Anyone Can Do It tells the story of the high street coffee chain Coffee Republic. The book is written jointly, by the brother and sister team Sahar and Bobby Hashemi, and describes the journey of turning Coffee Republic from an idea into a high street brand. The book is aimed at budding entrepreneurs and those [...]

Last week was my teen business week during which, in response to a number of emails asking for some business ideas and opportunities and that are suitable for aspiring young (teen) entrepreneurs, I’ve been posting business ideas suitable for teenage entrepreneurs. The ideas were:

Making Jewellery
MP3 Guru
Car Washing
Start A Blog
Teen Tutors
Mob Advertising
Become A Textbook Trader

There are [...]

Computing is reporting that Venture Capital (VC) funding for early-stage business technology development is down by just under £100 million. It’s apparently due to the lack of financially viable investment opportunities.
They spoke to Library House (their CEO is Doug Richard off Dragon’s Den), who said that the UK has innovative ideas, but money to take [...]

Handmade jewellery seems to be quite popular these days because it’s a relatively cheap way of buying unique, very individual jewellery. It’s a great business for a teen/student as you can make as little or as much as you like without interrupting your studies.
It can be sold just about everywhere too, online (ebay is a [...]

Here’s a great example of someone spotting a topical niche, which I picked up on from 10 Yetis site. A lady has taken advantage of the media interest around Prince Harry going (or not) to Iraq and setup a website selling t-shirts with “I’m Harry” and a target on them:

Kudos for donating 25% of total [...]

This is a cool idea I saw over on Brain Lash’s blog:

When we are on-board of a commercial jet, sometimes the pilot would announce through the PA system, ‘Folks, here is a nice view of the Hoover Dam on the left side of the plane.’ But that view is only for those on the left [...]

Marketing can often seem like spending your money on nothing, and if you don’t get it right it often is. So what truly amazes me is the number of companies that seem to rapidly lose interest in the hot leads their marketing does generate (just watch Badger Or Bust to see this in action). For [...]

Every time I visit London I wish I’d invented the iPod, they’re everywhere. It’s also easy to get the impression that anyone who doesn’t have an iPod has some other form of MP3 player - especially if you spend some time on the tube.
The big drawback with any MP3 player is the time it takes [...]

This weeks episode of Badger or Bust saw Ruth Badger working with Greentrees, a company selling motor homes and caravans. With over one million pounds of stock apparently sitting on the forecourt the business had a rather hefty £3000 of interest per week to cover which in real terms means that NOT selling actually costs [...]

There’s roughly one car for every three people in the UK, that’s over 20 million cars and many of us pay between £3 and £5 a week to have them cleaned, or we spend a precious hour of our weekend doing it ourselves.
It’s an easy business to start, all you need is a bucket, sponge [...]