The Family

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Mathieu, co-founder & CPO at Openclassrooms, is interviewed by Emilie Maret, ex-Fellowship at The Family. This time, the conversation wasn't really about one specific topic. They talked about his company's story, culture, the way he sees education, their business model and how he, personally, keeps continuously learning. Sparkles of experience & wisdom EVERYWHERE.

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Mathieu Nebra is a local legend in France. He built "Le Site du Zéro" in 1999, online coding lessons for anyone willing to learn. He was one of the first people democratizing education online in France. Since then, it became OpenClassrooms, a fully-online educational platform helping anyone learn new skills & even get a diploma. After raising a $60M Series B last year, they are now focused on helping people getting jobs out of learning online.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium

When you’re starting out, no one knows you, yet you have to convince your customers, employees, investors to believe in you.

Everyone’s expecting you to step up, or fail!

So how do you build trust?

Meet an entrepreneur who's cracked this problem in one of the toughest industry to start with: Health.

Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare.

In this talk, she shares the story and the mindset it required her to grow her startup from 0 to +4,000 patients per month across 25 countries.

The secret to their early success?  Customer CARE. It's that simple.  From day 1, her approach was to move slow to move fast! When you’re small, you can afford to be true to your mission every step of the way. Qunomedical limited their offer to ensure they were providing the highest quality possible.

Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare. After earning her MD degree from Medical University of Vienna, Sophie gained first-hand experience in treating patients as a doctor in Australia and provided access to healthcare whilst working at an NGO in Cambodia. Prior to founding Junomedical in 2015, Sophie worked at digital health startup Zocdoc in New York, and for McKinsey & Company in Berlin.

When you’re starting out, no one knows you, yet you have to convince your customers, employees, investors to believe in you. 

Everyone’s expecting you to step up, or fail!   

So how do you build trust?   

 Meet an entrepreneur who's cracked this problem in one of the toughest industry to start with: Health.   

Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare.  

In this talk, she shares the story and the mindset it required her to grow her startup from 0 to +4,000 patients per month across 25 countries.   

The secret to their early success?  Customer CARE. It's that simple.  From day 1, her approach was to move slow to move fast! When you’re small, you can afford to be true to your mission every step of the way. Qunomedical limited their offer to ensure they were providing the highest quality possible.  

Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare. After earning her MD degree from Medical University of Vienna, Sophie gained first-hand experience in treating patients as a doctor in Australia and provided access to healthcare whilst working at an NGO in Cambodia. Prior to founding Junomedical in 2015, Sophie worked at digital health startup Zocdoc in New York, and for McKinsey & Company in Berlin.

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Going from 0 to 1 isn’t an achievement on its own, but nailing it from the beginning is necessary for greatness. Starting a company can take various forms and diametrically opposed directions. What are the first steps you should have in mind when you start? What are the right reflexes in terms of mindset and decisions to adopt from day 1 in order to maximize your chances of success? 

You may have heard of booming startups such as Algolia, Payfit, Heetch or Agricool - well, Oussama has known them from their very first days. He also saw a lot of failures and tells us more about the key things he noticed that can be game changers at the very beginning of a startup.

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Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based).

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Our events: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium

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As a founder, everything you do should be informed by your "why", the mission you're set out to do. ✨ This helps you keep a clear strategy throughout, which in turn impacts how you define your KPIs and enact your culture. In this talk, Tao highlights important principles they followed at GYG which helped them keep an eye on the larger picture while executing for hyper-scale. 👊🏽  GetYourGuide is world's largest online platform for booking travel activities. 🎆 The founders got the idea when they were in university, spending the first years semi-bootstrapping and doing everything themselves. Today it's 15M monthly active users and $170 in total funding.

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In this episode, Mathilde Collin, CEO at Front is being interviewed by Erika Batista, Director at The Family. They talked about a lot of different things: her journey as an entrepreneur, the way she structures and scales her team, and the value of discipline in entrepreneurship. Mathilde is really good went it comes to culture, management, rituals etc... She produces amazing content, especially articles, unveiling the secrets behind Front's success. 

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 Front helps teams bring all their communication channels (email, live chat, social media, SMS, voice & many other business apps like Salesforce & JIRA) into a single collaborative platform to manage all their conversations.  Wanna automate your workflow to act quicker? Wanna get a better view of every interaction to make better decisions? With Front, emailing has never been this smooth ⛵ 

They raised a $66M-Series B last year and are growing strongly without hurting their culture or organizational efficiency. Just look at their Glassdoor, their numbers speak for themselves.  

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As we've been moving away from old economic realities into the digital age, new solutions for broad-based social security are needed more than ever. It's time to redesign a social safety net which can provide security without getting in the way of progress - and yes, the tech community has a role to play in this shift!

Our Co-founder Nicolas Colin wrote about it in his book Hedge: a Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age.

Several months ago he joined us in Berlin for an exhilarating discussion around his findings together with Sandro Gianella, Head of European Public Policy at Stripe.

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Check out the video of the talk here: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age w/ Nicolas Colin, Co-Founder at The Family & Sandro Gianella, Public Policy at Stripe

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Toxicity is everywhere, and your capacity to avoid it during the first two years of a startup matters a lot. When you don't focus early on on the things that actually provide value to your company like talking to your customers and building your product, you lose time. This loss and the lack of intensity associated with it can kill your dynamics and jeopardise your chances of success. Focus on the right stuff & choose wisely your investors.

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Fred is a rockstar in the VC industry and a Partner at Stride.VC. He has been a board member for companies including Dailymotion, Deliveroo and PriceMinister.  He’s led many rounds and observed startups from early stages to global expansion. He gives us his unique take on how to survive the critical first 24 months as a startup.

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Check out the video of the talk here: Surviving your first 24 months as a startup 🗝️ Fred Destin, Partner at Stride.VC

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We also write amazing articles: Medium

Sujay Tyle is the CEO of Frontier Car Group, one of the most underrated Berlin startups, and a hell of a founder (fun fact: he went to Harvard at 15 years old)! 😎  And he's moving fast. Actually, if you are used to Berlin bureaucracy speed, this might come as a shock: Frontier Car Group is boldly tackling Africa, Latin America and Asia by promising to sell used vehicles within 45 minutes -- paperwork included! 🤘  And by the way, the company just raised $58 million in funding and is pushing full steam ahead to expand their business. 🙌🏽  Curious about the challenges startups face when entering emerging markets? Lucky you Sujay Tyle (CEO at Frontier Car Group) and Balthazar De Lavergne (Director at The Family) are here to share valuable insights with us.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: Fireside Chat with Sujay Tyle, Founder at Frontier Car Group

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium

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Being truly powerful has always involved masterfully exploiting leverage. Leveraging means using borrowed capital, labour or networks to increase the impact of one’s investments, financial or otherwise.  For most of human history, leverage was only accessible to those with physical force, or land, or networks, or capital. But leverage has never been as accessible as it is now. 

Social media, software and the commoditization of capital have meant that one’s thought, one’s work and one’s financial investments can now be leveraged at essentially no cost. Write an article on Medium and within a day it can be read hundreds of thousands of times for free. Create a new SaaS product, and it can be sold to hundreds of clients, with almost no additional work.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based).

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Video of the talk here: A Brief History of Leverage and Power

Our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Our events: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium