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Mike Greene (British Entrepreneur)
Mike Greene is a British entrepreneur who founded the Association of Retail Newsagents and has also been a board member of the Association of Convenience Stores for 20 years. In 2015 he founded My Local in an attempt to turn around Morrisons' 125 failing M Local convenience shops. In 2011 he appeared on the Channel 4 show ''The Secret Millionaire''. Greene contested the 2019 Peterborough by-election, June 2019 Peterborough by-election as a candidate for the Brexit Party. Although favoured by bookmakers, he only achieved second place, with 29% of the vote, 683 votes behind Lisa Forbes (politician), Lisa Forbes, who retained the seat for Labour. He beat both the other two of the 'big three' parties, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats. He was the Brexit Party candidate for Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency), Peterborough in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, December 2019 general election but only came fourth wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones. An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often similar to a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit." The people who create these businesses are often referred to as entrepreneurs. While def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
