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	<description>Tim Fouracre on startups &#38; small business from the founder of Clear Books</description>
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		<title>Going it alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A business will often spring up by copying what another business is doing. Or put more bluntly, as someone once said to me, some of the best ideas are stolen. I wanted to set up a website to sell the database I had created at college for mum’s theatre school. I wanted my own business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First full time job at Fubra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At university I still kept in touch with Paul and Brendan who had set up www.fubra.com. They came up to Nottingham a couple of times to experience student life. In my first year at Nottingham I had emailed Paul suggesting I should drop out of university and join Fubra. I am pretty sure he did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working hard to get a 2:1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the end of my second year at University I was averaging 53.5% in my degree. In the beginning of my third year, as I started looking at careers, I quickly realised that I would need to average at least 60% to even get a look in at the investment bank graduate schemes I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2012/01/working-hard-to-get-a-21/</link>
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		<title>It could be you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A professor at university convinced me of the merits of playing the National Lottery during a Game Theory lecture. The probability of choosing the winning combination and landing the jackpot is miniscule, however, the argument ran that if £1 per week does not impact your standard of living i.e. you will not miss £1 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scheming at university</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At university I found myself exploring ways to make money from short term opportunities. Failed investment I did not know the first thing about valuing companies or investing in them when I was at university. When my friend (another Tim) and I were looking through the business pages one weekend and saw that Eidos shares [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2012/01/scheming-at-university/</link>
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		<title>New information paradigms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a long summer ahead of me before the late September start at the University of Nottingham. There was no way I was going to spend it collecting trolleys at Sainsbury’s. I wanted a proper job. I thought about going to work with Paul and Brendan at Fubra, but they were not in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2011/12/new-information-paradigms/</link>
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		<title>University of Oxford reject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was unsure what I wanted to do after university so I settled on mathematics as a degree choice. I figured I was ok at maths and it was a subject that had a broad application base. I applied to Oxford, Nottingham, Warwick, Imperial College and Southampton. Oxford involved taking an exam and a 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business ideas come from satisfying a need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses often spring up to satisfy a need. Mum’s theatre school needed an application to manage the classes, registers, pupils and invoicing and I needed a project for my A Level computing coursework. I ended up creating a theatre school database and sold it to mum and her business partner. Mum used it for more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2011/12/business-ideas-come-from-satisfying-a-need/</link>
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		<title>Meeting future business partners at sixth form college</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always worked. Before I moved to Ghana I had a paper round and when I came back to the UK in the summer before sixth form college I immediately started working on a local farm. I was 16 and getting paid £2.50 per hour. Thursday evenings after college and a Saturday shift at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2011/12/meeting-business-partners-sixth-form-college/</link>
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		<title>Programming a computer catalogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother and I used to order games from a UK shareware catalogue and have them sent over to Ghana. It would take weeks for the now antique floppy disks to arrive. I had an idea that, using the programming language BASIC, I could develop a program to list the games we had bought, hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infourapenny.co.uk/2011/11/programming-a-computer-catalogue/</link>
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