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Entrepreneur profiles
Entrepreneur profiles
From famous entrepreneurs to young entrepreneurs, Growing Business profiles the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs, female and male. We’ve spoken to fast-growing businesses across the country to bring you successful entrepreneur stories to inspire and inform. We look forward at the companies to watch in our ‘Ones to watch’ section, and look back at the early days of the UK’s biggest businesses in ‘Something got me started’. Young successful entrepreneurs are profiled in ‘Young Guns’, our annual list of the UK’s most exciting entrepreneurs under 35, and in ‘FGBA profiles’ you can read about which business entrepreneurs have won our prestigious Fast Growth Business Awards.
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Accommodation for Students, Vincent Bond, and P6.com: William Berry
Serial entrepreneur, Young Gun, and new Growing Business columnist William Berry on running businesses in three locations at once
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One to watch: Base79
How Ashley MacKenzie has carved a niche in the media - with help from his famous father
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NationalField: Ed Saatchi
The son of one of Britain's most famous businessmen tells us how he's making a name for himself - with help from Barack Obama
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Marc Worth
After WGSN co-founder Marc Worth sold the business for £142m, he tried his hand at retirement, angel investing and sunbathing – but found th...
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Q&A: Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite
Sir Richard Branson’s right-hand woman on the opportunities of the recession
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Mobile Interactive Group: Barry Houlihan
The story behind Mobile Interactive Group’s Barry Houlihan and his rise prior to the company sale to Velti Plc
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Adam Landau explains how the business he co-founded tapped an unmatched gap in the commercial property market
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F1 racing great Sir Jackie Stewart shares his thoughts on risk, honesty and over-delivering in life and business
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