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    For this season finale, we invited Steve Brown to embark on the journey of what's next.Via his fathers job as a Physics lecturer, Steve was introduced to science and technology at a very early age - a...
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    • 3 years ago
    43:41
    It’s fair to say that Parker Crockford quickly became a citizen of the world; travelling and gathering experiences that have helped shape his career. In this podcast, we explore how Fintech is develop...
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    • 3 years ago
    37:01
    It’s fair to say that Rav has grown up with Customer Success (CS), starting his career in the Unix admin world at Accenture and IBM, before being catapulted into the startup world at the then young co...
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    • 3 years ago
    41:05
    It’s fair to say that Chris Bruce has had some interesting twists and turns in his career before he met his co-founder and created Thomson Online Benefits. In this podcast, Chris talks through the ear...
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    • 3 years ago
    38:35
    It is a pleasure to talk with David Quantrell about his road to becoming Chair of a number of tech businesses. After starting in the long project world of defence, and a return to school, David has go...
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    • 3 years ago
    36:20
    With a non-traditional path into tech, Pat Phelan has been right in the middle of the evolution of the Customer Success function. In this podcast, Pat discusses how Customer Success aligns with the vi...
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    • 3 years ago
    46:15
    Jonathan ‘Jono’ Gill has been a student of personal growth and development ever since he held down 4 simultaneous jobs whilst still at university. It was great to sit down and chat with Jono as he tal...
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    • 3 years ago
    50:18
    John Kreisa has been a marketing leader at a string of data product companies, including Business Objects, Hortonworks, Docker and now Couchbase. In this episode, John breaks down his thinking on why ...
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    • 3 years ago
    37:30
    Dan Hyde co-founded Erevena over 20 years ago, with an initial focus on hiring executives for B2B software companies. In that time he’s seen the market change and evolve, with the emergence of EMEA as...
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    • 3 years ago
    44:57
    Starting out as a software engineer, Ingrid Burton, CMO, Quantcast, quickly moved into Marketing during her long tenure at Sun Microsystems. Her deep experiences of Sun’s early pioneering move to Open...
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    • 3 years ago
    36:08
    Amandine Le Pape describes how Open Source was pivotal in building Matrix, how the business model and GTM evolved and how they manage their rapid scaling.Highlights:- Open Source and the power of comm...
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    • 3 years ago
    32:15
    Jason Corsello is a much admired and respected figure in the world of HR Tech, but how did he start as an analyst, become an operator, and then found and manage a dedicated HR Tech fund? In our sessio...
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    • 3 years ago
    47:59
    Growing up via a very diverse cultural journey, Kamal Kirpalani, VP Sales & GM Americas at Mirakl, shares some hard learned and honest lessons around mastering the art and science of Sales.Highlights:...
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    • 3 years ago
    41:48
    A very honest conversation about sales with the one and only Jennifer Bers, who lives and breathes sales excellence, and has lost none of her passion and energy around the craft. Her drive and results...
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    • 3 years ago
    42:21
    “The Art of Exiteering”, or taking the long term view, in order to maximise the value of an M&A or IPO — building long term readiness to have a significant and positive impact on that outcome.Highligh...
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    • 3 years ago
    26:45
    Understanding a VC firm's investment strategy - focus, stage, thesis and so on - is critical as a founder develops their investment proposition, but so is understanding the individual strategy of each...
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    • 3 years ago
    21:11
    Within the context of the startup, grow up and scale-up life cycle of a venture backed tech company, the topic of internationalisation soon emerges and typically the focus of the discussion is on the ...
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    • 3 years ago
    21:55
    The journey from startup to global category leader is a daunting task, for a million or less in revenues, when we might invest 100 million revenues, or more, in less than ten years. This is what VCs h...
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    • 3 years ago
    21:57
    The type of companies that Notion Capital invests in are redefining the rules of an entire industry. They become synonymous with a category which they solve uniquely well.Highlights:- Defining a categ...
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    • 3 years ago
    33:29
    SaaS businesses are ultimately recurring revenue streams, often with significant upfront costs for customer acquisition. Any profit or contribution from an individual customer is only typically genera...
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    • 3 years ago
    26:25
    Pricing and monetisation is a critical topic for any company at any stage but particularly for SaaS, because as recurring revenue businesses the decisions they make on pricing strategy have far reachi...
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    • 4 years ago
    26:30
    Lean customer development is a topic that people may think relevant only to early stage startups, but in our opinion the imperative of customer development - building products your customers will actu...
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    • 4 years ago
    27:23
    Martina Lauchengco is a Partner at venture capital firm Costanoa Ventures, and also a Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, where she leads on product marketing — a critical function for any high g...
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    • 4 years ago
    29:17
    Andy Leaver, Operating Partner at Notion Capital, on how do we build on the people, processes and tech to get to the next revenue boundary — the 1s and 3s. Interviewed by Paul Papadimitriou and Stephe...
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    • 4 years ago
    34:25
    Renn Vara, Co-Founder, SNP Communications, interviewed by Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Millard.Communication is critical in startups, especially as an organisation grows. Ensuring everyone across th...
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    • 4 years ago
    34:43
    For any CEO, one of their most important challenges is to hire extraordinary people - Game Changers - to join their senior leadership team. Notion research has shown that one of the most fundamental d...
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    • 4 years ago
    16:35
    Alan Millard explains to Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Millard the principles of smart and healthy leadership and why smart and healthy companies have more fun and grow faster. Highlights:- Most comp...
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    • 4 years ago
    39:58
    Join Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Millard for an in-depth interview with Hector Garcia, million bestselling author of Ikigai, the Japanese secret to a long and happy life.Highlights:- Ikigai is a cl...
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    • 4 years ago
    44:05
    In the final episode of our “Reimagining” podcast series, Sam Fromson, Co-Founder and COO at yulife, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and indu...
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    • 4 years ago
    19:09
    Nik Whitfield, Founder and CEO at Panaseer, shares his COVID experiences, rescuing, recovering and ultimately reimagining his business and industry.Highlights:-We adopted a three 3 phase process: 1) G...
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    • 4 years ago
    18:15
    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 crisi...
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    • 4 years ago
    32:05
    Marius discusses his vision for transforming the hiring and recruitment industry.Highlights:-‘Auf Sicht fahren’ - driving the company as fast as you can see ahead- Changing tactics and becoming more d...
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    • 4 years ago
    22:00
    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 "gr...
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    • 4 years ago
    22:29
    Hannah Dawson, Founder and CEO of Futrli, shares her COVID experiences, rescuing her business and furthering her company’s mission to give small businesses the capability and tools to survive the rece...
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    • 4 years ago
    22:04
    Mads 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.Highlights:- Finding the right balanc...
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    • 4 years ago
    24:24
    COVID is leading to a rapidly accelerated change in our business, our customers and our industry as a whole.Highlights:- The idea of a return to normal is a false and damaging reality.- Adopting a sur...
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    • 4 years ago
    18:41
    Richard 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.Highlights:- The...
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    • 4 years ago
    36:20
    Jennifer describes why category design is so important in our crowded technology markets and why category design goes hand in hand with company strategy.Highlights:- The art of category design is exec...
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    • 4 years ago
    23:09
    Pavla 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.Highlights:- Invest in data, ...
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    • 4 years ago
    30:15
    Exploring the profound importance of pricing and monetisation strategies for SaaS success.Highlights:- Why failing to invest time and effort in pricing is a wasted opportunity.- Getting the fundamenta...
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    • 4 years ago
    29:20
    The best tech companies invest in real product leaders and empower their teams to solve strategic problems.Highlights:- Don’t give product teams a list of features to build, give them a set of problem...
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    • 4 years ago
    31:24
    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...
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    • 4 years ago
    28:01
    Yvonne describes her experience in building high performing teams, hiring at scale and for culture and managing remote teams.Highlights:- When scaling teams, you have to have a detailed plan, how to i...
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    • 4 years ago
    26:35
    Founders must be prepared to take themselves outside their comfort zone if they want to continue to lead a fast growth business.Highlights:-Build emotional intelligence to get the best from your peopl...
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    • 4 years ago
    20:45
    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...
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    • 4 years ago
    28:51
    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 differ...
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    • 4 years ago
    11:30
    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 own...
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    • 4 years ago
    06:42
    Michael Grupp, Founder and CEO of Byter, the no-code automation platform shares his hopes, fears and desires for this new decadeHighlights:- As a lawyer I was scared of the future and sold the status ...
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    • 4 years ago
    03:33
    David Williams, founder of Arqit - the quantum encryption companyHighlights:- Creating global scale, making a tonne of money and having a lot of fun doing it.- My biggest challenge? Hiring the very be...
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    • 4 years ago
    05:23
    Chris Tottman discusses his hopes and fears for the next ten yearsHighlights:- 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 ch...
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    • 4 years ago
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