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The show that interviews entrepreneurs, uncovering the moments of fear and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut, you’ll hear how they deal with these moments. If you’re an early stage startup founder and the going is tough, listen in. You are not alone – being a founder is just hard! Host Maria Palma, General Partner at Kindred, an early stage venture capital fund, is here to shine a light on the parts of the startup scaling journey that often go untold and never make the headlines. You’ll hear about: – How to hire a senior leadership team – How to successfully raise a venture capital funding round – How to motivate a team and operationalise company values – How to personally grow with your startup scaling journey so you can be the leader your company needs at every stage and stay sane in the process. Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions
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The show that interviews entrepreneurs, uncovering the moments of fear and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut, you’ll hear how they deal with these moments. If you’re an early stage startup founder and the going is tough, listen in. You are not alone – being a founder is just hard! Host Maria Palma, General Partner at Kindred, an early stage venture capital fund, is here to shine a light on the parts of the startup scaling journey that often go untold and never make the headlines. You’ll hear about: – How to hire a senior leadership team – How to successfully raise a venture capital funding round – How to motivate a team and operationalise company values – How to personally grow with your startup scaling journey so you can be the leader your company needs at every stage and stay sane in the process.
Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut
This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions
With me today is Charlie Delingpole, Founder and CEO of Comply Advantage – the world’s leading data technology company transforming financial crime detection Comply Advantage has raised over 100M, has over 1.5k clients and is 440 people today. Charlie is also an active angel investor and recently a new dad.
Hear more from him on:
The early days of company building
- Running a lending company in a downturn/credit crisis
- When what you think is a tech business is really garden furniture
- The choice to use his own equity in a tough situation
- Tough decisions made at Silicon Roundabout
Lessons from a serial founder
- That feeling of o something to nothing
- Best and worst part of being a founder
- Failure is an orphan and it’s done in silence
- Survivorship bias and learnings from failure
- Relentless conviction
- Let the market fund the platform, not investors
- Doing things right versus doing the right thing
Why take VC money
- The right VC relationship
- Want what you build to diffuse in society
- Deliberate about choosing cofounder or capital partner
- The intellectual promiscuity of angel investing
- How angel investing affects him as an operator
Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut
This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions
