Mike Southon. The Beermat Entrepreneur.
Serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author, and one of the world's top keynote speakers on entrepreneurship and sales.
Mike co-founded The Instruction Set, a training and software business that grew from 3 to 150 people in five years and was then acquired by Hoskyns, now part of Capgemini. He went on to work on two start-ups that went public, and a number that didn't, which taught him just as much.
Since The Beermat Entrepreneur was first published in 2002, he has spoken at over 1,000 events around the world and given free, face-to-face mentoring to over 1,500 aspiring entrepreneurs. He co-wrote The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat with Chris West.
Read Mike's whole life story, from a Dixieland jazz band and a mobile disco to The Instruction Set and Mike Fab-Gere.
“Mike is more than Quite Interesting. He spreads insight and cheerfulness in equal measure, like an ambidextrous chef icing two cakes at once.”
He is also Chief Editor of Startup Mafia, and spends much of his time in Estonia. More on that work