Field Notes · Founder hacks

Start a company and get to the first yes, affordably.

Short guides to incorporating, meeting people, finding grants and reaching investors, with the costs, deadlines and ranges spelled out.

  1. Incorporate and file: simpler than you think15 steps from day one to year-end, with the cost and deadline for each.
  2. London founder events, and what they cost11 events checked, 6 free. Pick the room by who you want to meet.
  3. UK grants a startup can actually apply for12 grants and funded contracts, with ranges and who should skip each.
  4. Who to talk to for your first cheque20 accelerators, funds and angel groups, with cheque ranges.

With Cady

Have your agent do all of this for you.

Your agent keeps your filings in order, finds the events, grants and investors that fit and drafts each approach. You approve what goes out.

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Filings and deadlines is in testing. See what it can already do.

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Keep our filings in order, find the events, grants and investors that fit a pre-seed London software company, and draft each approach. Send nothing without my approval.

Cady keeps the record

  • Entities, filings and deadlines
  • Each person you meet and the next step
  • Grant and investor pipelines