This eclectic city must overcome a number of obstacles if it's to challenge established startup zones and communities in Israel and the US, while also fending off competition for its European crown from Berlin.

Perfecting your pitch won't come straight away. You need to practice at home, first on your own and then in front of an audience willing to be critical. Take their comments on board and practise some more.

In putting together our book 'Business is Beautiful' I and my co-authors at Dragon Rouge looked at businesses all over the world, from Hong Kong to Tanazania and from electric car makers to textiles. In doing so we were able to outline a number of rules for the successful businessperson, whatever your sector.

My advice if you want to succeed as an entrepeneur? Be honest. About what you can do and what the market really needs. The world will not change what it does for you, but you will have to change what you do for the world!

To provide context, it's been an uphill struggle and I can't ever forget what I've overcome. After having a tough time at school, dropping out of University, finding out I'm in the bottom 2% of the world in reading due to my severe dyslexia, it was hard to believe I could achieve success. Especially doing it all on my own.

For almost everyone reading this blog, there will be one person, whether a teacher, a friend or someone in business, who has given you a vital leg up at one stage in your life and without whom you would not have done so well.

In business, no person is an island. You need people. They need you, and never be too prideful to think that you can do it alone - you can't.

I'm not going to tell you that you need to quit your job to start your business, that's your decision to make, but just because you're in a job doesn't mean you can't get started. Don't sit around. Get into action!

Entrepreneurs do not forget a helping hand and they appreciate those politicians seen to demonstrate strong opinions, a clear identity and a sense of natural independence, three qualities which Thatcher had in spades.

Have you ever seen Theo Paphitis or Duncan Ballantyne invest on Dragon's Den after perusing a detailed 40-page business plan? No.

However your business has grown, you're now in that place where you no longer know everyone personally to influence their thoughts and actions in relation to your brand and your culture. It has become a physical impossibility to line manage everyone and sad as it may feel, it's time to delegate and hand over the reins.

Maybe my path to entrepreneurialism was more a default necessity out of the fact that I wasn't very good at being someone else's employee, combined with this constant thirst to 'disrupt' and ultimately, and most importantly...luck.