The entrepreneur was getting ready to ask some of the country’s wealthiest business owners for £50,000 investment for a 5% stake in her five-year-old healthy snacks brand LoveRaw. Thapar finally received an offer from Meaden, an investor known for her passion for healthy food. “We weren’t in a desperate position for funding, it was more the expertise and knowledge we needed,” she says. There were food companies and products that were labelled as ‘healthy, natural, simple’, but when you read the ingredients and looked closer, they weren’t. Part of becoming a successful entrepreneur often requires a certain amount of hustle mixed in with a sprinkle of bravado.

Source: Forbes May 15, 2018 12:20 UTC