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The Business podcast
Running a business rarely runs smoothly, but a cool head and self-belief can turn adversity into advantage. The Guardian Small Business Network's confessions events bring entrepreneurs together to share the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. These are the stories you won't hear anywhere else. Hoste...
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'A strong brand will get you through a crisis': Meet the Mentors with Cobra beer's founder
In the final podcast of the series, Lord Karan Bilimoria advises the founders of tech startup Zipabout on everything from marketing to investment
'Stay paranoid': Meet the Mentors with Ebookers' founder
Dinesh Dhamija gives leadership tips to Jamie Wilson, budding entrepreneur and founder of carer provider HomeTouch
'I was told British people wouldn't eat dark chocolate': Meet the Mentors with Green & Black's Jo Fairley
Serial entrepreneur and organic food pioneer Jo Fairley gives her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big
'Trust your intuition': Meet the Mentors with Cath Kidston
The designer who created an empire around her trademark floral wash bags, tea cloths and crockery, reveals that luck played a big part in her success
Bedroom business to world domination: Meet the Mentors with Trunki's Rob Law
In the first podcast of a new series, the designer of the award-winning kids’ luggage brand shares his top tips for global expansion with a furniture...
'The journey is nothing but extraordinary' – Confessions of a Startup
In our last podcast of the series, entrepreneurs at our Confessions of a Startup seminar shared their tales of overcoming obstacles while starting a b...
'Embrace adversity' – Confessions of a Small Business
If you don’t experience tough times, you’re not putting yourself out there enough. That was the verdict of the entrepreneurs at our first Confessions...
'Have faith in what you're doing' – Confessions of a Startup
Isabella Lane started Smarter Applications with husband Christian two and a half years ago. Their first product was a wifi kettle, which they built fo...
'It takes longer and costs more than you think' – Confessions of a Startup
It’s been a long road for Efe Çakarel, founder of MUBI. He had his big idea in 2006 but it was seven years before he finally felt the model was workin...
'Breaking up with a co-founder is like a divorce' – Confessions of a Startup
Emily Forbes loves film and working in storytelling. But setting up Seenit, a video collaboration platform, has challenged her in ways she couldn’t im...
'We have learned so much from failure' – Confessions of a Startup
In our first Confessions of a Startup podcast, Rich Pleeth, founder of the social app Sup, describes struggling to achieve sustainable growth, falling...
'You've got to live it 24/7' – Confessions of a Small Business
Nick Edwards, the founder of software company Papaya, was faced with a dilemma in 2012 when his developer was killed in a hit-and-run incident
'You have to keep fighting' – Confessions of a Small Business
Arpana Gandhi, co-founder of landmine disposal company Disarmco, talks struggling to find investment, almost going bust and battling to save lives
'Failure makes you more humble' – Confessions of a Small Business
In our second Confessions of a Small Business podcast, John Stapleton, founder of New Covent Garden Soup and Little Dish, talks about going out on a l...
Crowdfunding carnage – Confessions of a Small Business
Little Riot founder Joanna Montgomery kicks off our Small Business podcast series by reliving the highs and lows of launching her product Pillow Talk...
How to make it in the music industry
Traditional lenders often shy away from the creative industries – what can startup bands and independent musicians do to get on the road to financial...
The Business podcast: Fred Goodwin's knighthood shredded
It's bash-a-banker time. As the former RBS boss Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood, his successor at the bank has handed back his bonus. Nils Pratley a...
Politics Weekly podcast: Labour's economic alternative
Seumas Milne, Rowenna Davis and Hopi Sen discuss Labour's shift in economic policy and how the party can remain true to its mission for social justice...
The Business podcast: France, credit ratings and Occupy
The Occupy movement's philosopher-in-chief David Graeber examines the arguments for a debt jubilee in 2012. Plus Heather Stewart and Angelique Chrisaf...
The Business podcast: what to watch in 2012
Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor and Nils Pratley discuss the economic indicators to watch in 2012 and look ahead to an Olympic year in which Britain is ho...
The Business podcast: Christmas economics and a review of 2011
Economist Joel Waldfogel explains why you shouldn't buy Christmas presents plus Larry Elliott and Simon Goodley round up a turbulent year in business...
The Business podcast: Rogue banks and rogue traders
John Gapper and Jill Treanor discuss a new report into the failure of Royal Bank of Scotland. Plus: we look at the history of rogue traders. What make...
The Business podcast extra: Jeffrey Sachs on economics and ethics
Jeffrey Sachs discusses the turmoil in the eurozone, the ethical issues underlying the financial crisis and his new book The Price of Civilisation
The Business podcast: Money, debt and the euro
Philip Coggan, a historian of debt crises, discusses the current turmoil in Europe and explores the nature of money itself and our changing attitudes...
George Osborne's autumn statement
Larry Elliott and Jackie Ashley join Tom Clark and Aditya Chakrabortty for a review of George Osborne's autumn statement on the British economy
The Business podcast: executive pay
Deborah Hargreaves of the High Pay Commission discusses her report on the inequality of salaries in Britain with the Guardian's City editor Jill Trean...
The Business podcast: a million young people unemployed
Katie Allen, Dan Milmo and Giles Tremlett discuss stark youth unemployment figures. Plus we ask whether austerity is working in Ireland
The Business podcast: Italy, the euro and Darwinian economics
John Hooper and Larry Elliott on how Italy became the latest EU economy to face attack on the bond markets and economist Robert H Frank discusses his...
The Business podcast: Living beyond our means
Sheldon Garon, author of Beyond Our Means and an economic historian at Princeton University, on why the UK and the US stopped saving and started spend...
The Business podcast: eurozone crisis
Larry Elliott, David Gow and Jill Treanor examine the three major issues on the table this week: Greece, European banks and the EU bailout fund
The Business podcast: Occupy London Stock Exchange
Danny Dorling discusses his new book Fair Play and how its arguments can inspire those who are protesting against wealth inequality in London
The Business podcast: Is Europe's bailout fund a big enough 'bazooka'?
The European Financial Stability Facility is the bailout fund that the EU is hoping will be large enough to stave off the debt crisis in the continent...
The Business podcast at Conservative conference 2011: George Osborne goes for growth
Jonathan Freedland, Mike Cherry of the Federation of Small Businesses and Tim Leunig of Centre Forum discuss the chancellor's plans to get money flowi...
The Business podcast: Labour's economic plan
The financial crisis proved terminal for Labour's 13-year run in office. As the party gathers for its autumn conference, its main objective is to rega...
The Business podcast: IMF's warning on world economy
Guardian experts discuss the global financial crisis; Italy's downgraded credit rating; and baby-boomers' toxic legacy for younger generations. With J...
The Business podcast: The Vickers report
A blueprint for a new banking system, or a huge opportunity missed? Aditya Chakrabortty, Jill Treanor and Nils Pratley discuss the long-awaited Vicker...
The Business podcast: Fears of a new global recession
Markets have been in turmoil for days as central banks and politicians struggle to maintain confidence in major economies. Larry Elliott, Sukhdev Joha...
The Business podcast: US steps back from brink of debt crisis
A deal in Washington to raise the borrowing limit of the United States government has averted a major crisis, but has the damage to American credibili...
The Business podcast: Economies in crisis
Britain's economy is struggling, the eurozone is lurching from one crisis to the next and the US is threatened with a credit rating downgrade. Julian...
The Business podcast: US government flirts with default
The US government is running out of time to agree an extension to its borrowing limit. But has the damage to the country's credit rating already been...