Up-skilling our workforce

By admin2 09/07/08 12:00

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New force of the 21st century

Individual capitalism is the force that will shape the 21st century.

This bold and, given the current global economic pessimism, rather sanguine statement came from the lips of Julie Meyer, serial entrepreneur and tech investor, at this week’s Entrepreneur Country event in London.

Julie’s investment and advisory firm Ariadne Capital has a history of backing highly successful and promising tech and i...

By admin2 18/06/08 16:58

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Feels like it's fading

By admin2 22/05/08 10:37

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Release those money-making balls

By admin2 14/05/08 11:43

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The entrepreneurial phoenix

By admin2 08/05/08 10:47

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Whittling down the Startups 100

Over the last six months we’ve been obsessing slightly more than normal about who’s running the hottest new start-ups. To be honest, we’re partial to a bit of entrepreneur stalking at the best of times, but putting together the Startups 100 list gave us the ultimate excuse.

In short, if you started a really cool business after 2005, we hunted you down and pumped you for information. If we took a sp...

By admin2 23/04/08 16:50

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Anything you can do, I can do better

Another week, and more news about social networking behemoth Facebook, which, it turns out, may be very close to a settlement with the unfortunately-named Winklevoss brothers, the founders of rival site ConnectU, who claim Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea during the group's Harvard days.

The brothers claim Zuckerberg stole the code while he was employed by them to create da...

By admin2 10/04/08 08:53

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Wasting the best years of your life?

A fifth of all employees are wasting years of their lives in the wrong jobs. That was the finding of a recent poll by the Skills Commission.

The research suggested 20% of people are currently in a job they feel underutilises their skills, and 41% have spent a proportion of their working lives wasting their talents in an unappreciated role.

It may seem like a gloomy climate, but all this job dissati...

By admin2 03/04/08 09:51

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Resurrect your idea

There were a record number of start-ups last year according to Barclays. With the travel chaos predicted this Easter weekends, perhaps there’s cause for a few more.

How about foregoing that trip up the M1 to visit relatives you don’t really like anyway in favour of actually getting started on that business plan you’ve been mapping out in your head for the last 18 months?

Four whole days out of the ...

By admin2 20/03/08 10:38

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Feeling homesick?

By admin2 13/03/08 15:35

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