Lisbon Startup Founders Discussion Panel

This is our first educational event of the year and we're excited to welcome a panel of legit local entrepreneurs to share their experiences in the formative early stages of building a startup. We have:

• Brian Dean of Backlinko and Exploding Topics
• Maria JD Sirotkina of Nomad Train, Restation Coliving and Art Heroes
• Hannes Bend of [Breathing.ai](https://breathing.ai/)
• Steven Murray of Zomato Portugal (now Dig-In)

This will be a 1.5hr discussion panel format in which we talk through the early days of starting their companies. We'll cover topics around getting to product-market fit, how they landed their first customers, trials & travails of fundraising vs. bootstrapping, scaling and hiring, what was counter-intuitive or surprising in hindsight and what they would do differently next time around. We'll also take audience questions at the end.

This talk will be geared towards aspiring and first-time founders but relevant to anyone who is attempting (or contemplating attempting) his or her own startup.

The event is open to everyone first-come-first-serve but you must be registered via the Problemattic site with an approval code here to guarantee entry. We will be in the "Power Plant" coworking space in back which has a max capacity for 35 people. See you soon!