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Isabelle Ohnemus, Founder of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU shares a few sustainable & useful ways of maintaining that important healthy work/life balance. Isabelle Ohnemus is the Founder and CEO of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU. Isabelle’s background in international finance gave her the solid foundation to turn her passion for fashion and desire to help change the...
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Even in this age of supposed enlightenment, a little authority and power, however minute, meaningless, or even imagined, can then go to people’s malfunctioning heads. Particularly in a still sadly female-deficient industry like tech, when these people are men, the result can be a hostile environment in which the women affected often feel they cannot say or do anything about it. Intelligent a...
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Your moment has come… it’s pitching time! Here’s two minutes worth of tips to help maximise your chances of success.   Nerves won’t help you now- They serve no purpose at all, and could actually ruin your chances success, so you must get them under control.  Many an entrepreneur has been reduced to a jittering wreck by a pitching opportunity that was foiled by...
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Alternative Sources of Income to Support Your Small Business Running a small business can be financially draining, especially during the first year of operation. It’s one of the pressures which prevents many people from pursuing their ambitions of self-employment- the bills keep on coming whether you are running your own business or not!   For many though, this needn’t prevent t...
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One of the great conveniences of being an entrepreneur in the 21st century is that much of the skill and knowledge needed to create and lead a successful business can be easily gained through the wonders of the internet!   In days gone by, you would need to spend a substantial amount of time attending costly business courses in order to develop your entrepreneurial toolkit.  But now, a...
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Bettina Pickering is the founder of Aronagh (www.aronagh.com), a leadership and behavioural change consultancy, that helps entrepreneurs create and adopt the mindset and behaviours they need for success. How well do you perform when you are surrounded by negative people? When the physical work environment has constant interruptions, too much clutter or does not reflect your business? When the ...
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Bettina Pickering is the founder of Aronagh.com, a behavioural change and leadership consultancy, that helps entrepreneurs create and adopt the mindset and behaviours, they need for success.  She shares her advice on how to deal with rejection when running a startup.  Being told ‘no, thanks’ or ‘not at this stage’ or ‘come back, when you have done x’...
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Could you be our next self-starter of the Week? The Startacus community is crammed full with amazing people doing amazing things and every week we pick one of them to be our Self Starter of the week. At the end of the year, one of these inspiring people will win our Self Starter of the year award, as well as a treasure trove of amazing startup / business related prizes. What is a self-star...
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Mariana Lucia Marquez is the co-founder of previously awarded Startacus Startup of the Week MetaSpeech.com a public speaking consultancy that helps entrepreneurs upgrade their non-verbal communication. With previous fab articles for Startacus including posture tips for pitching entrepreneurs and eye contact tips for pitching entrepreneurs Mariana now returns with the third post in h...
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A couple of months back we highlighted the fab news that MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival, Sheffield would be back for a 5th year. Now in its 5th year, MADE has educated and inspired tens of thousands of business owners and budding entrepreneurs. Their 2015 Conference will take place in Sheffield City Hall on 22 October from 9.00am to 6.00pm. So we are delighted to report that tickets are now on ...
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