My guests for Episode 5 of The Startup Playbook Hustle are Heidi Holmes and Lucy Lloyd, the co-founders of Mentorloop.

Heidi and Lucy have been friends for over 20 years, initially meeting at school before initially heading down different career paths.

Prior to Mentorloop, Heidi was the Managing Director of Adage, an online jobs board that was acquired by OneShift in early 2015, whereas Lucy spent several years with tech and development agencies before reconnecting and discussing the initial idea for Mentorloop over a glass of wine.

That idea turned into a Mentorloop, which provides mentoring software that enables businesses to match their people into effective mentorships at any scale.

Mentorloop was recently accepted into and went through the highly competitive Startmate accelerator program and announced a partnership with the Australian Olympic Committee.

The success and growth of Mentorloop has allowed them to raise $1M of funding from a number of investors including Blackbird Ventures, Rampersand and Tempus Partners.

In this episode we talk about:

How to get buy-in from your first few customers

Passing the hurdle test

Finding a technical co-founder vs outsourcing development

A detailed breakdown of Mentorloop’s fundraising process

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Show notes:

Adage

KPMG

Common Code

Startmate

Airtree

Airtree investor spreadsheet

Trello

Mark Suster

Invest in Lines not Dots - Both Sides of the Table (blog)

Rampersand

Heidi Holmes

Lucy Lloyd

Heidi's ask: Intro's to HR Managers

Lucy's ask: Talented people to join Mentorloop with a Development or Marketing background

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