From a bucket of ice, to a world leading life sciences innovator
Jonathan Milner was working as a postdoc in a Cambridge oncology lab when he was struck by an 'entrepreneurial seizure'. Inspired by his father, an engineer who ran a small company, he set up a ventur...
18 Jul 201830min
A telecommunications success story, and a chance for Manchester
Neil McArthur sold potatoes door-to-door as a child in Salford. Then, with his engineering background and his own capital, he set up the business that would later become TalkTalk. In this episode of T...
18 Jul 201825min
The secret art of early-stage investment
David Gill's meandering investment journey has taken him from law, to corporate finance, to running fund operations at HSBC, to managing the highly successful tech incubator St John’s Innovation Centr...
11 Jul 201834min
Women in investment, investing without a background in finance, and the importance of due diligence
Bridget Connell is an Invested Investor, having started investing four years ago without any financial background, and has completed five deals since. In this episode she explains her hands-on style o...
5 Jul 201825min
Pivoting to success
William Makant and Yusuf Muhammad founded Plumis in 2008 to develop Automist, an innovative sprinkler system. A decade later Plumis has a £2 million turnover and Automist is installed in 5,000 homes -...
20 Jun 201832min
Collaboration, failure, and the universe of numbers
David Gammon a rare thing - an investor in technology with no technological background. Through his work as an Invested Investor and as CEO of Rockspring, he has supported entrepreneurs through some e...
13 Jun 201834min
Daring, entrepreneurial, transparency advocate, and leading investor news
Modwenna Rees-Mogg is a world leading investor news provider. In this podcast, she openly portrays her diverse entrepreneurial journey, starting from the idea of delivering food from supermarkets in v...
31 Mai 201836min
Spin hating, honesty loving, thrills of learning, UKBAA Angel of the Year
Rajat Malhotra is a seasoned Invested Investor, which was recongised by the UK Business Angels Association in 2013 as he won their prestigious Angel of the Year award. In this podcast with The Investe...
11 Mai 201835min
