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100 years ago. the main ceremony at the arc de triomphe on sunday will be attended by world leaders, including presidents trump and putin. firefighters in california are stepping up efforts to tackle the devastating wildfires during a short window of calmer weather today. the blazes have marched on a path of destruction through the us state, killing at least 11 people and forcing 250,000 to flee their homes. turkey says it has given saudi arabia and the western powers recordings relating to the murder of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. the turkish leader, president erdogan said the us, british, french and german authorities had all had a chance to listen to the tapes. now on bbc news, radio 1xtra dj jamz supernova meets six young entrepreneurs who want to do things their own way in a documentary from the team at newsbeat. hi, i'm jamz supernova.
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i present on bbc radioi xtra and every week, i speak to young entrepreneurs, hearing their stories and finding out how and why they went it alone. the number of16—21i—year—olds working for themselves has almost doubled since 2001. better technology means that people can now work from anywhere and at any time. as well as a radio presenter, i also dj, run a record label and create club nights. i want to speak to other entrepreneurs to find out why 9—5 isn't for them and how they're 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've come to meet is keaton. we've met before when he came on my radio show. keaton‘s a photographer. he normally earns about £850 per shoot but he also sometimes works for free. he's photographed
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artists, djs and me. hey, keaton. he started out taking pictures of his mates in the southwood skate bar. yes, it was kind of where the whole creative side of me took place. with skating for me, it is very angular and you always want to get the best angles. so for me, i kind of adapted that, brough that forward to portraits. again, that's what i like. you mentioned you dropped out of university. what happened 7 lastjuly, i lost my mum, sor for me it was the first sense of being alone and being self—employed anyway, you are very alone because it is just you, but i am using the energy that she gave over when she got me to go forward and achieve more and get billboards since she can see them, and just keep pushing and keep striving. i always want to be the best. i always want to do make sure that what i do is the best
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of my capabilities. sometimes it does get a bit overwhelming and you actually forget about your troubles and your personal life, and then itjust hits you at once. knowing you are a perfectionist, what are some things you want to get better at? 0rganisation. 0rganise myself and my time a little bit more. i am notjust working for a company where i go in 9—5, i choose my hours, so i have to be really controlled and push myself. my next stop is birmingham, where i've come to me fashion designer meme gold. meme doesn't make any profit from her business. everything she has goes back into buying more materials. she pays the rent through other part—timejobs. meme‘s brand has got a growing following on instagram. it's where she sells most of her streetwear clothes.
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she started out on her own a few years ago, but earlier this year, business partnerjoss came on board. so, how did it start then? it was completely by accident, i got fired, so i started sewing things because i'd dropped out of uni and i was studying fashion design. i started making things and my friends were saying this really cool, you should sell pieces. and i did and people wanted them and then a website and it kind of took me, do you know what i mean, it was not my idea to go along with the fashion business. it carried me along with that. what's the plan then? to be honest, 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 to recognise the brand and to get more people to buy because when you buy from us,
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it means that we can then reinvest and reinvest. and i can eat. and she can eat. yay. i don't ever want the brand to be this amazing, shiny, perfect thing. can i always want me to be able to turn around and go next week, i want to put this out as the collection. i always want to keep it not grassroots, 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's my youngest entrepreneur. he's facing some very different challenges. hey, adam, you all right? inspired by his dad, adam started a digital signage company earlier this year. so i grew up helping my father who did traditional signage, so vinyl, acrylic, all that kind of stuff. he has always said don't do
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business, even though he had his own business, and he sort of motivated me to actually prove everybody wrong, and prove myself wrong sometimes as well. what is the significance of the shop? one day i was walking into this store to pick up a pizza and he was refitting his store. and i thought to myself, it's a perfect opportunity, and hejust so happened 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. so every morning, i look at him and think you will do good for your son and you'll run your business and maybe pass it down to him or whatever. so it's making life better for us all. earlier this year, adam was named national entrepreneur of the year after pitching his business to dragon's den. i cried, i literally cried. i didn't realise it meant so much to me as well. so it was really sweet.
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i thought wow, your husband is a finalist. it was nice to see him finally get some 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 stratford—upon—avon, i'm meeting zoe and jess, the founders of the street truck trailer trash. zoe 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? yeah. they bought the caravan from an elderly woman for £750 and converted it themselves to save money. it was quite a big job. we quite recklessly did it as well. there are some things we pulled out.
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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, better go through the skip. we laughed more than we cried. we had terrible gigs that have been complete washouts, 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 the girls need to improve on. obviously, we need a lot of work on social media. that becomes quite a full—time job to really nail that down. so it would 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 have arranged for them to meet some of the top people in their industries.
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rankin is one of britain's best photographers. he's shot pretty much every famous person imaginable, including the queen, arnie and robert downeer. rankin‘s also a huge inspiration to keaton. hey, you all right? cheers, keaton. so tell me all about it. how old are you? yeah, 23 man. cool, let me 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? that's really good. that's good as well. thank you, man. i like that. this is great, such a great portfolio for you. people say don't do freebies, but i disagree with that. i also disagree. i think you should do as many freebies as you can because i always think a day where you are not
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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 stuff, that you know might have a bit more in it. you know that if you do a top ten, you know, pop act, they're going to 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 the stuff that you want. good luck. thank you so much. you are going to do well. thank you. i'm very impressed. thank you so much. it's crazy. to think that a man with 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 are one of britain's leading
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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 the summer stuff that we did. it's just spandex that came in rainbow colours. in very simple shapes, like tiny little pods and then really popular this summer actually was the cycle shorts. where are you pitching yourself at? 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, the reason why the high
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street price point works is because it's on a massive, massive scale. mass production, yeah. so you're setting yourself in that price bracket when you don't have the capability of doing it. 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 put luxury and then you put high street. then you put designer and then you put high street. and what you do is you start tracking every brand. that you think is 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 and that's your usp. when you need to sit down and have it there. do you have a business plan? so maybe next week, you need to plot and do a business plan. definitely the planning thing, 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.
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we need a plan. yeah. zoe and jess meet one of their big heroes, chef and award—winning writer gizzi erskine. 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 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.
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can i ask you something rude? are you making money? we are making money, yeah. we spend money also. we are always like we have worked for hard, we should get some flights to ibiza. you need to think of packages, hen dos, stag dos, weddings, i'm sure you have it already, but visualising these things is really important. booze makes about four fifths of every restaurant business is booze. so that's where they make money. the food is what they go for and the booze is why people stay. we love booze. yeah, that's it, it is so part of your brain. so i would get very acquainted with local businesses, local pubs and tap into that sort of stuff. at 21, adam may seem pretty young to be starting a business, but his mentor is even younger.
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he runs one of the fastest growing online estate agents in the uk. doorstep is worth £16 million. so i reckon he can give adam a bit of advice on that business. doorsteps.co.uk is worth £16 million. what's your plan say for the next six months, 12 months, three years and five years? where do you see yourself in each of those? because that's really important to start planning. at the moment, it's just digital signage, so it'sjust doing simple screens and controlling content. how many orders have you done so far, signs on restaurants, for example? at the moment, i have only done a couple and the orders i've gotten, i value each one maybe comes out to £1000. so in terms of what you are making now in terms of supporting your
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family, is there any left to reinvest in the business? not much. 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? no, so building a website is one thing to definitely work on that. it's a digital world, people see that as your shop front. your shop front is your website. so any people who love credibility and look for your van, they want to see a website. the first thing i would do is get a website, get a basic website and you even 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, there are hundreds if not thousands who will see that. that's eyes on your brand instantly. it was really great. he will be a great teacher.
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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 are in the middle of the storm as they try prepare food for a wedding in 0xfordshire. my god! and it is a bit of a runoff at a car show too. we are coming to you from rainy... a very rainy classic car show. it's like a total wipe—out. just let me show you here. meme and joss have been frantically preparing for notting carnival. this weekend, i am actually tired. just giving up. and on hold. i guess i can have a life... i'm hoping that i will see some outfits that are our on carnival day at notting hill.
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if nothing else, that would really make my day. adam is really pushing the sales and has secured a meeting with local businessman. i would say this is a 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'll have a think about and get back to you. 0k, great. i think it's a no. it's better news for meme, loads of people are wearing her clothes at the carnival, including jasmine evans. but keaton‘s organisation is not improving. he missed the flight to belfast on the day, i missed that flight the other day. he made it in the end, though.
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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 well as photographing it. so i'm doing the visual direction. so look, everything playing here, i even helped design some of the close. —— of the clothes. hello. with the two secs. it doesn't take long though before things start to get a bit heated. keaton keeps his cool though, and they're all smiles at the end. next is bigger, better.
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everything. for the trailer trash girls, it's the last event of the summer. i think they're all cheesed up at the moment. are they? yes. no. laughs thank you. after we met gizzi, actually, we were thinking over the next couple of months, we have our diary and have stuff booked in already, like weddings and stuff like that. so we are going to look at our diary and see where we have gaps and then sort of like she said, think that week would be
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fashion week and then what brands we want to work with. things 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 and joss are trying to get rid of their summer stock. they've also taken 0mar‘s advice pretty seriously. the best piece of advice that he kept saying to us was plan. you need to plan and we really, truly have taken — that day, we took a step back and were like, that's right. ten steps back. i'm glad that we met him. it was probably not a monumental but really important day for us. for us, yeah.
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we are just kind of cooking on the ideas that he kind of started into motion, i suppose. yeah. 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. yeah. a business plan is a big conversation. she's business and i'm creative and we're like... clash. my thing at the moment is working smarter, 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 these people. anyone can dm a celebrity or a blogger and send something, but there isn't anything worthwhile or long—lasting in it, so it's part of the working smarter thing. so we will be doing it but we're thinking a lot more carefully about it in the future. so while meme and joss are taking a step back from the brand, keaton is definitely pushing on.
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it's a big job for the shoot, so this time, 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 is what he has been up to since he met rankin. this is an artwork concept for this cool single he has coming out. and he's using a green screen and then he'll create the image on photoshop. so when we hung out in the skate park, you mentioned one of your goals was to shoot a coverfor a billboard. this is not quite a cover 01’ a magazine. nearly there yet. wa nt to
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but assuming this gets you closer to that goal of a 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. cover art one day. billboard. magazines all the stuff. going to get there, 100%. looks like keaton to be on his way to a billboard soon. what are the things gizzi picked up for the trailer trash girls to have a clear idea of what their brand is. so how has it changed? we are doing events. gizzi is going to be very disappointed in me. we have like this. i had it in my head, but ijust can't 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. our plan for next year, we want to incorporate alcohol because that is a good earner, so we will be diversified and we are going to have trailer trash food and then it... start up the contact cocktails.
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and just have that all under our umbrella. and just send them out. adam has set up a home office. check it out. i have my logo here and my vinyl branding on point. is that the same as outside? exactly. i am into geometric patterns and it looks really fresh and here is my business card as well. look at those. and what about his website? do you want to see it? yes, i do, yeah. so it's basic for now, but it's something we can build up on.
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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. instead of running around the street, i have been sitting down, researching, tagging the people who really care about science and technology and it has worked out for me. in the past three or four weeks, i have gained another three clients. that is good to hear. well done, adam. all the entrepreneurs have had their ups and downs over the past few months. 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. and for these businesses, they are keen to keep pushing on and keep doing it by themselves. i'm in charge here. the
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hello there. the weekend was dominated by some really heavy thunderstorms. some areas did rather better for blue skies than others, and it will be a very similar picture for the day ahead. we still have this huge area of low pressure driving our weather, so there are more showers forecast for today, which of course is armistice day, so there are likely to be some potentially very wet conditions for those out and about through the morning hours. the showers have been clearing from the north. it is a tad chilly across scotland and northern ireland with a toast of frost but look at the showers that had gathered further south and west. as we go through the night, they have continued to gather and they will move inland across wales, southern england, south—east, and for the south—east
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of england as well. the first part of the morning, there could be quite a downpour and again, the risk is there of thunder and lightning and some quite squally winds. it looks as though they should have cleared for 11 o'clock. but they will still be with this across the eastern side of england and again with showers, the devil is in the detail, so please do take something waterproof. similarly, we have those showers for the south—east of england. where we had that chilly start, it looks like we will see the lion's share of the morning sunshine. many of us will see some sunshine as the day goes on. in fact, those showers clear out into the north sea and we will continue to see that south—westerly wind blowing into northern ireland, where during the day on saturday, it escaped largely dry and fine. temperatures very typical as they were on saturday, above average. with that still close by monday, further showers in the north and north and west and possibly a spell
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of rain very close by the southern and eastern counties of england, most likely kent and essex. so in between, hopefully we'll be afforded some drier weather but still those showers with us and the winds from the south west, so it is still relatively mild but there will be some chilly spots around first thing this morning with a little bit mist. as for the remainder of this week, that low pressure starts to move out of the way and the high does start to have an influence, not for a while, not through tuesday and wednesday, but beyond that, high pressure will settle the weather down. we will see drier days and chillier nights. the issue will become foggy mornings. as ever, we will keep you updated. hello and welcome to bbc news — i'm reged ahmad. firefighters in california are using a short window of calmer weather to increase efforts to tackle the devastating wildfires. the blazes have marched a path of destruction through the us state, killing at least eleven people.
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250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes, while thousands of properties have already been destroyed. james cook has the latest from northern california. living in malibu means you have made it, but no amount of wealth or fame can stop a fire like this. the blaze was propelled to the pacific ocean

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