Venetia Archer Founder and CEO of Ruuby (www.ruuby.com), an on demand beauty service marketplace is in conversation with Marina and discusses starting her business, being an entrepreneur and how her goal is to change the beauty services space and for Ruuby to become a household name

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• Whether entrepreneurs are born or you can grow into it
• Formative experiences that shape you
• Starting and growing a business and constantly learning
• Finding the right people for your business
• The role of the CEO in solving problems 
• How family influences the work life balance
• Making the first step into a start up
• Market saturation and doing things differently
• Where Venetia’s ideas come from
• Being outside of your comfort zone and learning
• Personal growth and  having mentors for different aspects of your business
• Supporting and mentoring others on their entrepreneurial journey
• Understanding what you really want and going out and getting it

BEST BITS

‘I don’t think people are necessarily born entrepreneurs there are lots of examples when someone sees an opportunity and are well positioned to be involved in it but it’s also a personality trait that the person sees the opportunity and wants to be the one to solve the problem’

‘There was nothing like it for beauty, it  was the business I wanted to start and the life I wanted to live through it’

‘We’ve achieved product market fit, we know what we are doing and  we are changing people’s lives, the way they consume the service and how professionals deliver them’

‘My goal is I want to make Ruby a household name and change the way people consume beauty services’

‘If you initially pursue a side hustle as an entrepreneur you can keep the economic security of your job’

‘Talk about what you are doing with people and call on your contacts to teach you, people are so much more open than you think they are going to be’

‘There is a lot of data that proves how amazing female entrepreneurs are so building success stories makes a difference’

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ABOUT THE HOST

Marina Bennett had a high-flying international career in strategy and finance, and in 2019 she decided to leave her £300k/year City job to take entrepreneurial plunge from scratch. She is now a multiple business owner on the way to her first 7 figures. Marina is also a founder of Woman. Self-made. (@womanselfmade.inc) - an online community of confident, ambit