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hello this is bbc news. the headlines: one of the key commemorations to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war has taken place in compiegne, north of paris. some 70 world leaders are in france for the centenary. here at home, the queen and other senior royals attend a festival of rememberance at the royal albert hall. four people, including a one—year—old baby, have died after a people carrier was hit by a car in sheffield that had earlier been pursued by police. the former transport minister, jojohnson, says more ministers may resign over the prime minister's brexit plans and voters were sold a false prospectus in the referendum. please help us to be safe. driving through the inferno. firefighters in california have warned it could take three weeks to contain wildfires that have killed at least 11 people. thousands of leicester city
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fans have taken part in a memorial walk in honour of those killed in the helicopter crash outside the club's stadium two weeks ago. now on bbc news, newsbeat takes a look at today's generation of entrepreneurs — young hustlers. hi, i'm jamz supernova. i present on bbc radio 1 xtra, and every week i speak to young entrepreneurs hearing their stories and finding out how and why they went it alone. the number of the 16—24—year—olds working for themselves has almost doubled since 2001. better technology means people can now work from anywhere and at anytime. as well as a radio presenter, i also dj, run a record label and create club nights. i want to speak to other entrepeneurs to find out why 9—5 isn't for them and how
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they are trying to make it work. so i'm travelling around the country to follow the journey of four businesses and the young entrepreneurs behind them. the first person i have come to me is keaton. we met before when he came on my radio show. keaton‘s a photographer. he normally earns about £850 per shoot but also sometimes work forfree. he has photographed artists like stormzy, hardy caprio, 1xtra djs like sian anderson and me. hey, keaton. he started out taking pictures of his mates in a south london skate park. yes, it was kind of where the whole creative side of me arose and kind of took place. with skate photography, it is very angular and you always want to get the best angles. so for me i have adapted that for my portraits. yeah, that's the one i like. you mentioned you dropped out of university. what happened 7 lastjuly, i asked my mum,
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for me it was the first —— i lost my mum. it was the first sense of being alone. i used the energy that she gave over when she passed to go forward and achieve more and get billboards since she can see them. and just keep pushing and keep striving. i'll be the best. i want to do make sure that what i do is the best of my capabilities. sometimes it does get overwhelming and you actually forget about your troubles and your personal life. itjust hits you at once. knowing you are professional, what are some things you want to get better at. 0rganisation. 0rganise myself and my time a little bit more. i am working for a company where i'm and popping might use my hours will be really controlled
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and push myself. my next stop is birmingham, where i've come to me fashion designer meme gold. she does not make any profit from her business. everything she has goes back into buying more materials. she pays the rent through other part—timejobs. her brand has got a growing following instagram. it's where she sells most of our streetwear clothes. she started out on her own a few years ago but earlier this year, business partnerjoss came on board. how did it start then? it was completely by accident, i got fired so i started sewing things because i dropped out of uni and i was studying fashion design. i started making things and my friends are saying you should sell pieces. and i did and people wanted them and then a website and and it kind of took me, it was not my idea to go along with the fashion business. it carried me along with that.
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what's the plan then? to be on all of that stuff is now i live the thing about that, i have gotjobs. all right, let's go. so the master plan is to continue with what we're doing at the moment. getting as many clothes to as many people as we can, to get more people recognise the brand and to get more people to buy because when you buy from us, it means that we can then reinvest and reinvest. and i can eat. and she can eat. i don't ever want this grant to be this amazing, shiny, perfect thing. i always want me to be able to turn around and got up next week to put this out as the collection. i always want to keep it up, but real. how do you keep it real whilst also making money? next i'm heading north to huddersfield to meet adam. at 21, he is my
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youngest entrepreneur. he is facing some very different challenges. hey, adam, are you all right? inspired by his dad, he started a digital signage company earlier this year. so i grew up helping my father who did traditional signage, so vinyl, acrylic, all that, stuff. he has always said don't do business even though he had his own business and he sort of motivated me to actually prove everybody wrong. i prove myself wrong sometimes as well. what is the significance of the shop? one day i was walking in looking for pizza and he was refitting his store. and i thought to myself, it's a perfect chance and he did so happen to become my first digital signage order. adam has the added pressure on providing for a young family. he has to support his partner and a rather sleepy son. being a young father has made me really be determined as well what if i look at him and think you will will do good for your son
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and you'll run your business and maybe as it down to him or whatever. so it's making life better for us all. so earlier this year he was named in national entrepreneur of the year after pitching his business to dragon's den. i cried, i literally cried. i do not realise it meant so much to me as well. so it was really sweet. i thought wow, your husband is a finalist. it was nice that he gets recognition. i don't think many people believed that he would actually turn into something. because he can be. we've had many people doubt us. most of his £5,000 prize money went to his van. so the pressure really is on the secure some sales. from the city streets of huddersfield to the country lanes of the stratford—upon—avon, i am meeting the founders of the street truck trailer trash.
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one is full—time butjess also has anotherjob. we thought it would be a really good idea to get into festivals with this trailer. because you get free tickets? yes. they got the caravan from an elderly woman for £750 and converted themselves to save money. it was a big job, but we quite recklessly did as well. there are some things we pulled out. at one point, we ripped out this huge system and then we were like let's get a new one. google what it is like. £2000. right, 0k, go through the skip. we cried but we had terrible gigs that have been completely wash outs and then stood in the rain for seven hours and served three portions. i want to have a look inside. show me. i wanted to know what aspects of the business to girls need to improve on. obviously, we get a lot of work on social media.
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that becomes quite a full—time job to really nail that down. so they will be good to get a bit more organisation in handling that. so it seems to me the girls are lacking a bit of direction. or have some help with social media would help make their brand clearer. all these guys are doing great but it seems they can all do with a bit of help. so i had arranged to meet some of the top people in their industries. rankin is one of britain's best photographers. he's shot pretty much every famous person imaginable, including the queen, arnie and robert downeer. he is also a huge inspiration to keaton. hey, you all right. cheers, keaton. so tell me all about it. yeah, 23 man. i want to see your work. keaton has been examining with 3—d images which is key for the future. this is pretty good, what are you trying to do that and moving your camera?
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that is really good. that's good, as well. i like that. this is great, so such a cool photo for you. people say do not do freebies but i disagree with that. i also disagree. i think you should do as many freebies as you can because i always a day where you are not shooting you could be shooting. and all those things are plan the company. try and see you as a comfort zone, try and do music. not necessarily your kind of like favourite, favourite but stuff that you know might have a bit more in it. you know that if you do a top ten, you know, pop act, if you have a little bit more money than a grime artist. so that means if you can get a couple of those a month... you can do what you want. good luck.
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thank you so much. you are going to do well. thank you. i'm very impressed. thank you so much. it is crazy. a camera did this. a man with a camera building his own little empire. i need to push forward with certain things like moving images and just kind of it's a green tick of approval that i should just actually do it and keep going. fashion designers 0mi is one of britain's leading sustainable fashion brands. he has dressed lady gaga, beyonce and even michelle 0bama. meme and joss are heading to meet 0mi at the ready for london fashion week. hi. cheers. how are you? nice to meet you. hi. joss. we are partners. nice to meet you. how are you doing? cool, so let's see some of your stuff. this is from what we did. just then that's what came in rainbow colours. in very simple shapes,
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like tiny little pods and then the really popular this summer actually was the cycle shorts. you are pitching yourself where? closer to a high street price point. now that i wanted to be a businesswoman, it is a business i can live off and she lives off and we have got to profit off it. so the high street is a very saturated market. yeah. it's beyond saturated. you may not fall in the high street price point and the reason why the high street price point works is because it is on a massive, massive scale. so your setting yourself in that price bracket when it you don't have the capability of doing. 0ne exercise maybe you should do is when you go back is draw a cross. just a big piece of paper, put it up and put the luxury market, so you get luxury and then you got high street. then put designer and then you put high street. and what you do is start tracking every brand that
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you think his competition and where they sit. once you plot all those brands, i want you to find the spot that is empty that you can safely comfortably adapt to. when you need to sit down and have it there. do you have a business plan? so maybe next week, when you plot, do a business plan. definitely the planning thing and i am really bad at planning. i know it is crucial. but i am just like she is going do it. no, we definitely need to do that. we need a plan. yeah. zoe and jess meet one of their big heroes, chef and award—winning writer gizzy aspen. she runs her own restaurant and has written loads of cookbooks. hello. hi, so excited. nice to meet you. hi. so, the food, first and foremost
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any new business that should be your key intro. so what is... we think the food, drink and the good times. so we are really aware of the food being massive part of also the environment and the setting in the ambience. dishes. ok, so our street food menu, we normally do a classic big bad burger but would really top quality ingredients. junk food with good quality products. not feel too bad about eating it. it's the way forward, as we all want. can i ask you something rude? are you making money? we are making money, yeah. we spend money also. we are always like working hard we should get some flights to ibiza. hen dos, stag dos, weddings, after you have it already but visualising these things is really important. booze makes about four fifths of every restaurant business is booze. so that is where they make money.
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the food is will they go for and the booze is why you stay. we love booze. yeah, that's it, it is so part of your brain. so i would get very acquainted with local businesses. like local pubs and also tap into that sort of stuff. at 21 adam is amazing pretty young to be starting a business but his mentor is even younger. he runs one of the fastest growing on shops in the uk. doorstep is worth 16 million pounds. so i reckon he can give adam a bit of advice on that business. what's your plan for the next six months, 12 months, three years and five yearswhat were easier in each of those because it is really important to start planning? at the moment it is just digital signage, so it'sjust doing simple screens and controlling content.
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how many orders done so far for signs for restaurants? at the moment, i have only done a couple and the orders i've gotten, i value each one may be, to a thousand pounds. some of you are making now in terms of supporting your family, is there any left to reinvest in the business? not much. in other so, digital signage has not taken off yet so the customers would deal with, but are not really want to spend a lot of money. do you have a website set up yet? it's no, so building a website is wanted to definitely work on that. it's a digital world, people said that as your shop front. your shop front is your website. so any people who love credibility and look for your van, than to see a website. the first thing i would do is get website, get a basic website and you can do think it's horrible but just start off with something. start, you can develop from there with customer feedback and family, friends and so on. the next thing i would say is get some graphics on your van. everywhere you drive,
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there are hundreds of not thousands who will see that. that is eyes on your brand instantly. it was really good. the beginning of twister. for these businesses, summer is a key time to make some money. so the have girls taken the advice they had been given and put into practise? despite a bad weather for most of it, the trailer trash girls in the time the middle of the storm as they try prepare food for a wedding in oxfordshire. my god! and is a bit of a runoff at a car show, too. we are coming to you from rainy... and a very rainy classic car show. it's like a total wipe—out. let me show you here. meme and joss have been preparing
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for notting carnival. this weekend, i am actually tired. just giving up. and gone home. i guess i can have a life... i am hoping that i will see some outfits that are on carnival day that would make my day. adam is really pushing the sales and has secured a meeting with local businessman. i would say this is a happy medium, 43 inch screen and now this is how they will look. slightly wider so i've got a 41 screen and that is going to cost you £11000. oh my god. it's an investment. i have to think about and get back to you. ok, great. i think it's a no. it's better news for meme, loads of them is to grammy her clothes at carnival, including my one extra girljasmine evans. but keaton‘s organisation is not improving. he missed the flight to belfast
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on the day i supported reckon moment in belfast city missed that flight the other day. he made in the end, though. taking on what rankin said, he is doing his next up are free and in a world he is not familiar with, fashion. he is having with the creative direction as photographing it. so i'm doing the visual direction. so look, everything playing here, even helped design some of the close. hello. two seconds. it does not take too long before things start to get a bit heated. they keep their cool and they're
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all smiles at the end. next is bigger, better. the trailer trash girls, the last event of the summer. i think they are all cheesed up at the moment. yes. no. thank you. music plays. after we met gizzy, we were thinking over the next couple of months, so we are going to keep a diary and have stuff put in already,
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like weddings and stuff like that. so we are going to look at our diary and see where we have gaps and then like she said, that is where fashion week and then with brands we want want to work with. thigns we want to do. that's really satisfying, selling out. it's been a few months now since i met all the entrepreneurs and i want to catch up with them one last time. in birmingham, meme andess tried to get rid of the last of their summer stock. the have also taken the advice pretty seriously. the best piece of advice that he kept saying was plan. you need to plan and we really truly have.
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taken that day, we took a step back and said that is right. i'm glad that we met him. it was probably not a monumental but really important day for us. for us, yeah. we are cooking on the ideas that he kind of started into motion, i suppose. and the only way for us to grow and for it to be achievable and sustainable as a brand so we can both live without working ourselves to the bone is to take that step back and it's a big conversation. a business plan is a big conversation. she's business and i'm creative and we are like... clash. my thin at the moment is working smarter and not harder. in terms of gifting, we are going to do it in a smarter way. i think it's about also building relationships with the people. anyone can dm a celebrity or a blogger and send something, but there is not anything worthwhile or long—lasting in is part
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of the working smarter thing. so we will be doing it but we are thinking a lot more carefully about it in the future. meme and joss step back from the brand, keaton is definitely pushing on. it's a big job so the shoot, he is getting two assistants on it. ijust pop by to say keaton in action and he is working on a big shoot. a lot of fun at what is has been up to since he met rankin. this is an artwork concept for this cool thing he has coming out. he's using a green screen and then he'll create the image on photoshop. so we hung out at the skate park andone of your goals was to shoot a cover or a billboard. this is not quite a cover 01’ a magazine. nearly there yet. how does this get you closer to that
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goal is met is of the cover and bring over to being able to critically direct something like this visually and it does mean a better position when i make this. the end of this crazy and say wow, there is in the city of back drop, we getting there. cover art one day. billboard. magazines all the stuff. going to get there, 100%. looks like keaton could be on his way to a billboard soon. one of the things gizzy picked up for the trailer trash girls to have a clear idea of what their brand is. so how has it changed? we are events. we do events, so she will be disappointed in us being like... i had it in my head but i cannot communicate it. you have a flash card. yeah, i bet we have got all of the ideas that they would need to streamline and integrate them into different things.
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very extendable. our plans next year, we want to incorporate because that is good partner so we will be diversified and we are going to have trailer trash food and then it... start up the contact cocktails. and just have that all under our umbrella. in huddersfield, and has set up home office. this is my home office. i've got my logo,. i saw the van outside. i am into geometric patterns and it looks really fresh and here is my business card as well. look at those.
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and what about his website? do you want to see it? ido, yeah. it's basic for now but we can build upon it. i was sitting in a sofa downstairs and having taken how many sales a been made from then to now? the summer was tough for me, no sales. in the last three or four weeks things have looked up. running around the street, i have been sitting down, researching, tagging people who really care about science and technology and he has worked out for me. in the past three or four weeks and i have gained another client. —— i have gained 11 clients. that is good to hear. but what is clear to see is they're passionate about what they do. get that money. figures show that almost half of startu ps fail in the first three years. for these businesses, they need to keep pushing
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on and keep doing it by themselves. i am in charge here. we have at least had some sunshine today, some blue skies between the showers but they have been to rent chill. with bob precious to the rest of us —— with low pressure to the west of us, we can be sure of more showers. the heavy showers and thundery showers across east anglia will clear away but there will be continued to be a peppering of showers in the west and south but in
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the north with a two clear it could eat chilli with a touch of frost. elsewhere, as we move into dave break on armistice day, it is likely to be quite wet across wales, southern and central and eastern england as well. it tech —— as those clear away, fewer showers in the afternoon. still a always going to the risk of temperatures of 11 to 14. this is bbc world news today. our top stories. a moment of rememberance as the leaders of france and germany mark the end of the first world war. france's president macron and germany's chancellor merkel meet at compiegne at the spot where the armistice was agreed 100 years ago. wildfires in california kill 11
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people as firefighters battle to bring them under control and over a quarter of a million residents are forced to leave their homes. so i was just coming up the street to see my neighbours and i didn't realise my house had gone too. it's shocking! turkey says it has shared recordings relating to the murder
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