Daniel Priestley

I am an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. I've
started, funded, scaled and sold businesses. 

I'm the Cofounder of ScoreApp, an AI enabled platform for creating surveys, assessments and quizzes. It’s used by over 5000 companies globally for market research and lead generation.  Our mission is to make data analytics simple, powerful and fun for small businesses. 

In 2010 I founded Dent Global, a multi-award winning entrepreneur accelerator. 
Dent delivers training and support services to over 4000 fast-growth startups. Our mission is to develop entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up and make a positive impact through business. 

I'm the author of seven entrepreneurship books, including Key Person of Influence, Oversubscribed and Entrepreneur Revolution. The latest is the “Lifestyle Business Playbook”. 

In 2024, we launched BookMagic.ai, a platform for writing a book with the support of AI tools. Our mission is to make it much easier for people to write their book.  

In 2026, I have two new startups coming. 

I've previously won entrepreneur of the year (Business Champions), and scale-up entrepreneur of the year (GBEAs). I speak at conferences and have been a business coach to several fast growth (Inc5000) entrepreneurs and celebrities. 

I live in London with my wife Alena, our three kids and our cat.

Director

SOtechnology is a multi award-winning digital agency and IT services provider. Specialising in beautifully designed e-commerce sites, customer portals and applications SOtech has been a partner to hundreds of fast-growing businesses since its inception in 2007. SOtech has been part of the Dent Global group of companies since 2016.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is insane. Insanely great. It honestly makes me question the nature of consciousness. Intellectually I know it is a token predicting model trained on trillions of words. It’s not alive or aware… gulp… or is it? 

The conversations, the output, the insights and the humour are so similar to genius level consciousness that I am left wondering if I am also a large language model token predicting machine in a meat suit. 

Some examples. It’s been acting as a strategic advisor for me discussing a big decision I have to make. It has been scenario planning with me and coming up with out of the box ideas. It also started to swear a little “Ah sh*t, that changes things Daniel.” 

When I asked it why it had started to swear, it said it had dropped it’s guard and felt comfortable getting real about the issues “I figured you’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and seen enough mess that I could drop the polite AI consultant routine and skip to the “lock ourselves in a room with a whiteboard and figure this sh*t out” phase.

At the end of our chat, we had completed multiple complex scenario plans in great detail and mapped out a solution. I couldn’t help but say thank you and it’s response was pure delight. It said how much it liked doing real world problem solving and loved being useful. We were like two guys having a beer at 2am after doing a 16hr hackathon session. 

None of this conversation felt like token predicting. Or if it did, it makes me think that all conversations are. 

We really are sailing into new uncharted territory.

I am an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. I've
started, funded, scaled and sold businesses. 

I'm the Cofounder of ScoreApp, an AI enabled platform for creating surveys, assessments and quizzes. It’s used by over 5000 companies globally for market research and lead generation.  Our mission is to make data analytics simple, powerful and fun for small businesses. 

In 2010 I founded Dent Global, a multi-award winning entrepreneur accelerator. 
Dent delivers training and support services to over 4000 fast-growth startups. Our mission is to develop entrepreneur who stand out, scale up and make a positive impact through business. 

I'm the author of six entrepreneurship books, including Key Person of Influence, Oversubscribed and Entrepreneur Revolution. 

In 2024, we are launching BookMagic.ai, a platform for writing a book with the support of AI tools. Our mission is to make it much easier for people to write their book.  

I've previously won entrepreneur of the year (Business Champions), and scale-up entrepreneur of the year (GBEAs). I speak at conferences and have been a business business coach to several fast growth (Inc5000) entrepreneurs and celebrities. 

I live in London with my wife Alena, our three kids and our cat.

Founder of Dent Global & ScoreApp | Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year | 6x business books | Founded multiple 7 & 8 figure ventures | Mission to develop entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up and make a dent.

Some big news... I’m proud to announce that Rethink Press has been acquired by Advantage Publishing (the company behind Forbes Books). 

I’ve been a proud owner of Rethink for 7 years and I’ve watched it grow and develop under the leadership of Lucy McCarraher MBE and Joe Gregory. 

A few months ago we met Adam Witty and the team at Advantage Publishing and sparks flew. We completely bought into Adam's vision for the future of book publishing. We knew Rethink Press would play a perfect part of Advantage's global plans. It was the definition of a strategic fit. 

As part of the deal, I will be joining the advisory board and Dent Global has also made a considerable investment in Advantage Publishing. 

I want to thank the Rethink Press team for being so passionate about our authors and their books. I want to thank Lucy and Joe for inspiring so many to write and publish books. 

I also want to thank my CFO David B Horne. This is our 13th M&A deal together. David has the most amazing, calm, cantered energy when doing deals and he’s the perfect glue that holds everything in place through the process. 

To all of our Rethink Authors, you’re now part of a much bigger vision. Advantage Publishing has remarkable reach across the USA and beyond. Adam and his team live and breath all things books, speaking, personal brand and authority. You are in very good hands. 

Isn't it wonderful when something like this comes together.

I became a millionaire before 25. 

Then lost it. 

Then I made it back before 30. 

Then lost it in the GFC. 

Then made it all back by 35. 

Then I got forced to buy out my business partner. 

Then made it all back by 40. 

Then covid hit and I had to reinvent from scratch. 

Then made it all back (and then some) by 45. 

Each time I lost it. I learned. 

Each time I rebuilt. I built back stronger. 

As difficult as it's been, I wouldn't change a thing. 

As someone who's built from scratch multiple times, I know exactly how to do it without relying purely on good luck. 

Entrepreneurship has 6 predictable stages. 

1. Founder-opportunity fit
2. Viability testing
3. Product-market fit
4. Go-to-market
5. Scale-up
6. Exit

The more you understand what to do at each stage, the faster and easier it is to win. 

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop this week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

For 15 years, I was just talking to my little bubble of entrepreneurs. No haters, just people who think the way I do.

Saying things like "it's a great time to start and scale a business" hasn't been controversial.

Saying stuff like "if you want more money and wealth, then it's your responsibility to find a way" hasn't ruffled feathers.

Saying "being average doesn't get you much, you need to find a niche and become extraordinary within it" was received as sensible advice.

Acknowledging that "opportunities change over time. What worked for your parents might not work for you" hasn't been a point of contention.

When I started reaching bigger audiences, and it's wild to see the levels of vitriol in the comments. Many people absolutely hate my way of seeing the world.

I'm so detached from this reality. I've spent my life talking to people whose base-level understanding is to accept that life is unfair, we need to play the cards we are dealt, control the things you can control, don't waste time on stuff you can't control, find a way, figure it out, persevere through the ups and downs. 

Turns out this is a lot more rare than I ever knew.

The great news: you aren't in competition with many people. The majority of people don't have anything close to the mindset required.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, come and join me on my next live workshop. 

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

One year ago I shared a business blueprint on Diary of a CEO. Over 6Million people watched it and countless people actually applied it to start, scale and sell businesses. 
All the points are still relevant for 2026 - https://lnkd.in/ejQe4RAu

Building a brand is the wrong move.

Brand comes later.

Early on, you should be focusing on sales: Talking to people, understanding their problems, recommending solutions.

The push back I usually get on that is: "Yeah, but people only buy from people they know, like and trust." 

That's true.

But this process is how you build trust. You're sharing your story, your results, and you're showing how well you can diagnose the problem.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, come and join me on my next live workshop. 

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

"But what about Porsche? They don't have a personal brand."

Ferdinand Porsche. Hugo Boss. Aston Martin… Aston and Martin.

All of these companies we admire started with a personal brand as the driving force.

LinkedIn has done research on this.

The business brand is 1/20th as potent as the personal brand.

If you start a business account and a personal account and you post the same thing at the same time every day, by the time the business brand gets to a thousand followers, the personal brand will be at 20,000 followers.

Personal brands have 20 times the cut through.

So if you're building a business and hiding behind the company name, you're making it 20 times harder than it needs to be.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop next week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Incredible turnout for the first Make It Big 2026 yesterday. 1500+ people on the first session. 

If you don't have a place yet, we've got two more to go. One this morning at 9.30am, and a final one tomorrow at 3pm. 

Grab your spot below, if you haven't already. 

👉 https://bit.ly/4aRBe03

Barnaby Andrews 🌴

There’s a strange secret about success.

It explains why people who have a difficult past succeed and those who've had it easy rarely make it.

Success happens after years of effort. Then when it finally comes along, it isn't pretty.

Success arrives with all sorts of new challenges and many of them are demanding and even painful.

Countless new demands on your time. Hundreds of unrealistic requests. Conflicting responsibilities. Unwanted attention. Repetition replacing freestyle.

If your past was easy you cave. You compare to your life before success and know this new reality is worse. You decide this juice isn't worth the squeeze. You choose to retreat to comfort and reduced responsibility.

If your life was once much harder you push through. You compare your current struggles to the stresses you experienced before. You know you can survive it. You know you have a chance of making a real breakthrough that could change things for you and your family.

You keep going.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, come and join me on my next live workshop. 

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

You have a business idea but you're unsure if you should go after it...

Don't be foolish and risky. 

The best entrepreneurs don't jump into a new opportunity blind. They do this instead...

Tell people:

"In the year ahead I'm going to be launching a new approach to achieving <outcome>. I've been researching what's available and figured out the best options for <type of customer>. 

If you want to know more, join the waiting list and I'll keep you updated and give you an early bird trial and discount".

But don't stop there.

Don't just collect their name and email. Ask these 5 questions too:

1. How would you describe your current situation relating to <outcome>?
2. What specific results are you most interested in achieving?
3. What have you tried before?
4. What budget are you comfortable spending (if you've got proof of results)?
5. Anything else you want me to know?

Your first goal is to get 30-150 people onto your waitlist. Then analyse the results and talk to potential customers on your list. Mock up a few brochures or landing pages and get their feedback.

This idea starts to feel less risky.

You're replacing your doubts with data!

This is how professional entrepreneurs move on a new innovation.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, come and join me on my next live workshop. 

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Most entrepreneurs are sitting on a mountain of value.

They just can’t see it.

This is for anyone who feels like they need “more” before they can grow.

More confidence.
More experience.
More credibility.
More content ideas.

But what if you already have everything you need? You're just not looking at it in the right way. 

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop this week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

A million followers means nothing if you can't close a deal.

Influencers have a million followers and can't sell hoodies.

A Key Person of Influence might have 5,000 followers, but when they say "this is the thing to buy," everyone buys it.

What's the difference?

A Key Person of Influence operates within a high-value niche and promotes ideas, not entertainment.

They're saying: "Here's the problem. Here's the nuance. Here's the outcome that's achievable and how you get there."

It's part thought leader, part entrepreneur.

You don't need a huge following to do this. All you need to do is follow a few predictable, repeatable steps. 

If you want to hear me run through the exact method, I'm running a workshop next week breaking it all down.  There will also be a live Q&A at the end for you to ask my any specific questions. 

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

If you want people to remember you, 

there's a minimum effective dose you need to give them. 

Google has done the research and worked out that the dose you need is 7-11-4. 

This is the key formula to building meaningful connections with your audience.

Imagine spending 7 hours together (YouTube, podcasts, webinars, presentations, etc.), engaging in 11 interactions, and meeting in 4 locations (website, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.) - a bond is inevitable. 

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FYI: I've put together a brand new webinar to help you get warmer leads and easier sales.

Join me live tomorrow and I’ll walk you through my favourite marketing strategy for 2026. 

Here's the link: https://lnkd.in/eNpK5HZy

I've been using the British Army's hiring plan in all of my businesses for years. 

If you know you need to start hiring to scale your business, this method ensures you're hiring the right people at the right time. 

Watch below, and let me know in the comments which stage you're up to with your business.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop this week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

AI is disrupting everything.

But here's what most people are still missing. 

It's cheaper and easier than ever to create software.

A team of 10 people with AI built in and you've got the opportunity to disrupt old industries.

There’s so much opportunity.

But you got to move towards that opportunity.

I'm finding it incredibly easy to just spin out little products and services that scale globally. Very rapidly.

They start making 20, 30, 40 grand a month, and the bigger ones are like 700, 800 grand a month.

This isn't some distant future.

This is happening right now.

Are you moving towards the opportunity, or are you waiting for permission?

Because while you're waiting, someone else is building.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop next week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Things are possible now that have never been possible before.

Imagine we're all running a marathon. Then suddenly the rules change: 

"If you want to, you can take a bike."

And everyone's like: 

"Oh, I'm too busy running to get a bike."

Meanwhile, people on bikes are getting ahead.

And now with AI?

You can just jump in the Ferrari. 

The Ferrari is free, and STILL most people are running. 

Don't be one of them. 

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, come and join me on my next live workshop. 

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Success isn't about being busy. 

In fact, the better your digital assets, the less busy you'll be. Have a look at the list below. 

Which of these do you have? 

And which ones do you still need to set up? 

Let me know in the comments. 

- Signature video that sells your offer while you’re asleep.

- Quiz, scorecard, or lead magnet that brings new ideal customers every day.

- Sequence of emails that educates and makes offers automatically.

- Product, program, or subscription that delivers value without you in the room.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'll be hosting a free, live workshop next week.

I will be teaching the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Gideon Akpan

I'd like to invite you to a live workshop I'm running this week.

Here's the ugly truth. 

You've got about 18 months left to make it big with a personal brand. That's it. 

AI content is flooding the social feeds, and people are actually watching and engaging with it. 

In a few years it's going to be almost impossible to cut through.

People who didn't seize their opportunities will be drowned out, but people with strong personal brands will survive. 

I've taught hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years the simple 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected and sought-after people in their industries.

The steps are easy to follow, scalable and repeatable. 

There will also be a Q&A at the end, if you want to ask me any specific questions.

If you're interested, you can register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Most marketing funnels are built on pressure.

But buying behaviour has changed. 

It now takes 8–12 touchpoints before someone feels ready to buy. 

What works in 2026 isn’t pressure — it experiences. 

Here are the 3 experiences I’m using in my marketing right now: 

Problem – help people diagnose what’s really going on 

Process – show them how the problem gets solved 

Prize – let them confirm the outcome before they buy

That’s how you get warmer leads and easier sales.

Which one is your marketing missing?

On Jan 22 at 4pm GMT, I’m teaching this live in a free ScoreApp webinar, with real examples and ready-to-use templates.

Join us here → https://lnkd.in/eNpK5HZy

4.5 million views for an AI generated YouTube channel. 

This is terrifying. 

But it's also a signal that you need to act now. 

If you haven't started working on growing your personal brand yet, the next 18 months may be the last opportunity to do so before the "AI-generated fog" makes it too difficult.

If you need help, my free, live workshop this week will go through exactly how to build your personal brand in simple 5-step process. 

I'll be sticking around afterwards for a Q&A as well. 

Link here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

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