Founder's Journey Unplugged

Every startup works towards product-market fit, but how do you really know when you’ve reached it? Without it, scaling too early can be a costly mistake - yet waiting too long can mean missing the ma…

When we started Flinn.ai, we embraced a fully remote approach to attract Europe’s best talent and provide flexibility for our team. Over time, as we grew from 3 to almost 30 people, we refined our ap…

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 …

 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 crucial lessons w…

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 p…

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 …

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 t…

 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: 

1️⃣ The main challenges of 2023 around fundr…

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 prac…

 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 stage…

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 what we have learned ab…

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 emphasiz…

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 ep…

"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 fou…

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 m…

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 learnings around signi…

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 term sheets, while …