Inter:views | Cracking The Entrepreneur Bottleneck
Laurent Notin
100% of Entrepreneurs will eventually be the bottleneck in their business. Not just once, but several times!
The hardest bit? Identifying you're being one. The easy bit? Getting out of it. And that's all about awareness.
This podcast is dedicated to getting you unstuck as an entrepreneur. In each episode, I invite seasoned entrepreneurs to speak candidly about how they overcame being the bottleneck in their business.
I don't just hype up their success. I ask the questions you want the answers to but wouldn't dare ask!
By listening to these episodes, you'll discover what it means to be a bottleneck, how it manifests, and most importantly, how to get out of it.
This isn't fluff. We dive deep, get under the hood, and learn what it really takes to blast through the bottlenecks and scale a business.
Join me every week; subscribe now.
How much of the bottleneck in your business are you? Take the Bottleneck Index scorecard to find out https://www.laurentnotin.com/the-bottleneck-index
The hardest bit? Identifying you're being one. The easy bit? Getting out of it. And that's all about awareness.
This podcast is dedicated to getting you unstuck as an entrepreneur. In each episode, I invite seasoned entrepreneurs to speak candidly about how they overcame being the bottleneck in their business.
I don't just hype up their success. I ask the questions you want the answers to but wouldn't dare ask!
By listening to these episodes, you'll discover what it means to be a bottleneck, how it manifests, and most importantly, how to get out of it.
This isn't fluff. We dive deep, get under the hood, and learn what it really takes to blast through the bottlenecks and scale a business.
Join me every week; subscribe now.
How much of the bottleneck in your business are you? Take the Bottleneck Index scorecard to find out https://www.laurentnotin.com/the-bottleneck-index
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Jul 7, 2020 • 34min
Inter:views #24 | Anna Juusela | WeEncourage | Finland
Overcome Your Fear, Go For It! Anna is the Founder and CEO of WeEncourage, a fundraising platform and open source AI tool that helps empower women. She went from a retail business into building something she had 0 experience about. The calling to make an impact was too strong, she could not resist. It's one of the most inspiring conversations I've had. We talked a lot about resilience, overcoming fear, failure and how routines can build efficiency. More about WeEncourage: https://encourage.fi/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
Jun 28, 2020 • 34min
Inter:views #23 | Tom Hayton | Germany & UK
We Don't Exercise Our Storytelling Muscle Enough Tom helps tech businesses telling their stories in a more creative and engaging way. We cover in details 2 key questions: Why is it often difficult to describe our business to others? What makes a good story (cues: tension and relability)? Also on this episode: how to scale up a small business, and why you shouldn't neglect your health for the sake of your business. More about Tom: https://www.tomhayton.com/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
Jun 22, 2020 • 29min
Inter:views #22 | Heloise Buckland | HUSK Ventures |Cambodia
Do The Uncomfortable Work, Serve Others First Heloise is an impact-driven passionate entrepreneur. She's the CEO and co-Founder of Husk Ventures, a social enterprise that aims at improving livelihoods of small farmers by turning rice husk into biochar. She tells us all about this fascinating topic. She also shares practical key entrepreneurship lessons, in particular, how asking the right question could have saved the business 1 year. More about Husk Ventures: http://www.huskventures.com/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
Jun 14, 2020 • 28min
Inter:views #21 | Kirsi Ekberg | ViLike | Finland
Follow Your Intuition and Never Give Up If you want to know what it takes to be impact-driven and persevere, don't miss this episode! Meet Kirsi, the Founder of ViLike. She's passionate about using technology to make people physically move. Her crazy entrepreneur journey began at the university. Crazy because she lost all the data twice! Which means she started her company from scratch 3 times! This is her story. More about ViLike: https://vilike.fi/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
Jun 7, 2020 • 37min
Interviews #20 | Richard Burrage | Cimigo | Vietnam & Indonesia
Take Time Out To Reflect On Significant Decisions Richard is the Founder and Managing Director of Cimigo, a market research agency operating in Vietnam and Indonesia. He defines himself as a curious mind, which brought him to Asia in the early 90's. We talk about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur in a region that has been changing fast, and how ego can get in your way. This episode also includes the biggest mistake I've ever heard and the client's amazing reaction. More about Cimigo: https://www.cimigo.com/en/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
May 31, 2020 • 38min
Interviews #19 | Berta Lazáro | Team Labs | Spain
A Leader Is Invisible But Available Berta is a designer and entrepreneur at heart. She's the co-founder of TeamLabs, a campus of innovation and entrepreneurship. As Berta says: "Entrepreneurship cannot be taught, you need to live it." She tells us about the importance of learning, and how entrepreneurship is the most important educational tool of our time. More about TeamLabs: https://www.teamlabs.es/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
May 27, 2020 • 34min
Inter:views #18 | Ville Simola| Maria01| Finland
Entrepreneurship Is A Sense Of Ownership Ville is Maria01 CEO, the largest start-up campus in Finland. A former entrepreneur himself, today his clients are all entrepreneurs. In this episode, we talk about how his motto drives his life, entrepreneurship mindset, leadership, challenges and recipes for success. He also tells us about the start-up scene. More about Maria01: https://maria.io/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
May 16, 2020 • 1min
Inter:views #16 | Bob Chua | BlinQ | Malaysia
Discipline Is Everything Meet Bob Chua, the founder of the Asian e-commerce platform BlinQ. We cover 1 fundamental of structuring a business: being disciplined. He also tells us about how he created and successfully exited Pulse Group PLC, prior to his current venture. Find out more about Bob's company: https://www.blinq.fashion Inter:views is sponsored by @BERTOLIDigital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
May 9, 2020 • 34min
Inter:views #17| | Chris Elkin| Doodle Brands | Vietnam
Every Employee Is A Designer Of Value For Clients Chris is a successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of Doodle Brands and specializes in human-centered design. He believes that any business issue starts with how to add value to your customers. Listen to him to find out why and how it should be done. More about Chris' business: https://doodlebrands.co/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
Apr 29, 2020 • 37min
Inter:views #15 |Steve Brown| ROI Online |USA
There Is No B2B or B2C, There Is Only H2H. Would you like to do what modern marketing is about? And why we should start calling consumers "people" instead? Then listen to Steve Brown, the founder and CEO at ROI Online. Steve also wrote a book titled The Golden Toilet, so I had to dig into the writing process. Find out more about Steve's business: https://www.roionline.com/ Inter:views is sponsored by BERTOLI Digital, a Wix website's agency built for Startups, Individuals and SMEs. Would you like to be a guest? 👉 contact@laurentnotin.com
