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FounderTech DecodedChristian Arno | Exited Founder Currently Launching And Raising For Sustainability Startup Pawprint | Member of Ventures Together and Active Scottish Angel InvestorIn this episode of the FounderTech Decoded podcast we talk to Christian Arno who has a multifaceted founder’s story that starts with building his own tech-enabled language translation startup to the point where it was engaging with mid-large companies such as Patagonia, Eventbrite and Virgin Pulse and from which he successfully exited from in 2021.
Challenged by his father to then take an active positioning and role in the climate conversation, Christian has recently launched Pawprint to transform any organisation by empowering every employee to contribute towards your sustainability goals. In a nod to his language background, tr...2023-02-2644 minFounderTech DecodedChris Booth | Founder and CEO at FIndrs | Why It Be Time For Early Stage Startups To Engage A Chief FounderTech Officer (CFTO)In this episode we talk to Chris Booth CEO of pioneering startup recruiter Findrs. Propelia is excited to be doing a webinar with Chris on 2/3/23 where we’ll explore how FounderTech could start to creep into and apply to start up hiring policies and best practices. In this episode we touch on and open up some of the themes we’ll be discussing and exploring in the Webinar
Why FounderTech is part of a movement towards rewiring the early stage venture ecosystem to that is it is more agile, open and transparent for all. How FounderTech has evol...2023-02-2228 minFounderTech DecodedXavier Parkhouse-Parker | COO & Co-Founder Cambridge Future Tech | Launching The Venture Builder Model At ScaleIn this episode we have a deep dive into the world of deep tech with Xavier Parkhouse-Parker COO and Co-Founder of Cambridge Future Tech. It’s also a chance to listen and gain insight into the framework of a Venture Builder model.
A model which elevates and fundamentally supports founders - often with a perspective, track record and insight of deep academic expertise - who are exploring Scaleable Niches into complex market problems that require deep IP and innovation.
In this model, support means everything. From multi-faceted advisory boards, mentoring, deep understanding and planning around ma...2023-02-2043 minFounderTech DecodedJim Shirley | With Two Exits, Now Currently Launching FundingHero As An Educational Platform, Accelerator Model And A Book | The Potential For FounderTech To Gradually Transform The Venture EcosystemIn this episode we have one of the most interesting and exploratory conversations of this Series talking with Jim Shirley. Where we navigate different facets and dynamics of the current venture ecosystem and how FounderTech might vividly reimagine it within a projectable short-term horizon.
First we explore Jim's own journey scaling and exiting from the highly disruptive new sector of micro breweries - which were very much the 'garage startups' of their day! - helping to build a culture where you were ‘proud to wear the t-shirt of the brand, to taking market share and eventually being ac...2023-02-1355 minFounderTech DecodedTim Whiston | Exited Founder and Current Co-Founder of isme|&|co | Unlocking The Untapped Potential Of Entrepreneurial CapacityIn this episode of FounderTech Decoded we are let into the 20+ year journey of Tim Whiston, as he moves from running a FTSE 250 business, through to engineering an exit as a founder to now accelerating business marketplace Iisme|&|co from its initial launch to its current growth seed funding round.
After considering a portfolio career post his exit, he met his Co-Founder Will at a virtual meet up during the pandemic. Amazed to see the inefficiencies and untapped potential around how businesses in the UK connected with each other in terms of sharing services and information, they...2023-01-3058 minFounderTech DecodedNick Moutter | EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Who Has Raised Over £40m Across Various Startups and Founder @ Moot | Empowering The Future Of Ecommerce
In this Episode we get to talk to Nick Moutter, who recently won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for his work with Moot powering the next generation of ecommerce with deep tech and innovation that moves it radically beyond the current capabilities of Shopify.
We’ll listen to Nick comparing the grit, persistence and tenacity that a founder needs with his experiences when he was younger as an emerging professional footballer. We discuss how his own journey suggests that backing such a founder in the early stages with that grit over a longer arc and timeframe, will me...2023-01-221h 00FounderTech DecodedDrew Rogers | Exited Founder in 2022 | UK’s 100 most inspiring female entrepreneurs | How To Successfully Engineer Your Exit Without Taking On Outside VentureIn this episode we talk to Drew Rogers and have the opportunity to listen to her founder’s story as it progresses from arriving as a child to the UK not speaking the language. To a side hustle that became Number 1 on Google. To exiting in 2022 from her startup My Language Lab® fuelled by the changing and evolving demands of online students and learning in the pandemic.
Drew’s journey to exit is unusual because it involves taking in no outside venture but embodies the much vaunted but rarely executed agile / no code low code approach. An approa...2023-01-1653 minFounderTech DecodedChris Wickson | Co-Founder @ Akkroo and Twice Exited Founder | Finding New Opportunities Within Scaleable NichesIn this episode we talk to Chris Wickson about his journey from launching his B2B SaaS startup Akkroo, to it being acquired for $34m by Integrate in 2019 - which after his earn out period leaves him currently with the fresh vista of being an active angel investor.
However, instead of taking the obvious path of trying to leverage their point of view and market expertise, he and his co-founder are actively seeking out problems in verticals they have relatively little experience and insight into.
The logic being that rather than double down on their p...2023-01-0949 minFounderTech DecodedFrancesco Cracolici | Opening Up Emerging Markets and Founder @ Crossfund | When Market Replication Represents A Critical First Mover AdvantageIn this Episode we take a turn into new territory for the podcast, into the rapidly evolving world of emerging markets with Francesco Cracolici. Not the commonly cited emerging markets of vibrant new investable sectors such as FinTech, HealthTech or PropTech but instead how you identify and invest in the launch and scale the ‘Uber of Ghana’ or the ‘Revolut of Mongolia’.
Francesco talks us through how once properly understood these emerging markets potentially represent new opportunities and horizons for investors, who are looking to gain a new form of first mover advantage by leveraging existing and proven s...2022-12-1946 minFounderTech DecodedSeries 4 ＜＞ Karl Swanepoel | Exited His First Startup At 15 and Current Founder @ Revolancer | How To Generate Critical Founder Leverage In The Face Of Investor ResistanceAs we commence Series 4 of FounderTech Decoded, we will be using The Switch Deck to help frame our forthcoming conversations which will primarily focus on founders.
The Switch Deck are the 10 key shifts in early stage venture that help further align founders and investors, that we explored and synthesised from Series 1-3 of FounderTech Decoded.
In this Episode we have an amazing open conversation with Karl Swanepoel, who is the youngest exited founder we have talked to on the podcast. For context, Karl had to find an exit to his first startup at 15 because he...2022-12-0650 minFounderTech DecodedDan Simmons @ Founder of Pilot Round and Host Of FounderTech Decoded Podcast | Why Platforming Founder Market Fit Is Key To Scaling FounderTechThroughout this podcast Series, I've repeatedly come back to Propelia's key premise that the lens of Founder Market Fit, when intelligently aligned and strategically evaluated alongside the metrics Product Market Fit, is key to empowering the dynamics of FounderTech to help rewire the early stage venture space.
I've alluded in various podcast Episodes, to how my own founder's journey which started elevating extraordinary talent in the record business, is parallel to then moving onto and launching Propelia. Where we have for over a decade consistently modelled and analysed the journey and trajectories of early stage founders for...2022-11-071h 08FounderTech DecodedFounderTech Decoded - Podcast TrailerThe trailer for the forthcoming FounderTech Decoded podcast series from Propelia, featuring the entrepreneurs, investors and founders who are creating informing this new venture category.
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Grow Through International ExpansionPropelling Business Through Disruption to Success with Dan Simmons | Propelia #31In this podcast I’m talking with Dan Simmons of Propelia about how he helps company founders and CEOs navigate through new challenges – let’s call them disruptors – that conspire to upset the status quo of their business.
Over the last 20 years, Dan has helped many Start Ups and Scale Ups strategically leverage their thinking, brand and IP to disrupt new market sectors. He is a recognised Thought Leader in how disruption can be repositioned from a creative, strategic and planning point of view.
There’s always been disruption in business. It was hard scribes when Guten...2019-05-2338 min