50+ Archives - Prowess

Starting a Business at 50: What I Learned as a Founder

You’re never to old to start a business. Why retire when work could be fulfilling and fun.

7 Lessons to Build a Multi-Million-Pound Online Business

Jean Rasbridge has made it big as a grandmother with an online business. All the family are involved. Here she shares 7 principles which have helped her business grow.

Can the UK’s Disadvantaged Groups Benefit from Enterprise?

‘How can the most disadvantaged groups benefit from enterprise?’ to be blunt, they can’t within the current government system, or at least to say it’s very difficult, Aaron Barbour, Research and Policy Manager at linksUK, told the Prowess Conference in March 2009.

Women Over 50 Are the New Face of Start Up Loans

StartUp Loans’ milestone muse, Melissa Mailer-Yates, tells us about her business journey so far and how she found the StartUp Loans process.

From Kitchen Table to Boardroom: UK Women in Business 2026

Women are less constrained by the ‘social norms’ of who we ‘should’ be in business, and far better able to build a business based on our reality and values.

Life After the NEA: Start-Up Support for Women in 2026

New Enterprise Allowance is the Government’s welfare to self-employment scheme. But very few women are benefiting. We look at the pitfalls and how to avoid them.