Editor's pick Exit
Kirsty is the Head of Investor Relations for Waymo, an autonomous driving company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they want to go. To date Waymo has raised $5.75bn from a world-class investor base including sovereign wealth funds, prominent growth tech investors and pension funds. Before this, Kirsty was the CEO of an OSI portfolio company spun out from the Oxford University Computer Sciences department, which was acquired by Waymo in 2019. She started her career at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, before becoming an executive director for The AA.
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Kirsty Lloyds-Jones
Editor's pick Exit
We are launching the Labs Series. We will talk with inspirational and exciting keynotes speakers to know more about their insights on topics you are interested in. We will hold these fireside chats monthly. Bill and Alex will share some of their insights when Vaccitech went public last year.
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Fundraising
His thesis, European interest, process of DD, views on the deep-tech market and current COVID-19 climate
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Business Strategy and planning
Professor Constantin Coussios, University of Oxford, discusses reasons for starting a business, provides practical insight on having a venture and what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
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Professor Constantin Coussios
Exit
We have asked them to do a broad introduction to the AIM market from the perspective of IPO being a future option for any growth company to consider. With case studies drawn from the Tech and Healthcare sectors, they will cover: • An overview of public market activity since 1 March • Considerations - IPO vs. trade sale • Profile of investor groups that support the market • What investors look for in potential investments • How investors support companies as they scale (follow-on fund raising) • Market and investor characteristics - London vs. US • The path to IPO • Continuing obligations / life as a public company • Case studies – Tech & Healthcare This is intended to be a scene-setter and there will be time for questions and answers. The LSE have also offered to arrange to meet any OSI companies that would like a one on one session subsequent to the event.
Stakeholders
Have a wide lens. In this video, Brad Feld explains how it’s very easy to think about your own direct network, people you know or investors that invest in your company, and then go only one degree further. Thinking about recruiting board members in the early stages is powerful.
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Brad Feld
Fundraising
Dr. Thomas Henschel explains 'The Harvard Approach' and how to get a Yes in every negotiation. 1. Separate the person from the issue. Don't take it to a negative personal level. 2. Do NOT Negotiate position-focused, but interest-oriented. 3. Carefully develop a set of criteria/requirements that a solution must fulfil, instead of rushing to a solution. 4. You should have several different options to choose from and evaluate them against the criteria.
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Erich Pommer Institut
Stakeholders
Brad Feld encourages the creation of a board you can be comfortable with. One that you like spending time with. This will give you a chance to detach from the day-to-day of the business while you think about the business more broadly. In doing this, you want to create a relationship with each individual board member as well as a cohesion between the board members themselves.
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Brad Feld
Fundraising
Your startup pitch is a key asset in your fund raising toolkit for an angel pitch or a vc pitch . You need an effective pitch deck. How do you create an effective investor pitch? What topics should an investor pitch template (a pitch deck) include? What does an effective investor pitch template look like? How do you address the investor exit strategy and go to market strategy? I address those questions and many more in this video on how to pitch investors. What are some important pitch techniques you should incorporate? Why should you include your startup story in the pitch? Download a 1-page checklist covering all the Investor Pitch topics I cover in this video at: http://www.startupsos.com/investor-pi...
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StartupSOS
Team and Talent
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Stakeholders
Brad Feld encourages you to be as thoughtful about choosing your board members as you are about choosing your co-founders. You want a set of people with whom you really want to engage and work. Be deliberate about building your board and managing the expectations of the interactions.
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Brad Feld
Stakeholders
Brad Feld explains why and how the board of directors is a formal construct that essentially provides governance for the company. Their duty, in a variety of formal and informal responsibilities, is to ultimately serve the best interest of the company. The CEO should create a transparency with the board that builds the board’s faith in the CEO as the person to run the company.
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Brad Feld
Product
Musk restated that he believes everyone should be a chief engineer. Engineers need to understand the system at a high level to understand when they are making a bad optimization. As an example, Musk noted that an order of magnitude more time has been spent reducing engine mass than reducing residual propellant, despite both being equally as important. https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-with-elon-musk/
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Elon Musk
Leadership
In this series, Rory O’Driscoll and Kate Mitchell, founding partners at Scale Venture Partners, will detail the mindset needed to scale your company. Along with some of their associates, they will explain how the scaling phase differs from the startup phase, what kind of metrics you’ll need as you accelerate and what kind of team you’ll need alongside you for the journey ahead.
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Scale Venture Partners,
Business Strategy and planning
Blue ocean strategy is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to open up a new market space and create new demand. It is about creating and capturing uncontested market space, thereby making the competition irrelevant. It is based on the view that market boundaries and industry structure are not a given and can be reconstructed by the actions and beliefs of industry players. https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-is-blue-ocean-strategy/
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University at Buffalo School of Management
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