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saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #27, Anna Nadeina talks with James, CEO and co-founder of @GoSquared , a real-time analytics platform, and also currently building @EcoSend , an email marketing platform for climate-conscious businesses.Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

Selling units as a bundled package might not be the best approach. This episode focuses on CEO James Gill's strategic decision to unbundle GoSquared's products and create separate brands for each. This move aimed to simplify onboarding and better cater to different customer profiles, and the results have been significant. Join us to explore the strategic considerations, challenges, and benefits of unbundling products. James also shares practical advice for guiding your company towards growth and sustainability. Key Takeaways: [01:30] Case study with GoSquared [04:35] Challenges of bundling [07:50] Importance of product focus [17:45] Discover of differentiation  [23:20] Finding differentiation in a crowded market [29:45] Recommendations for unbundling and overcoming challenges About James Gill: James is the CEO of GoSquared and the mind behind EcoSend, a climate-conscious email marketing platform. With 18 years at GoSquared, he's an experienced leader in SaaS, design, and startups.  Links:  James Gill | LinkedIn 

James' Bio Hi everyone! I'm James Gill (@jamesjgill on Twitter). I started GoSquared in 2006 when at school (aged 15) with two friends, Geoff and JT. See a timeline of our 15 year history. Having spent over half my life running company, since before the term “SaaS” was common, I have many scars and war stories to share with anyone who wants to hear them. In some ways, we've built ~10 companies but kept our same core team and company all this time.

James Gill is the founder of GoSquared, a simple SaaS tool that helps small businesses grow through analytics, live chat, and marketing automation. During the second IO Live, Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder talks with James about remote work, productivity tools, no code, listening to customers, security, GDPR, and what's next for GoSquared.

James Gill is the founder of GoSquared, a simple SaaS tool that helps small businesses grow through analytics, live chat, and marketing automation. During the second IO Live, Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder talks with James about remote work, productivity tools, no code, listening to customers, security, GDPR, and what's next for GoSquared.

En este episodio discutimos sobre la importancia del análisis de datos en tiempo real en productos y servicios digitales (ya sea móvil o web) y por qué es útil, beneficios de tener data disponible y actualizada en tiempo real y por qué debe ser fácilmente accesible y auditable, las métricas más interesantes para evaluar adopción, herramientas de analítica de producto, protocolo y definición de esta estrategia de manera estructurada y complejidades técnicas que te puedes encontrar.Estos son los enlaces a los temas de los que hemos hablado:Una introducción a la analítica en tiempo real por GoSquared: https://www.gosquared.com/blog/an-introduction-to-real-time-analyticsWoopra: https://www.woopra.comAmplitude: https://amplitude.comLeanplum: https://www.leanplum.comMixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/es/Pendo: https://www.pendo.ioCrazy Egg: https://www.crazyegg.comPredictive Content: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Predictive+ContentProgressive Profiling: https://www.pardot.com/blog/how-do-i-set-up-progressive-profiling-using-conditional-fields/Home Select: https://www.homeselect.com/es/madridIntercom: https://www.intercom.comDrift: https://www.drift.comGoogle Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/Heap: https://heap.ioComercio electrónico mejorado: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/enhanced-ecommerce?hl=es-419El Palacio de Hierro: https://www.elpalaciodehierro.comRappi: https://www.rappi.comCornershop: https://cornershopapp.com/es/Gusto: https://gusto.comEl método Lean Startup: https://www.amazon.es/método-Lean-Startup-utilizando-innovación/dp/842340949XLos retos de la analítica en tiempo real por Sisense: https://www.sisense.com/glossary/real-time-analytics/Beneficios y ejemplos de tener data en tiempo real por Looker: https://looker.com/definitions/real-time-analyticsUna guía sobre analítica en tiempo real de Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/real-time-analytics¿Conoces la base de datos en tiempo real de Firebase? https://developers-latam.googleblog.com/2016/08/firebase-conoces-la-base-de-datos-en.htmlSíguenos en Twitter:Danny Prol: https://twitter.com/DannyProl/Claudio Cossio: https://twitter.com/ccossioEstamos en todas estas plataformas:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/saas-product-chat/id1435000409ListenNotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/saas-product-chat-daniel-prol-y-claudio-CABZRIjGVdP/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36KIhM0DM7nwRLuZ1fVQy3Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS8zN3N0Mzg2dg%3D%3D&hl=esBreaker: https://www.breaker.audio/saas-product-chatWeb: https://saasproductchat.com/

Saber vender es un proceso y la única forma de aprender es intentándolo. Las empresas de producto no suelen nacer con un equipo de ventas, pero todas las empresas venden, y si no venden, se mueren. Si tienes un producto superior y un sistema/equipo de ventas épico es una gran ventaja. Dedicamos este show a analizar estrategias para vender y cerrar leads en productos SaaS. Abordamos varios temas: cómo estructurar un equipo de ventas, cómo proyectar precio a futuro, cómo enfrentarse a la automatización de procesos de venta o cómo reflejar el valor que dices generar por medio de tu producto. Recuerda suscribirte al canal y dejarnos todos tus comentarios.Estos son los enlaces a los temas de los que hemos hablado:Ep. #9, Learning To Sell: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/road-to-growth/ep-9-learning-to-sell/La importancia del revenue operations con Krish Subramanian de Chargebee: https://thesaasrevolutionshow.simplecast.com/episodes/the-importance-of-revenue-operations-with-krish-subramanian-chargebeeVentas en SaaS con Matt Wensing (The Art of Product Podcast): https://artofproductpodcast.com/episode-122Build Your SaaS [13:17 - 21:08] - The sales call logic tree (https://saas.transistor.fm/episodes/whats-driving-you-now)Steli Efti (CEO de Close): https://www.linkedin.com/in/steliefti/Perfil de Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) en Quora. Es muy activo (3.314 respuestas hasta ahora). Acaba de superar las 55 millones de vistas en sus respuestas: https://www.quora.com/profile/Jason-M.-Lemkin/answers?sort=recencyHow to create an automated sales funnel (Russell Vaughan de GoSquared): https://www.gosquared.com/blog/create-an-automated-sales-funnelCurso de Ventas y Fidelización de Clientes (Platzi): https://platzi.com/cursos/ventas/How to Excel in SaaS Sales (blog de SaaStr): https://www.saastr.com/entry-level-saas-sales/Excel vs CRM. 5 momentos clave en los que debí pasarme de Excel a CRM (blog de SumaCRM): https://www.sumacrm.com/blog/excel-vs-crmUso de datos para mejorar el producto y los procesos de ventas con Guillaume Cabane (Drift), Steli Efti (Close) & Ilya (Datanyze) https://youtu.be/HcBS097JMNEG2: https://www.g2.comMadKudu: https://www.madkudu.comFront: https://frontapp.comPlataforma de mensajería al cliente - Intercom: https://www.intercom.com/es/Recopilación de recursos sobre automatización de ventas en Saas con Guillaume Cabane:Guillaume (Drift) en modo Rand Fishkin sobre automatización del Inbound: https://www.drift.com/blog/inbound-automation-whiteboard-lessons/Vídeo en las oficinas de Drift sobre reducir el "Cognitive Load": https://www.drift.com/blog/segment-growth-secrets/Escribir emails que la gente responda es todo un arte. Las 4 reglas de Guillaume para enviar emails fríos que conviertan y (Identificar intención, evaluar el encaje, elegir el canal más adecuado y personalizar el mensaje). La conclusión que saco: sé breve, directo y al punto: https://clearbit.com/blog/the-4-rules-for-sending-cold-email-that-converts-in-2018/Guillaume Cabane: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cabane/Automated Outbound Sales: https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-sales/automated-outbound-salesSíguenos en Twitter:Danny Prol: https://twitter.com/DannyProl/Claudio Cossio: https://twitter.com/ccossioEstamos en todas estas plataformas:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/saas-product-chat/id1435000409ListenNotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/saas-product-chat-daniel-prol-y-claudio-CABZRIjGVdP/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36KIhM0DM7nwRLuZ1fVQy3Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS8zN3N0Mzg2dg%3D%3D&hl=esBreaker: https://www.breaker.audio/saas-product-chatWeb: https://saasproductchat.com/

Un CRM tiene muchas funciones y hay que centrar bien sus características dentro de las necesidades de un proyecto tecnológico. El CRM ha dejado de ser una herramienta solo para marketing y ventas, también es muy fuerte para gente de producto. En este episodio del show analizamos el manifiesto liderado por el CEO de Segment, Peter Reinhardt, en el que entra en consideraciones concretas a tener en cuenta para apoyar este movimiento de empresas como Amplitude, Outreach o Pendo que creen en un entorno fuera de suites de CRMs como los grandes en Cloud (Microsoft Dynamics 365 o Salesforce) y los que son servicios "in house" (Oracle PeopleSoft o SAP CRM). También hablamos de qué significa la eliminación del "data monopoly" donde la información se encuentra descentralizada con una verdadera independencia de los datos y las capacidades de integración de los CRM On Demand que los hacen muy atractivos de usar.Estos son los enlaces a los temas de los que hemos hablado:CRM is not enough: https://segment.com/blog/crm-is-not-enough/CRM On Demand y OnPremise ¿son lo mismo?: https://www.sumacrm.com/soporte/crm-on-demand¿Qué papel juegan las integraciones en un producto SaaS como Drip? Fueron protagonistas de gran parte de su crecimiento. Construir una integración y ser capaz de hacer co-marketing con Segment, Zapier, Stripe, Shopify, etc. Rob Walling con UI Breakfast Podcast https://uibreakfast.com/144-product-integrations-with-rob-walling/¿En qué etapa de una empresa bootstrap 100% tiene uno que considerar un CRM? Episodio 427 de Startups For the Rest of Us (min. 23:52): https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-427-scaling-a-software-product-raising-prices-when-to-consider-crm-and-more-listener-questionsIntegraciones, apps y bots de Slack que usan para trabajar en GoSquared: https://www.gosquared.com/blog/slack-integrationsEpisodio 7 de Web Reactiva sobre Open Source CRM: https://www.danielprimo.io/blog/open-source-crm-gestiona-tus-clientes-con-software-libre-gratuitoIntegromat te permite traer datos del pasado como CRMs, Zapier te permite traer datos nuevos: https://www.integromat.com/en/Desarrolla integraciones con bots a través de la plataforma y la API de Hangouts Chat: https://developers-latam.googleblog.com/2018/03/desarrolla-integraciones-con-bots.html?m=1Síguenos en Twitter:Danny Prol: https://twitter.com/DannyProl/Claudio Cossio: https://twitter.com/ccossioEstamos en todas estas plataformas:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/saas-product-chat/id1435000409ListenNotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/saas-product-chat-daniel-prol-y-claudio-CABZRIjGVdP/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36KIhM0DM7nwRLuZ1fVQy3Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS8zN3N0Mzg2dg%3D%3D&hl=esBreaker: https://www.breaker.audio/saas-product-chatWeb: https://saasproductchat.com/

Mike McDerment is Co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the world’s number one cloud accounting software for self-employed professionals. Mike talks with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, about building and scaling a company, product development, and his free e-book called Breaking the Time Barrier. Mike built a simple tool to solve his accounting problem, and now 20 million people have used it. After building the first version,, Mike soon hired a software designer. They worked on the product for nine months, then added another co-founder and employees. The team valued the connection to their customers, always showing the product early in development. By understanding the market, the team knew what to build first. Bootstrapping the Company  - Raising capital is not success. A better strategy is to find customers and fund yourself - Over ten years, FreshBooks de-risked the market, product, team, and model.  - The first round of venture money was $30 million.  Obstacles and Things That Almost Killed FreshBooks - Check out Blog post: https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/7-ways-ive-almost-killed-freshbooks  - Listen to advisors, but trust yourself.  - Sometimes you move fast, but some areas you need to slow down, especially with product-market fit. Don’t Rush.  Breaking The Time Barrier - Breaking the Time Barrier, Mike’s book for his customers doing client services work explains how to price services.  - Focus on value-based billing instead of on the number of hours worked. Understand how big the problem is and how expensive it is.  - Nobody cares about tech. They care about the value they get from tech.  Product Development  - Better to focus on building benefits like time savings, revenue generation, or performance. Brings more value for your customer.  - Frame pricing on value. e.g., $50 a month will save 20 hrs, or for less than a cup a coffee, you can have this service.  What’s different for a company at scale?  - Culture - How does a company respond when challenged with something? - Customer-obsessed How do you maintain the freshness of a company? - Combo of direction and constraints for motivation.  - Creates a condition for taking chances. For More Information For more information on Mike McDerment or FreshBooks check out freshbooks.com.  If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy: Ep. 146 – GoSquared’s James Gill on Product Design, Listening to Customers & Making it Easy Ep. 114 – Canva’s Cameron Adams on Democratization of Design Ep. 113 – ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell on Growth, Pricing and SaaS Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play.   FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

James Gill is founder and CEO of GoSquared, a simple, live analytics platform for websites. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, spoke with James about product trends, design, getting close to the customer and growing a company outside the Valley. Based in London, James started GoSquared with friends, while still in school. They found success in building websites, but soon were asked how the sites were performing. Very few tools existed at the time, to answer these questions. Since then, GoSquared has created simple analytics software, on a subscription basis, for small businesses around the world. What trends are allowing you to build new things? - No code applications. - Real-time and live response.  - Everyone today wants to have an online presence or small businesses. - We always wanted to work with small businesses and integrate into similar products like Go Daddy, Wordpress, Shopify, etc - Make it as easy as possible.  How do you decide what you develop? - Everyone has a different process depending on what works for each company. Some use tons of Data. Data creates lots of confidence in decisions. - We use our insights and engage with our customers. E.g., Onboarding - Do a lot of user testing. Make it fun. We show the visitors to your website instantly. Gamification. How do you introduce new products and services? - Software is being adopted from bottom up, before senior management even knows about it.  - Solving problems wins. Trend in B to B software. See small business/startups as early adopters. - Use new tools for Corporates that don’t need IT support. Cheaper and faster.  Ability to get close to the customer. - GoSquared changed dynamics to get immediate feedback from customers.  - Test out ideas immediately. E.g., Landing pages and Payments - Zapier and Airtable. What was it like to build a tech company outside of the Valley? - We didn’t make a choice. Left school and stayed in London. Thirty-seven signals/BaseCamp inspired us.  - We build great products and tell our story and what we’ve been learning. We don’t spend much on Marketing. We share what we learn. Building trust. Sharing what we learned on our Blog.  https://www.gosquared.com/blog/ What’s Next? - Training for the London Marathon in April - Introducing Free Tier soon - More new product improvement to help customers grow. For More Information For more information on James Gill or GoSquared see gosquared.com, @GoSquared or @Jamesjgill on Twitter.  If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy:  Ep. 130 – Canopy Insight’s Victoria Gerstman on Culture’s Influence on Brands & Semiotics; Ep. 129 – Paul Jarrett of Bulu on New Trends in Collaborative Marketing; Ep. 122 – Jeff Rohrs, Yext CEO and Author of Audience: Marketing in the age of subscribers, fans and followers; Ep. 114 – Canva’s Cameron Adams on Democratization of Design; and Ep. 113 – ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell on Growth, Pricing and SaaS Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play.   FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

James Gill is founder and CEO of GoSquared, a simple, live analytics platform for websites. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, spoke with James about product trends, design, getting close to the customer and growing a company outside the Valley. Based in London, James started GoSquared with friends, while still in school. They found success in building websites, but soon were asked how the sites were performing. Very few tools existed at the time, to answer these questions. Since then, GoSquared has created simple analytics software, on a subscription basis, for small businesses around the world. What trends are allowing you to build new things? - No code applications. - Real-time and live response.  - Everyone today wants to have an online presence or small businesses. - We always wanted to work with small businesses and integrate into similar products like Go Daddy, Wordpress, Shopify, etc - Make it as easy as possible.  How do you decide what you develop? - Everyone has a different process depending on what works for each company. Some use tons of Data. Data creates lots of confidence in decisions. - We use our insights and engage with our customers. E.g., Onboarding - Do a lot of user testing. Make it fun. We show the visitors to your website instantly. Gamification. How do you introduce new products and services? - Software is being adopted from bottom up, before senior management even knows about it.  - Solving problems wins. Trend in B to B software. See small business/startups as early adopters. - Use new tools for Corporates that don’t need IT support. Cheaper and faster.  Ability to get close to the customer. - GoSquared changed dynamics to get immediate feedback from customers.  - Test out ideas immediately. E.g., Landing pages and Payments - Zapier and Airtable. What was it like to build a tech company outside of the Valley? - We didn’t make a choice. Left school and stayed in London. Thirty-seven signals/BaseCamp inspired us.  - We build great products and tell our story and what we’ve been learning. We don’t spend much on Marketing. We share what we learn. Building trust. Sharing what we learned on our Blog.  https://www.gosquared.com/blog/ What’s Next? - Training for the London Marathon in April - Introducing Free Tier soon - More new product improvement to help customers grow. For More Information For more information on James Gill or GoSquared see gosquared.com, @GoSquared or @Jamesjgill on Twitter.  If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy:  Ep. 130 – Canopy Insight’s Victoria Gerstman on Culture’s Influence on Brands & Semiotics; Ep. 129 – Paul Jarrett of Bulu on New Trends in Collaborative Marketing; Ep. 122 – Jeff Rohrs, Yext CEO and Author of Audience: Marketing in the age of subscribers, fans and followers; Ep. 114 – Canva’s Cameron Adams on Democratization of Design; and Ep. 113 – ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell on Growth, Pricing and SaaS Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play.   FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

En este episodio platicamos sobre marketplaces, integraciones y alianzas dentro de un ecosistema de software: el proceso de implementación de las aplicaciones dentro de un marketplace, qué beneficios ofrecen los programas verificados de partners, cómo funcionan las integraciones con productos saas como Algolia o Atlassian y cuál es el trabajo de los desarrolladores evangelistas o advocates. Te recomendamos: Cómo crecer un programa de relaciones con desarrolladores (Heavybit): https://www.heavybit.com/library/blog/growing-a-developer-relations-program/ Serie de vídeos de DevGuild con temáticas enfocadas a enterprise: mejores prácticas para hacer deploy, el core de las funciones de enterprise necesarias para cubrir las necesidades de estos perfiles, alta disponibilidad y soporte de calidad, reporting y analítica: https://www.heavybit.com/devguild/enterprise-ready-products/ Una lista curada de librerías, recursos y proyectos relacionados con Algolia: https://github.com/algolia/awesome-algolia Te gusta compartir tu conocimiento técnico en un blog? Bitbucket está llamando a todos los interesados a ser evangelistas y, de paso, construir marca personal. Rellenas formulario con tópico, pasas filtro de editores, escribes, te lo publican y promocionan: bitbucket.org/product/write Las integraciones, apps, y bots que usa el equipo de GoSquared: https://www.gosquared.com/blog/slack-integrations Si te interesa el mundo de las relaciones con desarrolladores, consulta: https://devrel.net Productos mencionados: GitHub Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace Directorio de Aplicaciones de Slack: https://slack.com/intl/es-es/apps Atlassian Marketplace donde encontrarás miles de aplicaciones que te ayudarán a personalizar y ampliar tus productos de Atlassian: https://es.atlassian.com Magento Marketplace: https://marketplace.magento.com Programa de Partners de Shopify: https://www.shopify.es/partners Hubot: https://hubot.github.com

Episode 46 of the Support Breakfast podcast, with Lisa Hunt (Geckoboard), Dave Chapman (Buffer), Sarah Ley-Hamilton (Timely), Conor Pendergrast (Expensify)and Sarah Chambers (Supported Content). This week we were joined by James from GoSquared to chat about "all hands" support, why it's important and how to make it work.

James Gill is the co-founder and CEO of GoSquared, an all-in-one platform for SaaS businesses. GoSquared combines analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation in one seamless platform. The Show Notes GoSquared Digg Slack Panic Bump the Lamp: The Reason for Caring James Taylor Geoff Wagstaff James on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

James Gill is the co-founder and CEO of GoSquared, an all-in-one platform for SaaS businesses. GoSquared combines analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation in one seamless platform.The Show NotesGoSquaredDiggSlackPanicBump the Lamp: The Reason for CaringJames TaylorGeoff WagstaffJames on TwitterOmer on TwitterEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

This week I chat with James Gill, Founder of GoSquared, which offers real-time web analytics, among other things. http://founderchats.com

In episode 2, it's day 1 of Minimum Ideas's 5 day start-up week. This episode, we go into detail about the idea the team are working on - called Missinglettr. We'll explore the background of the idea, how it's changed into what it is today. We'll also take a look at the tools the team is using during their week. Here are some links to the different services and products mentioned: AWS - Servers - http://aws.amazon.com/ Google Analytics - http://www.google.com/analytics/ Intercom - User management - https://www.intercom.io/ Stripe - payment processing - https://stripe.com/ Mixpanel - analytics and user management - https://mixpanel.com/ Gosquared - analytics - https://www.gosquared.com/ Hootsuite - social media management & scheduling - https://hootsuite.com/ Buffer - social media management & scheduling - https://buffer.com/

A very exciting day on the 11th episode of The Twenty Minute VC as we welcome our 1st London based guest on the show, Thomas Jones. Thomas is Founder and Partner at Charlotte Street Capital, who invest up to £200,000 in early stage UK technology companies. Their impressive portfolio includes the likes of Chilango, GoSquared and SeedCamp, just to name a few. Prior to Charlotte Street Capital, Thomas was Founder and Executive Director of SMARTS Group International, offering a real time market surveillance platform, now used in dozens of stock exchanges around the world. Items Mentioned in todays show: Crowdcube Seedcamp Kidslox In today's session you will learn: How Thomas made his entry into the world of Venture Capital? When investing in a startup, do you have a mental timeline of the startup's journey in your head with a clear strategy of when a desired exit will occur? When it comes to investing, what really gets Thomas excited about the potential of a company? What Thomas believes the main differences to be between VCs in Europe compared to the USA? With the evolution of funding methods, how does Thomas see the 'crowd' becoming more involved in the future of early stage funding? What advice Thomas would give to a graduate looking to make their entry into the industry? We finish today's episode with a quick fire round, where we hear Thomas' immediate thoughts on the future of disruption and the all time best business book! For all the resources mentioned in today's show head over to www.thetwentyminutevc.com where you can sign up for you free 7 DAY BUSINESS PLAN COURSE We would love to hear from you, so if you have a VC you would like to hear from, send us an email: harry@thetwentyminutevc.com and we will see what we can do!

James Gill is the 23 year old CEO of GoSquared