Podcast appearances and mentions of Mike Butcher

Lee & Jamie welcome podcast favourite - Mike Butcher, as the boys chat about the trials and tribulations of Magic Weekend's gone by…including a preview of 2025

Recorded live at Fabula in Paris as part of our London & Partners VivaTech collaboration, we spoke to Mike about his thoughts on the French ecosystem, comparisons between London and Paris tech scenes and what Elon Musk is going to bring to the VivaTech stageBWB is powered by Oury Clarkbusinesswithoutbullshit.me

Mike Butcher is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by media outlets such as Wired magazine and The Daily Telegraph. He is a regular tech commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CNBC, and Aljazeera. He has advised the UK government on tech startup policy and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the technology industry. He co-founded The Europas Awards for European startups, the non-profits TechVets and Techfugees, and was a judge on hit TV series “The Apprentice UK”.

In this episode, we got the chance to sit down with the one and only Mike Butcher from TechCrunch. Having been with the publication since 2007, and a working journalist since the mid-90s, Mike has so many insights on the industry and tech journalism. He was kind enough to give us a first-hand look at how TechCrunch has developed from a pioneering blog into the online media icon it is today. As one of the most significant tech media, TechCrunch gets hundreds of pitches daily. Mike helped us understand his views on what makes a great story and extremely useful advice on what he is looking for in a pitch.

Are these the last days of Twitter? That's what a lot of people are suggesting online. But might Elon Musk purposefully be trying to rid Twitter of all the annoying libs in order to create an Elon utopia? Ever thought about that, annoying libs? To hear the episode in full head over to www.newconspiracist.com and join the Tier 4 Platinum circle today, or select 'Try Free' on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers get an extra episodes, where we'll be discussing new developments in the world of conspiracies, extended tangents and the exclusive opportunity to get in touch and tell us what we've got wrong. Plus, subscribe now to get all episodes of the show completely ad-free. Jolyon and James recently recorded this very special live edition of The New Conspiracist at Web Summit 2022, where they asked this very question. They were joined by two people very much in the know: Jasper Jackson from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Mike Butcher, Editor-at-large of Tech Crunch magazine. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following on from ICT Spring here are some more interviews I had the opportunity to undertake on a whole range of diverse conversations... ...From the metaverse to embedded finance, solopreneurs to the SnT department of the University of Luxembourg. My guests are Mike Butcher, Steve Whiting, Catherine Barba and Carlo Duprel. Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, and co-founder of ThePathfounder.com magazine and its editorial events. Mike has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by Wired and The Daily Telegraph. He co-founded The Europas Awards for European startups, the non-profits TechVets and Techfugees, the co-working network TechHub. He is a regular tech commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CNBC and Aljazeera and has been a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK and he's a “Maserati 100 innovator”. He has advised the UK government on tech startup policy and awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Steve Whiting, Head of Payments at Soldo, is a self-confessed payments geek, with more than thirty years' experience developing real-time transaction processing systems and growing payments companies to scale. Prior to joining Soldo in 2015, he played a key role in establishing Postilion for S1 Corporation as a global retail payments solution and taking Alaric to the point of acquisition by NCR. Having studied Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Steve's formative years were spent in the pioneering days of payments technology, writing code and implementing solutions at companies like Logica and American Express. Today, these early payment architectures and protocols form the bedrock of worldwide payments infrastructures. Steve believes payments is one of the most vital ingredients of a functional society and that by helping businesses in particular, Fintech companies like Soldo can be a powerful force for good. At Soldo, Steve is responsible for the technology that connects Soldo's spend management product to external payment providers and ecosystems, focussing on adding new strategic payment solutions to enable local and regional growth. Catherine Barba is a Tech entrepreneur, Digital pioneer and a retail & e-commerce industry Futurist Entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer, expert in digital transformation and Future of Work, Catherine Barba is one of the most active female business angels in France and committed to the promotion of diversity for years. After creating and selling several e-commerce companies, she's about to launch her 4th venture, an educational program for freelancers and solopreneurs. She was awarded with many distinctions among which that of “Femme en Or” in 2011, “Alumni of the Year” of ESCP in 2012, Women of economic influence in France in 2014, the "Inspiring Fifty" prize in 2015 and 2016, Knight of the French National Order of Merit and Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. Catherine Barba serves on the board of directors of Renault Group, Etam Group and the French American Chamber of Commerce. Catherine graduated from the ESCP Business School, ranked among the best business schools in Europe. Carlo Duprel holds a PhD in Physics, from RWTH Aachen (Germany). He comes most recently from Deloitte Luxembourg where he served as Director in the Advisory & Consulting Group. He held several functions from this position, such as leading the innovation initiative at Deloitte, the FinTech activity and managing the BOOST programme providing professional services to startups. Furthermore, he led the Policy team specialized on providing policy advice to European institutions, agencies and bodies, as well as the Luxembourg Government. Before joining Deloitte, he worked for more than 10 years for the National Research Fund in Luxembourg where he was responsible for Programme Development and International Relations. Carlo will head the TTO in SnT. As always please do get in touch. Let me know your thoughts on our topics. If you subscribe and review my podcast it will really help us to be found in the metaverse of audio chatshows!

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The 1970s saw the rise of rock and metal as a force in record and ticket sales. Right there at the birth of this was Black Sabbath, whose first album came from nowhere to smash into the top of the charts in Britain and around the world. “Black Sabbath in the 1970s” covers the career of the original foursome - Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward – from Polka Tulk, through Earth and their original nine years as Black Sabbath, when the band recorded such iconic albums as ‘Paranoid', ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' and ‘Masters of Reality'. This book includes new interview material from key figures including Rick Wakeman and engineers Mike Butcher and Robin Black, among others. It's is a comprehensive roundup of the band's music in the decade. All of the albums and singles from “The Rebel” until “Never Say Die” are examined in detail, along with related archive releases. Also included is a section covering Black Sabbath's tours in the era, looking at key live recordings from every tour. Overall, this is the most comprehensive account of the fortunes in the band during this crucial decade yet written.Chris also gives us his theory behind the story of the song “Black Sabbath” and who that “figure in black” really is, tells the story of the time Tony Iommi gave him a ride home and a whole lot more about Black Sabbath!Chris Sutton has been a fan of Black Sabbath since the early 70s. He manages and has written several publications for Smethwick Heritage Centre Museum. He's also written several plays. “Black Sabbath In the 1970s” is his second book on music for Sonicbond Publishing, following on from “Alice Cooper in the 1970s”. You can listen to our interview with Chris about that book in episode 13 of Booked on Rock (https://www.spreaker.com/user/discoveryeric/chris-sutton-alice-cooper-in-the-1970s) Chris also writes for Power Play magazine and has contributed to a documentary on Alice Cooper. He joins us from his home in Great Malvern, UK.BOOK DESCRIPTIONPurchase a copy of “Alice Cooper in the 1970s” through Amazon in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sabbath-70s-Chris-Sutton/dp/1789521718/refPurchase a copy of “Alice Cooper in the 1970s” through Burning Shed in the UK: https://burningshed.com/chris-sutton_black-sabbath-in-the-1970s_bookListen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hAHR7jwSzppFefXtZeJtT?si=2a7280bdc6ea428fThe Booked On Rock Website: https://www.bookedonrock.comFollow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcastTWITTER: https://twitter.com/bookedonrockCheck out audio of my Dad Jim Senich! Happy Birthday Dad! Love ya!: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jim+senichSupport Your Local Bookstore! Find your nearest independent bookstore here: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finderContact The Booked On Rock Podcast:thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.comThe Booked On Rock Music by Crowander: “Whoosh” & “Nasty”[ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/crowander]

Draconian pandemic lockdowns have decimated the restaurant industry, with over 3,000 closures, and East London, the surrounding towns and coastal venues are not immune. Yet there have been survivors, who have battled to stay open and will not get beaten. Ted Keenan, Daily Dispatch business correspondent, talks to three East London business owners – eatery business veteran, Mike Butcher, one of East London's top restaurant entrepreneurs Natasha Hogg, and Zinzi Rwicilia, who owns The Bistro, in Beacon Bay and has in two years built a successful business. We learn their secrets of keeping the food and drinks flowing. But what, in their opinion, must the government do over the festive season. And what would be the final nail for many owners who have not made a profit for 18 months. Their fortitude goes further than the kitchen, it applies to every sector. The advice applies to all businesses.

Draconian pandemic lockdowns have decimated the restaurant industry, with over 3,000 closures, and East London, the surrounding towns and coastal venues are not immune. Yet there have been survivors, who have battled to stay open and will not get beaten. Ted Keenan, Daily Dispatch business correspondent, talks to three East London business owners – eatery business veteran, Mike Butcher, one of East London's top restaurant entrepreneurs Natasha Hogg, and Zinzi Rwicilia, who owns The Bistro, in Beacon Bay and has in two years built a successful business. We learn their secrets of keeping the food and drinks flowing. But what, in their opinion, must the government do over the festive season. And what would be the final nail for many owners who have not made a profit for 18 months. Their fortitude goes further than the kitchen, it applies to every sector. The advice applies to all businesses.

Check Out episode 37 featuring the current ARC president Jack Bucknell. Listen in as we talk about the industry, ARC, Sioux Falls Dent Repair, are favorite porn stars and listen to Mike Butcher the name of Sioux Falls. Dentmatepro.comrealworldpdr.comdentmate.com.ausiouxfallsdentrepair.com

Will venture capitalists see the value in ethical investing? Can there be growth with ethics? This week we are joined by Mike Butcher the Editor-at-large of TechCrunch to share his expertise and knowledge about VC investment and if VCs can see the value in ethics.  Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, and co-founder of Pathfounder editorial events and reports series on ‘impact innovation’. Mike has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by Wired and The Daily Telegraph, among others. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov and many other tech leaders and celebrities. He co-founded The Europas Awards for European startups, the non-profits TechVets and Techfugees, the co-working network TechHub. He is a regular tech commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CNBC and Aljazeera and has been a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK and he’s a “Maserati 100 innovator”. He has advised previous UK governments on tech startup policy and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Twitter: @mikebutcher

Hello everyone! You are listening to #GrowGetters – the future skills podcast for smart women in business. Whether you’re climbing the ladder in your career, you’ve got a sweet side-hustle, or you are a female founder – we’ve got you covered!If you are tuning in for the first time, our podcast is dedicated to making sure all you brilliant ladies out there stay up-to-date and up-skilled with the Skills of the Future! The topics we cover are focused on helping you to future proof your businesses and careers.So, ladies, this is actually our final official episode of Season 2 and of the craziest year of all time, otherwise known as 2020!! We are so proud to say we have published over 50 episodes into the pod-sphere over the last 12 months!We have had the pleasure of interviewing some of the most influential and inspiring guests in the tech and business world, from almost every corner of the globe!And we have built an amazing community of women who all share a common goal - to make sure that they future-proof their careers through up-skilling, a love of learning, and embracing the NEW!But now ladies, we are taking a pause to not only research and plan for the next season of GrowGetters in 2021 but also to create something even more impactful for working women.In developing our podcast, we’ve realised that there really is a huge gap for women who want to stay ahead of the game, and continually learn the skills of the future - on their own terms.So we are taking this break to develop #GrowGetters into something more than just a podcast, but a platform and place that can help us achieve our big hairy ambition - which is to see more women rise up in their careers because we believe the more women in leadership and business there are, the better the world will be! So stay tuned as we take #GrowGetters to brand new heights!BUT fear not….the #GrowGetters podcast is not going anywhere! We will STILL be in your ears every week in 2021, with Season 3 kicking off on February 3!! As always, we will be covering all the latest future skills, tech trends, and business methods and models to help you GROW! And we will be chatting to some unbelievable experts in 2021 - many faces and names you will surely recognise and be inspired by!So guys, make sure you Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Follow us on Spotify, and KEEP LISTENING!! Do yourself a favour and check out Seasons 1 and 2 where we cover some hot topics like Design Thinking, Agile, AI, and more!!And don’t forget to keep following us on the ‘Gram, as we are not going anywhere that easily!! We will keep you posted and updated over our Season break with tips, advice, inspiration, and more!!So thank you again for listening to GrowGetters guys!! We’ve had an incredible first year and can’t wait to top it off with a BANGER of a Season 3 kicking off on February 3, 2021!So to round off what has been an incredible year of #GrowGetters - in this episode we take you through some of the BEST moments, advice, and the hands-on hacks that have had our listeners super inspired, and super educated, in 2020!!Plus…We want to hear from YOU, our listeners! We want to know WHAT and WHO you want to listen to, the topics you want to see covered, and the skills you want more education in.We’ve developed a listener survey that we’d ABSOLUTELY love for you to fill out. It will only take 5 mins - but will help us tremendously going forward into 2021. The link for the survey is here…

Hey guys! Welcome to #GrowGetters – the future skills podcast for smart women in business. Whether you’re crushing it in your career, you’re a super side-gigger or a fabulous female founder – we have got you covered!Today we are hosting our first exclusive FUTURE TREND episode and I couldn’t think of anyone better to kick off this initiative with than the one and only Mike Butcher.Mike is the Editor-at-large of TechCrunch, the world’s largest online tech newspaper that covers breaking news and the backstory on the enterprises, people, and products that are revolutionizing the world we live in. 20 million people read Techcrunch every month, so the paper covers major tech news from all corners of the globe.Mike has been named one of the most influential people in European technology by various newspapers and magazines. He founded The Europas Awards, the non-profit Techfugees, and has advised the UK government on tech startup policy. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for his services to technology in the UK and journalism.As well as being a long-time writer, broadcaster and editor, Mike is also the co-founder of TechHub.com, a successful project to give fast-moving startups an (office) space that aims to bring like-minded people together to help build a thriving tech community in major cities in Europe. To top that off, Mike’s also the co-founder of Coadec.com (the coalition of a digital economy) which is a lobbyist platform designed to help give tech startups and scale-ups a voice in UK politics; the nonprofit TechVets for UK military veterans, and if that wasn’t enough he’s also the co-founder of the UK event series ThePathfounder.com.Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and many others. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg.In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In 2010, 11, 12, 14, and again in 2015, he was in Wired UK’s Top 100 influencer list. He has been listed as one of the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter in the UK. In 2016 British GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK.There are so many accolades to note but you get the picture - Mike is just incredible! He is one of the most influential voices in tech worldwide. So if you’re looking to understand what makes the cut (tech news and media-wise) and what tech trends we need to be aware of for the future - then this masterclass is a must-listen!!Plus…You can follow Mike on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and via his website https://mikebutcher.me/.Also if you want some more sweet, sweet inspo, check out our Insta page, and please follow us at @growgetterspodcast !! :)And if you’re still hungry for more, our #GrowGetters GROWTH HACKS NEWSLETTER is designed to keep you up-skilled and up-to-date on all the latest tips, models, and trends - so sign up at www.growgetterspodcast.com/newsletterYour hosts are:Award-winning brand strategist and writer, Tanya Garma (@tanyagarma)Forbes-listed startup founder and entrepreneur, Tiffany Hart (@tiffanyclairehart)

Viesturs Sosars is the co-founder of TechHub Riga. The tech coworking and incubator was launched eight years ago and since then played a major role structuring the Latvian tech and startup ecosystem and connecting it with the international tech scene. Named after TechHub London, one of the UK pioneer in the early 2010's, which has been among the most important players who supported the rise of the Silicon Roundabout in London, TechHub Riga has not been proportionally less important for the Baltic country tech scene. TechHub London - which had been co-founded by Mike Butcher, from TechCrunch - announced the closure of the space, in august 2020, due to the Covid19 pandemic impact on their activities and revenues. TechHub Riga, though, incorporated as a non for profit organization, will though keep going and keep the franchise alive, along with their peers of TechHub Bucharest. "We have projects. If things goes right, we will move to a 9.000 m2 building historically owned by a university in Riga. We have the network and the international brand recognition", says Viesturs Sosars.

Sam Sethi talks with James Minter about the story of his club, Adam Street in London which not been told.James is as self-effacing as he is charming, recounting with warmth the role it played in the dotcom boom.“Adam Street was absolutely amazing,” he recalls. “It was a first, unique, and I met the most wonderful bunch of people there. No one has ever directly copied it.”Now sadly defunct, the venue off The Strand – with its bar, restaurant, library, gallery, and event space – became the go-to place for London’s tech entrepreneurs as they rallied after the bubble burst.Originally established as serviced offices by James after a career in the navy, Adam Street became a magnet for dotcom start-ups with few assets and little capital. The club itself opened in 2001 in an old watering hole for actors propping up the building.What would become the first entrepreneurs’ club in London was seeded when James noted the then itinerant nature of Julie Meyer’s First Tuesday networking club.“Back in those days it was still the case that if you went into a club you weren’t allowed to talk about business – it was not done and was meant to be a subtle under-the-radar thing,” he explains. “So I thought you have got all these people together, First Tuesday moving from venue to venue, why isn’t there a fixed place where entrepreneurs hang out?”These were the heady days of a gold rush.Nonetheless, like all roller-coaster rides, the dotcom era was marked as much by the founding as by the spectacular failure of new internet-based companies, with the Lastminute.com IPO in 2000 signalling the bursting of the bubble.“By the time we opened the club in 2001 it wasn’t such an auspicious time. It wasn’t really until 2003 that we got up to about 1,000 members, but by then a number of characters had helped gather together the bomb-burst and we had a whole layer of true entrepreneurs who came back together after the dotcom highs and lows to rebuild the tech community.”These included such characters as Michael Acton Smith, creator of Moshi Monsters; Mike Butcher of TechCrunch, who introduced James to the term “podcast”; and Richard Duvall, the man behind the first internet bank, Egg, and co-founder of peer-to-peer pioneer Zopa.The key to the club’s success was ambience shaped by an enthusiastic staff helping to select the right members in a niche that morphed from a shared workspace during the day into a nightclub for hothousing ideas at night.“There was no music during the day, but at about 5.30 we put on a little bit – and by 10.30 people were dancing on the tables. I also like to think that we introduced the espresso martini into the London cocktail scene!”Adam Street’s glory days lasted until 2008, but faded amid the global financial meltdown and the migration of tech entrepreneurs to Silicon Roundabout in East London. At that time James also had music on the mind, reopening Notting Hill’s famous Tabernacle.Although it played host to battalions of iconic digital pioneers, James believes Adam Street was not just about tech – but primarily about entrepreneurship and making connections, a skill he has taken to the digital leadership experts Hannington Tame.

In this week's episode of The Lowdown we are joined by Martha Lane Fox who was the co-founder of dot com success story, LastMinute.com. She can now be found in some of the biggest boardrooms including Twitter, Channel 4 and even a Baroness in the House of Lords. Alongside her is Mike Butcher MBE, Editor at Large of Techcrunch. Known for his straight talking style the episode doesn't disappoint.We talk about:An update on the Save Our Startups (SOS) CampaignWhat the government should be doing for startups nowIs data a bigger solution than a vaccine?How parliament is adapting to working remotely

This week Carlos is joined, remotely, by Dominic Hallas, Executive Director at The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), to discuss his work liaising between policymakers and the tech community, and the role Codec is playing in helping startups navigate these uncertain times. After entering local politics at a young age in Leeds, and running a project in Delhi for the Bloomberg Foundation, Dom took the helm at Coadec in 2018, an initiative founded exactly ten years ago by pillars of the tech ecosystem Jeff Lynn, founder of Seedrs and Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch. Right now the government has issued a series of different grant schemes to help businesses overcome Covid-19 related challenges, none of which apply to startups. In this session, Carlos and Dominic discuss the barriers preventing public administration from understanding the needs of the tech ecosystem, both in these specific challenging times and more broadly, and how Coadec’s new project ‘Save Our Startups’, is advocating for new grant schemes tailored to the needs of venture-backed businesses that do not fit the criteria for COVID-19 relief schemes currently provided by the government. Tune in to hear how you can support Coadec right now in advocating for coherent liquidity packages for tech startups and how founders voices can contribute to help Coadec bring specific issues facing the startup ecosystem to the government’s attention. Dominic Hallas - twitter.com/Dom_Hallas Coadec - www.coadec.com; https://twitter.com/Coadec Save Our Startups - www.saveourstartups.co.uk; https://twitter.com/saveourstartups Carlos Espinal - twitter.com/cee Seedcamp - https://seedcamp.com

TechHub was founded in 2010 by Elizabeth Varley and Mike Butcher, and is a growing community of thousands of tech entrepreneurs and a network of spaces for startups. TechHub has been a central part of the growth and development of the tech community and supported over 3000 businesses by building a platform of community, equity-free programming and ecosystem outreach to help their companies achieve faster growth.  We had the pleasure to talk to the Founder and CEO of TachHub, Elizabeth Varley. Enjoy the show!

This week, Peter Smallbone (@petersmallbone) is joined by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher), editor-at-large at TechCrunch (@TechCrunch). The pair discuss the Pentagon's $10bn cloud computing contract, WhatsApp suing NSO, a new Slack competitor, Twitter dumping paid-for political ads, the unintended consequences of Facebook allowing politicians to lie and of course the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event. 00:00 Intros 02:02 Microsoft's the JEDI master 07:02 NSOh-no 11:26 Slack overload? Take a Quill pill 15:44 Twitter won't take your money... if you're a politician 21:00 Zuck is hoist with his own petard 26:09 Ich bin ein Berliner! TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: https://smlb.in/2PFjF9U @speakingintech

So we’re finally here. Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ERG think it’ll pass the Commons anyway. The Remainiacs team gather to work out what we know, what we don’t know… and what we think will be put before Parliament on Saturday.Plus special guest Mike Butcher of TechForUK joins us to explain the digital tools he and his cross-platform team of wonks and ninjas have built to fight Brexit, and which ones will come into play at Saturday’s March in London. You can find them all at Brexit.tools. Presented by Ros Taylor with Alex Andreou and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Sophie Black. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters productionGet every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoanremainiacs.comGet your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jan Lynn-Matern, seed investor and Co-Founder and CEO of EmergeLab talks to Mike Butcher about what it takes to attract the interest (and funds) of investors. Jan founded Emerge Education in response to the lack of capital available for exceptional edtech entrepreneurs in Europe. Hosted at the Global Education and Skills Forum, this is a unique opportunity for thirty EdTech start-ups selected from a global search and early rounds of pitching, to learn the secrets of pursuasive pitching. #GESF @VarkeyFDN

What's in this episode? This week find out how you can win a job lot of nano seconds in a special listener giveaway, PLUS we throw back to TechCrunch, editor, Mike Butcher reviewing the Next Billion edtech prize nominees, and chat to Vikas Pota about new venture Tmrw Digital. Also, as a listener find out how you can pick up your complimentary ticket to GESF/Next Billion 2019.  People Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Mike Butcher, editor, TechCrunch @mikebutcher Vikas Pota, Group CEO, Tmrw Digital @vikaspota ‏ Show Notes and References   Checkout https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. (Once the elves are out of their Xmas shift)... Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.  

In this week's episode I was joined in the studio by current and former MOFA (Mid Ohio Filmmakers Association) board members, Mike Butcher and Brant Jones, to chat about the MOFA organization, the Three Weeks of Terror winners, movies, and more. Trust me, you don't want to miss it!

Damian Kimmelman Due Dil stands for Due Diligence. They aggregate data on private companies and have data on 100 million companies. The data they have is used within sales, marketing, credit, and compliance for the purposes of automating tasks and creating efficiency.  How did you find the gap in the market to come up with the idea? Damian had a rather unsavoury experience with his ex-business partner who falsified his accounts to get a loan from the bank. Damian hadn’t done his due diligence and nor did the bank. The banks had a lot of information but it was very fragmented, this meant that nobody understood who their counter party was, thus Due Dil was born to provide due diligence.  If someone is looking for a business partner, what sort of due diligence should someone do and what would you recommend? There’s nothing better than history, having worked a long time with someone. There’s tonnes of resources to really understand what a person has done in their past. It’s important to remember that the past does not equal the future, but you should always enabled with as much information on the counter parties as possible. What qualities do you actually look for form a Co-Founder? It’s important to remember that having a business partner is about synergy. The question you need to ask yourself is, do you better each other? Do you improve the work of one and another and do not resent each other for improving the work. Some people like to do better than others and take all the credit.  How was going about the journey getting funding? Damian had never gone out to get funding before. Right now the tech scene in London is pretty well developed, many businesses came before and are much bigger. Getting funding was about how different and how transformative you are as a company.  When Due Dil first went to market, a lot of people thought what they were doing was actually illegal and this actually worked in their favour because it got people talking about them.  Going to investors is about creating a strong value proposition and then how you plan on transforming the industry. How do you keep going despite people thinking what you’re doing is illegal? How did you put the naysayers to one side and focus on what you wanted to do? One of things he looks for is grit and perseverance. Perseverance trumps any other characteristics, this is an exceptional quality. It’s important to remember that at every single stage of your business you’re going to get naysayers.  You need to be mindful of the naysayers, but confident enough in the path you’re choosing. He wishes that he could have the confidence that he does not when he started in business because he would have avoided a lot of second guessing and making mistakes.  How much importance do you place on humility, and what are your triggers to step outside comfortable zone? The first pitch that Damian ever done, Mike Butcher from Tech Crunch told him that he needed to find someone else to do his pitching. Damian always suffered from confidence issues and used to second guess things. Part of having grit involves having humility. You’ve got to have an approach where short term your pessimistic and long term optimistic, but it’s also about having the drive and resourcefulness. You’ve got to look at obstacles as opportunities.  A study was done on perseverance by Harvard Business Review where they found people who had the greatest perseverance. They looked at survivors of the holocaust. The people who survived, had realism, humility, they were resourceful, had drive and a purpose.  One of the survivors who wanted to write a book on the psychology of being in prison camps actually turned his experience there into a game. What is your trigger to do something that is outside of your comfort zone? They are probably going to forget about it after a while and talk s*** about Apple. It really doesn’t matter. It’s a long road ahead and you’ve got many years to improve yourself. What were your biggest influencers to develop grit?  Everyone quantifies grit in a different way, it’s not natural to anyone, and it’s conditioned. It’s a product of failure and picking yourself back up again and dusting your shoulders to pursue a objective. If you constantly apply yourself to get there. At what point at time do you decide to quit, where’s the balance between grit and quitting? In order to do this correctly, you need to define what failure and success look line from the onset. This is important so you don’t lie to yourself when something is a success and failure. It’s about having a clear and thoughtful way to describe what success and failure looks like because for each person is going to be different. It’s not a fixed answer. A lot of people say success was just around the corner for a number of people and then they decided to quit. When you’re confident in your own perseverance it’s important to hit those goals, and then you can be quite objective about failure.  Failure is too often an emotional experience rather than part of the journey. Failure and success are not what you should be focused on. You should focus on constantly learning. The most successful companies don’t focus on failure and success because you’ll ultimately anti-fragile and you’ll break. If you’re constantly improving and learning, those are the most impressive businesses. When you look at businesses, how do you evaluate and define what a successful business is? There’s a number of ways of look at what makes a business successful. There’s the classical way, where you can look at their cogs and their top line figures.  Alternatively, you can look at companies like amazon where they’ve not turned a profit year on year and you start to think is that the only way to proceed. It really depends on what business you’re talking about and what their goals are.  Damian’s personal definition of a successful business is long term value creation for the stake holders.  What have you learnt throughout the journey that you would have done different to avoid some of the pitfalls you’ve come across? Define Success and Failure. If you don’t make failure part of the learning experience, you’ll create a lot of conflict and complexity which slows the business down.  Should you market an idea first and get market validation with thousands of subscribers or should you get an idea and pursue down the path of pitching to investors? Successful businesses have been created in either way. Bear in mind, can you deliver immediate value? Online there’s been 20 years of businesses and the business models are pretty known it would be foolish to not have an understanding of how you’re going to make money from the onset.  There’s plenty of books out there that can help. You can plan on acquiring new users, and turning them into customers through fremium models, that’s one method. You can also withhold charging for a while, but not having an understanding on how you’re going to make money is rather foolish. Even space X know how they’re going to make money one day and they are incredibly complex. Understand what value and to who the value would be the greatest?  That definition of success of failure and ideas change DueDil have pivoted and iterated, but Damian argues it would be a lot easier when you’re trying to test and issue before hand because it’s slightly different from a product market fit. Identify where you’re driving the most value, that’s where you should focus on. How do you find what’s of most value? It’s really based on qualitative data and talking to end users as well as understanding pain pints and making you’re extracting the right feedback.  End-users get pitched to all the time, how do you actually get them to speak to you so that they know you’re serious about adding value? There’s a few clever techniques, this one works really well. Damian’s trick is to go to linked in, go to past employees and ask them if they do paid consultancy and if you can have a 15 minute chat. It’s not a bait and switch because if they’re good you make you pay them. You can extract so much value from people just by asking the right questions and they have so much understanding because they’ve left the company. What about medium sized companies? At every size, there’s different techniques. The worry is using the wrong technique and assume you’re getting the right answers. Identify what the objective is and figure out how you’re going to get the answers. If you’re trying to do user research call up and email people. Why? Everybody loves being an expert. When you interview someone, they often thank you for interviewing them so be sure to ask as many questions as possible. Also, don’t worry about looking like an idiot. Give people a caveat that so many questions will sound stupid but you’re going to ask them anyway and you can laugh later about how stupid they are. How many people should you ask? 5 is the golden number, then test the hypothesis.  Due Dil hires smart people, what’s your criteria to hire someone smart? When you’re bootstrapping it can be a gamble hiring the wrong person. The first people you should hire shouldn’t be the smartest, they should be the hustlers, and these are generalists and people that are entrepreneurial. They should have an inquisitive nature and be very flexible. Then once you start heading in the right direction you can focus more on hiring people more suitable for a specific task.  How do you make others believe in what you believe? It’s important to understand what you have and what they are after. The more you understand what their aspirations are, the more you can understand what value to you is and what value to them is.  How do CEOs keep their ears on the ground to ensure their listening to the voices of their employees? One business he knows, the CEO would call up line managers and ask about their numbers and if they didn’t know their numbers, that could spill trouble, but that’s very operational. Alternative is having 121’s, and hallway chats. The bigger you get the harder communication becomes and that’s always the weakest link of a company.  Simon Sinek has some good points but they are not universal, for example. Elon Musk is probably shit to work with but he’s transformative, and so is Steve Jobs. However, those businesses are extremely fragile most of the time and it doesn’t work for 90% of leaders. Leaders need to focus on being empathetic.  What are your Top 5 takeaways for business owners? Define what success and failure Try and build a growth mentality and culture by organising meetings Proper definition and a value proposition People values vs company values Always understand what stage you’re hiring for. 

The attitude of the British mainstream press when covering technology companies is often one of 'risk and scepticism', says TechCrunch Editor at Large Mike Butcher. But what if instead of predicting failure or projecting concern journalists took a more positive view of technology entrepreneurship? Speaking to Seedcamp partner Carlos Espinal, Mike explains how TechCrunch’s policy is to ‘bat for the entrepreneur’, supporting and advocating for their success. He describes the process of taking this Silicon Valley-style approach to tech writing and injecting it into European journalism, including his early days as the ‘Arthur Dent of the tech writing world’ when such writing was almost exclusively focused on US companies. Mike is Editor at Large of TechCrunch, the biggest breaking news site about the world’s hottest tech companies. He founded the The Europas Conference & Awards, the charity Techfugees and has been an advisor on startups to the British Prime Minister and the Mayor of London. He is also a co-founder at TechHub. Tune in to hear more about how founders can best narrate and tell their story, the evolution of tech journalism in Europe, and some of the next big problems founders should concentrate their energies on. Show notes: Carlos Medium: sdca.mp/2entVR3 Seedcamp: www.seedcamp.com TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com Related bio links: Carlos: linkedin.com/in/carloseduardoespinal / twitter.com/cee Mike: linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher / twitter.com/mikebutcher

Mike Butcher

Today we have an enlightening conversation with the Editor at Large of TechCrunch which is the biggest breaking news sites about the hottest tech companies.    Mike has been named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. As well as being a long-time Writer, Broadcaster and Editor Mike is also co-founder of TechHub (@TechHub), a project to merge a thriving community with office space for fast-moving startups. Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.   Mike arned his B.A. degree in History and English Literature from Australian National University.

Interview with Hillel Fuld, CMO of Zula, blogger, networker and meat lover. In this amazing interview chock full of content you can start using today, Hillel leads us through some of his amazing adventures including interviewing Steve Wozniak and running with him to a safe room when missiles were heading towards Tel-Aviv. We also learn about the importance of self branding, networking, and how to do marketing the right way in 2015. Name: Hillel Fuld Position: CMO of http://zulaapp.com/ (Zula) Blog: http://technmarketing.com (Tech N’ Marketing) Personal Brand Site: https://about.me/hilzfuld (HilzFuld.com) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillelfuld (Hillel on LinkedIn) Twitter: https://twitter.com/HilzFuld (@hilzfuld) https://frumentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Hillel-Fuld.jpg ()     People, Companies & Books Mentioned In This Episode: http://zulaapp.com/ (Zula) http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/09/zulas-mobile-first-teamwork-tool-lets-you-spend-more-time-outside-of-the-inbox/ (TechCrunch Disrupt – Winning the Audience Choice Award) http://techcrunch.com/author/mike-butcher/ (Mike Butcher) http://www.jeffpulver.com/ (Jeff Pulver) https://www.microsoftventures.com/ (Microsoft Ventures) https://slack.com/ (Slack) https://ca.linkedin.com/in/butterfield (Stewart Butterfield) http://a16z.com/ (Andreessen Horowitz) – is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with $4.2 billion under management. https://meerkatapp.co (Meerkat) https://www.periscope.tv/ (Periscope) https://www.kby.org/ (Keren B’Yavneh) http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php (Bar Ilan University) http://www.writepoint.com/wpsite/ (Write Point) https://il.linkedin.com/in/paularstern (Paula Stern) http://www.comverse.com/ (Comverse) http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Foreign_exchange_market (Forex) https://www.linkedin.com/in/zivelul (Ziv Elul) http://timehop.com/ (Timehop) http://www.jems.co.il/pc/ (JEMS) http://techcrunch.com (TechCrunch) http://mashable.com (Mashable) http://aaronzakowski.com/ ( Aaron Zakowski) http://www.rackspace.com/ (RackSpace) https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts (Robert Scoble) http://guykawasaki.com/ (Guy Kawasaki ) http://glide.me (Glide) http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marc_Andreessen (Marc Andreessen) http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/07/a-twitter-interview-with-marc-andreessen-on-startups-wearables-and-his-next-offices/ (VentureBeat Article on the interview with Hillel and Marc) http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Steve_Wozniak (Steve Wozniak) http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marissa_Mayer (Marissa Mayer) http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mark_Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpstyles (Dennis Crowley Co-Founder/CEO of 4Square) Alyssa Milano, Actress Jeri Ryan from Star Trek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs (Steve Jobs) Send your CV’s to Hillel at hilzfuld@gmail.com http://technmarketing.com/tech/for-the-love-of-god-stop-asking-me-to-like-your-completely-irrelevant-facebook-page/ (For the Love of God, Stop Asking Me to Like your Completely Irrelevant Facebook Page) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredmorgenstern (Jared Morgenstern) Kol ha’omer davar beshem omro, mevi ge’ula le’olam. – First person that reads this and tweets to @frumentrepreneur the name of the Rav who said this will get a special shout out and link in a future episode! – UPDATE – Congrats to http://www.avizuber.com/ (Avi Zuber) who was the first one to get it right and post! https://www.kby.org/english/staff/?id=72 (Rav Avraham Rivlin) https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/ (Gary Vaynerchuk) http://amzn.to/1JOvPlG () http://amzn.to/1RdiJW3 () http://amzn.to/1KDrswB () Gary does have a 3rd book out, my mistake! It’s called “http://amzn.to/1RZLX5A (The Thank You Economy)“   https://frumentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/hillel-fulders.jpg () https://frumentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-greatest-level-of-charity-above.png ()  

Mike Butcher is the "Editor-At-Large" for TechCrunch writing about Startups, Venture Capital,  and Technology trends.

Panel discussion at the BCSEntrepreneurs Inaugural Netstorm: An Ecosystem Response on 'What’s the role of emerging technology clusters and how do you get involved?' Panel members include Jeremy Acklam, Director, Venture Innovators; Mike Butcher, Editor, Techcrunch; Elizabeth Varley, CEO, Techhub; and Reshma Sohoni, Partner, Seedcamp.

Europe’s Start-up Scene: An updateMike Butcher - UK & Europe Editor, TechCrunch