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Panel Session Business Development Marketing Startup Sales Delegate
Location: Stage 4 - Wed, 1 Jul 2026 · 12:00 – 12:40 (Europe/London) (40 minutes)

The First Repeatable Revenue Engine: Finding ICP, channel, and pricing

Early traction is not the same as repeatable revenue. This session explores how startups sharpen their ICP, test routes to market and build a pricing approach that supports sustainable growth. 

One of the biggest challenges for early-stage businesses is turning early activity into revenue that can be repeated and built on. It is not enough to have interest in the product or a handful of early customers. 

Founders need to understand who really buys, why they buy, what channels consistently reach them and how pricing supports both conversion and value. 

This session will explore how startups find their first repeatable growth loop by sharpening their ideal customer profile, testing the right routes to market and building a pricing approach that works in practice rather than only on paper. 

Who should attend

This session is for founders and first sales or marketing hires who are working out how to turn traction into a more structured commercial model. 

It will be especially relevant for businesses still refining their customer focus, experimenting with channels or trying to find a pricing approach that supports sustainable growth. 

Why it’s relevant

Many early-stage businesses stay busy but struggle to build real momentum because they are trying to reach too many types of customer, spreading effort across the wrong channels or pricing without enough clarity or confidence. 

Without focus in these areas, activity can look promising without translating into repeatable revenue. 

This session is relevant because getting the right combination of customer, channel and pricing is often what turns an early proposition into a commercially viable business. 

What you’ll take away

You will leave with a practical framework for identifying and refining your ideal customer profile, testing which channels are most likely to drive effective acquisition, and iterating pricing in a way that reflects both customer willingness to pay and the value you create. 

The session will help founders think more clearly about the building blocks of a repeatable revenue engine and how to strengthen them in the early stages of growth. 

Hosted by
Simon McCoy
Simon McCoy
News Anchor & Broadcaster at Real McCoy Media Ltd

Simon is a news anchor with over 40 years of experience in the broadcasting industry, covering a wide range of topics and events, from war zones to royal births, in and out of the studio. He has worked for some of the leading media outlets in the UK, including ITV, Sky, BBC, and GB News, where I was a presenter and broadcaster until January 2022

Speakers
Ethan Burniston
Ethan Burniston
CEO at Influencify Media LTD

At 13, I started my first online business - driven not by circumstance, but by ambition. Over the next four years, I built a diverse skillset across the digital landscape before finding my edge in paid media: Google and Meta Ads. I've since helped multiple businesses solve real revenue problems and scale predictably - generating record-breaking months for clients, including £184k in closed revenue for a single consulting client, and…

Nicky Dibben
Nicky Dibben
Consultant at Invention Marketing

Nicky specialises in the commercial challenges that most often stall deeptech and high-tech businesses: identifying the right markets, crafting messages that resonate with customers and investors, and building a business model that scales. If you're uncertain about your product strategy or routes to market, struggling to tell the story of your technology in a way that lands, or finding it hard to develop a compelling value proposition,…

Rachel Swann
Rachel Swann
Founder at Rachel Swann Advisory Ltd

Rachel has spent 30 years (ahem!) driving commercial and company growth across sectors, primarily tech and software as a service, and now works with companies to generate and maintain repeatable and scalable revenue. The first 10 years were in manufacturing, and the next 20 in tech and SaaS, and she now only works with people who make her smile, where they can work together and enjoy doing so. B2B needs a focus on the C - if it doesn't…