My guest today is Cecilie Skjong, Investment Manager at Skyfall Ventures - a Norwegian early-stage venture capital fund.
As a founder, nailing your pitch, thinking big and challenging yourself to be more visionary, and quickly testing your ideas to get a sense of the market pull are crucial.
And the same applies to a cross-functional team building a new product in a scale-up. The same applies to a product leader leading a new opportunity in a large organization.
After being exposed to hundreds of pitches and investing in several early-stage ventures, Cecilie shared with me:
Characteristics of great founding teams
The importance of drive and resilience when testing ideas and building products
Early signs of market pull
Thinking big and the importance of Vision
How to craft a great pitch
The power of Founder-led Sales
The importance of understanding your macro trends (Waves)
The state of the Norwegian startup scene
And more
If you’re a founder, I recommend pairing this episode with:
Episode 1: Testing Ideas with David Bland, co-author of the book Testing Business Ideas written together with Alex Osterwalder
Episode 9: Understanding Jobs to be Done with Bob Moesta, co-creator of the JTBD framework together with Clayton Christensen
Episode 19: Nailing your Positioning with April Dunford, bestselling author of one of the most well-known marketing books out there
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