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17/01/2008
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LoveMyIdea.com and Enterprise Week
04/10/2007
LoveMyIdea.com is launching officially at Enterprise Week 2007.
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News from the LMI website
01/06/2007
Boost business and be on your way to your first million! ‘My First Million’ and ‘Working Wonders’ - New on ITV Local. Watch it, Do it, Film it, Show it!
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Hugging is the way forward in business
01/06/2007
Alan Sugar's business philosophy is based on hard work and honesty. Richard Branson said his was "screw it, let's do it".
Now a Brighton entrepreneur has come up with a new way to succeed in the marketplace - get hands on with your customers.
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Women's competition motto is to think big
01/06/2007
The search for the North-East's top businesswomen started yesterday. Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson launched the North-East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2007 at Sedgefield's Hardwick Hall.
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Bank of Scotland creates £25m entrepreneur fund
18/05/2007
Bank of Scotland has made a £5m, three-year funding package free of interest and arrangement fees available to a growing Scottish business in a new competition.
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Showcase your entrepreneurial talents
09/02/2007
Think you've got what it takes to repeat the success of the 2006 Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Fermanagh's very own Gareth Grey, from Tully Meadows Ice Cream? If so then why not enter the Shell LiveWIRE awards. The company have just launched a province wide search to find Northern Ireland's most inspirational young entrepreneurs of 2007.
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The art of running with a good idea
25/01/2007
It has always been a puzzle why so few UK website have become global success stories. After all it was a Brit - Tim Berners-Lee - who invented the web. But one site that is proving to be an exception is Saatchi's Your Gallery, which claims to have 3m hits a day, having doubled since it recently launched Stuart (as in Stu(dent) and art) for art students to display their work, chat to each other and attract buyers. It is now doing for the art world what MySpace does for music, only in a much more
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Tesco Towns -Giants kill off corner shops
24/01/2007
SUPERMARKETS came under more pressure yesterday, with an inquiry warning that the UK was in danger of turning into a nation of "Tesco towns".
The Competition Commission raised fears that firms such as Tesco were strangling local competition with price wars.
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Entrepreneurs and budding tycoons internet & property entrepreneur conference on tour!
24/01/2007
Roll up roll up, there are apparently only two ways you can make money in the UK as a 'budding entrepreneur'-the new fangled 'interweb thingy' and property. The fact that two internet 'domain-name reseller experts' are in attendance and some bloke who has built up a property 'portfolio' of £4 mil in the past 4 years should tell you all you need to know.
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Smell of success for £2 shop
08/01/2007
A sharp-eyed Black Country entrepreneur has bucked the dismal High Street spending trend after shoppers sniffed out a bargain at his ground-breaking store.
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Internet entrepreneur brings property to life
08/01/2007
Lawrence Jones, managing director of Manchester based UKFast first took charge of Property Find International's Internet presence 6 months ago.
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80% of good ideas ‘lost’
04/01/2007
Eight out of 10 ideas for a business or invention never see the light of day, according to new research carried out by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
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Sean Quinn named richest Irish resident
04/01/2007
RTE's 'Ireland's Richest List,' which was screened last week had the Co Fermanagh born entrepreneur at second place on the list with a persol fortune of €2.941 billion.
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The 5-Minute Interview: Peter Jones, Entrepreneur
04/01/2007
Peter Jones, 40, business entrepreneur, appears on BBC 2's 'Dragon's Den'. The programme, in which Jones and five other top executives grill the would-be entrepreneurs of tomorrow, is now in its fourth series and returns next year
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Poker league that set up to improve pub business is on a roll and becoming big deal
04/01/2007
AN ENTREPRENEUR who set up a poker league to boost the pub trade on quiet nights says interest in the competition has gone through the roof since he won a TV business reality series.
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Knighthood for Dyson entrepreneur
04/01/2007
James Dyson, the engineer who reinvented the vacuum cleaner, says his recipe for success is simple: he makes things that people want to buy.
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Young entrepreneur catches celebrity eye
20/12/2006
YOUNG entrepreneur Kate Walton expects her business to grow by 70 per cent over the next year after finding success in the designer handbag market.
The 25-year-old launched her HaveToLove store in Gosforth, Newcastle, in September, selling a selection of handmade bags, accessories and tailored garments.
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How Martin Penny Did It
19/12/2006
Who'd have thought styling irons would be such big business? I started Good Hair Day almost by accident six years ago and now our irons are famous in the UK. We've cracked Australia and the US. Sales this year will be £80m, with profits of £14m. But I never started off wanting to conquer the world of hairdressing. I just got lucky.
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The Million Dollar Kid
18/12/2006
Alex Tew is the 22-year-old who took the world wide web by storm last year with his Million Dollar Homepage. This simple idea, which saw Tew selling tiny slices of advertising space on a site that everyone suddenly wanted to visit, made him more than $1-million in less than four months. He is clever, modest, funny, rich and single. See? Loathsome.
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Sock Entrepreneur is on the right foot.
18/12/2006
Cinderellas with feet on the large side have found a fairy godmother in Tina Rickett.
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Enterprise Hub Showcase 2007 Announced
18/12/2006
The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) Enterprise Hub Network is to host its first ever company Showcase event at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, on Thursday 22nd February 2007.
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Memories turned into business venture
18/12/2006
ONE Kerry entrepreneur is doing his bit to make Christmas extra special this year for families across Ireland and the UK with the official launch of his new business Everyday Biographies. Evan Mangan, originally from Kerry, founded the company to record the memories and life stories of ordinary people. The stories are then bound on paperbacks to be treasured by families for generations to come.
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A cool new idea from British scientists: the magnetic fridge
18/12/2006
The solid-state fridge could halve your energy bills and help to save the environment. A new technology being developed by British scientists could put an even bigger one inside your refrigerator.
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A return to classic Young female entrepreneur
18/12/2006
High-flying PR consultant Helen Barklam has given up her career in London to fulfil what must be every girl’s dream…designing and selling handbags.
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Dark-matter particles could 'X-ray' the Sun
27/11/2006
An intriguing particle first glimpsed last year, which could be related to particles that make up the universe's dark matter, might help us see right through the sun.
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Enterprising Young Brits Awards
16/11/2006
By Charlotte Gill and Justin Harper, Daily Mail
15 November 2006
Today's young entrepreneurs are the most talented in history, Gordon Brown said yesterday. He was speaking at the third Daily Mail Enterprising Young Brits awards, where he presented trophies to eight of Britain's most promising businessmen and women.
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Idea Sharing Leads IBM to Invest $100M in New Areas
14/11/2006
IBM will invest US$100 million over the next two years in 10 potential new business opportunities after conducting a massive trawl for ideas among its staff, partners, customers and academic institutions.
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Space Woman
13/11/2006
Space woman
Ulster woman Nicky Kinnaird, the founder of Space NK, is the guest of honour at Invest Northern Ireland's Hall of Fame event being held on Wednesday to celebrate local entrepreneurship. Nicky (41) who lives in London and is single, is known as a 'one woman retail radar' who has revolutionised the beauty market since the launch of her first store in 1993. Here, she tells Judith Cole about growing up in Belfast and why she loves returning to her home city.
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ENTERPRISE WEEK'06 13-19TH November
13/11/2006
Enterprise Week is an annual UK-wide week of activities inspiring people in their teens and twenties to be enterprising - to turn ideas into something real.
www.enterpriseweek.org
There were over 2,000 events held in Enterprise Week 2005. Find out what events are taking place in Enterprise Week 2006. There’s sure to be some near you!
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Dragon's Den star's new idea
07/11/2006
FORMER Dragon's Den star Rachel Elnaugh is on the hunt for entrepreneurs to take on a new challenge.
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