Nick Telson-Sillett

Co-Founder

Boston, Massachusetts, United States18 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded successful startups with significant exits.
  • Expert in early-stage startup growth and brand building.
  • Host of a top-rated business podcast for founders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in startup mentorship and investment.

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Skills

Other Skills

Social Media MarketingDigital MarketingMarketing StrategyProduct MarketingMarketing CommunicationsDigital StrategyDigital MediaSocial MediaEvent ManagementMarketingMarketing ManagementBrand ManagementEmail MarketingAdvertisingWeb Analytics

About

Hey! I’m a London entrepreneur, currently living in Boston. Also an angel investor, podcaster, startup mentor and public speaker, whose speciality lies in talking no-nonsense founder/investor advice and help. I'm currently co-founder of new B2B sales tool, trumpet, host of Pitch Deck podcast and co-founder of an angel investing venture-arm, Horseplay Ventures I previously co-founded DesignMyNight, back in 2010 and managed to grow that over 7 years with minimal angel funding, to 100+ employees, 15,000 SaaS customers and 8m monthly uniques on the website. We exited to Access Group in 2017. I live for the early stages of startups - building the brand, finding product market fit, iterating quickly and building out a team. Most of my content is centred around this, as well as tips from an angel investor. Even after exiting to financial freedom, I caught the founder bug again and have co-founded my next startup, trumpet, in 2022; looking to disrupt B2B sales and kill the sales pdf deck. Follow me on here while we build out this new journey in public. Please feel free to ask for any advice or help, whether a founder, startup employee or investor and I will always endeavour to do what I can. I'm also a regular guest on podcasts, startup speaking gigs and webinars, so feel free to reach out to me if you are looking for guests/speakers. I do respectfully ask not to be pitched for investment in my Linkedin DMs and instead go through Horseplay Ventures. Hopefully my podcast is also a treasure trove of information for those looking to raise early-stage investment, thinking about it or just interested in it - search for Pitch Deck by Nick Telson.

Experience

Forward pursuit

Co-Founder

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

Pef community

Member

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

Sequel

First Check Investor/Ideator

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Trumpet

Co-Founder

May 2021Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Emw global | sports & entertainment

Advisor

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • EMW Global is an international sports and entertainment marketing agency with offices in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and São Paulo. They matchmake top class rights holders and athletes with global brands and entertainment IP. Some clients include the Brasilian National Team, Clube Flamingo, Dani Alves, Douglas Costa, Emerson and Marco Materazzi.

London & partners

Business Mentor

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Pitch deck - @pitchdeckpod

Podcaster

Jul 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Pitch Deck:
  • Top 10 Global Business Podcast
  • Top 10 Global New Podcast
  • Top 5 UK Career/Entrepreneurship Podcast
  • Real investors, real founders, real pitches. In each episode, a startup founder has 10 minutes to pitch their business to Nick and guest Angel Investors/Mentors. They then all discuss the pitch and the business itself, asking questions an Investor would ask in a real pitch. The guest Angel and Nick then discuss what they make of the business and investment opportunity.

Horseplay ventures

Co-Founder - Angel Investor

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Horseplay Ventures is a Startup Playground for the new generation of startup founders. As recently exited founders we understand the pressures of being a founder and what it takes to scale and exit. Horseplay incorporates Pre-Seed/Seed Angel Investing, a free investor syndicate, a podcast and free tools for founders to use.

The access group

Co-Founder DesignMyNight

Dec 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

  • Co-Founder of DesignMyNight . Acquired by The Access Group in December 2017. Remaining at DesignMyNight.

Wfl media ltd | www.designmynight.com

Co-Founder DesignMyNight

Sep 2010Dec 2017 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Old Street, London

  • I am co-founder of UKs fastest growing nightlife website www.designmynight.com. Receiving over 6.5 million monthly views and several industry leading B2B softwares including Tonic, our DesignMyNight ticket platform and Collins; the first booking and enquiry management software for casual dining restaurants, bars and pubs. DesignMyNight was acquired by The Access Group in 2017.

L'oreal

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Sep 2007Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Education

University of Nottingham

BA Joint Hons Spanish & Portuguese

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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