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Hello and welcome back to the Be The Spark podcast, brought to you by Bendigedig Media

Be The Spark is a movement fostering innovation driven entrepreneurship in Wales by enabling Welsh businesses to win and grow fast by linking you with the brightest minds in Wales.

This episode is focused on the 5 to 9 club. The 5-9 Club is an online 8 week after hours course (held once a week), designed to help you through the early stages of enterprise.
Whether you live in Cardiff or Aberdeen, you can now build your contacts and take advantage of 8 weeks of epic, business support, without needing to leave your home.

Your host, Huw Williams, was joined by Lesley Williams - Community Outreach manager at Welsh Ice, Francesca Irving - owner of Lunax Digital, co-founder of Swapp Skills, lecture, business coach and 5to9 trainer and Esme Rogers Evans - owner of Duxford Studios, creators of handmade bespoke jewellery, and 5to9 club alumni.

On this episode we hear what the 5to9 club is, how it can help you when starting a business, the community that it builds and the support network it offers. We also hear the guests experiences of being part of the 5to9 club and what you can expect if you sign up.

We hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed recording it, and we shall see you soon for episode 3

Social media -

Be The Spark on Twitter - @bethespark
Welsh Ice - @welsh_ice
Huw - @big_huw
Lesley - @lesleyw_ice
Fran - @francescairving
Esme - @duxfordstudios
Bendigedig Media - @bendigedigmedia

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Be The Spark podcast, brought to you by Bendigedig Media

Be The Spark is a movement fostering innovation driven entrepreneurship in Wales by enabling Welsh businesses to win and grow fast by linking you with the brightest minds in Wales.

This episode is focused on crowdfunding, and our host Jamie McGowan from Welsh Ice was joined by Kieran from SavePoint gaming and ESports Wales, Brian from LetterBox Lab and cartoonist Josh Hicks, who co-runs the Cardiff comics carnival and is art director of Bomper Studio who has collectively raised more than £10k of funding via Kickstarter!

People who are interested in starting their own project will need to look at ways to fund it, and one of the most used and well known ways to get funding is via crowdfunding. But where do you start?

Our guests discuss the dos and don’ts of crowdfunding, talk about why they chose to go down the crowdfunding route, and if they would do it again. They had a really interesting and insightful talk that will help answer a lot of the questions you may have about using crowdfunding websites to fund your own creative endeavours that we know will be very useful to a lot of people.

We hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed recording it, and we shall see you again in a couple of months for episode 2, which will focus on active innovation.

Social media -

Be The Spark on Twitter - @bethespark
Welsh Ice - @welsh_ice
Esports Wales - @Esportswales
Save Point Gaming - @savepointwales
Letterbox Lab - @letterboxlab
Josh Hicks - @ajoshhicks
Bendigedig Media - @bendigedigmedia

Hello and welcome to the teaser episode of the upcoming Be The Spark podcast.
Be The Spark is a movement fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Wales by ‘Enabling Welsh businesses to win and grow fast by linking you with the brightest minds in Wales
Each episode we will be focusing on incredible people across a range of sectors. We’ll be hearing from startups across the country about their successes, their failures, their stories and they’ll be giving advice on starting your on business.
The first full episode will be coming in April and will be focused on businesses that have decided to use crowdfunding.
If you are thinking of starting a business or project using crowdfunding then this will be the podcast for you. We will be hearing about the pro's and con's of using this method as well as hearing why they decided to go down the crowdfunding route.
Thanks for listening and don't forget to check back in April for the first full episode
Produced by Bendigedig Media