Founder's Journey Unplugged
Bastian and Markus are experienced startup builders and founders of Flinn.ai. They candidly talk about their challenges, learnings, and experience while building the company from the ground up.
Episodes
20 episodes
€6M Secured: Our Seed Round Unfolded
In this episode, we share our experiences and lessons learned while raising our €6M seed funding round for Flinn.ai. From preparing our pitch deck to navigating over 50 investor meetings, we reflect on the key ste...
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Episode 20
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40:06
From 0 to 100k ARR: Our Lessons Learned
In this episode, we share how we transformed Flinn.ai from an idea to a revenue-generating machine. We reflect on our experiences, from initial cold calls to sealing deals, and the ...
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Episode 19
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34:10
Mastering Early-Stage Product Roadmapping
In this episode, we are looking into how to connect your product roadmap to your vision and goals, and how to approach roadmapping as an early-stage startup. We will talk about:How to get sales and product aligned behin...
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Episode 18
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27:57
How to Leverage Public Funds in the Early-Stage
My co-founder Bastian has raised over 20 million in public funding in his career and with our early-stage statup we have raised 2 million a few months after starting our venture. In this episode, we share our learning about leveraging public fu...
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Episode 17
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35:08
Continuous Usability Research - to build a product your customers love
In this episode, we explore the depths of usability research and testing, aiming to enhance your customers' experience with your product.We'll discuss pivotal questions such as:What are the various types of user research ava...
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Episode 16
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24:11
2023 Recap: 1 year of building Flinn
In this episode, we are looking back on 2023, a year of growth, challenges, and evolution at Flinn.ai, all through a deeply personal lens. What we share:
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Episode 15
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25:17
Agile Software Development Best Practices for the Early-Stage
We strongly believe in having a well-structured software development approach early on. In this episode, our tech-co-founder Hasib has joined us, and we are sharing our software development best practices at
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Episode 14
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37:43
Founder Leverage: Entrepreneur in Residence
As a founder, you're often inundated with a myriad of urgent tasks, making it challenging to prioritize the truly critical ones. One highly effective approach to ease the load during the early stages is bringing on board an Entrepreneur i...
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Episode 13
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29:24
Building a Strong Advisor Network
Advisors have been extremely helpful since the beginning of our journey.They’ve helped us with strategic aspects, valuable customer introductions, feedback on the product itself and understanding of the industry, … and we wouldn...
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Episode 12
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23:05
OKRs from Day 1: Simple & Effective
Setting clear, meaningful goals is among the most important priorities for founders. In this episode, we explore how we use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) Flinn Comply and wha...
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Episode 11
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29:51
From 1st Release to Changing an Industry: Navigating the Balancing Act of MVP vs. Vision
This episode is about balancing the long-term vision of a company vs. the go-to-market focus (the first version of your product). Often overlooked, this balance is crucial for founders. Some emphasize their visionary goals, yet stumble in gener...
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Episode 10
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30:21
Actionable Values: Building an Empowering Culture
At Flinn, we strongly believe in empowering smart people, to act like entrepreneurs rather than employees. To scale such an approach, you need a strong foundation of values and principles. In this episode, we are how we are buildin...
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Episode 9
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30:11
Hiring a Triple-A Early-Stage Team
"A players hire A players, B players higher C players". We strongly believe in this saying and that our employees are the key to our success. Next to our team of 3 co-founders, we have brought 5 founding team members on board wit...
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Episode 8
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20:13
Setting up the most Employee Friendly Stock Option Program (ESOP)
For (early-stage) startups, it can be challenging to offer very attractive compensation when only looking at the salary. However, Employee Stock Option Programs (ESOP) can be a great opportunity to make your offers way more attractive and enabl...
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Episode 7
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26:56
Pre-Seed Funding - Part 2: Mistakes to avoid from term sheet to contract signing
In the previous episode, we reflected on how we got from a pitch to a term sheet to raise our 1.8m pre-seed round for our Startup Flinn Comply. In this episode, we describe our learnin...
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Episode 6
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30:04
Pre-Seed Funding - Part 1: How to get to a term sheet
In this episode, we share our learnings about raising our pre-seed funding round of 1.8m for our Startup Flinn Comply. This episode focuses on the steps until you get one or many...
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Episode 5
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20:56
Validation with Letters of Intent (LOI)
In this episode, we share our experience with using 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 (𝐋𝐎𝐈𝐬) 💌 in our own startup, Flinn Comply. Tune in to hear how we used this experimentation method to ...
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Episode 4
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16:15
Customer & Problem Discovery
We are a product led company, this means we validate ideas and critical assumptions with experiments and research. In this episode, we explain how we have tested, validated and researched our ideal customer profile (ICP).
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Episode 3
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14:32