It's our final episode of Season One, and to celebrate we've got a brilliant guest. Her name is Kaitlin Mogentale, and she's the founder and CEO of Pulp Pantry. Pulp Pantry works with large juicers to turn organic vegetable scraps into delicious convenient snacks through their pulp chips. She has been a trailblazer for sustainability and has been hugely successful. Kaitlin was recently on Shark Tank, and that's what we got to discuss in this episode. Kaitlin shares her juicy secrets about the show and whether she took the money or not, plus tips for fundraising and accelerator programs for you all. You will find pulp products in a number of stores all across the US, and we can tell you from firsthand experience that they're delicious. So whenever you see pop chips in your local store, definitely grab them!

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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On this episode, we get an amazing masterclass from Lucy Woolfenden on how to get your first 100 sales. Lucy has spent 20 years' launching brands, growing their audiences and making them profitable, with her portfolio including tech start-ups such as Skype for Mobile, Starling Bank, and Yolt. Today, she talks to us about those really early stages of your business, and shares invaluable tips and tricks to getting your first 100 sales, and keeping those customers.

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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On this episode, we speak to Caroline Boardman and Joanna Newell. Both Caroline and Joanna have been chartered accountants for more than a decade and have experienced working with larger companies before setting up their own accountancy businesses themselves. They now both work with a huge range of business sizes, but we're speaking to them today because they have expertise in that beginning stage of starting your company. 

Learn everything from how to get yourself incorporated to getting yourself going with accounting. Both Caroline and Joanna are personally passionate about making the accounting side of your business super easy to understand and accessible for all, so that we can all get back to focusing on what we do best, which is running the rest of our business. 

It's really easy to get lost in the amount of information that's out there and we think this episode is really important to listen to. There'll be some myth-busting, and how-tos along the way, and generally everything you need to get started. We hope you enjoy it!

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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On this week's episode of female founders weekly, we interview Melissa Kwan of Ewebinar. Melissa is super impressive. She's a three-time bootstrapped founder and her previous company was acquired in 2019. While starting her previous companies, Ewebinar was the product she'd always dreamed about because she was drowning in customer webinars every day for five years. 

Now she's on a mission to give people their time back so that they can do something much more fun, because that's what life's really about. Ewebinar automates the webinar process by taking a video and delivering it like a webinar, meaning that you can do hundreds of the same webinars without ever needing to be in front of the camera. 

We talked to Melissa about her journey from starting previous companies to where she's at today. From getting her first 100 sales to how she manages her work-life balance. Melissa is super interesting, she has a refreshing take on starting a business and we absolutely loved this conversation. We hope you do too.  

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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Sarah Arnold Hall is a high-performance coach, who has helped thousands of people get what they want to get done. Anyone can have a business idea, but to run your own business really comes down to execution. Sarah talks through her approach to taking action and provides some brilliant insight along the way that will help you actually start your business. Whilst we may all think we know what needs to be done, Sarah's episode will leave you feeling inspired to start your to-do list!

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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This week we interview the awesome Siddhi Mittal of yhangry. yhangry is a platform where you can book a private chef for anything from a dinner party, hen do, holiday home, meal prep or more across the UK! Siddhi and her co-founder, Heinin, won investment on Dragon’s Den, were a part of the world's most prestigious accelerator, YCombinator, in 2022 and have raised $3m so far.

Siddhi is an inspiring entrepreneur who opens up about the challenges she faced while building and scaling her business, including finding the right team members and expanding their services to meet the needs of their customers. We hear from Siddhi on everything from what inspired her to start yhangry through to how they have pivoted and are using their funding for growth today. This is a must-listen!

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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In this episode of Female Founders Weekly, we sit down with Babs Neilan (nee Jamieson), a startup legal expert, to get a crash course on all things legal, from the requirements of setting up a business to securing investment. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who is currently navigating the complex legal landscape of structuring their business, and especially if you are seeking funding! Do your business a favour and tune in to make sure you have all of your legal ducks in a row!

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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In this podcast episode, we hear from Georgiana Grudinschi, the founder and CEO of ANSWR, a home salon beauty brand on a mission to simplify beauty by empowering women to be their own beauty experts.

Georgiana begins by sharing her story of starting ANSWR and the challenges she faced in developing and launching her product line. She talks about everything from the importance of researching and understanding your suppliers to sharing her insights into building a brand and getting media coverage for your business. She explains how ANSWR was featured in publications like the Daily Mail, and the strategies she used to pitch her brand and products to journalists and influencers.

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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In this podcast episode, we hear from Gabriela Hersham, the founder and CEO of Huckletree, a co-working space and business accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups.

Gabriela begins by sharing her journey of starting Huckletree and the challenges she faced in the early days, including the struggle to raise funds and find the right team. She talks about the importance of networking and building relationships, and how this helped her to secure early investment and partnerships.

Gabriela also shares her experience of running a business while raising children, and the strategies she uses to balance both roles. As the conversation turns to the future of work, Gabriela shares her insights into how the pandemic has accelerated the shift towards remote and hybrid working, and the impact this is having on the co-working industry.

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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In this podcast episode, we hear from Joanna Graiver, an investor at Fuel Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech companies.

Joanna begins by sharing her insights into the world of venture capital funding, including what investors are looking for in potential investment opportunities. She discusses the importance of having a clear and compelling business model, a strong team with relevant experience, and a scalable product or service that addresses a genuine market need.

As the conversation turns to pitching to investors, Joanna shares her tips for building an attractive pitch that stands out from the crowd. She emphasizes the importance of understanding your target audience and tailoring your pitch to their specific interests and priorities, as well as highlighting the key metrics and milestones that demonstrate your business's potential for growth and success.

Joanna also offers advice on how to approach the fundraising process, from building relationships with potential investors to closing deals. She shares her insights into the evolving landscape of venture capital funding, including the rise of alternative financing models like crowdfunding and revenue-based financing.

About Female Founders Weekly:

Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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Are you thinking about starting a business and don't know where to begin?

We're Sarah (founder of HostelPass) and Alex (founder of Freedom Underwear) and this podcast breaks down all of the key elements of getting started so you can feel less lost and more focused. We've chatted to other founders, investors, lawyers, accountants, and business coaches to create the ultimate 10-week startup guide. Basically, everyone you wish you could speak to when you're starting a business. Right now, female-founded businesses get just over 1% of VC funding. So we've chosen to amplify women's voices and stories, giving you everything from legal knowledge to how to effectively sell. Starting a business can definitely feel like stumbling around in the dark. So we're here to turn the lights on. So do your business a favour and tune in once a week, so you can get back to focusing on the important stuff. New episodes drop every week, starting in March.  

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