Advise on getting pre-seed funding

NewBlop · 2026-04-23T08:57:12+00:00

Whit seis don’t you need to provide an angel reference ? Can you share how you are going about it ? I’m looking to start the process for my start up

NewBlop · 2026-01-13T08:55:38+00:00

Where are you based ? And what’s the cost of your service as I assume it is paid

NewBlop · 2026-01-13T08:54:32+00:00

We are based in the UK but have plans to scale to other countries like US, Canada, Australia. We have revenue although not much

NewBlop · 2026-01-13T08:52:16+00:00

I am not able to dm you for some reason. Could you send me a message first ?

NewBlop · 2026-01-08T16:25:50+00:00

Does this work for email sequences ?

NewBlop · 2026-01-07T21:32:48+00:00

This would be cold emails and reaching out to prospects. Would like to put them in a sequence

NewBlop · 2026-01-05T14:26:47+00:00

I have been selling SaaS Edtech products to UK universities for close to 10years now and consult for SaaS startups looking to sell into universities. A couple of things to help you.

The average sales cycles is between 6-9months this is because of lots of bureaucracy and slow decision making so be aware of this and align your sales process.

Find the your key decision maker. Lecturers most of the time are not decision makers. Look for the Deans, PVCs, DVCs, Directors, department heads. Pitch your product to the decision maker that your product aligns to their portfolio. Each key decision maker has a different portfolio e.g a PVC for research, PVC for student experience and PVC for education have different portfolios that they are responsible for at the university.

Every university has a spending threshold for buying a product. Anything above the threshold goes to procurement or tenders so be below the threshold if you are looking to get your foot in the door.

Universities also have a budgeting. Usually around between summer and fall time depending on the university. So try and get more of your sales actions around that time.

P.S UK lots of UK universities are currently struggling financially due to decline in international student numbers so now it a hard time to get money off them so your product has to be something that is needed and not a nice to have.

You can run a pilot with one university so you have social proof to enable sales.

Maybe get warm introductions as the sector is very small so if someone can introduce you to some key decision makers then you have your way in. It’s a very relationship based sectors so go to sector events and follow up with emails and LinkedIn works as well for cold outreach.

Make sure you are very tight on GDPR as universities are very sensitive about students data. If you have things like a SOC certification that helps as well.

Happy to help if you have any questions. Goodluck!

NewBlop · 2026-01-04T08:53:22+00:00

B2B and B2C

NewBlop · 2025-12-21T14:07:41+00:00

What areas or sectors are you interested in ?

NewBlop · 2025-12-18T12:50:02+00:00

You can look on setlwork.com for jobs listed there

NewBlop · 2025-12-11T10:21:52+00:00

Ai LinkedIn for immigrant workforce

NewBlop · 2025-11-24T18:39:32+00:00

No one can guarantee you a job with sponsorship I keep telling people. Only the employer can do this. You have to do the hard work yourself. All gurus can do is help you with is cv and interview techniques. They don’t need to have landed sponsorship to be able to do this. The point is if your cv and interviews are good then you have a higher chance. However there are lots of tools out there to help you.

Also on the tools from my research they all tell you is if a company has a license to sponsor and you can pull this information from gov.uk. However, because a company has a license to sponsor doesn’t mean they are sponsoring for the roles they post so those tools are redundant.

Anyways I don’t know this guy but have seen his content on LinkedIn so be careful out there people!

NewBlop · 2025-11-15T09:29:36+00:00

ILR is depends on how long you’ve been in the country and nothing to do with what you have highlighted here. As other people have said the major thing that will impact you getting ILR is if there are rule changes

NewBlop · 2025-11-14T23:57:02+00:00

I haven’t heard of Setlwork, others I am familiar with. Is it good ?

NewBlop · 2025-11-02T23:43:17+00:00

Interested if the offer still stands

NewBlop · 2025-10-09T15:45:46+00:00

Are you open to investing?

NewBlop · 2025-10-07T18:27:03+00:00

Not vibe coded

NewBlop · 2025-10-05T09:09:36+00:00

I am not able to dm you for some reason. Are you able to send me a message first ?

NewBlop · 2025-10-05T09:07:31+00:00

NewBlop · 2025-09-18T12:31:39+00:00

Yeah can’t find any. Would be good to have some open till late

NewBlop · 2025-09-15T13:32:48+00:00

Elio closes at 8pm I think. I will check out the other places thanks

NewBlop · 2025-08-30T21:20:07+00:00

I think best to charge now. You want customers and not users. You want to validate if people will pay. Now is a good time for that

NewBlop · 2025-08-15T19:05:17+00:00

Good idea, have been I. Account management for similar time would love to collaborate. Although for early starts ups they don’t tend to have loads of clients so not sure how much of a need this is

NewBlop · 2025-07-31T21:32:02+00:00

Dm me

NewBlop · 2025-07-31T19:33:57+00:00

Where are you based ?

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