'A strong brand will get you through a crisis': Meet the Mentors with Cobra beer's founder
In the final podcast of the series, Lord Karan Bilimoria advises the founders of tech startup Zipabout on everything from marketing to investment
7 February 2018, 10:30 am
13 minutes 58 seconds
'Stay paranoid': Meet the Mentors with Ebookers' founder
Dinesh Dhamija gives leadership tips to Jamie Wilson, budding entrepreneur and founder of carer provider HomeTouch
31 January 2018, 10:30 am
16 minutes 48 seconds
'I was told British people wouldn't eat dark chocolate': Meet the Mentors with Green & Black's Jo Fairley
Serial entrepreneur and organic food pioneer Jo Fairley gives her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big
24 January 2018, 10:00 am
21 minutes 54 seconds
'Trust your intuition': Meet the Mentors with Cath Kidston
The designer who created an empire around her trademark floral wash bags, tea cloths and crockery, reveals that luck played a big part in her success
17 January 2018, 12:00 am
19 minutes 42 seconds
Bedroom business to world domination: Meet the Mentors with Trunki's Rob Law
In the first podcast of a new series, the designer of the award-winning kids’ luggage brand shares his top tips for global expansion with a furniture maker from Blackburn
10 January 2018, 7:00 am
28 minutes 38 seconds
'The journey is nothing but extraordinary' – Confessions of a Startup
In our last podcast of the series, entrepreneurs at our Confessions of a Startup seminar shared their tales of overcoming obstacles while starting a business. They agreed it’s important to have people around who support your vision
11 April 2017, 9:00 am
34 minutes 31 seconds
'Embrace adversity' – Confessions of a Small Business
If you don’t experience tough times, you’re not putting yourself out there enough. That was the verdict of the entrepreneurs at our first Confessions of a Small Business seminar. Catch up with what you missed
4 April 2017, 9:07 am
8 minutes 30 seconds
'Have faith in what you're doing' – Confessions of a Startup
Isabella Lane started Smarter Applications with husband Christian two and a half years ago. Their first product was a wifi kettle, which they built for £100
31 March 2017, 6:00 am
9 minutes
'It takes longer and costs more than you think' – Confessions of a Startup
It’s been a long road for Efe Çakarel, founder of MUBI. He had his big idea in 2006 but it was seven years before he finally felt the model was working
29 March 2017, 6:00 am
11 minutes 34 seconds
'Breaking up with a co-founder is like a divorce' – Confessions of a Startup
Emily Forbes loves film and working in storytelling. But setting up Seenit, a video collaboration platform, has challenged her in ways she couldn’t imagine. Not least because she has parted ways with not one but two co-founders
16 March 2017, 9:54 am
14 minutes 23 seconds
'We have learned so much from failure' – Confessions of a Startup
In our first Confessions of a Startup podcast, Rich Pleeth, founder of the social app Sup, describes struggling to achieve sustainable growth, falling out with his co-founders and having to tell investors you’re closing the business