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The Business podcast

Running a business rarely runs smoothly, but a cool head and self-belief can turn adversity into advantage. The Guardian Small Business Network's confessions events bring entrepreneurs together to share the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. These are the stories you won't hear anywhere else. Hosted by Guardian journalist Coco Khan

7 February 2018

  • Cobra Beer Founder And Chairman Karan Bilimoria<br>Karan Bilimoria, founder and chairman of Cobra Beer Ltd., poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. U.K. stocks rose, following five weeks of gains, as London Stock Exchange Group Plc's advance outweighed Petrofac Ltd.'s plunge. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    'A strong brand will get you through a crisis': Meet the Mentors with Cobra beer's founder

    In the final podcast of the series, Lord Karan Bilimoria advises the founders of tech startup Zipabout on everything from marketing to investment

31 January 2018

  • Ebookers founder Dinesh Dhamija

    'Stay paranoid': Meet the Mentors with Ebookers' founder

    Dinesh Dhamija gives leadership tips to Jamie Wilson, budding entrepreneur and founder of carer provider HomeTouch

24 January 2018

  • Jo Fairley, founder of Green & Black's and Sahar Freemantle, founder of Sahar Millinery - both are sporting hats by Sahar

    'I was told British people wouldn't eat dark chocolate': Meet the Mentors with Green & Black's Jo Fairley

    Serial entrepreneur and organic food pioneer Jo Fairley gives her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big

17 January 2018

  • Cath Kidston - for Meet The Mentors B2B podcast

    'Trust your intuition': Meet the Mentors with Cath Kidston – podcast

    The designer who created an empire around her trademark floral wash bags, tea cloths and crockery, reveals that luck played a big part in her success

10 January 2018

  • Rob Law, the founder of Trunki

    Bedroom business to world domination: Meet the Mentors with Trunki's Rob Law – podcast

    In the first podcast of a new series, the designer of the award-winning kids’ luggage brand shares his top tips for global expansion with a furniture maker from Blackburn

11 April 2017

  • Emma Sheppard, journalist and content coordinator, Guardian Small Business Network; Isabella Lane, co-founder of Smarter Applications; Rich Pleeth, founder of SUP; Emily Forbes, founder of Seenit

    'The journey is nothing but extraordinary' – Confessions of a Startup

    In our last podcast of the series, entrepreneurs at our Confessions of a Startup seminar agreed it’s important to have people around who support your vision

4 April 2017

  • John Stapleton, co-founder of New Covent Garden Soup Co, Glencoe Foods and Little Dish. Confessions of a small business. Hiscox Evening Seminar. Scott room. Kings Place 6/2/17

    'Embrace adversity' – Confessions of a Small Business

    If you don’t experience tough times, you’re not putting yourself out there enough. That was the verdict from the entrepreneurs at our first Confessions of a Small Business seminar. Catch up with what you missed

31 March 2017

  • Isabella Lane

    'Have faith in what you're doing' – Confessions of a Startup

    Isabella Lane started Smarter Applications with husband Christian two and a half years ago. Their first product was a wifi kettle, which they built for £100

29 March 2017

  • Efe Cakarel

    'It takes longer and costs more than you think' – Confessions of a Startup

    It’s been a long road for Efe Çakarel, founder of MUBI. He had his big idea in 2006 but it was seven years before he finally felt the model was working

16 March 2017

  • Emily Forbes, founder of Seenit.

    'Breaking up with a co-founder is like a divorce' – Confessions of a Startup

    Emily Forbes loves film. But setting up Seenit, a video collaboration platform, has challenged her, not least because she’s parted ways with two co-founders

14 March 2017

  • Rich Pleeth, Founder, SUP. Guardian evening seminar, supported by Hiscox, on Monday 6 March 2017: Confessions of a startup Kings Place

    'We have learned so much from failure' – Confessions of a Startup

    Rich Pleeth, founder of the social app Sup, describes struggling to achieve sustainable growth, falling out with his co-founders and having to tell investors you’re closing

3 March 2017

  • Nick Edwards, founder of Papaya

    'You've got to live and breathe it 24/7' – Confessions of a Small Business

    Nick Edwards, the founder of software company Papaya, was faced with a dilemma in 2012 when his developer was killed in a hit-and-run incident

1 March 2017

  • Arpana Gandhi, Disarmco.

    'You have to keep fighting' – Confessions of a Small Business

    Arpana Gandhi, co-founder of landmine disposal company Disarmco, talks struggling to find investment, almost going bust and battling to save lives

24 February 2017

  • John Stapleton

    'Failure makes you more humble' – Confessions of a Small Business

    In our second Confessions of a Small Business podcast, John Stapleton, founder of New Covent Garden Soup and Little Dish, talks about going out on a limb, coping with a fire that gutted his factory, and failing to crack the US

16 February 2017

  • Founder Joanna Montgomery and Pillow Talk

    Crowdfunding carnage –  Confessions of a Small Business

    Little Riot founder Joanna Montgomery kicks off our Small Business podcast series by reliving the highs and lows of launching her product Pillow Talk and explaining how caring customers gave her heart

10 March 2015

  • coco

    How to make it in the music industry - podcast

    Traditional lenders often shy away from the creative industries – what can startup bands and independent musicians do to get on the road to financial success?

1 February 2012

  • Fred Goodwin

    The Business podcast: Fred Goodwin's knighthood shredded

    It's bash-a-banker time. As the former RBS boss Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood, his successor at the bank has handed back his bonus. Nils Pratley and Jill Treanor discuss

20 January 2012

  • Ed Balls and Ed Miliband

    Politics Weekly podcast: Labour's economic alternative

    Seumas Milne, Rowenna Davis and Hopi Sen discuss Labour's shift in economic policy and how the party can remain true to its mission for social justice in austere times

17 January 2012

  • Nicolas Sarkozy

    The Business podcast: France, credit ratings and Occupy

    The Occupy movement's philosopher-in-chief David Graeber examines the arguments for a debt jubilee in 2012

11 January 2012

  • A man picks up his bag in the Athens stock exchange

    The Business podcast: what to watch in 2012

    Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor and Nils Pratley discuss the economic indicators to watch in 2012 and look ahead to an Olympic year in which Britain is hoping to rediscover a feel-good factor

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