This week SmallBizPod #50, the small business advice podcast, includes an interview with Martin Webb, serial entrepreneur, host of Channel 4’s Risking It All and author of Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams. There’s also the usual round up of comments and commentary from listeners.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:34 Thanks to everyone who has said hello and joined the SmallBizPod Facebook group.
• 02:04 Let’s meet up at the Chinwag Summer Party in London on 5 July.

Features:

• 03:13 Interview with Martin Webb, a serial entrepreneur who built a leisure company called C-Side from scratch and sold it for £15 million. As well as pursuing several other businesses, Martin is also the host of Channel 4’s Risking It All, a Daily Telegraph Columnist and the author of a new book on how to make your first million by starting a business. Alex and Martin discuss celebrity entrepreneurship, getting it wrong, business failure, common sense, whether passion is enough to carry you through and the importance of listening to criticism. The conversation also focuses on bootstrapping vs borrowing vs equity, social enterprise and the ‘People’s Pub’, and what Martin has planned for the future.

Comments:

• 18:57 Email from Jason Maslen on the interview with Jason Calacanis in the stair well.
• 19:24 Email comment from Bill Martin about music, composition and starting a business.
• 20:26 Email comment from Adam Purcell about the first PodCamp Australia.
• 21:51 Don’t forget PodcampUK which is set to take place in Birmingham on 1-2 September.
• 22:38 Email from Lucy Follett on lessons from business failure.
• 24:10 Comments left on the blog from Sam Sethi, who has recently launched a new blog on technology and startups – Blognation. And a comment from Karen on the Jason Calacanis interview and people’s thoughts on whether an ‘exit strategy’ should be planned in advance.

• 26.25 Diary of a Wantrepreneur – with Kelvin Jones including a couple of links on business planning – Business Plan Archive and BPlans.co.uk.

Comments:

• 34.13 Thank you to Wincent Kordula in Nottingham and Martin Peacock in Kildare, Ireland for signing on to the SmallBizPod Frappr map.

• 29.18 Music – Roads by Martsman with many thanks to the super netlabel Exegene.

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Originally posted here:
SmallBizPod #50 – 26 June 2007