Young opportunist turns serial entrepreneur. Here's how.
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Vikas Shah founded his first company, the Ultima Group, at 14. A gun-for-hire, he boosted his pocket money building websites for local companies.

How to survive a recession/downturn/slowdown
By Matthew Rock
Whatever the precise definitions, the climate for SMEs, entrepreneurs and small companies will get tougher. Here's our survival guide.

Supermarkets can't do organic food like Abel & Cole
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Two thirds of UK consumers deliberately choose organic. Abel & Cole is making a killing out of this passion for “pure”.

A green, eco-friendly business is brewing for Jonathan Adnams
By Kate Pritchard
A shrinking beer market and a downturn in consumer spending hasn’t stopped Jonathan Adnams, chairman of the eponymous Southwold-based brewery, from investing £10m in two new eco-buildings.

The most powerful woman in business
By Matthew Rock
She was the first to spot the move to healthy food. She calls PepsiCo the "world's smallest large company". And she may have her eye out for the food industry's next mega-deal. Meet the remarkable Indra Nooyi.

Surviving due diligence
By Catherine Woods
Complete Care managing director Barbara Scandrett sympathises with other entrepreneurs knee-deep in due diligence as they try to sell their business.

Will Gordon Brown do the business in China?
By Matthew Rock
UK businesses are exhorted to do more business in China. First, they must understand the cultural challenges.

The London Duck Tour’s guide to growing a business
By Kate Pritchard
Since taking over London Duck Tours, managing director John Bigos has doubled turnover and yanked the company back into the black. How? First off, he culled 50 per cent of the staff.

7 success tips for young entrepreneurs
By Kate Pritchard
Fresh out of university, he was made a director of his father’s family business. Now he’s running a £5m-turnover beauty products firm. Here, 30-year-old Simon Tate gives budding young entrepreneurs his seven top tips.

Green travel entrepreneur's big break
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
When Justin Francis set up responsibletravel.com in 2001, it was the first eco-travel company of its kind. It was also a dotcom in the wake of the crash. So just how did this fledgling company end up reinventing the tourism industry?