Focused for Business – Hatty Fawcett | Take The Plunge Podcast

We are now live with the fifth instalment of our ‘Take the Plunge’ podcast series season 2. For this episode we were thrilled to be joined by Hatty Fawcett, founder of Focused for Business. Focused for Business is helping businesses demystify and deal with the process of raising equity investment, through coaching and training programmes.

Tune in to hear Ciaran and Hatty discuss:

  • The motivation behind Focused for Business
  • Starting up, testing the market and generating business 
  • Improving the product 
  • The pros of a peer learning environment
  • Importance of your network 
  • Developing the business and looking ahead

Play Podcast on Spotify or iTunes, or watch it on Youtube above.

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