02 April 2012 11:18 AM
One squad. 70 members. And a budget of just £5,000 a year. The Brighton and Sussex Waves are a co-educational cheerleading squad made up of students from the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex.
02 April 2012 11:07 AM
On the six-month anniversary of my arrival in Silicon Valley, now that the dust has settled on the inevitable honeymoon period, I’d like to offer a public response to a question I face daily, from colleagues and friends – on both sides of the Atlantic. Where is the best place to start a company – London or Silicon Valley?
22 February 2012 10:59 AM
Man is by nature a social animal, Aristotle taught us.
21 February 2012 04:16 PM
Suppose you develop a fantastic product. You might consider applying for a patent to protect the product or how it works. You might also think about applying for a trademark to protect the product’s name or branding. Would you also think about protecting the appearance of the actual product using registered designs?
21 February 2012 04:10 PM
Like many instances in which we deploy a French word to describe something, being an ‘entrepreneur’ can often sound a lot more glamorous than it is.
03 February 2012 04:34 PM
What you want, what you like, what you think, is not normal. In fact, the phrase ‘you are not normal’ is used so often in the FIG office that it could reasonably called a cliché. The reason for its frequent use is because it is very easy to forget that not everyone thinks like you – especially today.
02 February 2012 12:34 PM
Successful entrepreneurs usually concentrate their efforts on three key areas: vision, people and cash.
01 February 2012 04:55 PM
It’s an issue encountered by contract lawyers on an almost daily basis (well, this contract lawyer anyway). The all-too-familiar tale almost always starts with a person recounting how they’ve fallen out with their supplier, contractor or business partner, and asking what they can do. That's inevitably followed by "Oh, and we don’t have a written contract.”
16 January 2012 12:00 PM
Last time, we took a peek into entrepreneur Ning Li’s psyche.
11 January 2012 04:41 PM
With youth unemployment at over one million, entrepreneurship holds the key for the UK to recover out of the recession, says Rajeeb Dey
05 December 2011 03:12 PM
Attempting to establish the largest enterprise society in the UK to promote entrepreneurship from its very foundations is by no means a small feat. Manchester Entrepreneurs, boasting a membership count of 3,200 students, has undertaken the journey to realise this ambition.
05 December 2011 12:42 PM
We have never met an entrepreneur who does not think their idea will change the world. The question is: does the world agree?
05 December 2011 12:37 PM
Life as an entrepreneur is like being on a rollercoaster that just won’t stop. There are breathless, stomach-churning twists and turns and you can go from feeling like Richard Branson to Del Boy in the same day. Much of the time too, it can be hard to feel like you are in control, certainly when your business starts to get noticed and momentum gathers.
14 November 2011 03:09 PM
I came back from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore this morning.
14 November 2011 03:01 PM
Deal-making and negotiation skills are critical for entrepreneurs. Success depends not just on great ideas and marketing skills, but also on a network of deals which all entrepreneurs have to put in place. These include deals for funding, manufacturing, distribution, marketing and promotion, and deals with employees. And let’s not forget the deal at the end of the cycle – the exit deal – which is supposed to make all of that effort, and all of the other deals worthwhile.
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