Off Balance #28

👋🏾 Hi friends!

Crazy how quickly a couple of weeks can go by when you’re knee deep in the thick of things.

I’ve been busy writing, prepping for some fundraises, speaking with clients and generally trying to grow - despite some of the headwinds we’re seeing with startups at the moment - more on that below.

Oh, and on top of everything else, I’ve had my second story published in The Standard - check out the story here.

I’m knee deep in writing about all the things I’ve learned from the last couple of decades as founder, CFO and CEO, so sign up for early access to Off Balance - The Book and feel free to share with anyone else you think might enjoy it 😄.

I’m a few chapters in and exploring all 100 of the lessons I posted that got 1m views, thousands of likes and hundreds of comments and shares online - and that was just a list!

Now let’s get down to business…

In this weeks Off Balance, I’ll be chatting about:

🎙️ Harry Slagel and Lucy Adams, Founders of Martee’s on Nothing Ventured.
📉 What you might want to do if things are getting tough in your startup.

Trying to build an impactful venture?

Watch this podcast 👌🏾

In this episode of Nothing Ventured, I sat down with Harry Slagel and Lucy Adams - Co Founders of Martee's - who are building the tool to predict and manage demand to get fresher, healthier food to consumers.

In this wide ranging episode they talked about:

➡️ Harry building his first business in lockdown, scaling to 1m revenue and ultimately exiting.

➡️ How Lucy and he met - turns out LinkedIn has value beyond posting clickbait.

➡️ Building an impact driven business in the food sector backed by Founders Factory and Nesta, making an acquisition and pivoting from stores to demand forecasting.

➡️ What are accelerators good for and why they love the ones they are working with.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Also, if you have any feedback, or if there’s something you’re desperate to see me include, just reply to this mail or ping me online - I’m very open to conversations.

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Now let’s get into it.