Entrepreneurial Backpack Series
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Episode 2: Flavio Rump - the Art of Sales & Marketing for startups
FLAVIO RUMP
Flavio co-founded DeinDeal and has spent several years in Silicon Valley as co-founder, early employee, and consultant for various tech startups.
Flavio holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich and Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from ETH, UZH and UniBas.
Timestamps
4:00 - The true difference between marketing and sales
5:15 - The first DeinDeal customer
9:05 - Google search and Facebook as sales channel
13:23 - Mixing data with intuition
20:41 - Customer development
Former episodes from the Entrepreneurial Backpack Series
Episode 1: The Art of the Start
During their chat with the moderator Silvan Krähenbühl from Swisspreneurs, Philippe and Paulina discussed some of the commons topics of starting your first company, like which values to cultivate in your founder team and how to set up a shareholders agreement that foresees all future possibilities, whether to go for grants or equity rounds as a science-heavy startup, and the guiding principles of building an MVP.
Timestamps
7:40 - High energy, high loyalty and high intelligence
13:46 - When a co-founder leaves
19:57 - The point of an MVP
32:08 - Grants or equity?
39:05 - Plans for future expansion