FT Start-Up Stories

FT Start-Up Stories

  • 23 minutes 18 seconds
    Uncovering the secrets of computing
    Alex Klein tells Jonathan Moules about his ambition to transform attitudes to computing with his kit to help people of all ages make their own and write the programmes to go with them.

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    13 August 2018, 4:00 am
  • 23 minutes 35 seconds
    How not to hire a psychopath
    Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler co-founded EDITED, an innovative tech company that brings data analysis to the retail industry, nearly a decade ago. They tell Jonathan Moules that the toughest problem they've faced was when they hired someone who wasn't a team player.

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    6 August 2018, 4:42 pm
  • 20 minutes 35 seconds
    Pursuing the AI dream
    Twenty years ago, Chetan Dube left the world of academia, at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, to pursue a career in business. He tells Jonathan Moules what inspired the move. 

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    23 July 2018, 4:00 am
  • 21 minutes
    The accidental entrepreneur
    Michelle You, co-founder of the music ticketing and concert discovery platform Songkick, tells Jonathan Moules about the fun of creating a business, and the sense of failure she felt after the company was acquired by Time Warner.

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    16 July 2018, 4:00 am
  • 21 minutes 37 seconds
    Creating trust in an online world
    When Peter Mühlmann’s mum had some bad experiences making her first purchases online in 2007, he decided there must be a way to guide consumers to businesses they could trust. The result was Trustpilot.

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    9 July 2018, 4:00 am
  • 20 minutes 33 seconds
    Buddi: what to do when a deal goes wrong
    Sarah Murray’s mobile alarm and tracking technology company faced an early setback when a government contract she’d been pinning her hopes on fell through. She tells Jonathan Moules how she dealt with the disappointment and bounced back.

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    2 July 2018, 4:00 am
  • 25 minutes 31 seconds
    How fighting a computer bug turned into a vocation

    Marcin Kleczynski’s interest in computer software was sparked at the age of 14 when a battle to remove a virus from his home computer brought him into contact with the world of cyber geeks. He teamed up with some of them to provide a free service, later turning their ‘freemium’ model into a lucrative global business, Malwarebytes.

    Picture credit: Alpana Aras

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    25 June 2018, 4:00 am
  • 21 minutes 30 seconds
    The business that spun out of control
    Julie Deane set up the Cambridge Satchel Company as a way of financing her children's education, but its rapid success attracted outside investors and the venture took a direction that made her feel uncomfortable. She tells Jonathan Moules how she regained her confidence and took back control.

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    18 June 2018, 4:00 am
  • 22 minutes 47 seconds
    iZettle: beating the incumbents

    If you are trying to fill a gap in the market and a very conservative industry tells you it can’t be done, then go for it because there is “massive opportunity and the sky’s the limit”, iZettle’s Jacob de Geer tells Jonathan Moules


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    11 June 2018, 4:00 am
  • 19 minutes 23 seconds
    Dale Murray: networking saved my business
    Dale Murray co-founded Omega Logic, which provided an electronic solution for mobile phone top-ups just as mobile phone use in the UK was becoming widespread. Timing played a big role in the success of the company, but it was ultimately her networking skills that saved the business

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    4 June 2018, 3:00 am
  • 39 seconds
    Start-up Stories returns

    We’re back. Start-up Stories is returning with a new set of entrepreneurs sharing their insights about the joys and challenges of starting a business.

    So look out for our first episode in series five - from Monday June 4



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    30 May 2018, 11:01 am
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