Advice on Starting, Growing and Scaling Your Start-up

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Making Waves - We lift the lid on issues that matter to European Software Leaders

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8 episodes

5 days ago

Making Waves is the podcast series from Boardwave, the European software leaders networking community. In each episode we lift the lid on the issues that matter to European Software leaders. Jane Wakefield, spent 18 years covering technology for the BBC, and is now our host and expert interviewer. In each episode she talks to industry luminaries, CEOs and Founders about issues that make a difference to the way software executives build their businesses and shape the industry.

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Advice on Starting, Growing and Scaling Your Start-up

Making Waves - We lift the lid on issues that matter to European Software Leaders

29 minutes 10 seconds

2 years ago

Advice on Starting, Growing and Scaling Your Start-up

In this episode, we hear three software leaders' advice on how to get set up for success in the early days and how to scale once you have achieved “product-market fit”. We also get their thoughts on your first external investment round.

Felix Van de Maele is a Boardwave Nextwaver and CEO of Collibra, which he started at 23 from his bedroom in a university in Belgium. Today, he has built Collibra into one of the biggest success stories in European software, living in New York, building a global leader with $200m ARR and $5bn valuation from his current investors.

Hala Zeine was previously Chief Product Officer at Celonis in Germany, a similarly successful European-founded global business. Hala left to join Blackstone 18 months ago as an investor. (Blackstone are a Boardwave partner & sponsor). Her earlier career was spent in a series of ever more senior roles at SAP.

Jonathan Mckay is a Boardwave Committee Member & Patron, he also a serial Chair and Investor. Jonathan has worked at some of the most successful global software firms in his long career, spending time in both the UK and Silicon Valley. Today, he is one of Europe’s most successful early-stage investors.