Entrepreneurs

Green Growth Awards announces winners

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I'm a business expert: my 5 tips for starting your own venture in 2025

Breast cancer survivor turns trauma into successful swimwear business

Louis Taylor, CEO British Business Bank

Inside decade of the British Business Bank - how 15,000 firms thrived

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The 7 expert secrets to starting a successful business in 2025

NatWest Group and Josh Littlejohn MBE, founder of Social Bite, launch The British Business Awards, supported by Sting, Sir Bob Geldof, Alan Jope CBE as chair, and 18 leaders from British industry

Why Sting, Geldof and £200bn of businesses are teaming up in Edinburgh

Lord Sugar will be back on our screens later this month.

Everything we know about series 19 of The Apprentice

Patrick Graham, Head of Scotland and Northern Ireland at Business Growth Fund

Exclusive Q&A - Why optimism is 'a challenge' but 2025 big for Scottish business

Elaine Galston from The Bettii Pod and Iain Gulland from Zero Waste Scotland

Why menstrual health innovation matters in chase for femtech sector

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes spoke at an Alba Partners roundtable event

Why Kate Forbes says entrepreneurs are 'lifeblood' of Scottish economy

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I'm an entrepreneur - these are my 7 secrets to launching a business

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

The attractive high street named Scotland's best for independent shops

Scotland’s expanded Venture Builder Incubator (VBI) 5.0 has launched, supporting 34 entrepreneurs – 12 more than last year – from UK universities to grow and develop their businesses and skills.

Cancer screening and robot exoskeletons get Scots' innovation backing

Paul Crawford, founder of Panther M*lk, pictured with Panther Shake.

Creamy Scottish Panther M*lk brand sets sights on European expansion

Trademark Helpline Introduces New Innovations

Ad Feature The Trademark Helpline unveils innovations to boost UK businesses

Asad Shamim - crowned Business Leader of the Year at the 2024 British Muslim Award

Business Leader of the Year Asad Shamim shares his strategy to success

Ad Feature Cardhu celebrates pioneering spirit with female entrepreneurs

One of the UK’s most exciting and recognised entrepreneurs, Tom Glanfield of TEGCap, from Bournemouth, Hampshire

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Mark Logan, former Scottish Chief Entrepreneur

Scotland's Chief Entrepreneur quits over 'right wing' attacks

Scotland's family-owned businesses play a vital role in the economy (Picture: Adobe)

Entrepreneurs need relief from Budget cuts

Ireland's economic growth was nearly ten times Scotland's between 2012 and 2022 (Picture: Paul Faith)

How to turn Scotland into an economic powerhouse – Sir Tom Hunter Sir Tom Hunter

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I'm a small business expert - how to protect yourself from crime

Sir Tom Hunter

Hunt for Scotland's next billion pound unicorn is on

Trade in Space is one of the firms to benefit from the funding

Firms including space coffee coordinators secure £200m investment

Exclusive Pandemic, Brexit and bright future - NatWest boss on Scottish business

A research study of 2,000 adults revealed Gen Z is the most entrepreneurial generation – with three quarters harbouring ambitions to be their own boss.

Gen Z are the most entrepreneurial generation, according to research

Jodie Mitchell and Laura McLachlan of Worldwide Cancer Research with hosts The Mac Twins

Worldwide Cancer Research shines at The Marketing Society Star Awards

More than 1 in 5 Brits want to become their own boss

Advocating the ambitious: The Apprentice & Dragons’ Den

Liv Conlon

The CEO who built a million pound business staging homes for sale

Young adults are gearing up to become their own boss by 30

Ad Feature How small changes can make a big shift for female entrepreneurs

Ana Stewart says there needs to be a more systematic approach to drive female entrepreneurship

Female entrepreneurs must be encouraged - Ana Stewart

Winners at the Stirling Business Excellence Awards

Business success celebrated in Stirling

Top tips for budding entrepreneurs

The top 10 business challenges CEOs face

Everything you need to know about Akshata Murthy - wife of Rishi Sunak

Can Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf and SNP Westminster Group Leader Stephen Flynn keep the party in power? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland gets the politicians it deserves

Foras is to showcase the Scottish start-ups in Lisbon later this year.

Entrepreneurs to showcase top Scottish start-ups at major European web summit

Gary Neville confirmed to join Dragons Den as guest on BBC One show

Gary Neville joins BBC show Dragons’ Den - confirmed

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 20: Steven Bartlett attends the "Wonder Woman 1984" Special Screening at Honourable Artillery Company on May 20, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Steven Bartlett invests into ‘erotic’ business in Dragons’ Den episode
Business partners Rebecca Joy and Natalie Dianna, who appeared in the latest episode of Dragons’ Den, showed off their handbag brand which included a x-rated me...

Who will be Lord Alan Sugar’s next business partner? Find out during Thursday’s episode of The Apprentice on BBC One - Credit: BBC

How to watch The Apprentice final and list of past winners of BBC show

Claudia Cavalluzzo, executive director of Converge

You don’t need to call yourself an ‘entrepreneur’ to be a succes - Claudia Caval...

Virgin StartUp says it has found that the first Friday in January is a peak time for new entrepreneurs to begin their start-up journey. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto.

Quarter of Scots thinking of launching own business in 2023

BBC The Apprentice 2023: Full line up, when series 17 starts and how to watch on TV

The Apprentice 2023: Meet the candidates and how to watch series 17

Sir Alan Sugar flanked by fellow Apprentice judges Baroness Brady and Tim Campbell

The Apprentice looking for contestants for series 18 - how to apply

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Susan Nightingale, UK Network Director, Scotland at the British Business Bank

Equity investment figures in Scotland are cause for some cautious optimism - Sus...

'We hope that this experience will help showcase Scotland's world-class start-up ecosystem on the international stage,' says Startup Grind Scotland. Picture: contributed.

Entrepreneurs given chance to visit Silicon Valley with Startup Grind Scotland

Debbie Wake says the accelerator has helped MyWay Digital Health better understand its commercial growth strategy. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Pioneering participants in AI-focused accelerator raise £6m-plus

Gabriel Investments director Gill MacAulay and chairman Lynne Ross. Picture: Martin Shields

New ownership and board directors for Glasgow business angel syndicate

The largest ever community buyout of land in southern Scotland has seen 5,200 acres of and six properties around Langholm handed over to locals in a deal worth £3.8 million. Photo: David Lintern

Tech talk: bright ideas sought to capture climate emissions though land use

The tours currently include Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns. Picture: contributed.

Edinburgh entrepreneur duo launch e-bike tour firm

Derek Gemmell is head of the Entrepreneurial Tax Team at Anderson Anderson & Brown

Derek Gemmell: New dawn for entrepreneurs’ relief after Budget

The suggestion that entrepreneurs tax relief could be scrapped in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget on 11 March 'gives cause for concern,' says Norman. Picture: Stefan Rousseau.

UK business community needs budget relief - comment

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries