The blame for the big idea of EntrepreneursUK goes to Tony Robinson. He’s the less interesting, OBE, bearded, aged one who advises on small business support policy and was not Baldrick. He’s in this with his co-director Clare Francis, not the sailor one. Strange how none of the people round here are the real ones. Anyway, others much younger and brighter than them now have to run this and I can tell you that working night and day for peanuts from this hotspot of the UK, in Scarborough, is a joy, occasionally.

Old beardie says that more executives will start their own business and more business owners will succeed in business and achieve what they want in life if they can get ‘the know who’ and ‘know what’ that they need, when they need it, from others who have ‘got the T shirt’ and are actually running a small business.

So, EntrepreneursUK was born. It is an extra online service for BAB, The Business Advisory Bureau Limited clients (there are a lot of them now - BAB's been on the go for 18 years already) and those executives thinking about going it alone. These people use it because they agree with the whacky idea of an interactive 'helping themselves' site for small business owners. The only rule is that you have to be a prospective or existing business owner/ co-owner.