Reports from the field: How the core disciplines of building fast-growing companies are changing in a post-corona world.
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Whether you think change is temporary or that life will change for good, join us as we share notes with brilliant operational experts, investors and founders from our portfolio and network on best practice, opportunities and inspiration for company builders right now.
What are the opportunities and challenges for brands and businesses who want to build strong, engaged communities of users, customers and fans in a post-corona world? We've invited three guests who have built three very different, but powerfully-engaged digital and real-life communities to join us around the Zoom table to tell us about how they did it. In doing so we aim to tease out whether there are common threads and practices that entrepreneurs and company builders can apply to their own strategies.
To discuss best practice, notes "from the trenches" and some inspiration we are excited to welcome:
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- Oussama Ammar, co-founder of The Family a pan-European investment firm dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs as they build tech giants
- Jonathan Baker, brand and community manager at Tempo, previously head of comms at Klang Games, where he established the community for the studio's upcoming MMO simulation game, SeedÂ
- Pia-Maria Nickström, founder of Mimmit sijoittaa – online community and media designed to inspire its members to take control of their personal finances and increase the amount of young female investors on the Helsinki Stock Exchange
A lot of companies are making tough decisions right now when it comes to people. From furloughs to hiring freezes or, in luckier cases, onboarding new teammates remotely - treating your people right has never been more important. In this session we share notes on best practice for people ops right now.Â
Life amid Coronavirus is constantly changing for customers and businesses, so how do you make sure your marketing strategy keeps up? We dive into the nitty gritty with our friendly operational experts in marketing and growth to share notes about the latest trends in this space plus best practice on adjusting strategy, positioning, where to spend budget and how to avoid painful faux pas right now. This event will be hosted in Zoom, join the conversation via Q&A in the live chat.Â
Speakers: Founders partner Simon Sylvest hosts Natasha Lytton (Head of brand and marketing at Seedcamp), May Laursen (Partner T-Bone SaaS Growth Advisory) , Nicola Anderson (CMO MyTutor) and Sean Percival (Spring Capital partner and former Whereby CMO).
Even as some parts of the world begin to slowly open up again, life in the post-corona world is constantly changing for customers and businesses. So how do you make sure your sales strategy keeps up? How to create sales stability in turbulent times and not lose the momentum you've meticulously been building up? Join us as Founders partner Simon Sylvest hosts Pleo sales VP Sara Brooks, Wonderwerk co-founder Bowen Moody and Good Monday co-founder Mik Stroyberg, sharing notes from the field on how to pivot your sales positioning, reevaluate churn, ICPs, forecasting, crisis-resistant customers are and making the most out of a crisis.
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Speakers: Founders partner and Headlight co-founder Simon Sylvest hosts Sara Brooks (VP sales at Pleo), Bowen Moody (co-founder of Wonderwerk) and Mik Stroyberg (co-founder of Good Monday) around the Zoom table.Â
Founders is a startup studio. Together with exceptional entrepreneurs, we build companies from scratch and scale them as independent companies when they gain traction. Whether it’s a bank for freelancers, a way to kill the pain of doing expenses or reimagining life in cities, we are always on the lookout for opportunities to improve the way people work and live.
Our portfolio includes Pleo, Duuoo, Tempo, Strive School, Kontist, Son of a Tailor, Maguru, Headlight, LifeX, Reach, Wonderwerk and Donna.
[Photo credit: Ant Dubber, Halley VI British Antarctic Research Station]
