Not My First Guess
Candid lessons from fellow founders, investors and innovation experts; to help you test, launch and scale your idea faster.
Episodes
59 episodes
Growth vs Scale: Building Teams That Last: Featuring Neda Sahebelm
Join us as we dive into the inspiring story of Neda, founder of Keshty, as she shares her journey of overcoming rejection, building a successful business, and investing in others. From her experiences as an only child to navigating the world of...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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58:19
Innovators not Imposters: Featuring Cecil Adjalo
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Cecil Adjalo, founder of Foundervine, one of the UK's largest and most vibrant accelerators, having designed a high-impact training program that provides ambitious entrepreneurs with the skills, too...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:04:16
Designing for Neuro Inclusivity: Practical Tips for Founders with Autism and ADHD: Featuring Sascha Evans
Did you know that 20% of your employees, customers, and friends are likely to be neurodivergent? In today's episode, we're diving into the importance of neuro inclusivity in entrepreneurship, with Sasha Evans, a brilliant entrepreneur and ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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55:29
Building Bridges: Supporting Founders and Breaking Myths: Featuring Marcus Exall
Joining us this episode is Marcus Exall, serial founder, angel investor, and investor in residence at Virgin Startup. In this episode, Marcus shares his journey from building and exiting a digital advertising company to supporting countless ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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54:28
Pitch Perfect: Unlocking Your Inner Storyteller: Featuring Pascalle Bergmans
Storytelling is one of the most underrated founder skills! It’s critical for motivating your team, selling to customers, and of course, raising investment. It can also position you as a thought leader, which yes, helps all those things too. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:01:26
Toks on Tech Stacks: Building a Following Alongside Your Product: Featuring Ghita El Haitmy
Have you ever wondered how to stay on top of the hottest new tech tools and trends as a founder? Curious how you can leverage platforms like TikTok and Instagram to market your B2B startup in a fun, engaging way?Get ready to le...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:43
From Pitch to Payday, The Hidden Costs of Fundraising: Featuring Sam Simpson
Have you ever found yourself drowning in fundraising legals and language? This is the interview you’ve been waiting for… In this episode, we're joined by the brilliant Sam Simpson, Co-founder of FounderCatalyst, who's on a...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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1:00:46
From Entrepreneur to Employee: Lessons From Coconut Founder: Featuring Adam Goodall
🚀 What’s it like to go Corporate Employee> Founder > Founder > Corporate Employee? At Not My First Guess we love a squiggly career path! 🏁That’s why we’re so excited to have serial founder, and once again corporate emp...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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44:15
How Every Founder Can Use AI: Featuring Cien Solon
Are you worried you’re not using enough AI as a founder? I promise you’re not alone. In fact, after interviewing our incredible guest today, I went away and automated a LOAD of my own processes - sometimes you just need to understand the art...
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45:38
Becoming Business Barbie and Making Accounting Accessible for Founders: Featuring Rachel Harris
As well as being “Business Barbie” to her followers on instagram, Rachel Harris, is an award-winning content creator, author, speaker, business owner, and most importantly, an accountant extraordinaire. Named as one to watch on the 35 under ...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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59:19
Transforming Management With AI Innovation: Featuring Sarah Touzani
Ever wonder what it takes to transform from a passionate leader into a successful startup founder? In this episode, we'll uncover the secrets to building an innovative, AI-powered solution that's revolutionising the way managers drive team p...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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58:08
Parenting Pioneers: Building Babbu Featuring Charlie Rosier
Joining us in this episode is Charlie Rosier, a seasoned entrepreneur and fourth-time founder. Her latest venture, Babbu, disrupts the early childhood education space with an innovative online platform tailored for children aged 0-5. Driven ...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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43:29
The Beauty of AI For Good: Featuring Simi Lindgren, Founder of Yuty
This episode we are joined by Simi Lindgren Founder of Yuty. Some of you may recognise Simi from our special episode on fundraising as an underrepresented founder, where she was joined by two other incredible guests. But w...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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56:59
Strands of Success: From Instagram Community to Industry Game Changer: Featuring Kate Berski
This episode we are joined by Kate Berski, Co-Founder of Curlsmith, a high performance, inclusive haircare brand which she started with her husband in 2018. It soon became one of the fastest growing textured hair brands and would go on to re...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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1:00:06
Fertile Ground for Founders: Changing Lives and Welcoming New Ones: Featuring Tess Cosad
This episode, we are joined by Tess Cosad, the CEO and Co-Founder of Béa Fertility. As someone who takes much of her inspiration from injustice, Tess saw the pain and difficulties that many people were going through in their attempts to buil...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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55:43
Rethinking Start-up Funding for more Equitable Entrepreneurship: Featuring Andy Ayim MBE
This episode, we are joined by Andy Ayim MBE, a serial founder and Angel Investor who is known for his human centered approach to business. Over a decade ago, Andy cofounded Mixtape Madness, a proudly bootstrapped 7 figure...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:03:13
Baking in Loyalty: Cakedrop's Recipe for Startup Success - Featuring Nicola Ward, Co-Founder of Cake Drop
This episode we are joined by Nicola Ward, Co-Founder of CakeDrop. Having both worked in the City, Nicola and her sister Anna had a conversation about how awkward office birthdays can be. Often forgetting to buy a cake and having to resort t...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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49:14
Breaking Barriers: Opportunities For All: Featuring Felicity Halstead, Founder of GoodWork
This episode we are joined by Felicity Halstead, founder of the company GoodWork. GoodWork is a not-for-profit that works with employers to create employment opportunities for young people from marginalised communities. Having had experience...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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58:43
Changing currencies, changing lives: Featuring Robert Hayward, Founder of GoodFX
This episode, we are joined by Robert Hayward, founder of GoodFX, an international payments B Corp that turns currency conversion into social good, using the profits they make every time their customers trade FX, to support charities and cre...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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53:48
Designing company culture like a customer experience
This episode, we are joined by the founders of Future Kind Collective, Alicia Grimes and Natalie Pierce. Having initially met when Natalie interviewed Alicia for a job, the two found themselves working in the same company on str...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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53:56
Business and bipolar: changing the future of mental health support, with James Roycroft-Davis, Co-Founder of Baseline
In this episode we’re joined by James Roycroft-Davis. James is a Serial Founder, Angel Investor and Host of the UK’s #1 Founder and Investor Mental Health Podcast - Vulnerable.He’s previ...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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46:01
How to successfully exit your own company, with Tim Deeson
This episode, we're joined by Tim Deeson, serial founder and angel investor with over 20 years of experience building companies. He started his first company Deeson, which grew to be a multi-million pound digital agency, at age just 20. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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45:22
An un-bae-lievable journey: featuring Amardeep Parmar, podcast host and Co-founder of The Bae HQ
In this episode we’re joined by Amardeep Parmar, Co-founder of The Bae HQ which is the number one community for British Asian Entrepreneurs; curator of the Tedx Chigwell programme, and host of the Entrepreneurs Handbook. As if that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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54:12
Banker to changemaker: empowering SMES in emerging markets featuring Alberta Asafo-Asamoah, Co-founder of Liquify
Today I’m joined by Alberta Asafo-Asamoah, a social entrepreneur and educationalist, and co-founder of Liquify, an invoice marketplace that enables SMEs in emerging markets to get quick access to affordable cash.Having started ...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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48:37
Fundraising Special Part 2 (Back By Popular Demand)
This episode is a little bit special. We're doing our second fundraising compilation, taking different tips and hard won lessons from our founders we've interviewed before. In this episode, we're going to focus on five founders:1. Jay R...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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45:58