The process of building a startup is a long journey – and that means once you’ve found a co-founder, come up with a product that people want and successfully raised your seed round…you’re still only just getting started. You’ve created something out of nothing and now you have to actually run and grow the business. […] The post #6 Growing your Business – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
If we go back to basics the point of fundraising for a tech startup is to give you the resources and time you need to build a product that solves your customers problems…or to scale up and improve the solution that you’ve already built for them to grow the business. Although it’s not rocket science […] The post #5 Fundraising from Investors – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Communication may be a soft skill but that certainly doesn’t make it unimportant. If you can’t communicate what your business does and why it’s great in a whole bunch of different situations, you won’t be able to understand your customers properly and you’ll struggle to raise money from investors. Surprisingly, this is harder than it […] The post #4 Pitching your Business – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Ideas are the currency of the 21st century but they are nothing without execution. That’s what today’s conversation is all about – coming up with great ideas and matching them to the needs of customer – or to use the start-up jargon, getting product market fit. To get product market fit it makes sense that […] The post #3 Getting Product-Market Fit – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Starting your own company is tough, and while it’s possible to go it alone and still succeed, teams of two or more co-founders tend to perform a lot better. That’s because in teams of two you have twice the amount of skills and you have someone to support you and pick you up when you’re […] The post #2 Finding a Co Founder – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Three and a Half Founders is a podcast designed to give you the insider’s view of starting a globally important company. The show features roundtable discussions with four EF London 10 cohort members – Stacy-Ann Sinclair of CodeREG, Greg Lawton of Nodes & Links, Tomide Adesanmi of CircuitMind and Yassir Al-Refaie of Seyo – about […] The post #1 Becoming an Entrepreneur – Three and a Half Founders appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Today’s conversation is another special one focusing on another one of Entrepreneur First’s new locations. In it, EF Co founder and CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Hong Kong General Manager Lavina Tien exploring her background and the Hong Kong startup ecosystem. EF thrives in cities that are magnets for ambitious people around the world and […] The post Special Episode: Lavina Tien on Launching Entrepreneur First Hong Kong and the HK Startup Ecosystem appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Joe White is an entrepreneur and CFO and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. An entrepreneur at heart, Joe founded his first business – a digital design agency – while still at university racking up big name clients like Disney, LSE and Bain & Company. He then went on to co-found Moonfruit, a DIY website platform, […] The post #22 Joe White on Pioneering SAAS in the UK and Picking the Right VC appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Saikrishnan Ranganathan is the Co-Founder of SensorFlow, a company making buildings energy efficient at zero upfront cost. Hotels spend $40 billion on energy each year and commercial buildings spend $120 billion. These are not insignificant costs and the amazing thing is that with better automation these costs could be cut by up to 40%. People […] The post #21 Sai Ranganathan of SensorFlow on Making Buildings Energy Efficient through IoT appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Chris Mairs is an entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Venture Partner at EF. He earned a Computer Science Degree from Cambridge before a stint at IBM and then co-founded MetaSwitch a communications technology business, where he was CTO for many years including a 2-year stint in Palo Alto working with his investors from Sequoia and their […] The post #20 Chris Mairs on The Art of Angel Investing and Pre-Internet Entrepreneurship appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Today’s episode is a special one to celebrate the opening of EF Bangalore and in it, EF CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Bangalore General Manager Esha Tiwary, exploring her background and the Indian startup ecosystem. When EF Co-Founders Matt & Alice decided to scale last year they made a list of the places where they […] The post Special Episode: Esha Tiwary on Launching Entrepreneur First Bangalore and the Indian Startup Ecosystem appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
Milad Mohammadzadeh is the Co-Founder of See Mode, a company that empowers doctors to predict strokes and save lives. Strokes are the second leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability on earth. Each stroke costs a patient 9.5 productive life years and with 15 million new strokes a year, the economic cost […] The post #19 Milad Mohammadzadeh of See-Mode on Empowering Doctors to Predict Strokes and Save Lives appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Tom Pocock is the Co-Founder of Credit Mint, a company that’s decentralising corporate lending by using a public blockchain as the shared ledger for corporate debt. The corporate debt industry is migrating from a bank-led model towards smaller lenders. But these new-wave lenders are tied to constant cycles […] The post #18 Tom Pocock of CreditMint on Decentralising Corporate Lending and the Death of Utility Tokens appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Rohit Jha is the Co-Founder of Transcelestial, a company developing a laser communication solution to replace existing wireless communication technology. In the next decade 3 billion people and 50 billion devices will come online – but the global infrastructure we have in place at the moment isn’t sufficient […] The post #17 Rohit Jha of Transcelestial on Transforming Communications Technology and Maximising Your Personal Impact appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Nadav Rosenberg is a General Partner and Head of Commercial at EF. Previously, he flew helicopters in the Israeli army for 10 years, worked as a consultant with McKinsey after earning an MBA from INSEAD and was a member of the founding team of Groupon in the UK. […] The post #16 Nadav Rosenberg on Successful Selling, The Art of Investing and The Future of Cryptocurrencies appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Jesse Shemen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Papercup, a company that auto-translates the voice track on videos into the world’s languages. People spend an average of 5 hours watching video every single day but the problem for creators looking to maximise views is that while subtitles are […] The post #15 Jesse Shemen of Papercup on Auto-Translating The World’s Video, Building Technical Knowledge and Raising Your First Round appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Hannah Burrow is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiroku, a company that automatically writes clinical notes for dentists. Kiroku which is Japanese for “to document or record” uses a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language processing to produce expert level notes which has the potential to […] The post #14 Hannah Burrow of Kiroku on Disrupting Dentistry, Pitching at the Palace and Low Tech “Pretotyping” appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Vadim Toader is the CEO Co-Founder of Proportunity a company that uses machine learning to form accurate real estate forecasts, so investors can make better decisions. By comparing more than 100 sets of data, including historical price growth and crime rates, Proportunity can spot good deals before the […] The post #13 Vadim Toader of Proportunity on Outperforming the Property Market with AI appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content David Hunter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Optimal Labs a company that applies cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning to create intelligent autopilots for farms, improving the efficiency, reliability and quality of food production. High tech greenhouses can produce 10-40x yield of traditional farming and they’re universally scalable and […] The post #12 David Hunter of Optimal Labs on Revolutionising Human Nutrition appeared first on Entrepreneur First.
By Nasos Papadopoulos, EF Head of Content Jake Woodhouse is a member of the current EFLD10 cohort. Up to this point on the podcast I’ve spoken to EF Co-Founders Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck as well as the founders of some of EF’s most exciting companies. But who better to speak to get a flavour […] The post #11 Current Cohort Member Jake Woodhouse on his First Six Weeks at EF appeared first on Entrepreneur First.