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Zaffrin O’Sullivan, 41, first had the idea for Five Dot Botanics back in 2017. She wondered why the packaging for skincare products listed impenetrable ingredients at a time when consumers were demanding ingredient transparency in food and cleaning products.
O’Sullivan found a cosmetic scientist and spent two years developing her products along with designing the brand and a website alongside her day job working in television. The idea was to create a range of skincare products with only five easily understandable ingredients each. Five Dot had its first manufacturing run in the spring of 2019 and launched direct to consumer last July. The brand is already stocked in health food chain Holland & Barrett.
Five Dot raised funding from start-up seed investment fund Worth Capital, managed by Amersham Investment Management, and plans to enter another fundraising round later this year.
Only this week, O’Sullivan won a place on the coveted Sephora Accelerate 2020 programme and she plans to spend time in the US and Paris developing her brand for international distribution.
O’Sullivan still runs Five Dot Botanics as a side-hustle, as she still works in TV as a lawyer. And, if that’s not enough,
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Small Business has launched Start a New Business, a digital guide taking would-be entrepreneurs through every stage of setting up a business.
Start a New Business provides a step-by-step guide to launching a company, covering everything from having that crucial business idea to forming your company, creating a website and having back-end systems in place, from accountancy and bookkeeping through to hiring your first employee.
Other topics covered will include:
How to market research your business idea
Drawing up a business plan
Are you a sole trader or limited company?
How to choose a business bank account
Which online payments system is best for you?
Finding a business premises
Negotiating a commercial lease
Guides to digital marketing
Exporting for the first time
And the Start a New Business library will be added to with new how-to articles and best of guides over the coming months.
Plus Start a New Business will be going on the road, inviting would-be entrepreneurs to three live events in London (April 22), Birmingham (May 6) and Glasgow (tbc).
Each live event will feature a Q&A with a noted entrepreneur explaining their start-up journey, as well as case studies from other local companies and presentations.
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