Not My First Guess What a founder of four learned about becoming founder fit with Victoria Armstrong, Angel Investor & Board Advisor for Female Founders Rise
Today I’m joined by Victoria Armstrong, Angel Investor, Advisor and Mentor. Victoria is an inspiring player on and off the pitch with an impressive entrepreneurial background of 20 years worth of experience in rapidly growing start-ups including Biotech, Mental health and SaaS, and has the stories to prove it. She’s invested her journey across three very different markets (New Zealand, the US, and the UK), in seven different startups, four of which she founded and exited, with one being acquired out of the US. Victoria now holds multiple board and advisory positions in various tech businesses and immensely enjoys helping others be “founder fit” to have sustainable journeys of their own. Oh and she also happens to be on the Board of Advisors for, our favourite, Female Founders Rise!
In this episode we discuss:
- Exposing unconscious bias, especially your own
- Nurturing business and human babies in tandem
- Why it takes a village to raise a business
- Calling your A Team before a crisis hits
- How to create psychological safety with external stakeholders
- Stepping away from your founder identity
Links:
- Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaarmstrong
- Checkout Female Founders Rise - https://femalefoundersrise.com/
- Listen to our episode with Emmie Faust - https://open.spotify.com/episode/79dEjWYv8Aotkp7TTfznMY?si=dBZPCU0IQx-Fo0ANzBlAZA
- Listen to our episode with Lauren Currie - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fesy7fsEVgLLrcOs0BIDK?si=4qvsnI0pRVacFFfy6N-yQw
- Listen to our episode with Valentina Milanova - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jfFTiaD2hRyiuCHUaproV?si=tW-5vWe5TrOa9ibLkLNUJA
- Listen to our episode with Nick Telson at Sifted Summit - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LIiOdqRsdUOqy2hu8iXbw?si=TBjVTQVNR6GEVGn55yyA2w
- Listen to our episode with Zoe Peden - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7FiiIpZ6w2LeLvSbtMtgdj?si=sLSsIhFLTZaIZzELIV9pvA