Elevate - for business leaders
Friday, August 14, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
recruitment,
Christmas,
customers,
Retail Week,
promotions,
campaign

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Monday, August 10, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
investment,
research,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
content,
accounting rules,
TV production,
Creative,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
health,
VIE at home,
success,
Virgin,
fashion,
networks,
mentors,
Liz Warom,
beauty,
qualifications,
Felicity Hone,
mentoring,
London College of Fashion

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Friday, July 31, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
annual report,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
Companies Act,
Bob Geldof,
Rachel Johnson,
David Steel,
business development,
Toby Young,
Michael Lyons,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Friday, July 31, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
international,
strategy,
women in business,
VIE at home,
expansion,
direct sales,
franchise,
Germany,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Friday, July 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Technology sector
| Tags: my big decision,
Chris Anderson,
The Economist,
Fons Trompenaars,
author,
Long Tail,
Wired,
Free

Ever looked back and thought, ‘That was the moment that changed my life’? In Grant Thornton’s
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
business contract publishing,
Newton TV,
video-rich online magazine,
customer publishing,
dbda,
trade media,
Teachers TV,
diary,
Ten Alps,
multiplatform contract publishing,
TV production company,
Business Today,
online publishing,
Bob Geldof,
entrepreneurs ,
Kent TV ,
Link2,
Digital Britain ,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

It’s the halfway point in our
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home,
Virgin,
management buy-out,
Entrepreneur’s Diary,
Entrepreneur’s Diary Alex Connock

Inspired by
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Friday, July 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
Christmas,
direct sales,
flexible working,
PR,
part-time working,
Avon,
press,
DSA,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Donald Trump,
Michael Jackson,
Bob Geldof,
networking,
Roger Graef,
Live Aid,
Murder Mansion,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
tips,
Guy Kawasaki,
Alltop,
don’t’s
Interesting post from US venture capitalist and co-founder of
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Friday, July 10, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: innovation,
Twitter,
social media,
Facebook,
podcasts,
enterprise,
White Paper,
blogs,
YouTube,
wikis,
Enterprise2.0

The
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
competition,
dbda,
niche,
Dawn Boyfield,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
Bob Geldof,
Accountancy TV,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
For 12 weeks, two CEOs – one male, one female – will be writing a behind-the-scenes of business diary for us. VIE at home’s
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
Ros Simmons,
CEO,
diary,
Ten Alps,
VIE at home
How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Women in business
| Tags: recession,
entrepreneur,
Ros Simmons,
women in business,
VIE at home,
recruitment,
maternity leave,
management buy-out,
downturn,
consultants,
commission,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
Steering a business through a recession can’t be easy. So we asked our female CEO,
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