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Sweat,Tears and Equity
Welcome to Sweat, Tears and Equity, a podcast by Fortech Investments, where we discuss the untold truths of founding and funding start-ups. Our guests are founders, investors, and other players from the ecosystem who learned these valuable lessons the hard way. They share the things they wish they knew earlier about the challenges that lie in this journey, the things that no one prepared them for, so you and other founders can navigate this bumpy road successfully.
Sweat,Tears and Equity
Ep.07 - "The best founders are customer-centric, not VC-centric" - Bogdan Iordache, Underline Ventures
For this episode of "Sweat, Tears and Equity", Sorin Bădulescu sat down with Bogdan Iordache, General Partner of Underline Ventures and founder of How to Web, one of the leading startup conferences in Eastern Europe. Based on his 15-year journey of building the Romanian ecosystem, he shared his insights on the cultural differences that shape the startup landscape in Eastern Europe versus the West, the importance of being customer-centric, and the challenges faced by founders in the region.
They also discussed why customer-centricity trumps VC-centricity, and reveals how a new generation of founders is changing the region's tech landscape. From his unique perspective as both a conference founder and venture capitalist, Bogdan offers candid observations about what truly makes founders successful and why some investors initially underestimated Eastern Europe's potential.