From the Binary Trenches to being a Founder




Everyone Funding Startups show

Summary: If you work in the startup space, not particularly as an entrepreneur, but amongst them, how can you utilize this knowledge in founding your own startup? How about, can you learn from their mistakes and failures? We were joined by Jay Gibb, who’s done exactly this. Worked with startups for many years and joined a super angel group, which he utilized when he jumped into founding CloudSponge. In his own words; “A journey of being in the binary trenches to being a founder”. We talked about the journey behind CloudSponge, what stages they have gone through and the process in general. Jay highlighted the importance of the team, the necessity of an advisory board and feedback in general. Promotional offer for our audience in Talks! Listen to the podcast in the player below. Here are some quotes from the episode: Turned out that I was one of the developers who was able to speak well with management and entrepreneurs.. I was able to first of all learn from their successes, but more importantly learn from their mistakes. And the fact that the process and the method of creating a startup is becoming more academic, it’s something that, people talk about it more and it’s a little bit less magic, so to speak