UKBF user name: Tin
Real name: Ray Field
Company name: Tin Solder
Website: www.tinsoldierdesign.co.uk
Contact: 01298 813372
1. How did you start your organisation?
More by accident than anything else. In 1992 I was pensioned out of the fire service after an accident damaged my knee and had...
"With fuel price hikes at an all time high amongst the larger electricity suppliers and continued concern about how consumers being misled, there is much confusion amongst small businesses over how best to source their electricity and manage it cost effectively.
"Recent research from...
Stuart Lynn writes:"Starting your own business is an exciting – if sometimes frightening – time and no prizes for guessing what's going through the mind of an entrepreneur. From making sure the initial business idea is safe and sound to negotiating with banks and other institutions, there never...
Richard Parker writes:
"First, let me get something off my chest. PR is not a luxury. It is a vital business tool. Even if you have only just set up your company. Even if you don't ever want another new customer. Now, I can hear you thinking I'm crazy and that that only the government and...
I've adapted the title of this blog from a quote contained in a fascinating report released this week by the CBI and QinetiQ. Revealing how the world's most profitable service sector firms drive innovation, the study's key point for me is how the companies embrace failure.
Click here to read...
By now you probably know about my issues with Business Link, the government's flagship business advisory service - lack of consistency, too much box ticking etc, etc. In my seven years writing about entrepreneurs, these sorts of complaints have arisen time and time again. But I had hoped things...
UKBF user name: DuaneJackson
Real name: Duane Jackson
Company name: KashFlow Software Ltd
Website: www.kashflow.co.uk
Contact: 0800 848 8301
1. How did you start your organisation?
I started KashFlow in 2004 because I was very frustrated at the complexity of all the bookkeeping and...
I'm sure I wasn't the only viewer who gasped at the moment Lee McQueen, the world's best reverse pterodactyl impersonator, was named Sir Alan Sugar's latest apprentice this week.
And my surprise, and that of no doubt thousands if not millions of others, was not just because he beat bookies...
Regular readers of my blog will know I'm a big fan of social enterprises - businesses which plough all or a large part of their profits into social, community or environmental causes. I believe they are the future of business and are much better at solving society's ills than traditional, public...
Please indulge me for a moment because it's my birthday today!
I was born on the 3 June 1976 in west London but it wasn't until 2001 I discovered the wonderful world of entrepreneurship when I became editorial assistant of the now defunct BusinessEurope.com. However, despite being on Planet...
UKBF user name: creacom
Real name: Jacqui MacDougall
Company name: CreaCom Design
Website: www.creacomdesign.com
Contact: [email protected]
1. How did you start your business?
At the start of 2005 I moved back to Scotland after spending five years in France. During my time there I...
The government's decision to extend the right to flexible working to millions of more parents is fundamentally wrong and once again it's entrepreneurs running small businesses who will suffer.
Click here to read my blog in full.
UKBF user name: Alpha
Real name: Alan Moore
Company name: Alpha Business Services
Website: www.alphalimited.co.uk
Contact: Alan Moore/Sharon Haywood
1. How did you start your organisation?
I had sold the company that I ran as MD on behalf of the group. I stayed on for six months to ensure a...
Digg, Facebook, del.icio.us, Zimbio....the lists goes on. Every day it seems that some new quirky way of sharing content, networking and engaging with an audience enters the brave new world of social media.
It's hard to know whether these sort of services can benefit your business and many...
It's not often that one is in the presence of a billionaire but I was this week when entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter, ranked 68th in 2008's Sunday Times Rich List, delivered the keynote address at Good Deals, the UK's first national conference on social investment.
Listening to his speech sat in...
If the current results of our latest poll are anything to go by, David Cameron and friends will be celebrating big time on Thursday night.
In the survey asking members who they plan on voting for in the local elections, an overwhelming majority pick the Tories. Interestingly, the second most...
It's all about simplification, Alistair Darling declared as he announced his budget last month. Simpler capital gains tax, simpler corporation tax etc, etc.
Why then was I not surprised when I read this morning that at 442 pages, Darling's first Finance Bill beats the average length of all of...
UKBF user name: Oliver Sidwell
Company name: R M P Enterprise Ltd
Company website: www.ratemyplacement.co.uk
Company contact: [email protected]
How did you start your business?
www.RateMyPlacement originated from our own work placement experiences whilst at Loughborough University...
Back To The Floor is my favourite of the business television reality shows. The BBC2 series from the late 1990s and early 2000s featured the CEOs of large companies mixing with the workers on the 'coalface' to hear their opinions and frustrations.
You could always tell the bosses found it a...
Real name: Chris Kaday
UKBF user name: Chris Kaday
Company name: Chris Kaday
Company website: www.chriskaday.co.uk
Company contact: [email protected] 07717 411382
1.How did you start your business?
Actually I started my first business on a day when I was declared redundant, got...
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