In this Lunch and Learn, Corinna Bardoli, co-founder of

, tells you how to avoid early-stage start-up mistakes by building a strong team, learning from your users or customers and developing a flexible and adaptable mindset.

Corinna was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 by ClubHub and her start-up CocoRio won the Judges Choice Award by Santander X UK 2022.

Corinna is also a women's health advocate and volunteers for the Daisy Network charity, supporting women with premature ovarian insufficiency or premature menopause.

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Learn how to avoid early-stage start-up mistakes by building a strong team, learning from your customers and developing a flexible and adaptable mindset.

Lunch and Learn: Mistakes to avoid with your early-stage start-up

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Tips on how to develop a winning mindset and make the correct early hires to avoid early-stage start-up mistakes.

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About Me
For over 25 years, I&apos;ve worked for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from start-ups to scale-ups, to multinational corporations in C-level and senior management positions.
?Common to every role, I have had responsibility for increasing revenue, scaling operations, and providing insight and analysis that has shaped the growth of the business. For the last ten years, I have been a founding management team member for a successful Climate tech SaaS business. Some of my achievements include the following:
- Pivotal to scaling the business and driving growth: &gt; 5 employees to 55. &gt; 0 customers to 50+ global enterprise customers. &gt; £0 revenue to multimillion subscription-based ARR. - Fundraising experience from Seed to Series B. - Driving transition from project-based revenue to SaaS subscription model. - Driving productization pivoting from bespoke analytics to repeatable data products. - Overseeing geographic and sector market development with North America as #1 market. - Creating and executing successful growth strategies across marketing, sales, and partners.
I now work with early-stage businesses that want to scale their business through investment. I help create investor-ready materials that ensure that your investment story is compelling and that fundamental investor questions are addressed.
Why work with me
I&apos;m not a typical consultant. I&apos;m not here to tell you how to run your business; you are the expert on that. What I can do is help you with challenges related to growing and scaling your business. Maybe you have an engineering or technical background and need help with attracting and winning new clients. Maybe you want to raise money through grants, an investment round, or a loan and you need to ensure that you have a compelling pitch or business plan, or that your business is investor-ready.
Often founders and management teams are busy running their businesses with little or no time, or perhaps little experience. This is where I can help.
I&apos;ve spent years scaling businesses, growing revenue, and building teams. If you&apos;re looking to raise money I can help prepare pitches and investor materials that present your business with the aim of securing investment at different stages from Seed to Series B. With a background in sales and marketing, I can help you prepare an investor pitch that is compelling and exciting, clean and simple, and answers those questions that investors will expect you to know.
I&apos;ve worked across a wide range of industries and engaged with cross-functional teams bridging commercial, financial, scientific, and technical to drive cohesive, compelling investor materials.
Based near Oxford, I work with founders and management teams of early-stage companies from all over the UK.

Early-Stage and Growth Business Advisor

Business plan review

For more detailed discussions with investors, I can review and help create a robust and clearly articulated plan which addresses all elements of your business including: 

- Value proposition

- Market sizing

- Competition

- Business model

- Financials & projections

- Use of proceeds.

People &amp; Talent Consultant (Assoc CIPD) Chief People Officer| VP People| VP-Head of Talent| Talent Director Extensive experience within people and talent arena scaling technology cos and start-ups as part of executive team(s).&nbsp;
Ex operator turned Founder and Advisor at Developa.io.&nbsp;
Experienced working with tech driven start-ups from seed stage to commercial growth, international expansion and following investment rounds (Seed-Series C). Investors include but not limited to Tiger Global, Target Global, Episode 1 and Atomico.
Previous operating experience: Sets and aligns the people and talent vision. Aligns strategy to company objectives, that supports their stage and context. Committed to inclusion and diversity. Sets the bar high for talent. Founder(s) confidant and support. Expertise and deep experience includes headhunting for executive, senior leadership and niche technical roles. Diverse sector experience across tech consultancy, retail, e-commerce, industry 4.0 and FinTech. Experienced Building functions and capabilities from scratch across multiple verticals. Experience with remote working, distributed teams UK &amp; international.

Services Include:
<ul>
<li>Recruitment of Software Engineers, Product People, Sales Teams, and building People &amp; Talent Teams</li>
<li>Founder and/or leadership coaching&nbsp;</li>
<li>Interview Training</li>
<li>Mentoring People &amp; Talent Teams</li>
<li>Onboarding Design</li>
<li>Org Chart Design, Role Descriptions, &amp; Interview Assessment Design</li>
<li>Compensation Planning &amp; Benchmarking</li>
<li>Career Frameworks</li>
<li>Performance &amp; Reward Evaluation &amp; Planning&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Prices:
<ul>
<li>Advisory Retainer. On-call flexible hour use with a minimum no of hours agreed on a monthly basis.</li>
<li>Coaching Blocks Fixed Price.</li>
<li>Project Work. On Fixed Fee Basis.</li>
<li>Recruitment Fees. An Agreed % of Employee Salary&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

Advisor

Beth Nevins

People &amp; Talent Consultant (Assoc CIPD) Chief People Officer| VP People| VP-Head of Talent| Talent Director Extensive experience within people and talent arena scaling technology cos and start-ups as part of executive team(s).&nbsp;
Ex operator turned Founder and Advisor at Developa.io.&nbsp;
Experienced working with tech driven start-ups from seed stage to commercial growth, international expansion and following investment rounds (Seed-Series C). Investors includ

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