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The Money Platform, a FinTech disruptor, following FCA approval today announced that BBC’s The Apprentice star Jackie Fast will be joining its Board of Directors. “Millennials are harshly treated by traditional credit providers, so we built a new system just for them. Our next stage is ensuring we scale quickly driving greater awareness of our ground-breaking Peer2Peer lending platform to …
In a three-part series, Reality Bites, Young Gun, Jackie Fast gives an exclusive insight into her experiences on the BBC’s hit-show The Apprentice, including the lessons she learned each week and how she has applied them in business. For her first blog, Fast talks dealing with setbacks – from 4am wake-ups on the show to stress coping mechanisms… Far too often, people …
My time on The Apprentice has been spent primarily on selling. This isn’t because this is my only area of strength in terms of business skills, it’s because most business is sales. Sadly, there is a stigmatism around salespeople and a reluctancy towards it as a profession – stemming from people being worried about being scammed or making misinformed purchases …
As we approach Episode 5, which marks being halfway through the work tasks in BBC1’s The Apprentice, I wanted to review some key learnings to date. With 16 entrepreneurs vying for Lord Sugar’s £250,000 and living together in close quarters, you can imagine almost every second something new arises – which makes the experience ripe for takeaways. Here are my …
With a lot of articles published alluding to reasons why I joined BBC1’s The Apprentice, I thought it would be helpful to set the record straight. I realise the leading reason to put yourself through the ordeal of boardrooms and breakdowns is driven by money. And when that is no longer an obvious motivation (I sold my last business Slingshot …
