Category: This Is How I Run My Business

Dragons’ Den veteran Duncan Bannatyne was among the judges who voted business lawyer Suzanne Dibble’s venture Lawyers4Mumpreneurs a winner at the recent national Mumpreneur Awards ceremony.

The man who was dropped by Cameron as the Government’s Enterprise Advisor last year, after making inappropriate remarks to the press, continues to be a substantial shareholder and chairman of KashFlow, one of the UKs leading cloud accounting package for SMEs.

The growth in the number of female entrepreneurs has stalled and their numbers decline the more successful the ventures they set up become, a survey shows.

Having lived a real-life fairy tale and married a world-famous rock-and-roll star, many women would be content to sit back and enjoy the ride – not Trudie Styler. This dynamic woman, wife of the celebrity musician “Sting”, has proved herself to be a multi-talented entrepreneur, having just launched a film production company in New York, straight after the successful launch of a range of ready-to-cook meals back in England.

Lord Sugar has been crowned the UK’s nightmare career coach in a poll by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), released today to mark the launch of their ‘Perform at Your Peak’ professional coaching campaign and the start of series seven of The Apprentice.

The winners in the 2011 MAN everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards have just been announced, celebrating the achievements of those women making a difference in the sector.

The ‘job interview from hell is back’ however, this year the show, which starts next Tuesday (May 10th) on BBC One, is a bit different, as rather than being rewarded with a job working directly for Lord Sugar the winner will run a business and receive a fifty per cent equity investment into a new business of up to £250,000. Here are the male candidates:

The ‘job interview from hell is back’ however, this year the show, which starts next Tuesday (May 10th) on BBC One, is a bit different, as rather than being rewarded with a job working directly for Lord Sugar the winner will run a business and receive a fifty per cent equity investment into a new business of up to £250,000. Here are the female candidates:

The UK charity CARE took their newly-appointed ambassador, entrepreneur and TV Dragon Deborah Meaden, to see how individuals in Cambodia are using loans provided to them by individuals in the UK through a new micro-lending website.

Charlie Walker is a 27-year-old millionaire entrepreneurial Yorkshireman. Just three years ago he set up an international recruitment consultancy in London, now turnover stands at £7 million with £1.6 million profits.

The UK’s leaders in technology came together to recognise and celebrate the industries most inspirational women as everywoman and CWT announced the winners of the inaugural 2011 CWT everywoman in Technology Awards, recognising successes of the UK’s most talented women working in IT.

Creditsafe, the business intelligence experts, has revealed that Katie Price AKA Jordan is the most searched female company director in the UK.

The former Dragon James Caan, who made his money in recruitment before doing four series of the BBC show Dragons’ Den, has been critical of how business is portrayed on out TV screens.

Hilary Devey is to join the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, replacing James Caan. She will be joining the remaining dragons Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis, Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden.

The UK Speechwriters’ Guild has awarded the Business Communicator of the Year Award 2011 to the speaker and author Geoff Burch.