A natural and accomplished Entrepreneur, Reece Mennie, is the Founder and Managing Director of the industry leading investment firm, Hunter Jones. With an established background in sales, Reece boasts extensive knowledge and experience in UK and European asset-backed loan notes, having personally structured and raised circa £40 Million for property developers over the past three years alone, resulting in the accelerated growth and success of Hunter Jones. Through his inspiring and engaging talk, Reece reveals his journey to business success first hand, where he provides insight into how he transformed Hunter Jones from a start-up into a multi-million-pound empire in just three years, whilst offering valuable advice in property and business investment.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“funding was hard when I first started. The biggest problem was to make that jump with so little money because you are always unsure, you are always chasing to make sure that you will get in the deals done because you have got bills to pay and it is all on you. And when you bring in more staff in you need to make sure that everything is moving in the right way. So that was one of the difficulties I had to overcome. And to have the confidence in myself to be able to take that step to getting on my journey I am on now.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Be Obsessed or Be Average Book by Grant Cardone
- Grant Cardone Books
Favourite Quote:
- “Always show up”
- “a boss has a title but a leader has the people”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Linkedin – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs
- Social Media
- Instagram – A simple, fun creative way to capture, edit share photos, videos messages with friends family
- Facebook Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“trust your instinct and your gut and believe in your products and what you do. Some people will try and discourage you and criticise you but the best thing that I can say is you ignore them you keep focused on goal. So always have goals, keep pushing towards where you want to be and never ever give up”…[Listen for More]
More About Reece Mennie:
Osborne Baldwin Limited t/a Hunter Jones
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The answers are in you, not around you.” Dan Groat
Other Quotes From the Chat with Reece Mennie:
- “Being an entrepreneur and owning a business and growing a business at the rate I have done its about having the right team”
- “you need to work hard on yourself, you need to take action. You don’t want to be somebody that site there and says one day I will do that. One day or when that day comes or once I have done this I will just take action. My advice and for anybody who wants to take that step into the entrepreneur way you need to take action. Its about taking action, its about saying this is what I am doing, this is how I am doing it and I am getting on with it”
- “You have got to keep recruiting because it is all about the team”
- “always continue to help yourself”
- “soon as I left school I worked harder on myself outside of my academic years than I ever did in my academic years because I could see a benefit to myself in working on myself doing personal development, reading books, doing podcasts, teaching myself new stuff. So it is really what you want our your life”
- “I believe if you want something you have to be obsessed. Or if not you will settle for average”
- “just be relentless in what you want. And you have to work on yourself with that relentlessness if you want to be and get to where to go, your vision, and you have got that picture of that person you want to be in a few years’ time. The only way that you are going to get there is by working hard on yourself”
- “you need to have good people around you, you need to excel and to grow your business”
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