10,000 Champions: April 5-9
Your first weekly Real Business report about innovative private UK companies on the growth path.
Your first weekly Real Business report about innovative private UK companies on the growth path.
Do not over-complicate business. It is very simple. It comes down to one thing.
The will-he-won't-he build-up to calling the general election defies all good sense and commercial logic. Let's put an end to the farce.
The rather surprising conclusion drawn from a conversation with one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs is... do not sell.
The Budget for entrepreneurs. As usual, the chancellor (and everyone else) missed the point.
My morning with one of the world's top 50 most influential businesswomen left me stimulated, scared, inspired...
A small aside from Lord Sugar this week at the British Library hinted at a contender for Britain's future enterprise champion.
I've discovered the biggest General Election issue that won't get discussed. It's costing us somewhere between £60bn and £140bn.
I've been sent some tasty "confidential" information about reinventing public services. My corrrespondent tells me that £100bn could be saved, at a stroke, from public spending by the application of sensible business principles.
You can't just tell businesses to feel confident.
I was recently invited to interview trade minister Lord Davies at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Arriving on a chilly
Wednesday morning, BIS/BERR/DTI was uncharacteristically buzzing. Lord Mandelson moved from reporters over to John Studzinski, the mega-investor who was hovering in the lobby, minder at his side.