Organised by Creative Entrepreneurs
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Dan Simmons believed that the old ways of gaining investment for your business are out of date which is why he launched Propelia the only accelerator in the UK designed around and dedicated to Founder Market Fit, as opposed to ‘product market fit’ they enable new types of founders that are identified as “Propellers” rapidly get off the ground and build their business. In this 60-minute session Dan will run through why he decided to launch a ‘record label for ideas’ and how he thinks we should be funding the creative businesses of the future.
Expect to hear:
Why traditional investment models don’t serve modern entrepreneurs and business owners
How your value as a leader of a business can create great influence amongst investors
Build your ‘Founder Market fit’ proposition
Tips for gaining investment and being investment ready
About Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is the founder of Propelia.
Propelia is the UK accelerator dedicated to and designed around Founder Market Fit. We enable new types of founders that we identify as “Propellers” rapidly get off the ground. Our remote Methodology is structured to work quickly, in order to fast track the first 6 months of each founder’s journey. A journey which if given the right fuel and funding might reshape the way we now live, work and navigate.
Propelia specialises in Pilot Rounds, designed to rapidly connect Propellers who have established their authority, insight and point of view over their market sector, with aligned pre-seed investors that we call Co-Pilots. This enables them both to quickly leverage SEIS and also sometimes EIS capital to fuel, test and iterate uncertain market assumptions and rapidly prove Founder Market Fit over the next 6 months - with the aim of then increasing the value and impact of their subsequent round. We connect Propellers and potential Co-Pilots via 1hr Briefings, that are more like TEDx style deep dives into the founder’s journey and the complex market problem they are looking to now navigate than traditional pitching formats.
Dan is recognised as one of the leading voices pioneering and promoting this shift from Product Market Fit towards Founder Market Fit in the early stage pre-seed space.
Dan has spent the last 20 years helping startups and founders strategically leverage their thinking, brand and unique proposition to disrupt new market sectors and open up new market categories. He has also been a founder himself and personally experienced the pressures placed on early stage ideas trying to navigate uncertain and emerging market sectors.
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This event will be recorded and the audio file will be uploaded on our Soundcloud page.
- investment
- funding
- fundingforstartupbusiness
- fundraising
- startup
- startups