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School for Startups Entrepreneurs Say:

  • This is an excellent programme for startups who face so many challenges and limited budgets – Susan Benjamin
  • Excellent Day, Interesting Anecdotes, Energetic Delivery – Matt Robinson
  • It’s nice to hear from a man who has done the walk and is able to talk the talk, John Hynes
  • Great day – great setting, really interesting and reassuring Clare Byrnley-Jones
  • Great Venue, charismatic presenter and good time slots - Ross Wallin, Pitcher and Piano
  • Doug Richard is great, open and has a great sense of humour. Phil Wilkinson was a very valuable addition – Phillip Gibbs, Synergy Linx Ltd
  • Thank you for an interesting and inspirational day – lots of humour too!Colette Grantham, Care Home Quest Plus
  • Brilliant, loved the interactive approach with audience to give real on-the-spot examples – Vanessa Knight, 100 Percent Art
  • Informative, Interesting and Invaluable – Omran Kier
  • Great, practical, and thoroughly motivational day, Crispin Scott, Chadshunt Ltd
  • Doug is a very powerful, positive speaker, Gesmay Paynter
  • Makes you think outside the box, Gesmay Paynter
  • Using volunteers’ ideas to form business solutions was very good. Overall fantastic – Schagufta Anjum
  • Dragon’s Den exerts were helpful – Colleen Stephenson
  • Intelligent, non-patronising delivery, Thank you – Diana Horner, The Gift Card Company (UK) Ltd
  • Thought provoking, good pace, good content, Julien Barber
  • Worth it, simple, straight forward help that can be put into practice. Case Studies were helpful – Sharina Shah, Jonny Langford
  • A positive day which I can highly recommend to others, Joanna Anthony

Testimonials

What Do School for Startups Entrepreneurs Have to Say?

At every School for Startup event we ask entrepreneurs for feedback on our courses and how we can improve the content we offer them.

Doug Richard, Founder of School for StartupsDoug says . . .

“I founded School for Startups to create a place where people can master the practical skills required to start and run a successful business. I’ve started, funded, grown, and, yes, even lost enterprises. I have some idea of what works and doesn’t when it comes to starting a business.

That said . . . What is unique about School for Startups is that we aggressively collect and monitor feedback from our entrepreneurs. We trust them to ask for what they need.

As we enter our third year, our customer ratings have continued to climb until more than 95% of our entrepreneurs rate us as Satisfactory or Very Satisfactory. Every year our training gets better. Every year we help more entrepreneurs start better, stronger, more profitable enterprises. Every year we make things easier for those we support . . .

I hope you’ll come to a School for Startup event some day soon.  I and my team really do look forward to helping you start your own very successful business.”

Some of the comments we’ve received include:

A thoroughly enjoyable day. We learned much and although we are a service industry that is very specific, the information we gained was invaluable . . . and we are now glad that we produced our business and marketing plans before the business was set up. Thank you Doug , it was the best training/event that I have been to in may years! – Peter Scott

It was a superb day. Not only did I go away with lots of food for thought, I also had the opportunity to watch an excellent speaker who was able to hold an audience for a whole day. Altogether completely inspiring! Have been trying to analyse what was so good – for me it was the structure, the practical ‘I’ve been there’ tips and hints, the interaction with the audience, the gentle but firm challenging of the business ideas and the relevant storytelling that didn’t descend into ‘war stories’. Thank you.” - Jackie Clifford

An extremely enjoyaable seminar which not only inspired me and gave me a boost (lonely developing a business alone) apart from learning new things it also confirmed that some of my ideas were not that far off the mark which was reassuring. — Christian Langlois

Thank you Doug! It was a really interesting and dynamic event packed full of really practical information and no nonsense advice. You rock! — Andrea from Cheeky Beach

Please keep this fantastic school going. The most practical, useful advice I have ever received. The Doug Richards’ combo of clever communication skills and entrepreneurial knowledge is very, very impressive. — Stephen Neale

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