Latest Mattclifford Podcast Episodes
#6 Growing Your Business
Three and a Half Founders - May 02, 2019 12:05 - 39 minutesEven once you’ve successfully raised your seed round you’re still only just getting started – now you need to run your business and that’s the subject of this final episode. In it we discuss the founders’ processes for making great hires, the importance of company culture and how the founders ma...
#Bonus: Lavina Tien on Launching Entrepreneur First Hong Kong and the HK Startup Ecosystem
Scaling Ambition - April 29, 2019 21:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEntrepreneur First Co-Founder and CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Hong Kong General Manager Lavina Tien exploring her background and the Hong Kong startup ecosystem. In this episode they discuss: - Lavina’s background and why she was excited by EF’s mission - The Hong Kong startup ecosystem a...
#5 Fundraising from Investors
Three and a Half Founders - April 29, 2019 17:36 - 39 minutesAlthough it’s not rocket science fundraising is an area many tech entrepreneurs struggle with. In this episode we discuss how to identify what the right investor looks like, the rules of thumb for raising a good seed round and how to manage the relationship with your investors in a way that work...
#4 Pitching your Business
Three and a Half Founders - April 29, 2019 17:33 - 39 minutesIf you can’t pitch your business effectively you won’t be able to understand your customers properly or raise money from investors. In this episode we discuss everything from the principles of effective communication to the founders’ experience presenting at Demo Day and crafting a memorable sto...
#22 Joe White on Pioneering SAAS in the UK and Picking the Right VC
Scaling Ambition - April 25, 2019 09:51 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoe White, Entrepreneur, CFO and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. An entrepreneur at heart, Joe founded his first business - a digital design agency - while still at university racking up big name clients like Disney, LSE and Bain & Company. He then went on to co-found Moonfruit, a DIY web...
#21 Sai Ranganathan of SensorFlow on Making Buildings Energy Efficient through IoT
Scaling Ambition - April 16, 2019 10:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSaikrishnan Ranganathan is the Co-Founder of SensorFlow, a company making buildings energy efficient at zero upfront cost. Hotels spend $40 billion on energy each year and commercial buildings spend $120 billion. These are not insignificant costs and the amazing thing is that with better autom...
#3 Getting Product-Market Fit
Three and a Half Founders - April 16, 2019 09:41 - 36 minutesIdeas are the currency of the 21st century but they are nothing without execution. In today’s episode the founders talk about ideation and product market fit – coming up with great ideas and matching them to the needs of customer. We discuss frameworks for ideation, strategies for talking to cus...
#2 Finding a Co-Founder
Three and a Half Founders - April 16, 2019 09:35 - 36 minutesStarting your own company is tough, which is why teams of two or more co-founders tend to perform a lot better. In this episode the founders talk about the challenges they had finding a co-founder before joining Entrepreneur First, the CEO/CTO relationship and the difficulties of co-founder brea...
#1 Becoming an Entrepreneur
Three and a Half Founders - April 16, 2019 09:24 - 31 minutesIn this first episode of the show, Yassir, Stacy-Ann, Greg and Tomide chat about their path before entrepreneurship, discussing everything from their family’s influence on them, to what school was like for them and the early stages of their career. Plus they also talk about the big decision to t...
#20 Chris Mairs on The Art of Angel Investing and Pre-Internet Entrepreneurship
Scaling Ambition - April 05, 2019 11:36 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsChris Mairs is an entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Venture Partner at EF. He is the co-founder of MetaSwitch, a communications technology business, where he was CTO for many years including a 2-year stint in Palo Alto working with his investors from Sequoia and their portfolio companies. More...
#Bonus: Esha Tiwary on Launching Entrepreneur First Bangalore and the Indian Startup Ecosystem
Scaling Ambition - January 10, 2019 21:55 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday’s episode is a special one to celebrate the opening of EF Bangalore and in it, EF CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Bangalore General Manager Esha Tiwary, exploring her background and the Indian startup ecosystem. When EF Co-Founders Matt & Alice decided to scale last year they made a list...
#18 Tom Pocock of CreditMint on Decentralising Corporate Lending and the Death of Utility Tokens
Scaling Ambition - September 12, 2018 07:49 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTom Pocock is the Co-Founder of Credit Mint, a company that’s decentralising corporate lending by using a public blockchain as the shared ledger for corporate debt. The corporate debt industry is migrating from a bank-led model towards smaller lenders. But these new-wave lenders are tied to c...
#17 Rohit Jha of Transcelestial on Transforming Communications Technology and Maximising Your Personal Impact
Scaling Ambition - August 15, 2018 17:52 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRohit Jha is the Co-Founder of Transcelestial a company developing a laser communication solution to replace existing wireless communication technology. In the next decade 3 billion people and 50 billion devices will come online – but the global infrastructure we have in place at the moment is...
#16 Nadav Rosenberg on Successful Selling, The Art of Investing and The Future of Cryptocurrencies
Scaling Ambition - July 17, 2018 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNadav Rosenberg is a General Partner and Head of Commercial at EF. Previously, he flew helicopters in the Israeli army for 10 years, worked as a consultant with McKinsey after earning an MBA from INSEAD and was a member of the founding team of Groupon in the UK. He also led Israeli startup Taboo...
#15 Jesse Shemen of Papercup on Auto-Translating The World's Video and Raising Your First Round
Scaling Ambition - June 26, 2018 07:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJesse Shemen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Papercup, a company that auto-translates the voice track on videos into the world’s languages. People spend an average of 5 hours watching video every single day but the problem for creators looking to maximise views is that while subtitles are helpfu...
#14 Hannah Burrow of Kiroku on Disrupting Dentistry, Pitching at the Palace and Low Tech "Pretotyping"
Scaling Ambition - June 12, 2018 07:31 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHannah Burrow is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiroku, a company that automatically writes clinical notes for dentists. Kiroku which is Japanese for "to document or record” uses a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language processing to produce expert level notes which has the ...
#13 Vadim Toader of Proportunity on Outperforming the Property Market with AI
Scaling Ambition - June 05, 2018 13:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsVadim Toader is the CEO Co-Founder of Proportunity a company that uses machine learning to form accurate real estate forecasts, so investors can make better decisions. By comparing more than 100 sets of data, including historical price growth and crime rates, Proportunity can spot good deals ...
#12 David Hunter of Optimal Labs on Revolutionising Human Nutrition
Scaling Ambition - May 29, 2018 18:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDavid Hunter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Optimal Labs a company that applies cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning to create intelligent autopilots for farms, improving the efficiency, reliability and quality of food production. High tech greenhouses can produce 10-40x yield of traditiona...
#11 Current Cohort Member Jake Woodhouse on his First Six Weeks at EF
Scaling Ambition - May 23, 2018 08:19 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJake Woodhouse is a member of the current EFLD10 cohort. Up to this point on the podcast I’ve spoken to EF Co-Founders Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck as well as the founders of some of EF’s most exciting companies. But who better to speak to get a flavour of what EF actually does than someo...
#10 Dev Amratia of nPlan on Rebuilding Construction with AI
Scaling Ambition - May 14, 2018 16:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDev Amratia is the CEO and Co-Founder of nPlan a company that uses machine learning to analyse construction schedules, determine where the biggest risks lie and then recommend improvements. Whether it’s a new stadium or transport system, construction projects are consistently delayed and nPla...
#9 Alice Bentinck on Finding Your Co-Founder
Scaling Ambition - May 08, 2018 17:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlice Bentinck co-founded EF with Matt Clifford in 2011, back when people thought the idea of inorganic team building was crazy. Seven years on, with the EF model validated from a number of successful exits and investment from Linkedin Co-Founder Reid Hoffman it’s clear that Matt and Alice weren...
#8 Joe Root of Permutive on Customising User Experience in Real Time
Scaling Ambition - May 01, 2018 09:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoe Root is the Co-Founder of Permutive a company that helps publishers and marketers to customize user experience in real-time - on every device, across every channel. Joe and his co-founder Tim were on EF2 and their company has gone from strength to strength in recent years, dealing with mi...
#7 Rafael Jorda Siquier on Democratising Satellites for Space Missions
Scaling Ambition - April 24, 2018 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRafael Jorda Siquier is the founder of Open Cosmos, a company making space missions simple and affordable. They provide customers with a development kit and simulator so they can build the technology at their own pace and when they’re ready, Open Cosmos takes care of all the paperwork, integrate...
#6 Alex Appelbe of Metis Labs on Building the Factory of the Future
Scaling Ambition - April 17, 2018 09:03 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlex Appelbe is the Co-Founder of Metis Labs a company providing general intelligence for industrial systems by using deep reinforcement learning to build the factory brain. Alex and his co-founder Bashir were on EF8 and they started Metis Labs by saving energy in processing factories - helpi...
#5 Alesis Novik of AimBrain on Using Biometrics to Kill the Password
Scaling Ambition - April 10, 2018 09:32 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlesis Novik is a Co-Founder of AimBrain, AimBrain, a Biometric Identity as-a-Service platform for global financial institutions. Alesis and his co-founder Andrius were on EF3 and what they’re doing in simple terms is effectively replacing standard passwords and pins with voice, facial and be...
#4 Ed Miller of Scape on Mapping Urban Environments for Augmented Reality
Scaling Ambition - April 04, 2018 11:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEd Miller is the Co-Founder of Scape, which is building the location infrastructure for city-scale augmented reality & location-based services. Ed and his co-founder Huub were on EF7 and their mapping and location technology allows devices to understand their position in the world, with incre...
#3 Mostafa El Sayed of Automata on Revolutionising Robotics
Scaling Ambition - March 27, 2018 11:36 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMostafa El Sayed, Co-Founder of Automata, which is working to make robotics affordable and accessible by installing it in the workplace. Mostafa and his co-founder Suryansh were on EF4 and their first product, Eva is a bench top robot arm that can be set up in minutes, costs a fraction of othe...
#2 Noor Shaker of GTN on Disrupting Drug Discovery
Scaling Ambition - March 06, 2018 20:49 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNoor Shaker, Co-Founder of GTN, a company that uses quantum physics and machine learning to search the huge space of potential drug molecules and discover drugs that were previously hidden from view. This means GTN can discover better drugs, more quickly, at half the cost. Noor and her co-fou...
#1 Theo Saville of Cloud NC on Transforming Manufacturing
Scaling Ambition - March 06, 2018 20:44 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTheo Saville is the Co-Founder of Cloud NC, whose mission is to make the CNC milling machines used in many manufacturing processes one click devices that can produce a part easily and efficiently, effectively halving their cost. Theo and his co-founder Chris met on EF5 and have gone from stre...
#0 Matt Clifford on Scaling Your Ambition
Scaling Ambition - March 06, 2018 18:28 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn today’s episode I kick off the podcast by speaking to EF Co-Founder Matt Clifford. Matt Co-Founded EF with Alice Bentinck back in 2011 and since then EF has gone from strength to strength, building hundreds of companies worth over $400m including Magic Pony Technology, Tractable and StackH...
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