I’m a single... divorced 40 yr old tattooer , not allowed to work, running out of money , i’m locked inside the house for self quarantine because of the Coronavirus .... oh and I’m doing it all with a 3yr old boy. & a corgi. Follow me along as I try not to lose my shit, keep my house clean, maybe fold some laundry and teach this boy some manners........this could get interesting
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Matt Quinn has been on a mission to be a 10x better founder by meeting incredible founders who have gone before him to get an answer to the question: How did you get your first 1000....? Your first 1000 customers, sign ups, fans, users, clicks, dollars invested. I've learned 2 things: (1) No 2 companies are the same (2) What got them here, won't get you there But the stories are fascinating. They're stories of luck and grit and learning and they need to be shared. And this is how first 1000 ...
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#11 - Justin Potts from Avenify - Making ISAs (Income Share Agreements) available for the masses.
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#10 - Sergio Villasenor from Elliot - Making enterprise level e-commerce tools available for the rest of us.
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#9 - Lucas Cunha from Otrafy - Bringing food supply chain management into the 21st century
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#8 Foti Panagiotakopoulos from GrowthMentor - World class mentors for your startup at a fraction of the cost.
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"Get unstuck quickly with advice from vetted startup mentors In a few clicks you'll have access to 150+ vetted growth marketing and startup mentors, ready to jump on a call with you at startup friendly rates (or free!)" What Foti is doing here is insanely cool, affordably democratising advisor networks. I would recommend every startup try and book …
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#7 - Dan Garrett from Farewill - Using wills to leave your loved ones messages (as well as your stuff)
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Have you ever thought about leaving an inside joke inside your will, the kind of stuff you would see in a rom-com, so that if you died... you could make your mates laugh from beyond the grave? Well, Dan will kill me for describing his product like this, but that alongside the best will creation process on earth - is what Dan and the team at Goodwil…
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#6 - Rachel Carrell from Koru Kids - Positioning long term, part time childcare for success
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Rachel Carrell joined me to discuss the beginnings of Koru Kids - a new childcare platform solving the biggest problem in childcare, in London. Sound small? This market is huge and Rachel is cracking it. Shout out to the non technical founders out there. Rachel (formerly of McKinsey) is a sharp and strategic business centric founder who had to get …
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#5 - Chris Chance from Aerotronic - Drones on the hunt for deep pockets and big problems
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Like many before him, Chris and Aerotronic entered a Techstars program and hit a wall. INSERT EXPLETIVE The team discovered that: The market did not want the business they were building and Selling drones, unit by unit, was awfully painful. So what would you do in this situation? Duck and cover? Stick to the vision? Well, they went back to first pr…
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#4 - Rikke Rosenlund from BorrowMyDoggy - Yes you read that right, they let you borrow dogs
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In a time where millennials are delaying having kids in favour of having dogs, and thus doting on their dogs as if they were kids I was determined to get to the bottom of the story behind BorrowMyDoggy. How can strangers on the internet trust each other enough to lend/borrow their prize possession? What would an on-boarding process be for such an o…
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#3 George Bevis from Tide - Giving businesses the banking experience they deserve
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Business banking and its utter lack of modernisation and functionality is something I, sadly, am acutely aware of. However not once did it seem like a problem that could be solved - Enter Georg & Tide. George set out to build a new kind of business bank, one that works alongside its customers to make their lives easier, and let me tell you, I am a …
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#2 - Sofia Fenichell from Mrs Wordsmith - Building a physical product in a digital world
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It's 2015. You're looking for a book for your kids. A special type of book. A book that is rich in language and in colour. You can't find it. What do you do? Well, Sofia decided to make that book herself. So now you've made a book. Do you self publish? How do you get to market? Should you try and sell it? How do you know it's any good? Is book publ…
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#1 Lamine Zarrard from Joust - Fixing Payments, from cannabis to freelancers
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This is the first episode ever of the First1000! Having spent a good deal of time in the US grappling with slow payment systems and financial tech that is sub-par compared to the UK I was super excited to site down with Lamine @ Joust. Their journey to date has been crazy. They pulled off an enormous pivot from their original product in the best wa…
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Welcome to the first (and maybe the only - we'll see) season of the first 1000! In this episode you'll learn a little about the host (me), the story behind starting the podcast and where we want to take it! If you're in startups, thinking of bring a product to market or growing past your beta. This podcast is for you!…
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