Business Without Bullsh-t

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with David B Horne, Founder of Funding Focus.David opens up to tell us about the unfair reality he's discovered in venture capital funding between genders and ethnicities, an inequality so unjustifiably skewed towards white middle-class men that he felt compelled enough to do something about it which gave birth to Funding Focus, David's now life-long mission to create a level playing field for everyone in VC funding regardless of their gender or ethnicity. Welcome to The Equality Scandal.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Our guest this week is David B Horne, the Founder of Funding Focus, an educational business which aims to raise awareness and give support to women and racial minorities who face a very uneven playing field when trying to raise capital for their businesses.David trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC and went on to be CFO of two companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market where he raised more than £100,000,000 in funding, and has transacted more than 20 companies.David is also the author of “Add Then Multiply – How Small Businesses Can Think Like Big Businesses And Achieve Exponential Growth” which won the “Business Self-Development” category at the Business Book Awards 2020 and was #1 on Amazon.Check out David B Horne's book recommendations:"Infinite Possibilities" by Mike Dooley"Entrepreneur Revolution" by Daniel Priestley"The Snowball - Warren Buffet" by Alice SchroederBWB is powered by Oury Clark

In light of TechWeek, we had the pleasure of partnering with our good friends at London & Partners to part take in what can only be described as the world's fastest networking event - we took over a whole Eurostar carriage on a trip from London to Paris en route to the VIVaTech Conference and invited some of the most exciting and innovative Tech startups to join us and network, kind of like Speed Dating for businesses .. on a train .. at 180 miles per hour.It was fast, it was fun and we thought "why not set up a podcast studio on the train for some quick fire Business vs. Bullshit quiz action " .. welcome to our TechWeek Special!A big thankyou to all of our brilliant guests (in order):Laura Citron - CEO - London & PartnersAndrew Tibbets - Head of Innovation - London & PartnersMelina Jacovou - CEO - PropelFrederic Bruneau - CEO and Founder - Foxy NerdsVipul Lakhani - COO - Soft ToolsArun Anand - Founder & CEO - Electric Miles Chloe Sabani - Head Of Sales UK & Ireland - B4FinanceQuentin Debavela - General Manager Northern Europe - MaltMatt Bunn - Co-Founder / MD - Capita Scaling PartnerCharles Sekwalor - CEO & Founder - MoveMeBack Cynthia Vega - Programme Lead - KantarKirsty Jarvis - Founder & CEO - Luminous PRAshley Monogal - Mott McDonaldDami Hastrup - CEO - MoonhubEddy Herman - Co-Founder & CTO - SlipBWB is powered by Oury Clark

Welcome to this week's BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Sophie Epstone, Founder & CEO of Trekstock.We discuss Trekstock's journey so far with providing support for young adult cancer patients and her learnings about the reality for people who suffer from the disease both physically and mentally. Born out of the realisation that there was a huge lack in support services for young adult cancer patients after a family friend was diagnosed with the disease, Sophie has been on a mission ever since to make sure young patients get the right type of help they need.BWB is powered by Oury Clark

Our guest this week is Sophie Epstone, Founder of Trekstock, the only UK charity that specifically focuses on supporting young adults through cancer.Sophie became aware of a huge gap in tailored support services for cancer patients in their 20s or 30s after a family friend had treatment for lymphoma and found himself in hospital surrounded by people much older than him whose needs were the opposite to his. There was no age-appropriate support available and Sophie wanted to do something about it, and so Trekstock was born.Check out Sophie Epstone's recommendations:Adam Buxton PodcastDesert Island Discs"This Much is True" by Miriam MargolyesBWB is powered by Oury Clark

Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Dominick Peasley, CEO at Sprk Capital.We take a deeper look at how Sprk's smart model actually works with lending against R&D claims compared to bank's conventional models and the benefits Sprk can provide to a business's cashflow and overall performance. We also get an insight into how Dom likes to keep business operations running successfully plus his thoughts on the future of the workplace culture.BWB is powered by Oury Clark

Joining us this week is Dominick Peasley, CEO of Sprk Capital, an online lender to businesses engaged in Research and Development.Before joining Sprk, Dominik was responsible for all lending capital at Funding Circle and raised over a whopping £6bn to support SMEs in the UK, and also co-founded Capital-B, a FinTech advisory and capital placement agency focused on developing lending businesses. Dominik has also worked for Goldman Sachs where he was Head of UK Distribution for its asset management business. A sparkling CV to say the least!Check out Dominik Peasley's recommendations:"The Loudest Duck" by Laura Liswood"Radical Candor" by Kim Scott"Grit" by Angela DuckworthBWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Welcome to this week's BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Sukhi Jutla, Co-Founder & COO of Market Orders.We take a deeper look at today's Gold Jewellery industry and get to hear about how Sukhi believes it can be revolutionised with her platform Marketplace. From progress on the shop floor to turning jewellery into NFTs and entering the metaverse, big visions lead the way in today's episode.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Our guest this week is Sukhi Jutla who is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry.Sukhi’s won numerous awards including Asian Women of Achievement, Female Entrepreneur of The Year and named Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. She's a leading international speaker and influencer in Tech, qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer and holds board positions with the Mayor of London’s Digital Skills Partnership, the Department of International Trade in the UK and is an Associate of the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT).And if that wasn’t enough, Sukhi is also an Author of a range of publications in Fintech and Blockchain Technology.Pure enlightenment incoming!Check out Sukhi Jutla's book recommendations:"Untamed" by Glennon Doyle"The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer""Atomic Habits" by James ClearBWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with David Levin, Co-Founder and Creative Director of That Lot, an award-winning social creative agency. We take a deeper look into how David went from being a freelance writer to becoming the world's first professional Tweeter being paid to be the voice for some of the world's biggest brands, to then meeting David Schneider who he started That Lot with.Welcome to A Tweeter's Life.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.