5 Steps To Make Your First Million - Paulo Andrez and Harry Sardinas
Paulo Andrez, multi-millionaire, is an award-winning angel investor, former President of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), and a driving force behind numerous high-growth startups. A seasoned entrepreneur, he shares essential strategies for tech founders, emphasizing client needs, building diverse and skilled teams, and mastering sales and marketing. This video explores executing a minimum viable product, mitigating risks to attract investors, and leveraging relationships. Paulo also highlights aligning team visions, cultivating company culture, and learning from quick, inexpensive failures. Drawing from his book Zero Risk Startup, he reveals how embracing failure fuels success.About The Guest
Paulo Andrez is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and #1 bestselling author of Zero Risk Startup, published by Forbes Books.
As an angel investor, he received the award Best European Angel Investment in 2012 as one of his investments (United Resins) reached 24.5 million euros in revenues within the first year of operations. One of his investments (Sword Health) became unicorn in 2022. In 2000, he played a pivotal role as one of the key shareholders in Novabase's IPO on Euronext.
Some of Paulo's notable investments include: United Resins (PT), Thinkable (USA), Climber (PT), Sword Health (USA), Novabase (PT), Maven (USA), Bugbox (EE), Toys R US (PT & ES), New Atlantis (ES), Spintop Ventures (SE), Nascente Capital (PT), Growth Partners Capital (PT), E-Vittles (UK), CoachVox (US) and RideTandem(UK).
Paulo was appointed President Emeritus EBAN, European Business Angel Network, after serving as President until 2014. Paulo is a founder of Entrepreneurship Agency DNA Cascais, which supported more than 500 startups.
Since 2012, Paulo has been working with a number of European governments in the field of Early Stage Investment policies and Business Angels Co-Investment Funds design. He chaired the European Commission Expert Group for support of Slovak and Romanian governments in designing and implementing entrepreneurship and innovation policies.
He has a background as serial entrepreneur and is frequently invited as speaker worldwide, guest lecturer and expert in innovation, entrepreneurship and early stage investment. Since 2012, Paulo has been holding a series of workshops on the topic of new ventures risk mitigation: Zero Risk Startup.Timestamp00:00 Introduction & Guest Introduction
00:17 Five Steps to the First Million
00:53 The Importance of Client Focus
02:30 Building the Right Team
05:32 MVP and Product Development
11:36 Sales and Marketing Strategies
16:41 Investor Perspectives
17:00 Importance of Execution
20:47 Paolo's Background
34:21 Aligning Sales and Tech Teams
35:04 Building Culture in Startups
35:53 Challenges of Growing Teams
36:28 The Role of the CEO
37:09 Importance of Market Focus
37:35 About 'Zero Risk Startup' Book
38:32 Entrepreneurial Challenges
41:14 Failure as a Learning Process
41:52 Developing Entrepreneurial Skills
42:48 Conclusion and Farewell About The Host
Harry Sardinas is a Business Growth Strategist, Empowerment, Public Speaking and Leadership coach living in London, Influencer with 288,000+ followers, Events Organizer-connecting investors and entrepreneurs with opportunities. Harry helps companies to turn their products into global brands from the stage and He mentors businesses to get pitch ready and investor ready.
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