Daniel Sawko | CEO and Co-Founder of Ship Shape | The Free Investor Search Engine | From Legacy To Liberating The Longtail of Ecosystem Potential

In this episode it was a pleasure to talk to Daniel Sawko of ShipShape.vc

 

We start the conversation looking at why the venture ecosystem is still so informed and driven by legacy frameworks, systems and thinking.

 

We examine whether the roots of this stem from the fact that in just over a decade that ecosystem has been radically transformed from being essentially a cottage industry of private networks and insider driven deal flow, to rapidly mutating into a potentially diverse and disparate startup marketplace. 

 

Where for example the accompanying status of being and publicly identifying as a founder in the 2000's was still an outlier career choice. Compare this to now with the legitimation of not just role but also of the supporting cast of accelerators, incubators, educators and media outlets that ratify and amplify going down that startup path and journey.

 

The discussion explores and posits whether it is these market shifts that the venture system hasn't adapted to and that FounderTech as an emerging ethos and growing community is fundamentally and openly targeting and addressing. 

 

With the hope that if you close the gap between the legacy ecosystem and the new long tail of founders wishing to access the market, find capital and launch their journeys into Scalable Niches, lies a huge amount of untapped potential.

 

Potential that Ship Shape is now trying to unlock and enable as the first ever free investor search engine that empowers founders and investors to align around demonstrable and repeatable market expertise and proven niche domain insight. Allowing calibrated capital to now better flow in theory to where it is most needed and can generate the most value and return for both sides.

 

Explore further:

> www.shipshape.vc

> https://uk.linkedin.com/in/danielsawko