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Ever received a call from a potential business investor whilst bathing your daughter?

How about writing your HR policy whilst sitting on the back of the 185 bus?

Well... Amrit Santhirasenan, Co-founder and CEO of Hyperexponential (HX) certainly has!

For Amrit, it took time to get used to dealing with interruptions, and time being consumed in ways that were difficult to fathom before he started his own business. However, even with these challenges, he managed to transform his business from a 2 person team working out of his kitchen, into a multi-million pound business.

So how did he do it?

In this episode, host Ashlee Bloom and Amrit Santhirasenan talk about the transition from being an employee to a co-founder, being a parent and managing his time, and having to wear many hats as a company owner. Amrit gives tangible advice on how to scale a business while also being a dedicated parent.

Selected Links From This Episode:

Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Connect With Amrit - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amritsanthirasenan/

Connect With Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/

Start-up Dads Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/startup-dads/id1548496077

Hyperexponential - https://www.hyperexponential.com/

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

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Ashlee is joined by Jan Cavelle, business owner, speaker and author of Scale For Success. In this episode, Jan talks about her first hand experience of scaling a business to morph into a bigger venture, and the challenges that comes with. Like most business owners, Jan has known both failure and succes and shares her tips on how to avoid the traps that she fell into on her own journey. Jan also discusses how she managed to turn her business from working on the kitchen table to employing a team of more than 40, and how she balanced scaling her start-up with being a single mother.

Selected Links From This Episode:

Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Connect With Jan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancavelle/

Connect With Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/

Scale For Success - https://jancavelle.co.uk/scale-for-success/

Jan Cavelle - https://jancavelle.co.uk/

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

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

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Natasha Lytton is Head of Brand, Marketing and Portfolio Support at Seedcamp - Europes first early-stage investor in pre-seed and seed stage companies. With experience working in Chief Marketing Officer roles at consumer-focussed start-ups across FMCG, retail and food technology, Natasha understands the growing pains that come with joining an early-stage company as well as how much needs to be done to make the company succeed from a marketing and positioning perspective.

In this episode, Natasha talks about her experience working at Seedcamp, a European seed-stage venture capital fund, and shares her secrets on how she has helped start ups with everything from defining brand purpose, to growth strategies and the art of creative story telling. She also talks to Ashlee about what investors are looking for in pre-seed and seed stage businesses, the importance of a strong team and her experiences being the first marketing hire at startups in-house.

Selected Links From This Episode:

Raffingers - https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Connect with Natasha - https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-lytton-02bba627/

Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46/

Seedcamp - https://seedcamp.com/

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm specialising in commercial financial advice and solutions.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

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

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Michael Michalowicz is an American author, entrepreneur, and speaker dedicated to eradicating entrepreneurial poverty. Mike built four multi-million dollar companies and sold two of them: one to private equity and another to a Fortune 500. Mike is the author of multiple books including, 'Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine' which is a counterintuitive cash management solution that helps small businesses. Since launching his book, the Profit First methodology has been used by hundreds of thousands of companies around the world.

In this episode, Ashlee talks to Mike about how losing his entire fortune and having to start all over again made him even more driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. They also discuss how the Profit First mindset helps you to change your mentality about your money, Mikes biggest successes and how to achieve job satisfaction.

Selected Links From The Episode:

Raffingers: https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Profit First - https://profitfirstbook.com/

Mike Michalowicz - https://mikemichalowicz.com/

Connect with Mike - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemichalowicz/

Connect with Ashlee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm specialising in commercial financial advice and solutions.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

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Lee Manning is Partner at Raffingers and Profit First Certified Professional. Lee has been at Raffingers since he was a boy in short trousers and was promoted to Partner at 26 years old. Lee is passionate about helping clients to succeed, grow and be cash rich and is one of only few Profit First Certified Professionals in the UK.

In this episode, Lee gives advice on how businesses can benefit from the pandemic and what they should be focussing on to get them through 2021. Lee also discusses what business owners can learn from taking stock and really understanding their business from a financial perspective.

Selected Links From The Episode

Raffingers: https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Connect with Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-manning/

Connect with Ashlee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46

Profit First: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Profit-First-Transform-Cash-Eating-Money-Making-ebook/dp/B01HCGYTH4

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm specialising in commercial financial advice and solutions.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production

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Season 2 of Beyond the Balance Sheet is coming soon! Join host, Ashlee Bloom as she talks to incredibly inspiring business owners who prove that financial metrics are not the only measure of success. Guests reveal the superpowers that really drive their business, the struggles they have faced and share their secrets on how they’ve overcome them. In this series, Ashlee will be joined each week by Lee Manning, Partner and Profit First Certified Professional at Raffingers, in an additional footnote episode, where they will talk about the learnings and takeaways from each interview.

Raffingers: https://raffingers.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/company/raffingers/ | https://www.instagram.com/raffingers/ | https://twitter.com/Raffingers

Connect with Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-manning/

Connect with Ashlee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleebloom46

Beyond the Balance Sheet is brought to you by Raffingers, an award winning UK based accountancy and advisory firm specialising in commercial financial advice and solutions.

Beyond the Balance Sheet is a StoryHunter Production.

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