The Advisory Board with Megan Flamer & Alan Jones

Why are they so slow? Who is best to contact? Is it worth the time?  The pitfalls and benefits of dealing with large companies with Richard Savoie of low carbon delivery compnay, Adiona.

I’m the founder of a marketing startup – we help organisations make sense of their data. We have some B2C customers, but our business model only really makes sense if we get into bigger companies and work with their data sets. We’ve had a lot of in...

The big question how do you get customers to pay for your service? Phil Hayes St Clair is serial entrepreneur who focuses on the science and art of selling.

Dear Advisory Board,
We’re a team of 3 with an education platform and we’ve been pretty good with our growth in our first year. I now think that maybe we just got lucky with our early sales, because while we are all making twice as many calls and doing loads of demos, we ar...

How do you part ways with a business partner and how old is too old to begin a start-up?

'My co-founder and I have built several companies together, but in the past year, it has become apparent we aren’t working well together on our latest venture. We’re short with each other, we’re frustrated and not seeing eye to eye. The worst part is we’re fighting often in front of the staff, and tensions in the office are high. We’ve floated ...

How can you get your start-up onto an accelerator program? That and some advice on how to turn your digtial interests into a job.

'Dear Advisory Board, My founders and I have been applying for accelerator programs all over Australia and we have never gotten in – and we’ve applied to all of them! We have continued growth, we are a solid team, and we’ve been going for a couple of years! We’ve finally been asked to join a bootcamp, an...

How do you best pitch your idea? It's something that everyone has to do at some point and Alan and Megan have some excellent tips for this:

'Dear Advisory Board,
I’ve founded a startup and we’re building an app – and we’re getting some good attention in the space with our platform. We have a very pretty deck and it has great information about how our product works and the market – but we keep getting feedback that it’s confusing...

Start-ups skew male. It's a problem that's long plagued the space. Alan and Megan spell out how to hire and champion women in the start-up world. This week's letter is from Faulty Feminist: 'My startup has been growing pretty well over the last couple of years, but we are still a completely male team. I think diversity is important and I’ve tried so many things to get women on our team -- we’ve done shout outs on all female job boa...

Tim Brewer is Co-Founder and CEO of Functionly and for the opening episode of the podcast, he helps answer the following letter. 'Dear Advisory Board, We just finished our first accelerator program! We’re still pretty early stage but we got some great feedback from our Demo Day pitch and several new customers from that launch alone. The product people are asking for is still a year or so away: we are just two founders, and we are g...