82. Done badly is better than not done at all | Sahar Hashemi OBE
6/8/202656 min
Most people think successful entrepreneurs spot brilliant ideas.
Sahar Hashemi believes the opposite.
In this episode of All About Business, James speaks with Sahar Hashemi, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Buy Women Built. They talk about Sahar’s journey over three decades building businesses, backing herself, and why entrepreneurship is far simpler than most people make it.
Sahar shares the hard lessons from scaling Coffee Republic to 110 stores and what happened when they handed the business to the professionals. What she learned about founders staying close to their customers, why bureaucracy is the si...
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First 90 secondsJames Reed· Host0:00
Welcome to All About Business with me, James Reid, the podcast that covers everything about business, management, and leadership. Every episode, I sit down with different guests of bootstrap companies, master-minded investment models, or built a business empire. They're leaders in their field, and they're here to give you top insights and actionable advice so that you can apply their ideas to your own career or business venture. What does it take to turn a simple idea into a movement and actually change how people buy? Today on All About Business, I'm joined by Sahar Hashemi, serial entrepreneur and founder of By Women Built, a fast-growing initiative championing female-founded brands across the UK. In this episode, we discuss how to build momentum, why simplicity wins, and how entrepreneurial thinking can scale far beyond a startup. Well, today on All About Business, I'm really delighted to welcome Sahar Hashemi. Um, thank you for coming to the studio, Sahar. [laughs] Sahar is a British entrepreneur, author, and campaigner. Um, she's known for founding or co-founding, I should say, with her brother, Coffee Republic, um, back in 1995. Since then, she's founded other businesses, one called SkinnyCandy in 2005. But now most importantly, uh, Sahar runs and, and is building