Today we are joined by Dr Dupe Burgess, founder and CEO of Bloomful, a platform that uses patient reported data to help clinicians deliver streamlined and personalised gynaecological care to women - and help women take ownership over their health. 

In this interview, Dupe shares her experience of joining incubator programmes, how she came up with the idea for Bloomful, and its evolution. She'll open up about her mistakes in hiring and fundraising  and what she’s learnt from going through those experiences. Dupes l all talk about being founder whilst also being a mother of 3 and shares here tips of balancing the two.

Here's a breakdown of what we talked about:

• Changing careers
• Joining the Antler programme
• Joining Forward Partners programme
• Forming the idea for Bloomful
• Hiring her first developer
• Using no code tools
• Fund raising and the tradeoffs to business
• Why founders should bootstrap
• Letting go of perfectionism
• Tips on balancing motherhood with building a business

Book recommendation: Simon Sinek's Start with Why

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/0241958229

Podcast recommendations: Episodes with Daniel Priestly (masterclasses)

1) https://youtu.be/u0o3IlsEQbI?si=s5aC5N8OiT2tbAPq

2) https://youtu.be/jOgqIbeLXkE?si=5Q96cNnMxQhP_SPm

Follow Dr Dupe Burgess on substack: https://dupeburgess.substack.com/

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