Doug Richard is an entrepreneur with experience of over 30 years. He has been running School for Startups, where he is giving training sessions to new entrepreneurs. Find out more at http://dougrichard.co/

1. A N E N T R E P R E N E U R A N D F A M O U S S P E A K E R
Doug Richard

3. Doug Richard is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and
host.

4. He is a successful entrepreneur with 30 years'
experience and has been running a school for
startups.

5. His school has taught over 40,000 people how to
start their own business.

6. Apart from running a successful school for startups,
Doug has also formed various businesses over the
years.

7. He has also co-founded an application that offered
text messaging services over the Internet.

8. The application outdated after the success of smart
phones.

10. Doug has also been awarded the Honorary
Doctorate, by Plymouth University. Following this,
he wrote a book that presents a guide to start your
own Business.

11. It speaks about entrepreneurship in the creative
industries.

12. Doug 's presence was not just limited to Business, He
was approached by BBC and appeared on the show
called Dragon's Den as a government adviser.

13. Richard was active in Non Profitable works as well,
he served as Non-Executive Director at CRAC, The
Career Development Organization from 2009 to
2010.

14. Who knew a man who received his Executive
Management Certificate in 1989 would go places.