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How to be a CEO
Evening Standard
97 episodes
9 months ago

The Evening Standard invites you to join us in conversation with some of the most influential people in the world’s best city for business.

‘How to be a CEO’ gives you exclusive access to leading business people who will give you their tips on how to get to the top and stay there.

Networking is the key to creating a successful start-up, and once you’re up and running it’s essential to keeping your SME afloat.

Join us fornightly on Monday mornings for a brand new episode.



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The Evening Standard invites you to join us in conversation with some of the most influential people in the world’s best city for business.

‘How to be a CEO’ gives you exclusive access to leading business people who will give you their tips on how to get to the top and stay there.

Networking is the key to creating a successful start-up, and once you’re up and running it’s essential to keeping your SME afloat.

Join us fornightly on Monday mornings for a brand new episode.



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Theo Paphitis: How to Start a Business
How to be a CEO
24 minutes 38 seconds
1 year ago
Theo Paphitis: How to Start a Business

Kickstarting a season of shows looking at the SME market, we speak to Theo Paphitis, the former Dragon's Den star whose retail group includes companies like Ryman Stationery, Robert Dyas, Boux Avenue and London Graphic Centre. He's also the man behind the phenomenally popular Small Business Sunday network, which he started from his kitchen table in 2010. In this episode we talk about:


  • Why starting a business makes you “bounce out of bed in the morning” 
  • How to deal with the curveballs when they come an SME’s way.
  • Why you should wear your business scars as a “badge of honour”
  • Could he do today what he did when he first started out as a young man?
  • The simple tweet that started the Small Business Sunday phenomenon
  • How he overcame “incredible shyness” to develop a network when he first started in business
  • The “chance network meeting” that led to Ryman Stationery helping him out in his early days
  • Why he runs the Theo Paphitis Retail Group as a small, family business
  • Who’s really making money from online retailing… and why it’s not the retailers?
  • Why retailers need to “have a reason to exist” to get people through the door
  • Ryman's "unique" approach to disrupting the greetings card market
  • Why business rates are "the most unfit tax known to man"


Theo will be appearing at the Evening Standard's SME Expo, where there’ll be 4,000 SME founders and decision makers hearing from keynote speakers and joining in the workshops and networking events taking place over the two days. It’s free, go to smexpo.co.uk for more details. 




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How to be a CEO

The Evening Standard invites you to join us in conversation with some of the most influential people in the world’s best city for business.

‘How to be a CEO’ gives you exclusive access to leading business people who will give you their tips on how to get to the top and stay there.

Networking is the key to creating a successful start-up, and once you’re up and running it’s essential to keeping your SME afloat.

Join us fornightly on Monday mornings for a brand new episode.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.