Peter Telfer, 24 Marketing Exec at brightsolid online technology Twitter: @petertelfer
1. How did your entrepreneurial journey begin?
When I was 13 I worked for a fruit and veg merchant and while my friends were out earning £10 per week doing paper rounds, I was making that in a morning, taking orders, upselling products and then delivering them to customers.
2. What was your first big project?
Prior to working for brightsolid, I worked for one of Scotland’s fastest growing privately owned companies – the Airlink Group. In this role I was tasked with growing their self-storage company from the ground up. With no experience
in self-storage, I had to learn very quickly and manage a team of several employees. Within the first 12 months its turnover was in excess of £100,000.
3. Where do you inevitably want to see yourself in terms of your career? Ultimately, I would like to run my own business or have a senior role within an established business. I’d like international travel to be part of the role and this would help build an international network of valued contacts.
4. What is the best piece of advice that you’ve been given? I’ve learnt nothing in life is free. A couple of times I’ve thought that I’ve got a really good deal or opportunity but in reality it wasn’t. I’ve learned not to be naïve and in any business transaction, both parties need to benefit for it to be a success. If someone isn’t happy with their part of the deal then they won’t work with you to make it a success.
Rich Martell, 23 Founder of Floxx Twitter: @richmartell, @FloxxHQ
1. How did your entrepreneurial journey begin? My first entrepreneurial experience was at school. I didn’t like the way they had a monopoly on the tuck shop and were charging over £1 for a doughnut. I snuck out and nipped to the local shop to buy bags of 5 for £1 and sold them each for 40p. Not really a big business but it was my first bit of enterprise. I then started getting a bit more hi-tech and set up a web design agency when I was 16. This was quite small but meant I could fund my university education from it.
2. Give us an elevator pitch on your company.
Floxx is two companies within one. On one side we make mobile apps and websites for clients and brands that want to market their businesses digitally. On the other side we come up with crazy ideas ourselves for apps and build them out.
3. What was your first big project?
When I was at university I set up a website called FitFinder as a bit of a joke. The idea was to build a site that allowed people to ‘spot’ other attractive people in libraries during revision time. What started as a small site that was only meant to be shared within my group of friends quickly spread to over 250,000 users across 50 universities.
4. Where do you inevitably want to see yourself in terms of your career?
Running one or more worldwide companies that are building life changing products. I look at entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey and Richard Branson and want to build a business that is genuinely interacting with millions of people every day. When you are in that mindset you know you aren’t doing it for just the money.
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