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Jan 2023
29m 55s

How Andrej Hano Got and Validated The Id...

Rawan Tafech
About this episode

Episode #4 with the co-founder and CEO of investment startup Birdwingo which was launched in 2021 to make it easy and convenient for young Europeans to get into investing. They have grown to 15 employees in the span of one year and raised $0.5M in funding.

Topics covered:

• How Andrej and his co-founder came up with the idea

• How they validated it with potential customers and market research

• The early days of development and marketing

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