NBT - Next Big Thing

NBT - Next Big Thing We are a Growth Studio with a mantra of 🚀. We help businesses achieve holistic Achieving sustainable growth is challenging.

That’s why, at NBT, we’re committed to helping businesses build, accelerate and sustain growth to thrive in the future. Kick Start Your Growth Transformation with NBT Growth Services

We help enterprises, scale-ups and accelerators on their growth transformation journey. We provide Growth Marketing as a Service (GMaaS) and Growth Consultancy Services, leveraged with our Marketing Machine Platform.

Step into the future of growth marketing with NBT Growth Academy

We reinforce businesses to transform their workforce, accelerators to leverage their ventures' growth, and individuals to boost their careers via a blend of substantial assets, products and learning methods in Growth and Digital Marketing. NBT Ventures: Relentlessly Seeking The Next Big Thing

We support initiatives on all levels that exhibit high growth potential to be the Next Big Thing, with our growth methodology and NextBigThinkers.

💸 Fundraising often looks like a pitch challenge. Investor lists. Pitch decks. Introductions. Meetings. In reality, inve...
03/09/2026

💸 Fundraising often looks like a pitch challenge. Investor lists. Pitch decks. Introductions. Meetings. In reality, investor confidence is built long before the first conversation.

In this Growth Playbook, we brought together insights from:
• Daniel Sawko on investor fit, founder-investor alignment, and fundraising as a long-term relationship
• Sam Simpson on fundraising readiness, traction signals, and what investors expect before funding
• Akash Maharaj on how investors evaluate risk, reasoning, and founder decision-making
• Ben Bell on investor-ready IP strategy, defensibility, and protecting long-term value
• Ali Pirbhai on operational maturity, scaling readiness, and the systems investors look for behind growth

👉 A practical guide for founders preparing to raise capital and build stronger investor confidence: https://hubs.ly/Q04wvyXz0

AI has made it easier than ever to create content. But it has also made it easier to sound like everyone else.As content...
26/08/2026

AI has made it easier than ever to create content. But it has also made it easier to sound like everyone else.

As content becomes more abundant, the real challenge for founders and brands is no longer simply being visible. It is building trust, credibility and a point of view people can recognise as yours.

In our latest Growth Spotlight, Kirsty Jarvis, Founder & CEO of Luminous PR, shares her perspective on what this shift means for communication, including:
• why proof matters more when expertise is easy to imitate
• what makes thought leadership genuinely valuable
• why founders should focus on impact rather than algorithms
• where AI helps, and where human judgement still creates the edge

The tools may be changing. The fundamentals of earning trust are not.

Read the full Growth Spotlight:
https://hubs.ly/Q04vl5-k0

AI has made it easy to generate more growth strategies, tactics, campaigns and content. It has not made choosing easier....
19/08/2026

AI has made it easy to generate more growth strategies, tactics, campaigns and content. It has not made choosing easier.

Founders still need to decide where to focus, what to test, what not to do and what the evidence actually means. That is why we re-engineered Fuel.

Meet Fuel 3.0, NBT’s equity-free, always-on growth accelerator built around a continuous three-stage loop.

1. Growth Paths
Match your offerings with specific target audiences and target markets. Compare the resulting Growth Paths and prioritise where to focus.

2. Growth Backlog
Set a realistic Sprint Goal based on your available resources. Turn assumptions into hypotheses, formulate tests, identify the required tasks and create a focused Sprint Backlog.

3. Growth Sprints
Execute the tests, measure the market response and review what worked, what did not and what should happen next.

Fuel is:
• Equity-free
• Always-on, accepting applications year-round
• Open to startups across stages and sectors

Founders own the ex*****on. Fuel provides the methodology, Sprint Planning and Review Sessions, Challenge-Based Office Hours, selected Fuel sessions and ecosystem opportunities. Powered by Next Big Thing Accelerator, with 10+ years of growth experience and 2,000+ startups supported.

Explore Fuel and apply: https://hubs.ly/Q04twmkh0

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A new market is more than a new customer base. The ecosystem around it can shape how quickly a company learns, builds tr...
12/08/2026

A new market is more than a new customer base. The ecosystem around it can shape how quickly a company learns, builds trust, finds the right relationships, and turns market potential into traction.

In this Growth Playbook, we explore how founders can use startup ecosystems as part of their international growth strategy, drawing on insights from:
• Mattia Lecchi on navigating Italy’s startup ecosystem, networks, visibility, and innovation support
• Mati Barbero on using Miami as a softer landing into the US and the importance of local focus
• Guillermo Huertas Guillen on London’s investor, talent, programme, and market-entry infrastructure
• Christoph Giese on adapting to local expectations, regulation, and business networks in Germany

The playbook looks at how local knowledge, networks, support structures, and visibility can reduce friction when entering and growing in new markets.

👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04sL3CT0

05/08/2026

🎙️ New Growth Spotlight episode is live!

This time we have James Newell, sales messaging expert and one of our go-to mentors in our UK Growth Navigator community for clarity in messaging.

If you’re a B2B founder struggling to explain what you do clearly, this one’s for you

Full episode youtube.com/nbtdigital

AI hasn't just changed how startups are built. It's changed what founders have to prove.Investors are asking different q...
30/07/2026

AI hasn't just changed how startups are built. It's changed what founders have to prove.

Investors are asking different questions, pre-seed expectations have shifted, and defensibility matters more than ever. Meanwhile, for founders expanding internationally, building the right network remains one of the hardest parts of the journey.

In our Growth Spotlight episode, David Gilgur, Founding Partner at Blue Lake VC, shares practical perspectives on:
• why AI has created two very different fundraising realities
• how the defensibility question has evolved
• why lower development costs have raised investor expectations
• why access to the right people matters more than the size of your network

Whether you're fundraising, building an AI startup, or entering a new market, the technology may be changing, but the questions that matter most are changing with it.

➡️ Read the full episode:
https://hubs.ly/Q04rjzbr0

Landing a corporate deal takes more than a strong pitch.Founders need to understand how large organisations evaluate sta...
22/07/2026

Landing a corporate deal takes more than a strong pitch.

Founders need to understand how large organisations evaluate startups, how trust is built throughout the process, and why the first meeting is usually only the beginning.

In our latest Growth Spotlight, Ken Valledy shares practical lessons from more than a decade of working across the startup and corporate worlds.

We explore:
• how corporate briefs, procurement, and pilot processes work
• why clarity, honesty, timing, and pricing shape enterprise decisions
• how to approach networking without turning every conversation into a pitch
• how corporate professionals can take the first steps towards building their own business

➡️ Explore the full episode: https://hubs.ly/Q04qglFX0

📈 Growth often looks like an external challenge.New markets. New hires. More customers. More revenue.In reality, scaling...
15/07/2026

📈 Growth often looks like an external challenge.
New markets. New hires. More customers. More revenue.

In reality, scaling usually exposes what already exists inside the business.

In this Growth Playbook, we brought together insights from:
• Ali Pirbhai on operational maturity, leadership, and structuring businesses for scale
• Ben Mekie on financial visibility, forecasting, and strategic finance during growth
• Patricia Wing & Nilsu Derici on legal readiness and reducing friction when expanding internationally
• Tomm Adams on international hiring, compliance, and building globally scalable teams

👉 A practical guide for founders preparing to scale sustainably, not just quickly: https://hubs.ly/Q04pBJPD0

AI has made content creation easier than ever. But easier content does not automatically create trust.In our latest Grow...
07/07/2026

AI has made content creation easier than ever. But easier content does not automatically create trust.

In our latest Growth Spotlight, Kirsty Jarvis, Founder and CEO of Luminous PR, explores how startups can build credibility, authority, and visibility in the age of AI-generated content.

We cover:
• why AI is creating a “sea of sameness”
• why trust is becoming the core currency in communication
• how case studies and real evidence points build credibility
• why thought leadership needs a real point of view
• how founders can use AI for research and refinement, not replacement
• and why posting for posting’s sake can harm your brand

Read the full episode: https://hubs.ly/Q04nJD4v0

Building the product is only one part of finding PMF.Growth often depends on what sits around the product:• the problem ...
01/07/2026

Building the product is only one part of finding PMF.

Growth often depends on what sits around the product:
• the problem you're solving
• the path to adoption
• the trust needed to change behaviour
• the channel that reaches the customer
• the conversations that challenge your assumptions

In our Growth Spotlight episode, Sheena Pirbhai, Founder and CEO of Stress Point Health, shares practical insights on problem-product fit, B2B2C growth, channel partnerships, founder-led sales, and market entry.

Swipe through for key takeaways.

➡️ Full episode: https://hubs.ly/Q04ncVVH0

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