Startup Mindsets

By Dan Gonzales

Welcome to Startup Mindsets! Dan Gonzales and Earl Valencia will be your hosts. Each week, we'll dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why entrepreneurship is important in today's world. Subscribe & discover your Startup Mindset today! Enjoy the show! :) -Dan and Earl Instagram: @startupmindsetspod Website: startupmindsets.com Linkedin: Startup Mindsets

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Startup MindsetsDec 13, 2021

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39:03

WOULD YOU FIRE YOURSELF? 🤯

Entrepreneurship and self-development go hand in hand. We've all likely seen an instagram reel with motivational speaker audio suggesting we can overcome challenges and look cool while doing so. But success is not instant, it takes time, sacrifices, dedication, and hard work.

I also share a lesson in paying monthly sales tax and talk about why not having a boss or immediate consequences can come back to make things harder for you as an entrepreneur. I'm learning how to balance time to recharge with being able to handle the work on my own.

May 25, 202309:09

The inspirational story of Ethan A. Poetic Round 2 🏈

Ethan A. Poetic joins the podcast for a second time to talk about his new autobiography, lessons in becoming an author, and how he is continuing to be an inspiration to youth all over Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Ethan talks about overcoming a horrific car accident and near death experience. Ethan describes how he's overcame poverty, and how his personal journey has inspired people around the world. Lastly, Ethan also speaks about not having his father in his life but still turning the corner into a positive life.

Key Insights

The right client will pay you.
Sharing your story is a vulnerable thing but can reap many rewards.
Going from victim to victor.

Ethan A. Poetic LLC, which includes keynote speaking, corporate speaking engagements, poetry workshops and serving as a mental health advocate. To connect with Poetic, he may be contacted on LinkedIn at Ethan Poetic.

SUPPORT Ethan by purchasing and reading his book: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-inspirational-story-of-ethan-a-poetic-ethan-a-poetic/1142654739

May 24, 202301:13:04

E96: Sustainability Sells with Ettitude's President Kat Dey

Ettitude is a material innovation company and sets itself apart from traditional bedding manufacturers.

Kat Dey joins the podcast to talk about how sustainability can be sexy and profitable. We discuss entrepreneurship

Starting a business while working a corporate job and in business school
Meeting consumer demand with a novel solution
Why bamboo is better for textiles and how Ettitude's product supports sustainability
Running a consumer brand

Kat is a serial entrepreneur and executive, named one of “35 People to Watch in New York Tech” and “EY Entrepreneurial Winning Woman” in 2016. Having fallen in love with ettitude's products and mission, Kat joined Ettitude in early 2018 to help expand the company globally. Prior to ettitude, Dey had a decade of experience scaling mission-driven brands. In 2012, Dey founded Try The World, a direct to consumer food subscription company, which disrupted the global artisanal food supply chain. It was named by Crains NY as the #3 fastest growing company in New York before it was acquired in 2017.

About Ettitude:
Ettitude is a fabric innovation company and a lifestyle brand making the world’s softest, most sustainable materials with our patented and carbon neutral CleanBamboo® fibers. They are on a mission to create next-gen fabrics and products that reduce our impact and support the health of the planet.
CleanBamboo is a lyocell made from bamboo, and uses absolutely zero toxic chemicals in the process, unlike all other bamboo fabrics on the market made using viscose or rayon technology. Bamboo made bedwear such as bed sheets, blankets, pillow cases to name a few.
Bamboo sheets are cool and breathable, allowing you to get the best and most restful sleep every night. Made from sustainably-sourced bamboo, our bamboo sheets are durable, moisture-wicking and unbelievably soft. Bamboo sheets are also naturally temperature regulating so you’ll sleep comfortably without getting too hot at night, no matter what season it is. While bamboo sheets require more specific care than standard sheets, they’re worth the additional maintenance to ensure your best sleep.

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May 14, 202352:06

Building Startup Network 🌍 Europe: Adam Fulham ☘️

Adam Fulham joins us from Dublin, Ireland to talk about creating one of Europe's largest startup networks and what entrepreneurship looks like in that side of the globe. We explore the Europe startup ecosystem and how events that Adam creates connects the continent.

Startup Network Europe makes conferences for European Startups, which gather thousands of founders, angel investors, and venture capitalists. SNE Conferences attract thousands of founders and investors from all across Europe. Through our events and our robust online communities, we facilitate startup ecosystem stakeholders to connect with each other, and create exciting new opportunities for all parties involved.

Adam and Startup Network Europe have hosted 20+ events in 15+ countries and cities.

Learn more about Startup Network Europe at startupnetwork.eu

May 01, 202301:06:10

Annexus Health 🩺 on Innovating within the Patient Care Journey with Co-Founder/CEO Joe Baffone

Joe Baffone sits down with Dan to discuss how Annexus Health is revolutionizing the patient care access journey, how personal experience led him to start this company, and where the company is headed.

Annexus' goal is to generationally disrupt the way patient access is managed through our
innovative, technology-based solutions—so all patients can receive the
treatment they need without compromising their personal and financial
well-being.
💡Joe shares valuable lessons on optimizing for scale,
Significant milestones:
Exceeded $3 billion in patient financial assistance awards secured;
released data confirming our impact on patients, healthcare provider
organizations, and life science companies; and earned the Top Workplaces USA award

Closed a $33 million Series B funding round, surpassed $2.6 billion in
patient financial assistance awards processed, and attained SOC 2 Type 2 certification

Helpful links about Annexus Health
www.annexushealth.com/about/
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/annexus-health-achieves-a-significant-milestone-by-surpassing-3-billion-in-awards-secured-for-patients-301794350.html

Apr 27, 202353:26

Reflections from season 3

For this episode, we decided to talk about our impression of Startup Mindsets' last couple guests. We talk about what we found noteworthy, unique, and valuable spanning from executive coaches, franchise owners, to startup founders the diversity in thought is truly amazing.

Read our blog and follow us on social.

Apr 03, 202335:12

⛏ Breaking the Boundaries to Real Estate with John Green, CEO/Founder of Nada

This week's episode featuring John Green introduces us to his innovative and eye opening company, Nada. Based in Dallas, Texas, his goal is to make access to real estate easier and make investing in cities as convenient and approachable as investing in stocks in hopes to help his users achieve financial freedom. John also shares his experience becoming an entrepreneur as we dive deep into the process of creating Nada. He shares inspirational advice to our viewers on the importance of pushing through self doubt and imposter syndrome in order to keep your business idea alive.

Tune in to hear John’s expert insights and learn how to navigate the real estate world in an unconventional and unprecedented way.

Go to nada.co to learn more and become an investor in Cityfunds and try out their new platform.

Mar 29, 202352:54

Embracing Remote Work with Ali Greene, Co-Author of Remote Works 🏖

In this episode of Startup Mindsets, we sit down with Ali Greene, co-author of Remote Works, to discuss the future of work and the ubiquity of remote workforces.

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many companies to quickly adopt remote work, Ali shares her insights on how companies can adapt and thrive in this new environment. We dive into the benefits and challenges of remote work from both employer and employee perspectives, including how to maintain company culture and collaboration among remote teams, staying productive and setting boundaries while working remotely.

Tune in to hear Ali's expert insights and learn how to navigate the new world of remote work.

Purchase Remote Works Book on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Remote-Works-Managing-Freedom-Flexibility/dp/1523003316

Mar 21, 202348:31

Blending the Real and Digital 🌍 with Daniil and David Liberman

This week on the Startup Mindsets, we'll meet Daniil and David Liberman, two brothers who share a passion for innovation. The Liberman brothers were born and raised in Russia, they moved to the United States in 2014 to pursue their business dreams. In this episode, we focus on their most recent venture creating a way to buy shares in people called Humanism and working on their own startup, Product Science.

We also touch on working at Snap. as product designers where they helped introduce avatars, bitmoji, and animation.
Watch the full episode to gain insight into some of their favorite features including filters and lenses as well as their contribution in pushing the boundaries of Augmented Reality by creating experiences that blend the real world with digital elements.

Time Stamps:
(1:26) Doing business with family
(5:10) Creating Kernel AR which was sold to Snap. Inc for 40M USD
(10:57) Working as Product Directors at Snap.
(24:07) Working with their family members on multiple companies
(26:09) Letting people buy shares in other people via Humanism
(36:58) Product Science

Mar 01, 202358:38

🔋 Energy is Everything with⚡️Simon Alexander Ong: Author of Energize

How can exerting energy make you feel more energized? This weeks exciting guest, Simon Alexander Ong, answers this question and discusses other interesting topics on the Startup Mindsets Pod.

Simon Alexander Ong is an award winning life coach and author of the book Energize published by Penguin UK.

Today, we spoke about why energy is everything, key points Simon made in his book, and fascinating ideas 💡 that have to do with our Energy. Some of the important topics we discussed were: How does working out give us more energy, when we are lazy to start working out in the first place? How do you recommend people get out of energetic blocks or manage their energy properly? Why people feel exhausted and what they can do to feel energized. The journey from heads to our hearts Selling yourself to yourself before you can sell to others

Grab your copy of the book Energize: https://www.amazon.com/Energize-Find-Spark-Achieve-Better-ebook/dp/B094F5D3BZ

Feb 23, 202301:03:52

Co Own a Home 🏡 Using Cher: Eric Chebil CEO/Founder

I first met Eric in 2019 when I was a venture capitalist at VU Venture Partners at the Salesforce Tower in SF. I thought the concept of owning a home in the Bay Area was so farfetched that there had to be a way to innovate and create a solution. Eric displayed founder tenacity climbing up San Francisco hills just to pitch us and today we catch up and learn about how Cher is changing lives.

In this podcast, Eric talks about what led him to create this company and what drives him to continue. We also talk about taking out a credit card to fund your company and hear how Cher had helped someone living in a van become a homeowner in the town of Long Beach.

Find out more about Cher at cher.app
Everyone can be a homeowner. Shared homeownership now made affordable and simple.

Feb 16, 202341:54

#90 How Ideaflow Fuels Problem Solving with Author Jeremy Utley (Director of Executive Education at Stanford's Design School)

What if I told you, every problem is an idea problem? Today's guest is the co author of Ideaflow alongside Perry Kleiban, former COO of Patagonia.

Jeremy has also spent over a decade at Stanford in Education as the Director of Executive Education at the Haaso Platner School of Design.

Jeremy Utley graduated the Stanford GSB the same year Earl did, 2009 and we are excited to have him on the podcast for a conversation about why "Ideaflow" is an important way of thinking in today's work environment.

I know kung fu moments (8:21) Experience is a Liability The Obsessive Pursuit that characterized the months before Bill Bowerman's waffle maker moment for Nike (13:55) Keep a bug list (15:50 ) Experience is a liability (19:50) Why Jeremy wrote a book (23:17)

Purchase your copy of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters on Amazon.

Want to meet a couple quintessential masters of ideaflow? Check out the free bonus chapter, How to Think Like Bezos and Jobs

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Jan 23, 202336:02

Chat GPT Onfolio Yury Byalik on remote work, SEO, and adopting new technology in business

Chat GPT Onfolio’s Yury Byalik on remote work, SEO, and adopting new technology in business

Jan 17, 202350:58

Changing Careers as a Public Health Advocate to Tech Career Coach: Dr. Ghaz Samandari

Happy New Year! 🎊 Ghaz aka Ghazaleh joins Startup Mindsets to discuss how her 2 decades in public health traveling the 🌍 left her burnt out and seeking a new career as a personal coach.

We talk best country chips, how one can get involved in humanitarian efforts, and what it’s like working in Paris.

As the Founder of 9 Paths Development, Dr. Ghaz Samandari, PhD is a Health Behavior Scientist, ICF-certified Integral Development coach and trauma-informed practitioner who has worked with communities of women, government leaders and a variety of organizations in over 30 different countries. With a PhD in Health Behavior Science and extensive experience in the Humanitarian field, Dr. Ghaz Samandari combines health science and evaluation methods with her training in leadership coaching to provide whole-system solutions for organizations seeking to make an impact. How the Humanitarian field can help tech companies build inclusive workplace cultures for everyone to thrive. (Dr. Ghaz Samandari has worked in 30 countries across the world as a Health Behaviour Scientist supporting teams on the ground helping rebuild communities after war, famine

Jan 06, 202351:27

🌳 Grass to Saas: The Story of Drop Delivery with CEO Vanessa Gabriel

Aloha! (Recorded from Waikiki)

Innovation in a highly regulated market such as cannabis can be tricky to navigate. Enter, Drop, the software solution that empowers cannabis businesses to deliver more and manage less. They provide you with the essential tools to take control of your business – from delivery logistics to powerful marketing and inventory management.

Vanessa previously co-founded Greenlight Technologies, a leading order-ahead and digital loyalty software in the cannabis industry, which was acquired in 2018. She’s been recognized by Forbes Next 1000, Marijuana Venture 40 under 40, and is a part of the Rolling Stone Culture Council.

Key Points
Choosing Entrepreneurship over college in a Filipino family
How entrepreneurship led to getting a better job

Dec 27, 202246:16

📒 Fostering Valuable Change: Author Brendon Baker (Part 1)

Brendon Baker joins us from Canberra, Australia to talk about his debut book, Valuable Change. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Valuable Change Co, a management agency that helps leaders keep transformation simple and ensure it pays off. Their clients include high-growth tech firms, well-known Australian household names like AGL and South32, and all three levels of the Australian Government. For many organizations, change often involves long meetings, lots of reports, confusion about the goals, and worry about how long it will take and cost. These complexities make 85% of change initiatives in companies worthless. Brendon has 12+ years experience in change management and believes the profession has over-complicated change management approaches. He has taken it upon himself to simplify it and in doing so help change leaders drive real value. We discuss what every change leader needs to know to ensure any change they lead delivers the desired results, and what valuable change looks like. Scientifically-backed momentum strategies that change leaders can use to accelerate their change success. In particular, he could talk about an idea called the momentum path that enables leaders to diagnose the current momentum level of each of their team members. Brendon's tips on how to generate phenomenal change buy-in at your organization. 💡Valuable Takeaways 👇 Reward - Pain = Decision Humans do not like pain, learn how to maximize the reward and minimize the pain to make decisions easier. Change comes in ripples. Follow Brendon's work on Linkedin and his website. Purchase the Valuable Change Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Valuable-Change-What-Need-Ensure/dp/064512270X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Dec 19, 202253:08

🎉 Creating Unforgettable Team Building Experiences with Confetti: Lee Rubin CEO/Founder

Confetti brings teams together via virtual events and team bonding experiences like no one else. Boasting a customer list of Netflix, Google, Spotify, Linkedin and Caterpillar, Confetti re imagines team togetherness and adds value to organizations in intangible ways. Lee tells us the majority of their customer base comes from inbound interest.
We hear Lee's experience fundraising up to series A with Correlation Ventures participating. Lee tells us what it’s been like scaling this operation, her mindset as an entrepreneur, and so much more. Confetti's platform allows companies to seamlessly book fully-customizable, multi-vendor virtual gatherings for their employees in just a few clicks. From online games and hosted game shows to shippable experiences, our platform contains dozens of interesting and unique virtual experiences to support our customers’ desire for fresh and fun ideas.

Their platform is already loved by 2,500+ companies such as Google, Facebook, Spotify, and many other startups, firms and agencies

Dec 06, 202242:02

Disability is not Inability 👟 Billy Price CEO of Billy Footwear

Billy Price fell out of a 3 story window when he was a teenager. This unfortunately, left him partially paralyzed. Struggling with putting his shoes on, Billy had the idea to add a zipper to the side of his shoe. Now Billy’s shoes can be found in Nordstrom, Target, Zappos, and other major retailers. Billy talks to us about how he created and scaled the company to where it is today. Be sure to buy a pair of Billy’s and support the dream!
Learn more about the shoes: billyfootwear.com

Startup Mindsets wants to thank you for listening. As an evolving business we are launching a startup consulting agency.

Dec 05, 202256:48

How VCs Analyze Investment Opportunities in AI/Big Data ~ Kenn So

On the episode we dive deep into how venture capitalists assess early stage startup investments.

Our friend, Kenn So, drops in to provide insight into being an associate at a top tier VC Firm, Shasta Ventures. We uncover how to assess startup deals and what truly goes into making a million dollar investment in early stage startups. Kenn also talks about landing an ultra competitive hard to get associate position at a Venture Capital firm, how VCs can diligence markets and prospective deals, and an overview on the AI and Big data industry. Kenn talks about growing up in Manila, being in a family of restaurateurs, going to Kellogg for his MBA, and charting his own trail in America as an immigrant.

Read Kenn's blog on startups at https://www.quild.xyz/

Nov 29, 202245:31

Crypto to Skincare: Jeremy Gardner Founder of Mademan, Augur, Blockchain Education Network

Jeremy Gardner is famous for being a really early investor in Ethereum and Bitcoin. But those days are well behind him. Today, he joins Startup Mindsets to talk his newest endeavor in men's skincare, Mademan. Purchase your skincare kit from getmademan.com

WE also discuss a variety of topics such as masculinity, handling fame and money, and how to be a successful entrepreneur. Jeremy is one of the most well-known early entrepreneurs and evangelists in the crypto space. In 2014, while in college, he founded the Blockchain Education Network (BEN), a global educational nonprofit. Shortly after, Jeremy cofounded Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform, the first ever ICO, “utility token,” and DeFi app on Ethereum.

Nov 25, 202201:02:14

Karissma Yve CEO/Founder of Gildform on Creating a Jewlery Startup, Meeting Richard Branson, and Finding Inspiration

Karissma Yve is a fascinating entrepreneur, combining her passion for jewelry and technology she created Gildform.
Gildform is the all in one jewelry 3D print on demand jewelry design technology and manufacturing platform empowering creators to create jewelry products from concept to creation.
We hear about pearls of wisdom from going on a bike ride with Richard Branson in the Virgin Islands to her operating style as a CEO. She also speaks about bringing innovation to the jewelry industry and creating opportunities for jewelry creators and jewelry CAD designers to monetize their passions
Karissma's passionate about helping all jewelry creators transform their ideas into reality with clients like the Detroit Pistons. Karissma speaks about how she practices having a startup mindset by focusing on progress over perfection.

Thinking about all of the things that can get in your way of achieving your goal and asking what's going to stop you, 9 out of 10 times the answer is yourself.

Enjoy and don't forget to follow Gildform or find out how you can be a user.

Sep 19, 202247:30

Ukrainian Founder Anna Stepura on Following your heart, business, and AI Sport

AI Sport was started by Anna Stepura in Ukraine about 1 year ago. They were accepted to Alchemist Accelerator and now are trying to get their startup off the ground. I was amazed by her mindset, courage, and perseverance to do all this despite her home country being at war. Make sure to check out ai.sport and follow their mission.

Sep 14, 202247:03

Ethan A. Poetic's Inspirational Comeback Story

Ethan A. Poetic is one of the most inspirational people I've met. From a terrible life threatening car accident to successful regaining his strength again and now on the verge of publishing an autobiography, Ethan embodies the Startup Mindset.

Ethan tells us how he went from "victim" to "VICTOR."

Aug 31, 202227:49

Creating the Creator and Business Marketplace with Madison Long CoFounder/CEO of Clutch

Madison Long founded Clutch in 2019 with her cofounder Simone May.
Madison shares invaluable advice for new entrepreneurs. She says to embrace the chaos and uncertainty.
Sign up for Clutch and Transform the future of work by empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs to launch, market, and grow their side-hustles.

Clutch is a side-hustle marketplace that connects the next generation of creators to small businesses looking for affordable digital marketing services. Gen-Z (18-24-year-old) creators have a natural aptitude for social media and graphic design. Still, these companies don't have a central place to seek them out. We bridge that gap while empowering students financially. If you want to hit your target audience, hire your target audience.

Aug 22, 202226:27

Serendipity Meets Tech? Clyx CEO - Alyx Van Der Vorm

Clyx was founded by Alyx while she was at Harvard during the pandemic. She saw that it was hard to hang out with friends because it felt like "having to machine gun text" everyone. Alyx also recalls a moment scrolling on social media thinking why isn't my social life as good as some peers? Their motto STOP SCROLLING START LIVING has catalyzed serendipitous meetups in Miami, Harvard, and Yale University as young people have taken part in the movement.
Alyx tells Dan how the team is making this a reality and how she manages the tasks getting Clyx off the ground.
Find all your friends’ plans in one place by making sure to follow Clyx on social and download the app to try them out.

Jul 18, 202232:36

Founding Freefuse - Mike Liu on Lessons Along The Way From PhD to SASS Startup

Mike Liu started freefuse off an idea when a good friend called him about a breakup. Mike wanted to help his friend’s music career and started creating software to do so. Today we learn about how his time at UC Riverside and Texas A&M shaped his career path.

Connect with Mike on Linkedin

Jul 12, 202249:12

Rami Essaid CEO of Finmark on Being a Serial Entrepreneur, and Financial Modelling for Startups/SMBs

Happy 4th of July folks! Today's podcast features Rami Essaid, founder of Finmark.
Rami had a goal of helping founders have a better sense of what their company's future financial picture looks like.
Finmark integrates with your accounting software and CRMs to give a better understanding of current expenses and allows for accurate forecasts of growth.
Rami details pitching 120 investors before getting Finmark's first check and eventually raising a seed round with Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Associates. We also hear about early entrepreneurship tales like selling shoe polish as a kid and creating a startup with friends.
If you're a founder tired of managing your financial projections with spreadsheets, sign up for Finmark.

Jul 05, 202235:44

Being a Lawyer and Entrepreneur- Brian Potts: Partner at Perkins Coie, Founder of Goods Unite Us & Creator of Legal Keyboard

Brian Potts, partner at and named top 100 lawyers in America at Perkins & Coie, shares what it's like launching multiple products like his own keyboard for lawyers, an ETF called $DEMZ traded on the Nasdaq, writing a book called The Jobless Lawyers Handbook, and accelerating growth for his own startup, Goods Unite Us. I stumbled upon Brian's work on Linkedin when I saw a post he wrote about having 200 job rejections out of law school to becoming a partner at the law firm that once rejected him. I had to reach out to find out the full scoop. As we all know getting rejected from jobs is all too common. In the podcast, Brian details what advice he has for people trying to leap over career hurdles and how he's able to achieve so much in multiple aspects of entrepreneurship. Be sure to check out his book: The Jobless Lawyers Handbook Download Goods Unite Us to know where brands donate politically and the $DEMZ ETF on your brokerage. Also feel free to DM Brian about career advice in the legal profession. On Twitter he's @brianhpotts Shoutout to Incued for being our sponsor: Experience Data Driven Investor Relations for your VC/PE portfolio

Jun 24, 202254:13

Thoughts on the Economy, Startups, and Podcast

We chose to vent on this episode from a personal standpoint. So much is changing we noticed with the economy that affect startups and entrepreneurs. We used this opportunity to do a solo pod to get some motivation out there and to be cognizant of what's going on in the world.
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The only complete Investor Relations CRM from deal sourcing to portfolio management.

Jun 16, 202219:17

Mental Health is Wealth: Tamar Blue Founder of Mental Happy YC'18

Mental Health is talked about more nowadays than ever and we wanted to know why. We have the pleasure of bringing on Tamar Blue Founder/CEO of Mental Happy joins us and guest host Brandon Warren on the podcast today.
Tamar talks about what led her to create Mental Happy and what truly taking care of your emotional wellness looks like using Mental Happy's platform. We hear how support groups are a solution to people's mental struggles and why they are worth exploring.
If you're interested in trying Mental Happy, they have a 14 day free trial and can be found: www.mentalhappy.com
Tamar also tells us how she prioritizes her mental health with the demanding role of CEO of a startup, why the demand for mental health care has risen recently, being part of YCombinator, and where she wants to take the company in the future.
Become an investor in Mental Happy for as low as $500 via www.startengine.com/mentalhappy

May 24, 202243:25

Invest in Startups via Wefunder with VP of Fundraising Jonny Price

Welcome back to another amazing episode of Startup Mindsets! Hope your year has been great so far! - Dan
Investing in startups was traditinally reserved for the rich or people with access to capital such as VCs. But enter Wefunder, founded by Nick Tomarello in 2013 in an apartment in Noe Valley.
Today we sit down with Jonny Price VP of Fundraising at Wefunder and learn what it's like helping startups raise Community Rounds, persevering internally at Wefunder despite growth challenges. We also learn more about how the public can invest as low as $100 in startups on the platform. Notable companies who've raised on Wefunder include Mercury, Checkr, and Zenefits to name a few.

If you're a startup thinking about a community round, DM Startup Mindsets and we can consult you for free.

May 02, 202244:36

Northstar: Enabling Employee Financial Wellness with Will Peng Founder/CEO

Our guest today is Will Peng born in Taiwan and immigrating to the U.S. he went to Princeton University. It was at his first job out of college that he realized it was hard to understand compensation packages from his employer on top of his personal challenges around student debt.

Will's worked at Red Swan Ventures an early investor in Oscar, Warby Parker, Coinbase prior to creating Northstar. Since 2016 Will has made it his mission by founding Northstar to guide people in their financial journeys.

Everyone deserves the best financial advice to make the best decisions for themselves. Employers who use Northstar give their employees access to certified financial planners. There's this unique intersection of financial advice and compensation/benefits from work.

We talk about landing top clients like Zoom, Snap, Serviceitan, and Nerdwallet to his first customer in the early days. Will also sheds light on what it was like founding the company doing uncomfortable sales calls and how design and sales are closely related.

Apr 28, 202250:53

Bootstrapping and Selling Your Startup for an Exit - MicroAcquire CEO Andrew Gazdecki

Serial entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki joins Startup Mindsets to unpack his story of founding startups and leading them to several exits. Andrew Gazdecki provides an enlightening conversation on how he as a student at Chico State created a majority bootstrapped startup, Bizness Apps, to hit 5 million in revenue and eventually selling it in offer from a private equity firm. We go over, MicroAcquire's startup marketplace, how he build supply and demand, and when bootstrapping makes sense as a founder. From selling beanie babies on Ebay to his successful stints creating startups, Andrew's story is proof that hardwork, timing, and doing what you love lead to noteworthy places. We learn about his new mission of empowering startup founders to achieve liquidity by selling their startups on MicroAcquire's marketplace. Andrew Gazdecki is a four-time startup founder with three-time exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

Apr 25, 202201:12:37

Ukraine Startup Feature: Alyona Mysko CEO of FuelFinance

Meet Alyona Mysko, CEO of Fuelfinance as she details her experience running a startup while leading her company in the middle of a war. It was humbling to speak to someone going through such a challenging time, we were lost for words trying to fully comprehend the tragedy in Ukraine.
Alyona describes working from a bomb shelter and managing a team while trying to move the needle forward as a founder. Alyona talks about the importance of following a mission during a crisis and what's being done to look out for the team as they navigate Russia's attack.
If you're a startup exec and want the value a CFO can bring without having to hire one, check out Fuelfinance's product as they were also feature #1 on ProductHunt.
Head to Spend with Ukraine to support Ukraine founders and businesses.
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Apr 18, 202246:49

Neurodivergent/Autistic Entrepreneur & Investor Greg Shepard Founder of BOSS Capital on Pushing Passed Internal & External Barriers

Meet Greg Shepard, he's been featured on TedX talks and university lectures worldwide. Founder of BOSS Capital Partners, a boutique investment firm focused on Series Seed through Series B technology businesses.

We uncover his mindset which is unique because he is neurodivergent. Not being able to land a job led him to become an entrepreneur, finding out he could make money from an early age, he chose entrepreneurship. This included selling a snake and doing interesting things.

He's also former CTO at Pepperjam.

Greg's been able to achieve some wild feats like being the heaviest person to base jump, meeting Obama, dead-lifting 500lbs on his 50th birthday, running a marathon with asthma and we learn what made all this possible. Every year he does an annual challenge which are pretty gnarly.

Greg is a 20 year startup veteran and serial entrepreneur with 14 liquidity events under his belt in BioTech, TransitTech, AdTech and MarTech industries, two of which were sold as part of a $925M transaction that won 4 private equity awards for transactions between $250M-$1B

Greg recommends starting with the end in mind so you'll be able to back into your goals.

Apr 14, 202201:07:22

Hip Hop Artist to Attorney: Jim Narvios

For this week’s episode, I bring on my cousin, Jim Narvios founder and attorney at Narvios Law Firm. Find out what inspired the leap from performing on stage as Rocko Stedy to fighting for clients’ cases in court. Be sure to follow @filipinoattorney to keep up with Jim’s journey or hit up Narvios Law Firm. We discover that motivation can come from failure and that your distinct creativity sometimes means you have to make your own company, corporation, and in Jim's case own law firm.

Apr 11, 202259:51

Information Security as a Service: Girish Redekar CEO of Sprinto (Backed by Accel)

Meet Girish Redekar, he founded Sprinto to ensure software companies meet information security compliance requirements like GDPR, HIPPA, SOC2 without having to hire a consultant. Sprinto’s software does most of the work. We find out how security can be a sales asset in that it can allow deals to be approved faster and enhance a product's overall performance.

We hear about Sprinto raising from Accel, Blume Ventures, and Elevation Capital as well valuable tips for startups like going from months to days to get something done or enhance a product.

Girish talks about how his mindset towards business changed once he became a founder, learning that startups actually grow the size of the economic pie.

Apr 07, 202252:21

Quitting Google to Be a Content Creator & Entrepreneur Stefanie Pinsley: Roadmap to Rise

My guest today is Stefanie Pinsley, now known for her TikToks around marketing and entrepreneur mindset hacks. She's scaled her following on TikTok to 70k. Stef left Google to be a content creator (TikToker) and entrepreneur mindset coach.
Currently Stef is an personal branding coach for her own company Roadmap to Rise and you can check it here.
We have thought filled discussion on the content creator lifestyle, building a personal brand, being a coach, and most importantly finding happiness and fulfillment in her career. Follow Stef @stef.pinsley on TikTok and Instagram. We learn that the value of your self worth doesn't come from what school you went to or what company you work for but instead how you align your passion with your purpose.
We also touch on the emotional cycle of change and what you can do to make great content.

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Mar 29, 202248:29

Mendoza Ventures’ Senofer Mendoza on investing in minority entrepreneurs

On International Women's Day, 3/8, we welcome Senofer Mendoza to the podcast! Senofer and Adrian Mendoza started Mendoza Ventures to address the funding gap in the pre-seed investment stage for underrepresented founders.
Senofer founded the first LatinX venture capital firm on the East Coast in 2016 and has since been leading the charge for investing in more diverse founders ever since! She is a former enterprise sales executive selling into large brands including Marriott, Fairmont, and Starwood. On today's show we catch up on market trends and have a thought based discussion on why there is a lack of real diversity in the tech industry and why women and minorities don't receive funding as easily.
*What you can do to invest in women without being a VC
* That the ideal pie chart for diversity looks like the census
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Mar 23, 202238:16

Changing How Companies Sort & Understand Their Data with Ahmed CEO/Founder of Narrator YC S'19

Ahmed Elsamidisi founded Narrator.ai when he experienced the problem of not knowing how to answer/taking too long to answer data queries at WeWork as a Data Engineer. He realized that he had to be the one to solve this problem after talking to companies who might be solving this but weren't. In the episode we discuss Ahmed's "Ah ha" moment💡, Getting into YCombinator, Living with your co-founders in the same house, funny stories while pitching venture capitalists and customers, and much more! We welcome guest host, Jovanni Lara, to go more in depth about the product and his experience trying to make sense of data.

Narrator powers self-service analytics across all your data. It allows anyone to get answers in minutes instead of weeks, using the same data as your data team. Narrator helps your data team build a full customer 360 that covers every interaction customers have with your business (opened emails, paid invoices, new support tickets, etc...), Anyone can answer quick questions and self-serve requests across all your data without needing SQL and then integrate that data with your existing tools (spreadsheets, BI, and SaaS tools like email providers). Provide the foundation for a comprehensive self-service experience for your company by going to Narrator.ai

Mar 09, 202254:52

Freddie Van Huynh's Story of Creating & Scaling Absolute Internship

Freddie Van Huynh has an incredible story, you've got to hear about. Born in Sweden as the son of Cambodian immigrants Freddie had a unique upbringing. Combining his love for travel and providing others opportunities led him to found Absolute Internship. Fred has been to 50+ countries, speaks 7 languages,and practices Jiu Jitsu regularly. He details his experience founding Absolute Internship, an international internship program for university students looking to intern abroad. Not being able to take out salary until year 4 of founding the company, Freddie talks about living cheaply and often eating $2 pasta while chasing his dream. The journey wasn't easy, however, today Absolute Internship is one of the world's top international internship providers in the world having served 2,000+ students in more than 10 countries. (26:50) NOTHING GROWS IN YOUR COMFORT ZONE Get 30% Startup & Small Business Accounting with our partner BENCH Accounting Here.

Mar 04, 202243:13

Building The Twilio For Fintech: Solid CEO Arjun Thyagarajan

Arjun founded Solid in 2019 with the idea that they could enable every company to offer their own suite of fintech services. With every company thinking about how to create their own experiences powered by fintech, Arjun and team saw an opportunity to build the layer that powers this. On today's show, we discuss (5:29) Fintech as a service, the value of companies owning the fintech experience for its customers (14:19) Transitioning from seed to series A (18:09) Valuing investor feedback Solid offers a fully integrated & compliant suite of FinTech services. Integrate in minutes to build never-before-seen experiences.

Feb 25, 202232:16

Arnaud Henneville Wedholm Author of How Hard Can It Be: Lessons From Trying to Take Down Facebook

How Hard Can It Be author, Arnaud Henneville Wedholm, joins startup mindsets to talk about his new book, How Hard Can It Be, Lessons From Trying to Take Down Facebook. Inspired from his efforts to build a startup that would be better than Facebook. Arnaud tells his story on how his startup, InternalDesk, became a "Broken Unicorn." We hear about what it's like to struggle as an entrepreneur and why success comes from trying and failing. InternalDesk was created to incentivize people to complete challenges to better themselves.

Noteworthy Discussion Points

The Social Media "Like" is the modern day tiger. Why we should seek failure so we can prepare for it more. Overcoming fear and mental blocks Why motivation comes from within and relating to purpose.

Learn more about Arnaud and purchase his book: https://howhardcanitbethebook.com or at Amazon & Barnes & Noble.

Feb 23, 202244:17

David Ongchoco: Founder, Investor, Operator

Earl met David when he was in high school in the Philippines starting YouthHack, an international nonprofit helping students learn how to code in the Philippines. We discover the success a simple cold email to Huffington Post could have where he ended up becoming a contributing writer in college. David’s also been a part of Dorm Room Fund, First Round Capital’s fund for university entrepreneurs, Growth and Analytics at Amplitude and a recent investor and now operator at Rutter building the e-commerce API layer.

Jan 31, 202236:11

Rene Morkos: CEO/Founder of ALICE Technologies & Professor at Stanford

For this episode, we bring on Rene Morkos founder of ALICE an AI construction simulation and optimization software. The value Alice brings to construction planners is how they are able to simulate over a million ways to build a building. We talk in depth about Rene attaining a PhD in construction management at Stanford, creating Alice from his thesis, and life as a professor at Stanford. Meaningfully we found out what kept Rene pushing forward often spending 20 hour days working on getting a PhD and after hearing 300 rejections from potential investors. Today, Alice is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Merus Capital to name a few. Lastly we learn that Rene's startup mindset is pushing the boundaries and finding out when his breaking point would be. Leave us a review and share us on social!

Jan 25, 202243:11

Creating the Kayak for Cars, TopMarq's Founder: Quinn Osha

Selling and buying a car tends to be a hassle nowadays especially when you're trying to get the best bargain. Enter TopMarq a new way to compare the top car websites (Carvana, Carmax etc.) while listing or shopping. CEO of TopMarq, Quinn Osha, joins us on today's podcast to talk about what he's building as a solo founder.

Quinn takes us through his experience graduating CalTech and learning how to code on his own, where he gets the ability to tackle new obstacles in business such as learning marketing for the first time, raising funding, and championing progress over perfection.

Jan 20, 202237:32

Revolutionizing Personal Fitness: Matt Spettel CEO/Founder of CoPilot

Matt Spettel cofounded CoPilot while he was in undergrad at Carnegie Mellon. In this episode, we hear how it was balancing college and running a startup, how Matt met his cofounder Gabe, overcoming age bias, and building the company to what it is today.

We learn about his route to entrepreneurship as a kid who would make his own video games and sell them at school to pretending to be a personal trainer. Fresh off a 6M Series A Round led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with Maven Ventures and TenOneTen Ventures participating.

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Jan 12, 202237:33

Product Management for Startups: Karthik Suresh CoFounder of Ignition

Karthik Suresh joins us for this episode of Startup Mindsets. Having a career that's varied from being an engineer on Wall Street writing code for algorithmic trading he wanted to pursue a profession that meant more than making money. This lead to an eventual career in product management having worked for Facebook as a product manager before leaving to start Ignition. Listen to learn how early stage product management differs from large corporations and why having more flexibility plays to your advantage as an entrepreneur.

Ignition makes launching a product easier by bringing different times together.

Go check Ignition out on Product Hunt and see how they can benefit your next launch!

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Jan 08, 202237:36

Ferret: Matt Heisie Head of Product

The global risk management market is 17 billion and expected to grow exponentially by 2027. Ferret.ai runs a background check that ensures business is done with the right people to deter being taken advantage of. We hear about his experience at UCLA Anderson and how what's learned in the classroom gets applied directly into the startup the next day then brought back to class to make an ultimate feedback loop. Matt tells stories of when deals have gone wrong and what Ferret can do to prevent this from happening.

Dec 28, 202133:36

From Nanny to CEO of WEVE Acceleration: Frances Simowitz

Frances Simowitz is CEO of Weve Acceleration formerly Numa New York. In on today's episode we learn about New York City's vibrant entrepreneurial scene. Moreover, we learn about Frances switching career goals from wanting to be an opera singer to a bona fide leader in bolstering the startup New York scene for international companies looking for a presence in the US. Their New York office leverages New York’s thriving innovation ecosystem to deliver immersive educational programming for startups and multinational corporations. They offer virtual and in person startup acceleration programs to support US market entry of early and growth-stage international companies. (18:20) Mindset is the limiting factor (24:00) Proving doubters wrong (32:00) Advice to 20 year old self (35:00) Frances' Startup Mindset

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Dec 14, 202139:45

Texas Entrepreneurial Network with Hall T. Martin

Hall Martin a long time angel investor and creator of Texas Entrepreneurial Network aka Ten Capital joins Startup Mindsets to tell us about his experiences being alongside new ideas and startups for decades. Today TEN Capital helps startups and growth companies everywhere raise venture funding. To date TEN Capital has helped entrepreneurs who have raised over $644M.
Shortcuts
22:30 Being a Professor at University of Texas, Austin
25:50 Is Entrepreneurship born or made?
27:00 Trying to be innovative in corporations
29:00 It's the "WHY" that gets you through
31:00 Startup Team Skills
34:50 Picking out the white spaces and having a technology roadmap
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Dec 13, 202139:03

Jurny's Journey: Luca Zambello Founder/CEO

What's up Startup Mindsets Fam! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, in the spirit of hospitality we have Luca Zambello, Founder of Jurny on the show today. Jurny is a hospitality tech company offering SaaS-based management solutions for the modern traveler. We discuss what it was like during Jurny's most difficult months in operation during covid and how they made it through.

Luca discusses growing up in Italy and moving to attend UCLA, what inspired him to start Jurny, and how he build the company without coding himself. Jurny's raised over 10M USD with notable VCs such as Mucker Capital.

Be sure to try them out the next time you're looking for a vacation!!!

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Nov 29, 202135:41

Dermatology Tech in Germany: Dr. Alice Martin, Founder of Dermanosatic

Dr. Alice Martin is the founder of Dermanostic and a physician in Germany. Alice tells her story of changing her mindset to become an entrepreneur as she says, “Physicians don't take many risks” because risk in healthcare can mean death while risk is a common ingredient when founding a startup. We hear about their experiences filming TikToks, recruiting a software engineer, and their mission to digitize dermatology. If you're in Germany, be sure to download their app on the Apple Store.
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Nov 23, 202132:43

Coverr Founder/CEO Kobina Ansah

Our guest, Kobina Asah joins us from Ithaca, New York to talk about his startup, Coverr and how it provides independent contractors stability. Currently 50M+ Gig Economy workers operate in the United States and represent one of the fastest growing labor segments, yet have difficulty accessing business financing due to their lack of standard underwriting criteria. COVERR evaluates alternative and traditional factors to provide contractors with capital to help stabilize earnings volatility or small emergencies
(2:45) What is Coverr? (4:00) Inspiration to build Coverr. (7:00) Commentary on why the gig economy experienced growth. (15:50) First experiences with entrepreneurship

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Nov 17, 202127:11

Quitting Investment Banking to start a Data Driven Research Platform: James Giancotti, Founder of Oddup

After years of working at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in equity research, James Giancotti felt the desire to create a product that solved problems he experienced as a banker from a technology standpoint. Oddup is a data driven research platform that rates startups primarily in Asia. With headquarters in Hong Kong, we get to know more of the startup scene in China, ie what makes it so unique and according to James, the hardest working place for entrepreneurs.

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Nov 15, 202142:59

Raising Capital from Zoom: Richard White CEO of Fathom YC'21

Richard White has over a decade of entrepreneurship founding UserVoice and Fathom. He takes us through his journey from selling PlayStation cheat codes as a kid to being part of the first YCombinator batch in Cambridge in 2005 to the latest with Fathom in YC 2021. We talk fundraising from Zoom Apps Fund and what it’s like couch surfing while creating a tech company.
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Oct 21, 202153:38

Hacking International Shipping w/ Shelvie Fernan

Fly and Fetch is a startup changing the way people travel and send goods. Based out of Edmonton, Shelvie tells us how she created the company and how things are doing. We also hear about Draper University’s survival week and how coming to Silicon Valley has affected growth. Learn more about how you can get free flights at flyandfetch.com

Sep 28, 202137:19

Investor Relations For Dummies: Founder of Incued, Josh Furstoss

Startups and Entrepreneurship are at an all time high during the pandemic leaving first time startup founders with the challenge of figuring out what to do. Incued, helps founders with guided business planning. Josh joins us to detail the company’s plans and his journey being a founder.

Sep 23, 202144:50

Uploading the first video on Instagram EVER & making Jay Leno’s TikTok’s with Rayson Esquejo

Rayson Esquejo has ran social media marketing campaigns for multiple films including Jobs (2013) Side Effects (2013) and most recently for TFC and Wood Works. Taking a new technology and incorporating it into business strategy is easier said than done. We hear about Rayson's advice for keeping up with market trends and using social media for its advantages.
Most recently, Rayson worked with Jay Leno to create TikToks for an upcoming film.
This episode dives into over a decade of social media use to drive engagement in the entertainment industry.

Aug 13, 202136:41

Changing the Aesthetics of Angel Investing

Eli Velasquez is on a mission to create a more diverse pie chart of investors of color. We hear about over a decade of being an angel investor, lessons learned, advice to new angels.
More about Investors of Color on investorsofcolor.com
More about Angel Capital Association at angelcapitalassociation.org

Jul 06, 202125:12

LastBit YC'20 CEO/Founder Prashanth B.

Catalyzed from not being able to pay for tuition in Switzerland because he recently immigrated from India, Prashanth set out create a solution to

Send/Receive Euros instantly via Bitcoin
Send/Receive Bitcoin on-chain or on Lightning

We also discuss the Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator and virtual Y Combinator experience.
Check them out at lastbit.io
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Jul 02, 202127:19

Startup Lessons from Alluxo Founder, Safa Mahzari

Safa Mahzari, founder of financial reporting software, Alluxo, joins us on this episode.
We learn the importance of creating a process and pointing back to the process instead of to the individual.

Jun 15, 202135:55

Executive Coach and Author: Meredith Whipple Callahan

Meredith Whipple Callahan joins us on this episode to discuss what catalyzed becoming a 2x author and her journey as a religious studies major at Yale to a career as a consultant for Bain & Co. and now an executive coach at Evolution.

We talk about how religion intersects with business and the power of saying "YES" to fear.

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May 01, 202141:15

Owning a Chick-Fil-A with Craig Stokes

Welcome to episode 31! Our guest, Craig Stokes, is the owner/operator of Chick Fil A in Canoga Park. But it didn't always start that way, we hear Craig's inspiring career journey from starting at KFC to spending more than a decade in the Air Force, and recently as a TV personality.

As we all know, Chick Fil A's hospitality is on a different level. We talk about overcoming overwhelming odds to becoming a franchisee with 70k applications and being 1 of 100 selected.

We also dive into:

Why every moment is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, being willing to take the first steps, It's not about who you know, it's about who knows you. You have the power to create the opportunities you've been waiting for.

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Apr 14, 202150:44

Curology’s Head of Talent: Derrick Gellidon

A lot is said about tech companies and their products, funding, etc. but none of that matters if you can't surround the team with great employees. Derrick Gellidon has over a decade of recruiting experience working for the Golden State Warriors, Google, Instacart, Lyft, and now heads talent at Curology.
In our conversation, we understand what hiring looks like from 0 to 100, to 100 to 1000+ and how the recruiting landscape has changed over recent years.

Mar 25, 202101:09:26

Building The Future of Work - Rajiv Ayyangar, Founder of Tandem

Remote work and the future of work are hot topics nowadays as distributed workforces took shape during the pandemic. Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams that powers collaboration. We have an exciting conversation with Rajiv Ayyangar, Founder/CEO about how their product reimagines working in an office virtually, product thinking, Y Combinator, and closing a mega seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. We also play a fun game of this or that.

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Mar 12, 202145:13

Music Tech w Founder of Piinky

Becoming a one-hit-wonder is difficult, let alone a music sensation. Piinky, a startup based in London is aiming to put artists in control with their software which gives a birds-eye view and streamlines the publishing process. We hang out with Piinky CEO Adeseye to unpack the business of the music industry, what artists are doing to get noticed, and entrepreneurship.
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Mar 09, 202142:29

Sales Connoisseur: Whitney Sales, Partner at Acceleprise Ventures

Sales are like oxygen for early-stage startups. They can't succeed without it. Whitney has 10+ years of startup experience and founded the sales method.
She joins us to breakdown the sales method, what mindset to have when selling, and her career journey from graduating UC San Diego to having a rockstar career in sales. We also talk about how Acceleprise is accelerating women founders and leading the charge in bringing diversity into the venture-backed ecosystem.

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Mar 03, 202143:27

Power of Place: Bluedot Founder/CEO Emil Davityan

After meeting Emil at a bar in San Francisco 4 years ago when Bluedot was a bit smaller, we caught up with him to hear how Bluedot is powering the location services industry, with brands like Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, and other restaurants utilizing location to deliver on point frictionless service. We also cover how the company started in Australia, founder amnesia, pitching hundreds of VCs to securing 20 million in funding, getting out of a survival mindset to a growth mind, and humility's real value.
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Feb 26, 202147:14

Building Startups without being an Engineer with Mohara

Welcome back to another edition of Startup Mindsets. Today, we talk about how nontechnical founders can leverage Mohara in creating a minimum viable product and core technology to launch their business. Many startup ideas are great but lack the ability to develop core technology. That's where Mohara comes in and acts as a product team for early stage startups. We sat down with Rich and Benji to discuss how they solve this need for entrepreneurs across many different geographies. With offices in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Colombia, and Bangkok early-stage startups with Mohara's help are being created. Get in touch at www.mohara.co Proud to announce Startup Mindsets is sponsored by Bourkehood, an R&D tax incentive company. Get tax credits for your startup today, at bourkehood.com

Feb 24, 202154:10

Sports Betting Innovation w/Dan Healy CEO/Founder of PickUp

The Online Gambling market is growing with 6 new states in 2020 granting approval. With sports becoming a completely digital experience due to the pandemic we talk about how PickUP enables fans to play the headlines.

We hang out with CEO Dan Healy and pick his brain on entrepreneurship, fundraising, and the day to day of running a startup. He tells us about the startup he founded, Pickup, and how they are enabling fans to play the headlines. We hear an important lesson of getting into different environments and being open minded. Check them out at playpickup.com

Jan 30, 202142:45

Entrépreneurship with Elodie de Marchi Head of Growth at Kaiko

The word entrepreneur has French origins and it means to start something. Today, Elodie de Marchi, Head of Growth at Kaiko joins us from Paris to talk about entrepreneurship and her career journey. We talk about

Leaving VM Ware, a 30,000 employee company to join Kaiko a scrappy startup with 16 employees Why direction is vital in entrepreneurial environments Her work in Corporate Venture Capital and Silicon Valley Bank The contrast between France's startup scene and SV

Check out them out at www.kaiko.com

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Jan 26, 202144:37