I was invited on the ‘Buy & Build’ podcast, a podcast exploring buying, building and investing in UK and European small businesses, hosted by Paul Quirk and David Nefs.

buy and build

Click the link below to listen to the Buy & Build podcast or download it to listen at your leisure.

You can also listen on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

In detail, here’s what we discussed;

02.00 – The background to my business launch

06.00 – Three reasons why my investment pitch failed

08.45 – The online gambling landscape and niching

10.45 – The two commercial models for the business

12.45 – Award ceremonies, authority and the importance of product differentiation

16.45 – Growth levers in the early days

18.00 – The power of not raising funding

19.45 – scary steps from launch to staff

21.30 – The key lesson about taking on your first staff

23.00 – Adding staff to create additional revenue

24.50 – Big bumps in the road in the business story

27.00 – Positive steps in the journey

28.30 – The business sale process and my experience

34.30 – The most difficult thing I ever had to do

36.00 – How I became a Business Sounding Board

37.30 – It doesn’t need to be lonely at the top

38.00 – The benefits of having a Business Sounding Board by your side

42.00 – The problem bias of advice from the ‘wrong’ people

If you found the above useful then you can also see and hear more of my discussions, interviews and webinar appearances here.

WHAT NEXT?

As I mentioned right at the start of the discussion, if you’d like to discuss how I could help you regarding you not being ‘lonely at the top’, or you feel you need a Business Sounding Board, then please give me a call, drop me an email or connect with me on LinkedIn. Details below. I’ll be happy to have chat with you to explore how I may be able to help you. I’ll be honest and I may not be able to help you myself and in that scenario I’ll try and point you in the right direction.

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