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Send us a textIn this episode of Walk 2 Wealth, I reconnect with Heine Nzumafo, entrepreneur, Agile coach, and founder of QSlot—a flexible scheduling solution designed to reduce no-shows and boost revenue for small businesses. Heine shares his inspiring journey from Cameroon to the U.S. Army, and now to building a tech startup poised to make waves in the SaaS space.We discuss:Heine's recent experience graduating from the Founders Institute, a prestigious pre-seed accelerator.Lessons learned about customer development, targeting the right market, and refining QSlot's value proposition.The importance of surrounding yourself with mentors and leveraging their expertise for business growth.The realities of pitching an unfinished product, handling rejection, and using feedback to improve.Heine's story is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and the power of community in entrepreneurship. If you're curious about the startup world or looking for inspiration to launch your own venture, this episode is packed with valuable insights and actionable advice.Connect With HeineWebsite: Www.queueslot.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heinenzumafoSupport the showHOW TO SUPPORT THE WALK 2 WEALTH PODCAST: 1. Subscribe, Rate, & Review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform. 2. Share Episodes with your family, friends, and co-workers.3. Whether you're just starting your business or your business is established, ChatGPT can help you take your business to the next level. Get Instant Access To My List of Top 10 ChatGPT Prompts To Save You Time, Energy, & Money: HTTPS://WWW.STOPANDSTARE.MEDIA/AI

Alantheus Thompson, founder of Groe Solutions, shares why the Founders Institute is essential for San Antonio's entrepreneurial growth, emphasizing its role in providing mentorship, networking, and structured programs to help startups at every stage while fostering collaboration and strengthening the local business ecosystem. Show Guest: Alantheus Thompson Groe Solutions groe.solutions #SanAntonioBusinessPodcast #SanAntonioBusiness #SanAntonio ▶ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/dzqVGV Host: ✅ Marc Ebinger

¿Te imaginas un producto que no haya cambiado en los últimos 300 años?Éste es el caso de los seguros, una industria que desde su creación no ha tenido grandes ajustes. El producto es muy similar, los procesos de adquisición siguen siendo complejos y con alta fricción, hay poca personalización y su operación es de alto costo.Para hablar de éste y otros temas invitamos a Andrés Ramírez, CEO y Cofounder de Zebra, startup colombo-mexicana que promete revolucionar la venta de seguros en Latam.Zebra es una solución tecnológica que habilita la venta de seguros personalizables para los clientes de Fintechs en LATAM, dentro de su propia experiencia del consumidor.Andrés fue parte del founding team de Tul, startup con valoración de USD $800 millones, como exdirector de Marketplace, Comunicaciones y Relaciones Públicas, en donde lanzó 4 países y 11 ciudades en Latam.Es mentor de aceleradoras de startups como Endeavor, Founders Institute, Latitud y Emprelatam.Puntos Principales de la Entrevista:* Innovación en Seguros con Zebra: Andrés explica cómo Zebra utiliza la tecnología para ofrecer seguros personalizados a través de fintechs, facilitando el acceso y mejorando la experiencia del cliente. Destaca el modelo de "Insurance as a Service" que permite a las fintechs integrar seguros como un servicio adicional sin fricción.* Trayectoria y Pasión de Andrés Ramírez: La conversación recorre la carrera de Andrés desde su inicio en la industria del acero y la ferretería en Colombia, hasta su transición al mundo de las startups. Su experiencia en la expansión de Tool y su pasión por la innovación lo han llevado a fundar Zebra, una empresa que promete revolucionar el mercado de seguros en Latinoamérica.* Desafíos y Oportunidades en la Insurtech: Andrés aborda los retos que enfrenta la industria de seguros, incluyendo la falta de personalización y la alta fricción en los procesos de adquisición. También comparte cómo Zebra está superando estos desafíos mediante la digitalización y la creación de seguros parametrizados que se pueden adquirir con un solo clic.Para más información y contenidos exclusivos:* Blog / Newsletter: Cuentos Corporativos en Substack* Facebook: Cuentos Corporativos en Facebook* Instagram: Cuentos Corporativos en Instagram* X (Twitter): Cuentos Corporativos en X* Email: adolfo@cuentoscorporativos.com#Insurtech #Seguros #Innovación #Tecnología #Startups #Zebra #Emprendimiento #Latinoamérica #Fintech #CuentosCorporativos This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cuentoscorporativos.substack.com

Chase Harmer spent 25+ years as a payments entrepreneur, he is a pioneer in virtual credit card technology with 7 patents since 2013. Founder of ProfitPay, acquired by PayCertify in 2021 with a valuation > $500M. Chase knows how to build enterprise value and process for scale. Chase uses his experience as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute. Now, as the Founder of Wishes, Inc, he and his team have built proprietary technology to revolutionize fundraising. Wishes deliver the resources and financial support needed quicker than any other platform in the market. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-harmer-657a5b5/ https://www.getpaycertify.com/ https://www.wishes.inc    

Chase Harmer spent 25+ years as a payments entrepreneur, he is a pioneer in virtual credit card technology with 7 patents since 2013. Founder of ProfitPay, acquired by PayCertify in 2021 with a valuation > $500M. Chase knows how to build enterprise value and process for scale. Chase uses his experience as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute.Now, as the Founder of Wishes, Inc, he and his team have built proprietary technology to revolutionize fundraising. Wishes delivers the resources and financial support needed quicker than any other platform in the market. Chase Harmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-harmer-657a5b5/Chase Harmer Website: https://chaseharmer.com/Wishes: https://www.wishes.inc/Book a call with Michelle: https://www.AwarenessStrategies.com/m30Join our Facebook group for business owners to get help or help other business owners! The Business Ownership Group - Secrets to Scaling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessownershipsecretstoscalingLooking to scale your business? Get free gifts here to help you on your way: https://www.awarenessstrategies.com/

Revolutionizing Charitable Giving with Wishes.Inc Chase Harmer, Wishes.Inc – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 1031 Chase Harmer Chase Harmer has spent 26+ years as a payments entrepreneur and was one of the pioneers of virtual credit card technology. After building several companies and creating 7 patents since 2013, Chase leverages his past successes to give back to the community and help other entrepreneurs building businesses as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute. Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Chase Harmer about revolutionizing charitable giving with Wishes.Inc. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How Wishes.Inc aims to make charitable donations transparent, tax-deductible, and rewarding for donors. - Why donors should understand the impact of their contributions and understand the importance of charitable giving. - How many charitable donations lack transparency making it so donors don't know how their money is being used. - Why using technology can help create transparency in the charitable giving space. - How having transparency can help build trust between donors and nonprofits. Connect with Chase: Guest Contact Info X @Wishesgives Instagram @wishesgives Facebook facebook.com/wishesgives LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/wishesinc Links Mentioned: wishes.inc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahora los episodios de Cuentos Corporativos también están disponibles en video. Te invitamos a verlos en nuestro canal de YouTube¿Te imaginas un producto que no haya cambiado en los últimos 300 años?Éste es el caso de los seguros, una industria que desde su creación no ha tenido grandes ajustes. El producto es muy similar, los procesos de adquisición siguen siendo complejos y con alta fricción, hay poca personalización y su operación es de alto costo.Para hablar de éste y otros temas invitamos a Andrés Ramírez, CEO y Cofounder de Zebra, startup colombo-mexicana que promete revolucionar la venta de seguros en Latam. Zebra es una solución tecnológica que habilita la venta de seguros personalizables para los clientes de Fintechs en LATAM, dentro de su propia experiencia del consumidor. Andrés fue parte del founding team de Tul, startup con valoración de USD $800 millones, como exdirector de Marketplace, Comunicaciones y Relaciones Públicas, en donde lanzó 4 países y 11 ciudades en Latam. Es mentor de aceleradoras de startups como Endeavor, Founders Institute, Latitud y Emprelatam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the Here's What We Know Podcast, we delve into the entrepreneurial journey of the CEO and founder of PayCertify, Chase Harmer, from his early days in payment processing to his latest venture, Wishes. As a seasoned entrepreneur and innovator in fintech, Chase shares insights on embracing failure, the power of persistence, and his vision for transforming charitable giving.This episode provides an enlightening perspective on taking risks, overcoming adversity, and leveraging one's experiences toward making the world a better place through technological advancements within philanthropy. Tune in now!In this Episode:Listen in to Chase's background story from growing up in the Los Gatos area, hustling from a young age, and starting business ventures at 19 years old.Discover how he started in credit card sales during its nascent stage in 1998, then quickly moved on to start his own business after learning about profit margins.Hear his lessons learned through failures, including an initial failed partnership due to a lack of experience and understanding of marketing needs.Be inspired by how he turned an initial investment into a $40 million/year business before moving into building technology for merchant services without a prior tech background.Discussion on how success has changed him personally: facing challenges that almost led him to lose everything but choosing redemption over despair.Chase shares wisdom on valuing human capability beyond monetary wealth—what you can do without money often defines your true worth.Discover how Wishes was born out of Chase's desire for meaningful impact rather than personal wealth accumulation. Explore the topics and his insights on his blog about astrophysics.This episode is sponsored by:Winchester Western Wear (Be sure to tell them Gary sent you so you can save 20%!)Bio:As the Chief Executive Officer, Chase Harmer is the visionary for PayCertify, a worldwide payments company that works with businesses in the e-commerce, healthcare, and travel verticals, processing billions of dollars in transactions annually. Having started in banking at the age of 19, Chase has built portfolios processing billions globally and created several patents through his two decades of experience.Chase has spent 26+ years as a payments entrepreneur and was one of the pioneers of virtual credit card technology. After building several companies and creating 7 patents since 2013, Chase leverages his past successes to give back to the community and help other entrepreneurs build businesses as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute.Website: https://chaseharmer.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chase-harmer-657a5b5/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@wishesincFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chaseharmerrrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chaseharmerrr/X: https://twitter.com/chaseharmerrwww.GaryScottThomas.com

Ryan Micheletti - The Veteran Fund & Founder Institute  Ryan Micheletti served in the California State Military Reserve for six years. He would tell you that he learned leadership, resilience and the value of a team during his time in service. This laid the foundation for his journey as an entrepreneur.  He began by starting a security company with his brother. This grew from just the two of them working overtime to now being the 2nd largest veteran owned business in the San Francisco bay area. They focus on hiring veterans. Ryan has also helped to found Vet-Tech, which works with startups by providing “advanced mentorship, traction with corporate partners and access to our international investor network.”  Ryan's most recent endeavor was co-founding The Veteran Fund in 2021.  He truly believes that “a veteran founder, is one of the most powerful change agents that we have to actually drive positive impact in the world.” In addition to the Veteran Fund Ryan is the Head of Global Operations for Founders Institute, the world's largest pre-seed start up accelerator. For the last 10 years, he's been leading the operations team there as head of operations to help us scale to 7,000 portfolio companies across 200 cities with a mentor network of 35,000 mentors. “The Veteran Fund is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in top military veteran-led technology startups. The Veteran Fund finds, funds and scales top performing startups within the military veteran and spouse community by leveraging our unique access to the global startup ecosystem and our partners' experience launching thousands of startups worldwide.” Learn More Ryan Micheletti LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmicheletti Website:  https://veteran.fund Veteran Startup:  fi.co Applying for Funding: veteran.fund.startup VeteranCrowd Network Our "forever promise" is to build the veteran and military spouse community a place to connect and engage. VeteranCrowd is simply a national network of veterans, veteran led businesses and the resources they need to prosper. Subscribe to stay in touch.    Discount Heroes by VeteranCrowd Network Why do thousands of merchants put us through a bootcamp to join their loyalty program? Why do they make checkout an obstacle course? It's embarrassing. Time consuming. Intrusive. Cumbersome. Broken. Why? Because no one ever built a simple & secure way to validate our veteran status at checkout. Until now. Want to be recognized at select merchants simply by swiping your existing Visa card? Join our waitlist and be one of the first veterans to have this power in your wallet. About Your Host Bob Louthan is a VMI Graduate, Army veteran, and executive with over 25 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions and private capital formation. He founded the VeteranCrowd Network to bring veterans and veteran-led businesses together with each other and the resources they need to prosper.

Andrew Yeung has earned the title "The Gatsby of Silicon Valley" by hosting over 25,000 guests at his exclusive tech parties across major North American cities like NYC, LA, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco.Previously, Andrew worked as a Global Product Lead at Google and a Business Planning & Ops Lead at Facebook. He also is an active angel investor and writer to over 30,000 readers.His parties have been sponsored by companies like Silicon Valley Bank, Fidelity, Techstars, and Founders Institute, and his events have received national coverage from Bloomberg, Business Insider, Fast Company, Morning Brew, and This Week in Startups.In this episode, we discuss Andrew's origin story and playbook that anyone can use to build a massive network and accelerate their career. Chapters:00:00:00 - The Impact of Hosting Parties

Who is Larry?Larry Goddard is a man of confidence and determination. He believes in facing fears head-on and taking on any challenge with a can-do attitude. His multifaceted nature comes from a decision to pursue his passions wholeheartedly and not be held back by self-doubt. He is motivated by a desire to work with people who share his confidence and belief that they can achieve anything they set their minds to.Key Takeaways00:00 Interview with Larry, a talented, visionary leader.05:35 Active on LinkedIn and YouTube, sharing progress.10:08 Believe in self, pursue passions, mentor others.13:48 Paul promotes his book on test automation.16:17 Excitement for book, follow on LinkedIn, subscribe.17:49 Thank you, Larry. Talk soon.Valuable Free Resource or Actionhttps://www.packtpub.com/product/enhanced-test-automation-with-webdriverio/9781837630189A video version of this podcast is also at https://youtube.com/live/ra2bB6d6Plc?feature=share_________________________________________________________________________________________________Subscribe to our newsletter and get details of when we are doing these interviews live at https://TCA.fyi/newsletterFind out more about being a guest at : link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/beaguestSubscribe to the podcast at https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/podcastHelp us get this podcast in front of as many people as possible. Leave a nice five-star review at apple podcasts : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/apple-podcasts and on YouTube : https://link.thecompleteapproach.co.uk/Itsnotrocketscienceatyt!Here's how you can bring your business to THE next level:If you are a business owner currently turning over £/$10K - £/$50K per month and want to grow to £/$100K - £/$500k per month download my free resource on everything you need to grow your business on a single page :It's a detailed breakdown of how you can grow your business to 7-figures in a smart and sustainable way————————————————————————————————————————————-TranscriptNote, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)SUMMARY KEYWORDSStuart Webb, Joshua Berry, It's Not Rocket Science, Five Questions over coffee, author, Dare to be NIEV, CEO, Econic, conversation, workplace, broken, humane, people positive, leaders, strategy, innovation, growth, human resources, new practices, agile, DevOps, lean start up, HR standpoint, remote work, return to work, curiosity, trust, experimental, collaboration, leadership mindset, creativity, purpose of work.SPEAKERSLarry Goddard, Stuart WebbStuart Webb [00:00:23]:Welcome back to It's Not Rocket Science, Five questions over coffee. I'm gonna admit that right at the moment in my mug isn't actually coffee. It's, raspberry tea. I don't know what Larry's got in front of him, but Yeah.Larry Goddard [00:00:35]:I have hot chocolate.Stuart Webb [00:00:36]:I have hot chocolate. So that's brilliant. So, Larry, welcome to in rocket science over over Five questions I've got. Delighted to invite you to spend a few minutes with us today. Our guest today is Larry Goddard. Larry is an incredible, Polymath. I mean, the man that has so many talents, it's almost impossible to understand exactly where we're gonna go with this, but he's a he's a visionary leader, An award winning test architect, an interim CTO, and a a mentor to, the Black Girls in Tech and, the Black Voices and the founder Founders Institute, he is, He's been an expert witness for for international law firm and a technical adviser to a fashion house. Now This is this is more than we could possibly get into at this stage, Larry.Stuart Webb [00:01:26]:So I'm just gonna start with saying, talk to us a little bit about the sort of people you're trying to help and the problems they've got.Larry Goddard [00:01:35]:Yeah. I I I think, from from my point of view, I think I don't wanna look at the people who, They wanna do things, but, have this fear that, oh, if I do this, this is going to happen or it's gonna fall apart. I'm I think I I think I would use the word confidence. I don't think I'll be I wanna deal with people, you know, that want that confidence in themselves that I could do anything. Because although my I have to say, I'm multifaceted. And and it all comes from, you know, just deciding, you know, I wanna do this. I'm going all day, and I'm I'm doing that. SoStuart Webb [00:02:11]:And and talk to us about some of the some of the people you've helped. Some of those, of the you know, you're obviously working with with people who are starting businesses, and you're doing a lot of public speaking. Tell us about some of the sort of advice you give to those people. Especially,Larry Goddard [00:02:27]:I could say especially with the mentoring side of things where, you know, I help them deal with all these people. And I do it a lot from the, Fungus Institute. And those are people who actually looking to open some business. They are funded. They're to get funding for the business only. And one thing I tell them, I tell them is, you know, don't be afraid to take that step. That's the first thing. And 2, the other thing is once you have an idea, you need to put your idea somewhere.Larry Goddard [00:02:56]:If you just keep it in your head, Things just things just doesn't match up over that period. You need to document it. You need to relook at it again. And in short, yes. This is what I wanna do, and these are the steps that I want to take. And then you We really do again, you come to people like myself and others. You know, we would tell you, guide you hold your hand and guide you along the way It took your part, not from our vision, but your part.Stuart Webb [00:03:29]:Yeah. Absolutely. I love that idea. Be did if, You know, I've I've often said, you know, that, a a bad message out in the world It's far better than a perfect message still inside your head. You know? The the keeping something inside yourself and just waiting for the perfect moment is is always wrong, and I'm just trying to remember who it was that once said it. You know? The best time to start was 20 years ago, but the 2nd best time is now.Larry Goddard [00:03:56]:Exactly. Because what's up in your head? It's just you are all annoyed. If you put it on paper, yes, it's still your idea, and you are all annoyed. But now you now have Something visual that you could look at, and you could say, oh, you know, I think I shouldn't go here. I should do this before I do that. But once it's just in your head and it goes around, You spend years waiting for and and and as I always tell people, there is nothing ever called the perfect moment. The perfect moment is right now.Stuart Webb [00:04:24]:Yeah.Larry Goddard [00:04:24]:Yeah. You know? That's the perfect moment. People tend to we are fine a lot too. People tend to try and Bill is perfect. And I'll just use the word product for the conversation. I want the bill is perfect product before They put it out to the market. No. You need to bill a product, put it out to the market, get some feedback, and improve on the product.Stuart Webb [00:04:46]:Yeah. Yeah. That that, that's so often the the the the fault that people have, isn't it? It's it's Trying to make sure something's absolutely perfect before the put it put it out, and it will never be perfect because, you know, first of all, you you have not I got had every single idea you're ever gonna have, but your customers, if they love it, will tell you what they like, what they don't, and what they want to see improved.Larry Goddard [00:05:11]:Exactly.Stuart Webb [00:05:13]:So, Larry, I mean sorry. Go ahead.Larry Goddard [00:05:15]:No. No. No. You you go ahead. Sorry. NowStuart Webb [00:05:19]:so so tell me, what what are you you're also developing new software tools as well at the moment. What where are you where are you gonna be telling us all about this in the future? Where can we continue to watch what you're what you're up to and and your best ideas coming forward?Larry Goddard [00:05:35]:Well, like, I think I have my my LinkedIn profile, and then I have my YouTube channel. You You know? So that's where I put everything. So as time goes by and I improve on things or I build things, I put it out on the on the YouTube channel. I talk about it on on my LinkedIn profile. So if you're following me, you know, there you would see you're gonna see everything as it progress And go forward, and you'll get to see all the little bits and pieces that I get myself involved in. You know? So that that's where you'll find me. So I'm I'm on LinkedIn. I'm on YouTube.Larry Goddard [00:06:08]:And I'm on Twitter. Sorry. X.Stuart Webb [00:06:11]:X. Of course. Yeah. And I I've just put, Larry's, LinkedIn profile now at the bottom of the page, which is, linkedin.com.in. Larry g. So that's Larry G. Follow Larry on LinkedIn. He does do some really interesting stuff.Stuart Webb [00:06:28]:I'd say it's he's really got some very interesting things going on. And, yeah, he is an interesting character. So where did you get some of the inspiration? What book or course or, what was it that that really inspired you down your path, Larry?Larry Goddard [00:06:46]:Well, I have I have a thing. I mean, I'm one of the old school guys. It had nothing to do with A book or anything is just back in the day. You know, and computers, especially, have now come out because a a a novelty in the day. And just something that interested me, and I started to take my interest in it from since then. And so over the years, I have, you know, looked into it and always do something with it. Mind, I've not always I've never always been in tech. I'm a mechanical engineer by trade.Larry Goddard [00:07:15]:So It's it's after I moved from, I'm from Trinidad Tobago, by the way. So after I moved from Trinidad Tobago and came to the UK to live, Then I realized I I had a rude awakening that the call and mechanic don't mix. So So and and that is where my journey is to and that is when I changed my I took my my my hobby. I made it into my career. So a lot of it 90% of what I know is self taught. I thought literally taught myself, I got the software, Back in the day, and I got copies of a lot of things. It wasn't until now. I got a copy of the software.Larry Goddard [00:07:54]:I bought some computers. I, you know, I build them up. I start. And and and that's and that's going on and on. And as the technology change, I continue to follow it. And then, you know, the world opened up to open source. So then I started to delve into that, and Then I got to see what people are doing, and we got to use what people were using. And and and think and that's where Classy GS comes up comes about.Larry Goddard [00:08:16]:You know, I was tasked with, getting a a job done for Cambridge University at the time back then, And it was it was one of them surreal moments. I realized, oh, I know I I know what I should do. And I decided I started building this framework. Well, the rest is history, as you said. You're quite happy about it from that rough draft and being used to now it's a a node module. You could just, You know, just install as a known module in their place. That's one of the things I do. Yeah.Stuart Webb [00:08:47]:So so the the the the current The current set of things you're doing, they've just they've just been something you've never been trained for any of this stuff. This is just something that you just know, you just wanna do. What's the what's the 1 piece of advice that you that you that you sort of took from somebody? What was it that sort of made you think, well, I'm just gonna give it a go? You you you there's nothing that's held you back. So it must have been something that somebody did or said or or at some stage pointed out to you that made you think, I could give it a go. Is it something from your parents?Larry Goddard [00:09:21]:It it it's one of the things my mom actually used used to say to us, you know, growing up. She see all you say, you know, don't matter what you're doing. Always try to be the best there is. You might never make it, But you will get very, very good at it. You know? And I and I took that I took that through. And then I started and that is where I was, like, about 10 years old or or something and down to the end of the street that I was living on growing up in Lebanon, that guy used fixing cars down there. Now I was trying out, you know, oh, that's really good stuff. Imagine a 10 year old back then, you know, in the early seventies, turns out, oh, that looks good.Larry Goddard [00:09:56]:And I just briefly walk into the and say, can you teach me how to do that? And he look at me and say capitalist. Yeah. He actually look at me and say, Son, go home. Why are you down here?Stuart Webb [00:10:07]:And yeah.Larry Goddard [00:10:08]:But when I I kept going. And then one day, you're saying, okay. You know what? Watch that for me. At the beginning of it, I, yeah, at the beginning, I started washing parts and, you know, and and and following and then the thought that he taught me. And and I think one of the things from that is I think everybody should understand is if you want to do something, no matter what it is, You for yourself have to have a bad belief in you that you could do it. And following my online normal advice, either that's how I think. And I thought I think now, like you rightfully see, I I'm into a lot of stuff. And especially now with the whole AI and the whole framework and building things in it, You know, I'm mentoring people.Larry Goddard [00:10:48]:I'm thinking it's all about I could do this. I'm not going to do this. I want to be the best there is. You know, like, somebody said to me once, This is how I just think. I just think like this. If I am a mechanic, I want to open the dictionary. And when I type a new mechanic, I must see a picture of myself there. No.Larry Goddard [00:11:06]:I yeah. I got resonate with me. Not really resonate. That means it it simply means what you're going to do always put your best foot forward. And and there's nothing as a stupid question. The only stupid question I have is the one it did not ask. You know? And and it's and it's true that and I follow that all the way through. So as new technologies come out, I I pick up on it.Larry Goddard [00:11:30]:I I I do some research. I, you know, I look at the white papers. Yeah. I get involved in in it in a lot of different ways. Going to, expose and and things like that. So that as well keeps, You know, keeps my head in the game with with everything that I'm doing.Stuart Webb [00:11:47]:Brilliant.Larry Goddard [00:11:47]:And and as you see that and I and as you see that, I think I might just mention this one time, and it's true that, I've written a book, so I don't actually have a book on the market. And it's all you know, talking about, again, automation and and doing other bits and pieces. And from that as well, you know, somebody asked me, hey. Could you and I thought about it. And then, in my head, I say, Why why think about it? Here, you have an opportunity to to write a book. Just go for it. And then why did I just say, yes. I'll do it, and this is the end result.Stuart Webb [00:12:19]:And when are we seeing that?Larry Goddard [00:12:21]:It's it's out now. I mean, I could see if you look at my my LinkedIn profile. I mean, I can I I could I could even share the the cover, the book you? I'm not sure where I can do that. Great.Stuart Webb [00:12:30]:Yeah. Please do.Larry Goddard [00:12:32]:I mean, I will send it come up for you in a email or call. I don't think I could drop it in this chat yet. Hello, Blake. And, yeah, I'm. So it's the book is live. It's on, Amazon. It's, it's on Pat Pat Publishing for the publishers. And and yeah.Larry Goddard [00:12:47]:So it's there. It's called it's called, enhanced test automation with WebDriver IO. That's in that's in the name of the book. If you look at Amazon right now, you could just you could find it with that.Stuart Webb [00:13:00]:If I I if I could find it in the moment, I'd show it, but there we go. We're not gonna be able to do it. Had 1 comment in as we've been talking. Paul has commented and said, it's so true. Test in test automation, it is never too Soon to start. And, yeah, what can I say? The number of, of live software projects that I have been involved in where We started testing far too late, and we tested with the wrong people, and it all ended up in complete disaster. But that's another story for another day, And I won't bore you with it bore bore you with an hour range.Larry Goddard [00:13:33]:Guys have I don't think I that just you randomly choose that, but that is my co author, by the way.Stuart Webb [00:13:40]:That's a good one then.Larry Goddard [00:13:42]:Yeah. That's that's my call. You both know that.Stuart Webb [00:13:46]:I'm so gladLarry Goddard [00:13:47]:reach out there.Stuart Webb [00:13:48]:I'm so glad that Paul's listening in. Paul, he's also said to us at this very moment, enhance test automation. Okay. That's the name of the book. It's enhance Test automation with WebDriverIO unlock the superpowers of hybrid testing frameworks. Paul, Larry, I'll make sure that goes into The show notes so that people can get a copy of that if they want to. Look, I've, I've asked you a series of questions at the moment, Larry, and I'm sure there's probably one that you're thinking I haven't asked, and when's he gonna get around to asking it? So this is my way of saying, Here's your opportunity to to tell me the question you would have liked me to have asked, and then, obviously, you have to answer it for us. So what's that question?Larry Goddard [00:14:32]:I think I think that question should, you know, should be, what are you working on now, and where do you see yourself going with it?Stuart Webb [00:14:39]:Okay. So what what are you working on now? Where do you see yourself going with it, Larry?Larry Goddard [00:14:44]:Yeah. At at the moment At the moment, I'm working on a project called Classy GS. It's it's out there. What it does is our test automation framework. By the way, it's using WebDriverIO and and things like that. And where where, where I'm going with it is, Because, you know, AI is the whole new talk at the time, the new kid on the block. Yes. I'm heavily involved in in in in AI as well.Larry Goddard [00:15:11]:So right now, going forward, I'm going to remove some of the existing parts from it and replace it with AI powered technology and and make it, you know, up to scratch and activate the, you know, for the future going forward. And in in doing that, it will also It will also gives me the opportunity to improve on what is there and see, you know, what's new coming out. And as you can see, we're in the AI space. So A lot of new text. You know? You have. You have the you have the Microsofts. You have the the the the Chrome, the Googles. I know everybody bringing out their own copilots and and things like that.Larry Goddard [00:15:47]:So going forward and for the future, it's about locking into those products and seeing how best we could use it to, You know, to to help the testing community. So I would spend a lot of time, you know, going forward doing that for for the for the community. And it's and it's all open source. So not like I'm building something that people have to pay for it in a day. I'm building it, and I'm giving them that just as part of me. That is me saying thank you for all the knowledge I got from you guys over the years, and This is my contribution back to the community.Stuart Webb [00:16:17]:I love that. I love that. I look forward to seeing that in the in the world. Larry, it's been fascinating sort of having you on for a few minutes. I really do hope people check out that book, and follow you on LinkedIn because you've got some fascinating insights into the world. I'm just gonna mention at this point, if, if you would like to get onto our mailing list so that every A week, pretty much, I put out an email which just says who's coming up on the, on the podcast so that you can be prepared to follow them, To ask questions as Paul was here to sort of interact with the guest on Tuesdays, please go to this link, which is link.thecompleteapproachdot c0.ukforward/newsletter. That's link.thecompleteapproach.c0.ukforward/newsletter. Get on to the list.Stuart Webb [00:17:04]:Allow me to send to you our upcoming, live interviews with interesting characters just like Larry, and then you too can be here to, to interact with people like that. Larry, thank you so much for being with us today. Really appreciate you taking out a few minutes of your day. You're a busy guy, so I guess, I guess we better let you get back to changing the world, changing the lives of some of those mentors that you're working with. And thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us.Larry Goddard [00:17:34]:Yeah. The pleasure is all mine, Stuart. And, you know, like I said, it was a pleasure to to to do this, and, I and I will continue doing so, and I will follow I myself will follow your newsletter and, you know, jump in and see what some of the other guests come and have to say as well. Another thankStuart Webb [00:17:49]:thank you very much, Larry. Speak to you again soon. 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Almost a year ago, I had an opportunity to teach a branding workshop to the Founders Institute, The World's Largest Pre-Seed Accelerator. After the workshop, one of the participants reached me on Linkedin, asking for advice and to keep me updated on his journey. The founder, Blake Berman, was in early stages of launching a San-Diego based premium sparkling soda brand. He sent me early mockups of the brand identity, website, and product. Earlier this year, Blake and his team officially launched Spade, a soda brand for health-conscious consumers like me who refuse to settle for high-sugar formulas and questionable ingredients. I invited Blake on the podcasts to talk about why he and his co-founders decided to go after the soda industry, what they've learned since launching, and where the biggest opportunity lies from a category and positioning perspective for Spade. Be sure to subscribe to the Dog Whistle Brand Newsletter on Substack here: www.dogwhistlebranding.comOrder my book, “Black Veteran Entrepreneur” here: https://amzn.to/3gme7kgLearn more about Spade here: https://drinkspade.com/

The biggest reason that people don't give to an organization is that they don't trust the way they use the funds. Transparency is critical in growing your base, especially as the number of donors is trending down. There are several ways you can build trust, and it also includes the additional platforms you use to raise money. What you'll learn: → why its harder for nonprofits to build trust. → how impact builds trust. → power of keeping impact manageable. → what to think about with third-party partnerships and platforms. → find ways to engage with people before they're ready to give. → why consistency matters. Want to skip ahead? Here are key takeaways: [3:59] There are too many stories of organizations that haven't used the donations as they were intended. Even if you are fiscally transparent, these experiences still cloud donors, especially new ones. Building trust needs to happen consistently. You do this through sharing impact. [7:01] When the goal is TOO big, people have a hard time understanding how their money will make impact. What is the problem you're solving and how will their donation help – keep it simple and clear. [8:52] Ensure the platform can show where the money is going. Make sure the language is trusted and that you follow up with how the money is being utilized. Give people reports that share where the money went. Better yet, find a platform, like Wishes, that does it in real-time. [19:04] Allow people to support your campaign publicy with prayers and messages of goodwill. By allowing people to show support of a campaign, even if they can't donate, you're building your network and showing more support for the cause. [25:51] Being out on multiple platforms helps build trust through consistency. Showing up where your audience is will give them constant reminders of who you are t you are and the impact you are creating. Resources [quiz] Should You DIY Your Website? Chase Harmer President, Wishes Chase Harmer spent 25+ years as a payments entrepreneur, he is a pioneer in virtual credit card technology with 7 patents since 2013. Founder of ProfitPay, acquired by PayCertify in 2021 with a valuation > $500M. Chase knows how to build enterprise value and process for scale. Chase uses his experience as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute. Now, as the Founder of Wishes, Inc, he and his team have built proprietary technology to revolutionize fundraising. Wishes delivers the resources and financial support needed quicker than any other platform in the market. Learn more at https://wishes.inc    Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-first-click Learn more about The First Click: https://thefirstclick.net Schedule a Digital Marketing Therapy Session: https://thefirstclick.net/officehours 

Chase Harmer is an entrepreneur in the new Fintech era. He is also the Founder and CEO of the newly minted ProfitPay, acquired by OnRiva in 2022 with a valuation of $500M. ProfitPay is an institution that offers credit card issuing, digital banking, and payment processing all through a digital easy-to-understand financial interface to its customers. Chase knows how to build enterprise value and process for scale. Chase uses his experience as a founder to help other entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses as a Lecturer and Mentor at the Founders Institute.    Chase also built an App called "Wishes" that empowers donors with complete transparency on their donations. Donors have visibility into their donation from the time they donate, to when the donation is spent. Wishes was created to answer the question: Where did my donation go?   Join the Wishes Ambassador Program to maximize your impact, earn additional cashback, help your community, and share messages of support with those in need.   Find out more about how you can give confidently with Wishes in the latest episode of The Results Engine Podcast.   Connect with Chase Harmer Linkedin Facebook Wishes Inc.   Connect with Mike Szczesniak Instagram LinkedIn YouTube

GUEST INTRODr. Daniel Reese is an Investment Manager at UVC Partners based in Munich, where he focuses on future tech. He's also a mentor at Techstars Berlin, and a mentor at the Founders Institute. His Ph.D. is in Business Management, which he uses daily when scouting great startups to work with and invest in. WHAT YOU LEARNWhat does deep tech mean to you?What are some examples of deep tech in different sectors?Why you might NOT want to be a VC?How to deal with a VC trying to force their own vision for your startup on you?What type of deep tech are you most excited by right now? EPISODE LINKSreese@uvcpartners.comWATCH ON YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SadadBGXYxE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Product Marketing Managers go through trying times, but possibly the moments where these stresses are most concentrated are when their function is initially being formed, and of course when a new product is being launched. Key decisions are made at these times, and they are extra stressful when you have to make those decisions in a vacuum, without a formulated strategy to guide its development.   Our guest's book takes you through a dry run of this whole process. It gives you questions that begin at the genesis of a product, following through topics that you ought to readily answer at that particular stage.  By testing how well you're able to answer those questions, you can catch any gaps before they turn into stress-inducing all-night work marathons. Yasmeen Turayhi is an authority on  product management. She's taught Bootcamps and workshops for Global companies and universities such as Harvard and MIT, and been a mentor at Founders Institute. In addition to her three books on this subject,  she has also written dramatic screenplays, one of which was feted at International Film Festivals in Beirut and Hollywood. She is the host of "Gateways to Awakening" a podcast dealing with wellness, personal development, and higher consciousness.  

On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Anshuman Gwal, managing partner at Brightside Partners. Located in Toronto, Ontario - Canada, Brightside Partners is an early-stage VC fund investing in startups that improve the way consumers meet their day-to-day needs (retail, healthcare, education, etc. aka foundational Industries). They are launching a venture capital fund to invest in "Day-to-day Tech” (D2D tech - technologies that disrupt incumbents in foundational industries and improve the day-to-day life of an average North American).  Their focus on Foundational industries is complementary to their established core competencies, network with industry-leading incumbents, and deal flow. They have already started sourcing and accelerating startups that are relevant to their thesis (from pre-Seed through Series A investments). They are planning to launch a fund of around $17M with this mandate in early 2023. Ansh, is a strategic leader with over $200M in sales with fortune 500 companies and has managed relationships with large multinationals in Data and AI space. He is highly passionate about connecting with relevant accelerators, startups, and investors to capture their interests and focus areas.  Ansh has managed large technology partnerships and teams across the globe with a strong network in emerging tech hubs such as India that startups value heavily to execute the ideas. He is also very active in influencing startups as a member of the Founders Institute and with various startup accelerator programs. Ansh advises investors and fundraisers and provides seed funding for startups. Visit Brightside Partners at , , AND ON .  Reach out to Ansh at , or .   _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

Noga Edelstein is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur and investor, who has experienced every stage of the startup lifecycle from inception and launch, to funding and exit. She co-founded on-demand home services startup UrbanYou, which scaled rapidly Australia-wide to secure leadership of one of the largest technology-disrupted markets, consolidated the industry with three M&As, and successfully exited via trade sale. Now an early stage investor, Noga is a Venture Partner at Black Nova VC and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Tractor Ventures. Her insight into the startup journey and ability to work hands-on with early-stage founders has seen her mentor 100s of startups at Australia's leading accelerators including Startmate and Founders Institute. She has served on the Board of SBE Australia which supports women-led business and boasts a proven track record of 85% of alumni going on to raise capital. Before founding UrbanYou, Noga worked at top-tier law firms in Sydney and London, and was General Counsel at Yahoo! during its reign as internet pioneer. She has Board experience across a diverse range of corporate, startup and not-for-profit organisations.Noga is an MC and keynote speaker, which might be a result of her teenage experience as a professional actor.Links and ResourcesPodcastsStartup School by Seth GodinMasters of ScaleThe 20 Minute VCBooksThe Hard Thing about Hard Things Play BiggerMore on Scale Investors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Longtime entrepreneur and scaling coach George Morris joins Jim Barnish on this episode to discuss what it takes to build teams of A players who will scale and grow your business.As a founder you likely have some employees who helped you in the startup stage, but will they grow with you beyond that stage? How do you separate the A players and build around them?As you scale, you will have to define who does what and delegate responsibilities. How do you identify and assign your core functions and processes to grow smart?Tune into this episode as George and Jim explore all those questions, and hear his lengthy but amazing recommended reading list. Key TakeawaysLearn the difference between abdicating your responsibility as a founder, and delegating responsibilities to the people who will do it right.Build around your A players. They're the ones who step up and hold themselves and the organization accountable for the work being completed.Learn how to compartmentalize work with your personal life. It does not need to be separated (as many people think), but they should be integrated cohesively. ResourcesGeorge's websiteGeorge's LinkedInThe Art of Manliness podcastSee the Orchid Black page for George's recommended reading listAbout George Morris is a Certified Scaling Up Coach and lifelong entrepreneur. He found success running his digital agency, Imulus. Co-Founded TEDxBoulder, is a Techstars Alumni, Mentor at the Founders Institute, and former President of the Entrepreneur Organization, Colorado Chapter.George has walked the entrepreneur's journey from zero business experience and starting up during awful economic conditions in the dotcom crash, to building a best place to work and a fastest growing company. He happily shares his mistakes and lessons learned with his coaching clients. George is adamant that business fundamentals unlock the potential of teams and organizations. Too many times, companies pile on unnecessary tasks, projects, and systems that slow down their growth. He helps companies shed organizational debt to accelerate their growth by focusing on the goals and the actions needed to get there. He lives just outside of Boulder, Colorado with his two kids and can often be found riding his bikes on the mountain roads.If you love what you are getting out of our show please SUBSCRIBE.For more information on how we dig into the dirt check out our other episodes here: https://www.orchid.black/podcastAll contents of this show are rights of Orchid Black©️ and are not to be used unless authorized by written consent.

Vasco Pedro is no stranger to startups! In 2016 he won the Startup Founder of Year award by Startup Portugal, and has mentored several startups both at the Founders Institute and the Lisbon Challenge. Currently he is the Co-founder and CEO at Unbabel.

Originally from Romania, Mara Rada now calls Canada home. She helps founders and startups figure out the right name for their business, their branding, category strategy, and narrative. A graduate of the University of Ottawa, Mara is very active in the Founders Institute where she helps entrepreneurs get started on their entrepreneurial journey. Find Mara Online: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mararada/ https://twitter.com/mararads https://gossip.social/ https://www.citronade.id/ If you're enjoying Entrepreneur's Enigma, please give us a review on the podcast directory of your choice. We're on all of them and these reviews really help others find the show. Also, if you're getting value from the show and want to buy me a coffee, go to the show notes to get the link to get me a coffee to keep me awake, while I work on bringing you more great episodes to your ears. →  https://gmwd.us/buy-me-a-coffee Follow Seth Online: Seth Goldstein (@sethgoldstein): Twitter.com/sethgoldstein Seth | Digital Marketer (@s3th.me) • Instagram: Instagram,com/s3th.me Seth Goldstein | LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/goldsteinmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conversamos con Sandy Gomez, una de las representantes del Founders Institute en Venezuela, una aceleradora de startups que llegó para brindar las herramientas que necesita tu emprendimiento. ¿Qué es una startup? ¿Cuáles son sus características? ¿Todo emprendimiento puede ser considerado una startup? Como segundo tema abordamos ¿Qué es una aceleradora de startups? Puntualmente conversamos acerca del Founder's Institute en Venezuela, sus actividades y beneficios. El tercer punto es sobre los emprendimientos en Venezuela ¿Se puede emprender? ¿Qué debemos considerar a la hora de empezar un emprendimiento en Venezuela? ¿Es posible un unicornio venezolano? No podemos despedirnos sin agradecer a nuestros patrocinantes que hacen posible este programa, Banplus, Cafe Amanecer, Ron Santa Teresa 1796, Grupo Obelca, Alfa Publicidad, Venezuelan Cargo Brokers y Organización Jurisprudencia del Trabajo OJDT. #emprendimiento #podcastenespañol #aceleradoradeempresas

Today we're joined by Mike Suprovici, Head of Acceleration at VC Lab, the 16 week VC Accelerator spun out of Founders Institute with a vision to help launch no less than 1.000 enduring VC firms by 2025. We're excited to bring you this interview as Mike and his partner in crime Adeo Ressi have made quite a splash worldwide with their program helping more than 100 firms be launched across 5 cohorts and make important VC conceptual innovations like the Proof of Concept-fund, Fund-in-a-box and LP Love be disseminated in the ecosystem. Go register your application for the 7th VC Lab cohort on vcl.to/VC

En este episodio converso con Maria Victoria Langman, Paco Vazquez y Raúl Pérez Gurdian sobre Founders Institute Panamá. un capítulo de Founders Institute, la incubadora de empresas y programa de lanzamiento de startups más grande del mundo. Mantiene capítulos en más de 200 ciudades del mundo. Ofrece programas para emprendedores en etapa inicial, ayudándoles a desarrollar sus ideas de negocios y edificar sus empresas. 

Maria Smithson is the Founder & CEO of The $30K Program. Women earn 17.7% less than men, that's why The $30K Program helps people who identify as women earn an additional $30K within 12 months. For 5+ years, Maria worked as a top staffing recruiter and has interviewed 4,000+ people and placed 100's candidates. While at Experis (an international staffing firm) she was consistently ranked in the top 15% of the 400 talent recruiters & placed candidates at companies like VML, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Google. Additionally, she's a graduate of Founders Institute and lives in Chicago. Connect with Maria: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/smithson3 Maria's call to action: Learn more: https://www.the30kprogram.com/ D's call to action: - Share your biggest takeaway over at Instagram www.instagram.com/dijanallugolli - Rate the podcast on Android or Apple: https://reviewthispodcast.com/insider - Check our website for ways to collaborate with D: www.dijanallugolli.com LOVE + GRATITUDE D --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fearlessandsuccessful/message

Happy Monday Friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. I am back in  the cold Chicago weather. I dropped the ball on my release schedule. I was caught up with the in-laws. My next guest is another total boss babe! She created her own program to empower women. Please welcome PREMIERE guest Mia Smithson! "My name is Maria Smithson & I'm the Founder & CEO of The $30K Program.Women earn 17.7% less than men, that's why The $30K Program helps people who identify as women earn an additional $30K within 12 months.I created The $30K Program because as a woman I didn't feel like I had the tools to negotiate for my business worth. The program shows how to create value while working SMARTER not HARDER. You don't get paid for the hours you put in, you get paid for the value you create. The program shows how to do just that.For 5+ years, I've worked as a top staffing recruiter and have interviewed 4,000+ and placed 100's of candidates. While at Experis (an international staffing firm) I was consistently ranked in the top 15% of the 400+ talent recruiters & placed candidates at companies like VML, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Google. Additionally, I'm a graduate of Founders Institute & live in Chicago."To reach out to Mia or learn more, head to the links below:www.the30kprogram.comhttps://www.instagram.com/the30kprogram/Hello Friends!I have a great deal for you! Support for Label Free Podcast is brought to you by All Things Cling! This next product is so innovative, diverse, cutting-edge and just super cool! Please check out All Things Cling! If you are a professional, teacher, Mom, creative, artist, anyone looking to have the freedom to write on your walls without writing on your walls, this one product is for you! I have a special deal for you! Use code: LABEL15 for 15%  off + FREE shipping + FREE set of Markers! Click the link below:https://www.clingers.com/As always thank you for the support, to contact me directly follow the link below: https://www.labelfreepodcast.com​ Stay Healthy, Stay Ready- Deanna Marie Kuempel #ad​​ #sponsor​

Happy Monday Friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. I am back in  the cold Chicago weather. I dropped the ball on my release schedule. I was caught up with the in-laws. My next guest is another total boss babe! She created her own program to empower women. Please welcome PREMIERE guest Mia Smithson! "My name is Maria Smithson & I'm the Founder & CEO of The $30K Program.Women earn 17.7% less than men, that's why The $30K Program helps people who identify as women earn an additional $30K within 12 months.I created The $30K Program because as a woman I didn't feel like I had the tools to negotiate for my business worth. The program shows how to create value while working SMARTER not HARDER. You don't get paid for the hours you put in, you get paid for the value you create. The program shows how to do just that.For 5+ years, I've worked as a top staffing recruiter and have interviewed 4,000+ and placed 100's of candidates. While at Experis (an international staffing firm) I was consistently ranked in the top 15% of the 400+ talent recruiters & placed candidates at companies like VML, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Google. Additionally, I'm a graduate of Founders Institute & live in Chicago."To reach out to Mia or learn more, head to the links below:www.the30kprogram.comhttps://www.instagram.com/the30kprogram/Hello Friends!I have a great deal for you! Support for Label Free Podcast is brought to you by All Things Cling! This next product is so innovative, diverse, cutting-edge and just super cool! Please check out All Things Cling! If you are a professional, teacher, Mom, creative, artist, anyone looking to have the freedom to write on your walls without writing on your walls, this one product is for you! I have a special deal for you! Use code: LABEL15 for 15%  off + FREE shipping + FREE set of Markers! Click the link below:https://www.clingers.com/As always thank you for the support, to contact me directly follow the link below: https://www.labelfreepodcast.com​ Stay Healthy, Stay Ready- Deanna Marie Kuempel #ad​​ #sponsor​

From small scale businessman in Nigeria to a global consultant, and early stage investor, Edison Gbenga walks us through his journey of living out his wildest dreams. When an avid problem solver like himself found failure after failure in his career and startup life, he had to rethink his philosophy and mindset completely. In this episode, we learn more about the mind blowing dynamics of the booming startup scene in Africa and what it really takes for founders to raise billions, create impact at scale, and stay true to the people they serve.

Montana Butsch is the founder of Spotivity, a double-sided marketplace that supports after-school programs to increase enrollment and participation rates and enables kids and their parents to make the best decisions about using time outside of school hours. Spotivity removes key logistical barriers to entry and promotes positive networking opportunities. This self-sustainable dynamic app will ultimately evolve into a lifestyle/social tool and grow in importance as the user ages. Before Spotivity, Montana was the founder and CEO of significant sports non-profit organization which has served thousands of inner-city children in Chicago and who has formed extensive ties with Chicago business, philanthropy, and government leaders In addition to Spotivity, Montana runs Thin Edge Consulting – a business support firm that focuses on Strategic Initiatives that create opportunities for outreach enterprises in intrepid and thoughtful ways. Through this work, Montana launched the Tech / No Evil annual summit to discuss how technology brings wide-ranging positive impacts to people on a massive scale. Montana has appeared on CBS Nightly News, been featured in the NYTimes, has twice been interviewed on iHeartMedia, and was a 2017 TEDx speaker (IE University). Montana has an elite sporting background (is a member of Oxford University Boat Club, was a participant in the annual Oxford Vs. Cambridge Boat race, and was a National Team trialist) and was once a radio DJ. As a dual national – US and UK – Montana spent his formative years between Chicago and the UK (Isle of Wight and London) and is married to a Spaniard and has two beautiful twins (Bella and Theo). Montana is a Founders Institute graduate, holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (PPE Major), an MBA from IE Brown, and has attended programs at Oxford University (read Education Research) and the Kellogg School of Management (Executive Leadership) Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn here: ◘ https://www.linkedin.com/in/montanabutsch/ Learn more about his business here: ◘ https://www.spotivity.com/ Links that the guest wants to share: ◘ https://www.spotivity.com/blog/

Lunch Hour подкастын маань шинэ дугаарт Exponential Partners-ийн Гүйцэтгэх захирал Ч.Мэргэн оролцлоо. StartUp World Cup болон Founders Institute хөтөлбөрийн талаар ярилцсан юм.Founders Institute-ийн анхны элсэлтэд 322 бүтгүүлснээс 44 нь тэнцэж, 4 гарааны бизнес амжилттай төгссөн байна. Дэлхийн хамгийн том pre-seed accelerator-ийн хөтөлбөрийг амжилттай төгссөн стартапууддаа баяр хүргэе. Төгсөгчдийн үнэлгээ нь $30 тэрбум давжээ.

This episode will answer:Why is Adrian drawn to developing markets like China and Indonesia? What role does technology play here?What motivated Adrian to develop Idapted, a one-on-one English test preparation platform for Chinese students? What were some of the challenges he faced in the process?What is Adrian's science of hiring, and what inspires it?Why does Adrian refer to himself as a “Venturepreneur”?What is AC Academy? How does AC Ventures aim to  educate entrepreneurs through it?Why doesn't Adrian endorse the Chinese 996 work culture?What is Adrian's Barbell Strategy to achieve work-life balance?How does Adrian compare a triathlon with the evolution of a startup? What are the ways to reach the finishing line?What is Adrian's perception of the Indonesian tech startup ecosystem, its qualities, and shortcomings?AboutAdrian Li is Founder and Managing Partner at AC Ventures, a merged fund between Agaeti Ventures and Convergence Ventures. ACV is an early stage Indonesia focused technology venture capital fund. ACV manages 3 funds with a portfolio of over 80 businesses. Some of their noteworthy investments include Payfazz, Koinworks, Julo, Carsome and M17. Previously, Adrian has also been the co-founder of several ventures in Indonesia and China. Adrian's 1st Internet venture was Idapted where as CEO & cofounder he raised 2 rounds of venture financing and led the company to be the largest live one-on-one online English test preparation service  in China. Adrian is also passionate about non-profit work. He founded and chairs a UK Charity called CNYTrust, which supports children in rural China to continue schooling. He is a business mentor at several organisations including Endeavour, Founders Institute and Antler. He has served on the board of Entrepreneurs Organisation in several roles including Beijing Chapter President and Regional Communications Director. He is also a member of Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) in Indonesia. Being a master of several trades, Adrian is also a sponsored endurance athlete, ranked in top 5% in his age group for Ironman 70.3 distances. He has completed several marathons in New York, London, Tokyo and Beijing & triathlons including a full Ironman. Adrian graduated from Cambridge University with a BA and MA in Economics and MBA from Stanford while studying in the dual degree MBA & Education MA program. He is currently enrolled in the Tsinghua OBOR EMBA program. Additionally, he is a Kauffman Fellow in Class of ‘21. He speaks Mandarin and English fluently and is proficient in Cantonese and basic Bahasa.

Neal: Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Jonah Peake from Fresh Brewed Tech. Every Friday at 12:30pm Pacific on Clubhouse and now we record them for you to enjoy as well.  I'm Neal Bloom, entrepreneur, investor, and community builder    Jonah: And I'm Jonah Peake, serial tech operator and investor both, both of us big fans of growing the San Diego tech community. Let's dive into our five stories of the week For week of Aug 27, 2021 ​​Smartphones in the sky: Qualcomm launches first 5G and AI platform targeting commercial drones Qualcomm stated on mars Supplying chips to NASA for Ingenuity helicopter Because why not start with a challenge QQ unveiled tech to power beyond line of site flight on earth  What do you think of this name?  Operation Swarm or Digital Eagle or  Platform is called RB5 5G platform Crop inspection Wsin turbine monitoring Package delivery Mapping Many other application potential Enabling applications like: They are also launching a physical drone kit   ModalAI https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210817005256/en/ModalAI-Serves-as-Distributor-for-Qualcomm%E2%80%99s-World-First-5G-and-AI-Enabled-Drone-Platform-and-Reference-Design   Pretty clever strategy Speed up innovation for commercial applications Drone body, rotors, etc To date 12 flights 1 mile total flight Graduated from demonstration to aerial scout for Perseverance Rover A quick update on Ingenuity:    Rare defense unicorn: San Diego AI startup corrals $210M for drone technology used by military Shield AI is now worth over a billion After raising  Unicorn status completed An AI startup making military surveillance drones Used in combat zones over last 3 years US forces in the middle east Allows operations in low gps Degraded GPS environments They have a platform: Nova-class   Pretty cool origin story   Founded by Navy Seal Brandon Tseng Goal: Help US forces scout for threats  Enter buildings Send back surveillance (maps or photos) An MIT Grad Who sold company WiPower to Qualcomm Brandon teamed up with brother Ryan Who worked on Draper Labs Robotic guidance system Pairing with last founder, Andrew Reiter   Shield has been growing through acquisition   Heron Systems: which makes software designed to power autonomous jets Martin UAV: maker of 125 lb drones launched from vehicles From 200 to nearly 400 Both acquisitions doubled the head count over night Shield is based out of DT SD!    Incubator News - find deadlines and links Founders Institute   Final Admissions Deadline: Sep 19, 2021 San Diego Virtual 2021 Focus: pre-seed startup accelerator,   ConnectAll   Fall 2021 Cohort 5 applications are open! Apply by Aug. 30 Focus: low to moderate income and diverse founders from broad backgrounds   EvoNexus   Rolling Focus: DeepTech (MedTech, FinTech, AI/ML, IoT, Hardware)   Logicboost   Application deadline is September 30, 2021. Focus: SaaS   StartBlue - Looking for mentors https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6Yb63O4zwaYHqAFDDEwKJTa0tTd5X0W0QfyWIgdqWrNfwNg/viewform Focus: StartBlue, the new accelerator from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Rady School of Management Please complete this form by Friday, September 10, 2021 for consideration.   Techstars Anywhere   October 6, 2021 Program starts January Join the Techstars Anywhere three-month virtual accelerator to gain funding, mentorship, and access to the Techstars network for life. We Tha Plug - We Tha Incubator - https://www.wethaplug.com/new-page Application for Cohort 2 due September 24, 2021 Have applied to an accelerator or incubator, but have not been accepted. Have been working on an idea, but cant figure out steps next.   Launched and still not getting the traction you need to scale.  Focus:    Torrey Project - https://www.torreyproject.org/bootcamp We are offering a discounted early bird rate for our tuition until August 31st. Entrepreneurs who embrace stakeholder capitalism and use their business as a force for good.   PureWater SD project - San Diego launching Pure Water, largest infrastructure project in city's history It's formally been launched 3 years ago sewage recycling system that will boost local water independence Multi Billion Dollar Project named: Pure Water  Slowing it down Some Nimby Some Toilet to Tap That has navigated through a number of lawsuits   This story might be a little misleading   Broke ground 3 years ago Stalling at a construction of a few critical components   The 3 essential pieces:   Sewage purification plant in Miramar A pipeline through Clairemont supplying the plant Pump station in Morena   At completion of the first phase in 2025   34 million gallons of potable water / day Another 53 million gallons come online in 2035 This project will drop imported water from 85% to less than 50% Prior to this project, only 8% of sewage had been recycled into irrigation water What are the steps of the water purification? Ozonization:  Ozone gas destroys microorganisms,  then consumers and converted them into O2 helpful bacteria thrive in O2 environment Consuming 30-50% anything that was or is living Biological activated filters,  Steps:   Membrane filtration   Particles, viruses, bacteria  Only salt, water and other very small molecules can pass through 300 times narrower than a human hair pulling out additional materials 50k smaller than smallest bacteria Reverse osmosis,    Ultraviolet Disinfection   Light (similar to extremely concentrated sunlight) Destroys DNA of any microbes left Other contaminants This results in water that meets or exceeds standards  But we need to factor in a rise in price  This is slightly more expensive at current rates Orange County produces 70 million gallons of purified water per day and is in the process of expanding production to 100 million gallons per day.  Singapore, Australia, Virginia, Texas, and Colorado Growing need and others are looking at this system: IPOs - Carlsbad-based Tyra Bio files for IPO https://endpts.com/ra-capital-aims-to-take-preclinical-biotech-to-nasdaq-as-tyra-files-s-1-during-summer-lull/   Fundings - ShieldAI - $200M Series D AdarxPharm - $75M ContaktWorld - $1.35M Acq - SOCi acq Anaheim-based Brandify https://www.sdbj.com/news/2021/aug/15/soci-makes-first-acquisition/   Highmetric acquires NewRocket https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/highmetric-acquires-newrocket-301359129.html Ra Medical  acq by Strata Skincare https://www.marketwatch.com/story/strata-skin-sciences-acquires-u-s-dermatology-business-of-ra-medical-271629147631 Copia https://www.sdbj.com/news/2021/aug/19/san-diego-based-biosurplus-merges-form-copia-scien/   Carwave acq by Kar for $450M https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kar-to-accelerate-dealer-to-dealer-growth-profitability-through-acquisition-of-carwave-301360260.html   Find us on twitter / Linkedin: @NealBloom & JonahPeake And find this news and more at FreshBrewedTech.com

Luciana Leal, graduada em Relações Internacionais e mestre em Inovação Educacional, é a entrevistada desta semana no Empreendedor 10. Ela sempre foi apaixonada por artes e tecnologia. Até que em um bate papo com seu irmão notou a necessidade de ter uma página online que encontrasse tatuadores, com avaliações e por localização. Daí, surgiu a Find Tattoo, que começou como um blog, depois colocou a função de cadastro de tatuadores com vendas de flash tattoo. Hoje já tem agenda para o tatuador, a possibilidade de que os tatuadores recebam orçamentos, e tenham até controle de quantas tattoos estão sendo fechadas. Foram acelerados pelo Founders Institute em 2019 e fizeram a cartilha minha tatu, minhas regras, que fica disponível para download na plataforma da Find Tattoo. Acredita que tem responsabilidade social, como pessoas e empresas, e por isso o slogan é: seja plural e esteja seguro! Crê também que o mais importante é que as pessoas se sintam seguras onde quer que estejam. E é isso que a move aqui! Não perca de segunda à sexta, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral. #empreendedor10 #rocktronic #empreendedor #empreendedorismo

Luciana Leal, graduada em Relações Internacionais e mestre em Inovação Educacional, é a entrevistada desta semana no Empreendedor 10. Ela sempre foi apaixonada por artes e tecnologia. Até que em um bate papo com seu irmão notou a necessidade de ter uma página online que encontrasse tatuadores, com avaliações e por localização. Daí, surgiu a Find Tattoo, que começou como um blog, depois colocou a função de cadastro de tatuadores com vendas de flash tattoo. Hoje já tem agenda para o tatuador, a possibilidade de que os tatuadores recebam orçamentos, e tenham até controle de quantas tattoos estão sendo fechadas. Foram acelerados pelo Founders Institute em 2019 e fizeram a cartilha minha tatu, minhas regras, que fica disponível para download na plataforma da Find Tattoo. Acredita que tem responsabilidade social, como pessoas e empresas, e por isso o slogan é: seja plural e esteja seguro! Crê também que o mais importante é que as pessoas se sintam seguras onde quer que estejam. E é isso que a move aqui! Não perca de segunda à sexta, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral. #empreendedor10 #rocktronic #empreendedor #empreendedorismo

Luciana Leal, graduada em Relações Internacionais e mestre em Inovação Educacional, é a entrevistada desta semana no Empreendedor 10. Ela sempre foi apaixonada por artes e tecnologia. Até que em um bate papo com seu irmão notou a necessidade de ter uma página online que encontrasse tatuadores, com avaliações e por localização. Daí, surgiu a Find Tattoo, que começou como um blog, depois colocou a função de cadastro de tatuadores com vendas de flash tattoo. Hoje já tem agenda para o tatuador, a possibilidade de que os tatuadores recebam orçamentos, e tenham até controle de quantas tattoos estão sendo fechadas. Foram acelerados pelo Founders Institute em 2019 e fizeram a cartilha minha tatu, minhas regras, que fica disponível para download na plataforma da Find Tattoo. Acredita que tem responsabilidade social, como pessoas e empresas, e por isso o slogan é: seja plural e esteja seguro! Crê também que o mais importante é que as pessoas se sintam seguras onde quer que estejam. E é isso que a move aqui! Não perca de segunda à sexta, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral. #empreendedor10 #rocktronic #empreendedor #empreendedorismo

Luciana Leal, graduada em Relações Internacionais e mestre em Inovação Educacional, é a entrevistada desta semana no Empreendedor 10. Ela sempre foi apaixonada por artes e tecnologia. Até que em um bate papo com seu irmão notou a necessidade de ter uma página online que encontrasse tatuadores, com avaliações e por localização. Daí, surgiu a Find Tattoo, que começou como um blog, depois colocou a função de cadastro de tatuadores com vendas de flash tattoo. Hoje já tem agenda para o tatuador, a possibilidade de que os tatuadores recebam orçamentos, e tenham até controle de quantas tattoos estão sendo fechadas. Foram acelerados pelo Founders Institute em 2019 e fizeram a cartilha minha tatu, minhas regras, que fica disponível para download na plataforma da Find Tattoo. Acredita que tem responsabilidade social, como pessoas e empresas, e por isso o slogan é: seja plural e esteja seguro! Crê também que o mais importante é que as pessoas se sintam seguras onde quer que estejam. E é isso que a move aqui! Não perca de segunda à sexta, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral. #empreendedor10 #rocktronic #empreendedor #empreendedorismo

Luciana Leal, graduada em Relações Internacionais e mestre em Inovação Educacional, é a entrevistada desta semana no Empreendedor 10. Ela sempre foi apaixonada por artes e tecnologia. Até que em um bate papo com seu irmão notou a necessidade de ter uma página online que encontrasse tatuadores, com avaliações e por localização. Daí, surgiu a Find Tattoo, que começou como um blog, depois colocou a função de cadastro de tatuadores com vendas de flash tattoo. Hoje já tem agenda para o tatuador, a possibilidade de que os tatuadores recebam orçamentos, e tenham até controle de quantas tattoos estão sendo fechadas. Foram acelerados pelo Founders Institute em 2019 e fizeram a cartilha minha tatu, minhas regras, que fica disponível para download na plataforma da Find Tattoo. Acredita que tem responsabilidade social, como pessoas e empresas, e por isso o slogan é: seja plural e esteja seguro! Crê também que o mais importante é que as pessoas se sintam seguras onde quer que estejam. E é isso que a move aqui! Não perca de segunda à sexta, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral. #empreendedor10 #rocktronic #empreendedor #empreendedorismo

Business Scape is a podcast program where we discuss with NSP Scholars, topics, issues, and the nuances that exist while running a business in Nigeria. In this program, we aim to crystallize the collective views of the NSP crop of students, as regards their experience building and delivering solutions in Nigeria. In this first episode, we talk about the struggles of running a business in Nigeria and how to work around them, Infrastructure blindness, and the Fintech Bias. Hosts Ayobami Bamigboye Ayobami is a Cloud Engineer and Concept Designer. At least, when his alter-ego is in check, he is all concerned about finding ways to solve problems using Technology and Entrepreneurship. He is interested in Space Exploration and Education. At NSP he is Darkenstein. Ebunoluwa Alabi Ebun Alabi is a Product Engineer, and she is passionate about developing solutions that can help optimize processes, drive efficient decision making and ultimately deliver value that can be evaluated in monetary terms. Guests Jordan Ajibola Jordan is a dynamic business/data analyst professional with broad experience in the banking & finance and technology industries. He has been involved in the entire cycle of product development from research, problem identification, conceptualization, design, testing, packaging, and marketing. He leads the team at Deliva Goods. Boluwa Olojo Boluwa is seasoned in Marketing, Communications, Growth, and Sales professional with over 5 years of experience. She is skilled at ensuring that stories of companies are told creatively and the products are sold profitably. She have worked in Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Industry. As a consultant, my clients have been from various segments; FMCG, Financial Institutions, Automobile, Oil and Gas, Transportation, Government Agencies, and Recruitment Companies. She leads the team at Go Ads Africa, where she helps brands buy and track online and offline ads for the best prices in the market. She is a strong Advocate for Gender Equality, doing my bit to bridge the inequality gap with ElectHER. Boluwatife Arewa Boluwatife (Bolu') Arewa is a graduate of Alibaba Business School and Founders Institute (fi.co), and Operations and Strategy Development personnel with certification in operations management from Vanderbilt University Nashville, who works closely with the tech-enabled and social inclined startups Sectors. His experience spans Business Development, Operations Management, and Strategy Development. Bolu' has managed operations across three continents with the topmost firm in Nigeria when it comes to the deployment of computer-based screening tests.

O entrevistado desta semana no Empreendedor 10 é o Daniel Melo, co-fundador da MedLogic, empresa especializada em atenção aos idosos e ADDHERE para suporte ao diagnóstico de TDAH. ⠀ Daniel é engenheiro mecatrônico e desenvolvedor sênior, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em empreendedorismo nos setores de software e saúde. ⠀ Ele é graduado no programa de aceleração do Founders Institute (fi.co) e d SEED. E tem MBA Executivo Empresarial pela Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University - Palo Alto/CA, Gestão em Processos de Negócio, Lisboa – Portugal, Especialização em Negócios Internacionais – IBMEC. ⠀ Não perca de hoje à sexta (29/3 a 2/4), às 10 horas, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! ⠀ O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral.

O entrevistado desta semana no Empreendedor 10 é o Daniel Melo, co-fundador da MedLogic, empresa especializada em atenção aos idosos e ADDHERE para suporte ao diagnóstico de TDAH. ⠀ Daniel é engenheiro mecatrônico e desenvolvedor sênior, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em empreendedorismo nos setores de software e saúde. ⠀ Ele é graduado no programa de aceleração do Founders Institute (fi.co) e do SEED. E tem MBA Executivo Empresarial pela Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University - Palo Alto/CA, Gestão em Processos de Negócio, Lisboa – Portugal, Especialização em Negócios Internacionais – IBMEC. ⠀ Não perca de hoje à sexta (29/3 a 2/4), às 10 horas, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! ⠀ O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral.

O entrevistado desta semana no Empreendedor 10 é o Daniel Melo, co-fundador da MedLogic, empresa especializada em atenção aos idosos e ADDHERE para suporte ao diagnóstico de TDAH. ⠀ Daniel é engenheiro mecatrônico e desenvolvedor sênior, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em empreendedorismo nos setores de software e saúde. ⠀ Ele é graduado no programa de aceleração do Founders Institute (fi.co) e do SEED. E tem MBA Executivo Empresarial pela Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University - Palo Alto/CA, Gestão em Processos de Negócio, Lisboa – Portugal, Especialização em Negócios Internacionais – IBMEC. ⠀ Não perca de hoje à sexta (29/3 a 2/4), às 10 horas, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! ⠀ O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral.

O entrevistado desta semana no Empreendedor 10 é o Daniel Melo, co-fundador da MedLogic, empresa especializada em atenção aos idosos e ADDHERE para suporte ao diagnóstico de TDAH. ⠀ Daniel é engenheiro mecatrônico e desenvolvedor sênior, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em empreendedorismo nos setores de software e saúde. ⠀ Ele é graduado no programa de aceleração do Founders Institute (fi.co) e do SEED. E tem MBA Executivo Empresarial pela Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University - Palo Alto/CA, Gestão em Processos de Negócio, Lisboa – Portugal, Especialização em Negócios Internacionais – IBMEC. ⠀ Não perca de hoje à sexta (29/3 a 2/4), às 10 horas, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! ⠀ O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral.

O entrevistado desta semana no Empreendedor 10 é o Daniel Melo, co-fundador da MedLogic, empresa especializada em atenção aos idosos e ADDHERE para suporte ao diagnóstico de TDAH. ⠀ Daniel é engenheiro mecatrônico e desenvolvedor sênior, com mais de 15 anos de experiência em empreendedorismo nos setores de software e saúde. ⠀ Ele é graduado no programa de aceleração do Founders Institute (fi.co) e do SEED. E tem MBA Executivo Empresarial pela Fundação Dom Cabral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Stanford University - Palo Alto/CA, Gestão em Processos de Negócio, Lisboa – Portugal, Especialização em Negócios Internacionais – IBMEC. ⠀ Não perca de hoje à sexta (29/3 a 2/4), às 10 horas, com reprise às 22 horas, na www.rocktronic.com.br! ⠀ O Empreendedor 10 é um programa especial da Rocktronic, produzido pela Silvana Braga, com roteiro e apresentação de Flávio Amaral.

View the full video interview here. E-commerce grew 40% in 2020 largely driven by the pandemic. This is the highest growth in almost two decades and nearly triple the 15% growth in 2019. Subha Shetty is the newly appointed VP of Loyalty Projects at Synchrony, a leading consumer financial company and the world’s largest private label credit card. She came to Synchrony via an acquisition of Loop Commerce, a groundbreaking e-commerce start-up, where she headed Product, Design and Analytics. Subha is a seasoned product leader with 15+ years of e-commerce, retail and SaaS expertise in both big and small companies like eBay, Walmart.com, Upwork (2018 IPO). She has created market leading products from scratch that are at the intersection of technology, data, AI and customer experience such as the Walmart To-Go solution in 2010 that pioneered online grocery delivery and the relaunch of Zenfolio from a boutique brand to a leading SaaS solution for photographers. Subha is passionate about elevating the role of product and product managers and helping startup founders, especially during the pandemic. She sponsors events for Women-in-Product, is a mentor to leading start-up accelerators like 500 Start-ups & Founders Institute and an active advisor and angel investor. Subha obtained her MBA from University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and lives in the bay area with her husband and energetic 7 year-old son.

Ankur is the Founder of Hostel Fund, A Startup Fund for Students by Students powered by investors and industry experts (www.hostel.fund). He is also a VC at SenseAI Ventures, India's leading VC fund backing AI startups. A member of the National Startup Council of India (CII). Apart from all of these, He is an advisor at multiple startups and a mentor @ Founders Institute. In this podcast, we discussed about his life as a VC and funding Student Startups.

— “Be First, Be Daring, and Be Different, to always strive to be a winner, have the guts to do something no-one else has done, have the tenacity and perseverance to be daring in reaching my dreams, and be unique” Valeria Teles interviews Khaled Khorshid — the author of “RISE ABOVE DISRUPTION: A Journey of Self-Realization that will motivate, inspire, and give you hope to find your own Zen.” Khaled Khorshid is a tech executive with a 30-year career in growing and managing multi-billion-dollar telecom companies in North America, Africa, and Asia. Agent of change with a dual Master's degree in “Coaching and Consulting for Change” from the University of Oxford and HEC of Paris. Khaled is an Adjunct Faculty on Digital Strategy and Transformational Change at the American University in Cairo. He volunteers as a Motivational and Career Mentor at the Founders Institute, a global startup incubator (https://www.fi.co). He is the author of “Rise Above Disruption”, a non-fiction documentation of his successful journey — as it was evolving — of coping with 5 simultaneous life traumas within 24 months that included surviving bankruptcy, divorce, and cancer. A self-claimed “true global citizen” who lived in 8 and visited 60 countries. The book is a self-help, motivational, and hope-finding book that will inspire readers to see happiness that always exists within themselves. His approach in applying his knowledge and experience is to practice and promote love of self and others; strive to change and transform from the status quo to the higher, better, truer version of self and others; to rejuvenate relationships with family, friends, and loved ones; to find and nurturing one's passions; to face and pacify one's fears and insecurities; and, to motivate and encourage self and others in the quest to see hope and happiness in everything we do. In this age of urgency, we seldom stop to think and evaluate our lives to identify the parts of our personality that need to evolve to reach a better version of ourselves. Khaled helps people synchronize their hearts, minds, and souls in the effort to cope and accept the never-ending changes all around them. To learn more about Khaled Khorshid and his work please visit: https://www. khaledkhorshid.com/   — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

Luke is a Co-founder of ICwhatUC an industry leading augmented reality virtual work platform that helps the mobile workforce execute remote work. Luke contributes regularly as a speaker, mentor and writer on the topic of workplace innovation and field work transformation.  Luke is a 4-time founder and active angel investor.  He launched his first venture in University and grew it for several years before exiting. Luke is a director of several for-profit and non-profit ventures and is an active advisor. Additionally Luke is a mentor for Founders Institute, a Startup Canada Expert Advisor, a judge for the BC New Ventures Competition and part of the Calgary Innovation Council.

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Learn more about mmhmmLearn more about the reasoning behind the name, plus see the platform in actionSupport the show and even get on monthly mentorship calls with Fabian. Join here.Full Transcript:Fabian Geyrhalter:Welcome to the show, Phil,Phil Libin:Thank you. Nice to be here.Fabian Geyrhalter:Based on your new video communication tools, really neat demo in which you are actually the star. We now know that you have 123,195 unread emails back then when you filmed that. I'm thrilled you were able to take the time to be,Phil Libin:It's climbed a little bit since then.Fabian Geyrhalter:I had a feeling. I had a feeling. As a little intro, maybe it's not so little after all, but here's the story, how Fabian met Phil. We really only met twice, but a common acquaintance of ours in the Silicon Valley startup world contacted me to tell me about how the former CEO and confounder of Evernote has created this mind blowing new way of conducting and experiencing online meetings. He then told me that he would like to make an introduction, since he believes that I'm an amazing speaker. Those were his words, not mine. That he would like to have Phil give me VIP access to test drive his presentation tool in private beta. I was flattered obviously. Then he shared his secret agenda with me, which you most probably don't know, Phil. He wanted to make sure I could use my intro call with Phil to persuade him to change his mind on his company's name, because it was a very, very strange and crazy name.I got a slot on Phil's schedule a week from that call, but then on the very next day, I found myself mentoring a group of Founder Institute students. I think it was in Singapore or London, who knows, somewhere and as they introduced the two other mentors of the day to the group, there was Phil on the call, mentoring students on, and now hold your breath, naming, with me! How to create the perfect theme for your startup. Here I am my dreams of convincing a man to change his company name after mentoring a group of founders on naming had been shattered. His naming presentation was marvelous, and even the reasoning behind his new company's name started to make at least a little bit more sense. One sentence stuck with me. Phil, you said creating a great name is the down payment on your reputation. I have since tried out your presentation tool and it truly is game changing. While I have seen your new brand with that very name and all launched very, very successfully. Phil, why don't we start with the name? Mmhmm? Will you tell my audience or shall I reveal the name?Phil Libin:Please go for it.Fabian Geyrhalter:Oh, I think I just did.Phil Libin:MaybeFabian Geyrhalter:This is very confusing. Your platform's name is Mmhmm. M-M-H-M-M, correct? That is hilarious, like many things you say. It was important to have a name that you can see while you're eating. You can do that. I definitely checked off that goal. What are the goals did you have with the name when you said set off to create this name?Phil Libin:There's lots of jokey reasons about why we, when we named it that. In factI just put up a demo of Mmhmm. Users demo and some of our new features, talking about all of it, or at least some of the very jokey reasons for it, but really, I wanted something unique. I wanted an unusual name. In that mentoring session that you and I did at Founders Institute, I didn't talk about the name Mmhmm. It was still secret back then. I don't think I advise people to do anything like this. This is definitely not the conventional way of naming products, but we've been making and naming things for a few decades we wanted to do something different.Fabian Geyrhalter:What I found so intriguing about Mmhmm is that you told me that it might just be crazy enough that, in half a year from now or so, we may see all these legacy companies start struggling to come up with similar names as they will try to compete with Mmhmm. They're going to try to fit in, and they're going to have a really, really hard time fitting in with a name like Mmhmm. Now that your platform has launched it all looks really not crazy, but really ingenious because you created a talking point. Not only is the app, the platform, the experience something totally new, something totally different, but you matched it with a name that is so different that everyone grins. I've seen a couple of interviews or people talking about the platform and everyone who talks about it just has to mention the name and has to talk about it. It's really ingenious talking points, so how could we have ever questioned you, Phil?Phil Libin:I think people make fun of the name a lot, which obviously we knew it would happen and you can't be afraid of being made fun of. That is probably the fear that holds back the most creative people from doing things in life and it's okay. It's okay to have something that's funny. That's going to be the talking point. We were very much not convinced in the beginning, and I'm still not convinced, that Mmhmm isn't a really bad name. It might be. It might be a terrible name, or it might be a great name. Actually quite likely it's both, it's probably really good for some things and really bad for other things, but that's sort of typical.That's typical of things that are sharp. They are both great and terrible. It just comes down to optimizing. You don't net those out, the bad things don't take away from the good things or vice versa. You just have to decide what's more important. I think for most things, many things in life, but not all, but most things creatively, the positive is more important than the negative. You don't pick the name that's the least bad, or that averages out to the best. You pick the name that's the best, even if that name is also the worst, because then at least you're guaranteed not to have a name that's boring. T that's the worst case scenario, is just something that no one remembers.Fabian Geyrhalter:Especially for a brand like yours, where it's anything but boring, you actually want to shatter that idea of boring online meetings. It starts to have personality and you couldn't have a name that is not fun, or doesn't have personality, or it doesn't shake things up.Phil Libin:We could have.Fabian Geyrhalter:You could have, but it's smart that you didn't.Phil Libin:Our actual thinking was that the product that Mmhmm the product, the company, it's really for performing. We think about what is the verb that you do in our product. We decided pretty early on that we aren't trying to be a communication product. We're not trying to be a collaboration product. There's a lot of those, there's a lot of very good ones. We're not trying to replace where your team works together. We're not trying to be the new Slack or Figma. We're not a place to hang out and meet interesting people like Clubhouse. What you do in Mmhmm, the verb, is you perform. Mmhmm is for performing and it's for micro performances. Our theory is that everyone is a performer now. Everyone has multiple times every day where you say, attention on me, I'm going to do a bit. I'm doing something right now.Pay attention to me. You're on. Maybe only for a few seconds, or a few minutes, or maybe for a long time, some of these micro performances are pretty macro, but you're always performing. You're performing for your coworkers, for your kids, for your investors, for your social media followers, whatever. Mmhmm is the thing that elevates that performance, especially over video, since all of us are now living on video, it's more important than ever, because for most people performing over video is just dreary and ineffective. The product is for performing. I really liked the idea that the name Mmhmm is a name that is extremely easy to say accidentally. Everyone says that, just in this conversation. I think.Fabian Geyrhalter:Mm-hmm (affirmative).Phil Libin:We both said it just in agreement. Exactly. You just notice it all the time now. It's trivial. Everyone can say it without thinking about it, but if you want to say it intentionally, if you want to say it on purpose, like say it as the name of the product, even I have to like pause for half a second consider how I'm going to say it. Consider which syllable am I going to inflect? I have to take a half second pause, I have to breathe, and then I have to say it. Every single time you say the name intentionally, it's like a little performance. I thought it was really beautiful that the product that's meant to elevate your performance starts with a little mini performance every time even think or say the name.Fabian Geyrhalter:Performance that is so natural, like riding a bike, but then explaining how to ride a bike. That's the problem. Actually having to say, Mmhmm, it just takes an effort, which-Phil Libin:There's something really interesting about the mindfulness and the intentionality of it. Something very zen. I'd like the idea of know every other thing that I've ever named, every other company or product. In fact, every other product name, I think, that I've ever encountered in my life, you can say it thoughtlessly. You can say it. You just rattle it off, after you learn it after the first couple of times you learn it, you just say it and it doesn't mean anything. You can say it without thinking. I think it's really unique to have a name that you can't say thoughtlessly, at least I haven't been able to get, and I've been saying it for a couple of months now. You can't say thoughtlessly. It mindful. It's almost a zen thing, which I find really beautiful, but also completely realized that people are going to make fun of it and that's totally fine. We decided to lean into their making fun of it. We had all sorts of jokey reasons about.Fabian Geyrhalter:You really bring that home. You're not hiding that, because it's impossible to hide! I think it's also hilarious how even during this conversation Mmhmm keeps coming up and now I'm super self-aware, because now it's actually your brand. You have completely brainstormed us. Every time we say Mmhmm, we're like, oh, that's right. Which is definitely more effective than if you just casually say Zoom.Phil Libin:Yeah and I think Zoom is actually a really good name for that kind of product. It's good. It's great. I think we try to do something both a little bit better and a little bit worse, and we knew that it would be simultaneously better and worse. We were fine with that, because we really care about the better part. We discount the worst part.Fabian Geyrhalter:You leaned into it, celebrated it. On your LinkedIn, you have these hilarious one liners describing your roles. For your time at Evernote, you state, "Assembling a brilliant and hardworking group of people, then making sure you have enough coffee to change the world." and for Carrot Fertility, you write, "Help with strategy and product design, all my name ideas have been rejected." that is the description of you advising Carrot Fertility. Sometimes you're swimming against the stream with your naming ideas and people do question them, so-Phil Libin:Usually.Fabian Geyrhalter:That's hilarious, but back to the whole Mmhmm brand and how it came together. The logo, which by the way is really, really cool. It reminds me a bit of the flexibility of the iconic MTV mark and those of us who, you and I are close in age.We remember that iconic MTV mark. It's a three-dimensional cube made up of really fat letters. That's what yours is like, M-H-M, which lends itself to any color or image effect, hence perfectly showcasing what Mmhmm is all about. It's about versatility and presentation. Then that's what that entire cube is about and the way that you guys rolled it out, you guys and girls over the last couple of weeks, how did that logo get crafted? I know you were very hands-on with the name and the copy, since it is very much your style, but how much so with the visual aspects of the brand?Phil Libin:I love the way that the logo came out. It's actually the name, it's M-M-H-M-M, just the other two Ms are on the other side of the cube.Fabian Geyrhalter:Correct, correct.Phil Libin:You can't see them, but if it'll ever rotate it'll do that. I have no discernible talents. I had very little to do with actually like making or drawing it. I've worked closely with the designers. I'm just lucky enough, we have amazingly talented visual designers. The logo was a collaborative effort. It was made by Carlos [Rockford 00:00:12:57], and Allie [Packard 00:00:12:58], Gabe [Kapadoniko 00:13:00], Chris [Plobe 00:13:00], a bunch of us brainstormed on it, did iterations. We all live in Figma. I actually left off a few people who worked on it, because there was like a dozen people, but Carlos and Allie were the two main visual designers at All Turtles that worked on this. We all live in Figma, so we just spent, it was a couple of weeks of diving in and exploring lots of variations and talking about them and trying out many, many different things. I used to do this. I think I actually did that. I did a little presentation during our FI class together about the Evernote logo. We talked about the process we went through.Fabian Geyrhalter:You have, you have, and that's actually one of the topics I want to jump into, but yeah.Phil Libin:I think we will eventually do, it's a little bit presumptuous to do this for Mmhmm. Let's see if it's actually successful in a few more months, but I'll probably do a similar thing, but it was great, but the short answer is I'm a ridiculously talented designers and let them do what they do and try not to get in the way too much.Fabian Geyrhalter:I think it's overly smart to actually to actually hide the rest of the name behind the logo, because it is three dimensional, which also speaks so much about how your presentation tool is actually changing the experience, because everything suddenly becomes more dimensional and you add all of these layers. In a way, seeing that the name is different and is problematic. The logo is too, because now you're only showing half of the name, which already is problematic, but if you actually look at the big picture, it is really ingenious and it's absolutely cool. I would invite everyone to at least check out the Instagram handle and take a look at some of those variations of the Mmhmm logo, because it comes to life really nicely.Phil Libin:Almost daily we're posting different variations of it on Instagram. It's just beautiful. Clever and interesting, fine, but it's just beautiful. There are versions of it and some of the treatments that honestly make me want to cry when I see them. They're just so nice. I'm just overwhelmed by the talent of the team. A lot of times it's playful, you mentioned the old MTV logo and that was definitely an inspiration, like very much so in fact, really early in the process, I said, I love that the eighties MTV logo and the fact that I can remember versions of it, where it was furry, or had a leopard print, [crosstalk 00:15:25] around, it would go to the moon. I really loved that vibe. We very much wanted to capture some of that spirit, as an homage to that early burst of creativity around MTV.Fabian Geyrhalter:I'm glad my mind reading skills are still there. The beauty of that is that it can survive a decade without a problem, because you can just adjust it to whatever the next trend is in logo design and it's still the same logo and I think that's-Phil Libin:It's rarely the same twice in fact. In fact, we already have probably a hundred different treatments of it. The shape itself stays the same, but we specifically made it to, it contains multitudes. We can put things inside of it. We can put it on top of other things. It's meant to be constantly changing and adjusting its mood, just like the idea of that what the product does.The product is consistent hopefully, but what you can do with it is endless. We want it to get some of that spirit across.Fabian Geyrhalter:What has been the biggest success of the past weeks since launch? We talked before launch, I think you said you're going to launch on June. What was it June 43rd?Phil Libin:37th.Fabian Geyrhalter:37th. Did you launch on the 37th? You made it?Phil Libin:July 7th, also known as June 37th. Originally the joke it was, I told investors that was going to launch in June, that the beta was going to launch in June. Then we actually looked at the schedule and how much work we had to do. We're like, well, okay. June 30th. The last day in June. I wanted to make sure I was true to my word. We decided to launch it on June 30th, but then we realized that that was right before the 4th of July weekend, which in the US you don't want to launch right before then, because I want employees to be able to enjoy the weekend without the death march of saying, "Oh, we just launched and there's bugs and whatever." so we decided to just postpone it by a week, but at that point I already told investors sometime in June. It was easy to just say, well, June 37.Fabian Geyrhalter:Since then, what has been the biggest success? Or how do you or will you measure success with Mmhmm?Phil Libin:It's way too early. We're only a few weeks into this. We're only a month old or something, depending on when this airs. Way too early to declare any success, the way we measure, the way we're going to measure success is impact. What we care about is making the world a little bit better, because our product exists in it, than it would be if a product didn't exist in it. For Mmhmm specifically, that's about getting into the hands of people whose careers lives, jobs, art, whatever will be enhanced, will be improved, because they've got access to this product. It's really a community measure of success. We are starting to, very early days, but starting to work very carefully about getting this into schools, into the hands of teachers and students, but also to artists, and performers, and entrepreneurs. At least in the beta, we want use cases of people who can literally say, "Something important in my life, my job, my career, and my art, my studies, my teaching, something important to me was made better, because I used this product." once we have that, then we can think about, can we make that true for 10 people, for 10 million people, for a billion people, the scaling comes after the impact.Fabian Geyrhalter:I like that. This is only one of many products that share your vision of making entrepreneurship get the job done, as you call it, with your company All Turtles. How did the All Turtles name come about? It is definitely a very unusual name and I assume you're not all moving extremely slowly in your software development. Besides June 37th, but tell me the story behind the Turtles.Phil Libin:I think it was almost a dry run for Mmhmm, I wanted something unusual. What we're doing at All Turtles is I think a fairly unique model. It's very easy to compare us to other things that feel like they're similar to it. Various incubators, and accelerators, and labs. That's inevitable, of course, we're going to be compared to that and that's fine at the end of the day, everyone wants to compare things to everything else. It's okay, but we wanted an unusual enough name so that it added some friction. I wanted a name that was so unusual that it forced you to make a new box in your head to put it in, so that it wasn't natural to like, oh, okay, it's one of these.And stick it into the box next to other things. Obviously, that's asking a lot for a name. We don't expect the name to do quite that much heavy lifting, but that was the philosophy behind it. It comes from turtles all the way down, which is, I think it's a Bertrand Russell anecdote or reference, it's probably apocryphal, but the idea is Bertrand Russell was giving a lecture about the structure of the solar system. At the end, everyone claps, but except there's one old woman that gets up. In the story, it's always an old woman, because old stories are always misogynists. In fact, when I was telling the origin story originally, I was to say, and then this old person gets up. Then my confounder, Jessica, was going to be corrected and be like, "No, the story is old woman, because [crosstalk 00:21:06] misogynist. Don't mask that just say old woman." you're right. Whenever I disagree with Jessica, like 98% of the time, she's right. A good quality to have in cofounders.This old woman gets up and says, "Oh, everyone knows that this is totally wrong, what you said, because really the earth rests on the back of a giant turtle." and he says, "Well, that doesn't make any sense. If that's true, then what's the turtle resting on?" and she says, "Everyone knows that! It's turtles all the way down." it comes from that, it's turtles all the way down. Whatever we've built, we did it, because we stand on the shoulders of the people who came before us. We hopefully support the next generation of people who are going to build the stuff on top of what we make.Fabian Geyrhalter:It's a nice story. Of course, when you go to allturtles.com, all you see is All Turtles. Literally it is a site about turtlesPhil Libin:That is not our website, but yeah, that's true. Our website is all hyphen turtles.com. [crosstalk 00:22:06] turtles URLs.Fabian Geyrhalter:Which brings me to the ever-fascinating topic of mine. How important is having a dot com to a brand these days, in your opinion? Everyone knows my opinion, but in your opinion, how do you advise startups on this?Phil Libin:Look. I don't think it's that important. I know you think you do it is. I think, look, it's nice to have, but if you look at the list of 10,000 things that are nice to have, or even 20 things that are nice to have, I wouldn't rate this in the top five. I just don't think that most entrepreneurs have time to work on anything other than the top five most important things. Until they do, until you're much bigger and better resourced and whatever. I would say, I would try to get the dot com and if you can get a great, and if you can't, I wouldn't let that block you from doing something. Definitely don't fixate on that.Fabian Geyrhalter:It's not in your top three or five criteria for having a .com domain?Phil Libin:It's not in the most critical things. I would much rather have a great brand and not have the.dot com URL than a mediocre brand and have the dot com URL. That's clear to me, at least.Fabian Geyrhalter:Did you knock on the turtles website and ask if the domain might be available?Phil Libin:I think we tried to. I think we actually made some progress with the person. They disappeared or something and we had more important things to do, so I don't know. Some day. I'm not opposed to having it. I just don't think [crosstalk 00:23:45]Fabian Geyrhalter:I think it's always so fascinating, because as of late, and that might also talk a little bit about the trend in this and that I might be able to wrong fixating on the dot com very much with branding work, is I interviewed these founders and they have amazing brands, like yourself. Then I go to the website and it is horrible, horrible, horrible website work of someone that owns a domain name, but it's pathetic. It's something where you know, this is just someone who has a hobby and who hasn't attended to the website since the days of Netscape. Yet they don't even get back to your emails. They're not interested in making a quick buck for a website where no one goes to it! It's fascinating for me, but now that we have already entered the animal kingdom with All Turtles, why don't we talk about Evernote? How Evernote got an elephant as its logo, because I definitely want to check that off our today.Phil Libin:That was the other reason for All Turtles is that Bertrand Russell origin story refers to the Hindu, it was some version of Chinese and some version of Hindu origin, cosmology creation myth where the earth is actually standing in the back of a giant elephant and the elephant stands on the turtles. Then it's turtles all the way down from there. My previous company was an elephant and the next fundamental animal is the turtle, so it made sense. Then it's turtles all the way down, so it's going to be All Turtles from now on. That was the little bit more esoteric reason.Fabian Geyrhalter:The logo, that's the story behind the elephant and why the elephant was chosen for Evernote?Phil Libin:I didn't name it. I didn't pick the name, the name existed before and I wasn't that crazy about the name. I thought it was okay, but basically, at that point it wasn't worth changing. It was fine.Fabian Geyrhalter:A little too descriptive for Phil?Phil Libin:I think that's right. I think basically, the framework I like for naming, which we don't really follow ourselves, but it's fun to know about it. The thing I recommend that people read is the Igor Naming Guide, which talks about four different types of names. I think it's useful to read it, even if you don't follow it, which we don't really follow it, but it's useful to read it just to understand the vocabulary, so that you can have a discussion about names. You at least have the right words to use, because it's hard to do it. There's so much philosophy and theory behind it. It's hard to have a general discussion without the basic vocabulary.It's useful for that, but Evernote, to me, feels a little bit too functional, but obviously having said that the name worked out great, but the other lesson from that is the name is just one part of the brand. The name isn't necessarily the most part of the brand. It's one part of the brand. The logos is a big part of the brand, the whole identity, the fonts, the colors, the brand voice, how you talk about it. These are all brand. You assemble a brand out of all these things intentionally and very rarely do you have the luxury of choosing every element of a brand at the same time. We had that luxury at Mmhmm, but it's really rare, where we could say, we can control everything. We can control the name, the colors, the logo, everything. We set the voice, all of it. The vast majority of the time, you don't quite have that luxury. With Evernote, we did it so that the name was there, but we did everything else.Fabian Geyrhalter:The logo with the elephant, to a regular user, it seems pretty far fetched to understand what the Evernote has to do with the actual app. How was that story conveyed or did it even matter and it just became a symbol that was, quote, unquote symbolic from the get-go and it was so different?Phil Libin:We hired this amazing designer, Gabe [Combdako 00:27:55], in the early days of Evernote to help us think through the identity. Ex Apple person and he's currently the lead product designer for Mmhmm and All Turtles, actually.. Still working with him, what's it been now? 14 years later or something. The most important thing is once you find amazingly talented people, do everything possible to stay in their economic orbit. This is the main thing that I do, is I try to find every possible way to keep a group of hyper talented people together, because you can walk through walls with them. You just need to have an appropriately reasonable destination and you can get there.We hired Gabe and we went through a process. We had lots of different options. There's, I think, presentations of me online talking about it, but didn't start out as an elephant. There was lots of options we considered. In fact, he came back with a few different options, including a couple of elephant treatments, which we rejected, because the group that I set up to try to figure out the logo said the elephant is too dangerous to go with, because there's too many negative connotations, "Oh, it's slow and it's big, feels [inaudible 00:29:14], blah, blah, blah." I liked it, because elephants are very good memories, an elephant never forgets, I thought Evernote was about remembering things, that was the connection, but we rejected the elephant, because it was the most bad of the designs and we wind up going with something really boring.Then basically I woke up the next day after that decision was made and it didn't feel right to me. I think we picked the safe choice and I just didn't feel right, but we back and said, "Let's go with an elephant, but we need a few more iterations of the elephant." and the elephant itself, we had literally a hundred different versions of the elephant. There's pictures floating around of different elephant versions. We went through lots of different ones. For a while, it looked too much like the Republican party elephants. We panicked and said, "We got to make sure that it doesn't look like it's the Republican elephant. It's a totally different elephant." but eventually we came up on this one and it was great.It was a by far the best decision early on that we made this logo, this identity for Evernote probably got us literally a hundred, $200 million worth of free publicity and marketing by Apple, by Google, by Samsung, but all of these companies that were putting up app stores and platforms, and they all just featured us, because we had a pretty good product, but I think equally as importantly, because we had an amazing looking identity that they were just like, it looked better than the app icons and logos of other stuff that they would put up. We would get into every single poster, marketing campaign, whatever, because it was a good product, but also, because it looked really good. That was by far the best few thousand dollars that we spent. The ROI of that was pretty incredible.Fabian Geyrhalter:It's so difficult to show ROI with a brand identity, or with a brand name. It's really difficult. I love that you say that, because it is measurable. What I also really, really like is that you, throughout the entire episode today, you really talk about how a safe choice is most often not a great choice. As you know, with most of corporate America, that is absolutely the other way around with decision making when it comes to name, when it comes to brand, when it comes to all of those pretty intrinsic ideas that they come out and very often they end up being a little bit too meh.That is the lesson that just everyone has to hear over and over again. Coming from someone who sold their software development company for $26 million 20 years ago. Then you co-founded Evernote. Now you're kicking serious butt with All Turtles, and it looks like with Mmhmm. Obviously you did plenty of things in between. These days, you also mentor startups on a lot of topics, including branding. I want to circle back to that, you already started talking about it, but what does branding mean to you after everything that you have branded in your life and that you've been through what does branding as word, because it gets pretty bad rap, very often the idea of branding, especially with startups. It seems like it's a waste of time. It's a waste of money, but you and I both know if you actually do something that's really outstanding, it can be a huge game-changer for a startup.Phil Libin:This is the lesson that I keep learning again and again in life. Maybe I'm starting to demonstrate learning behavior and actually like internalize it, but I'm an engineer, by background. I'm a programmer, computer scientists, computer nerd. I had a very large amount of disrespect early on in my life and career for anything that had to do with marketing, with branding, with intellectual property. I didn't like any of that stuff. I had the typical nerd, programmer approach, like, hey the programming is the real work and everything else is marketing, blah, hate it. Then I started working with people who were much smarter than I was in these fields. At Evernote, the person that ran our marketing was Andrew [Sincove 00:33:17] he's a big, important person at Etsy right now. [inaudible 00:33:24] the lesson from him.He was like, "Look, yeah. When you say marketing is stupid, what you mean is bad marketing is stupid and it is, and the vast majority of companies have really bad marketing and it's really stupid. If your attitude is marketing stupid, you're going to get bad marketing. You're going to prove yourself to be right. Good marketing is actually amazingly important, just as important as anything else. Shut up and let's do some good marketing and you'll see." and I was like, wow, absolutely. That's totally right. The same is true as naming and the same is true with branding. If you do it badly, it's dumb, but if you go in with the expectation that it's going to be bad, then yeah. It's going to be bad and it's going to be dumb.I felt that bias, that engineering bias, but my eyes were opened repeatedly by various people that I work with about this. Same thing with intellectual property. Leonid [inaudible 00:34:18] has been working with us on IP for more than a decade now, since Evernote days. I would get into these big arguments with him about patents, like patents are stupid. Patents are bad for the world. The IP industry is terrible. He was like, "Bad patents are bad, good patents are good." patents that are written to be either poorly or specifically written to be bad for the world and not actually describe anything and try to do all this stuff. Yeah, those are really bad.Let's not do those. Let's do good ones. This philosophy, again, I'm not smart enough to understand that from the first time was explained to me, so it has to be explained to me over and over again, but it's fundamentally true. Definitely feels this way with brand, with everything else. Now I think that you're making a product, you're making a company, the brand is, at the end of the day, I don't know if it's the most important thing, but it's in that package of most important things. It's so important that it's hard to separate from anything else. It's hard to separate from the team, it's hard to separate from the product design. Those are all areas. The product design, the team design, the culture, the brand, they're all so amazingly central and important that, if you do them right, they're inseparable and you definitely need to have the appreciation of what all of them mean.Fabian Geyrhalter:Listen, I promised you I'm only going to take that much of your time. Most important. Listeners who want to learn more about Mmhmm or get an invite to be a beta user, where and how can they go about that?Phil Libin:You can just sign up at mmhmm.app, M-M-H-M-M dot app. I like palindromes. That's one of the names. I like names that are the same forward and backwards. Go there and sign up. We are inviting people, hopefully pretty rapidly. We're sending out invites every day. There's always a wait list, but we're sending out invites every day and we are planning on going live, full general availability release. It's Mac only for now, for this stage of the beta, but a Windows version is coming and we're planning on being live on Mac and Windows this fall. Not too long to wait until it's generally available for everyone.Fabian Geyrhalter:Especially in 2020, it seems to go by rather quickly, which is a really, really good thing. I would say. Phil, thank you so much for having taken the time. Really appreciate your insights. This was absolutely amazing.Phil Libin:Thank you. That was super fun to talk to you.

This bonus episode features Founders Institute Bangalore. We discuss pre-seed accelerator, Product-founder-market fit, the Corona opportunity, startup framework, idea validation and much more! Official deadline is Sunday 21 June ... Today!Apply asap to Bangalore to get advantage of early deadline ( $399 instead of $499 )https://fi.co/apply/BangaloreFemale founder fellowshiphttp://fi.co/FFFReach Vadiraj- vadiraj.aralappanavar@fichapter.comFacebook - Founder Institute, Bangalore chapter @fibangalore Image credits: Imagebazaar.com 

Ivan Ilijašić je osnivač startupa Orioly koji producira softver za "booking" odnosno rezerviranje i prodaju tura i sličnih aktivnosti. Nakon više godina bavljenja u IT-u, s nemalim iskustvom u HR-u i manadžmentu u korporacijama, Ivan se odlučio na poduzetničke vode. Završio je program na lokalnom Founders Institute te je krenuo sa svojim proizvodom. Pričali smo o tome kako je bilo pokretati firmu i projekt iz nule, kako se financirao u ranim danima, te koliko mu je prijašnje iskustvo u velikim firmama pomoglo u postavljanju firme danas. Uskoro ćemo objaviti popis tema. PREPORUKE ZA LAKŠE I UGODNIJE SLUŠANJE PODCASTA Tri načina kako slušati podcast Kako slušati podcast u autu koji nema Mp3 player Top lista najslušanijih epizoda

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Entrevista com Renato Paquet, fundador e CEO da Polen - soluções e valoração de resíduos. Uma startup que nasceu com a ambição de revolucionar a forma como as empresas lidam com seus resíduos. Renato também é o diretor-presidente do comitê de Cleantechs da Associação Brasileira de Startups e sua startup foi acelerada pelo Founders Institute. Nesse podcast conversamos sobre a industria da energia e as startups. Foi discutido sobre os maiores desafios enfrentados pela industria, bem como maneiras que os empreendedores podem ingressar no mercado. Obviamente o Renato deu muitas dicas para quem está começando e terminou o programa com o pitch de dar inveja!!! Qual assunto você gostaria de escutar no Podcast Empreendedor? Mande suas sugestões para serem temas de nossos programas! CONTATO@DISTRITOE.COM.BR WWW.DISTRITOE.COM.BR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/DISTRITOEMPREENDEDOR WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/DISTRITOEMPREENDEDOR

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My guest on the podcast today is Maren Kate Donovan, the founder and former CEO of Zirtual, a company that went from rapid growth and success to shutting down seemingly overnight. The measure of their success ended up being their downfall: rapid growth, combined with the reality of unit economics, created a firestorm where it became painfully obvious that continued operations would lead to an inability to pay employees for completed work.  Maren made the difficult decision to simply stop and pay everyone while they still could—a decision she still believes was the right call for the circumstances. Maren got back on her feet and is now finding her way to success through the founding of AVRA Talent. Her team partners with companies to help them fill critical roles in their staff, what they refer to as “on-demand talent acquisition,” And Maren knows that she never could have moved in this direction without her “$5 Million Dollar MBA” earned at Zirtual.    Join us as we discuss Maren’s early desire to “Escape the 9 to 5,” her crash course in Silicon Valley and the Founders Institute, and how she turned failure into perspective and, ultimately, success.  Complete show notes and links from this episode at https://whitneyjohnson.com/maren-kate-donovan

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Ana Penović je legendardna novinarka i urednica, te osnivačica i vlasnica agencije Jasno i Glasno. Od početaka u IT novinarstvu u zlatnim danima s PC Chipom, te kasnije s magazinom Plan B, Ana je prošla put od novinara, urednika, do osnivača medija i agencije, i bila je (i još uvijek je) strastvena u svim tim poduhvatima. Pisala je i surađivala s brojnim drugim časopisima o temama koje su vezane uz ICT i turizam, predavala i moderirala na konferencijama, te je danas među ostalim i mentor u Founders Institute za startupe. S Anom smo pričali o mindsetu, početcima, najboljim i najgorim iskustvima tijekom uzbudljive karijere, te planovima za budućnost: 00:40 - Došla nam je Ana Penović 00:58 – Nikad dosta Varge? 02:19 – Što misliš Ana, zašto te je Miro preporučio? 03:38 – Kad si prva put čula za podcast, općenito? 05:08 – Slušaš li podcaste? 05:50 – Zahvaljujući PC Chipu, imala sam sreće da se mogu baviti tehnologijom i telekomunikacijama. 06:10 – Bilo je super raditi u industriji u kojoj nema niskih strasti, svi su imali. 06:50 – Mislim da se to „zlatno razdoblje“ neće ponoviti. 08:21 – Imala sam najveću sreću na svijetu. Dobrog prvog šefa. 09:38 – Šef je meni dao krila da letim. Bila je to sretna industrija. 11:07 – „Who the fuck cares?“ 13:20 – Hrvatska je ludilo „malo misto“ za život. 15:37 – Zahvaljujući informatičkom novinarstvu, proputovala sam cijeli svijet. 16:50 – Cilj je bio educirati ljude. Predivne teme za pisati. 17:58 – Nisam se htjela probuditi s 50 godina, bez da sam probala Plan B. 18:37 – Što bi bilo kad bi bilo, kad bi radio ono što hoću raditi? 20:00 – Kad imaš dobru ideju, ne treba ti sto milijuna nečega. Novci su nusproizvod uspjeha. 21:20 – U novinarstvu uvijek možeš rasti i to me raduje. 22:12 – Oduvijek sam se htjela baviti novinarstvom i imam sreće da sam „upala“ u informatičko. 22:41 – Najbolja odluka – pokrenuti „Plan B“. Najgora – ugasiti ga. 25:12 – Što sad sa tim kvalitetnim sadržajem? 26:57 – Zahvaljujući „Planu B“, je krenulo „Jasno i glasno“. 28:31 – Koliko dugo se „kuhala“ odluka za gašenjem „Plana B“? 30:24 – Može li se digitalizirati stari sadržaj? 31:21 – Je li vam pao na pamet „repacaking“? 32:33 – Koje su „lessons learned“? 34:40 – Ako tebe pare gone, ti ćeš jest svakakva govna da bi do njih došao. 35:30 – Ja sam htjela biti novinarka. 37:01 – Nije mi cilj u životu bio imati firmu. 38:40 – Za Anu funkcionira „All in“. 40:01 – Što je Bill Gates naučio od Warrena Buffeta? 41:37 – Koji medij bi izabrala za sadržaj? 43:05 - Sebi za gušt bi izdavala nešto na papiru o dobrim ljudima, koji bi bili motivacija ostalima. 44:40 – Tvoji motivi uvrštavanja sadržaja u „Plan B“ nisu nikad bili iz financijskih razloga? 46:50 – Ili ćete proizvoditi sadržaj koji je koristan za korisnike, ili ćete nestati. 48:17 – Počeli smo svoju firmu tretirati kao klijenta. 50:57 – Odakle danas dolaze „pare“ za novinarstvo? 54:10 – Koja je razlika/sličnost u tvojem „mindsetu“ kod pokretanja „Plana B“ i „Jasno i glasno“? 55:23 – Šefovi privlače ljude koji rade za njih po svojim osobinama. 56:40 – Imaš filter za klijente? 57:38 – Firme su odraz svojih šefova 01:01:18 – Što misliš o influencerima? 01:03:09 – Što znači za tebe riječ „promocija“ i kako mjeriš interes? 01:05:15 – Customer journey – kako mi znamo koliko puta mora netko vidjeti akciju da bi se odlučio na kupnju? 01:06:00 – Što znači uhvatiti kupca? 01:07:01 – Koliko je učinkovito „silovanje“ oglasa? 01:09:00 – Vaš proizvod ne mora biti savršen, ali nemojte lagati. 01:09:36 – Misliš li da su ljudi danas najinformiraniji ikad? 01:14:00 - Kakva privatnost u ovako maloj državi? 01:15:34 – Koja je diferencijacija između „Jasno i glasno“ od ostalih agencija? 01:16:40 – Jeste imali kad totalni „fail“ u smislu da ste promašili temu? 01:17:45 – U krevetu sa sadržajem. 01:20:08 – Koliko često pišete neku temu jer neko ima dobru ideju?

India faces major environmental challenges associated with waste generation, Believe it or not, India produces 42 millions tonnes of waste every day most of it is left in the landfills at the city outskirts, leaving a stinking smell & vultures hovering over heaps of hazardous material. So Today I am talking with Nivedha, Founder & CEO of Trashcon. They have created a machine helps solve this problem by converting mixed waste into Bio-Degradable and Non-Biodegradable Waste. So In this conversation, she talks about her exciting rollercoaster journey since graduating 3 months ago. How the machine works. Overcoming roadblocks, the business model, being the youngest mentor at the Founders Institute. Having belief in her product. Wanting to change the entire industry. Being told by the experts - this is not possible. Winning a number of awards, working weekends & missing birthday parties and much more. so please enjoy the show. In this conversation we also talk about: Being a mentor to people 3 times her age Not giving up easily! Age, qualification , status - does not matter Seeing huge mountains of landfill Bringing about a change in society. Hitting the right pain point at the right time How she got the idea - great story! What happens after the waste gets separate - very interesting case studies! What can go wrong? Getting help from her mother and much much more! Links https://trashcon.in/ If anyone is interested in creating their own podcast. Check out my class on www.skillshare.com called Getting your podcast off the ground. I have been teaching this for over 15 months now & have over 550 students! And it's had great testimonials. So check out the link in the show notes to get started! http://skl.sh/2kRmClL Advantages of doing your own podcast You get to build something amazing that you own 100% You have 100% creative control And it's a lot of fun! So check out the above link and you can do your own podcast!

After selling his company for millions at age 26, Jon Carder briefly retires to surf the South Pacific. It turns out to be a very short "retirement" that lasts only about 3 weeks... “I think doing a business for money is absolutely the wrong motivation and will actually lead to a lot of challenges. “The only thing you have to do to be successful is to be better than just about everyone else at just one thing. It's simple but it's not easy." ~Jon Carder At just 26, Jon Carder was featured on the cover of Fortune Small Business magazine (link) wearing just board shorts and holding a surfboard as the sun set with the title, "Time to Sell?" He had just sold his company for millions and was ready to "retire" and surf. But Jon Carder isn't your typical Southern California surf rat. He's also been featured in Business Insider and dozens of other publications and is an active member of the Entrepreneurs Organization and a mentor with The Founders Institute. He has founded several multi-million-dollar companies, and along the way has raised upwards of $35 million. While his "success" story is legendary, it's actually his entire story— the failures, the struggles and all the hard work, agility and perseverance — that make for a very educational and entertaining interview, particularly for the aspiring entrepreneur. In this episode, Jon recounts his unique journey from selling microwaved hot dogs in his neighborhood as a kid, to selling baby products at a swap meet in college and later selling one of his companies for millions. Today, Jon is on the precipice of changing the face of online-to-offline commerce with his innovative technology. In this episode JC shares: Why not to start any business The surfing insight that led to his abundance mindset How following others' insights helped him evolve his companies Why great marketing can never make up for poor customer service — there's a funny story here The critical importance of focus How he picked himself up through failure and depression to start his second company— the one he ultimately sold! How three months into his next company they netted over $100,000 How he actually applied the lessons learned from his prior company failure The birthing of MojoPages, MOGL and of course, Empyr His desire and passion to create a positive impact Donating about 1 million meals to help feed those in need The origination of his online-to-offline platform and API, a HUGE opportunity resulting from his persistence and something known as the "corridor principle" The KEY mindset that carries him through the darkest of times Relax HARD! His key success habits these days and so much more... “What really makes me happy is following that journey, and not just for the ups and downs, but doing it for the potential positive impact…the bigger the impact the more thrilling the ride." ---------------------------------------------------- Subscribe Don't miss a single episode. Subscribe to the podcast to get each episode sent directly to you.    Resources EMPYR - Empyr Jon Carder Blog Business Insider Article on Jon Carder Elon Musk (book) Jon mentions The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh(Correction: MG mistakenly thinks JC is talking about Bill Walton... This is a great book by the former legendary Forty-Niner Coach, Bill Walsh!) The Habit Factor app The Habit Factor template The Habit Factor book Big Brothers Big Sisters

We had the chance to sit down with Will Bunker during this year's Collision Conference in Las Vegas. Apologies for the noisy background, but conference areas are not particularly great! An accomplished entreprenuer and investor, Will Bunker co-founded One-and-Only.com in late 1995. He and his partners grew the company into the largest online dating site and eventually sold the firm to TicketMaster-City Search for $45 million in June of 1999. Soon after, the company was rebranded as Match.com. Mr. Bunker has a passion for working with early stage entrepreneurs, helping their firms grow and working towards an exit with the highest possible valuation. A long time resident of the Silicon Valley, where he lives with his wife and two teenage children, Will serves on the screening committee of the Band of Angels, (www.bandangles.com) the oldest funding organization in the Valley. He also serves as a member of the Silicon Valley Founders Institute (www.fico.com). The Founders Institute is a global launch network that helps entrepreneurs create meaningful and enduring technology companies.

Password management, safely using public computers, spam blacklists, Profile in IT (Robin Li, co-founder of Baidu), David Burd surprise visit (using over-the-air digital TV and Netflix, dropping cable bundle), drone operators arrested (operating near airports and emergency helicopters), Aereo update (Supreme Court loss, options going forward), Founders Institute (startup accelerator in Thailand), and Website of the Week (Disrupt University, teaching Thai entrepreneurs Silicon Valley tricks). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 12, 2014, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Password management, safely using public computers, spam blacklists, Profile in IT (Robin Li, co-founder of Baidu), David Burd surprise visit (using over-the-air digital TV and Netflix, dropping cable bundle), drone operators arrested (operating near airports and emergency helicopters), Aereo update (Supreme Court loss, options going forward), Founders Institute (startup accelerator in Thailand), and Website of the Week (Disrupt University, teaching Thai entrepreneurs Silicon Valley tricks). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 12, 2014, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

First we'll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us is Tyler Crowley from Founders Institute to tell us about the upcoming Founders Lecture. Also joining us is Chad Yoshinaga, head of field operations of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program to tell us about a program at the Waikiki Aquarium to help save the monk seal. Finally, we'll prep for hurricane season and find out how the State Civil Defense and the City's Dept of Emergency Management are preparing for a category 4 hurricane.

First we'll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Carey & Brandon Bennett from Happy Hour Hawaii to tell us about their nation wide rollout. Finally, we find out from Russel Cheng and Tim Dick about the Honolulu chapter of the Founders Institute and how it's helping to build the entrepreneurial startup ecosystem.