The Spinks 'How To' Series: Recent Episodes
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Start-up and scale-up life is fast-paced and throws up a lot of interesting challenges! Who do you hire first? Where do you go to find top start-up and scale-up talent? How do you best write a business plan?
On The Spinks ‘How To’ Podcast Series, hosts from the Spinks and Spinks on Site teams speak to start-up and scale-up experts about their latest strategies, tools, general advice and more.
Together, we cut through the noise to address some of the common start-up and scale-up pain points.
Join us each week for crucial practical advice for CEO, founders and business leaders.
There is a talent shortage - and once you've secured someone you think is brilliant, it's important to retain them.
So - how do you retain talent in a scale-up?
Previously exploring this topic from a start-up perspective, we uncover industry secrets for that next step.
Our industry experts: Andy Britcliffe of Purplebricks and Jennifer Gabrielle-Chapman of ManyPets.
We cover comparisons to the start-up world, common misconceptions and the value of equity.
Data and security is a fundamental issue for businesses of any size.
Taking us through how to get it right are Jim Tiller from Harvey Nash Group and executive-level security consultant Greg Thompson.
In their words: taking security seriously starts at the top. We uncover how to plan ahead, understand your business data needs and implement a security-conscious culture.
Having brilliant leadership is a fundamental for start-up and scale-up success. But how do you get it right? How do you avoid the common pitfalls?
Taking Robin through a number of the key issues are Occo Lijding, Managing Director for Harvey Nash in the Netherlands and Katy Trost of Katy Trost Coaching.
Leveraging their diverse experiences, they discuss feedback, remote work, staff-transitions and resolving conflict.
A huge value-add for any CEO's with brilliant teams to manage.
What is your business's ideal diversion and inclusion strategy? And how do you avoid the common traps?
All start-up and scale-up leaders want their businesses to be brilliant places to work and make a contribution.
But without a clear plan for D+I, it's too easy to end-up missing out on a huge range of talent, all while cementing exisiting inequalities.
Walking us through the current climate is Lexie Papaspyrou of Tech Talent Charter. Covering the do's and dont's, this is an episode for everyone wanting clarity on how to form their own D+I strategy.
How do you write a convincing pitch deck?
Enter Simon Hopkins, Co-Founder and COO at Angel Academe.
With Simon seeing 500 pitch decks a year, he knows exactly what works, what doesn’t and why!
Going through the 5 most important things to understand about your pitch deck, we cover the importance of clarity, the pitfalls of jargon and why you need to prioritise thorough research.
Marketing your start-up can be overwhelming.
Enter 2 veterans of marketing and the start-up world - Ash Ali and Steve Johnson.
Revealing the secrets and hacks that start-ups can use to market effectively on a budget, they produce a practical roadmap to marketing success.
We cover marketing misconceptions, bootstrapping strategies and start-up priorities.
When is the right time to scale your business? And how can you make sure you avoid the all-too-common banana skins?
Ryan McCabe, CEO of recruitment video platform Odro, is here to help. Ryan last year took on more than £5 million investment to scale Odro.
Taking on issues of organic growth, staff dynamics and risk, Ryan walks us through the dos and dont's of scaling your business.
Listen in to ensure you get this exciting and fragile stage of your business' growth right.
It’s never been tougher to attract talent to your start-up. Enter Nefeli Zachou of Moneybox and Alfonso Ferrandez of UREGO.
These talent experts break down the top tips for attracting and retaining talent in the remote-working era.
Covering bespoke benefit packages, radical transparency, up-skilling and more, this episode will help you get the edge.
Start-up and scale-up life is fast-paced and throws up a lot of interesting challenges! Who do you hire first? Where do you go to find top start-up and scale-up talent? How do you best write a business plan?
On The Spinks ‘How To’ Podcast Series, hosts from the Spinks and Spinks on Site teams speak to start-up and scale-up experts about their latest strategies, tools, general advice and more.
Together, we cut through the noise to address some of the common start-up and scale-up pain points.
Join us each week for crucial practical advice for CEO, founders and business leaders.