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Reflecting on a year of big life changes
Reflecting on a year of big life changes
2024 was a year of huge change for me. It involved moving countries, swapping constant work planes for much slower…
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Adventures with what3words in 2021
Adventures with what3words in 2021
It's been a pretty unbelievable year at what3words, where our consumer usage has shot up around the world dramatically,…
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Adventures with what3words in 2020
Adventures with what3words in 2020
2020 started for me with a speaking event at CES about mobility - on a panel in real life, with other people. I had no…
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Adventures with what3words in 2019
Adventures with what3words in 2019
Getting to travel so much for work at what3words has always been exciting and interesting (and sometimes tiring…), but…
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Adventures with what3words in 2018
Adventures with what3words in 2018
It's been another fast-paced year (and for me, another year mostly spent on planes, as I get to visit our partners…
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2017 adventures at what3words
2017 adventures at what3words
Last year, we shared some of the things we had been up to with what3words - and 2017 has brought us many more exciting…
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what3words: 2016 adventures
what3words: 2016 adventures
2016 has been a busy year for us here at what3words; I wanted to share some of the stories of the brilliant partners…
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Thanks for all the lovely messages on the podcast launch! 🥰 Here's a little fun extract from the first two episodes that keeps making me laugh…
Thanks for all the lovely messages on the podcast launch! 🥰 Here's a little fun extract from the first two episodes that keeps making me laugh…
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Inmiddels zijn we alweer 10 jaar Polarsteps aan het bouwen vanuit het prachtige Amsterdam, dat dit jaar 750 jaar bestaat. Een bruisende, ondernemende…
Inmiddels zijn we alweer 10 jaar Polarsteps aan het bouwen vanuit het prachtige Amsterdam, dat dit jaar 750 jaar bestaat. Een bruisende, ondernemende…
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Just when the internet feels a bit bleak, you find a site where strangers finish the scarves, blankets and jumpers that someone couldn’t finish…
Just when the internet feels a bit bleak, you find a site where strangers finish the scarves, blankets and jumpers that someone couldn’t finish…
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Last week, I said goodbye to my colleagues at what3words. Here’s my attempt to distil just over 3 magic years into a few paragraphs (and avoid…
Last week, I said goodbye to my colleagues at what3words. Here’s my attempt to distil just over 3 magic years into a few paragraphs (and avoid…
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In a recent update, we added Travel DNA to Polarsteps. With people increasingly using us to get recommendations for future trips, this helps people…
In a recent update, we added Travel DNA to Polarsteps. With people increasingly using us to get recommendations for future trips, this helps people…
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“The UK has the best talent in the world, but we sometimes lack ambition” Grateful for Neil Buchanan @ Lodestar Space (‘bodyguards for satellites’) inspiring and educating our emerging founders spinning out from UK Atomic Energy Authority (thank you) > If you’re pre-idea and pre-cofounder you’ll benefit from doing the Entrepreneurs First programme (if you can get on). The speed of learning and environment truly accelerate founders > Unlocking early adopter demand: LinkedIn outreach, speak to people with common interests, build networks, keep the cadence of outreach, running a customer discovery process (‘mom test’ - Rob Fitzpatrick ) > Sizing the opportunity: top down look for $10BNs to $100BNs market problems and then look bottom up with an eye to the future. Bottom up is always the sobering one and should be your north star - never lie to your team, investors and worst of all: yourself. > Engaging VCs often: reduce the risk as much as possible (team, market, tech) show how you’re hiring to fit a few key gaps can be fine > Founders need to be confident to be selective with the investors they partner with. Being mindful if you’re taking investment from a key player in an industry (is it for their ultimate M&A activity, is it going to impact your sales). Ideally you’re ambitious and don’t want an early exit but also investment from a defence prime if you’re dual use can unlock channels > Building for dual use or defence? Prioritise USA GTM in the short term. > Finding non-dilutive sources of cash: run a process to identify relevant organisations, keep an open mind / keep it wide to keep options open. Keeping burn low you can achieve a lot prior to dilutive capital > Don’t get distracted by the shiny numbers of a big raise - it's needed for strong talent acquisition & credibility boosting but the best talent will resonate with the high impact mission & tech dev to get there - the rest of your time for focus on where it needs to be: customers and sales > Geopolitics impacting decisions on which markets to target, hiring decisions, who to have on the cap table ▪️If you’re an investor / founder and you’d like to do a lunchtime Q&A to educate and inspire our emerging founders please DM
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Philip Salter
Unlocking capital for UK founders is one of the most important challenges if Britain is to remain the best place in the world to start and scale a business. This week, we were joined by Callum Anderson MP (Labour MP for Buckingham and Bletchley, and PPS to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology) for a dinner on how to ensure our capital markets better serve the needs of scaling businesses. Among the things we discussed were: – How to mobilise more domestic institutional capital into UK scale-ups; – How to improve the path to public markets so more firms can grow here, not abroad; – How to ensure smarter, more efficient regulation that supports growth rather than stifling it. It’s clear there’s no single lever that will close the UK’s growth gap – but getting capital flowing more effectively is one of the most powerful steps we can take. A big thank you to our partner OakNorth for supporting this important conversation. 👉 Callum has written an article on the topic (link in the comments). 👉 If you’re a founder, investor, expert who’d like to contribute to these discussions, request a place at a future event by signing up for my Friday newsletter (link in the comments). Adi Edekar, Anand Sambasivan, Ben Greenstone, Brendan O'Toole, Catherine Fredette, Eamonn Ives, Fiona Melville, Francesco Corazza, Kyle Frank, Margot Blanc, Oliver Wylie, Paul Domjan, Peter King, Philippa Keith, Prakriti Garg, Sam Bell, Wenyan Sharp
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