“No funding to start with. And do you look back and say that was great because we bootstrapped it? We kept it small until we'd proved the model”

Helen Cannon · The Business Leader Podcast with Sir Richard Harpin · How Helen Cannon turned a crisis into a £70M business opportunity

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started Ice on Travel with no external funding, using only a couple of laptops and bootstrapped profits

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