Show Notes
Deirdre Lyons Founder and CEO of Examfly shares her exciting journey, where she moved from the corporate world into bootstrapping her business idea, getting it to market and raising funding along the way. Dee talks about the challenges she faced and the many lessons she learnt. Examfly is an education technology start-up that transforms the learning model for professional exams and continuous professional development. The company is now scaling and diversifying, and we get a great insight into what's next for Examfly. Dee and our host, Dr Rosalind Beere are joined by Niamh Sterling, an investment expert and Partner at Furthr VC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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