Holly Tucker is CEO of UK-based online retail marketplace notonthehighstreet.com, which provides a unique platform that enables small businesses to thrive in a retail climate otherwise dominated by high street and online giants. Founded by Holly and business partner Sophie Cornish, notonthehighstreet.com overnight changed the future working practices of many of Britain’s most creative small businesses. Today the [...]

There are a number of different things that motivate people to become an entrepreneur. Sometimes it is a flash of light, sometimes its necessity. What about you? Vote in our poll and leave your comments below (especially if you’d be happy to be quoted in a future article on the subject).

As pop culture has so lovingly taught us, when you’re in a fix, you can always rely on your right-hand man to save the day. In your personal life, this might be your best friend, sibling, or ageing parent, but how do you go about finding the Robin to your Batman in the business world? [...]

We’ve all seen contestants on Dragons’ Den stride in, confident in their business idea, only to leave two minutes later after a dressing down from Peter Jones, or with a flea in their ear from Duncan Bannatyne. “I’m sorry, but I’m out.” Often, the Dragons’ are right and the pitches or products haven’t been thought [...]

Described by The Times in 2004 as having ‘lobbed a hand grenade into the cosy world of the high street optician’, Jamie Murray Wells is the founder and Executive Chairman of Glasses Direct, a company which he started at University. Glasses Direct turned over a million pounds in revenue within a year, having overcome some [...]

Lloyds TSB are setting out to find the very best entrepreneurial talent emerging from universities across England, Scotland and Wales. Up to £50,000 to be won, alongside two years of mentoring and ongoing business support, the Awards present a great opportunity to showcase your business talents and to be recognised for your entrepreneurial skills. Please [...]

YASA Motors and KwickScreen are both celebrating after bwing awarded Overall Best Enterprise and Overall Best Start up in the Enterprise Awards Grand Final. YASA Motors – Overall Best Enterprise 2012 Oxfordshire-based YASA Motors Ltd is celebrating today after being crowned overall winner of the Best Enterprise award at the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards final [...]

Two Scottish businesses are set to represent the country at the grand final of the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards in March, after winning the heat in Edinburgh yesterday. Little Riot, an Edinburgh-based developer of a product called Pillow Talk, which networks couples who are in long distance relationships, was the winner in the Best Start-Up [...]

Media Savvy Training Solutions and Yatterbox are set to represent Yorkshire and North East at the final of the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards in March, after winning their heat in Leeds yesterday. Media Savvy Training Solutions CIC, a Sunderland-based provider of accredited workshops giving young people in marginalised, hard to reach groups a recognised qualification [...]

North West businesses – Stagetex and Charbrew – are set to represent the region at the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards in March, after winning the regional heat in Manchester yesterday. Stagetex, a Liverpool-based audio-visual and staging company providing lighting, sound, staging and visuals for events, was the winner in the Best Start-Up category, which recognises [...]