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Friday, August 12, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
success,
podcasts,
My Big Decision,
Apple,
Guy Kawasaki,
decision
The final interview in Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series of life-changing business decisions is with tech entrepreneur and former Apple chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, who talks about the moment he ‘wimped out’ of law college and went into the computer business instead.
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Monday, December 06, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
risk,
retail,
Luke Johnson,
franchise,
My Big Decision,
food,
Pizza Express,
takeover,
restaurant
Like many serial entrepreneurs, Luke Johnson believes in getting off your behind, facing down the risks and rising to a challenge. Never more so than in 1992, when he was living on an overdraft in order to help finance a reverse takeover of Pizza Express. It was a transformational moment, which he relives here as the latest subject of Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
My big decision,
Economy
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
networks,
Luke Johnson,
My Big Decision,
mentors,
forums,
startups,
community,
Pizza Express,
groups,
clubs,
support
Here on
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
My Big Decision,
marketing,
customers,
crisis,
Seth Godin,
clients,
fired
Seth Godin has the top-ranked
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
My Big Decision,
marketing,
brand,
Seth Godin,
action figure,
purple cow,
doll
We’re pleased to announce that our next
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
CEO,
My Big Decision,
Sahar Hashemi,
founder,
Coffee Republic
She’s the woman who plugged the caffeine cravings of a nation when, together with her brother, Bobby, she founded Coffee Republic in 1995. Now in Grant Thornton’s
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Monday, May 10, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Women in business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
tips,
corporate,
My Big Decision,
customers,
Bobby Hashemi,
Sahar Hashemi,
Pret a Manger,
Coffee Republic
Sahar Hashemi is the co-founder of Coffee Republic, one of the most powerful women in British business and author of new book for entrepreneurs, Switched On . She’s also the subject of Grant Thornton’s next
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Financing ,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
investment,
entrepreneur,
technology,
digital,
women in business,
CEO,
financing,
My Big Decision,
Julie Meyer,
Ariadne Capital,
First Tuesday,
backing,
dot com,
Dragon’s Den
Setting up a technology-oriented investment firm just six months after the dot com bubble burst may sound like risky business. But as entrepreneur and BBC Dragon Julie Meyer explains, in Grant Thornton’s
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Monday, February 22, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
retail,
My Big Decision,
business leaders,
George,
George Davies,
Next,
GIVe,
per una
George Davies is big in women’s clothing – so to speak. He launched Next, George at Asda and per una at Marks & Spencer. But, says Britain’s ‘King of the High Street’ – the latest subject in Grant Thornton’s
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