From a Drunk Night Out to a $30M+ Startup Exit - Nick Telson (DesignMyNight, Trumpet) | E69

Nick Telson is a London-based serial entrepreneur, angel investor, podcaster, startup mentor, and public speaker. He’s currently a co-founder of a new B2B sales tool, trumpet, host of the Pitch Deck podcast, and a co-founder of an angel investing venture arm, Horseplay Ventures. He previously co-founded DesignMyNight and managed to grow that to 100+ employees, 15,000 SaaS customers, and 8m monthly uniques on the website before they exited for $30-40M.   In this episode, we talk about: How a drunk night out led to a new business idea Pivoting from a media business to a tech business Negotiating a deal to sell the company for tens of millions Nick’s ideation process when starting his second business What Nick is doing differently with his second startup How Trumpet got 2500+ signups for their private beta Time management for busy people Managing our ever-shortening attention spans Building a personal brand (even if you don’t have much experience) Validating early-stage ideas the right way How mentors can change the trajectory of your business What separates ok founders from great founders   Brought to you by Judge.me - the ultimate e-commerce product reviews solution. If you’re looking for a job in an inspiring, profitable, and fast-growing UK-based startup, check out https://careers.judge.me.   --- ➤ Please subscribe & share if you liked the episode ❤ ➤ Follow for business ideas & stories: https://twitter.com/MaticJ ➤ Matic’s UK product founders community: http://joinpmf.com ➤ Looking for funding? Get a VC intro: http://vc.foundrs.vip --- RESOURCES Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicktelson/ Trumpet: https://www.sendtrumpet.com/ Pitch Deck podcast: https://anchor.fm/pitch-deck   VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9YennIfncR8   --- Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/)