Archive for the ‘campaign impact’ Category

Age of the entrepreneur?

April 15th, 2010 by hbourne

I’ve been working in the enterprise sector for 3 and a half years now, and I thought I’d reflect on changing attitudes to enterprise from the media during that time. To my mind entrepreneurs have really become mainstream. Yes there are still cultural barriers which stop people from being an entrepreneur but there are more role Read more…

New Year, New You…New Business?

January 6th, 2010 by Alex_Goldup

So, we’re back at work: it’s January, it’s cold, and Christmas has become a dim and distant memory.
The new year and return to work often serves as the occasion for some serious navel-gazing and introspection, which leads to the annual parade of resolutions, targets, and reinventions.
If you are one of the many pondering the year Read more…

Ebay bidding begins now for 24 Hour start up business

November 26th, 2009 by Benita

Inspired by Global Entrepreneurship Week a group of UK entrepreneurs have decided to sell the world’s first 24 Hour Start Up on ebay!

My very partial perspective on the best of GEW

November 23rd, 2009 by Alex_Goldup

So, that was Global Entrepreneurship Week, that was.
What a week. I attended a microscopic fraction of even the events that were held in UK: the people who attended even this tiny sample of events were drawn from all walks of life and each had their own highly distinctive story to tell. If the week taught me Read more…

Does Google predict the future?

September 24th, 2009 by jonathan

Google has an answer for everything. Its Google trends search allows you to see a graph of how many people have search for something over the past six years.  A search for ‘Make Your Mark’ shows quite familiar and daunting spikes in searches during mid-November.
Anyway, below is the graph of searches in the UK for Read more…

Who’s your inspiration?

August 17th, 2009 by jonathan

Nominations for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2010 have now opened.  Lord Mandelson suggests that ‘recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) are outstanding individuals who are inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and giving them the skills and attitudes they need to succeed’ and that ‘they hold the key to unlocking Britain’s entrepreneurial talents Read more…