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Imagine running a business based on fun - that's what I decided to try when I left a very serious corporate career in marketing to set up RedBalloon...
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Intrapreneurs
I was presenting for a corporation many months ago and the brief was to be inspiring, innovative and motivational – but please don’t make being an entrepreneur sound too exciting, we don’t want them all to leave to start their own businesses. Life as an entrepreneur is not a laugh a minute. There is heart ache, sole searching and sleepless nights. But what is exciting is the creativity of being an entrepreneur, and for me I struggled to find a…