Jan Hugenroth, founder and CEO of Next Matter, on: the future of work and no-code software and how to find the right VC for hard problems you are solving.

About Next Matter

• [4:16] - What does Next Matter do?  Can you share a few use cases?
• [6:45] - How does Next Matter differ from other project management tools?

Big Trends

• [9:08] - Are no coding tools realistic for large companies with complex and unique processes?
• [13:59] - What trends do you see for how the future of work will evolve?

Building your company

• [17:58] - How do you position Next Matter effectively in the prospect’s mind?
• [19:52] - How do you get people to actually pay for yet another tool that is going to help them with coordination and collaboration?
• [22:02] - How did you decide on the specific use cases to work on?  How did you focus your team on the right manual processes to digitize?
• [24:43] - When raising funding, what was your approach to pitching investors?
• [32:00] - What is your advice on hiring your first 10 people?

Links:

Next Matter

Book recommendations:

Hard things about hard things by Ben Horowitz

The Swarm - A novel of the deep by Frank Schӓtzing