Real Business

The founder of Velocity on the real educational qualifications needed to be an entrepreneur.

I want to be a good employer but the law won't let me, says Richard Baister, the entrepreneur behind Velocity Drinks.

Thinking about the people I respect in the business world, they are a fair mix of people: some have been to university; some have not; and others still who went but didn’t finish, and therefore qualify for a weird group of their own.

In my last column for RB I made it abundantly clear how sceptical I was about the government encouraging people to look at being entrepreneurs as a career route.

It’s an age-old question, but it has new relevance right now. Just take a look at all the government initiatives clambering to encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career path.