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EP 335 - Generative AI educator and author David Birss takes the business or bullshit quiz offering his insights on various topics. From client lunches to golden parachutes and tax systems, David shares his candid views and has a very strong message for all TikTokers!Chapters:00:00 Business or Bullshit with Dave Birss00:46 Silicon Roundabout and Client Lunches02:56 R&D Tax Credits and Fraud05:05 Dress for Success?07:33 Golden Parachutes and Employment Law12:30 Trickle Down Economics and Wealth Disparity15:56 Digital Nomads and Tax Avoidance18:02 Message for all TikTokers21:37 Wrap Upbusinesswithoutbullshit.meWatch us on YouTubeFollow us:InstagramTikTokLinkedinTwitterIf you'd like to be on the show, get in contact - mail@businesswithoutbullshit.meBWB is powered by Oury Clark

We're excited to announce our investment in Silicon Roundabout Ventures, a £5 million SuperAngel Deep Tech pre/seed fund by Francesco Perticarari.Backing Silicon Roundabout Ventures is a bet on Francesco. We've known Francesco for three years now and following his journey, unwavering hustle and community grow has been an inspiration. Francesco brings a strong technical background as a former CTO/Lead Software Engineer at deep tech startups and the University of London and has made 15 angel investments, 12 of which are within Deep Tech/Big Data and are progressing well.We love Francesco for his community-driven approach leveraging his community of 15,000+ founders and engineers, built through more than 600 deep tech meetup events held in London since 2011. As an example of the opportunity this community presents, the 26 pitch competition winners from 2016 - 2020 have a combined enterprise value of £6.3 billion. The ecosystem Francesco has built around himself and plugged the fund into clearly provides unique access for SRV.Francesco and the team at Silicon Roundabout Ventures invest in "Next-Generation technology startups" across five categories:Technical: Leveraging in-house science and engineering expertiseInfrastructural: Solving large-scale global problems at the infrastructure levelDefensible: Building fundamental hardware or low-level software with strong IPTrend-Setting: Disrupting industries with 1B+ revenue potential in 10+ yearsGlobal Impact: Addressing key challenges in Computing, Climate, Health, and DefenseWith this investment, we cement and announce to the world that we believe Silicon Roundabout Ventures is well-positioned to build one of Europe's new truly meaningful deep tech firms. If you'd like an intro to Francesco, don't hesitate to reach out

SummaryToday's guests is Francesco Petricarari of Silicon Roundabout Ventures who primarily invests in Deep Tech and Hard Tech. Francesco is an early stage deep tech VC who shares the importance of founding team, VC founder fit, having the right board member, and a lot more. Takeaways1.Founder-led funds provide advantages in terms of understanding the challenges faced by founders and offering relevant support.2. Deep tech encompasses companies that focus on technology development rather than just business growth.3. Evaluation of deep tech startups requires a focus on the team, their expertise, and their ability to build a sustainable business.4. The team slide in a pitch deck is crucial as it showcases the founders' strengths and their potential to execute their vision. The team and their unique qualifications are crucial in a startup pitch.5. Key slides in a pitch deck include the team, market opportunity, and technology.6. Deep tech and hardware startups are on the rise due to increased demand for security and climate solutions.7. Moving from prototype to mass production in hardware startups requires building the right supply chains and finding the right advisors.8. AI in deep tech should go beyond current systems and offer unique applications.Chapters00:00 Trailer‍01:50 Introduction‍05:00 What is Deep Tech and why is it exciting?‍09:00 How experienced founders help early stage founders in Deep Tech with investing‍12:50 Achieving the right VC-Founder Fit (Crucial insights for new founders)‍16:36 Why the era of Unicorns has ended‍20:50 The 40 Rule's importance and how VCs judge businesses‍24:20 Why VCs really like SAAS startups‍29:25  Why many companies fail after getting lots of VC money‍33:15 Strategies for building a sustainable business in Deep Tech‍38:22 What VCs look for in a Pitch Deck for Deep Tech Startups and How He Evaluate‍53:21 In-depth analysis of Deep Tech trends and insights‍58:50 Challenges that founders of hardware companies need to know about‍1:04:40 Strategies for generating innovative Deep Tech ideas‍1:08:40 Deep Tech and AI‍1:13:00 Ritual TimeConnect with Mudassir

Naksha Collections co-founder Nisha Ramisetty is in the quiz seat this week alongside antics-fuelled hosts Andy and Philippa. We say no more! Strap in and press play.Chapters:00:37 Business or Bullshit: The Quiz Begins01:27 The Art of Downplaying Capabilities01:55 The Power of Accelerators and Guerrilla Marketing02:14 The Importance of a Unique Selling Proposition02:41 Debate on Financial Reporting Standards03:10 The Reality of Working in Your Garden03:39 The Role of Corporate Videos and Business Cards04:10 The Controversy of Staff No Dating Policies05:39 The Dreaded Audits and Loving What You Do05:55 The Verdict on Silicon Roundabout and TikTok06:22 Quiz Wrap-up and FarewellBWB is powered by Oury Clarkbusinesswithoutbullshit.me

With me today is Charlie Delingpole, Founder and CEO of Comply Advantage - the world's leading data technology company transforming financial crime detection Comply Advantage has raised over 100M, has over 1.5k clients and is 440 people today. Charlie is also an active angel investor and recently a new dad. Hear more from him on: The early days of company building Running a lending company in a downturn/credit crisis When what you think is a tech business is really garden furniture The choice to use his own equity in a tough situation Tough decisions made at Silicon Roundabout Lessons from a serial founder That feeling of o something to nothing Best and worst part of being a founder  Failure is an orphan and it's done in silence  Survivorship bias and learnings from failure Relentless conviction  Let the market fund the platform, not investors Doing things right versus doing the right thing Why take VC money The right VC relationship Want what you build to diffuse in society Deliberate about choosing cofounder or capital partner The intellectual promiscuity of angel investing How angel investing affects him as an operator Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LINKS:Bonjoro's video funnel playbook - Over 30 proven video funnels to convert more customers and turn them into superfans of your businessBonjoro's new product for collecting, managing, and publishing customer testimonials GUEST BACKGROUND:Oli is the CMO at Bonjoro. He has worked in SaaS for the last 12 years, first in customer success and sales roles, including at media startup, Gorkana, who sold for £25m during his time there. Then as founder of his own cold-pressed juice venture based from London's Silicon Roundabout. He joined Bonjoro in 2016, and launched it from zero revenue into one of Australia's fastest growing startups, with over 50,000 customers using the tool today. Oli currently runs his marketing team based on a product-development framework called "sprints", and thinks that data analytics tools like Amplitude underpin most great marketing decisions. But his guiding ethos is that true growth only ever comes from more human contact, and credits 99% of Bonjoro's rapid growth to this belief. Want summaries, transcripts, show notes, and more? Subscribe to the Forward Launch Your SaaS newsletter Want summaries, show notes, and more? Subscribe to the Forward Launch Your SaaS newsletter

LINKS: Bonjoro's video funnel playbook - Over 30 proven video funnels to convert more customers and turn them into superfans of your business Bonjoro's new product for collecting, managing, and publishing customer testimonials  GUEST BACKGROUND: Oli is the CMO at Bonjoro. He has worked in SaaS for the last 12 years, first in customer success and sales roles, including at media startup, Gorkana, who sold for £25m during his time there. Then as founder of his own cold-pressed juice venture based from London's Silicon Roundabout.  He joined Bonjoro in 2016, and launched it from zero revenue into one of Australia's fastest growing startups, with over 50,000 customers using the tool today. Oli currently runs his marketing team based on a product-development framework called "sprints", and thinks that data analytics tools like Amplitude underpin most great marketing decisions. But his guiding ethos is that true growth only ever comes from more human contact, and credits 99% of Bonjoro's rapid growth to this belief.  Want summaries, transcripts, show notes, and more? Subscribe to the Forward Launch Your SaaS newsletter 

In this episode, Steve and Glenn are joined by Stefania Chaplin to talk about breaking down silos.BioStefania Chaplin's experience within Cybersecurity, DevSecOps and OSS governance means she's helped countless organisations understand and implement security throughout their SDLC. As a python developer at heart, Stefania is always optimising and improving efficiency wherever she goes by scripting & automating processes and creating integrations. Stefania is passionate about DevSecOps and cybersecurity, having spoken at many conferences including; RSA Conference, ADDO, OWASP, JavaZone, Women of Silicon Roundabout, Women in DevOps, DZone and many more. She is also an active member of OWASP DevSlop, hosting their technical shows.You can reach Stefania on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube with the handle @devstefops, or on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-chaplin.Useful linksDeming's 14 points:   https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/Your HostsSteve Giguere: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevegiguere/Glenn Wilson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennwilson/DevSecOps - London GatheringKeep in touch with our events associated with this podcast.https://dsolg.comhttps://www.meetup.com/DevSecOps-London-Gathering/https://twitter.com/DevSecOps_LGhttps://www.youtube.com/c/DevSecOpsLondonGathering

Eric van der Kleij - Visionary Tech Leader, Co-Founder EdenBase.com, Creator of Level39.co, Former Adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Technation.io. is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.Eric Van der Kleij is a visionary and pragmatic technology personality, entrepreneur and CEO of Co-founder of edenbase.com, a company focused on building the community leading the future. Eric is an expert in super growth strategies. He is also behind FrontierNetwork.com (formerly C4DR.com), an international hub focussed on Blockchain, Fintech & AI, having previously created and led the famous Fintech hub #Level39​ for the Canary Wharf Group between 2013 and 2016. He is Chairman of distributed ledger company Activeledger.io and quantum-safe security business Keybox.co. He also chairs the crypto-finance-conference.com in St Moritz, Switzerland. Across his extensive experience, Eric van der Kleij has been trying to support and bring growth to all the companies and projects he has been involved with.Eric van der Kleij Interview Focus1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education... 2. Your culture background? Culture diversity?3. Your company Adeptra was sold in August 2012 and listed NYSE FICO?4. You worked for the Department for International Trade where you led the strategy for and became first CEO of the UK Government's Tech City Investment Organisation (now Technation.io). This was tasked by the Prime Minister/No. 10 Downing Street with boosting investment, entrepreneurship and skills in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of East London. I would like to hear about this history?5. You created and ran Level39 to become one of Europe's most famous and largest hubs for Fintech, Cyber Security & Smart Cities technology companies. Can you tell us about that?6. This work together created the first and biggest hub of Unicorns in Europe. UK - London has generated more $B companies than other countries in the last years - adding five recently to its collection of close to 30. This was because of the success of #LondonTechCity​ and Level 39.7. Since then you created FrontierNetwork.com (formerly C4DR.com), an international hub focussed on Blockchain, Fintech & AI, the distributed ledger company Activeledger.io and quantum-safe security business Keybox.co. And now you are the CEO of Co-founder of edenbase.com building the community leading the future. Can you tell us about that?8. You are focusing on creating communities and super growth on Edenbase. Can you tell us about it?9. One of the things you are focusing is also on ESG Investing. Can you define how you see ESG and the way you are nurturing ESG with your new venture?10. How do you ESG with the challenges of ethics, social impact AI blockchain, 4IR?11. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?12. We are now facing 4IR and also the more human centric Society 5.0 - and all areas of digital transformation. What are your goals and how do you see the future of startups / business and the main trends in tech and society?13. You have a high achievement career. Can you tell us about some of your career highlights? And some tips for the startup and business leaders listening here?14. Last words of wisdom on edenbase.com and your goals with it?About Dinis Guarda profile and Channelshttps://www.openbusinesscouncil.orghttps://www.dinisguarda.com/https://www.intelligenthq.comhttps://www.hedgethink.com/https://www.citiesabc.com/

Francesco Perticarari is raising London’s first-ever VC fund dedicated to Deep Tech. He’s telling Dan and Nana about how startups can impress his investors and win big funds.

Many people will know Francesco Perticarari because he co-founded and hosts Silicon Roundabout, the biggest tech MeetUp in Europe. Francesco is now harnessing his massive community to raise a Deep Tech VC fund to invest in startups operating in the nascent fields of Virtual Reality, Cybersecurity, Quantum Tech and others. We ask him, how has the pandemic changed the VC game? And, what should startups do to grab his investors' attention?

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 episode we are pleased to welcome Joe Scarboro whose passions lie in building businesses, innovation, technology and mental health. After starting out as an accountant, he forged a place in the London tech community, starting a few companies and working at the intersection of startups and large companies, which is the main topic of our discussion in this episode. I first got to know Joe as one of the driving forces behind Silicon Drinkabout, a startup community that started around the so called Silicon Roundabout of Old Street in London, that then grew to 20 different countries, with hundreds of events that were attended by over 100,000 people. A few years later he launched Touchpaper - a not-for-profit, on a mission to make it much easier for startups and corporates to work together, through their excellent free toolkit and services. He is currently CFO at an AI company called AltViz as well advising various startups, and also working with Tech City UK, Code Club and the RaspberryPi Foundation. https://www.joescarboro.com/ https://www.touchpaper.org/ https://thebotplatform.com/ We had a really interesting conversation a few months ago now, in a great recording studio in Hoxton called Coda2Coda, where we talked about corporates and startups collaborating, and in particular exploring whether open innovation is. So I started out by asking how the Silicon Drinkabout startup community that he helped to build back in 2011? Enjoy. #corporates #startups #collaboration #community #innovation #openinnivation #london #shoreditch #silicondrinkabout #weareliminal #ontheedge https://www.joescarboro.com/ https://www.touchpaper.org/ https://thebotplatform.com/

Alice Bentinck MBE has helped catalyse over 75 start-up companies around the world via her incubator 'Entrepreneur First'. With investment from illustrious business leaders including Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, who is now also a board member, Entrepreneur First focuses on funding ambitious individuals across Europe and Asia - and started from the so-called Silicon Roundabout in London's Old Street. Alice now also runs Code First: Girls, an organisation dedicated to helping female university students of arts subjects learn skills to allow them to work in the technology sector. And it all started with raising goats.In this episode of Women Tech Charge, Alice talks to Anne Marie Imafidon about her journey in the tech industry - including what she did when her peers told her she was crazy.Join the conversation: use the hashtag #WomenTechChargeSubscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube for exclusive Women Tech Charge video clips as well as news, lifestyle and tech videoFind more tech news coverage at Standard.co.uk/techFollow Alice Bentinck on Twitter @Alicebentinck, Code First Girls @CodeFirstGirls and Entrepreneur First @join_efWant to join Entrepreneur First? Visit the website https://www.joinef.comTo find out more about Code First: Girls visit https://www.codefirstgirls.org.ukFollow Anne Marie Imafidon on Twitter @aimafidon, and instagram @notyouraverageAMIFollow the Evening Standard on Twitter @eveningstandard and Instagram @evening.standard, and join our Tech group on FacebookPlease subscribe, rate and review Women Tech Charge on Apple Podcasts, Acast, Spotify or wherever you listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Financial Times columnist Mrs Moneypenny and her editor interview the world's most successful people. Venturing to their subjects’ natural habitats from Davos to Silicon Roundabout, the duo ask irreverent questions about serious topics and offer humorous career and management advice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Matt Alder talks to Matt Buckland Head of Talent at Forward Partners.Tech recruitment is challenging and tech recruitment for start up companies is especially challenging. In this interview Matt and Matt discuss the approaches and techniques that are currently working in London’s Silicon Roundabout.  Other topics covered include why you can’t replace a recruiter with an algorithm, Schrodinger’s (stuffed) cat and how to get 25k retweets on Twitter. Subcribe to this podcast in iTunes

Andy McLoughlin has been a fixture of the Silicon Roundabout since the early days of Co-Founding Huddle in 2006

We're looking deeper into social media on this episode with Matthew Gardiner from Catch London. Sat on the roof of Google Campus in London we looked at the business side of social, communications and start-ups. 1. Google Campus, The Silicon Roundabout and the Eco-systems 2. Ukraine and Flood Hack 3. Collaborative Economy 4. Business modeling and communications strategy 5. Offline connection and inbound marketing Thanks to Matthew Gardiner Catch London: catchlondon.com | @CatchLondon @cafesoco | @rolandhulme | @dangoldmedia w. dangoldmedia.com Music by audionautix.com

Raj Ramanandi is the CEO of #1seed, Silicon Roundabout's only dedicated seed investors in early stage technology.

Albion Drive Founder & Director Bryce Keane drops by the studio to explain the London Technology Startup scene knows as the Silicon Roundabout, how he and his unshaven friends created the "3 Beards" and why their events (Silicon Drinkabout, Digital Sizzle, & Don't Pitch Me Bro) are now integral parts of the business landscape, and why London will no longer accept a secondary role in the global technology startup community.

As a resident of Hackney, Fi Glover has been fascinated by the way her home patch is being turned into one of the world's most important internet start up centres. Old Street Roundabout has been renamed Silicon Roundabout. In this series of One to One she talks to the men and women responsible for this boom. She wants to know more about this generation of tech gurus, as part of our economic future lies in their hands and in their dreams. In this final programme in her series she talks to Tom Allason, chief executive of Shutl, a courier business that's grown 50% month on month since it started two years ago. Tom explains that it's his past failures that have led to his present success. Fi begs an invite to his exit event. Producer: Lucy Lunt.

As a resident of Hackney, Fi Glover has been fascinated by the way her home patch is being turned into one of the world's most important internet start up centres. Old Street Roundabout has been renamed Silicon Roundabout. In this series of One to One Fi talks to the men and women responsible for this boom . She wants to know more about this generation of tech gurus, who they are and what inspires them. Part of our economic future lies in their hands and the products and services they're developing now, we may well be using daily in less than a decade. Makie Lab, founded by Alice Taylor, is a smart toy company. With 3D printing Alice believes that we'll soon be able to customise our own toys, making dolls in our own image or from our own imagination. Producer: Lucy Lunt.

In the new series of One to One, in which some of our most respected broadcasters follow their personal passions by talking to the people whose stories interest them most, Fi Glover meets some of the men and women who've founded new tech companies that are putting Silicon Roundabout in East London on the map. Living locally, Fi's been fascinated by the way this area of Hackney has rapidly become the third most important technical start up centre in the world.- after Silicon Valley and New York. As a magnet to some of the most enterprising and innovative internet companies, Old Street Roundabout has been renamed Silicon Roundabout. This generation of entrepreneurs are bringing back some old British business values: they're inventive, risk taking and barrier breaking. In the first programme she meets a veteran of Silicon Valley, Dan Crow . Now the chief technology officer at Songkick, he's had the expected triumphs and disasters in internet start-ups but feels this quiet revolution, that's happening now in Hackney, may have a real impact in changing the economic fortunes of Britain. He explains to Fi why this should make us cheerful: a survey from the Boston Consulting Group recently put the UK as the leader of the G20 nations in our internet economy - so we are top at something after all . Producer: Lucy Lunt.