From Side Hustle to Founder: Honest Insights on Funding and How to Validate Your Business Ideas [Video]

Explore the pivotal shift in a founder’s journey from working on a side hustle to running a startup full-time – and how to sustain it.

Investor Adrian Peterson delves into the core elements of startup resilience and growth, elaborating on the essential stages of transitioning from a side hustle to a full-scale startup, the art of validating business ideas, and the significant role of venture capital in nurturing this growth. He also dissects often-misunderstood narratives around startup success and shares the investor’s perspective on early-stage startups, the value of a partnership approach, and the need for founders to critically evaluate the commitment of years to their ventures. Plus: the dynamics of investor-founder relationships, building community and strategic partnerships, and actionable strategies for non-technical founders.

Adrian Petersen is a co-founder at AfterWork Ventures and is based in Sydney. AfterWork is a community-powered, industry agnostic VC fund investing in Australian and New Zealand based startups that have revenue ambitions of at least $100 million. You can connect with Adrian on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianpetersen93/

Learn more about AfterWork at https://www.afterwork.vc/

In this episode, you’ll learn about: startup myths, myths about startups, entrepreneurship, venture capital, investors, startup founders, startup growth, founder resilience, early-stage ventures, startup ecosystem, business scaling, funding, side hustles, startup success, venture capital funding, startup journeys, non-technical founders, startup growth, startup funding, investor-founder relationships, startup validation, startup resilience, startup advice, venture capitalist insights, startup partnerships, startup community, business models, investor synergy, venture capital initiatives, grit in startups, startup investments, venture insight, navigating entrepreneurship, and startup validation strategies.

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