
The Elastic Band That Became a Global Brand
Emma BurkefromLaceeze
A proper product-founder story, start to finish. Emma spots an elastic band looped round a boy's boots on a rainy touchline, realises his laces never come undone, and turns it into a brand sold worldwide â having never written a business plan. You get the real arc: an £80-a-week vet nurse, a 60-person cleaning company she quietly dreaded, a co-founder exit that pushed her full-time, and the lessons banked along the way. The kind of honest, real-world example founders actually learn from.
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