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Posts from ‘August, 2010’

Do you have the stamina to keep your business alive? – by Jo Haigh

“Hard work never killed anyone” … So goes the saying, but you would think it might do if you looked around you sometimes. Stamina and energy are great dividers amongst those that have it in abundance and those that don’t. My first boss once told me it was the ability to keep going when all […]

Sharing the Secrets of Your Entrepreneurial Success – by Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Somewhere between the first £100,000 and the first £1 million of revenues, an entrepreneur allows himself or herself to exhale, tentatively tasting the success that started with a single idea.  It doesn’t matter how long he or she has been in business; at some point a thought appears in the mind of the entrepreneur: “I […]

Entrepreneurship and the 3rd Sector – by Charles McLachlan

As my career developed in entrepreneurial commercial organisations, both large and small, I believed I also had something to offer the 3rd sector.  Certainly, it was easy to get invited to join trustees, act as a treasurer or get more involved in operational activity.  Here was a place that I felt confident I could contribute.  […]