Young Entrepreneurs

The Bottom Line

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and BBC News Channel TV.

Three young entrepreneurs, all in their early twenties, join Evan to discuss the headaches in getting their businesses up and running. They also discuss the next chapter - moving on and crucially letting go or getting out.

Joining Evan in the studio are Suleman Sacranie, founder of online wholesaler 99pwholesaler.com; Kelly Goss of independent fashion brand Rock 'n' Needle; Louis Barnett, founder of luxury chocolate maker Chokolit.

Producer: Ben Crighton Editor: Stephen Chilcott.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading this podcast from the BBC. In this edition of the bottom line,
0:05.6	three young entrepreneurs share their headaches and hopes. Hello and welcome. Now we never
0:12.2	struggled to get middle-aged guests on this programme. So today we're going to depart from our
0:17.0	normal service with three young entrepreneurs with me here in the studio.
0:21.4	All enthusiastic 20-somethings.
0:24.3	There isn't a grey hair in sight, I should say,
0:27.4	but maybe they won't have to wait long for those to appear,
0:30.5	given the challenges of creating and running a business.
0:34.2	They are Solomon Socrani, Kelly Goss and Louis Barnett. And maybe you can just tell me
0:38.8	what your businesses are, Solomon. I run a company called 99B wholesaler.com, which is an online portal
0:44.0	which supplies daily deal offers for bars, pubs, clubs, restaurants, takeaways and retailers,
0:50.0	which is now moving into a more of a comparison engine which will be able to let all these
0:54.0	people that buy goods from the cash and carry
0:56.1	to be able to compare prices from the biggest players out in the marketplace.
0:59.8	Okay, 99P wholesaler.com. Thank you. Kelly, what about you?
1:03.1	I founded a fashion label named Rock and Needle in 2008.
1:07.7	I started this business when I was studying at the Fashion Retail Academy. I design
1:14.2	collections which are wholesale into boutiques and I'm represented by an agency in Brussels.
1:21.5	Right. And Louie? I founded Chocolate Limited at the age of 12 in 2004. We're a luxury chocolate manufacturer, and we make chocolates of all different ranges,
1:32.4	everything from bars, pralines to cakes, etc., selling all over the world and only doing about 5% of our business in the UK.
1:39.2	But we're all natural and nothing in there that shouldn't be.
1:42.3	All right.
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