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- Sir Tom Hunter >

West Coast Capital

"My business education began when I was six years old. My dad had a grocer’s shop and although I..."

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- Roy Stanley >

Tanfield Group Plc

"My first ever business venture was when my dad won enough money playing cards to buy a television...."

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- Max Robinson >

Kromek

"The beginning of my educational career wasn’t all that great to be honest. I failed my 11+, which..."

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- Ann Oliver >

Corrective Tattooing

"As a single mum it’s been hard to maintain a business- like persona when I’ve got a son at home..."

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- Angus Thirlwell >

Hotel Chocolat

"Hotel Chocolat began after I dropped out of university. The brand has been running for five years..."

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- Harvey Goldsmith >

Ignition

"Having trained as a Pharmacy student, I got into music and entertainment purely by accident. This..."

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- Phil Cronin >

Tombola

"I’ve been involved in business at a senior level all my life but up until the last ten years it has..."

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- Edwina Grady >

Cakes 4 U

"I started cake decorating 27 years ago, when it was just a hobby. I carried on doing cakes for..."

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- Fiona Cruickshank >

The Specials Laboratory

"I was doing science A Levels when I picked up one of the Sunday newspapers and saw a table for..."

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- Kate Welch >

Acumen

"I moved to the North East when I was ten years old, and a lot of my growing up involved various..."

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- Alan Timothy >

i-snapshot

"I was a board director of a local builder’s merchant, a £200m business, which was taken over in..."

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- Ken Fryer >

Text-Flirt

"The fear of entering the ‘real world’ and getting a job where you’re told what to do, have limited..."

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