Launching a Startup: From Idea to First Hire - Carmine Paolino

We talked about: Carmine’s background Carmine’s startup FreshFlow Doing user research Design thinking Entrepreneur first Finding co-founders: the “expertise edges” framework The structure of the EF program Coming up with the idea How important is going through a startup accelerator? Finding your first client Finding investors Consequences of having a bad investor Splitting responsibilities between co-founders Hiring The importance of delegating Making work attractive to hires Plans for the future Just-in-time supply chain What would you have done differently? Advice for people starting a startup Don’t focus on skills only Getting motivation Am I ready for a startup? Importance of a business school Advice on finding a co-founder Do I need EF if I already have an idea? Having a prototype before the pitch Books: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick Design Thinking by Robert Curedale Links: FreshFlow: https://freshflow.ai/ Carmine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carminepaolino Carmine's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paolino Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html