James Reed
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What would you advise to others seeking to sort of do similar?
Yeah.
So you were sort of thinking more short, but you need money, don't you, to acquire the stock, I suppose, when you had that 30,000 orders.
You've got to have some cash to pay the people in Spain to make the boots and buy the leather.
And so you need a cash flow for that.
I imagine, quite substantial as a business grows.
And you have a lot of stock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So how, as you've grown, have you found support for that?
How have you hired people?
What did you look for?
What did you do?
So everyone in the team is a salesperson in a sense.
Yeah, I like that.
I think that's right, because whatever business we talk about, sales have to happen for it to be a business.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lawyer or whether you're making shoes or selling shoes or you're in recruitment, sales is vital.
Yeah, business is not an academic activity, is it?
They actually are the opposites.
Yeah.