Charlie Osmond, Co-Founder and Chief Tease at Triptease, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry, the most heavily impacted by the crisis.
Marius Luther discusses his vision for transforming the hiring and recruitment industry.
In the fifth episode of our “Reimagining” podcast series Andreas Brenner, the founder and CEO of Avrios, shares his COVID experiences of making the tough calls to build a better future for the business: this experience entailed a massive mind-shift from "growth at all costs" to "cash runway and certainty is King.” We are now far more focused and as a result we've become tremendously more efficient.
Futrli will not discover the cure to this pandemic, but we might just help overcome the symptoms of the recession and enable a massive increase in SMB productivity.
Mads Fosselius is the CEO of Dixa, and as a customer services platform it was only natural for them to double down on helping customers work through these challenging times.
Conor O’Loughlin, founder and CEO of Glofox, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry.
Richard Valtr discusses his internal struggles with the changes he had to make, but also why Mews and the Hotel Industry will withstand and indeed benefit from the COVID shock to the system.
Jennifer describes why category design is so important in our crowded technology markets and why category design goes hand in hand with company strategy.
Pavla Munzarova explains the importance of investing time in data quality, systems and reporting to give everyone in the business the information they need to make better decisions.
Exploring the profound importance of pricing and monetisation strategies for SaaS success.
The best tech companies invest in real product leaders and empower their teams to solve strategic problems.
Melissa shares her thoughts on the importance of professionalism, setting expectations and beating them and why you should never win quietly. Because the sum of every single small success will be huge successes long term.
Yvonne describes her experience in building high performing teams, hiring at scale and for culture and managing remote teams.
Founders must be prepared to take themselves outside their comfort zone if they want to continue to lead a fast growth business.
Tae Hea describes how startups can unlock growth (find "Go-To-Market Fit") and why that requires executives and founders to unlearn. Highlights: - Why surfing? Unlocking growth feels like the transition from paddling to surfing. - Surfing to growth is a 3 step process: Catching the wave, Riding the wave and Having the right surfboard - Unlearning is critical to executive growth.
Glofox mission is even bigger, Improving health and wellbeing on a global basis. That is something really worth doing. Highlights: - Building exceptional teams and an exceptional company in three different timezones is the big challenge. - The big question is “how do avoid getting so obsessed on the here and now that we miss where our industry is going?” - A business built on impact, purpose and pride.
Despite massive tech advances, 50% of small businesses fail, says Hannah Dawson. We want to play our part in helping those companies fulfill their potential. Highlights: - As a former small business owner, I know hard it can be when you are all alone. - We want to create a network effect of small businesses helping each other to succeed through our platform and community. - The one thing Europe desperately needs is a new generation of tech growth experts, if not we will all cannibilise ourselves...
Michael Grupp, Founder and CEO of Byter, the no-code automation platform shares his hopes, fears and desires for this new decade Highlights: - As a lawyer I was scared of the future and sold the status quo. Now as a tech entrepreneur I’m living in status quo and selling the future - We want Bryter to become the de facto file standard for lawyers around the world - My greatest wish is for Europe to realise that the future can happen here. But to do that we need more tech in our blood.
David Williams, founder of Arqit - the quantum encryption company Highlights: - Creating global scale, making a tonne of money and having a lot of fun doing it. - My biggest challenge? Hiring the very best and smartest people. - Building sovereign capabilities to solve strategic issues for the UK
Chris Tottman discusses his hopes and fears for the next ten years Highlights: - A new category of venture capital. It’s got to be so much more than just a fund. - For me, calmness is success and it’s changing the way I operate. - Spinning the flywheel of success ever faster.
Build a business to be proud of, with Catherine Birkett, CFO, Gocardless. The path to achieving a successful exit is to build a business to be proud of, while keeping an eye on the end game. Highlights: - Achieving an exit starts with building a business to be proud of - Think about how the business will endure and scale past the exit or IPO - Get your house in order and use failed sales attempts to prepare yourselves
VC money should be raised when a company is ready to accelerate: At seed stage sell the dream, at Series A sell the growth, at Series B show the spreadsheet. Cristina Fonseca, co-founder of Portugal’s Talkdesk, angel investor and Venture Partner at Indico Capital shares her fundraising experiences with Stephen Millard at Notion Capital, as part of Notion’s Pain of Scale podcast programme. Highlights: - Securing the “right type of investors” is critical to startup success. - At Seed you are selli...
There is no better place in the world than Europe in general and London in particular to start a tech company, no better place to scale it and exit it than the US. Dan Glazer, London Office Managing Partner at Wilson Sonsini, shares his thoughts on US expansion for European tech and the exciting future that awaits Europe, UK and London as the startup flywheel really starts to spin. Highlight: - When and why European tech companies should raise capital in the US - Nine steps to take to de-disk US...
Hannah Dawson, Founder and CEO of Futrli, discusses her ambition to solve company failure rates through AI-driven, actionable insights to help secure the financial future for thousands of small businesses around the world and why she is leading the way with a freemium business model and product-led growth. Highlights: - Freemium focuses the mind on delivering impact again and again - All the A’s - aligning organisational design and strategy with customer acquisition, activation and advocacy - Wh...
When we think of the very best tech companies on the planet – Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix – what sets them apart is that innate ability to innovate. Gib was previously VP Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg and is now one of the most highly valued - and well-travelled – speakers and thinkers in product strategy on the planet today. Highlights: ·Why culture is so much more powerful than a bunch of rules ·Building great products is messy, that’s why strategy and customer...
Highlights: - The three phases of startup growth - Why customer retention and revenue expansion are the most important measures of product-market fit - How you know if you have go-to-market fit - And why “pacing” is critical for “growth and mo” Read more: https://notion.vc/resources/learning-how-to-deliver-predictable-scalable-revenue-growth-with-mark-roberge/ Mark Roberge is the founder of Stage2Capital investing in SaaS companies and helping them grow, he’s a Professor in Entrepreneurship at H...
Sarika Garg shares her experiences with Notion on building a dominant industry player, disrupting the procure to pay category. Highlights: - Why tech companies must connect their vision with immediate impact - The role of value ladders - The importance of selling and delivering on outcomes - A big fan of Geffrey Moore, Sarika shares her experience of shaping their strategy with his thinking and The Chasm Group
Why, when and how to hire extraordinary people. Highlights: - Unicorns hire for a far wider range of experience and perspectives, creating a magic soup of thinking - The best founders hire way more senior people much faster in the first 12-24 months post Series A - And the tenures are shorter as they bring in new people for the next stage of the journey
You're building a remarkable company that will change an industry - so stop hiring like an HR manager, with Chris Tottman, Notion Partner. - Why the best teams are built on chemistry first and repeat pedigree second. - Founders are founders not because they want to manage things, but because they want to imagine things. - A bastardised version of three horizon thinking to help create long term strategy in parallel to world class execution.
Jonathan Gale has taken two of Europe’s biggest SaaS success stories from early product/ market fit to global scale. Highlights: - Capital efficiency is a critical output of product market fit - Choose a market in which less than 1% market share means hundreds in millions in revenue - Don’t confuse constraints for objectives - Emotional alignment with strategy is critical Read more: https://notion.vc/resources/why-great-product-is-the-foundation-of-every-saas-success-with-jonathan-gale/
