As part of The British Library’s food series, I was really pleased to moderate an excellent panel of speakers at a recent event called Recipes For Success: Inspiring Entrepreneurs which featured founder-entrepreneurs: Guy Singh-Watson from Riverford Food, Praveen Vijn from Eat Natural and Pippa Murray from Pip & Nut (sadly Nadia Stokes was unable to join us).

The idea was to give future food start-up dreamers or existing entrepreneurs some useful insight and tips. The panellists shared their expertise on the following topics, including:

• when to launch ahead with an idea (“go for it!”)
• how to talk to supermarket buyers
• marketing budgets -mistakes and challenges
• highpoints and achievements
• when to spend on marketing
  (You can find a summary of some of their answers and advice via the BIPC Twitter feed)