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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 6: Ales Spetic of Cubesensors

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

In this edition of the Seedcamp Podcast Series, Carlos Espinal and Dave Haynes talk to Ales Spetic, founder & CEO of Cubesensors about the early challenges of starting a hardware company. They discuss:

  • why Ales began working on Cubesensors
  • why he targeted the consumer rather than the enterprise market
  • how crowdfunding can validate a market for your hardware product
  • the risks associated with crowdfunding your hardware startup
  • the process of hardware development
  • the additional costs faced by hardware startups
  • the ideal team that makes a hardware startup work
  • where to manufacture your product
  • how investors assess hardware startups

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 5: Rockstar Lawyers & How to Tackle Early-stage Legals, with Tina Baker

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n the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

In this edition of the Seedcamp Podcast Series, Carlos Espinal and Tom Wilson, Investment Manager (and ex-Lawyer) at Seedcamp, have a chat with Tina Baker, Partner & Co-founder of JagShawBaker and real-life rockstar. They discuss:

  • how Tina transitioned from professional musician to law-firm Partner
  • addressing early-stage legal disputes between founders
  • why reverse vesting is a smart way to allocate shares
  • using legal documents like the Founders Collaboration Agreement at Seedsummit.org
  • picking the right lawyer for your startup
  • how much you can expect to pay a law firm

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 4: Alex Trewby of Divide

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

In this episode of the Seedcamp Podcast Series, Carlos & Dave chat with Alex Trewby of Divide (now Google). They discuss:

  • how to grow a company
  • tackling M&A
  • how to build an enterprise sales strategy
  • selling into large organisations

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 3: The Moo.com Growth Story with Richard Moross, Founder and CEO

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The ‘Take On:’ series sees the Seedcamp Partners, Reshma and Carlos explore various topics throughout the world of Startups and Early-stage Investment. During each episode they’ll speak with members of the Seedcamp family to hear their views; including the Seedcamp team, our Investors, Mentors, and Startups.

For the third podcast in this series, Reshma and Carlos tackle some of the questions that many founders would love to ask success-story Moo‘s founder, Richard Moross. They discuss:

  • why Richard founded his company
  • what drives innovation within Moo
  • how to hire good people
  • how to find good investors (see our second podcast for more info)
  • the worst investor rejection Richard received
  • how an overhead-heavy startup can manage its costs
  • how to know when you’re not a startup anymore…

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 2: Evaluating Interested & Existing Investors in Your Startup

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The ‘Take On:’ series sees the Seedcamp Partners, Reshma and Carlos explore various topics throughout the world of Startups and Early-stage Investment. During each episode they’ll speak with members of the Seedcamp family to hear their views; including the Seedcamp team, our Investors, Mentors, and Startups.

For the second podcast in this series, Reshma and Carlos look at what investors look for in other investors to syndicate with, but also what founders should look for in investors, when actively fundraising. They discuss:

  • why choosing your investors is like choosing a family
  • what an amazing investor looks like
  • what type of investor might be most suitable for your startup
  • why the size of your investor’s fund is worth considering
  • the pros and cons of working with specialist vs generalist skill-set investors
  • why an investor’s deal experience is important
  • how to tell if an investor might not be suitable for your startup

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For more information on what to look for in an investor, read our blog post that goes into more detail.

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