Business Features
Your education can have business benefits too
Annabel Palmer talks to Debbie Wosskow, the serial entrepreneur whose third venture is planning to change the way you holiday
ARE TOP sports stars just stupid? Sure, they’re good at what they do – catching, throwing, hitting, kicking or whatever, but are they perhaps just a little bit lacking in the old grey matter?
NOT all businesses are as successful as TransferWise. The London- based peer-to-peer international money transfer firm has just secured a $6m (£3.9m) investment round led by Valar Ventures, the fund set up by PayPal’s Peter Thiel.
Principled investors are cashing in as trust falls
The CFA’s latest offering aims to remove the educational barriers between the front office and supporting staff
Firms piloting the CFA Institute’s latest offering share their views on the impact it has made
CASE STUDY #1: AVIVA INVESTORS
ALISON NAYLOR
Investors now want real-time information from their companies
MY DAUGHTER Jasmine, seven at the time, looked at me terrified, and I tried to reassure her. “It’s okay Jassy, you need to see a doctor. You’ve got a temperature and you feel like vomiting.
THE pop-up shop has (ironically) become an almost permanent fixture on the high street.
Seizing its potential will be the challenge
DIRECTOR UK ENTERPRISE, CISCO
Q How does the Internet of Everything represent a seismic cultural shift for business and IT?
Annabel Palmer talks tech with WANdisco’s founder David Richards
IT’S never been easier for a bricks-and-mortar retailer to get online. Countless marketplaces (eBay, Etsy etc) allow companies to upload products and sell them for a slice of the sales price.
Annabel Palmer speaks to Sarah Forsyth, the handbag designer who has bucked the trend by going from online to high street
YOU CAN’T cook an egg without an egg. Pretty simple, I guess, but all the same James had attempted to demonstrate his electronic egg cooker invention to five fiery dragons on Dragons’ Den and had forgotten to put an egg in it.
WHAT is the value of a network? The economist Paul Ormerod recently wrote a fascinating article for City A.M. on the subject, which tried to explain the relative poverty of northern cities compared to the urban south.
THE single tear slid down his cheek and dripped softly onto my dining room table. There I was, alone with a middle-aged man, a stranger, unwillingly watching him as his emotions overcame him.
WHERE next for crowdfunding? Individuals collectively pooling money to fund ventures isn’t a new phenomenon – the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty was partly paid for via crowd funds.
But the course may not be the best option for budding entrepreneurs in comparison to the school of life
Gold experts Georges Lequime and Paul Tustain, both speaking at City A.M.’s Active Trader Conference this year, give their perspectives on recent moves in the price, what drives the precious metal, and what will happen next
London depends on its ability to attract the very best talent
I LIKE people with strong views. Especially of course, when I agree with them. Here are a few of my own. They’re rather radical.
HOW do you define entrepreneurship? Perhaps not how you’d think.
Annabel Palmer talks with the App star of the moment, Summly’s founder Nick D’Aloisio
But if you’re looking for international business exposure, you may not need to look further than our own capital
Annabel Palmer talks to the energetic directors of the online community BusinessBecause
CONFESSIONS of a SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
The new General Anti Abuse Rule is creating damaging uncertainty
Annabel Palmer meets the duo behind Cad and the Dandy, the tailors with a modern approach
CONFESSIONS of a SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
But many students are concerned about the quality and credibility of this alternative model of business education
Annabel Palmer meets Valentina Lisitsa, the pianist who mortgaged her house to fund her career
CONFESSIONS of a SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Annabel Palmer talks technology, investment, and skiing with Six Degrees founder Alastair Mills
CONFESSIONS of a SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Just don’t expect it to do all the work
Annabel Palmer talks to Andrew Rugasira, the Ugandan entrepreneur with a new book and a Good African story to tell
ACCORDING to technology consultancy IDC and IT firm EMC, the global digital universe will expand tenfold between 2012 and 2020, reaching a difficult to comprehend 40 zettabytes.
IMAGINE you invent the pen in a world of only pencils. You are so excited – you are going to change people’s lives! Pens are easier to write with, easier to read, and don’t need sharpening. You dream of success.
SOME entrepreneurs stumble upon their calling accidentally. Not this one. The founder of one Britain’s few contemporary retail success stories describes himself as the archetypal entrepreneur.
IN A study released last year, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) found that British companies that export see a 34 per cent increase in productivity within their first year of selling abroad.
JASON Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer, founders of the overnight internet sensation Fab.com, were almost too busy for our conversation to take place. That may be an occupational hazard if you’ve made it your mission to “change the world”.
I THINK I closed my eyes as the other boy pounded my face, punch after punch. It seemed I had no defence. Trying to hit him back or to block him was just useless. The minister eventually broke us up, and it was only then that I burst out crying.
ENTREPRENEURS found start-ups. Being entrepreneurial means starting a new company, with an original idea, or a more efficient process. Or so the old story goes. But does it need to be this way?
YOU may have seen Clippy McKenna’s eponymous preserves on your supermarket shelves.