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🌱 At the Seed Stage, you have completed initial product and market research. The data you collected has shown that there is a viable demand for your solution. You have more than just an idea - you have evidence that you can offer a real solution in the marketplace. 🪙 Now, it’s time to gain early financial support to turn your idea into a functioning business. This is where Seed Funding comes in. It is time to conduct experiments and market testing to make your product and operations more tangible. 🎧 Click the link below and put our Seed playlist on. Now, you can work on validating your initial value hypothesis with a working prototype with music that keeps you in that deep, productive flow you need to get it done. Seed Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3JCxyR7 #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #SSPVPlaylist #YourImpactVenture

🎬 “The Founder” opens in 1954 America with Ray Kroc racking up miles selling milkshake mixers. He has his pitch down cold, but the customers aren’t buying. One day, he stumbles upon a busy burger joint called McDonald's in San Bernardino, California. 🍔 He’s impressed by the turnout, but he’s more taken with the seamless efficiency of McDonald’s Speedee Service System. Everything is timed and noted down to bring the average waiting time of 30 minutes down to 30 seconds. They got the right formula that could be repeated, the exact amount of every ingredient predetermined, and the people working promptly to keep McDonald’s quality constant. 💡 Starting with Ray Kroc’s vision, McDonald's has become a global phenomenon, with the same menu, quality, and experience available worldwide. This concept of fast sharing of the same products—known to all as globalisation—has impacted many other industries, such as snacks, coffee, and fashion. 👉 This is a must-watch film not only for the story behind McDonald’s and McDonaldization, which has affected everyone’s life but also for the “behind the scenes” of a successful business, understanding the logic and sometimes brutality of the “game,” seeing the potential of ideas and taking the opportunity to fulfil them. You could actually change the world as you know it! #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #YourImpactVenture #TechieCinemaClub

📑 As a founder, you’ve probably been told to read up on cap tables. A cap table is the record of a company's equity-based transactions. It is really nothing more than a spreadsheet that includes ownership stakes, types of shares, and option pools. How hard can it be? As it turns out, it can be plenty hard (though it doesn’t have to be). 🤯 Cap tables can be tricky because your ownership structure will grow in complexity as your business gains traction. New investors come in, diluting the stakes of existing shareholders. You recruit employees, each with different starting dates, option grants, vesting schedules and exercise dates. Some will no doubt leave before they’re fully vested. Your cap table must keep track of all this in precise detail, along with materials like contact information and legal documents for all shareholders. ✍️ Yet, the mechanics of cap tables are only part of the equation. Your cap table is critically important for another reason: it tells a story about your company. It’s a story that you will keep referring to when you make decisions about new financings and new hires and perhaps someday when considering an exit. Perhaps more importantly, it’s a story that any potential investor will scrutinise for signs of your resourcefulness and judgment—and possible red flags. So, whatever type of episode your startup turns out to be, don’t forget to write down the credits. #SSPVCapital #YourImpactVenture #SSPVLexicon

🌱 Food has always played a crucial role in human society. Since the beginning of time, people have been growing, preparing, and eating food. Different communities throughout history have utilised diverse methods and strategies to guarantee food availability, reduce waste, and optimise their resources. 🥜 Although the foundational concept remains essentially unchanged, changing consumer preferences, technological advancements, and environmental concerns are driving a revolution in the food industry from production and distribution to consumption. Through our Studio pillar, we are aiming to pursue, nurture and develop novel and unconventional ideas in food- and agri-tech startups whose purpose is to tackle pressing local and global challenges such as: 👉 Food waste reduction 👉 Sustainability 👉 Food safety and quality 👉 Supply chain optimisation 👉 Cost management and efficiency Do you have a big foodtech idea? Let's build it together! #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #YourImpactVenture

🎯 Startup ideas often stem from a personal experience of a problem, also known as a "pain point," in a consumer, business, or academic setting. The entrepreneur or doctoral student then seeks to solve this problem, potentially utilizing technology. 📈 If the issue affects many people, it may have the potential for high growth, which is a startup's defining characteristic. Technology can also deliver the solution to a large group of people, even if it is not the solution itself. 🔗 For the past few months, as part of our #SSPVMASTER pillar, we have been affiliated with DIEM Doctoral Network to screen ideas from research groups and PhD initiatives and help convert knowledge into successful products and services for economic and social benefit. DIEM is a Horizon MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Doctoral Networks-approved project. It aims to bring together academic, government, and industry expertise to holistically investigate the managerial, economic and societal implications of Blockchain technology. To achieve its goals, DIEM sets out to facilitate an international network of interdisciplinary scholars, organizations, and institutions across sectors to support cutting-edge innovation in blockchain and other DLT applications. #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #YourImpactVenture #SSPVPartners

📉 Yet, current climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world's population is expected to grow another 30 per cent by the midcentury. So, how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? 📖 Through her interviews and adventures with farmers, scientists, activists, and engineers, Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. A truly interesting read whether you are interested in food tech or not. #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #YourImpactVenture

🙌 One of our favourite after-work meetups, Start Your Night UP, is heading to Thessaloniki! 🚀 As always, the event will bring together entrepreneurs, partners, and stakeholders from the domestic start-up and innovation community and include panel discussions—our founder, Giannis Mylopoulos, will participate in one of the panels—, innovation talks, and networking opportunities. 📍Start Your Night UP is supported by BlueBridge, a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway through the EEA Grants Greece 2014-2021, under the Business Innovation Greece program. It is curated by #SSPVCapital with Thessaloniki Innovation Zone, Marketing Club Greece, VentureFriends, AFI Microfinance , VentureGarden, EIT Manufacturing, WE LEAD, The People's Trust, Metavallon VC, CapsuleT Accelerator, Uni.Fund, Athens Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation | AUEB, AHEAD - Alba Hub for Entrepreneurship and Development, StartSmart South Eastern Europe, ΕΒΕΑ - ACCI | Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Found.ation, egg enter•grow•go and in collaboration with Envolve Entrepreneurship. If you want to connect with tech visionaries, join us! #VentureCapital #YourImpactVenture #GetEnvolved #SYNU #GRStartupScene

⛰️ The first step in creating a sales strategy for your startup is to choose the right sales channels. Many options are available, but the best approach will depend on your product, target market, and resources. 💡 In his new post for our #StartupInsights, IT industry veteran, founder, coach, and book author Dr. Jürgen Müller offers practical guidance in navigating the complexities of sales channel decisions and underscores the significance of trust-building, responsiveness, and quality resources in customer interactions, regardless of the chosen sales approach. Hit the link to read the first articles of the series: https://lnkd.in/ddrGNQA6 #SSPVCapital #UnBlock #YourImpactVenture #SSPVGuestBlogger

Human beings are wired for stories. And Startups too. Storytelling is not just a human trait, it's a powerful tool for your startup's success. The customers, employees, and investors you need to survive (let alone win) are busy, distracted human beings just like you; caught up in their responsibilities, ailments, grievances, wants, desires, obligations, and imagined victory narratives. To cut through all that noise, you need a well-honed machete, and the edge of that machete is a short story that will move people from where they are to where you need them to be. Last week our founder Giannis Mylopoulos hosted a masterclass at Walk _ AUTh Innovation Accelerator accelerator with guest speakers, George Mantzouranedes, Founder and Creative Director from noimagefound.eu, and Marianna Tanagia (she/her), Communications Director from DCN Global who spoke about the key components of a compelling narrative: 👉 Authenticity 👉 Emotion 👉 Consistency 👉 Relevance 👉 Engagement, and 👉 Differentiation Thanks to everyone who joined us! More to follow soon! #SSPVCapital #SundayVesting #YourImpactVenture #WalkAUTh #Innovation #Accelerator #AcceleratorProgram #WalkAccelerationCycle