Gimme 5: Christmas books for entrepreneurs December 7, 2014 Business Adventures by John Brooks Bill Gates’s all-time favourite business book, these twelve short stories narrate turning points for some of the world’s largest companies, providing salient lessons on money, ethics and the corporate world. From £10.13 (Open Road Media) Zero to One by Peter Thiel The visionary PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist explains [...]
Born to win November 30, 2014 SPONSORED CONTENT BY SANTANDER McLaren tests a new piece of equipment every 20 minutes. “We have a different time frame compared to the real world,” says Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren, speaking at Santander’s Breakthrough Box last week (see right). The British Formula One team is one of the most successful in F1 history. [...]
Interview: Santander managing director Carlos Portela November 30, 2014 SPONSORED CONTENT BY SANTANDER What is Santander’s Breakthrough Moments Box? The Box is a dynamic space created to bring businesses together. Ambitious, growing companies from McLaren to Muc-Off can showcase their “breakthrough moments” to other entrepreneurs and mid-sized companies, so that they can take this intelligence and advice and use it within their own companies. [...]
Is Latin America the next step for your business? November 30, 2014 SPONSORED CONTENT BY SANTANDER Look south west, and there is a vast, untapped export market. That’s the message of Canning House, Britain’s leading forum and contacts hub for Latin America, and a participant at Santander’s Breakthrough Box last week. “Companies are being held back because of a lack of familiarity and a fear of engagement,” [...]
Staff perks: It’s the little things November 30, 2014 What do you do to incentivise your staff? With today’s average worker staying in a job for just 4.4 years, how can you retain a valuable team? Employment law specialists Peninsula took to the Breakthrough Box floor to talk businesses through the ins and outs of boosting employee productivity. Realising that low-cost incentives can be [...]
Gimme 5: Upcoming events for entrepreneurs November 24, 2014 TEN Power Lunch with Nick Hungerford How tech entrepreneurs can disrupt financial services Free event with The Entrepreneurs Network and the co-founder and chief executive of Nutmeg. 4 December, 12.45pm to 2.15pm www.tenentrepreneurs.org UCL Advances Sales Strategy Workshop Teaching the crucial steps you must take to create a powerful sales strategy for your business, [...]
Princess Diana’s wedding dress designer Elizabeth Emanuel talks Catch-22s and Richard Branson November 23, 2014 You'd be hard pressed to get one up on Elizabeth Emanuel when it comes to heydays – and the fashion designer hasn’t just had one. At the age of 28, she designed the wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer – a day she wouldn’t trade for the world, she says. And ten years later, [...]
Vijay Patel: How I made it as an entrepreneur – the five key attributes you need to succeed November 23, 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Week, last week, provided an opportunity to celebrate British enterprise and to assess how we can stimulate new business creation further. The more entrepreneurs we have, the stronger our economy will be. I am a British entrepreneur who has, over the last 40 years, built a global business from just one small pharmacy [...]
Thinking bigger: My Voucher Codes founder Mark Pearson talks Fern Britton and young tech entrepreneurs November 16, 2014 While we’re talking, it suddenly dawns on Mark Pearson that it’s his company’s eighth birthday. “It’s definitely around now,” he laughs, raising his empty plastic water cup in the air. In June of this year, Pearson sold My Voucher Codes, as part of his parent company Markco Media, to global mobile money technology provider [...]
RateSetter founders Peter Behrens and Rhydian Lewis talk banks, Australia and dwarves November 9, 2014 Ask the founders of a business if they’ve got a good setback story, and they’ll usually give you something fairly typecast. Not in the case of RateSetter. “Pete the painter,” answers Peter Behrens firmly, looking over to co-founder Rhydian Lewis. It seems completely off piste, but it actually shows that rumbling the status quo, [...]