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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: David Barker - 4D Data Centres ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[David Barker is Technical Director of 4D Data Centres Ltd, a Tier 3 colocation company with data centres across the UK. David, who started the company when he was 14, talks to inspiresme about the challenges of being a young entrepreneur, and the path he’s taken to build a sustainable firm.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Tamsin Fox-Davies - Constant Contact UK]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Tamsin Fox-Davies is the Senior Development Manager at Constant Contact UK. Her time is spent across the UK delivering free marketing education to SMEs. We caught up with her to pick her brains about small business marketing, and how firms should be working towards success.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:07:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Sean Obedih - The Founders' Hive]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sean Obedih is an award-winning entrepreneur and founder of Ynotplast (now Urban Armour) a multi-ethnic brand of skin plasters designed to match skin tone. More recently, Obedih founded The Founders' Hive, an organisation that brings directors, entrepreneurs and investors together with the aim of accelerating the growth of start-up businesses. Obedih talks to inspiresme about helping budding entrepreneurs to locate co-founding partners and transforming their ideas into viable businesses. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Clippy McKenna - Clippy’s ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Clippy McKenna is the 38 year old founder of Clippy’s, one of the UK’s fastest growing food brands. Clippy's currently supplies over 1,400 UK supermarkets including Tesco, Morrison’s, Asda, E.H.Booths, John Lewis, Harvey Nichols, Fortnum & Mason and Ocado. The company offers a range of British apple based jellies, conserves, chutneys and relishes. In 2012, it also launched MarmachilliTM, a selection of chilli marmalades. The business is expected to achieve a turnover of £1.2 million in 2013.

McKenna talks to inspiresme about launching the business and breathing new life into the jam and chutney sector.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Matthew Lawn - Football Squirts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Matthew Lawn was motivated to start Football Squirts following time spent in the USA coaching football to children. Upon returning to the UK, he researched the market and found that while numerous companies offered coaching to older children, there was a niche in the under-six age category. Lawn set up Football Squirts in 2008 and talks to inspiresme about his entrepreneurial journey so far.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:44:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/one-minute-interview--matthew-lawn---footballsquir/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Dave Chaplin - ContractorCalculator.co.uk]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Dave Chaplin is the CEO of ContractorCalculator.co.uk. He has lived and breathed contracting since becoming a professional contractor in 1997 and spent seven years working as an IT contractor in the City of London on critical, cutting edge IT infrastructure and development projects. Chaplin launched online advice and support resource for contractors and freelancers, ContractorCalculator.co.uk in 2004 and talks to inspiresme about his experiences.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:16:02 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Jeremy Jaffé - What on Earth]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Jaffé, co-founder and director of What on Earth, talks to inspiresme.co.uk about how he set up the company, which produces, supplies and distributes a wide range of organic food to businesses.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Dr Rebecca Harding - Delta Economics]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Dr Rebecca Harding is founder, CEO and driving force behind Delta Economics, a  market intelligence and research led economics consultancy, founded on the principle that economic research should make a commercial difference to business. 

Dr Harding has been an adviser to several governments, written almost 200 articles on Economic issues, and held senior posts in leading academic, think-tank and corporate organisations, including London Business School, Deloitte, the Work Foundation and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.  ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 10:15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Scott Allison - Teamly]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Scott Allison is the founder and CEO of Teamly, as well as the former co-founder and CEO of award-winning B2B telecoms virtual network operator, abica. It was during his time at the head of this company, Allison began experimenting with different ways of managing people which later inspired him to create Teamly. He is also a founding member of TechHub in London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a contributor at Forbes.com. Until recently, he was also a board director of The Entrepreneurial Exchange and curator of the London Startup Digest.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:51:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/one-minute-interview--scott-allison---teamly-com/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Archie Archer - Contraband International Ltd]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Contraband International Ltd started life when Archie Archer sold all her worldly possessions on a market stall in 1995 and flew to India with an empty rucksack and a £1,000 to set up a company. From a Prince's Trust loan to Shell Livewire Regional Finalist 1997 and NatWest Everywoman Athena Winner in 2011, Archer has grown the business from a market stall to manufacturer, importer / exporter and online mail order company to its current status as a global entertainment agency.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:40:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Fiona Wood - Naturally Cool Kids]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Multi-award winning, Naturally Cool Kids is the brainchild of mother of two, Fiona Wood. The company founded by Woods manufacturers and retails natural skin care and protection products for children.

After being voted the winner of Barclays Take One Small Step New Business Idea Competition the company has been able to operate on a much larger scale and it products currently retail in a number of well-known high street stores including John Lewis.
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:49:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[One minute interview: Keith Chaplin-Mabbutt - CVSeeMe.com]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Before CVSeeMe.com, Keith Chaplin-Mabbutt fronted one of the UK’s leading online graduate recruitment consultancies, selling the business in October 2009 to a multi-million pound turnover group.

In January 2010, he successfully raised a six-figure angel investment and assembled a multi-million pound shareholder syndicate to officially launch his third business, CVSeeMe.com.  
CVSeeMe.com was the first UK job site to utilise the concept of ‘video profiling’ in the online recruitment process.

Chaplin-Mabbutt is a panel expert for the Guardian and is also a partner and investor in a new training and development company that specifically helps entrepreneurs secure business funding.
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Helen Jacobi - The Inspired PA Limited]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Helen Jacobi is Director of The Inspired PA and winner of National Outstanding VA of 2012 in the over two and a half years in business category. She was an Executive Assistant for 20 years working alongside boards of directors in large corporations and with successful entrepreneurs. Being passionate about enabling businesses to succeed, in 2009 she took the plunge and started The Inspired PA, a virtual PA and business management enterprise which supports business owners and entrepreneurs globally. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:46:33 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Erez Nounou - Bizoogo.com]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Erez Nounou is the founder and CEO of Bizoogo, the UK’s first crowdsourcing platform for startups, designed to connect aspiring entrepreneurs with the ideas or the professional expertise they need to start new businesses. He previously trained and qualified as a solicitor at Norton Rose LLP with experience in international, corporate and banking law.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:50:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Sean Farrell - Chateau Rouge]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sean Farrell is the founder of luxury tea company Chateau Rouge. The company, which is named after a Parisian chateau, aims to scour the world for special producers in order to develop a unique line of blends.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:51:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: John Sollars - Stinkyink.com]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[John Sollars is celebrating 10 years of selling online in April 2012. His company, Stinkyink.com. The company has gone from being victim of an online fraud that lost it £32,000 to being a business turns over £3m and employs 14 staff. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Jack Tang - thestudentjob.com]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Jack Tang is a business student currently studying at Kings College, University of London as well as the director and founder of thestudentjob.com, a London-based start-up that helps young people aged 16-24 find casual work in their local area.

Tang was an entrepreneur from a young age, starting his first business at the age of 12, selling customer designed computers. He went onto found web design company, Interwebs which he now runs alongside thestudentjob.com.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Constantin Bjerke - Crane.tv]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Media Entrepreneur Constantin Bjerke is the Founder and CEO of Crane.tv a story-telling
company, which in 2011 was named a "top ten European start-up to watch in 2011" by the Wall Street Journal.

Constantin has over a decade of experience working in television and film production including branded content development with clients such as the FIFA World Cup, Mercedes Benz, Laureus World Sports Awards and Orascom.
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:26:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Geoff Sewell - Incognito Artists]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Geoff Sewell is a qualified chartered accountant, trained professional tenor, entrepreneur, multi-platinum selling recording artist and the global CEO of entertainment company Incognito Artists.

Sewell founded Incognito Artists, an innovative entertainment concept that centres around highly creative ‘surprise’ performances, just over ten years ago. He has also recently founded his own record label, Sewell Music.
 
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Jonathan Hey - Westbury Garden Rooms]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Hey is Managing Director of Westbury Garden Rooms, an established company that designs and creates bespoke garden rooms for consumers and businesses. In this interview Jonathan tells us about his company and gives us the low down on how established firms can remain innovative and become more sustainable.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:42:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Amanda Fyfe - Senior Moves]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Amanda Fyfe, director of Senior Moves was running a busy successful business, juggling work, family, dogs and friends when her parents decided the time had come to move from the family home to be nearer their family. Several months of driving up and down the M5 every weekend to help organise the move, convinced Amanda and her family that there had to be a better way.

During a business trip to the USA, Amanda met a Senior Move Manager and learned about the business. Several trips and some wonderful on the job experience later Amanda was in a position to bring this wonderful service to the UK.
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:19:49 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Adam Soliman - Charbrew]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Building a fledgling tea business from his parents’ house was a far cry from 21 year old Adam Soliman’s dream of the City trading floor. But, just two years after graduating in the thick of the worst recession in a generation, the young entrepreneur now heads one of the UK’s fastest-growing speciality tea brands worth over £1 million. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:37:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Arnold du Toit - Drive Daddy Ltd]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Arnold du Toit transformed his passion for golf into a business, founding Drive Daddy with the help of the ‘Enterprise Associate Scheme’ offered exclusively at London South Bank University.

Arnold started the company when he was just 21 years old during his final year of studies at the university.

In November, 2011 he was named as the winner of PC World Business’s competition to find Britain’s best young entrepreneur, winning the Generation Y Not? Competition.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:13:29 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a-arnold-du-toit-–-drive-daddy-ltd/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Gary Martin - Table Art]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Gary Martin has extensive professional experience within the events industry, beginning work as a DJ in 1981. Eight years later, Gary set up his own company, Zap, which provided DJs for events across the UK.

After establishing himself as a successful supplier of DJs to the corporate events market, Gary then began to build props and themed items to be hired-out alongside DJs. His skill at developing unique table centre designs prompted him to found Table Art in 2007 and launch the business in 2011. 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:29:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Wendy Powell - MuTu®]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Wendy Powell qualified with a personal training Diploma in 2001, having spent the previous ten years working in media and advertising. She is founder of the unique MuTu® System, born from a passion for pre and postpartum health and truly effective exercise for all mums.

Wendy has two young children and really understands the realities of pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal recovery. She is living proof that a 40 year old mother of two can eat healthily and heartily, be fit and energetic, have a very flat tummy and a toned figure.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--wendy-powell---mutu®/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Ed Molyneux - FreeAgent]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Ed Molyneux is the CEO and co-founder of FreeAgent which he formed in 2007 with Olly Headey and Roan Lavery.  FreeAgent is an online accounting system specifically designed for freelancers and small business users. Before setting up FreeAgent Ed had been an IT consultant and until 2002, an RAF pilot.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:44:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--ed-molyneux---freeagent/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Chris Orrell - HotelStayUK]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Chris founded HotelStayUK in 2003 at the age of 23.  The idea behind it was both simple and groundbreaking for its time.  By operating as a closed online member club, Chris was able to negotiate great discounts on hotel rooms and offer them as a staff perk to employees of large companies.

He has since gone on to launch a number of products under the HotelStayUK umbrella, including  AfternoonTeaforTwo.co.uk, HotelHippo.com and HotelDailyDeals.co.uk, and launched the company’s flagship consumer brand, HotelVoucherShop, in 2007.  HotelVoucherShop vouchers and gift cards are now sold both online and by leading retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco and WH Smith.
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:27:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--chris-orrell---hotelstayuk/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Andrea McDowell - Shoot it Yourself]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Andrea McDowell, is the founder and managing director of Shoot it Yourself (SIY). Andrea set up Shoot It Yourself in 2009, having worked in television for a variety of independent production companies as a Director.
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  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--andrea-mcdowell-and-rebecca-baldwin---shoot-i/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Vashi Nanwani Dominguez - Diamond Manufacturers Ltd]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Vashi started his first company aged just 20 in his home country of Tenerife, Spain.  His love for his English childhood sweetheart led him to England, and his love of diamonds led him to set up Diamond Manufacturers Ltd in 2007.  With no extensive former experience in the industry, Vashi had to teach himself, and to begin with was greeted with derision by the industry.  ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:48:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--vashi-nanwani-dominguez---diamond-manufacture/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Angela Kennedy - Baby Sensory ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Returning to work after a career break can be a difficult time for anyone.  In this interview we talk to Angela Kennedy who took a nine year career-break to start a family and who decided to run her own business on her return to work. Angela acquired a Baby Sensory franchise in 2009 and she now manages a team working in three separate territories. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Melissa Burton - Goody Good Stuff]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Originally from Syracuse, New York Melissa Burton is currently managing director at confectionary brand, Goody Good Stuff.  In September 2011 Melissa was featured as one of North West Business Insider’s 42 under 42 leading business figures. She was also named Best Entrepreneur in Europe, the Middle East and Africa at The Stevie® Awards in November 2011. Prior to her work with Goody Good Stuff, Melissa founded financial advisory firm Burton Mortgage Services, which she grew to triple digit figures in three years. Wishing to diversify further, she added business rescue, the management of a large scale property portfolio and commercial lending to her list of growing business expertise – all before she turned 30.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:50:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a-melissa-burton---goody-good-stuff/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Tim Bullock - New Wave Ventures]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Tim Bullock is a co-founder of New Wave Ventures LLP, a vehicle for the personal business investments of its founders. New Wave has no external investors or investment committee and addresses each investment opportunity with an open mind - aiming to achieve the most satisfactory structure for all parties. New Wave’s preference is to invest in high quality management teams with a strongly differentiated product and the potential to make a significant impact on markets with global scale.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.inspiresme.co.uk/interviews/q-a--tim-bullock---new-wave-ventures/?feed=channel]]></link>
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  <description><![CDATA[Ning was born in China, in the city of Foshan, which is the country’s major manufacturing base for furniture. It was the experience of setting up his own flat in Paris that inspired Ning and a business partner to use their connections to help source furniture directly from the factories in China. Aftern having business success with his first business Myfab.com, he met Brent Hoberman of MyDeco and lastminute.com. Together they decided to improve on the Myfab.com model by launching Made.com in the UK in April 2010. Ning Li tells us about his experiences of doing business in the furniture manufacturing industry.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Based on her personal experience of struggling to juggle life as a businesswoman, a mother, and keep up with the day to day running of the home, Kezia Luckett found her gap in the market. Mummy's Maid provides a variety of household services from looking after children to cleaning the home, but unlike other housekeeper businesses, they offer short-term contracts starting from as little as two hours. We caught up with Kezia to hear her experience of being a 'mumpreneur'.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Since participating in the first series of Junior Apprentice, Emma Walker has embarked on her own business venture called Enterprise Days -providing inspirational and educational one day business challenges  within schools. Emma talks to inspiresme.co.uk about life as a young entrepreneur and why children should be learning more about business.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Emma-Jayne Parkes and Viviane Jaeger are co-founders of SquidLondon, an innovate fashion company that produces a range of colour-changing umbrellas, shower curtains and rainwear. Squidarellas are currently available in 12 major cities worldwide including London, New York, Paris and Tokyo, and the company works with significant art shops including the Tate Museums, MoMA New York, the British Museum and Conran Shop. We caught up with Viviane and Emma to ask what it’s like working at the forefront of the fashion industry.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Dan Taylor is the founder of The Giving Card, a point of sale discount card linked to charitable giving. Here he talks to inspiresme.co.uk about his experiences of being a young entrepreneur and his tips for other innovators looking to follow in his footsteps.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[This article was written by Yoav Farbey, computer science graduate and analyst for Hailo Network, which matches passengers and licensed taxi drivers using mobile technologies. He is also founder of mobile marketing agency Fibixio. Fibixio uses a wide range of mobile marketing technologies, including SMS marketing and mobile applications, to generate profits for its clients.
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:35:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Alastair Shortland is Founder and CEO of Textlocal, who provide SMS and mobile marketing services to a wide range of businesses including Dominos Pizza and Manchester United Football Club. We caught up with Alastair to discuss his business, his industry and his entrepreneurial vision.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:18:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Raspinder Singh - Gradpreneur]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Recently graduated from Royal Holloway University of London with a degree in Management with Accounting and Finance, Raspinder Singh discovered that his passion lies in business, and ensuring others realise what their true capabilities are. With this in mind, he created Gradpreneur and hopes that many will find it useful and see entrepreneurship as a viable career path. He is passionate about technology and all things online. He is proud of his Sikh heritage and strong family unity, which have given him the support to do what he loves. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:09 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Adam Bradford, 19, is a National Ambassador for the Peter Jones Academy and is the Group Director for Adam Bradford Enterprise and Investments Group, of which his IT business solution company, UnITe Computing, is a principal comany. He has won multiple awards and prize money totalling £10,000 for his school and has 27 A*-C GCSEs. He is passionate about helping other young entrepreneurs be as successful as himself. We caught up with Adam to find out more about his entrepreneurial experience so far.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:57:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Blessing Maregere, 18, started his own contract cleaning company at the age of 16. Since then, he has founded Bright Futures Enterprise, a social enterprise aiming to inspire, educate and motivate young people to become successful. He has also co-written the business book Who Said You Can't be Young and Successful. In this Q&A, Blessing gives us an idea as to what it's like to be a young entrepreneur.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:19:11 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Camilla Shaughnessy, 49, is the founder and director of luxury accommodation website EventfulStays.com, which lists its private properties, all available for short breaks or weekend stays, by events taking place across the UK. Her background is in consultancy, and until recently she was the managing director of Malachi Consulting Limited, which she founded in 1994. In August 2010 she left the running of Malachi in the capable hands of her husband John and turned her back on the corporate world for good to devote her time and energy to creating Eventful Stays. We catch up with Camilla to talk about EventfulStays.com and life as an entrepreneur.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[London-based property maintenance service Swiftflow was founded in 2002 by entrepreneurs and long-standing friends Rob Wicker (Operations Director) and Graham Williams (Technical Director). Swiftflow’s team of engineers service residential, commercial and industrial properties. The company works in a number of areas including carpentry, plumbing, locksmith and drainage services.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Paul Blanchard is the founder of Right Angles, an innovative PR consultancy that aims to do things differently. The company boasts an impressive roster, including Compassion in World Farming, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aviva and the ACCA. inspiresme.co.uk caught up with Paul about his company, the public relations industry, and how small companies can make the most of PR and get their name out there as efficiently as possible.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:52:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Ben Rosen is the founder and CEO of Inspiring Interns, a company set up in 2009 to help the job market connect the huge number of graduates looking for opportunities with employers looking for skilled workers. He is a former head-hunter in the mobile space and has set up and managed other companies before Inspiring Interns.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:22:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Danny Jatania is CEO and Chairman of Pockit, an online savings website which allows its members to participate in exclusive offers and discounts in areas such as insurance and utilities. He is also a Director of Lornamead, a leading, privately-owned family company that markets personal care brands globally. We catch up with Danny to discuss his experiences at both Lornamead and Pockit.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:04:07 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Daniel Thomas - danz.co.uk]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Daniel Thomas, 23, launched hot tub site Danz.co.uk five years ago and has since managed to grow his business into the UK’s largest online hot tub retailer. Starting as a one man band in 2006 Daniel has grown the Nottingham-based firm to four employees and expects to turn over more than £1 million this year.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:38:02 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Anthony Day & Peter Grant are two of the founders of CloudApps, a sustainability software company that allows companies to make efficiency savings and meet sustainability targets by integrating sustainability goals throughout the organisation. CloudApps aims to connect efforts by staff to be more eco-friendly with sustainability targets from the management.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:48:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Olivier Nguyen Van Tan is Head of Product Marketing for salesforce.com in France. He is an experienced international professional, having held a number of senior positions in New York and Paris. He has several years’ experience with Pierre Audoin Consultants, rising from Consultant to Partner and Managing Director. Here he talks to inspiresme.co.uk about how SMEs can leverage cloud computing platforms.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:58:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[John Turner is a freelance business philosopher. Through his company metathink.co.uk, he works with a diverse range of organisations to help them develop coherent business philosophy using workshops and training. One of the areas John specialises in is networking, and how to extract the most value from networking environments using frameworks based around human nature.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:43:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Helen Holland is the founder and CEO of The Reptile Group, parent company of Chameleon PR and Komodo PR. Chameleon PR concentrates on B2B public relations campaigns, while Komodo focuses on the consumer side. Helen spent eight years working for other companies before setting up Chameleon in 1998. Komodo followed in 2009.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:13:09 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Dave Kelly is one of UK’s new breed of internet entrepreneurs. At 24, he runs an award winning Web Design & Development agency, Storm, in the beautiful city of Bath. Over the past two years, Storm has grown its client base to include some of the world's best known gaming and sporting names. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:46:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A: Mike Welch - Blackcircles.com]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Mike Welch is founder of Blackcircles.com, an innovative company that allows the public to buy tyres at competitive prices over the internet and on the telephone. Black Circles partners with hundreds of garages nationwide to provide a full purchase and fit service. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Simon Smith is founder and CEO of Extrinsica Global, a dedicated cloud services provider since 2006. The company offers bespoke cloud services to companies around the globe. Their clients include the Kawasaki World Superbike Race Team and the security team at the 2010 Fifa World Cup.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:29:51 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Fraser Doherty is the founder of SuperJam, a company that uses traditional recipes to create a range of 100% pure fruit jams, which are sweetened with grape juice and made using superfruits such as blueberries and cranberries. The company has won a number of awards, supplies major UK supermarkets and is now included in a museum exhibit as an example of an ‘Iconic Scottish Food Brand’.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 12:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Mike Walker is founder of CountyClean Environmental Services, a Sussex-based provider of waste cleanup and management with over 35 years combined experience in the industry. Mike launched the business in 2007.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Red Box Recorders provides robust software-based recording tools for organisations across the globe. Founder Iain Worthington talks to inspiresme.co.uk about the challenges of working in such as sensitive industry.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 10:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[GaBoom is an innovative online video game swapping site that allows gamers to barter directly with other gamers. Jessica Ratcliffe, founder of GaBoom, tells inspiresme.co.uk what it’s like running this fast-growing company.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Rajeeb Dey is the founder and CEO of Enternships.com and is heavily involved in encouraging entrepreneurship in the UK. Here he talks to inspiresme.co.uk about his own entrepreneurial journey and the lessons he's learnt along the way. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[From journalism to creating and selling designer jewellery is an unusual career change but one that entrepreneur Gillian Crawford had made successfully. She tells inspiresme.co.uk about how the Devil is in the detail when it comes to running your own business.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:44:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Alastair Crawford, CEO of digital directory service 192.com isn't one to let a small hurdle like a court challenge from BT or Royal Mail slow him down. Crawford took on the big boys and won. Here, he tells inspiresme.co.uk why determination is half the battle in becoming a successful entrepreneur.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[At only 21, there is no doubt that Andy Evans is a very young entrepreneur with big ambitions; however, his experiences and success are more than most people double his age can boast about. At just 13 years old, Evans was running his regular discos and, by the age of 14, he had begun his own web design business, which has subsequently grown from strength to strength ever since and is now an established and  flourishing digital design and development agency today.]]></description>
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