Smart spend management and features a segment on raising a $250K seed round after transitioning from a corporate job to a startup.
Smart spend management and features a segment on raising a $250K seed round after transitioning from a corporate job to a startup. Andrew Jamison also shares advice from American Express on launching a business and solving B2B spend problems.
Let's say I bring you back in time, you know, maybe I don't know, let's say 10 years ago when you were at AMX. Uh, and let's say you're able to see that younger self coming out of the building, last day in the office, and you're able to give that younger self one piece of advice before launching a business. What would that be and why, given what you know now? >> Uh, I I would certainly think think narrow, right? Be really freaking focused, right? because you have so limited resources and that's the the big thing like the temptation is to go big and broad and you're sort of told when you're working inside of big companies like you have this big strategy and all these different things. The reality is things don't get built that way. And so in my view would be like you know trust verify is like a key part not just with employees but actually in partnerships and relationships right you
build trust but you have to verify that there is corresponding trust corresponding engagement with those partners. And so you don't end up as the one taking all the risk without actually there being a counterbalancing piece of of those those parties taking risk. And sometimes that comes in the in the way that you shape contracts, right? But sometimes it also just comes in the way of the amount of resources you sit behind something, right? without there being any tangible results