Rachel Bridge
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Rachel Bridge (born 1968) is a British journalist, author and public speaker.[1] She is the former Enterprise editor for British newspaper, The Sunday Times, and writes about small and medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs. Bridge attended Wimbledon High School, London [1] and graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge in 1989 with an MA (Hons) economics degree. She lives in London.
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Career
Her first job was as a companies reporter on Investors Chronicle magazine and she went on to become a business reporter for the Evening Standard and then The Times. In 1995 she moved to Sydney to become Australian correspondent for The Times for three years and followed that with two years as a French correspondent for The Times based in Bordeaux. On her return to the UK in 2002 Bridge became the small business writer for the Mail on Sunday before joining The Sunday Times in 2003.
Writing
Bridge has published four books so far, based on her popular columns in the Sunday Times newspaper, with the latest book How to Make a Million Before Lunch, published by Virgin Books,[2] in August 2010.She also performed her one-woman-show based on her recent book at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2010[3]
How I Made It[4] and My Big Idea,[5] published by Kogan Page [2], both made the list of best-selling business books on Amazon. How I Made It included interviews with Duncan Bannatyne from the BBC television series Dragons' Den, diet expert Rosemary Conley, Prue Leith and Julie Craymer, producer of Abba musical Mamma Mia on stage and screen.
How I Made It was described by Sir Richard Branson as 'Essential reading for every budding entrepreneur'.
Bridge also helped businessman and Dragons' Den judge Peter Jones write his book Tycoon and is thanked by Jones in the book's credits.
Public Speaking
Bridge has seven years' experience public-speaking on issues such as enterprises and entrepreneurs. In August 2010 she took a one-woman show, How to Make a Million before Lunch, to the Edinburgh fringe festival.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.rachelbridge.com
- ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Make-Million-Before-Lunch/dp/0753539349/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
- ^ http://www.sevenhillsgroup.co.uk/news/2010/08/16/the-fantastic-rachel-bridge-takes-entrepreneurship-to-the-edinburgh-fringe-festival/
- ^ http://www.koganpage.com/products/BusinessandManagement/B/Entrepreneurship/B009/1001029/9780749443115
- ^ http://www.koganpage.com/products/BusinessandManagement/B/Entrepreneurship/B009/1001738/9780749446260
- ^ http://www.rachelbridge.com/speaking.htm
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