#147: Find Your North Star - Martin Schilling, Techstars

Our guest today is passionate about enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs to build high-growth businesses. He believes they are more important than ever to create innovation, jobs and to keep Europe competitive. And there is nothing more powerful for a new business than to find its North Star and ensure that everybody can recite it in their sleep. Martin Schilling is the Managing Director of Techstars Berlin. As an angel investor, startup builder and scale-up executive, Martin co-founded and scaled a number of successful companies over the past 15 years. Together with Thomas Klugkist, he recently published "The Builder's Guide to the Tech Galaxy!“ (https://buildersguide.org): a blueprint in which Martin and others reveal their most important learnings from scaling - among others - N26 to unicorn status in less than two years. Tune in to find out Why finding and defining your North Star is the most essential step to scaling Strategies to follow when the inevitable crisis hits What common mistakes founders make when scaling and when pitching to investors Enjoy the episode and support the podcast by sharing it and posting your review on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/dvyxVVtt 🙌🏼 🎬 This episode is brought to you by HeyViz, your rapid content creation studio in Berlin. 🎬 www.heyviz.com