From War Zone in Afghanistan to Starting Multiple Businesses - Paul Blair (ArcX)

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The Founders Lounge

Matic Jesenovec

89 episodes

6 days ago

Imagine you are friends with some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs. Now imagine you can grab a drink with each of them and casually chat about business ideas, motivations, tactics, strategies and success habits. That’s what The Founders Lounge is all about. It provides real insights into the real day-to-day lives of real founders, CEOs and other business professionals every week. Hosted by Matic Jesenovec.

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From War Zone in Afghanistan to Starting Multiple Businesses - Paul Blair (ArcX) | E72

The Founders Lounge

1 hour 12 minutes

2 years ago

From War Zone in Afghanistan to Starting Multiple Businesses - Paul Blair (ArcX) | E72

Paul Blair is a military veteran turned entrepreneur. Over 20 years of experience in leadership and high-pressure situations in the military served as a great and unique background to start a business. As an entrepreneur, he has launched, grown, and sold businesses in the property, financial services, and pet product sectors. Today he’s still involved in several businesses, but his main focus is on ArcX, a SportTech and Digital Health startup that's developing a game-changing smart ring for sports enthusiasts.

In this episode, we talk about:

- Lessons learned from 20 years in the military

- Military vs entrepreneurship

- The most difficult moments in Afghanistan

- Starting a pet product brand

- Paul’s funny experience with Dragon’s Den

- The challenges of building a hardware startup

- Hardware startup financing

- How to effectively handle being involved in multiple businesses

- The #1 course that most impacted Paul’s career

- Paul’s strategies for constantly improving himself

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RESOURCES

- ArcX: https://arcx.fit/

- Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-blair-dso-6446a315/

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