Make Your Mark forum

How important is appearance in business and in life, and does this differ between men and women?

Last night, I watched (on iplayer) a very interesting programme about the North/South ‘divide’. Though the ‘divide’ can be seen as seemingly harmless banter material for the pub, the programme argued that there seems to be a real inequality in terms of jobs, house prices and even life expectancy. So, I have two questions, is there really a north/south divide which affects businesses and prospects? And if there is, how can we smash it?

Now that Innocent has sold shares to Coco-Cola can we still see them as the same brand? Or is that naïve?

Budget stores are said to be raking in the cash at the moment. But obviously not poor old Woolworths. ...Aaah Woolworths, with its slickly florescent strip lighting and stale penny sweets, it was a British institution. But what went wrong and why?

Yesterday was the pretty ace Enterprising Young Brits awards. The event was amazing and today’s press coverage has been pretty stellar too. I think all our winners were the right choices but what do you think? Did your favourite miss out?

During our latest web chat, our guest Bill Morrow, Founder of Angel's Den had some strong words to say about the hit BBC show Dragons Den describing it as 'pantomime', and 'nothing to do with entrepreneurship'. "People think that trying to raise money is about being ridiculed on national TV, and that’s not what it’s about." says Bill.