The Fight For Fairer Funding

Have you ever struggled getting funding for your business?    This week’s episode is with David Horne who is the Founder of Add Then Multiply, a consultancy working exclusively with business founders who want to grow fast. David trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC and his career includes being CFO of two companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market where he raised more than £100,000,000 in funding and bought or sold more than 20 companies.    David is author of Amazon #1 bestselling Add Then Multiply – How small businesses can think like big businesses and achieve exponential growth. It sets out David's proven FACE methodology - Fund, Acquire, Consolidate, Exit - which supports rapid growth. His book won the Business Self Development category at the Business Book Awards 2020.  He is also the Founder of Funding Focus, a social enterprise whose mission is to level the uneven playing field that female and underrepresented entrepreneurs of all genders face when raising capital. We do this by raising awareness and providing education to founders, investors, NGOs and governments worldwide. We are committed to supporting UNSDG 4 – Quality Education and UNSDG 5 – Gender Equality.   Five Golden Nuggets you will learn:    Discover the different ways to raise funding  How to improve your chances of securing funding  How to increase the valuation of your company   What investors are looking for and to approach them   How female entrepreneurs can get access to equal opportunities for funding        ABOUT THE GUEST  https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-b-horne/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundingfocus/  https://www.facebook.com/david.horne.967/  https://www.facebook.com/fundingfocus  https://twitter.com/David_B_Horne  https://www.instagram.com/davidhorne9854/  TEDx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGN2Yp8_fY   Promote or giveaway  The first 10 people to reach out to me will get a free signed copy of my award-winning, Amazon #1 best-selling book, Add then Multiply  Everyone is invited to attend our 3rd annual Funding Focus Conference on 23 November 2021, running 14.00-18.00 GMT. Tickets here   ABOUT THE HOST   This show is hosted by Adam Strong {AKA: The Game Changer} who is a Business Strategist, Former Elite Athlete, Author, Podcast Host and International Speaker Adam Strong.  He currently runs 3 different businesses and enjoys working with business owners and entrepreneurs of small to medium sized companies. Adam is a Former Elite Athlete that trained with Olympic and World Champion Sir Mo Farah for 3 years. He takes the same skill-set that he learned as an elite athlete to teach his clients on how to create high performance, increased productivity and growth. He is the author of two books ‘Move it or lose it’ and ‘Fit body fit business’. Both written for business owners and teams that want their businesses to excel and to accelerate faster, quicker and become more focused. Adam is co-authoring his third book due out in October 2021.   He has been featured on the front cover of Influential People, Global Man and Steer Magazines, BBC radio, the Huffington post and in People Management magazine just to mention a few. He has interviewed influencers and thought leaders such as Jack Canfield, Dr John Demartini, Bob Burg, Marshall Goldsmith, Olympic athletes and sports personalities such Neil Fachie, Jonathan Horton and Kate Strong. He has shared the stage with celebrities such as John Travolta, Vanilla Ice, Calvin Klein, 50 cent and Dr Nido Qubein.  CONTACT METHOD  Take our new Business Scalability Scorecard here  Adam’s LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/adamstrongofficial  Pre-order Adam’s new book ‘Play the game’ here: https://bit.ly/playthegamekindleuk  https://bit.ly/playthegamekindleUS  

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The Business Strategist podcast shares business lessons over the past 30 years from award-winning business strategist, bestselling author, serial entrepreneur and podcast host Adam Strong. When Adam was young and living on benefits with his family in a West London council flat, he suffered from asthma, alopecia, bullying and low confidence. Then at the age of 11 he had his first taste of entrepreneurship – searching for and selling lost golf balls – and took up distance running. Within 18 months he had overcome asthma and become an elite athlete, training with future Olympic and World Champion Sir Mo Farah. Using the skills he learnt from athletics and entrepreneurship, Adam now helps others break their plateaus to create exponential growth to achieve purpose, profit and impact. As a key aspect of his quest, he has interviewed over 1000 thought leaders, business experts and entrepreneurs to explore their life lessons of what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur and leader.