Dan Taylor, 24
Founder of the Giving Card
www.facebook.com/TheGivingCard @TheGivingCard
1. Can you describe your company and the service you provide? The Giving Card is a point of sale discount card linked to charitable giving. In a nutshell, the general public can save thousands of pounds a year on their shopping, charities get additional revenues and the companies The Giving Card work with get free advertising and increased footfall into their stores and websites.
2. How did your entrepreneurial journey begin?
At the age of ten I was told that I did not pass the interview to write for the school newspaper, and so I started my own. It ended up outselling the
main. I have always been determined to find new and innovative ways of doing things and love creating concepts and working towards making them a reality.
3. What has been your biggest achievement so far? Securing a six figure investment to start The Giving Card was an incredible day. I’m also very lucky to be working with some of the best web developers, graphic designers, social media specialists and sales and marketing people around.
4. What is the best advice you’ve been given? Write a business plan and then don’t stick to it. It’s amazing how much a business evolves day-to-day. It was important for us to have an idea of where the business was headed, but at the same time, it was almost out of date after it was finished.
Ry Morgan, 23 Found of PleaseCycle
www.pleasecycle.com @pleasecycle
1. Give us an elevator pitch for your company
PleaseCycle combines the booming trends of cycling, tech and “gamification” to help organisations get more staff commuting by bike - a proven way of reducing absenteeism, increasing productivity, and improving sustainability.
2. What has been your biggest achievement so far? We recently partnered with one of the biggest players in the UK cycling industry, the details of which we’ll be revealing over the next couple months. What I can say just now is that our client base is going to expand exponentially almost overnight, with a user-base of circa 200,000 employees.
3. Where do you see your company in 5 years? International and sold. In regards to going global, it’s a vastly scalable product and we’re already in discussions with a variety of worldwide franchisees who are looking to champion our value proposition in their own territories. The idea of companies competing globally for the title of “most cycle-friendly workplace” is a prospect which excites me very much.
4. What is the best advice you’ve been given? There’s a quote in Steve Jobs’ biography where he invites his son to 48 hours of Apple meetings, because he will “learn more in those two days than in two years of business school.”
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