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What actually determines whether a business scales or stalls? Emma Sinclair MBE on becoming the youngest person ever to float a company on the London Stock Exchange, why 98.2% of venture capital never reaches women, and how to raise money when the institutions won't back you!

Emma Sinclair MBE is a serial entrepreneur and technology founder who took a company public at 29, making her the youngest person ever to do so on the London Stock Exchange. She is the co-founder of a global B2B software company serving some of the world's largest employers, has raised around £25m to date, and has just launched Be My Angel, a campaign to turn ordinary savers into angel investors.

She explains:

• Why the structure you raise money through shapes everything your business can become
• Why only 1.8% of venture capital goes to women, and why the fix has to come from the bottom up
• Why crowdfunding isn't just for consumer brands, and how any small business can use it

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:13 Taking A Company Public At 29
• 00:02:18 The Game That Taught Her Money
• 00:03:40 Trading Student Loans At University
• 00:06:00 Why Learning Business Is Easier Than Ever
• 00:07:27 Working From 16 And Where The Work Ethic Came From
• 00:08:16 Why Her Family Believed In Owning Something
• 00:10:17 What A Cash Shell Actually Is
• 00:11:39 When 20% Of The Funding Disappeared Overnight
• 00:12:19 The Jobs That Built Her Resilience
• 00:13:29 Writing 12 Letters To 12 Banks
• 00:15:41 Why Rejection Makes Better Business Owners
• 00:17:12 Does Work Ethic Decide Success?
• 00:18:09 The Cost Of Working All The Time
• 00:19:32 The Reality Of Female Entrepreneurship
• 00:20:47 Why Only 1.8% Of Funding Reaches Women
• 00:22:37 Launching Be My Angel
• 00:24:45 Why She's Crowdfunding Part Of Her Raise
• 00:25:48 Crowdfunding Explained Simply
• 00:26:41 Why Women Invest Differently To Men
• 00:28:53 How Small Businesses Can Use The Crowd
• 00:31:21 Why Every Founder Needs A Tribe
• 00:33:27 The Highs And Lows Nobody Sees
• 00:34:43 Outro

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What happens to businesses that wait too long to adopt AI? Piers Linney explains why the gap between businesses using AI and those ignoring it is growing fast, how to automate the work eating up your time, and why being late to this shift could make it almost impossible to catch up.

Piers Linney is a former Dragon on Dragons' Den, serial entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Implement AI. He has built, invested in and sold businesses across technology, telecoms and cloud infrastructure, and previously served on the board of the British Business Bank.

He explains:

• Why you should stop thinking about AI and start thinking about automation
• How businesses can replace hours of admin, prospecting and customer service with AI
• Why small businesses now have the tools to compete with much larger companies
• Why businesses that delay adopting AI risk falling further and further behind
• How AI can transform customer engagement, sales and personalised marketing

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro

• 00:01:11 Piers Linney's Journey Into Business

• 00:03:03 The First Business He Started At 13

• 00:06:05 Why Every Entrepreneur Needs To Learn Sales

• 00:08:06 From Lawyer And Banker To Entrepreneur

• 00:11:13 The Reality Of Building Your First Business

• 00:13:01 Learning Through Failure

• 00:14:24 Why You Should Play To Your Strengths

• 00:16:37 Building And Losing Millions In Tech

• 00:18:37 How Piers Ended Up On Dragons' Den

• 00:23:18 Why Successful People Should Give Back

• 00:26:12 Ads

• 00:27:19 What Dragons' Den Is Really Like

• 00:29:00 Piers' Best Dragons' Den Investment

• 00:30:23 How To Use Your Personal Brand Properly

• 00:31:18 Inside The British Business Bank During Covid

• 00:33:40 Why Piers Is Going All In On AI

• 00:34:02 The Jobs AI Is Already Changing

• 00:36:34 How Implement AI Helps Businesses Automate

• 00:36:53 Stop Thinking AI. Think Automation.

• 00:38:01 The ROI Of Replacing Manual Work With AI

• 00:38:44 The AI Tools Every Business Owner Should Start Using

• 00:40:55 Why Fear Of AI Could Be Fatal For Businesses

• 00:42:04 Why Businesses That Wait May Never Catch Up

• 00:43:05 Understanding Exponential Change

• 00:43:42 How To Stay On Top Of AI

• 00:44:31 Creating AI Avatars In Different Languages

• 00:45:50 Why AI Gives Small Businesses A Huge Opportunity

• 00:46:12 Why Big Companies Are Investing Millions Into AI

• 00:47:02 The Future Of Hyper-Personalised Marketing

• 00:47:50 Outro

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What would you do if I gave you £1 million to invest in your business? Sarah Willingham explains why your answer to that one question tells her whether your business can scale, why making yourself redundant is the real goal, and how she built a £40m business the hard way before learning the smart way!

Sarah Willingham is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has built, bought and scaled consumer businesses for over two decades. She grew Bombay Bicycle Club into the UK's largest chain of Indian restaurants, having earlier opened sites internationally for Planet Hollywood and run international development at Pizza Express. She was an investor on BBC's Dragons' Den across two series, and co-founded the bar group Nightcap - home to brands including The London Cocktail Club and Dirty Martini — with her husband and business partner Michael Toxvaerd. She's also a personal business mentor to Adam.

She explains:

• Why the answer to "what would you do with £1 million?" exposes whether your model is actually replicable
• Why making yourself redundant, not working harder, is the real definition of success
• Why you probably don't need investment - you need to go and sell something

Chapters

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:33 Sarah's Unlikely Route Into Business
• 00:04:02 The Paris Pub Job That Changed Everything
• 00:06:20 Learning The Business Of Hospitality
• 00:07:15 The Year That Taught Her Everything
• 00:09:22 "Sarah The Small From Stoke"
• 00:10:10 Building The UK's Largest Indian Restaurant Chain
• 00:11:12 The Hardest Part Of Business And Family
• 00:12:26 Why Doing Both At Once Makes You Mediocre
• 00:14:10 Diarising Your Downtime
• 00:16:40 Life Path Over Career Path
• 00:18:13 Why Holidays Are Business Critical
• 00:20:00 Adam's First Debrief With Sarah
• 00:21:12 Breaking The Addiction To Your Business
• 00:22:09 The Pie Chart Exercise
• 00:24:48 Everything Has A Relative Value
• 00:26:03 Adam's Biggest Constraint Was Himself
• 00:27:31 How To Replicate Yourself
• 00:28:36 Why Great Teams Aren't An Accident
• 00:30:06 Why Grit Isn't The Answer, Models Are
• 00:30:55 Making Yourself Redundant Is The Goal
• 00:32:10 Building £40M A Year The Hard Way
• 00:33:02 Ads
• 00:33:23 Do You Have A Supportive Partner?
• 00:34:29 Working With Michael: Staying In Your Lanes
• 00:36:43 The Decisions He Talked Her Out Of
• 00:37:27 Dragons' Den Vs A Year Travelling
• 00:39:08 Why You Have To Do Two Series
• 00:40:10 Walking Away To Keep A Promise
• 00:41:38 The Fork In The Road: Fame Or Family
• 00:43:51 Why Nothing Changes Without Action
• 00:44:34 How To Assess Your Downside
• 00:45:18 Why Fear Is Something To Relish
• 00:46:56 Decision Paralysis And The Investment Trap
• 00:48:30 You Can't Scale On Your Own
• 00:49:32 The Problem With Hustle Culture
• 00:50:12 Learning What You Don't Know
• 00:51:08 The £1 Million Question
• 00:52:24 Defining Your Business Model
• 00:53:53 Draw Your Model On Paper
• 00:54:18 Outro

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