{"id":7700,"date":"2026-10-06T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:08:09","slug":"fireside-chat-with-richard-ahlfeld-12-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/10\/06\/fireside-chat-with-richard-ahlfeld-12-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat with Richard Ahlfeld \u2013 12 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Imperial alumnus and Monolith founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richard-ahlfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Ahlfeld<\/a> for a fireside chat on building, scaling, and successfully exiting a deep-tech startup. Hear candid insights, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring founders.<\/p>\n<p>In this informal conversation, Richard will reflect on his journey from Imperial to founding and scaling a venture-backed startup, the realities of building a company, raising investment, leading a growing team, and navigating a successful exit. He\u2019ll also share lessons learned, challenges faced, and advice for the next generation of founders.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re considering launching a startup, growing an early-stage venture, or simply curious about the entrepreneurial journey, this is a unique opportunity to hear candid insights from a founder who has successfully built and exited a company.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Monday, 12 October<\/li>\n<li>Time: 5:00 PM<\/li>\n<li>Registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/events\/fireside-richard-monolith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/events\/fireside-richard-monolith\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Imperial alumnus and Monolith founder Richard Ahlfeld for a fireside chat on building, scaling, and successfully exiting a deep-tech startup. Hear candid insights, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring founders. In this informal conversation, Richard will reflect on his journey from Imperial to founding and scaling a venture-backed startup, the realities of building a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320928],"tags":[320929,320930,320931],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-events","tag-doctoral-students","tag-masters-students","tag-research-staff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}