Startup Milestones – European Start Up Podcast: Recent Episodes
Florian Kandler: Entrepreneur, Startup Founder, Speaker, Mentor
Weekly interviews with Europe’s top startup founders. Learn how they got from idea to funding and growth. You will get insights and actionable advice that you can use for your business idea or startup project.
Juergen Graner is a European entrepreneur and advisor. He specializes in "Transaction Based Growth Management", and has tons of experience about how to build a company to optimize its exit value.
He is also one of several top speakers at this year's High-Growth Technology Business Conference (November 4+5, 2019 in Dublin, Ireland), where he'll share even more knowledge about how to build your company around intellectual property and towards success and a potential exit.
Thanks to the European Patent Office, tickets are only €150.
In this episode, Juergen shares:
- Why so many exit negotiations fail
- Why an exit ins NOT for everyone
- How to prepare for an exit
- The biggest mistakes that can kill your exit
- The 3 phases of your company leading up to a potential exit
- The 3 key strategies towards an exit
- The 5 strategic types of transactions that boost your company value
And he shares several first-hand case-studies of successful, and failed exit negotiations. You will get an amazing inside view!
And at the end he’ll also share how he and the event-team have innovated the High-Growth Technology Business Conference to make it the most practical, hands-on business and intellectual property conference you’ll ever visit.
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How to pick the right Accelerator or Incubator - with Cedric Maloux, StartupYard CEO.
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How to grow 400% p.a. and beat Rocket Internet - with Mariano Kostelec, Uniplaces Cofounder.
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VC insights to Earlybird Ventures - with Hendrik Brandis, Founder & Partner.
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VC insights to Northzone VC - with Christopher Steinau, Investor.
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Leave the country to find investors who understand you; why being a solo-founder sucks - with Mergim Cahani, Gjiraf Cofounder&CEO.
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Grow to 800 employees with only €1.5m Funding, Oliver Dlouhy, kiwi.com Cofounder&CEO.
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Product-market fit & early adopters - with Maarten Verwaest, Limecraft Founder&CEO.
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Misconceptions about angel investors, and strategies to find great angels - with Marco Bicocchi Pichi, Italian Startup President & Italian Angel of the Year.
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Self-sabotage or success - what's outside the comfort zone? - with Valentina Kasperova, Head of FutureNow Conference.
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Trends in deep tech; and success factors of startup ecosystems - Ton van t'Noordende, Deeptech investor & CEO at 01 Ventures.
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From university spin-off to leading tech company - with Matteo Faggin, GiPStech Cofounder & Head of BizDev.
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Why founders must do sales and create expert visibility; and hiring for cultural match - with Martin Koppel, Fortumo Cofounder&CEO.
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What "Smart Money" really looks like - with Luciano Buratti, Business Angel & Open Innovation Lead at BacktoWork24.
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How to find a scalable paid sales model for SaaS - with Morten Elk, SimpleSite Founder&CEO.
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Investor insights to Deutsche Börse Venture Network - with Peter Fricke.
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Failing & relaunching; and building a community brand that grows organically - with Matias Dalsgaard, GoMore Cofounder&CEO.
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Can a technical founder become a good CEO? - with David Kofoed Wind, Peergrade Cofounder&CEO.
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How to talk with investors; and the journey from founder to investor - with Augusto Coppola, Investor & Entrepreneur.
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Hiring mistakes; and company culture for tough times - with Jorge Schnura, source{d} Cofounder&CEO
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Why technical cofounders and developer are keys to success - with Ben Ruschin, WeAreDevelopers Managing Director.
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How to invent your own market; and the importance of timing . with Sampo Hietanen, MaasCofounder&CEO.
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How to validate ideas by talking to experts; how to get clients to finance your product development - with Dan Brett, Countercraft Cofounder&CEO.
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Investor insights to Holtzbrinck Ventures - with Christian Saller, General Partner.
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Guerilla VC tactics; and having too many cofounders - with Felix Häusler, Grape Cofounder&CEO.
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How to manage design and user experience in small teams - with Ingrid Haug, designmatters.io Cofounder.
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How to get attention in a crowded industry; and how to focus on your core value proposition - with Alexandre Pinto, JiTT.travel Cofounder/CEO.
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How to scale up B2B sales; and why Dublin is top for B2B startups - with Luca Boschin, LogoGrab Cofounder&CEO.
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Mistake of over-investing in product v1.0; and how to user first customers to find better market opportunities - with Roope Heinilä, Smarp Cofounder&CEO.
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Why entrepreneurs the better investors - with József Nyíri, Entrepreneur & Investor.
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Why/how to break up with cofounders; and reason to take the lower valuation - with Helmut Lehner, MAVOCO Cofounder&CEO.
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Disrupting the construction industry; how to do big innovation with a small team - with Francesco Tassone, Personal Factory Cofounder&CEO.
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Investor insights to High-Tech Gründerfonds - with Tobias Schulz, Investment Manager.
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Being too early and die as a pioneer; and avoiding the wrong kind of investors - with Udesh Jadnanansing, Mopinion Cofounder
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From Olympic medal winner to software engineer to founder - with Heidi Rakels, GuardSquare Cofounder&CEO.
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How to do a late pivot after €2m of funding; and how to compete with giants like WhatsApp - with Riku Salminen, Jongla CEO.
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Strategic investors better or worse than Angel or VCs; and validating the biz model early on - with Peter Morawitz, Dynamic Perspective Cofounder&CEO.
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Why you should get a sales guy early; and the benefit of industry experience - with Paulo Gomes, Wizdee Cofounder&CEO
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Growth Hacking tips by Italy's top growth hacker - Raffaele Gaito.
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How to define market and product - with Mika Skarp, CloudStreet Cofounder&CTO.
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How to get top advisors; why you shouldn't boostrap too long - with Travis Pittman, TourRadar Cofounder&CEO
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How to get top mentors for your startup; "vertical people"; and creting visibility - with Simone Casciaro, QOOWEAR Founder&CEO.
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Working only 40 hours per week; how to get funding for a pivot - with Juho Makkonen, Sharetribe Cofounder&CEO.
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Why CEE is better for startups than Western Europe - Armin Konjalic, East-West Digital News.
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Leading a team through tough times; why researchers are great founders - with Amin Shokrollahi, Kandou Bus Founder&CEO.
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How to build team trust and alignment; why Angels are better than VCs - with Francisco Webber, cortical.io Founder&GM
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Startups and Corporates - can this work? - with Tapio Siik, Angel and Business Mentor.
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The perfect product demo; how to get VC meetings - with Oskari "Ozz" Häkkinen, Futurefly Cofounder&CPO
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B2B software startup launch strategies - with Ronald Scholz, Sherpa.Dresden (incubator).
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Why to hire senior people first; Berlin public funds - with Simon Staib - Blogfoster Cofounder&CPO
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How Techstars and business angels boosted Eversports - with Hanno Lippitsch, Eversports Cofounder&CEO
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A VC's tips for B2B SaaS startups - with Marcin Szelag, Partner at Innovation Nest VC.
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Skills to succeed; building culture across departments - with Nicolas Granatino, Cryonycle Cofounder/Director.
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Scaling strategies for Europen startups - with Thomas Herlin, Entrepreneur & Accelerator Advisor.
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Low valuation advantages, and other fundraising tips (Part 2 of 2) - with Peter Buchroithner, Swell Cofounder/CEO/CPO.
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Rebrand and pivot to success (Part 1 of 2) - with Peter Buchroithner, Swell Cofounder/CEO/CPO, VIenna
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B2B sales: don't "act European"; startups are like teenagers - with Hampus Jakobsson, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor.
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Find the right problem to solve, and launching at Web Summit - with Yasir Khokhar, Connecterra Cofounder/CEO.
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Raising 2 million with just an idea, company culture, business networking - with Ben Wynn, DAD CEO&founder, London.
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Expanding to 60 countries, cultural differences, challenges of spinning a startup out of an agency - with Michel Willems, BimBimBikes Cofounder&CEO, Amsterdam.
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How he builds company culture in his 4 startups, 2 exited (€100m+) - with Demetrios Zoppos, Entrepreneur&Investor.
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Ignoring advice, winning awards as a marketing strategy, getting maximum value from the local ecosystem - with Olivier Hamel, Prodibi Cofounder&CEO, Geneva.
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Crowdfunding secrets from inside Kickstarter - with Heather Corcoran, Kickstarter Outreach Lead.
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Rudolf talks about how and why he quit his job to become an entrepreneur, bootstrapping, finding the right accelerator, handling investors and their opinions
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Michal talks about: building a Fintec from Prague, the need for patient capital, challenges of a two-sided business model, and why focussing on the smaller markets in Europe is a competitive advantage.