Matthew Commons is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for applying advanced technologies to new fields. Before founding Cambridge Blockchain, he served as the founding CFO and Managing Director of venture-backed technology company Ogin, where he raised over $150 million of capital and launched the company’s international expansion.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Someone Matthew used to work with – Stanley Kowalski
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had been around that enough to know the basics of how to raise capital and the importance of putting together this early stage team so I thought it was possible and I had some confidence to do it but it was a little challenging, for one we were based in the Netherlands and then we decided to found our company across the Atlantic in Massachusetts” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything Book by Guy KawasakiFavourite Quote:
“Willing, if it is not to be a sort of wishing must be the action itself, it cannot be allowed to stop anywhere short of the action”
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Really spending a lot of time with customers, to really qualify your business and your business idea you have to get feedback and certainly when you think about what that business can be and what it can become, it’s not going to be based on just what you can conceive in your head, you have to get out there and get feedback and try different things”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale “It isn’t the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Matthew Commons:
- “Get out there and get some direct feedback”
- “If you’re going out there and actively doing then you’re willing this into existence and that’s what we try to do every day”
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