Just Getting Started

Updated: 06 Mar 2024 • 43 episodes
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FUSE is an early-stage venture firm based in the Pacific Northwest, and just like the founders in our portfolio - we are just getting started. We believe that founders deserve more: more urgency, more community, more expertise, more reliability - more of everything. And we aim to deliver. Join us to hear the founding stories of companies in the FUSE family, experiences from visionary operators and executives in the Pacific Northwest, as well as startup journey wisdom and best practices from the FUSE team. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Today you’ll hear from Nate Hamet, Co-founder and CEO of Quindar. Join us as we discuss Nate’s path to discovering his passion for SpaceTech, meeting his five co-founders, and how Quindar is becoming mission-critical – pun intended – for satellite operators and beneficiaries of their data like you and me. Let's get sta

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Today you’ll hear from Doug Logan, Co-founder and CEO of Aerial. Join us to learn about Doug’s prior experience serving startups and midmarket M&A at K&L gates, and how the pain from masses of clerical work inspired his vision for Aerial. Speeding up financing rounds and creating legal cost savings for founders is what

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Today's Operational Excellence episode features Mike Bignold, the Founder and CEO of CostCertified.   In this conversation he sits down with FUSE GP Brendan Wales to share about how he leverages a numbers-driven approach to operating, and how it's helped CostCertified to grow by more than 10x in the last two years.   

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In this episode we sit down with Leif Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of TipHaus . In this conversation he is joined by FUSE GP Brendan Wales to discuss some of his creative tactics for operating leanly and efficiently -- and how it's helped TipHaus 10x its revenue in two years. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See aca

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Today's Operational Excellence episode features FUSE Operating Partner John Connors. John has been a partner at Ignition (FUSE’s Alma Matter) since 2005 and also served as CFO and CIO of Microsoft. Throughout his career he has served on many public, private, non-profit and civic boards, some notably including Nike and

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Today I am joined by Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, the founders of Quandri. Join us as we discuss how these two brothers teamed up to build an RPA platform to automate workflows for insurance brokerages. Let's get started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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