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The Financial Times's Jonathan Moules talks to entrepreneurs about building successful brands, giving birth during a funding round, and rebuilding a reputation in the wake of bankruptcy. Rea...
Alex Klein tells Jonathan Moules about his ambition to transform attitudes to computing with his kit to help people of all ages make their o...
Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler co-founded EDITED, an innovative tech company that brings data analysis to the retail industry, nearly a decade...
Twenty years ago, Chetan Dube left the world of academia, at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, to pursue a c...
Michelle You, co-founder of the music ticketing and concert discovery platform Songkick, tells Jonathan Moules about the fun of creating a b...
When Peter Mühlmann’s mum had some bad experiences making her first purchases online in 2007, he decided there must be a way to guide consum...
Sarah Murray’s mobile alarm and tracking technology company faced an early setback when a government contract she’d been pinning her hopes o...
Marcin Kleczynski’s interest in computer software was sparked at the age of 14 when a battle to remove a virus from his home computer brough...
Julie Deane set up the Cambridge Satchel Company as a way of financing her children's education, but its rapid success attracted outside inv...
If you are trying to fill a gap in the market and a very conservative industry tells you it can’t be done, then go for it because there is “...
Dale Murray co-founded Omega Logic, which provided an electronic solution for mobile phone top-ups just as mobile phone use in the UK was be...
We’re back. Start-up Stories is returning with a new set of entrepreneurs sharing their insights about the joys and challenges of starting a...
Philipp Bock set out to solve one of the biggest problems faced by consumer businesses in Latin America - the lack of a localised cross bord...
Glenn Keys and Andrew Walker were childhood friends who'd both served in the army and run businesses. Eventually they found a way to pool th...
Jeff Raider has helped pioneer a high quality, low cost model for selling consumer products like glasses and razors online. He tells Jonatha...
A crowded train journey home after a Chicago baseball game provided the inspiration for Katie Hill-Gottesman's Commuter Ads business, as she...
Bernard Liautaud's startup was the first French company to go public in the US back in the 1990s. He describes how he steered the company fr...
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and his collaborator Stewart Butterfield started out with the aim of creating a successful video game but end...
Emily Brooke wanted to help solve the worst problem faced by urban cyclists - safety. She tells Jonathan Moules how she went about it. Hoste...
Will Dean tells Jonathan Moules how a legal challenge acted as a catalyst for the growth of his extreme sports business Tough Mudder. Hosted...
Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh imagined a product for fixing things that would help end the global throw-away culture. She tells Jonathan Moules how...
William Sargent founded his visual effects company over 30 years ago in London’s Soho district, and tells Jonathan Moules that the location...
Six entrepreneurs who have featured in recent episodes of FT Start-up Stories discuss survival strategies and key ingredients for success wi...
Al Shariat trained as a lawyer, but then took a job with the UNDP in Iran, working on microfinance and other projects. It was this experienc...
Mixcloud, a music streaming service, got off the ground and achieved profitability without any external funding - something highly impressiv...
Phil Davidson is a bit of a health nut, and was frustrated when working long hours as a broker in London that he couldn’t find healthy food...
Tugce Bulut's market research business Streetbees uses social media and mobile technology to gather data from paid volunteers in 87 countrie...
Engineer Paul Roberts and his co-founders spotted a need in the market that was not being met for a device that could make keyhole surgery m...
Nuno Sebastiao had trouble finding European backers for his untested tech start-up based in Portugal. But he found US investors more willing...
Gary Grant found that his "ethical" approach to business that put people before profits helped his toy shop chain thrive when others were cl...
Daniel Reilly made a mistake that is all too common among tech entrepreneurs. He failed to test the strength of demand for his product befor...
Lopo Champalimaud, wanted to expand his online marketplace for health treatments rapidly across Europe. He chose the unusual route of recrui...
Shakil Khan and his co-founder kept their student accommodation website out of the media spotlight during its early years while they tested...
John Stapleton co-founded a successful food business in the UK and then sold the business with the idea of setting up a similar venture in t...
Richard Walton moved from London to Costa Rica to take up surfing and run his business remotely from there after a health scare prompted him...
Ismael Ahmed, an expert in remittances, used funds from a compensation award to finance his start-up WorldRemit. He tells Jonathan Moules th...
John Lynch moved from Connecticut to Krakow in 1991 as a volunteer for a US aid mission designed to train entrepreneurs in the newly liberat...
Alicia Navarro has been dubbed the 'queen of the pivots', a process of developing a business by changing the direction of travel - and livin...
UK founder Jamie Waller tells Jonathan Moules how an ethical approach helped him get ahead of rivals in the debt collection business Hosted...
Dutch entrepreneur Siete Hamminge tells Jonathan Moules how his tech start-up was nearly undone by the long lead times required to seal deal...
The Drum is a magazine and events business for the marketing industry. It was well regarded but not particularly profitable, and Diane Young...
Matt Johnson, an American entrepreneur in London, built his business on developing uses for electronically conductible paint, using open sou...
Tristram and Rebecca Mayhew started their tree-top adventure business after deciding they wanted to get out of the city. They tell Jonathan...
Jonathan Moules introduces a second season of his popular FT Start-up Stories podcasts, in which entrepreneurs talk candidly about their suc...
In the final episode of the series, Jonathan Moules looks at the reasons why founders decide to sell up and hears a cautionary tale from Pau...
Andrew Mullinger of Funding Circle tells Jonathan Moules why he and his co-founders opted for a rapid rate of growth and the difficulties th...
Branding is about more than just a logo, says Adrian Lomas of digital marketing company Blueleaf. It's about defining a clear purpose for yo...
Maria Sipka was looking for a US business partner for her marketing company Linqia when she became pregnant and found herself in the middle...
Alex Cheatle's business had a near-death experience when he lost customers after the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s burst. He tells Jonatha...
The Brompton folding bike has grown into a global brand sold in 43 counties. During the recent downturn, it raised its prices by over 65 per...
James Watt found the secret of success was building a community of fans for his craft beer. They have provided investment, ideas and even he...