Creating the conditions for extraordinary success — SaaS entrepreneurs and operators turned investors, investing in European SaaS and enterprise tech, we discuss how to accelerate success, deliver better outcomes, every step of the way.
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GTM14 - Preparing for the Future, with Steve Brown, Futurist, Author and previous Evangelist at Intel
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Steve Brown is a Futurist, helping companies and organisations think through the digital challenges they were facing, and how new and emerging technologies could influence their own futures. Steve truly previously had a fascinating career, with the one and only Intel, moving through marketing, events, planning and labs, before finally becoming an I…
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GTM13 - The Great Fintech Unbundling, with Parker Crockford, previous Growth Leader at Upvest & Onfido
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Parker Crockford explores how Fintech is developing and growing in the US and Europe, and what the breakout segments look like. He takes us through his thoughts on how to approach Fintech, the impact of Open Banking and the companies that are doing it well.Di Notion Capital
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GTM12 - The Secrets of Customer Success, with Rav Dhaliwal, Investor & previous CS leader Slack, Zendesk Yammer
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Rav Dhaliwal is probably one of the most experienced CS leaders there is, having grown along, and witnessed, the explosion of Customer Success, and having held senior CS positions at Yammer, Zendesk or Slack. A must listen for all founders and leaders as they build their business in the world of continuous selling.…
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GTM11 - Building, Scaling and Investing in HR Tech, with Chris Bruce, Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin) and Pink Investment Club
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Chris Bruce talks us through the extraordinary growth journey of Thomsons Online Benefits (now Darwin), from the early days to how the business was acquired.Di Notion Capital
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GTM10 - Building Effective Boards and the Operator Chair, with David Quantrell, Chair and Board Member
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David Quantrell talks about his road to becoming Chair of a number of tech businesses and how startups should think about developing their Board as their business grows. With two IPOs under his belt, four company sales through to running a large division of an IT giant, and having worked with well known names such as Box, McAfee and HP, it’s fair t…
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GTM09 - Building and Leading in Customer Success, with Pat Phelan, Chief Customer Officer, GoCardless
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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 vision of the business, and at the same time, the needs of the customers.Di Notion Capital
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Jonathan Gill, CEO at Panaseer, tells us how he plots the course of a rocketship company, delving into not just the sales and product direction, but also how effective leadership has the biggest impact.Di Notion Capital
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John Kreisa has been in the middle of the data revolution for his entire career. He breaks down how to build your Marketing team around data products, and how to get the Sales motion humming along — an essential listening for anyone working in marketing and data.Di Notion Capital
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Erevena have helped many of the most recognisable names in Europe Tech hire their leadership teams. Dan Hyde, CEO, unpacks his invaluable learnings, as the war for talent stays as strong as ever. A must listen for all those who don’t want to make the mistakes of founders before them, and end up churning their most expensive and valuable people.…
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Ingrid Burton, CMO at Quantcast, one of Silicon Valley's very best, talks through the relationship between Sales and Marketing, 'the squeeze play' and her hands-on experiences from Sun to Quantcast, creating whole new categories and communities around key Open Source technologies.Di Notion Capital
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How founder Amandine Le Pape (with her Co-founder Matthew Hodgson) formed the vision for the missing layer of the web and created Matrix, a decentralised and highly secure open standard, which is now over 30 million users strong and powering communications at many large public bodies and private companies.…
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GTM03 - HR Tech and the Future of Work, with Jason Corsello, Founder & GP of Acadian Ventures
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Jason Corsello on how HR Tech has evolved over the years, what trends he sees emerging, and how the pandemic has accelerated changes in the employee experience.Di Notion Capital
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Kamal Kirpalani has an amazing record in sales, and shares his thoughts on how to solve big customer problems, how to get the exec team onboard and finding key superpowers to build your team.Di Notion Capital
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Jennifer Bers, who lives and breathes sales excellence, on how she has developed her skills, builds teams, grown companies and figured out the Go-to-Market formula.Di Notion Capital
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P514 - Knowing your “ideal buyer profile” is critical to planning a great exit, with David Eldridge, SaaS Founder, NED and Chair
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“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.Di Notion Capital
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P513 - Investing in product-led founders building rocketship businesses, with Itxaso Del Palacio, Notion Capital
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Understanding a VC firm's investment strategy is critical as a founder develops their investment proposition, but so is understanding the individual strategy of each partner in a firm. Itxaso Del Palacio describes herself as a ‘product-led’ investor and lays out there thinking on what this means and why it is so important.…
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P512 - Combating the global immigration minefield for European startups, with Elizabeth Jamae, Corporate Immigration Partners
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Within startups, internationalisation soon emerges as a topic, and typically the focus is on the US. We discuss this topic with Elizabeth Jamae the founding partner at Corporate Immigration Partners.Di Notion Capital
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P511 - The three horizon mindset - how visionary founders win big, with Chris Tottman, General Partner, Notion Capital
21:57
The three horizon mindset: the first horizon comes to: how are you executing on the promise of that thesis and to customers? The third horizon to: are you able to imagine how that market operates? Then there's a very grey area in between the two, that's where startups play, and execute.Di Notion Capital
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P510 - Category design shows the world the problem you are uniquely positioned to solve, with Naomi Allen, Co-Founder and CEO at Brightline
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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. Stephen Millard and Paul Papadimitriou discuss this fascinating topic with Naomi Allen, Co-Founder and CEO at Brightline.Di Notion Capital
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P509 - Why SaaS CFOs need to think vertically and horizontally, with Carrie Dolan, CFO, Tradeshift
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Venture-backed businesses ultimately have to unlock capital efficient growth in order to achieve the goals that they've set for themselves and for their stakeholders. Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Millard interview Carrie Dolan, CFO at Tradeshift.Di Notion Capital
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P508 - The good, better, best of SaaS pricing strategies, with Rob Litterst, Pricing Strategist, Profitwell
26:30
Innovative, transformational pricing strategies and the biggest successes in tech and in SaaS: from value metrics, strategies to drive network effects and referrals, to freemium strategies to drive acquisition and much, much more. Paul Papadimitriou and Stephen Millard interview Rob Litterst, Pricing Strategist at ProfitWell.…
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P507 - Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy, with Cindy Alvarez, Director of Customer Research, GitHub
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Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy, with bestselling author, Cindy Alvarez, Director of Customer Research, GitHub.Di Notion Capital
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P506 - Good to Great Product Marketing: The Four Essentials That Get You There, with Martina Lauchengco, Partner at Costanoa Ventures and Silicon Valley Product Group
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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 growth SaaS business which she discusses here with Stephen Millard and Paul Papadimitriou.Di Notion Capital
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P505 - Scaling Enterprise Software Startups, A Story of 1s and 3s, with Andy Leaver, Operating Partner, Notion Capital
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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. By Paul Papadimitriou, and Stephen Millard.Di Notion Capital
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P504 - The Practiced Art of Founder Communication, with Renn Vara, Co-Founder, SNP Communications
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With Renn Vara, Co-Founder, SNP CommunicationsCommunication is critical in startups, especially as an organisation grows. Ensuring everyone across the business is aligned with the company's vision and values, the behaviors, what matters most, the path to success. The importance of communication is heightened in 2020 as we've all moved to an offline…
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