Host Mark Bowness sits down with Max Francis, Commercial Director of Hyper UK, to talk through the honest truth about what it takes to build a start up with the goal of gaining as much insight as possible to turn Inspo into a reality.

Max is industry agnostic and works with both first-time and experienced entrepreneurs on their latest ventures. His primary responsibilities involve identifying tech businesses that are best suited to Hypers' Accelerate Program and providing ongoing commercial advice to Founders to establish and scale their commercial operations. Specifically, this includes revenue models and forecasting, funding plans, problem-solution validation and partnership strategies.

Max comes from a Finance and Corporate Advisory background. He joined the Hyper team after 3 years with Deloitte Australia where he lead large-scale operations and teams in the Specialist Advisory division.

Hyper is a global startup incubator that provides you with the safest way to launch your startup. Guiding founders to validate, build and grow their technology businesses from ideation to investment.

During this conversation Mark discovers the warts and all reality of what it takes to turn a great idea into one that is commercially successful.

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