
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'... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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Income Share Agreements have come back into fashion with Lambda School making them make sense, but for the 20 million enrolled college students who have to find financing, ISAs haven't been widely available.
Enter Avenify
These guys are building ... more
Super excited to release to you all our interview with Sergio from Elliot, these guys kill it on Twitter and they have a bustling, loud and rapidly growing cult of followers. Everyday I'm reminded that this is a real David vs Goliath story.
If you... more
Sometimes identifying problems with large antiquated processes seems like a slam dunk, but with antiquated processes come antiquated sales pipelines.
Lucas and the team at Otrafy have faced this among many other challenges since going through Techs... more
"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... more
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 ... more
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 ... more
Like many before him, Chris and Aerotronic entered a Techstars program and hit a wall.
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The team discovered that:
The market did not want the business they were building
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Selling drones, unit by unit, was awfully painful.... more
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... more
This is not your run of the mill startup podcast.
Only a few episodes in and Matt has had some really cracking interviews from startups that you don’t usually get to hear about. “Building a better brand for death” (FareWill) is not something you’d hear about anywhere else!
You can really tell Matt has been through the startup wars and has a few battle scars to prove it - he jumps right to the juicy stuff. Highly recommend.
I've gotta commend Matt on how he pushed his guests to get to the real story.
Many entrepreneurs want to skip over the core part -the first 1000 - and Matt (sometimes uncomfortably) keeps pushing
How this podcast ranks in the Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube charts.
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