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David Cameron Reveals What His Wife Samantha Did In Their Bedroom

Dave Reveals What Has Gone On In The Cameron Bedroom
Asa Bennett
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David Cameron has given an insight into what goes on in his bedroom, in a personal speech to small business owners.

The Prime Minister explained that his wife Samantha had started a business in the Cameron bedroom, drawing laughter when he added: "Don't worry, it wasn't that sort of business".

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David Cameron speaking this morning

This is not the first time David Cameron has chosen to make saucy jokes about his wife, who was the creative director of luxury stationery firm Smythson until her husband became Prime Minister in 2010. He previously boasted that he sleeps with an entrepreneur every night.

Speaking to the Tory faithful at his party conference in 2008, he said: "I admire entrepreneurs. I should do - I go to bed with one every night ... she's my wife Samantha and I'm incredibly proud of what she does."

Cameron's appeared at the Home Business Summit in Somerset House, central London, to lend his "very personal" support.

"Sometimes when people think of home business, they think of some small, cottage industry on the edge of the UK. They couldn't be more wrong," he said.

"Of course we want our established businesses to grow, but the fact is the real jobs growth I think will come from the start-ups, from businesses that may start small, but can grow very rapidly."

Cameron said he wanted Britain to become the best country in the world to start, run and expand a business, but admitted his ambition was still "some way away" due to excessive bureaucracy, taxation and regulation.

"When you look at the things we are doing, like start-up loans, like the new enterprise allowance, like cutting business taxes and like getting rid of some of these regulations, I hope you can see an idea forming," he said.

The Prime Minister's appearance came as his business minister Matthew Hancock unveiled a package of measures to help people set up a company at home.

Hancock launched a robust defence of self-employed Britons, telling the Hufffington Post UK that critics were "doing down" Britain's recovery.

He said: "They are doing down exactly the sort of attitude of get-up-and-go and aspiration that is going to get our country out of the very mess that usually those who are complaining are the ones who let us get in."

How Entrepreneurs Come Up With Great Ideas
"You're Never Too Old" -- Vivek Wadhwa, vice president of academics and innovation, Singularity University(01 of11)
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Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook, Paul Allen and Bill Gates with Microsoft, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs with Apple -- those success stories lead some people to think that coming up with big ideas is a young person's game. But the tech entrepreneurs who rose to early fame and fortune are just the outliers. The typical entrepreneur is a middle-aged professional who learns about a market need and starts a company with his own savings.Research that my team completed in 2009 determined that the average age of a successful entrepreneur in high-growth industries such as computers, health care and aerospace is 40. Twice as many successful entrepreneurs are aged over 50 as under 25, and twice as many over 60 as under 20.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Facebook)
"Get Inspired By History" -- Sam Calagione, founder and president, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Inc.(02 of11)
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You often hear about the pursuit of the new new thing. But I believe entrepreneurs have a lot to gain by looking into history for inspiration.In the mid-'90s, some beer enthusiasts and experts called us heretics for brewing beers with ingredients outside of the "traditional" water, yeast, hops and barley. So, I started researching ancient brewing cultures and learned that long ago, brewers in every corner of the world made beer with whatever was beautiful and natural and grew beneath the ground they lived on.We now make a whole series of Ancient Ales inspired by historic and molecular evidence found in tombs and dig sites.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Getty)
"Head Into The Weird Places" -- Victor W. Hwang, co-founder, CEO and managing director, T2 Venture Capital(03 of11)
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For entrepreneurs to stretch their brains, they should seek out the unusual.Watch and listen to weird stuff. I enjoy watching obscure documentaries and listening to unusual podcasts. It's thrilling to find cool ideas lurking just a few clicks away.Walk in weird places. I take walks in hidden suburban neighborhoods, department stores, community colleges. When you're walking with no purpose but walking, you see things in fresh ways, because you have the luxury of being in the present.Talk to weird people. Striking up conversations with people who are different from you can be powerful. I still remember random conversations with strangers from decades ago, and how they shaped me.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Facebook)
"Think Big" -- Kevin Colleran, venture partner, General Catalyst Partners(04 of11)
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There are several factors an entrepreneur should consider when choosing a business idea or opportunity.Go big or go home: There are opportunities to make money by building businesses that marginally improve on existing products or services, but the real thrill sets in when the decision is made to go after an enormous idea that seems slightly crazy.Make the world a better place: The best kind of entrepreneur pursues a business that simplifies or improves the lives of many people. He or she repeatedly asks "what if" when thinking about how the world works and how the status quo could be dramatically improved.Fail fast: As overall startup costs decline and markets move much more quickly, it has become easier to test ideas without devastating consequences of failure.Pivot quickly: Many of the most successful companies exist in a form that is entirely different from how they were first envisioned. A successful entrepreneur will realize when a company is moving in the wrong direction or is missing a much larger opportunity.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Twitter)
"What Not To Do" -- Guy Kawasaki, author and former chief evangelist of Apple(05 of11)
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One thing that isn't a rich vein of entrepreneurship gold: reading a market forecast from a big-name consulting firm and deciding to create a product to serve that need.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:AP)
"Let Your Subconscious Do the Work" -- Ben Baldwin, co-founder and CEO, ClearFit(06 of11)
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When the mind is occupied with a monotonous task, it can stimulate the subconscious into a eureka moment. That's what happened to me. The business model for my company, ClearFit, which provides an easy way for companies to find employees and predict job fit, hatched in the back of my mind while I was driving 80 miles an hour, not thinking about work at all.The subconscious mind runs in the background, silently affecting the outcome of many thoughts. So, take a break and smell the flowers, because while you're out doing that, your mind may very well solve the problem that you are trying to solve or spark a solution to a problem you hadn't considered before.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Twitter)
"Look At What's Bugging You" -- David Cohen, founder and CEO, TechStars(07 of11)
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Ideas for startups often begin with a problem that needs to be solved. And they don't usually come while you're sitting around sipping coffee and contemplating life. They tend to reveal themselves while you're hard at work on something else.For instance, one company of mine, earFeeder, came about because I wanted news on music I loved and found it hard to get. So I created a service that checks your computer for the music you have stored there, then feeds you news from the Internet about those bands, along with ticket deals and other things.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Youtube)
"Be Present In Life" -- Angela Benton, founder and CEO, NewME Accelerator(08 of11)
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Start your brainstorming with problems that you are personally invested in. Building a business is hard as hell and takes the kind of relentless dedication that comes from personal passion.The next big question is "How?" Great ideas and innovations come from executing on your idea in a different way than everybody else is attacking it, if they're attacking it at all. A great way to do this is to look outside of your industry to see how others are solving problems. Approaches that they think are routine might be out of the ordinary for you—and inspire great ideas.Also, most businesspeople tend to ignore our creative side until we really need it. Making sure that your life has a balance of the arts is a great way to stay engaged creatively.This last tip will seem insanely obvious. However, in the world we live in, it's easier said than done: Simply be present in life.I'm sure you can relate to how overconnected we all are. Something as simple as having a cup of coffee becomes a juggling act of replying to emails and managing schedules. It's easy to miss a potential piece to your innovation puzzle when it's right under your nose if you aren't there.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Facebook)
"Attack Practical Problems" -- Brian Spaly, founder and CEO, Trunk Club(09 of11)
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Make a note whenever you encounter a service or a customer experience that frustrates you, or wish you had a product that met your needs that you can't find anywhere. Then ask yourself, is this a problem I could solve? And how much time and money would it take to test my idea?That last point is crucial. As my sage Stanford professor Andy Rachleff encouraged me, "Make sure you can fail fast and cheaply." In business school, I had a couple of big ideas. One was improving domestic airline service—which would have cost millions and taken years. I decided to pursue another opportunity that was a lot cheaper and would show results faster—a clothing line called Bonobos.In the end, it took me just nine months and $15,000 of startup funds to get a little traction and market feedback.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Twitter)
"Taking It To Market" -- Ellen Rudnick, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business(10 of11)
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It is important to look at an idea in two ways: first, to consider the initial inspiration for the business, and second, the often very different concept that ends up being executed to create the new company. We typically think of these ideas as the thing that sets these great entrepreneurs on the path of success. However, an idea is only that until you do something with it. Great entrepreneurs also discover the strategies to deliver the new innovative solution to the market.Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Twitter)
"Listen To People Who Know" -- Dave Lavinsky, co-founder and president, Growthink Inc.(11 of11)
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Entrepreneurs come up with great ideas in a number of ways. Here are some of the best.Get customer feedback: Listen to customers and create products and services that give them more of what they like and/or remove what they dislike.Listen to front-line employees: The workers who manufacture the widgets, interact with customers and so on see what takes too long to accomplish, what is too expensive, what causes problems. Talk to those workers, or even do those jobs yourself.Reverse assumptions: Many great entrepreneurs come up with ideas by reversing assumptions. For example, the old assumption was that a bank needed to have tellers and branch locations. The ATM concept asked: How can we offer banking services without having a branch location and tellers?Source: The Wall Street Journal (credit:Facebook)
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