🎧 1/2 Fundraising during a recession, pricing tactics and dealing with cost growth & wage pressure w/ Jone Vaituleviciute & Marijus Andrijauskas (Firstpick) Ep.87 The Pursuit of Scrappiness

Jone Vaituleviciute and Marijus Andrijauskas are partners at Firstpick - early stage venture capital fund backing the best tech founders across the Baltics. Jone and Marijus have spent the last couple of years together working with Startupwiseguys where they invested in such companies as kevin, Ondato, GoRamp, InRento, Jeff, HeavyFinance, Vsight, Watalook & Kernolab and many others.
As we enter the muddy waters of a looming recession, we wanted to take a helicopter look over the industry from people who see lots of companies and the challenges they are facing.


In this episode we talk about:
The current state of mind of companiesHow to work with product and pricing in a recessionWhat investors focus on when investing in these conditionsDealing with wage growth in times of growth uncertaintyThis episode is is Part 1 of a 2 part series on fundraising and managing startup during a recession.

More about Firstpick here

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