Phase One

Thanks to everyone that came to our product foccused talk yesterday. build something customers want. Key takeaways 1. Meta is the best place to validate b2c 2. LinkedIn is the best place to validate B2C 3. Don't try and prove yourself right. You can always find something on the Internet that will confirm your thoughts. Try and prove yourself wrong. 4. Iterate over time, build conviction to commit the next resources. thanks to Stefan Sabev Rosie Webster Nick Marsh Ilai Szpiezak and Lev Perlman 🇬🇧

Build something customers want!!

Tomorrow’s panel event wouldn’t be possible without Ella Morris and the wonderful team at ZINC Zinc is an early-stage mission-driven investor investing in founders who create innovative solutions and build ambitious businesses that tackle the most pressing and complex challenges facing the health of people and the planet. They select and invest in exceptional founders who can have an outsized impact using cutting-edge science and technologies. Their next cohort kicks off in June 2024 and applications are now open. If you're an innovator, entrepreneur or academic looking to tackle significant challenges affecting the health of people or the planet and want to make 2024 the year you launch your mission-driven business, they would love to hear from you! Thanks again Ella!

Our 3rd and final speaker for Thursday’s Customer Discovery panel! Stefan Sabev is co-founder and CTO at Klu.ai - prototyping, evaluating, and optimising LLM-powered apps! Prior to that Stefan was Productboard’s Director of Product Management, building a customer-centric product management platform, and CTO at askporter - an AI messaging platform that optimises property & facilities management. Stefan is bringing a wealth of product and leadership experience, and we’re super excited to have him with us! Check the event out at lu.ma/phaseonezinc

Our 2nd speaker for our Customer Discovery Panel! Nick Marsh is Chief Product Officer at Wonderbly and has been closely involved in all aspects of their remarkable growth across technology, product and design from pre series-A to exit in 2021. Nick’s an entrepreneurial designer and product manager, who takes pride in blending creative and human-centred design methods, with a strong quantitative focus on iterative testing of features, products, and strategies. He’s bringing a ton of experience to this panel, and we’re stoked to have him with us! Check the event out at lu.ma/phaseonezinc

Introducing our first panelist for next week’s Customer Discovery Panel! Rosie Webster is ZINC’s Head of Product, an applied behavioural scientist, and lead User Experience Researcher, specialising in digital health, with both a PhD and MSc in health psychology. She’s bringing a wealth of experience applying scientific theory and evidence to the development of products designed to change health behaviour, and has a worked with many cross-functional product teams to create user-centred impactful digital products. We’re super excited to be partnering with both Rosie and the team at Zinc VC to host this event supporting founders to build something people want! Check it out at lu.ma/phaseonezinc

Introducing our first judge, Darren Murphy from Antler! With over 8 years of experience working with venture-backed tech startups, Darren is a Director at Antler, (a venture capital firm that supports motivated entrepreneurs from the beginning of their journey to success). Excited to have you with us!

Our first NEW community partner for Launch Weekend 🚀 We’re super excited to bring onboard Startups Magazine for our event in May - with a haul of magazine copies for everyone to take home 📖 Startups Magazine is a publication which champions tech startups - the entrepreneurial heroes disrupting industries and the creators’ challenging norms and breaking boundaries. In print and online, the Startups Magazine team works hard to deliver unique content to startups providing valuable insights from industry experts, advice on business fundamentals and most importantly - a platform to introduce tech startups to the world stage. Subscribers of the publication have access to so much! You can read gold-dust content from experts, receive upcoming issues, be the first to be invites to events and can have their own startup featured editorially! Alongside the magazine, the company also has a podcast called The Cereal Entrepreneur where they interview the most innovative startups of the moment! As well as talking about some startup lessons and failure fables with a sprinkling of inspirational advice from experts and startups themselves. Super excited to have them on board 🚀 Thanks Rachel Boswell for making it happen!

Our longest-standing partner at Phase One is back for another round 🚀 London Tech Network (LTN) brings people together from across the tech community in London. They are one of the most active tech communities in London with multiple events per month and almost 2,000 members! 🤯 We're part of their community and are excited to share this event with them! Take advantage of meeting some of the members at our upcoming Launch Weekend event, and expand your network while launching a startup! Thank you Andy Milton!

Build Something People Want. Simple right? Turns out no it isn’t… We're putting on a panel talk on the 25th of April to dig into the subject and hopefully tell you how to do it better. Supported by the amazing ZINC Then… networking drinks after. The perfect evening. Link in the comments.