Insights from an Entrepreneur - Will King (CEO King of Shaves)
Another excellent video from Smarta - this time with a good friend of tutor2u - Will King. You may have heard Will give a superb presentation at tutor2u’s Economics teacher conference in 2009. King of Shaves is a terrific growth story and Will has quickly become one of the most celebrated entrepreneurs in the UK
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Business angels take flight - just when small businesses need them
An interesting article from Andrew Stone this morning in the Sunday Times highlights the growing funding problems faced by small business who are looking for external investment by business angels…
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Will King, the CEO of King of Shaves who spoke about his battle to break into the shaving products market at the Economics conference last week, was on BBC Radio 5’s Wake up to Money yesterday – you can listen to the programme or download the podcast from here. King of Shaves is raising a further £5m capital to fund its growth plans – as Geoff reported on the Economics blog last week, King of Shaves is launching successfully in Japan and now looking towards the United States. However at this time when all the news is full of stories of businesses which cannot raise money from the banking system, Will King has come up with a different approach which follows his hugely successful strategy of using the web and viral marketing.
