Rachel Elnaugh clearly has no love lost for Peter Jones, but ‘damn it’ she’s right!
High profile female entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, gives a great synopsis on the Peter Jones TV show Tycoon TV show.
An excerpt on her blog, Rachel Enlaugh entrepreneur, comments on Peter Jones in the Tycoon….
“While Jones’ teeth got whiter, his cufflinks got bigger […]

Gordon Brown has recruited Sir Alan Sugar to advise him on business.
The Guardian reports that Sir Alan Sugar will sit on a special “business leaders’ council” alongside other industry figures.

“I look forward to making my contribution to the business leaders’ council, which will act as a consultative body to the Department of Trade and Industry,” […]

Peter Jones is disappointed that his TV show Tycoon has lost its prime time TV slot.
Peter Jones’s much hyped, solo step into business reality TV Tycoon, has been cut and rescheduled because of poor ratings and feedback from the public.
The second episode on ITV1 drew just 1.9 million viewers - 100,000 less than the opening […]

Simon Woodroffe launches a hotel capsule concept.
Simon Woodroffe who founded the chain Yo! Sushi in 1997, and appeared as a ‘Dragon’ on the first series of Dragons’ Den, is to open the doors of Yotel at Gatwick Airport.
The hotel offers 46 premium or standard ‘cabins’. Both classes of accommodation have enough room for two […]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its social networking website, with Yahoo! for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group.
The Times reports;
The talks with Yahoo! are preliminary and began before chief executive Terry Semel resigned Monday. It is unclear whether the talks will move forward under Semel’s successor, Jerry Yang.
By trading […]

James Caan, the serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and multi-millionaire joins the new series of Dragon’s Den.
James replaces the popular Australian Richard Farleigh, who was removed from the line-up of the hit BBC Two business ideas show last month.
The 46-year-old is founder and chief executive of a private equity firm which invests in retail, leisure, financial […]

Dennis Publishing, the publishing company behind some of the highest profile men’s magazines, has sold the US arm of its business.
Following up our article Felix Dennis: Titles Clearout Gone Quiet, Dennis Publishing has reached a deal to sell Dennis Publishing Inc, the American branch of the magazine company, to private equity firm, Quadrangle Capital Partners.
The […]

Publishing entrepreneur Felix Dennis has gone quiet, following the suggestion that some of his major titles were to be sold.
Closing offers for the American editions of Maxim, Blender and Stuff, publications of the Dennis Publishing company, ended more than a week ago, yet no result has been announced.
It was reported that US company Quadrangle, led […]

Sir Richard Branson has got his media hat firmly on at the moment.
Sir Richard raised £113 million recently by mortgaging about a third of his 10 per cent shareholding in Virgin Media to invest in space tourism and other activities.
This month also see’s Richard Branson launch Europe’s first bio-diesel blend train.
However, what caught the business […]

Nate Moller at www.mollermarketing.com wrote an intersting article about measuring one’s success. With a number of quotes form leading business and inspirational thinkers.
We’ve selected our favourite 3….
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” Mark Twain
“Ones best success comes […]