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Solo founder in London

What’s it like building a startup and raising money in London? I interviewed Antoine Asselin, the founder of UpMail, about his experience. He’s a solo founder, who has built out a team. He’s been operating the business successfully for 10 years. UpMail is a sales tool for hotel groups that helps sales people use media to make email more compelling. How did you get your first client and did you build software beforehand? Since I was working for a hotel group at the time, I knew what the team's...

Hi there, Recently I interviewed my friend and former colleague Wilhelm. He left his engineering job at a unicorn startup to found a company. Solo and self funded. After a year he ran out of money and decided to close the company. In this interview he shares what he learned through the process. The company Wilhelm started was called Meos. The aim was to give people back control of their personal data. Instead of Facebook and Linkedin owning your data Meos would be your personal cloud...