Reading Time: 7 minutes I hired my first intern when I was 24 years old and built Studiobookers in 2011. And from that moment onward everything changed. At the time I’d just received £5,000 from my Uncle for a 7.5% stake in the company. This gave my fledgling company a £66,000 pre-money valuation. Not that I had any idea…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I was an English literature graduate! Getting a job at Deloitte on the graduate tax scheme in 2007 at the height of the credit crunch was like a dream come true. I was among only three people in my graduating class I knew of that had landed such a prestigious job. Hugo had landed a…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hey Guys, So you heard about project VIP. Now let’s talk about the shameful ‘Articles and Essays’ that I was involved in some years later. We fast forward now to 2014 and I was living in Northolt with my partner Daniela. I was furiously trying to make my tutoring agency work – Gobsmackers! At Brunel…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, I want to keep pulling the curtains back on some things I have done that I’m not proud of – but have still taught me much about business and life and everything in between. Let’s begin with a conference that a girl called Stacey (a PhD student from Aston University I was dating…
Reading Time: 6 minutes In October 2019 I (via Michelle Rubini’s Facebook newsfeed) stumbled into a whole new world of micro-private equity. It turns out that you can actually buy small businesses that are undervalued; improve the business and then scale it. This simple notion of buying businesses absolutely blew my mind. And yet it makes total sense right?…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, I’m 33.5 years old at the time of writing – and in many respects, I’ve been tinkering with ‘business’ since I was 16 years old. There has been Deep Impakt, Deep Impakt Recordings, The CV Guy, Studiobookers, Meet My Tutor (and more) in no particular order. I’ve done and tried a shedload of…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, This email will definitely contain less of a narrative – but if you wish to hear the overall summary then skip to the bottom 🙂 So let me list all of my current projects: 1MoreRep with my business partner Scott Henderson Wordpigeon with my business partner Max Carrol Forex Trading Introductions – I…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you combine the convenience of on-the-go eating with the health benefits of a meal in a cup, you get a smoothie. A smoothie business is one of the businesses that Deepak Shukla and our team established. Continue reading to learn more about how we started our own smoothie business! How to Start a Smoothie…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, Passive income is a bit of a misnomer, right? Is anything truly passive? It’s an ongoing debate but here’s what I take passive to mean: “Requires maintenance from time to time but no daily/weekly ‘work required’ to service the income, and it’s income which can continue to return on a monthly basis.” With…
Reading Time: 5 minutes As one of Deepak’s team from the consulting business, this industry is surely exciting. It is a growing field that is attracting more and more people from all around the world. A consulting business is an important part of the economy. It provides many benefits to a potential client, including increased efficiency and better decision-making….
Reading Time: 5 minutes Juicing is a great way to get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables without having to prepare a meal. Not only is it a healthy habit, but it can also be fun to mix things up and try new juices. A juicing business, one of the businesses that Deepak Shukla and our team established,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dropshipping is a way to fill orders that don’t require us to keep a physical inventory of products or take care of their delivery. Instead, we can hire outside companies to do these jobs for us. To illustrate, suppose our dropship UK store has cell phone cases for sale. Then, one of our UK customers…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, A couple of people asked me why I’m writing 52k words and what I’m planning to do to monetize it. I thought this would present a good opportunity to lay out my plan for you. Most of the plans I have are in my head, so I’ll do my best to communicate my…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Having tried buying an Off-Plan PBSA and a range of alternative investments; I was after something sexier. The investments I spoke of in my last emails are all relatively passive in that I put money in now and then I need to wait for 2-40 years for them to pay off. That’s all good and…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Having had a bitter experience purchasing an off-plan PBSA – I turned my attention back to my agency for a little while. My ultimate aim with Pearl Lemon was and is to build a brand that’ll last through the sands of time. I also want to build something that’s bigger than my own name –…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Pearl Lemon was doing well. We were a small business and once I started building some capital I began looking around for property investment opportunities in September 2017. My father and others around me told me this was the sensible way to invest money into property. And so – I wanted to find a property…