Great Business Ideas Start at Home (2)
James Murray-Wells, the student founder of Glasses Direct, began his online spectacles mail order business from home. Glasses Direct is now a household name and trades from offices at Charlton park, Malmesbury.
The late iconic activist and entrepreneur Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop, set up her first business in a bed and breakfast in Littlehampton (the town where she grew up and where her mother ran a local cafe´). Although the Body Shop began life as a small shop in Brighton it was initially a home-based idea, started up by Anita as she wanted to sell products that hadn’t been tested on animals or otherwise brought about by harming anyone.
Online social networking site Friends Reunited was started at home by Steve Pankhurst and Jason Porter, who later sold the company for a reported £120 million a few years after. Once again, the idea and business began at home with the initial intention of creating a part-time business.
Legend has it that Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, used the telephone box closest to his home as his office to make and receive calls. Whether this is true or not I’m not sure, but what is remarkable is that he founded his business from home, and later on ran his empire from a houseboat moored in London.
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