T.A.B #10 Ed Hollands - Taming Dragons & Succeeding As A Young Entrepreneur.

This is the truth about business where it’s my mission to seek out real life business champions and explore and share their challenges, setbacks, failures and triumphs to serve as inspiration, motivation and help other like-minded business people and entrepreneurs like us to fast track our own success.

In this week’s episode I talk business with Ed Hollands

Ed is the founder of the truck advertising specialist firm Driven Media who help to get their advertisers in front of over 55,000 people per day in an innovative and eye-catching way.

Having just been named as the creative industries entrepreneur of the year for the Midlands region, Ed also belongs to the exclusive club of entrepreneurs who not only makes it on to Dragons Den, but also walked away with a deal and an incredibly experienced Investor as part of his team.

 After Ed had received a number of compliments about his entrepreneurial ambitions from all of the dragons, it was Northern Girl, Jenny Campbell, who decided to back Ed and invested £30,000 for 20% of his company.

The video of the pitch on the Dragons Den channel has recently been republished on Youtube and already has almost 640,000 views.

Amongst many other things, in this episode, you’ll discover

1) Some of the misconceptions about being on the Dragons Den

2) Ed’s top three tips for pitching to investors 

3) The difficulties of being a young entrepreneur

And there is so much more.

To find out more about Ed and the team, visit www.drivenmedia.co.uk or find him on LinkedIn under "Edward Hollands".

This was another brilliant interview with yet another inspirational business champion that I thoroughly enjoyed and I hope you do too.

You know, success leaves footprints…

So, let’s take a walk advertising trail blazer and famed dragon tamer, Ed Hollands.

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