Scale Ups and Downs

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Brought to you by Google for Startups UK, this panel podcast series invites founders at all stages of their journey to pick the brains of some of the most successful business leaders and experts in the UK. Host Marta Krupinska, (head of Google for Startups and previously co-founder of three tech start-ups) invites two panelists every episode to speak with founders across the UK about the good, the bad and the ugly of startups and answer their business questions. If you’d like to get involved with the Scale ups and downs community and submit your own business challenge, head to scaleupsanddowns.com for a chance to be featured on the show

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Episodes

Product and Innovation: How to prioritise your product vs your platform

Recorded back in the summer our final episode of 'Scale ups and downs' breaks ground with two founders in the healthtech sphere - Charlotte Guzzo and Julia Fan Li, as we talk about tech, product prioritisation and machine learning optimisations. Alongside Marta and our two brilliant founders we hear from Eric Collins; founder of Impact X, tech-expert and AI evangelist. Also here to impart his wisdom is ex-Google Health, now SVP at Optum, Dominic King. Expect a deep dive into optimised machine le...

Oct 17, 2022•45 min•Ep. 4

Timing: Hyped up industries and competition

In this week's episode of Scale ups and downs, our panel discusses what it means to be building a company in a hyped up market. In the past two years alone on the so-called, product COVID-fit versus product market-fit. Alongside Marta, Devin Hunt and Natasha Lytton from European venture capital firm Seedcamp offer their pearls of wisdom on how to successfully scale in trending spaces while maintaining focus on your strategy. Founders Robinson Nouveau (SquadPal) and Josh Parfitt (PORTL) respectiv...

Mar 23, 2022•38 min•Ep. 3

Fundraising: Value add investors and storytelling

In this week's episode of Scale ups and downs, Marta Krupinska scopes out solutions and answers questions from founders Tomide Adesanmi and Shardi Nahavandi on the topic of fundraising. Should you look to other markets for your investors if planning on scaling there in the future? How do you get investors excited about deep tech? Hear these questions amongst many other points answered in this weeks' episode by our expert panel Sasha Astafyeva and Marcus Exall. For more info from our panel, pleas...

Mar 09, 2022•30 min•Ep. 2

People: Hiring at pace and culture

Today we’re talking about why creating a company culture and hiring the right people, might just be the most important area to focus on as your company scales. In the episode, our expert panel including Lyric Jain from Logically, and Talia Hamilton from Google Cloud, give us their best practices and tips for how to pay close attention to these areas. We invite two founders cutting their teeth in this area, they are Wilfrid Obeng founder of Audio Mob, and Fran Hodgson founder at Goodbox. They ask...

Feb 23, 2022•43 min•Ep. 1

Scale ups and downs - Extended Trailer

Brought to you by Google for Startups UK, this panel podcast series invites founders at all stages of their journey to pick the brains of some of the most successful business leaders and experts in the UK. Host Marta Krupinska, (Head of Google for Startups and previously co-founder of three tech startups) invites two founders: Richard Robinson of Robin Ai and Hélène Guillaume of Wild Ai onto today's episode to discuss why sharing is so important for founders. If you’d like to get involved with t...

Nov 29, 2021•11 min•Ep. 1

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