Launching a Startup: From Idea to First Hire - Carmine Paolino

We talked about:

• Carmine’s background
• Carmine’s startup FreshFlow
• Doing user research
• Design thinking
• Entrepreneur first
• Finding co-founders: the “expertise edges” framework
• The structure of the EF program
• Coming up with the idea
• How important is going through a startup accelerator?
• Finding your first client
• Finding investors
• Consequences of having a bad investor
• Splitting responsibilities between co-founders
• Hiring
• The importance of delegating
• Making work attractive to hires
• Plans for the future
• Just-in-time supply chain
• What would you have done differently?
• Advice for people starting a startup
• Don’t focus on skills only
• Getting motivation
• Am I ready for a startup?
• Importance of a business school
• Advice on finding a co-founder
• Do I need EF if I already have an idea?
• Having a prototype before the pitch

Books:

• The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
• Design Thinking by Robert Curedale

Links:

• FreshFlow: https://freshflow.ai/
• Carmine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carminepaolino
• Carmine's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paolino

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