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Businesses participating in the Ignite Bermuda entrepreneurial accelerator have created more than 150 jobs since 2019, the organisation has reported. Forty-seven full-time and 105 part-time jobs are attributed to the entrepreneurial ventures that too...

The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation is gearing up for the 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Week next month. Launched in 2008, GEW is celebrated worldwide from November 8-14 and has grown to include more than 170 host countries and 50,000 partner...

Marli Spriggs’s plan was to write a book and market it over an eight-week period, but the entrepreneurship programme she was enrolled in showed clearly why that wouldn’t work. She went back to the drawing board and came up with BookSpace, a business ...

Young people with an idea for a new business have been encouraged to pitch their project to the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. The organisation is looking for students under the age of 18 to pitch the next great idea for a chance to compet...

Ignite Bermuda, the entrepreneurial accelerator programme, begins accepting applications in about two weeks for its fifth cohort in January. The application portal will be open October 4-15 at www.ignitebermuda.com. The five-month programme focuses o...

Jo-Rena Davis calls herself the Wine Diva. It’s a role she fell into with the arrival of Covid-19 a year-and-a-half ago. Newly single and with a newborn in her arms, she lost her job and had to move in with family. Wine, she decided, was the way to ...

Eleven young Bermudians have graduated from the Summer Student Entrepreneurship Programme presented by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. The eight-week SSEP is designed to develop young Bermudians into the island’s next wave of entreprene...

Reinsurance helped Andrea Viera lead a glamorous life globetrotting and wining and dining in fine restaurants. Today she doesn’t care if she never sees another airport. In London, England she’s happy on the Kings Road in Chelsea, rarely travelling mo...

The first Harbour Night events since the Covid-19 pandemic hit were a “resounding success”, the organisers said today. Kendaree Burgess, the chief executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce, added the traditional Wednesday night entertainment had b...

The owners of a small business were celebrating last night after their stolen van was recovered yesterday thanks to an outpouring of support from the community. A thief stole the Planning Factory’s van sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday m...

The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation is to launch the Enterprise Bermuda Accelerator, an intensive programme designed to help small and medium sized business owners to scale their businesses. The BEDC said the new programme will employ the aw...

Registration is now open for Entrepreneurship 101, an entrepreneurship education course hosted by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation. The BEDC said the course provides new and aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools and resources n...