A Multi-Million Pound Events Empire, Survived COVID & Created Glastonbury of Business | Frankie James

Frankie James co-founded Ideas Community, the team behind the UK StartUp Awards, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and Ideas Fest, now a multi-million-pound turnover business.This week Frankie sits down with Emmie and Mae to talk about building a portfolio of businesses without losing focus, closing an investment round three days before the world shut down, and the networking question that will completely change how you work a room.Honest, warm, and full of things you can actually use.In this episode:→ Why over £3M got raised in a field — and how you engineer serendipity→ How to test demand with a waitlist before you commit a penny→ Surviving COVID as an events business and the pivot that became Ideas Fest→ How to build a portfolio of businesses without losing the thread→ The one networking question to ask instead of "what do you do?"→ Why the founders who win go deep on AI and deep on human connectionDownload the free one-page playbook for this episode at https://femalefoundersriseshow.com/RESOURCES MENTIONED→ Ideas Community: https://www.ideasforums.com/→ Great British Entrepreneur Awards: https://greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com/→ Ideas Fest: https://greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com/ideas-fest-sign-up/→ UK StartUp Awards: https://startupawards.uk/→ Daniel Priestley: https://www.danielpriestley.com/→ Female Founders Rise: https://femalefoundersrise.com/CONNECT WITH US→ Join Female Founders Rise Free: https://femalefoundersrise.com/→ Emmie on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emmiefaust→ Mae on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mae-yip-9017b238→ FFR Show on Instagram: https://instagram.com/ffr.show→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@femalefoundersriseshowABOUT THE SHOWWhere female founders talk money, mindset and everything in between. Our goal is to help women build successful, sustainable businesses so more women can find financial freedom through entrepreneurship.