Josh Guest

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Josh Guest, Graduate Bachelor of Business (Entrepreneurship): Um, at RMIT I studied a Bachelor of Business (Entrepreneurship),ah, which was, ah, a business course, a really practical one, where you actually learn how to start a company, how to found a business plan and then how to commercialise.

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Mr Guest: So b2cloud, ah, we're a mobile developer. We started five years ago and

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Mr Guest: as, a, an interesting sort of background, I actually had a job and I got made redundant in my job. Ah, in exploring different opportunities in the, in the marketplace, there was this concept of, of apps, and ah the App Store had just launched from Apple, and there was opportunity to build apps. So I, ah, found our first developer,

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Mr Guest: and then, today, we have a team of 20, ah, based in Melbourne, and we do some, some of the most beautiful work in mobile, ah, so it's been an incredible five years.

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Mr Guest: At RMIT I, ah, I entered a Business Plan competition with a couple of businesses I actually started with some, ah, you know, some colleagues from the, the course. So, yeah, one of the businesses that um, that we started was um a business which, which focused around um using algae to, to, as a fuel source for, for cars, ah, making bio-fuels. And so, you know, we put together a business plan, um. We needed some, some seed capital to grow the business and one way to get a bit of seed capital is to win a Business Plan competition. So um, we used the opportunity to enter the competition, get critique, ah, on our, on our business plan,

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Mr Guest: um, you know, work with a mentor, ah, you know, to assist us in finding the best model for the business. Mentors are, err, critical; so they were critical in the sense that going through the Business Plan competition,

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Mr Guest: having mentors to help guide you through that process and guide you in building a better business plan. But even in the real world when it comes to, you know, building a business and, and working in a business, even for me, today, having mentors to, you know, be somebody to bounce ideas off, to get a second opinion on, um, somebody who's not involved in the business. They might run another business or be in a completely different industry but somebody who can, you know, provide you assistance and guidance to, you know,

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Mr Guest: just, questions that you might have or things that you're unsure of in growing, in growing a company. Look, so some of the learnings, um, from being in a Business Plan competition

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Mr Guest: are, you know, testing your business model so you’re actually sitting in Microsoft Excel and trialing different, different models, financial models, working with a mentor, somebody who's been there and done that before and having them go look at your model and make you, having you explain it to them and you know, them giving you different ideas on different ways to tweak your business model to make, to make it work even better. So, um, the mentoring and the, the guidance and the assistance through the, ah, through the process was incredible.

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