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- Sarah Taylor >

U Digger Media

"I was at university for seven years studying for an architecture degree. Only after I graduated..."

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- Paul Jobling >

SSR Europe

"In my former life I spent 25 years in the oil industry as a maintenance electrician, mostly working..."

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- Craig Fitzakerly >

Fitz Architects

"After I left school, I studied to be an architect. Qualifying in 1999, I worked at several large..."

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- Lynn Gate >

The Storage Company Limited

"Sometimes I feel like I’m a bit of a charlatan because I don’t know how I got here. It’s been a..."

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- Chris Quickfall >

Invate

"I spent seven years studying as an engineer and aimed to gain chartership, and also spent a year’s..."

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- Lisa Hart >

Acritas

"I went to school in the North East before going on to do a Maths degree in Manchester. My first..."

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- Sir-Peter Vardy >

The Vardy Group

"My father, Reg, started his business from very humble beginnings, selling fruit and vegetables from..."

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- Lorna Moran >

NRG plc

"When I started my first business I was very lucky to have “fallen” into recruitment, to have had..."

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- Phil Renton >

Croft Technology plc

"In the true sense of the word, I don’t think I’m an Entrepreneur. I was head down, working hard in..."

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- Kari Owers >

O Communications

"Even though I didn’t know it at the time, I think it was inevitable that I was going to set up my..."

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- Frances Chalmers >

Exclusive Footwear

"I always dreamed of running my own business but I would never have left my current job (my comfort..."

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- Derek Curtis >

Bond

"I left school at sixteen without a clue what I actually wanted to do. My brother worked in a bank..."

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- Ross Cooney >

Rozmic Wireless

"Success to me is not money, success is lifestyle. I believe that as a result of running my own..."

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- Oliver Plumpton >

Enabled Media Ltd

"As a consumer, I was frustrated at not being able to find an organisation that would provide me..."

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- Sharon Kell >

Tipping Point Ltd and Coco Moon Ltd

"Two years ago, I decided to have a career change… with no idea what I’d end up doing. I’d spent..."

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- Gary Thompson >

C2M UK Ltd

"I was working as a business development manager for a local University, and I worked through an..."

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- Satish Shewhorak >

moShine Animation Studio

"I started moShine, a motion graphics animation studio with three fellow directors straight after we..."

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- James Robson >

Exwold Technology Ltd.

"I’d always travelled about a bit when I was younger. But when I graduated from university with a..."

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- Laura Williams >

Zest Innovation

"Some people told us not to set up in business, that we were ‘stupid for taking the risk’ and that..."

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- John Hays >

Hays Travel Ltd

"I’d seen that my mum starting her own business had transformed our lives. I didn’t have an inside..."

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- Tony Trapp >

IHC Engineering Business

"I know some people have a clear vision to set up their own business from when they’re in school. I..."

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- Mark Ions >

Exclusive Human Resources Ltd.

"I’m always looking for the next challenge, and owning my own business was the real pinnacle for me...."

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- Steven Bell >

Newman Scott Ltd

"I was involved in my father’s retail business, Bell’s Stores from a very young age. At the time he..."

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- Joanna Feeley >

Trend Bible

"After ten years working in London and New York, I was desperate to move back to Newcastle and begin..."

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- Carl Buckley >

Urban River

"Before I started my business, I worked in accountancy, business finance and management consultancy…..."

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- Peter Nixon >

Recruitment Now

"I joined Nixon Hire, my family plant hire company from school at age 16. Having worked my way up..."

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- Louise Allcroft >

Complement Genomics Ltd.

"I started my company as a result of an incredibly frustrating meeting with my ex-employer. It..."

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- Jonathan Wells >

Guroo Ltd.

"One of the biggest problems with having a good job is that you’re frightened of leaving. It’s a..."

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- Stephen Scott >

AG&P

"I’d been working at Nissan as a Project Manager for nineteen years, when one of my best mates made..."

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- Alistair McLean >

Activities Abroad

"I never had a vision to be self employed, but that was before I realised I was in actual fact..."

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- Pete Hunt >

Fresh Element Ltd.

"When I left university four years ago I think the biggest commitment I had was a mobile phone..."

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- Sheila Stokes-White >

Strategic Solutions Ltd

"I was a bad fit in a bureaucracy and am something of a rebel so had to work very hard to get..."

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- Paul Bell >

Just Think Communications Ltd.

"My dad was and still is a very successful businessman. People at school used to say to me I never..."

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- David Shiel >

Explain Market Research Ltd

"I don’t think having my own business has always been on my agenda, but after a period of time there..."

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- Angela Brown >

Training in Childcare Ltd

"I always thought that business was something that other people did. I’ve never had tonnes of..."

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- Sadie Ayton >

Sadie the Bra Lady

"Everybody looked down on me to be honest when I was growing up; I was living with my dad and my..."

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- Carol Metcalfe >

Musa Fine Art Ltd

"Before I started my own business my circumstances weren’t that great. I came from a family of six..."

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- Keith Miller >

Miller UK Limited

"I never really questioned my ability to do things, I just got stuck in and had a go. In 1978 I..."

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- Nickie Gott >

She's Gott It Ltd.

"At school I’d always been told I wasn’t an achiever, and wouldn’t actually achieve anything much...."

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- Jamie Greenwood >

NJL Yorkline

"I used to work as a designer and estimator for a shop fitting company in Leeds, worked up to..."

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- John Elliott >

EBAC Ltd

"I believe that loads of people will go to their graves not realising they could be very good..."

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- Simon Pearson >

Pearsons

"I left school at the age of sixteen with the grand total of 3 O Levels and just went from one job..."

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