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It"s Not Over

Nic Haralambous

It’s Not Over is like real-time therapy for entrepreneurs and business owners. Each episode is about vulnerable, honest and frank conversations with entrepreneurs who have survived near-death business experiences. Too often I listen to entrepreneurs and business owners talk about how they became rich, how deeply they read, how they invest their exit money and how they have found peace recently through meditation and Naval’s tweets. Every entrepreneur I know has a story of survival. On this

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45:45

Zanele Matome - From a personal butler to broke and back

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2022/11/28

Zanele Matome has experienced the highs and lows of entrepreneurship like few people I have ever met. She went from wininng mining tenders, living in a huge house with a butler to broke and back at her childhood home. But that didn't keep her down as you'll soon find out. ----Apple: https://apple.co/37gY2I6Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3E4wUbmGoogle: https://bit.ly/3KBQgqGWebsite: https://nicharalambous.com/its-not-over

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53:48

Chris Jones - How his business survived losing 70% of...

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2022/11/08

Like many entrepreneurs, Chris Jones built his business off the back of a product that he developed to solve a problem that he had. As an American Football player, Chris noticed a gap in the market for durable catcher's gloves with extreme grip. He developed a glove, started to produce and sell it and eventually rolled that product into a distribution business with a partner who would ultimately put his business in a very precarious position. In a single meeting, his partner ended their relationship

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52:05

Jason Bagley - A single distracting client ended this...

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2022/10/25

When his business eventually ended, it took with it his cofounder relationship, best mate and group of friends from high school. Jason Bagley's company, Firing Squad, started out as a project-based service business. But thanks to his ability to analyse the data, he pivoted to a more profitable product-based retainer model focused on email management. Unfortunately for Jason and his business partner, the data can only point you in the direction you need to go, the rest is up to you. Jason landed an

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Hiten Keshave - I lost all of my savings when my...

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2022/10/18

Hiten Keshav is an accountant who wanted desperately to strike out on his own and build a business despite his parents desperately wanting him to take a different path to their own.His first business opportunity was in an unfamiliar industry where he had no experience, no network and was burning through his hard-earned savings to survive.It's not often that I get to speak to someone who chose to shut down a business, but in this episode of It's Not Over, Hiten reveals the pains of failure and the

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53:59

Mike Abel - How a failing client almost took down his...

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2022/10/10

No matter how large your business is or how much experience you have leading, the threat of business death is always looming. When Mike Abel decided to pitch for the advertising business of the flailing retailer Edgars, he believed his agency could turn the retailer back into a profitable entity. Unfortunately, a change in leadership at his client lead to underhanded tactics, which threatened the survival of his business. Mike Abel is a business leader with strong opinions, deep experience and the

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52:19

Fred Roed - You aren't the best person to do...

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2022/10/04

At the start of his business, Fred Roed, like most founders, did everything in the business. Sales, Marketing, Creative Projects, Customer service and finances. But managing finances for a young business without the appropriate skill or aptitude can leave your business in dire straights. Unfortunately for Fred, this is exactly what happened with his company, World Wide Creative, in the early years. Luckily Fred had people around him who quickly helped him realise that he needed to focus on what he

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51:30

Andy Higgins - From $500m valuation to almost zero in...

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2022/09/26

Andy Higgins is the founder of bidorbuy. In this episode, we look back to the company's first near-death experience back in 2000 when the dot com bubble burst. Andy's story is a tech rollercoaster spanning two decades, 40 investors, a billion dollar pseudo-valuations, fast hiring and a slow but steady internet bubble bursting. The tech decline that Andy found himself in the middle of came with retrenchments, personal turmoil, a study break and a slow march towards profitability thanks to Google

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48:24

Cesar Hasselmann - Brazil's President stole his...

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2022/09/22

Cesar Hasselmann is the man who introduced frozen Pizza to Brazil. But before that ever happened, he was just 13 years old when he accidentally started his first business with a school friend. When a DJ didn't pitch at their friend's birthday, Cesar went home, took his parent's gear to the party and started DJing.Within three years, he had a DJ business with three cars and six DJs hitting parties all weekend. This business didn't last as a fallout with his young business partner lead Cesar to his

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54:41

Brett StClair, Teraflow.ai - How to go on the...

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2022/09/12

When your biggest client, making up over 50% of your revenue and resource allocation, goes under, what would you do? Most CEOs would retrench staff, scale back and wait out the rough seas. This is not what Brett StClair did at his AI Business TerraFlow when one of South Africa's largest airline businesses liquidated. Brett and his cofounders chose to hold on to their talented team and double down on sales. They feared that if they let go of their best talent, their business would never recover

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47:10

Jonathan Elcock, Comparisure - Losing 60% of your...

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2022/09/05

What would you do if you received a Dear John email from your biggest client making up 60% of your revenue?This is exactly what Jonathan Elcock went through with his chatbot business Comparisure. He received an email from his biggest client cancelling their contract out of the blue and had to quickly move to survival mode overnight. In this episode, Jonathan and I talk about client relationships, finding problems worth solving and why the B2B business model isn't all it's cracked up to be. My name

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58:33

Jonathan Kropf – distractions are ruining your...

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2022/08/17

How many near-death experiences can one business survive?My next guest is putting that question to the test!Jonathan Kropf decided to leave his successful corporate career when he jokingly suggested that a friend of his give him startup capital instead of investing it in an ice-cream business. Kropf took that million-rand investment and started Velocity Group fifteen years ago. The business turned a profit almost immediately and Kropf and his partners decided to expand into Africa through a single

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57:03

Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour - Stop negotiating using...

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2022/08/08

After accidentally falling into the banking world, Gitanjali Trevorrow-Seymour likes to say that she accidentally fell out of it too when the department heads at her bank were all axed in one fell swoop. As her career in the banking sector ended, she was left wondering what she actually wanted to do with her life. After much reflection and consideration, she started a training and coaching company. A few years into the business, Gitanjali realised that having 80% of her revenue sitting with a single

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54:09

Building a business after losing a husband and the...

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2022/08/01

Innocente Burger left her comfortable job of 13 years to start a business. 7 weeks later, her husband died, and in the same year, she lost both her beloved dogs. How do you pick yourself and build a business when a multi-decade-long relationship crashes to an end? How do you motivate yourself to make a sale, to send an email, to put a proposal together or even just brush your teeth?In this episode, Innocente and I discuss the brutal situation she found herself in, and how she put herself back

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56:45

Diversifying your income streams, proving yourself as...

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2022/07/19

In an attempt to diversify a successful office equipment business, Ted Bradshaw ended up losing millions of dollars. He built a video game company that was beaten by the mobile gaming revolution, he built a home rental company that was beaten by a supplier who went bankrupt and invested in building a novel technology to produce a radioisotope called technium when he knew nothing about nuclear technology. Ted's story is one filled with a desperate need to build something innovative coupled with an

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45:41

No cash reserves, no revenue and feeling like an...

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2022/07/12

Over ten years, Marina Byezhanova built her first business into a solid seven-figure business. Then in a single weekend, her revenue fell from seven figures to zero thanks to Covid restrictions and hiring freezes at all of her clients. There's nothing like a crisis to test your mettle as an entrepreneur but up to this point in her entrepreneurial journey, Marina had felt like a one-hit-wonder imposter. She and her business partner realised they had lost their love for their business, her staff had

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47:44

Failing to track expenses, taking a pay cut,...

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2022/07/04

After taking on investment from Stripe, Josh Pigford realised he was running out of money in a matter of weeks and not months.What followed for Baremetrics was a period of salary cuts, general cost-cutting and a slow march towards break-even, stability and ultimately profitability.As a founder, Josh earned enough goodwill with his team that they didn't up and leave but instead stuck with him and helped move the company forward towards an exit.In this episode of It's Not Over, Josh and I discuss

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49:20

Being a CEO and not an HR manager, pitching...

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2022/06/28

Kay Shaytanov is the founder and owner of 3RC, an edutainment and training company that she has been operating for 21 years. What started out as a career in IT and a hopeful rockstar evolved into a business helping kids figure out their future. Over the past 21 years, Kay's business has grown and shrunk multiple times. She has survived corporate partnerships going under, she has survived retrenchments and most recently, the global COVID pandemic which has helped jettison her company into the future

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45:32

One clause in a contract cost him millions of dollars...

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2022/06/20

Phil Tillman is a corporate man turned entrepreneur – To him, this is proof that an entrepreneur can learn the skills and doesn’t have to be “born that way”.Phil believes he sleep-walked through his first 35 years and only woke up to his real-life at the age of 35 when he started his first business.A single clause in his shareholder's agreement led to an unfortunate situation that cost him millions of dollars. He put his personal wealth on the line to save his business from the grip of a listed

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59:05

Aggressively abandoning failed products, users are...

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2022/06/13

On the way back from a party in London, Bridget Harris turned to her business partner and said: "I don't think we can do this". That bus ride home was the end of their survey app but not the end of their product-building journey.Bridget and her husband have launched, tested and shut down many products on their way to creating the wildly successful YouCanBookMe service, which is now a $5m a year business with over 20 000 customers and more than a million users.Her story is one of consistent building,

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46:52

She lost four teeth from stress but her business...

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2022/06/06

Stress can take many forms and destroy a person in a variety of different ways, for Kim Whitaker, that stress came at her from every angle and worked its way through her life. Kim was the Co-founder of Once Travel, Khwela Woman, and she founded Ubuntu Beds during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, Her hotel business faced protests and riots, an impending drought, loadshedding, a difficult business partner relationship and finally the COVID 19 pandemic. In this episode of It's Not Over I

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