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40% of Workers Consider Themselves an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs / 25th November 2019

Forty per cent of workers consider themselves entrepreneurs. This is according to The Myers-Briggs Company research report, ‘Type and entrepreneurship’, which investigates the relationship between personality and entrepreneurship in the...

British Patents in Decline While Global Competitors Reach Record Levels

Entrepreneurs / 22nd November 2019

British entrepreneurs and companies are lagging behind their global competitors when it comes to creating and securing their inventions, with an 8% drop in patents granted domestically in 2018 versus...

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Venn Honored by Goldman Sachs for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs / 21st October 2019

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is recognizing Venn CEO Or Bokobza as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2019 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman...

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The Rise of the ‘Redundant-Preneurs’: Four Million People Start Their Own Business After Layoff

Entrepreneurs / 12th September 2019

More than a third of workers who have been made redundant used the experience as an opportunity to start working for themselves 13 million working adults have been made redundant...

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Recruitment Technology Start-Up Secures Former Executive of Visa Europe as Chairman

Entrepreneurs / 6th September 2019

Recruitment technology start up, Willo, has announced the formation of its board of directors. Former Chief Digital Officer of Visa Europe, Dr Steve Perry, has been appointed as Chairman, while...

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Antler Strengthens Global Leadership Team With Two Significant Appointments

Entrepreneurs / 16th August 2019

Antler, the global startup generator and early-stage VC, has appointed Edward Knight as a Global Partner and Annette Wilson as European Chair and Advisor of Antler. Knight will also become...

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Gig Economy “A Springboard for Entrepreneurs”

Entrepreneurs / 9th August 2019

Workers in the gig economy are increasingly seeing their “side hustle” as a launchpad into longer-term entrepreneurship, according to the largest annual survey of UK entrepreneurs.   Although often portrayed...

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120 Days to Failure

Entrepreneurs / 17th July 2019

A survey of 1,253 owners of failed startups in the UK, carried out by leading digital marketing agency, Marketingsignals.com, revealed the top ten reasons why e-commerce start-up businesses are failing....

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YourParkingSpace is First to be Crowned BTA’s Entrepreneurs in Business Travel Award Winner

Entrepreneurs / 9th July 2019

The Business Travel Association (BTA, formerly GTMC) has announced the winner of the 2019 award for innovation at its Overseas Conference in The Netherlands. This year’s winner of the BTA...

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Government of Canada Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment

Entrepreneurs / 4th July 2019

The Government of Canada is advancing women’s economic empowerment with the first ever Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, a $2-billion investment that seeks to double the number of women-owned businesses by 2025. The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister...