1.
Bridget Harris co-founder
& CEO
@bridgettoday

2.
“We’ve got no money so we have to think”
Ernest Rutherford, Physicist

3.
https://assets.entrepreneur.com/content/16x9/822/20151125052533-shutterstock-199610807.jpeg
You’ll grow
quicker!
You’ll make more
money!
You’ll access great
advisors!

4.
“it takes about ten
years before your
company really hits
its stride.”
http://b-i.forbesimg.com/alexkantrowitz/files/2013/12/ben-chestnut.jpeg

5.
“The strategies employed to
pursue the 30% for $3M,
are often in direct
opposition to the
strategies needed for a
0.3% shot at making $300M”
Image: http://cdn.everydaycarry.com/uploads/15-06-16/155801af1c1b8f.jpg

6.
“Maybe some percentage,
larger than 95% of VCs,
add zero value,
and 70% of VCs add
negative value in
advising.”

7.
“Government is the badge of lost innocence”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

8.
“There are only two possible outcomes
to this decision: Hire or No Hire.”
Joel Spolsky, JoelonSoftware.com

9.
We made three main
assumptions

10.
not London
London
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire

11.
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire

12.
Image: http://beatimpostorsyndrome.net/impostor-cat.jpg

13.
We were wrong
about all three
assumptions

14.
not Bedford
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville#/media/File:Spain_location_map.svg

15.
not Bedford
not
Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
definitely not Bedford
not
Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedford
not
Bedford
not Bedford
not Bedfordnot Bedford

16.
how we hire

17.
actual
classical
musician

18.
stage 1 - the advert

19.
On stage one, we say NO when...

20.
stage 2 - the
questionnaire

21.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

22.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

23.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

24.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

25.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

26.
On second round, we say NO when we
see...

27.
Stage 3 - the video
call

28.
On third round, interview / skype round, we
say NO when

29.
At every stage we are
looking for reasons not
to hire them.

30.
If not them, then who?

31.
stage 4 - the
contract

32.
questions….