ONE STRATEGY STUDIO - JONATHAN WILLIAMS (FOUNDER). PART 2. Why bootstrapping often beats chasing VC money. Addressing client concerns on AI; and why even with SaaS they often still want you to press 'the button' for them.

09/10/2025 32 min Temporada 5 Episodio 2
ONE STRATEGY STUDIO - JONATHAN WILLIAMS (FOUNDER). PART 2. Why bootstrapping often beats chasing VC money. Addressing client concerns on AI; and why even with SaaS they often still want you to press 'the button' for them.

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Episode Synopsis

Send us a textIf you’ve just raised $20m for an insights business is that a win? Or are you just taking on debt and potentially unrealistic expectations around business model?  Just a couple of the subjects we get into in part 2 of the opening interview of the new FutureView series with Jonathan Williams of One Strategy Studio. In part 1 we explored Jonathan’s entrepreneurial journey thought the insight space and we now move onto the question of funding and financial sustainability the sector, including: -          The importance of value, rather than time, based pricing-          Why it may not be a good ideas to ask consumers (in the first place, anyway)-          How far can you get using AI-          Dealing with concerns around hallucinations-          Why raising money through VC/ PE may not be the right model for insight businesses-        Does SaaS work for insight businesses>-         What Jonathan has changed his mind about recently…  All episodes available at https://www.insightplatforms.com/podcasts/Suggestions, thoughts etc to [email protected]

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