40 Minute Mentor

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  • 40 Minute Mentor is on a mission to raise aspirations and inspire the next generation of category-defining Founders, through powerful career stories and inspirational mentorship. From purpose-led Founders to Olympic champions; learn first-hand from today’s successful leaders on what it takes to be brilliant, all in just 40 minutes. 40 Minute Mentor is one of the UK’s top Business and Careers podcasts and can be found on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.
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  • Ruari Bell: Building the UK's first athlete led VC firm with The Players Fund

    Ruari Bell: Building the UK's first athlete led VC firm with The Players Fund
    Aug 28 2024
    “There’s a competitive drive and edge that you see in sport that is really important in business. And Teamwork. Dealing with individuals, knowing what helps make an individual tick is really important.” For the final episode in this season of our VC feature, we’re joined by Ruari Bell, Founding Partner at The Players Fund, the UK’s first athlete-led firm, founded to empower the athlete community as investors. The Players Fund brings together a collective of renowned athlete investors, including Ben Stokes, former 40 Minute Mentor guest Jessica Ennis-Hill, Jos Butler, Allyson Felix, Serge Gnabry and many more top athletes. Ruari has had a fantastic career in entrepreneurship and investing and we’ll dig into every part of it and his journey with The Players Fund in detail, in today’s episode. In these 40 minutes, you’ll hear about... Episode chapters: ➡️ Increasing diversity and inclusion in VC [03:00] ➡️ Growing up in the Northeast of England [03:50] ➡️ A love for sport [05:45] ➡️ Transitioning out of professional sport [07:55] ➡️ An entrepreneurial journey [10:50] ➡️ Transferable skills from sport to business [17:40] ➡️ The origin story of The Players Fund [20:15] ➡️ What makes Founders stand out to him [28:00] ➡️ Openness to feedback [29:30] ➡️ Vision for the future [35:15] ➡️ Building a business with family [38:00] ⛳ Helpful links: ➡️ Follow Ruari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruaribell/ ➡️ Find out more about The Players fund: https://www.playersfund.vc/ ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️ Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Fundraising Advice from Seed to Unicorn Founders

    Fundraising Advice from Seed to Unicorn Founders
    Aug 21 2024
    “When a VC gives you a low valuation, it isn’t the fact that your company is worth that much, it might just be because you didn’t pitch it in the right way.” Fundraising can be a lonely process at times. And an endless emotional rollercoaster throughout. In today’s episode, we collated some of the best fundraising advice from Founders who have been in your position and raised some impressive rounds over the years. You’ll hear from: 🌟 Avion Gray, Co-Founder & CEO of Belong 🌟 Alice Pelton, Co-Founder & CEO of The Lowdown 🌟 Christian Facey, Founder & CEO of Audiomob 🌟 Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder & CEO of Chipper Cash 🌟 Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Olympian & Co-Founder of FemTech, Jennis 🌟 Molly Johnson-Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of Flexa 🌟 Exited Founder Nicolas D’Audiffret of Ankorstore 🌟 Simone Maini, CEO at Elliptic 🌟 Tim Chong, Co-Founder & CEO of Yonder ⛳ Helpful links: ➡️ Find all of the full episodes used in today’s roundup in the 40 Minute Mentor archives, or by searching ‘Name + 40 Minute Mentor’ on Google: https://jbmc.co.uk/40-minute-mentor/ ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️ Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • A VC Roundup - Raising from VCs & getting into the industry

    A VC Roundup - Raising from VCs & getting into the industry
    Aug 14 2024
    “This is a long partnership. We’re here to return money to our investors, but we are also here to experience a very unique journey together. So, trust is very important, on both sides.” We’ve been so lucky to have some of the best VCs in the industry, come on 40 Minute Mentor over the years. For today’s episode, we thought we’d collate some of the best VC advice we received on the podcast to date. You’ll hear from: 🌟 Leila Rastegar-Zegna, Founding General Partner of Kindred Capital 🌟 Hannah Seal, Partner at Index Ventures 🌟 Pippa Lamb, Partner at Sweet Capital 🌟 Ian Hogarth, Partner at Plural 🌟 Antoine Nussenbaum, Co-Founder of Felix Capital 🌟 Cleo Sham, ex-Partner at Stride.VC 🌟 Check Warner, Co-Founder of Ada Ventures Episode chapters: ➡️ Hardest part of being a VC [01:30] ➡️ Investing at Seed stage [04:09] ➡️ Mission first VCs [04:40] ➡️ Backing exceptional Founders [08:30] ➡️ Being strategic in choosing your fund [16:20] ➡️ DE&I in VC [22:45] ⛳ Helpful links: ➡️ Find all of the full episodes used in today’s roundup in the 40 Minute Mentor archives, or by searching ‘Name + 40 Minute Mentor’ on Google: https://jbmc.co.uk/40-minute-mentor/ ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️ Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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