£30M founder now building new tech business that is growing fast | Nick Telson

Guest: Nick Telson-Sillett from Trumpet

LinkedIn: /in/nick-telson/

Nick grew and then sold DesignMyNight for £30m and today is a serial investor and second time founder in a sales-tech SaaS called trumpet.

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- LinkedIn: /in/james-farnfield/

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00:00 - Start

01:05 - Nick introducing trumpet

02:15 - pitch deck versus trumpet

03:01 - trumpets viral loop

04:12 - how involved is Nick wiith Trumpet

05:26 - to travel or to startup post exit

05:57 - what keeps Nick up at night?

06:54 - Dealing with the magpie effect

07:59 - best route to founder startup or corporate

10:19 - investment with the biggest impact on thier space

11:20 - investment with the biggest impact on Nick

12:50 - what is Nicks biggest indulgence

13:25 - what does Nick do with his spare time

15:09 - Nicks view on social media for business

16:56 - could you have had the same success with trumpet without LInkedIn

17:39 - How LinkedIn has saved marketing budget for trumpet

18:15 - How to post on LinkedIn

19:17 - Should you go all in with your startup or side hustle it

23:46 - James talking about the 0.1pct founder

24:05 - Nicks views on networking

25:50 - young founders need to drop any ego

26:23 - understand what you want from networking

27:15 - power of linkedin for sales

28:05 - how to maintain healthy relationships as a founder

29:22 - what is and was nicks goals for his businesses

29:54 - James view on the importance of those your surround yourself with

30:43 - Nick view on keeping friend groups small

31:30 - what are nicks goals

33:29 - Nicks non-negotiables at work

34:52 - non negotiable for nick at home

35:48 - how would Nicks husband describe him

36:31 - technical vs mental attributes as a founder

38:35 - James view on mental strength as a founder

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