Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 4: How to cross the chasm from idea to product
You want to launch a new product. But how do you decide on exactly what you’re going to develop? How do you build a community when you don’t have anything to sell them? How do you test demand? These a...
27 Sep 202244min
How I Failed: Unable to keep staff, with Founder Hayden Bloomfield
Do you struggle to maintain good relationships with your employees? Hayden Bloomfield managed to grow his grounds maintenance company during the pandemic. At its height, it had a team of ten and was ...
22 Sep 202212min
Fiverr: “Stop focusing on f*cking valuations, they mean nothing!” says Co-Founder Micha Kaufman
Micha Kaufman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fiverr, the global online marketplace for freelancers. Let’s say you’re a designer. You can list your services and display your portfolio. And then companies...
20 Sep 202249min
How I failed: The danger of doing business with friends, with Footlights Founder Jo Fisher
Would you go into business with a friend? Jo Fisher is the Founder and CEO of Footlights, a performing arts company, which has 17 franchises and works with schools across the north of England. She g...
15 Sep 202212min
The Newsette's Daniella Pierson on how to prove your haters wrong
Daniella Pierson is the CEO and Founder of the Newsette, a women-focused newsletter which she started when she was at university at just 19 years old. Now 27, she was recently named by Forbes as one o...
13 Sep 202254min
How I failed: “When people try to take things off you, you gotta fight back!” with Natterjack Whisky Founder Aidan Mehigan
For this episode of ‘How I Failed’ we follow the story of Aidan Mehigan’s fight to save his business, as it happened. We first spoke to Aidan earlier this year when he was in the middle of a fundraise...
8 Sep 202216min
THIS Co-Founder shares secret to making plant-based food that doesn’t suck - Andy Shovel
THIS is currently the fastest-growing meat alternative brand in the UK. After launching in 2019, it was recently valued at £150 million. But Co-Founders Andy Shovel and Pete Sharman didn’t always want...
6 Sep 202256min
What it was really like building Apple with Steve Jobs, with Founder & CEO of FNDR James Vincent
James Vincent has helped develop brands for some of the biggest companies in the world. For 11 years he met Steve Jobs every week to come up with some of the iconic campaigns for Apple’s products. And...
30 Aug 20221h 9min
