Entrepreneur’s Journey Series: Lessons learned - What I wish I knew 12 months ago

Learnings and insights shared about start-up struggles from three LBS alumni founders that were part of the London Business School Incubator.


Mistakes are all part of learning in any business. Three start-up founders looked back at what happened in the past year and joined us to share their experiences and learnings. Hear what happened to them and how you can avoid it happening to you.

Speakers include:
Rosie Bailey SLN2019, Co-founder and CEO of Nibble, an AI chatbot with a sense of humour.
Pedro Cabrero MIFFT2019, Co-founder and CFO of Yayzy, an app that helps you track your personal carbon footprint and reduce and compensate your impact on the planet.
Nasi Rwigema MBA2020, Founder of Umwuga, a social network for tradespeople and service industry workers, or ‘the LinkedIn for cleaners, gardeners and hair stylists’ as he puts it.

Eight fundamentals shared in this session:
• Always have a plan B 3:42
• Build a tribe of mentors 6:00
• Listen to your customers 8:37
• Find the right people 12:45
• Set small targets 15:45
• Pay early attention to equity splits 16:50
• Why hire people with experience 20:02
• Play the numbers game when fundraising 25:43
• Don’t die! 51:00

This talk is part of the Entrepreneur's Journey series hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School.
The programme is uniquely packaged to take student would-be entrepreneurs through every stage of deciding whether to pursue an entrepreneurial career path, through to implementation of their aspirations and subsequently taking their business to the next level.
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