Doug Richard, American Dragon from the Dragon's Den and founder of School for Startups, will be writing articles to support small businesses for FreshBusinessThinking.com. 

Doug Richard's School for Startups delivers practical instruction to entrepreneurs who want to launch a new business, assemble effective management teams, develop exceptional products and services, market products & services profitably and find funding from investors and grant makers worldwide.  Freshbusinessthinking.com is an online resource for small business owners, directors and entrepreneurs. It is where information hungry and time-poor business decision makers can source information and advice to help them run their businesses more effectively and efficiently.

Doug Richard, serial entrepreneur and founder of School for Startups, says "Fresh Business Thinking offers news, timely advice, standard legal documents and other resources of immediate value to small business owners twenty-four  hours a day, seven days a week.  89% of businesses in the UK employ less than ten people. Small business owners are the backbone of the UK economy."

Nick James, founder of FreshBusinessThinking.com, says "Doug Richard's insights, as both a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor, make him a tremendous asset to the site. We're really looking forward to working with him in the months to come.  "

You can find Doug Richard's columns on featured on FreshBusinessThinking.com starting September 20, 2009.