The Founders Lounge

Neyts (Nejc) Zupan is a cofounder of Niteo - a decade-old SaaS studio building solutions for small businesses. Niteo started as an agency, but over time they started to focus only on their own products. They tested over 150 ideas, some were successful, some not so much. In this episode, we mostly talked about one particular project that ultimately failed after they spent almost 1.000.000 EUR on development and marketing. --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com [https://joinpmf.com] ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES: * The episode was recorded at Mp.si * ParetoSecurity.com * Niteo.co --- RECORDED: 19.6.2022 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/5KyeqL4S6fA [https://youtu.be/5KyeqL4S6fA] --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/) YouTube thumbnail: Filip Urek (filip.urek@gmail.com)

Paul Price is is a co-founder of Top Dog Studios and Top Dog Beach Club - and NFT project that sold out 8000 items when they launched, generating a total volume of around £1M and making it one of the top 25 projects on the OpenSea NFT marketplace at the time. In this episode, we talked about * Similarities and differences between a web3/NFT business and a web2/regular business * How NFT projects raise initial funding and how they continue generating revenue * What does it take to start and run an NFT “membership club” * Team structure and team members incentives in an NFT business * What ultimately makes the NFT project successful * The future of NFTs and potential business ideas in web3 --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com [https://joinpmf.com] ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES: * Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkp0rt [https://twitter.com/darkp0rt] * https://topdogbeachclub.com/ [https://topdogbeachclub.com/] --- RECORDED: 31.5.2022 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/KoIz58xt2ig [https://youtu.be/KoIz58xt2ig] --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/) YouTube thumbnail: Filip Urek (filip.urek@gmail.com)

Ben Williams is a former Royal Marines Commando, a published author with Penguin Business and a Co-founder of Loopin - a tool to support and empower employees. In this episode, we talked about * Ben’s beginnings from a dysfunctional family and drug addiction to becoming a Royal Marines Commando * Applying lessons from the army to business * What is “Commando Mindset” and how anyone can develop it * What is fear and how to cope with it * Management and leadership in big companies --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com [https://joinpmf.com] ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES: * Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ben_williams_cm [https://twitter.com/ben_williams_cm] * Loopin: https://letsloopin.com/ [https://letsloopin.com/] * Ben’s book: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Commando-Mindset-Motivation-Realize-Potential/dp/B083Y615MC/ [https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Commando-Mindset-Motivation-Realize-Potential/dp/B083Y615MC/] --- RECORDED: 31.5.2022 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Y-7bBXqbNO0 --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/) YouTube thumbnail: Filip Urek (filip.urek@gmail.com)

Jeremy Moser is the CEO of Userp, an SEO agency that he scaled from 0 to $1.000.000 in ARR (annual recurring revenue) in just one year. They’ve worked with brands like Freshworks, ActiveCampaign, Monday.com, Robinhood, etc. He also owns a SaaS business called Wordable and he occasionally writes for Entrepreneur magazine. In this episode, we talked about how to start an agency, how to increase an agency’s profitability, product business vs agency business, when to start focusing on SEO, and how to start doing SEO for your business with no special skills. --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com [https://joinpmf.com] ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES: * Jeremy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmoserr [https://twitter.com/jmoserr] * Userp: https://userp.io/ [https://userp.io/] * Wordable: https://wordable.io/ [https://wordable.io/] On-site SEO analysis tool: https://sitechecker.pro/ [https://sitechecker.pro/] --- RECORDED: 27.5.2022 VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFoundersLounge [https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFoundersLounge] --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/) YouTube thumbnail: Filip Urek (filip.urek@gmail.com)

Ash Phillips is the founder of Diffrnt, which is a startup accelerator that doesn’t take equity and connects a global community of founders. He’s also a startup advisor, a board member at Ecologi, an angel investor with Ada Ventures, and he wears a few other hats. In this episode we discussed Ash’s entrepreneurial journey, what are some of the most common mistakes that founders make, how to get superfans, how to build a community, how Ash got into angel investing, and how to stay productive and efficient. Ash also shares two business ideas for anyone to steal! --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com [https://joinpmf.com] ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES: * Follow Ash: https://twitter.com/asherphizzle [https://twitter.com/asherphizzle] * Ash on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvkaOXQFsgY9QsTTH1p-eWA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvkaOXQFsgY9QsTTH1p-eWA] * Dffrnt: https://dffrnt.so/ [https://dffrnt.so/] Ada Ventures: https://www.adaventures.com/ [https://www.adaventures.com/] --- RECORDED: 26.5.2022 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/DtA9rzhuBxE --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/) YouTube thumbnail: Filip Urek (filip.urek@gmail.com)