Launching, Commercialising & Scaling Innovation [Interview with Llew Jury]
No matter if you want to attract investors, clients or staff - the one thing to focus on to get their buy in is ... trust! Especially when you're in early stages of your ideas, your career or business.
Llew Jury has been innovating and setting new standards when it comes to commercialising up and coming trends as services before they were mainstream and accepted.
Llew Jury is a leading Australian serial startup entrepreneur and investor that has foundered and exited to ASX entities over his 24 year investing, digital and marketing career. He is the former Founder, Managing Director & Chair of The Reload Group, one of Australia’s largest digital & eCommerce marketing agencies that was sold to Hardie Grant Media in 2022.
From 2006 Llew built the Reload business to 85 staff and 300 clients located in offices throughout Brisbane, London and Manila. From 1999 to 2006 Llew was co-Founder of leading Queensland web, eCommerce and digital agency Alfresco, that was sold to a consortium led by the ASX listed STW Group. Llew is the former Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) for the RCL Muru-D Accelerator and Activate+ programs and is the EiR for the Bentleys Carefactor Aged Care Tech Accelerator.
Some of the topics we discussed:
how to build trust without proven concept, product or previous success stories
the power of building community especially early on to leverage your own trustworthiness and credibility
what ‘brand building by association’ is and how you can use it to your advantage
what investors, decision makers and hiring mangers are looking for
