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Nektarios Liolios

Partner & Founder Coach, Foundology · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nektarios Liolios is the co-founder and former CEO of Startupbootcamp FinTech and a former partner at Rainmaking Innovation. He later co-founded The Future Farm and serves as a partner and founder coach at Foundology.

7statements → 2claims → 0claims resolved → 4.71/5average certainty → 1.86/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources →

1 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Nektarios argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.4 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.6 · precision 4.2 · compression 4

answered every one of 13 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

231 words/min while actually speaking · 51.5 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,817 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 1/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 65%

Everything Nektarios Liolios said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech refuses to accept solo founders into its accelerator
“We don't take single founders.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 8:42 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech requires a prototype or MVP to accept startups
“So that's a minimum requirement for us. So we don't go just by PowerPoints and Excel spreadsheets. We need to have a prototype or an MVP of sorts.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 8:31 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Insight
Effective startup teams require product, sales, and tech leads
“And a team ideally should have at least three different profiles. We have taken teams in that were two founders who put something together, but very quickly you realize that the team needs to grow, and it needs to have somebody who understands the product, som…”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 8:47 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liolios predicts crowdfunding aggregator InvestUp will go very far
“One of them is InvestUp, a crowdfunding aggregator. They've just launched, they're a great bunch of guys they are going to go very far.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 19:08 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Startupbootcamp FinTech replaced main-stage Demo Day pitches with rotation mini-stages
“So we actually didn't have the startups pitch on stage. We had for each startup a mini stage where they had to pitch five times consecutively and investors in the room had to pick five out of the 10 startups that they really wanted to talk to.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 5:36 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Disclosure
Liolios has not personally invested in startups since the 2000 dot-com crash
“Personally, actually, I haven't invested in a company since I've burned my fingers in the dot-com area, so era in, in, in 2000, so I will be a disappointment in that.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 18:45 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene
Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech does not directly invest capital into participating startups
“So we don't fund startups ourselves. We don't have a fund behind. We don't put any money into the startups.”
Nektarios Liolios Mar 5, 2015 ▶ 4:43 20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Scene

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 017: Nektarios Liolios of Startupbootcamp on Fintech, Pitching and London's Tech Sce Mar 5, 2015 14m
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