The Advisory Board with Megan Flamer & Alan Jones

Need help with your start up? Relax, The Advisory Board has got your back. How do you raise money? How can you hire more women? How do you hire well? Should you be able to code? How do you issue share…

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How do we reduce our startup's environmental impact?
Nick Gonios is leading a venture, Circulist to build a tomorrow where products are made to be used rather than thrown away. For this episode, hejoins Alan and Megan on how to reduce your business's carbon footprint. He is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience …
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How to find your 'people'
How do you find a community either online or in real life when you are starting something new or have moved to a new city? Sabrina Zeng is the Head of Ecosystems Fishburners, Australia's largest technology startup co-working space and she gives you some excellent tips on how to find like minded pe…
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How you can deal with big companies
Why are they so slow? Who is best to contact? Is it worth the time? The pitfalls and benefits of dealing with large companies with Richard Savoie of low carbon delivery compnay, Adiona. I’m the founder of a marketing startup – we help organisations make sense of their data. We have some B2C custo…
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How to sell to customers
The big question how do you get customers to pay for your service? Phil Hayes St Clair is serial entrepreneur who focuses on the science and art of selling. Dear Advisory Board, We’re a team of 3 with an education platform and we’ve been pretty good with our growth in our first year. I now think …
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How to break up & am I too old to run a start-up?
How do you part ways with a business partner and how old is too old to begin a start-up? 'My co-founder and I have built several companies together, but in the past year, it has become apparent we aren’t working well together on our latest venture. We’re short with each other, we’re frustrated and…
45:14
How to get on accelerator programs
How can you get your start-up onto an accelerator program? That and some advice on how to turn your digtial interests into a job. 'Dear Advisory Board, My founders and I have been applying for accelerator programs all over Australia and we have never gotten in – and we’ve applied to all of them! W…
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How to pitch
How do you best pitch your idea? It's something that everyone has to do at some point and Alan and Megan have some excellent tips for this: 'Dear Advisory Board, I’ve founded a startup and we’re building an app – and we’re getting some good attention in the space with our platform. We have a very …
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Do I need to be able to code?
If you are building something online, then surely coding is essential? That's not necessarily true, according to Lana Weal, founder ofMarket Mindfully
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How do I get more women to work for my start-up?
Start-ups skew male. It's a problem that's long plagued the space. Alan and Megan spell out how to hire and champion women in the start-up world. This week's letter is from Faulty Feminist: 'My startup has been growing pretty well over the last couple of years, but we are still a completely male te…
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How can I raise money, FAST?!
Tim Brewer is Co-Founder and CEO of Functionly and for the opening episode of the podcast, he helps answer the following letter. 'Dear Advisory Board, We just finished our first accelerator program! We’re still pretty early stage but we got some great feedback from our Demo Day pitch and several ne…
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