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What's this Podcast all about?
The three areas of focus are :
Being Ace : Practical, Inspiring, Valuable, Thoughtful
For Biz : Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Commercialisation
Creating Hacks : Faster, Cheaper, Courageously
The mission of our podcast
I want to deal with the reality of the innovators journey. I’ve dropped my ego and can talk about my failures and share the important lessons from my tough biz situations. This stuff matters: Failure can be traumatic, expensive, delaying and impact business persons self esteem and credibility. This podcast aims to provide real practical suggestions to for fellow entrepreneurs avoid dangers and to protect you from failure. Each episode tackles one REAL business issue that an entrepreneur might face with solutions, ideas and inspirations. This podcast will be deemed success just one entrepreneurs gets one idea that leads to a better decision, gains confidence, saves money, gets to their goal faster or just gains some courage to deal with a difficult situation.
The Challenge of Entrepreneurship
Over 60% of businesses fail within 5 years. Realising your ambitions is not easy. The Media over glamourise business success and don’t focus on the tough parts of the entrepreneurs journey. My work with entrepreneurs all over the world has demonstrated that we need more honest conversations about the reality taking your ideas to monetisation.
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- Intro to New Series and Refocusby Ace Biz Hacks on May 10, 2022 at 9:12 am
- Take My Hand – The Power of Givingby Ace Biz Hacks on May 9, 2022 at 3:04 pm
- Why Black Entrepreneurs Matter To Asian Entrepreneursby Ace Biz Hacks on October 16, 2020 at 1:44 pm
- Black Entrepreneur Matters – No longer acceptable !by Ace Biz Hacks on August 11, 2020 at 9:47 am
Presented by
Assim Ishaque
Award-winning inventor, entrepreneur, and business coach
Hello, thanks for stopping by.
I’m Assim Ishaque. My intention for my podcast is to continue to help entrepreneurs around the world achieve their positive business ambitions. My work as a Coach and Speaker has taken me around the world, working with leading accelerators, banks and universities supporting ambitious innovators to progress forward with greater confidence.
I believe that a lot of business education lives in a ‘idealistic-rational world’ and reality is NOT like this at all. Having let go of my ‘ego’ and accepting responsibility for my many failures, I willingly talk about the difficult road to business success.
Ace Biz Hacks podcast tackles many different scenarios of the business ecosystem. Each episode we tackle one situation that a motivated entrepreneur may face and dive deep with real examples and offer powerful practical solutions that have worked !
There are many obstacles in the business world, so listen in to Ace Biz Hacks to help live a more confident business life.
My Story
I started early, daydreaming about inventions from a very young age. My education was all-around business and my degree was in Accounting & Finance from Bangor University, where I also was diagnosed as dyslexic! After graduation, I won a coveted place in the HSBC Bank Executive Training Program, after which I progressed into a varied corporate career in Sales with Everready-Energizer and then Virgin Media. Being made redundant from this last role gave me the push to start my own consultancy which focussed on Commercial Building Energy & Sustainability. My company grew and was profitable working with Local Authorities, National Government, Corporates and billionaire property moguls in London. I won awards for my voluntary work in the community and business was good.
This followed with fundraising for Renewable Energy and Low Carbon technology in Europe, on projects worth over Euro 250m. My dyslexic brain leads me to my own innovations in Energy Efficiency for ‘old cold homes’. Thousands of hours of work, and collaborations with leading researchers and corporate partners lead to my first patent and IP package. With Innovate UK and corporate partners, we invested over £1,000,000 into the project and had letters of intent for the first £14,000,000 of production. Sadly the project suddenly stalled due to a change in direction of our production partner and we are now looking for a route forward for the innovation. In between, I created an interesting toy invention that spun out and now sells internationally. The shock of failure of my first invention lead to some serious soul searching and my epiphany – the ‘lack of reality’ in business education and acceleration from which I created models to help protect me from my failures.
My first presentation was to a class of international MBA students – they loved the ideas, so I created The Entrepreneurs Trust to share my ideas with like-minded people and sponsors this podcast too. I have been honoured to present my ideas to the innovators and accelerators around, in person and virtually. Click on the link below to find out about me and The Entrepreneurs Trust.
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