FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #21 - How to get your users to fund their own CAC (Client Acquisition Costs). At our latest Startup Networking Workshop at Station F, two founders sat down with a problem that will sound familiar to almost everyone building a company. They had a product they believed in, a mark...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Pay me half in cash, and half in equity: how two traders close a deal with FlexUp Some of the most important deals in business are the ones that never happen. A founder has a real idea and a willing supplier in front of them, but the numbers do not line up on the day, so everyone s...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #18, Where Does the Funding Come From? 3 Ways FlexUp Unlocks Capital for Founders. Most of our workshops bring together a handful of entrepreneurs from very different places, and this one came down to a single, sharp question. Chloe joined us from Kampala, Uganda. She runs B2B resea...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #16, How to Turn Suppliers into Business Partners: 3 Real-World FlexUp Use Cases. Most of our workshops are informal roundtables, and this one was a good example of why we like that format. Rather than running through slides for an hour, we started with the people in the room – wha...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Cécile Law Firm Cécile runs an established law firm in Belgium. Like most firms in the country, she faces a structural problem the whole profession knows well: How do you keep talented junior lawyers through – and be...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Why the next generation of businesses will be built differently For more than a century, the foundations of business have stayed remarkably stable. Companies raise capital from investors, hire employees, buy from suppliers, and sell to customers. Profits belong ma...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #14, 5 Ways Advisors, Mentors & Investors Can Join the FlexUp Partner Ecosystem. Workshop #14 followed a thread we opened in Workshop #12. Rather than working through each participant's own business case by case, we used the session to step back and look at a question that shapes ...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #13, Three use cases that show what FlexUp can do. A training consultant, an AI startup, and a community of agro-entrepreneurs in West Africa: three very different businesses facing the same underlying problem – and how FlexUp's economic model changes...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #12 - Understanding the FlexUp Collaboration Agreement. Workshop #12 in our online series was intentionally different from previous sessions. Rather than working through participants' own projects case by case, we used the session to give a focused explana...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #11, How an app founder launched without a company, HR fixed corporate bonus conflicts, and a biotech turned hospital data into upfront cash. The eleventh FlexUp Startup Networking Workshop took place at Station F in Paris, one of the world's largest startup campuses. The session brought together a great variety of profiles, including a jew... English In person Workshop
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #10, Dynamic Equity Allocation: How Early Startups Reward Contributors Without Cash. The tenth FlexUp Startup Networking Workshop brought together a software founder from Moldova, a medical doctor and entrepreneur from Ethiopia, and a startup financial consultant for one of the most c...
FlexUp, Fabrizio Nastri Workshop #9, How to Restructure an Existing Business with Flexible Equity. The ninth FlexUp Startup Networking Workshop brought together entrepreneurs, consultants, and startup builders at Station F for a conversation that moved beyond the usual early-stage startup questions... English In person Workshop