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.

I increasingly find that the creative, but disciplined and methodical mind set I employ in the kitchen when I go home also has its parallels to managing an international company during the day.

Entrepreneurs are quite often the envy of many major companies; acting on gut-feel and disrupting established markets. However, what many start-ups lack can quite often be found in abundance in larger organisations - customer data.

There is a lot of information floating all over the internet because everybody has an opinion about how to run business - sometimes even without having done it themselves. Its common sense isn't it. So if the information is so easily accessible and such common sense why is everybody not using it to great results?

Rob Hill is the founder of The Stag Company and owner of Hen Heaven and Eventa. Having started his working life as a chef, his world was turned around...

The number of mortgages granted in the UK has increased by a third since the launch of the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), the government's flagship...

As the number of new companies created in the UK continues to increase, we're seeing businesses start-up based on a passion, hobby or skill, that can be turned into a way of making a living.

Birmingham has been named as the new hotbed of business growth, following the analysis of the first 3,000 businesses who have worked with GrowthAccele...

Victor Chandler has a reputation as a gentleman bookie – a traditional charmer whose business is more caring about its punters than some of the othe...

Dom Gaynor owns karting business TeamSport, and can count the likes of One Direction, Simon Cowell, Tom Daley, Ellie Goulding and Tulisa as customers,...

You need to know something really important. Context drives behaviour. The way people are behaving in your business is a function largely of the context you have created.

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they start is a business is that they expect customers to come flocking instantly. They believe in their product or service so much that they expect am influx of customers to come running as soon as their doors open.

Virgin's Sir Richard Branson has been voted Britain's Most Inspirational Business Leader, followed closely by Bill Gates and Lord Sugar. The survey...

Politicians have been keen to emphasise the importance of entrepreneurs and their role in helping the UK economy bounce back, but as a new wave of business people improve the wealth of the country, who will look after their money?

So, are there climates for success? Yes, I believe there are. We are living in one of the most potentially productive and successful periods for business globally, certainly in our lifetimes.

I know from my own experience that when your business is still in its infancy, there are relatively few sources of finance. Friends and family are often eager to help if they can, but to take a business to the next stage of development takes more substantial backing.