New book ‘Working 5 to 9′

5-9 BookEnterprise Nation founder Emma Jones’s book Working 5 to 9: How to start a successful business in your spare time is out this week.  Emma runs a great site over at Enterprise Nation, which is essential reading if you are running a business from home or in your spare time.

The book includes profiles of 60 companies being run successfully on a  ’5 to 9′ basis. Pop over to the site to find out more about the book and keep an eye out on Friday to win a copy via thier lifestyle blogFacebook page and Twitter feed.

Local Business Communities Updates

Last month VentureNavigator ran an event for Local Authorities focusing on building online local business communities. We are adding video of the presentations to YouTube so you can get some highlights of the presentations. See below Doug Richard introducing the day and our Product Manager Arthur Meadows talking about our Business Communities service for Local Government.  If you’d like to see more presentations from the day you can find them on this YouTube channel.

Have Your Say! Debating Doug Richard’s “Entrepreneurs’ Manifesto”

On the 22nd April, a panel of business experts will be discussing the eight key demands to post-election government that Doug Richard puts forward in his “Entrepreneurs’ Manifesto and Declaration of Rights”. As a member of the audience you can “Have Your Say” by taking part in the Q&A; sessions and by posing your questions and comments to Doug and the expert business panellists via a live interactive chat feed.

Who’s on the panel?

It a great line up including VentureNavigator Director Janice Pittis:

The VentureNavigator Team will be there. You can register and find more information over at the School For Startups site.