Entrepreneurs share technology success
Posted 8 September 2006 at 11:32AM by Derek Hemphill in Doing business online
Yesterday I sat in a TV studio with a celebrity photographer and two highly successful award winning entrepreneurs. No I wasn't at a recording of Dragons Den or The Apprentice, I was attending the filming of BT's Essence of the Entrepreneur web seminar at the BT TV studio.
BT's Essence of the Entrepreneur competition was a search to find twenty remarkable entrepreneurs who found new routes to success using technology. The prize was a photo-shoot with celebrity photographer, Perou. His aim was to capture the passion and dedication behind the success.
The web seminar was a lively debate between two winners, MD of TopTable.co.uk Karen Hatton and Co-founder of Accommodation for Students William Berry, Perou and BT's Mick Hegarty.
I was struck by the highly level of enthusiasm the entrepreneurs had for technology such as broadband and the internet. As an employees of a communications company, it's in our job descriptions to be technology evangelists, but for these guys broadband and the internet is only an enabler to help them achieve their business goals.
So through the course of the discussion, we learn that actually it's not their use of technology that made them successful. When asked about what defining characteristic the winners possessed, fresh from a photo-shoot with 80's icon Adam Ant the previous day, Perou explained that they all had a "strong unique identity" and that they were all "rock stars" in the way that they go about their business.
The recording is now in post production and I will post a link as soon as it's published.
Tags: broadband, entrepreneur, web seminar
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