Tag Archives: Startup

Surfing, sun & income- quickfire Q&A with entrepreneur James Kitchener

Meet the founder of Jack Media, James Kitchener. He lives in the surfing town of Byron Bay and has been a successful entrepreneur since 2005 when he started experimenting in the world of affiliate marketing.

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He’s come a long way since the days of travelling and working from a laptop (not that he wouldn’t enjoy going back to that..), now running the Jack Media office and employees whilst desperately trying to sneak a quick 30 minutes in the ocean with his surfboard.

In this rapid Q&A session, James delivers some very straight and practical advice about what it takes to run a business based on his own unique experiences. To hear more insights from real life entrepreneurs click here.

Entrepreneur Q&A: Jake Hayman co-founder of Frame Again

Join Jake Hayman for a quickfire Q&A session. Jake recently appeared on Dragons Den with his business partner Joe, only to turn down an offer from serial entepreneur Peter Jones.

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Today Jake took a few minutes from the busy world of Frame Again to answer some startup friendly questions.

To hear Jake and Joe’s first interview with Breaking Biz click here, and to hear from other entrepreneurs, click here.

Sell, ‘like’ people and negotiate for fairness not advantage

Eliot Peper was introduced to me by previous guest Lucas Carlson. Eliot has worked alongside both startups and entrepreneurs and has a few stories to tell.

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Why do some VC’s confuse startup investing with Wall Street? Why don’t startup founders want to grab a beer with their customers? This interview explores these questions and more, creating a useful set of insights for today’s startup founders trying to get ahead with their business.

Eliot recently had his first book released with well known Venture Capitalist Brad Feld, and his new publishing company. It’s called ‘Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0’ and you can find it here.

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GiftGaming CEO Nick Hatter on pitching, bootstrapping & understanding startup investment

Mobile gamers are drowning in ads and it’s starting to annoy them. The solution? GiftGaming. In this episode we’re joined by the founder and CEO, Nick Hatter.

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This is a great episode for any budding entrepreneurs out there because Nick is young, driven and his company plays in the mobile ad space, an area that many are trying to crack. Nick chats to us about GiftGaming, startup pitching and dealing with startup investors.

If you’re interested in mobile advertising, you may enjoy our interview with TreSensa CEO Rob Grossberg.

For more interviews with startup founders, click here or for more interviews with startup investors, click here.

Turning down the Dragons to build a Marshmallow empire

In today’s interview we’re joined by Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie, founder of Mallow & Marsh who is the second guest (following the founders of Frame Again) from Breaking Biz to appear on BBC’s Dragons Den and turn down an offer of investment.

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Mallow & Marsh make marshmallows with the highest quality of ingredients available, and can be found in Sainsburys and at the Sourced market in Kings Cross St Pancras.

We chat to Harriot about the background of her business and why she turned down Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones on Dragons Den.

If you enjoyed this episode you may enjoy listening to Bee of Bee’s Bakery as well as the other startup founders we’ve interviewed.

Naive or clever? Mobile gaming company ignores Apple & Android market

Today’s guest is Rob Grossberg, co-founder of New York based startup TreSensa . Rob chats to us about being a small player in a huge market and why TreSensa have chosen HTML5 over the traditional app stores.

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We also discuss how he raised investment with his co-founders and the advice he has for other startups.

Founders of ‘Frame Again’ discuss Dragons Den & Crowdfunding

Today we’re joined by Joe Kenyon and Jake Hayman, the founders of Frame Again and recent guests on the new series of Dragons Den.

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After turning down an offer to buy their business by Peter Jones, Joe and Jake shifted to the crowdfunding platform of Seedrs and smashed their original investment target in less than a day. In this episode we speak to the guys about their experience on Dragon’s Den and pick their brains on raising investment as a startup.

If you’re interested in investing in Frame Again using Seedrs, click here for more information. For an interview which explains how to become an investor from anywhere using Seedrs, click here. We also have plenty of CEO and Investor interviews on the podcast for you to enjoy.

Social entrepreneurship: Making money vs making a difference

In this episode we speak to Jack Graham, the CEO and founder of Year Here, a postgraduate leadership programme that challenge Britain’s brightest talents to a year of tackling society’s toughest problems.

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The more you learn about Year Here and its mission the more you might consider what would happen if the same energy & talent that goes into traditional tech startup was thrown at social entrepreneurship instead.

If social innovation/entrepreneurship interests you, check out the following resources recommended by Jack:

YearHere.org

TED

Year Here’s Golden List

7 minutes of simple learnings for future startup founders

Today’s episode is a collation of useful sound bites from four previous Breaking Biz guests, all of whom run their own successful businesses. It’s basic advice/learnings delivered in around 7 minutes.

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The contributors are: Tucker Max, Lucas Carlson, Apu Gupta, Charlie Hoehn and Nathan Kontny. Access the original episodes by clicking on the respective name. All Breaking Biz interviews with CEO’s can be found here.

Lauren Maillian Bias gives advice for startups seeking investment

After selling her first startup (a boutique winery), Lauren Maillian Bias moved on to become the founder and CEO of Luxury Market Branding and founding partner at Gen Y Capital Partners.

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Lauren gives us some great insight into what she looks for in a company before investing and what she looks for in a pitch. In addition to this, Lauren has also released her new book ‘The Path Redefined’ which is definitely worth checking out.

“It’s a synthesis of my story of an entrepreneur and I hope people will learn to embrace what makes them unique”

Although we originally wanted to talk about the book with her, it was just too tempting to squeeze out some advice for startups who are preparing to pitch to experienced investors.