ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 31, 2011 YOUNG PEOPLE WANT TO BE ENTREPRENEURS Eight in ten young people want to become entrepreneurs. Britain is brimming with future entrepreneurs, a new study into young people’s ambitions has concluded. According to the survey of 2,000 youngsters, commissioned to support the Ambition AXA Awards, more than three-quarters of 11 to 18-year-olds (77 per cent) say [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 24, 2011 MAJORITY THINK GETTING FUNDING IS EASY A sizable 39 per cent of Britain’s entrepreneurs expect conditions for accessing external sources of capital to be “normal” or “easy” in the next 12 months. This compares to 25 per cent who said this six months ago, according to research from May 2011 by Investec Specialist Private Bank. [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 24, 2011 MAJORITY THINK GETTING FUNDING IS EASY A sizable 39 per cent of Britain’s entrepreneurs expect conditions for accessing external sources of capital to be “normal” or “easy” in the next 12 months. This compares to 25 per cent who said this six months ago, according to research from May 2011 by Investec Specialist Private Bank. [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEED A GOOD START-UP STORY July 17, 2011 THE creation of new firms is the single most important part of the economic drama,” says Carl Schramm, the chief executive of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest private foundation devoted to encouraging entrepreneurship. He was speaking about the challenges facing the world’s entrepreneurs. While the whole speech was fascinating, that statement really stood out. [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEED A GOOD START-UP STORY July 17, 2011 THE creation of new firms is the single most important part of the economic drama,” says Carl Schramm, the chief executive of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest private foundation devoted to encouraging entrepreneurship. He was speaking about the challenges facing the world’s entrepreneurs. While the whole speech was fascinating, that statement really stood out. [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 17, 2011 SMES ARE NOT TAKING DATA LAWS SERIOUSLY Half of small firms in the UK still believe that the loss or theft of data from their organisation would have no impact on their business, according to new research commissioned by Shred-it, a document destruction company. The survey among 1,000 UK businesses, undertaken by Ipsos, found that [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 17, 2011 SMES ARE NOT TAKING DATA LAWS SERIOUSLY Half of small firms in the UK still believe that the loss or theft of data from their organisation would have no impact on their business, according to new research commissioned by Shred-it, a document destruction company. The survey among 1,000 UK businesses, undertaken by Ipsos, found that [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF July 3, 2011 MIND CANDY AND LOVEFILM WIN AWARDS The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) awarded Mind Candy and LoveFilm business management awards at a black tie ceremony held in London last week. Mind Candy, the business behind children’s social networking sensation Moshi Monsters, picked up the Venture Capital Backed-Management Team of the Year award, [...]
HOW TO MAKE OUR CHILDREN ENTREPRENEURS June 26, 2011 I BELIEVE we must encourage a new attitude that will prepare young people for success in the 21st century. Today, one in five young people in Britain is out of work. Competition for jobs is fierce and employment is a greater challenge than it has been for generations. I see enormous potential in Britain’s young [...]
ENTREPRENEURS NEWS | IN BRIEF June 26, 2011 FSB CALLS FOR IMPROVED EU LAW The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling on the government to support plans for a Europe-wide law that small firms can use when drawing up contracts within the EU. According to the FSB, the government’s hopes for an export-led recovery will falter unless it changes its contradictory position [...]