Entrepreneur Naomi Simson, aka the Red Shark from tv’s Shark Tank show, took her early vision for RedBalloon gifting website she’d created, and blew it sky high – the vision blossomed along with the hard goal of global sales. She and  new biz partner David Anderson built Big Red Group into a clutch of brands  all offering experiences to customers on their e-commerce marketplaces - be they extreme sport, or lifestyle and luxury experiences. Naomi and her team proudly boast they have now built RedBalloon and Big Red Group into the 3rd-largest experience provider in the world! And that means they have helped grow the small businesses of their 2,000 experience suppliers. But along with the positive side of this journey, there are always the bad days as well. In Part 2 of our chat, Naomi is candid about both, and in particular she reveals how she dealt with tough times as she was growing her business; and why Australia needs great start-ups.

How to connect with Naomi Simson :

Three LinkedIn Learning Courses

Two books

One newsletter

 

Entrepreneur Naomi Simson, aka the Red Shark from tv&rsquo;s Shark Tank show, took her early vision for RedBalloon gifting website she&rsquo;d created, and blew it sky high &ndash; the vision blossomed along with the hard goal of global sales. She and &nbsp;new biz partner David Anderson built Big Red Group into a clutch of brands &nbsp;all offering experiences to customers on their e-commerce marketplaces - be they extreme sport, or lifestyle and luxury experiences. Naomi and her team proudly boast they have now built RedBalloon and Big Red Group into the 3rd-largest experience provider in the world! And that means they have helped grow the small businesses of their 2,000 experience suppliers. But along with the positive side of this journey, there are always the bad days as well. In Part 2 of our chat, Naomi is candid about both, and in particular she reveals how she dealt with tough times as she was growing her business; and why Australia needs great start-ups.
How to connect with Naomi Simson :
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/naomi-simson?src=aff-lilpar&amp;veh=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.1876561_plc.Naomi%20Simson_pcrid.449670_learning&amp;trk=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.1876561_plc.Naomi%20Simson_pcrid.449670_learning&amp;clickid=UU80C4xNyxyLTS0wUx0Mo3kTUkEwGA1taxU0100&amp;irgwc=1">Three LinkedIn Learning Courses</a>
<a href="https://naomisimson.com/shop/">Two books</a>
<a href="https://naomisimson.com/newsletter/">One newsletter</a>
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Candid interviews with successful Self-starters. On Build It. They'll Come, you'll hear from some amazing Australian entrepreneurs who bet big to build great businesses. Journalist Helen Dalley interviews business innovators and visionaries on how they turned their lightbulb idea into a viable, sustainable enterprise. 

This podcast is about the human face behind taking a simple idea and turning it into a business or movement. It's the beating heart behind what it takes to build an empire, from concept to execution, and how they actually achieve it. Fuelled by blind faith and hard slog, how they transform their dream idea into concrete reality.

Journalist Helen Dalley interviews business innovators and visionaries on how they turned their lightbulb idea into a viable, sustainable enterprise.

Build It. They'll Come.

RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson on how she aims to achieve their “big, hairy, audacious goal” – to serve an experience to a customer, somewhere in the world, every second, by 2030! Plus, overcoming tough times!

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