BusinessZone

We spoke to Danielle Plowman, the founder of personalised gift retailer Ellie Ellie, about how she started up with just £500 and grew to a team of 25. In the podcast you’ll learn about: - Entrepreneur branding in startups - Reducing cart abandonment - Selling on Not On The High Street This podcast was supported by BusinessZone partner Worldpay. After the interview we’re joined by James Frost, Worldpay UK’s chief marketing and commercial officer, who shares insight on increasing conversion, fulfilment, using retail technology and more. Worldpay is supporting BusinessZone's month-long focus on retail and ecommerce. To find out more about how Worldpay helps thousands of small businesses with secure online payments check out their website - https://business.worldpay.com/lp/onlinepaymentdis?utm_source=BusinessZone&utm_medium=Article

Serial entrepreneur Ed Relf delves into scaling Laundrapp to 90 employees in three years including: - Working with MVPs - The businesses he started you haven’t heard of - Pivoting from a technology, asset-light business to having a fleet

In the latest episode of Start / Scale / Disrupt, we were lucky enough to talk to toucanBox CMO Depesh Mandalia. He shares his top advice for ecommerce startups that are trying to develop and scale their marketing spend.

We caught up with the CEO of Tech City UK, a digital growth programme delivery organisation that’s backed by the government, to chat about the future. We discussed: - Tech City UK’s visa programme has seen record applications since Brexit - Whether politicians listening to the concerns of the sector - The role of smart capital in an efficient ecosystem - The impact of tech on society at large

Founder Paul Lewis-Borman has recently raised a £150,000 crowdfunding round and launched new productivity app Meetzoo. Before that he built software company Symbox to a £10m turnover. In today’s episode we talked about: - Business can suffer by not being funded properly - The obsession entrepreneurs have with ideas - How you value a business’ network ahead of crowdfunding - How to set raise targets - Being a non-technical founder - Don’t be the smartest person in your organisation

Kafoodle won The Pitch last year after building an ethical health tech startup that helps restaurants and consumers track the origin of food and avoid life threatening allergy issues. In this episode of Start / Scale / Disrupt, Kafoodle co-founder Tarryn Gorre, talks about: - How the founders with very different expertise met - Bootstrapping the business and the question of future investment - How mission clarity can make a startup feel more structured - Moving from targeting small businesses to enterprise clients - Applying for government grants - And, bringing in an MD: “Just because we had the idea for Kafoodle Care, doesn’t mean we’re the best people to sell it into that market.”