The face of Hire Space
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English - September 20, 2019 09:45 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Kids & Family comedy immersive london educate entertainment entrepreneur eventpodcast events eventsinlondon experience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we have our friend Ed Poland, Co-founder of a market leading platform, that’s helps users source spaces for commercial use. Since 2010 Hire Space have disrupted the events industry, introducing a strategic use of technology when others were still caught in the past.
Ed talks about getting 40 “no’s” out of 40 when looking for his first investment, how the Russian Olympic pole vaulting team played a part in the journey, and gives invaluable advice to budding entrepreneurs.
00:45 a recap on last week - Seb Lyall from Lollipop
01:30 A short argument about planets
03:17 Ben’s review on the Backyard Cinema launch
04:25 This week on the show
05:07 Ed joins the studio
05:45 Imex in Vegas
07:10 Ed’s background (as a speech writer for the UN and a policy researcher)
08:25 Will, Ed’s Co-founder and the birth of their idea
10:00 The first six months and what it took to realise they had a proposition of value
12:00 The first big enquiry
13:25 Getting investment
15:00 The difficulties of first launching the site and losing money
17:00 Finding Tom, the web designer
19:00 Why the website didn’t work at first
20:00 Why getting a technology minded person in the room is so important
25:33 Size of the company
26:30 Recruiting
27:30 The difficulties of growing a team
28:25 Staff culture and keeping people motivated
29:25 Event Lab
32:19 The Event Lab podcast
34:15 What’s next for Hire Space
37:00 Hire Space Awards
38:17 Internal systems helpful for business owners
40:15 Ed’s favourite venue
43:20 Hire Space Social Media
44:35 Recap of the conversation
46:00 The Wolf of Wall Street immersive experience
48:41 Variant 31
51:30 Shout About Social media
You can reach the guests here
@HireSpace
Website/Pinterest/FB/Twitter/Insta
Mentions
Pluto
Mars
Earth
Mercury
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Backyard cinema
Capital studios
IMEX Las Vegas
Raddison
Milk Roundabout
Truman Brewery
Event lab
The business design centre
National Gallery
Hub Spot
Charlie HR
Lumierre London
Looking Glass cocktail club
Iron Bloom
Scarf Bar at the Rosewood Hotel
Slim Jim’s
Phoenix Arts Club
Great Gatsby
Variant 31
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