Role models for success

Inspiring female entrepreneurs

There are so many inspiring women in business who are balancing their home, family and work lives and who are a shining light to other aspiring people. Last week I went to the We Mean Business [...]

Inspiring Startup: Karen Peters, Iceblading

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending the North London Chamber of Commerce Women’s Business lunch. They featured three women, all inspirational in their own way (watch out next week for an Inspiring entreprenur article [...]

Natalie Ellis – inventor of Road Refresher

There is one item that President Obama doesn’t leave home without when taking his dog, Bo, on a trip. That item is the Road Refresher, which was famously rejected by the panel on Dragon’s Den in [...]

Extraordinary Entrepreneur: Karen Hanton – founder of Toptable

Toptable.com is the brain child of Karen Hanton, a truly daring entrepreneur with a passion for British cuisine. Toptable is an online restaurant booking site which she created in 2000, and it is now the UK’s [...]

Saira Khan – Miamoo: Extraordinary Entrepreneur

Many will remember Saira Khan as the runner up on the first ever series of The Apprentice in 2005. She made quite an impression on the British public as the fiercely ambitious, free-spirited Muslim woman who [...]

Polly Gowers – Founder of Everyclick.com: Extraordinary Entrepreneur

Polly Gowers is on a quest of epic proportions. She wants to encourage people to rethink their traditional methods of using the internet, such as using Google as a search engine, and switch to everyclick.com so [...]

In focus: Julie Meyer… Extraordinary Entrepreneur

Now, how do we describe Julie Meyer? Women are renowned for wearing many hats, but Julie takes this to a whole new level! Julie has founded or is involved in a whole slew of high profile [...]

Karen Darby – Extraordinary Entrepreneur

“My friends think I’m lazy, but I just work efficiently!” laughs Karen Darby, the gregarious, fun-loving founder of SimplySwitch. Karen is one of those inspirational entrepreneurs who accidentally stumbled across her chosen career and has been [...]

Jane Rafter: From designer to big business

When accessories designer Jane Rafter stepped up with her ingenious Slinks sandals to face the Dragons on the BBC’s hit show this summer, it wasn’t just a pretty idea she was pitching. Like most of the [...]

Stephanie Manuel on Stagecoach: the franchise that really pays off

Last week, we had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Manuel about the evolution of her fantastically successful franchise, Stagecoach Theatre and Arts, at the school’s headquarters in Walton-on-Thames. [...]

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