BBC News interview
Duffy appears on BBC News to talk about Entrepreneurial Spark.
We de-risk startups. We have three Hatcheries in Scotland, and we are about to open ten with NatWest and KPMG in the UK. We bring them into a space. There’s no cost for the space, so the entrepreneur keeps all that equity. We look at the mindsets and behaviours. We look at how they build teams. Their emotional intelligence and leadership. And through that 18-month program we make them investable, and it doesn’t cost them a thing…[We don’t provide funding] They have to have [their own] money to get started. But every entrepreneur thinks they need money, but what they actually need is customers, and a better validated idea.
One Is The Loneliest Number
Duffy appears on BBC2’s The Entrepreneurs, a two-part show that follows him and some of the Entrepreneurial Spark companies.
We are creating a new culture. A new way of doing things. Nowhere in Britain is giving entrepreneurs an opportunity like they are in Glasgow and Ayrshire right now. It’s disruptive. It’s creative. It’s all-consuming just now. Ideas are easy. People say entrepreneurs have got ideas, they take risks and they lose money. But the real entrepreneurs go for an idea and they bang it through right to the end. What I’m getting out of it is between age of 45 and 48, if I don’t drop dead of a massive heart attack, is a Wow Experience, what a journey.