A comment by a senior figure in the small business community that lifestyle business owners shouldn't be supported has made former Dragons' Den panellist and School for Startups founder Doug Richard angry.
I have never understood the antipathy that otherwise rational people have for the so-called 'lifestyle business'. Quite recently I heard someone in a position of responsibility in the small business community disparage lifestyle businesses. They weren't real businesses, he said. They only enriched the owner, he said. What the f**k, I thought to myself.
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