Got a Great Idea, but Need Help? Well there is Help, You Just Need to Look!

Given I come into contact with all types of people on a daily basis; I am most intrigued by those with innovative and good ideas.  These people I think of as Entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.  I suppose I see a little of me in those people and I like creativity and people that challenge and want to innovate.  People like us always have great ideas (ok, some great, some good and a few bad); we just don't always know how to realise them.  It may be knowhow, it may be mentorship, it may be financial.

I came across this great offer this week by Orange (yes, those mobile phone people), where they are offering a business/ person that has a great business idea the chance of help and support, which could be seen as the chance of a lifetime.

Orange’s Different Business Competition

Putting together your pitch, Dragon’s den style, consider:

• a business or project that is different;
• a different approach to running the business;
• a robust business model;
• a clear strategy for the project/business;
• evidence of a market for the project/business;
• a pitch that demonstrates you have the necessary skills to succeed;
• the business plan makes financial sense, will be profitable and has been well thought through; and
• an idea that is worth funding and could be the UK's next different business.

The Prize

• business planning advice and mentoring from Kingston Smith;
• mobile communications devices and plans from Orange;
• marketing consultancy from Publicis Chemistry;
• legal advice from Lewis Silkin; and
• investment capital.

All worth up to £200,000!

For more information about Orange's Different Business Competition visit www.winyourbusiness.com.  Make your own luck and go for it!

If you do not win and you have a great business idea, then we are always willing to have a chat with you, and you never know we may be willing to invest in you and your idea.  Feel free to call me or Bill Wynn on 0118-952-2240 to dsicuss your idea or email me.