In this workshop, you'll learn the essentials of building a great brand. Find out how to effectively tell your story and communicate with your target audience.

StartUp Series: Build a brand

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StartUp Series: Building a brand

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Elyssa Desai is on a mission to help individuals understand and reprogram their mind. As a qualified Mindset Coach and certified Hypnotherapist, she has a huge interest in the unconscious mind and helps individuals to harness its power.&nbsp;
Elyssa shares her expertise through corporate workshops and coaching, event speaking and one-on-one coaching. Her clients include the likes of Roxie Nafousi and Georgia White, she has worked with brands including Sweaty Betty, London College of Fashion and Screwfix and has previously been featured in titles including <a href=&apos;https://www.stylist.co.uk/health/mental-health/instagram-post-anxious-social-media/604313&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Stylist</a>, <a href=&apos;https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/fear-of-success&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Refinery29</a> and <a href=&apos;https://www.women.com/1346150/practice-gratitude-meaning-experts/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>women.com</a>.
Her podcast, What Am I Doing With My Life? With Elyssa Desai, normalises not having it all figured out, gives you actionable tips and motivate you when you feel stuck, lost and overwhelmed by life.

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I&apos;ve been founder &amp; CTO for over 35 years with of 8 of my own software startups with 22 products and 3 exits (8-figures).

I now advise, mentor &amp; coach other founders around the world (both technical &amp; non-technical) to help them get started, get funded, get launched and beyond.

One of my own startups had 11 million users and I helped one of my clients exit for 7 figures, I help in strategic &amp; practical areas both business &amp; technical (e.g. market research, team building, funding, requirements, managing the design, build, test, handover &amp; launch process).

I also help with mindset &amp; personal skills (e.g. leadership &amp; communications).

Creating a software startup is hard!

If you&apos;re worried or frustrated that you don&apos;t know where to start or that you&apos;re not getting everything right and that getting things wrong will cost you time and money (or worse, might it risk your startup launching) then speak to me.

If you&apos;re unsure or worried about market research, product-market-fit, getting funding, choosing a co-founder, choosing a development team or anything else. If you&apos;re feeling lonely and thinking of giving up. I can help!

When I started out, I struggled with a lot of the frustrations that you might be having now - I&apos;ve been there and know how daunting it can be and what you are feeling.

I spent years working this out and now I help founders like you to achieve success - so there&apos;s no need to worry any more!

I&apos;ve created multi-award-winning software and startups and been in the Deloitte UK Fast 50 and European Fast 500.

Over the last several years, I’ve helped many founders like you to navigate the minefield of the software startup landscape. Some of these founders have achieved their own successful exits.

Experiencing any of the following?
- Don’t know how to get started creating your dream software so you can be your own boss, have the potential to be financially independent and possibly make the world a better place?
- Worried about whether you’re doing everything you need to or if you’re doing everything right?
- Unsure if you&apos;re paying too much to have your software developed or if it&apos;s taking too long?
- Don’t have visibility or control of the design, test &amp; build of your software?

I will help you:
- Get started
- Move forward
- Overcome hurdles &amp; worries
- Know what to do &amp; how to do it right
- Ensure the cost, time &amp; quality of your software product
- Gain control of the software development
- Ensure development provider accountability

What&apos;s the next step?
Book a free initial consultation with me and I’ll give you immediate guidance and we’ll discuss how I can help moving forward.

Software Startup Specialist

Pre-Seed Startup Funding Program

If you&apos;re a software startup founder and need pre-seed funding then this low cost program is for you!

I&apos;ve spent 35 years creating startups and helping others, and this is one of the biggest problems - don&apos;t leave it to chance!

Just £500 investment gets you the following benefits:

- Step-by-step guidance from me, from idea to pre-seed funding
- Take as long as you need - no time limit
- Your market research will be thorough
- Your pitch decks will be exactly what investors need

I&apos;m Lucy Heskins, a startup growth advisor who works with organisations to create, build and scale b2b products and services. My work has been featured in TechCrunch, Business of Software, Sifted, and Barclays Eagle Labs.&nbsp;
I run Oh Blimey, where we support organisations to go to market, build repeatable marketing processes, and develop the confidence they’re pursuing the right activities. Think of it as a combination of marketing, growth and sales, helping the small business owner to take on their competitors.&nbsp;
I’ve been involved in 10 startups, from idea validation through to exit. My most recent in-house rodeo was with Careercake - a video-learning platform that was acquired by the world’s leading e-learning platform. During my time there, we saw 400x growth, and supported 10 million learners, from over forty countries.

I work with businesses, mainly in B2B, SaaS, tech, membership and marketplaces, helping founders and their teams navigate the (sometimes) messy process of growing their small businesses. I am based in Cardiff, Wales, but work with lovely teams in the US, London, and Wales.

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Lucy Heskins

I&apos;m Lucy Heskins, a startup growth advisor who works with organisations to create, build and scale b2b products and services. My work has been featured in TechCrunch, Business of Software, Sifted, and Barclays Eagle Labs.&nbsp;
I run Oh Blimey, where we support organisations to go to market, build repeatable marketing processes, and develop the confidence they’re pursuing the right activities. Think of it as a combination of marketing, growth and sales, helping the small business

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