#069 - David Hewlett | From Acquisition to Innovation: Key Lessons in Scaling Tech Businesses

David Hewlett is an Entrepreneur, CEO of SmartLabels, and has an extensive background in Silicon Valley working in tech marketing for both Google and Youtube. On the episode, expect to learn about the utility of the SmartLabels product, purchasing businesses and how to improve them, how entrepreneurs find businesses for sale, vegan beef jerky, “hackathons” and other challenges entrepreneurs give themselves to produce a product as quickly and as cheap as possible, what changes were made to SmartLabels once it was purchased and how it improved, advertising with keywords, how SmartLabels can be used in an educational setting, how sometimes your products can be used in unexpected ways (like snake feeding schedules), past businesses he owned which had failed and what he learned, the process of having an idea and how to get it to market, navigating a learning disability through his younger years, red flags with suppliers, calculating risk, how to raise capital to begin a business venture, making sure your customer will buy your product before you build it, and, much more! Thank you for tuning in and hope you enjoy the show. Shop for SmartLabels here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/SmartLabels/Homepage/page/D2BA86DA-42AE-48F3-92B6-2A1D67A48142Download the Luxy App here: https://www.onluxy.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorQE6gOpRh5iTLYhBH2zLFzKX0WGhAc_oLC3EETPegghQkvcVUgSend us a textThoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.