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  • MG Gurbaxani started his career in the San Francisco start-up tech scene. Many learnings shared from across the pond, how getting laid off stimulated the entrepreneurial bug, and finding partners for the journey.


    00:00 - Start

    01:52 - Introduction to Cuvama

    03:02 - Why did MG move away from a profitable consultancy model

    05:00 - Did MG always plan to build tech

    07:06 - Was it natural to step into life as a founder for MG

    08:41 - The story of MGpricing

    09:58 - Acquiring the first customers

    11:03 - MGs first talent hire and how did it go

    12:20 - Generalists or specialists as first hires

    15:10 - When is the right time to fundraise

    18:40 - How MGs wife pushed him into being a founder

    19:50 - How does MG balance work with family

    22:26 - Why MG has settled in London

    23:42 - The UK tech scene is 5 years behind the US

    24:37 - What can UK tech learn from the US

    27:37 - James on the difference between America and UK education

    29:15 - Does MG have an ego

    31:08 - Perception of founders in the sales cycle

    33:28 - Practical steps to making your first sales hire

    37:34 - How did MG attract talent in the early days

    41:06 - Cuvama perfect customer

    42:49 - What does the next 5 years look like for Cuvama

    45:21 - Where can you find MG online


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  • Guest: Sophia Parvizi-Wayne from Kanjo Health

    LinkedIn: in/sophia-pw/


    Sophia was diagnosed with Anorexia at age 15 after the loss of her friend. Before long she was on the front cover of media publications, leading nationwide mental health campaigns and advising governments. Fast forward a number of years and she is using her business and personal experience to provide clinicians with the data to provide better and earlier diagnosis for mental health illnesses at Kanjo Health.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


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    - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-everyday-founder/id1732914477


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent.com


    00:00 - Start

    01:14 - introduction to Kanjo

    01:42 - How does Kanjo help its customers

    02:54 - why did Sophia start Kanjo

    05:38 - How Kanjo pivoted from B2C to B2B

    07:29 - My job is to make clinicians lives easier

    08:36 - has Kanjo received frictions from clinicians with product adoption

    10:15 - How does Kanjo acquire customers

    11:22 - how is it running an international business from another country

    13:36 - Sophia being diagnosed with ADHD

    16:55 - How was Sophia at school with neurodiversity

    18:29 - How does Sophia find balance with work and life

    20:28 - The good and bad of using health tech

    21:19 - James on health trackers

    22:25 - How health tech trackers can negatively impact your day

    24:12 - Sophia on biohacking

    25:57 - The impact of running on Sophias life business and health

    29:23 - The importance of a close network outside of your proffesion

    30:27 - What does it mean to win for Sophia

    32:36 - Top tips for fundraising from Sophia

    34:56 - Building a culture at Kanjo

    38:13 - Whats next for Sophia and Kanjo

    39:31 - Where can people find Sophia


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  • Guest: Mai Medhat from Ginni.ai

    LinkedIn: in/maimedhat/


    Mai is a software engineer from Egypt and wanted to be a part of the startup ecosystem but nothing really existed. After a chance meeting with her future co-founder Nihal at an event they started Eventtus. 10 years of building this event tech platform to a global force they sold the business to Bevy a US-tech giant. Along the way Mai also had the chance to share stages with the likes of President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


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    - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6MnUbU9YzCVcbsoGJsJtJ0

    - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-everyday-founder/id1732914477


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent.com


    00:00 - Start


    00:01:25 - Introduction to Ginni

    00:03:36 - What is eventtus

    00:04:58 - did Mai imagine Eventtus would become so successful

    00:06:01 - The importance of change and pivotting effectively

    00:07:51 - How Mai and eventtus pivoted during covid

    00:10:26 - taking a huge risk with covid virtual events

    00:13:08 - having a remote team during covid

    00:15:18 - moving location as a requisite to gaining funding

    00:16:26 - How Mai met Obama and Zuck

    00:19:55 - How mai came to be on stage with obama and zuck

    00:22:57 - Mai ending up on the front cover of forbes middle east

    00:24:52 - How does mai balance work to life

    00:28:46 - advice to emerging market new founders

    00:32:20 - How early on are you looking for acquisition partners

    00:34:00 - Going from founder to employee post sale

    00:38:49 - how do you feel when informing your team that the business has been acquired

    00:40:29 - how does it feel to receive exited money

    00:41:19 - round 2 as a founder with ginni.ai

    00:43:35 - best advice to an exited founder

    00:44:39 - being a mum and starting a new business

    00:45:48 - you find out who your friends are when you start a business

    00:46:58 - managing self guilt of fomo with friends

    00:49:18 - how did Mai acquire customers with eventtus

    00:51:57 - how important is network to Mai

    00:54:08 - how networking should be done offline

    00:56:28 - you never know where a network connection will take you

    01:00:21 - Where can you find Mai online


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  • Guest: Anthony Rose from SeedLegals

    LinkedIn: in/anrose/


    Anthony moved to the UK to lead the building of the BBC iPlayer, before delving into entrepreneurship. After starting and selling 2 separate businesses he moved on to the startup legals space where over the past 8 years he has been building SeedLegals - a legaltech scaleup where 1 in 3 of all UK fundraising rounds are completed through the platform.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


    SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:

    - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6MnUbU9YzCVcbsoGJsJtJ0

    - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-everyday-founder/id1732914477


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent.com


    00:00 - Start

    01:47 - Introduction to Anthony and Seedlegals

    02:29 - Why has Anthony settled in the UK

    03:16 - The story behind the iPlayer

    04:55 - The selling of Anthonys first 2 businesses

    08:18 - Why the automotive niche for 6Tribes

    09:52 - The whatsapp group at Seedlegals

    12:45 - The importance of feedback

    14:43 - CLG vs PLG

    16:47 - Any errors with contracts in the early days

    19:03 - How big is the Seedlegals whatsapp

    20:49 - How hands on should a founder be

    22:23 - 1 in 3 Uk fundraising businesses use seedlegals

    24:34 - The importance of having a online presence as a business owner

    27:45 - the importance of founder led marketing

    30:56 - when pitching start small

    32:30 - What question has anthony been asked the most

    34:09 - How large does your traction need to be before raising

    38:19 - Whats the plan for seedlegals over the next 5 years

    40:41 - logistical steps of setting up in the US for expansion

    42:56 - How does Anthony find balance managing 160 plus people

    44:40 - Anthonys views on culture and how to be successful

    46:54 - Offsites and away days essential at Seedlegals

    48:13 - Why is Anthony focusing on content today


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  • Guest: Alife Whattam from Alfa

    LinkedIn: in/alfiegeorgewhattam/


    Alfie started his career as a magician whilst travelling the world, before landing in London and starting a career as a recruiter. A year before leaving his role to start Alfa, he started a podcast. 150 episodes later and zero outbound sales calls later, he has found success.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


    SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:

    - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6MnUbU9YzCVcbsoGJsJtJ0

    - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-everyday-founder/id1732914477


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent.com


    00:00 - Start

    00:07 - Introduction of Alfa

    01:24 - How is Alfa going

    03:07 - Recruiting for a recruitment business

    04:49 - Remote versus office for Alfa and Alfie

    06:47 - Future of remote working

    10:01 - Is there an increase in remote jobs in the UK

    12:18 - How does Alfa get Sales

    14:40 - the importance of content and community for a startup

    18:10 - How to be on every social media effectively

    23:31 - When does a podcast produce ROI

    27:30 - Dont be scared of getting started with content

    28:15 - ROI of content for Alfa

    30:10 - How a podcast has multiple revenue benefits

    32:28 - How to make your ordinary business stand out

    34:07 - The power of one episode

    36:28 - Should an existing business start producing content

    38:37 - Podcast is your shop window

    39:32 - A niche is all you need

    41:21 - How to choose your guests for your podcast

    42:57 - The easiest way to book meetings with millionaires

    44:16 - Alfies favourite guest on the Alfie Whattam show

    46:38 - Anyone can start content they just need to start

    48:21 - You are already creating content you just dont know it

    49:25 - Create content for yourself

    51:40 - the riches are in the niches

    51:49 - What is next for Alfie and Alfa


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  • Guest: Mark McDermott from ScreenCloud

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhmcdermott/


    Mark built a digital product studio for 17 years working with BBC, British Airways, Microsoft and Nestlé. Today, running ScreenCloud a digital signage product which he has built to $20m ARR and over 120 employees.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-farnfield/


    SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST:

    - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6MnUbU9YzCVcbsoGJsJtJ0

    - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-everyday-founder/id1732914477


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent.com


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  • Guest: Nick Telson-Sillett from Trumpet

    LinkedIn: /in/nick-telson/


    Nick grew and then sold DesignMyNight for £30m and today is a serial investor and second time founder in a sales-tech SaaS called trumpet.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent dot com


    00:00 - Start

    01:05 - Nick introducing trumpet

    02:15 - pitch deck versus trumpet

    03:01 - trumpets viral loop

    04:12 - how involved is Nick wiith Trumpet

    05:26 - to travel or to startup post exit

    05:57 - what keeps Nick up at night?

    06:54 - Dealing with the magpie effect

    07:59 - best route to founder startup or corporate

    10:19 - investment with the biggest impact on thier space

    11:20 - investment with the biggest impact on Nick

    12:50 - what is Nicks biggest indulgence

    13:25 - what does Nick do with his spare time

    15:09 - Nicks view on social media for business

    16:56 - could you have had the same success with trumpet without LInkedIn

    17:39 - How LinkedIn has saved marketing budget for trumpet

    18:15 - How to post on LinkedIn

    19:17 - Should you go all in with your startup or side hustle it

    23:46 - James talking about the 0.1pct founder

    24:05 - Nicks views on networking

    25:50 - young founders need to drop any ego

    26:23 - understand what you want from networking

    27:15 - power of linkedin for sales

    28:05 - how to maintain healthy relationships as a founder

    29:22 - what is and was nicks goals for his businesses

    29:54 - James view on the importance of those your surround yourself with

    30:43 - Nick view on keeping friend groups small

    31:30 - what are nicks goals

    33:29 - Nicks non-negotiables at work

    34:52 - non negotiable for nick at home

    35:48 - how would Nicks husband describe him

    36:31 - technical vs mental attributes as a founder

    38:35 - James view on mental strength as a founder


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  • James built and exited a pet tech business called Luna, before starting his latest venture Baseline, a tech-led bipolar support app. He himself attempting to take his own life twice before being diagnosed with bipolar disease and managing his entrepreneurial life with limited care support.

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  • James Farnfield talks with Roei Samuel from Connectd

    LinkedIn: /in/roei-samuel/


    From selling a business at 25 for £2.4 million to raising £8m+ with Connectd and expanding into the US market.


    CONNECT WITH James:

    - LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/


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    OUR SPONSORS:

    - Done-for-you LinkedIn media company: shakecontent dot com


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