the market has been named the top entrepreneur in the UK. Richard Harpin, the chief executive of Homeserve, was given the nod at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards in London on Monday [...]

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