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Challenging perceptions: Funny Women’s Charity Challenge

Challenging perceptions: Funny Women’s Charity Challenge

Funny Women launches 10th Anniversary Charity Challenge! Challenging Perceptions: Thursday 8th March 2012, International Women’s Day,Grange Hotel, St Paul’s, City of London Who says women aren’t funny? Funny Women, the leading female comedy brand in the [...]

Big Venture Challenge launched with £1.2m prize fund

Big Venture Challenge launched with £1.2m prize fund

On Monday the Big Venture Challenge was launched, a competition to find 25 of the nation’s most ambitious social entrepreneurs and give them the chance to fast-track their ventures to the next level.  The initiative, run [...]

It’s competition time…

It’s competition time…

We are coming into the spring, which means it’s competition time!  Here are a few of the competitions that you can enter as a small business owner.  Some have a financial reward for the winners, and [...]

Bitsy: New small business marketplace launched

Bitsy: New small business marketplace launched

Business support company launches “friendly” business website Bitsy Bitsy (http://bitsythis.com) is described as “the friendliest business to business marketplace on the web” – and it was started following conversations on the social network Twitter.  Launched by [...]

Authenticity the key for new entrepreneurs, expert claims

Authenticity the key for new entrepreneurs, expert claims

Entrepreneurs who are true to themselves at all times stand the greatest chance of success when starting a business, it has been claimed. Writing for the Democrat and Chronicle, Enid Arbelo said businesspeople should use all [...]

SME bosses urged to familiarise themselves with the law

SME bosses urged to familiarise themselves with the law

Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners should ensure they have some idea of how the law affects their activities as an entrepreneur, it has been claimed. Writing for Bytestart, Angel’s Den founder Bill Morrow noted that [...]

Women must not rely on partners’ pension

Women must not rely on partners’ pension

Female businessespeople and other women need to be encouraged to make their own pension provision, it has been claimed. Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that women are more likely to face [...]

Female start-up founders offered business growth tips

Female start-up founders offered business growth tips

Growing a business is an achievable ambition if female entrepreneurs remain focused on their end goals, it has been claimed. Writing for WomenEntrepreneur.com, industry commentator Maria Orozova said a number of basic steps come to mind [...]

Successful Businesswomen Scoop BusinessMums Awards

Successful Businesswomen Scoop BusinessMums Awards

At the BusinessMums Conference this week, Brighton based Yummy Lollies picked up the Best Growing Business BusinessMums Award and London’s Third Door was named Best Start Up. The Awards are an integral part of the BusinessMums [...]

Mothers can operate their own businesses

Mothers can operate their own businesses

Women do not need to choose between motherhood and a life in business, it has been claimed. Writing for Entrepreneur.com, Lisa Druxman, chief executive of fitness firm Stroller Strides, said women are capable of balancing their [...]