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On this episode of the Georgian Growth Show Christen Daniels talks about Georgian’s value creation framework and how it helps founders prepare themselves for a successful exit. <ul><li>How can companies think about the ecosystem they play in and how can that help them to identify strategic opportunities?</li><li>What are value drivers and why are they important to thinking with a buyer’s mindset?</li><li>What makes a great narrative for a founder who’s trying to sell their business and specifically trying to build trust with the counterparty?</li></ul>

Georgian's Christen Daniels on Getting Your Company Ready for a Successful Exit

In this podcast, Head of Customer Success and Corporate Development at Georgian, explains how she approaches value creation, an intentional pursuit that can <a href="https://georgian.io/an-executive-framework-for-value-creation-and-strategic-planning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">increase your chances</a> of securing a successful exit. She builds relationships with many companies at the same time, and works with them on their unique challenges and opportunities.&nbsp; In this podcast, you’ll learn: <ul><li>What is value creation?</li><li>The value creation framework we use at Georgian (read more about it here: <a href="https://georgian.io/an-executive-framework-for-value-creation-and-strategic-planning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://georgian.io/an-executive-framework-for-value-creation-and-strategic-planning/</a>)</li><li>How Christen works with companies</li><li>The common challenges she’s observed between companies</li><li>How CEOs can think like a buyer</li></ul>

Christen leads corporate development at Georgian. In this role, Christen works with our portfolio companies through the investment lifecycle to optimize outcomes. This includes exit preparedness and planning, providing market intelligence, developing partnerships and strategic alliances, and building and maintaining relationships with bankers, advisors and potential acquirers

Christen Daniels

Head of Customer Success and Corporate Development 

In this podcast, Head of Customer Success and Corporate Development at Georgian, explains how she approaches value creation, an intentional pursuit that can increase your chances of securing a successful exit. 


Georgian’s Christen Daniels on Value Creation and Exit Planning

In this podcast, Head of Customer Success and Corporate Development at Georgian, explains how she approaches value creation, an intentional pursuit that can increase your chances of securing a successful exit. She builds relationships with many companies at the same time, and works with them on their unique challenges and opportunities. 


While securing your first customers and finding your product-market fit is a major milestone, building a customer journey can be challenging. There are questions about how to create a customer journey that’s repeatable and keep them coming back. Peter Szary, Georgian’s Head of Customer Success, explains some key steps to know to build your customer journey. He references Dan Steinman’s 10 Laws of Customer success, which you can find here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/10-laws-of-customer-success-pulseconf2015-029173.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/10-laws-of-customer-success-pulseconf2015-029173.php</a> Listen in on this podcast where Peter will explain:<ul><li>Processes to make your customer journey repeatable</li><li>Knowing when to hire</li><li>Peter’s biggest lessons learned</li><li>The differences between sales-led, product-led and founder-led growth</li><li>Why sales-led growth could be threatened by Web3</li></ul>

Peter works with our portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy, customer lifecycle mapping, customer health score methodologies and customer success advisory. 

Peter Szary

Customer Success at Georgian

Georgian's Peter Szary on Building Your Customer Journey

On this episode of the Georgian Growth Show, Alex Manea talks about Georgian’s trust thesis and how Georgian works with companies to help address issuess such as security, privacy, fairness and transparency. Alex answers:<ul> <li>How do we Define trust at Georgian?</li> <li>How does Georgian work with our companies to help them with trust?</li> <li>Where should someone who wants to learn more read next?

Georgian's Alex Manea on Our Trust Investment Thesis

In this episode, Georgian's Head of Applied Research shares thoughts on how to address fairness and bias in AI. She answers: <ol> <li>What is the biggest issue facing AI today?</li> <li>How can AI systems be racist or sexist?</li> <li>How can leaders design products that are fair?</li> </ol>

Georgian's Parinaz Sobhani on the Fairness in AI

In this episode, Georgian's CTO shares how Georgian helps companies with technology acceleration. He answers: <ol> <li>Why does Georgian have an R&D team and how's it structured?</li> <li>How do we collaborate with companies on R&D? What kind of engagements do we typically see?</li> <li>Who do we work closely with on our companies' teams?</li> <li>What software and toolkits have we built and what's the vision going forward?</li> </ol>

Georgian's Mads Mihailescu on how Georgian Helps Companies with Technology Acceleration

In this episode Margo Wu, a Vice President on Georgian's investment team answers these three questions on fundraising during COVID: <ul> <li>How does fundraising compare to before the pandemic? What have you been seeing and what new deals are getting done?</li> <li>What new things are we looking for at Georgian and how have we changed our approach to diligence?</li> <li>What are we seeing when it comes to valuations and what advice would you give on fundraising strategy?</li> </ul>

Georgian's Margo Wu on Fundraising During COVID

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