Entrepreneurs

How an entrepreneur changed his business model to ensure success

James Caan – CEO of global private equity investors Hamilton Bradshaw – threw his support behind Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s plans for more companies to reward staff with equity today.

Commenting on the prospects for the UK economy in 2012, John Longworth, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said:

The online commercial model is radically different to the offline one, when users venture online in search of goods or services they generally have a very specific idea of exactly what they’re looking for.

Having a rival business open up targeting the same market is you is an experience that every business owner dreads and yet nearly all have to deal with at least once.

Recruitment expert and Managing Director of CV-Library, Lee Biggins, shares his advice for new businesses using social media.

Business is all about growth. If you don’t believe me, read any of the great economists, from Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter or Milton Friedman.

Patrick Gruhn is one of the founders of ‘The Elevator’, a top private equity and Philanthropy magazine and author of ‘Power Play, How to plan, fund and grow your 21st Century business. Earlier this year he founded FirstPEX (www.firstpex.com), Europe’s first online platform for trading shares in private companies and what he hopes will grow to be our version of America’s Second Market. Below he explains why Europe needs one