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#11 - Justin Potts from Avenify - Making ISAs (Income Share Agreements) available for the masses.
Income Share Agreements have come back into fashion with Lambda School making them make sense, but for the 20 million enrolled college students who have…
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#10 - Sergio Villasenor from Elliot - Making enterprise level e-commerce tools available for the rest of us.
Super excited to release to you all our interview with Sergio from Elliot, these guys kill it on Twitter and they have a bustling, loud and rapidly…
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#8 Foti Panagiotakopoulos from GrowthMentor - World class mentors for your startup at a fraction of the cost.
"Get unstuck quickly with advice from vetted startup mentors
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#7 - Dan Garrett from Farewill - Using wills to leave your loved ones messages (as well as your stuff)
Have you ever thought about leaving an inside joke inside your will, the kind of stuff you would see in a rom-com, so that if you died...
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#6 - Rachel Carrell from Koru Kids - Positioning long term, part time childcare for success
Rachel Carrell joined me to discuss the beginnings of Koru Kids - a new childcare platform solving the biggest problem in childcare, in London.
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#5 - Chris Chance from Aerotronic - Drones on the hunt for deep pockets and big problems
Like many before him, Chris and Aerotronic entered a Techstars program and hit a wall.
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#4 - Rikke Rosenlund from BorrowMyDoggy - Yes you read that right, they let you borrow dogs
In a time where millennials are delaying having kids in favour of having dogs, and thus doting on their dogs as if they were kids I was determined to…
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#3 George Bevis from Tide - Giving businesses the banking experience they deserve
Business banking and its utter lack of modernisation and functionality is something I, sadly, am acutely aware of.
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#2 - Sofia Fenichell from Mrs Wordsmith - Building a physical product in a digital world
It's 2015.
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#1 Lamine Zarrard from Joust - Fixing Payments, from cannabis to freelancers
This is the first episode ever of the First1000!
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Introducing - The First 1000
Welcome to the first (and maybe the only - we'll see) season of the first 1000!
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