Taking some time away from corporate life also gave Mr Fekete the space to think clearly about what it was he wanted to achieve.

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Business school can give you many of the useful attributes you need to be a successful entrepreneur, says Aloysius Fekete, chief executive of London-based start-up MaxBips.

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But after graduating from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada, Mr Fekete moved to London and set up MaxBips, a website where small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) auction their surplus cash to banks.

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