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Maurice Helfgott, Founder of Amery Capital Ltd., discusses his experience as a judge for the 2009 Enterprising Britain competition As founder of investment and advisory firm, Amery Capital, whose investments include clothing store, Long Tall Sally, I was appointed a judge in this year’s Enterprising Britain competition and it has been a fantastic experience. I [...]

Bloggers Circle has alerted me to an interesting blog about luck, and reminds us of the scene in the latest Harry Potter film where Harry pretends to slip some felix felicis in Ron’s drink, to boost his morale before an important Quidditch match. Ron plays perfectly, embued with near-magical powers by his mental state: The blog [...]

This week the topic of discussion at Make Your Mark has been the family. On wednesday Make Your Mark Ambassador Fleur Emery who set up successful organic porridge business Team Grasshopperwith her sister Abi came down to Make Your Mark HQ to give us the low down on working with the family in our lunch time [...]

Do you know any young people in London who would like to take part in an exciting 6 month programme which will help them to become entrepreneurs. This is a perfect programme for anyone aged 16-19 who is thinking about starting their own business but could do with some help, mentoring and education around being [...]

Don’t worry, this isn’t a minute-by-minute account of my first week - just a couple of thoughts I’ve had since starting here… After joining the Make Your Mark team last Wednesday, I have been thinking back to (many moons ago) when I was making decisions in my life after taking my GCSE’s. I remember the only [...]

Whilst many of you were having a lie in on Saturday, I was on the 6.39 train to Canterbury to attend UK Youth Parliament’s 9th annual sitting where Make Your Mark shared with the members the secrets of networking. For everyone this was their first taste of speednetworking and they loved it, although they are all campaigning for the [...]

We’re busy putting out the message that Village SOS is open for applications - for villages with a population under 3,000 who have a community business idea, and for individuals who have run a successful business or project and think they have the skills to become a ‘Village Champion’, and turn the village’s business idea [...]

I was alerted to a blog by Bloggers Circle, which suggests that to be a social entrepreneur you need to be angry. Last week I listened to Radio Four’s Bottom Line and James Dyson said to innovate you need to be angry. He was angry that vacumn cleaners didn’t suck and his hugely successful business [...]

You’ve waited patiently and now they’re here - simply go to our Flickr pages to view photos from the event. Wondering what a Club Meet-up is? It’s for students in enterprise groups in schools across the UK - visit www.makeyourmarkclub.org.uk for more information.

Our friends at Shell LiveWIRE are running a survey to look into what makes you tick, what motivates you to be an entrepreneur and what puts you off. Its open to anyone who’s running their own business, starting their own business or thinking about starting a business. Click here to submit your views The survey is running [...]

A few weeks ago, I set out westwards with our very own Alex Ritchie. We left a sweltering London for a slightly cooler Cardiff - it was time for us to attend the GWIIN Awards 2009! GWIIN stands for Global Women Inventors’ and Innovators’ Network, but that’s a bit of a mouthful you see. [...]

Yorkshire’s Make Your Mark ambassadors stole the show at last night’s Wakefield Business Awards. Lindsey Davies and Emma Lupton of Open Communcations who run the campaign’s PR activity were highly commended as one of Wakefield’s new businesses. The winner of the e-business award was Daniel Rajkumar of Web Translations who’s business supports organisations to communicate [...]

I caught some of Bottom Line last night, Radio Four’s business magazine show presented with Evan Davis. Last night he spoke to innovator and entrepreneur James Dyson, entrepreneur and digital champion Martha Lane-Fox, and Chief Executive of Interserve Plc, Adrian Ringrose. There were some interesting discussions about creativity - including where it comes from. Martha said [...]

On Thursday 16th July while the glorious sunshine was beaming down on to Leeds City Centre, representatives from around the Yorkshire and Humber region met to hear about Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009. This great event took place in the prestigious surroundings 3 Albion Place, the headquarters of the Institute of Directors in Leeds. [...]

On 8th July the flagship event for Shine Week, Talent Matters was full of inspiring people from all walks of life entrepreneurs, engineers, sport who all gave thier persepctives on talent. Make Your Mark supported this event and our very own Fat lemon boys were there long with our winners of the Ideas MashUp competition [...]

The National Railway Museum was the perfect venue for the Club meet-up in York on Wednesday 15th July due to the highly entrepreneurial background that lies beneath the free-entry museum. The day was crammed full of activities encouraging students from several schools to engage with one another, create new ideas and to [...]

Last Friday was my first clubs meet-up and what a fantastic time I had. The kids where excited and VERY energetic …. getting me tired just thinking about it. They came in with such a gusto to express their creative flare and also to share about the projects they have been working on. Projects to numerous [...]