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Meet Dr. Rebecca Homkes, who talks about the thinking behind her latest book "Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times," a must-read book that offers a powerful framework for navigating today's volatile business environment.  We introduce Rebecca's background and professional journey before delving into the book's central theme: volatility in today's business environment. While it may seem that volatility has always been a part of professional life, she explains why today's uncertainty is unique and why retail leaders should stop relying solely on traditional planning tools. Instead, they should embrace preparation to better adapt to unpredictable shifts.We explore how thinking that uncertainty can benefit challengers over incumbents is maybe asking the wrong question, why preparation is vital, and the practical tools leaders can use to thrive in ambiguity.  About RebeccaDr. Rebecca Homkes is high-growth strategy specialist and the founder of a boutique consultancy firm, advising CEOs and executive teams focused on growth and success through uncertainty. She is a Lecturer at the London Business School (LBS)'s Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Faculty at Duke Corporate Executive Education, Advisor and Faculty at Boston Consulting Group University, and previous Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE)'s Centre for Economic Performance.Dr. Homkes is also the director of the Young President's Organization (YPO) global Active Learning Program (ALP); a former partner with GrowthX, a Silicon Valley investment ecosystem and innovation consultancy; and the faculty lead of fintech scaleup accelerators.  A global keynote speaker, she is a member of several advisory boards, directed the joint McKinsey & Co and LSE Centre for Economic Performance Global Management Project from 2007-2014 and has written for publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Businessweek, Fortune, and Forbes.A Marshall Scholar, she received her PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics in International Economy.  Prior to LSE, Dr. Homkes received two degrees at Indiana University: BS (Honors) in business administration alongside a BA (Honors) in Political Science where she was a Wells Scholar and graduated as the schools' top graduate in 2005 and its sole Herman Wells Scholar.  She previously served as a Fellow at the White House's President's Council of Economic Advisors and has worked in strategy consulting with Bain & Co. She lives between Miami, San Francisco, and London.IndigoAmazonhttps://www.rebeccahomkes.com/ Michael LeBlanc is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and now, media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada's Retail Marketing conference with leaders from Walmart & Google. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, CanWest Media, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in America, Remarkable Retail with his partner, Dallas-based best-selling author Steve Dennis; Canada's top retail industry podcast The Voice of Retail and Canada's top food industry and one of the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University in Halifax.Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail experts for the fourth year in a row, Thinkers 360 has named him on of the Top 50 global thought leaders in retail, RTIH has named him a top 100 global though leader in retail technology and Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer. If you are a BBQ fan, you can tune into Michael's cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.Michael is available for keynote presentations helping retailers, brands and retail industry insiders explaining the current state and future of the retail industry in North America and around the world.

Jan es una persona fuera de serie. A los 16 empezó con la creación de contenido educacional en TikTok escalando a +100.000 seguidores en muy poco tiempo. Con la experiencia ganada, aplicó de una manera muy extraña a Spechify, una startup de USA, a la cual la llevo de 0 a +$2M de usuarios, haciéndolo firmar un contrato millonario con tan solo 17 años. Aún así, con esa edad se dio cuento que el dinero no lo era todo, y resignifico el propósito de su vida para algo que va más allá de la plata. Al día de hoy Jan con 19 años lidera Bookster, una startup de educación, y GrowthX, una consultora de educación. Jan: https://www.instagram.com/jankostadinov/ Toto: https://beacons.ai/totomarchesini

Adam & Kristina discuss tech investment in Alberta, being a smaller investor or angel investor, Sprout Fund, GrowthX, and the general landscape of tech in Alberta/Canada. Thank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by Rainforest Alberta. The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta. Host: Adam Ludgate is a technical leader who is involved in the startup/tech community and is enticed by new and innovative ways of solving problems with technology. He has worked previously with the likes of IBM Canada, AOL UK, tech startups in London's 'Silicon Roundabout' as well as with a variety of oil & gas software firms in various software development and leadership capacities. Guest: Kristina Milke is a General Partner at Sprout Fund that invests in early stage B2B SaaS companies in Western Canada. Beyond that she is a Go-To-Market Consultant with the GrowthX revenue accelerator, an A100 member and sits on a variety of Boards. You can typically find Kristina chatting with founders about the importance of financial literacy and raising capital.   Show Links: Sprout Fund  GrowthX  A100  Alberta Innovates  Plug & Play  500 Global  Show Quotes: "Raising and managing a fund is equally as challenging as being a startup founder and having to raise funds and manage investors." Credits... This Episode Sponsored By: New Idea Machine Episode Music: Tony Del Degan Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan  

The tables have turned.But the mistakes keep spilling over. In this episode, we spoke to Ria Shroff Desai (People and Culture Lead, Blume Ventures); Udayan Walvekar (CEO, GrowthX); Bhakti Dhanak (Associate Vice President - Human Resources, CIIE.CO) to understand some of the unobvious errors that candidates are making while applying for jobs in the 'employer's market' of 2023.  Cost to Company is a careers and workplaces podcast from the The Ken's newsroom. The Ken is India's first subscriber-only business journalism platform. Check out our deeply reported long-form stories, insightful newsletters, original podcasts, and much more here.Listen to the latest episode of Daybreak.  This episode of CTC was written, hosted, and produced by Shreevar Chhotaria. 

You've heard about them. You've worked with them. You've thoughts around them. But have you really heard from them?In this episode, I speak to Kaavyya Kesarwani (Growth & Community, Juno), Sherina Poyyail (Policy professional, Ex: The Quint), Bhavya Narula (Founding team, GrowthX), Sindhu Shivaprasad (Chief of Staff, Obvious) and Shashank Baliga (Writer, a major OTT platform) to understand what the 'new kids on the block' think about careers, workplaces, and whatever else happens in between.Subscribe to The Ken: https://the-ken.com/Hosted, Written, and Produced by Shreevar Chhotaria

GrowthX is a learning community for the top 1% growth leaders. The GrowthX membership gives three key things. One, Ability to grow any internet product through learning frameworks taught by top growth leaders. Two, The revered GrowthX community, a safe space to soundboard about anything that's stressing you. Three, Real outcomes for founders and leaders- they are able to upskill, hire & scale their revenue growth team. Prior to GrowthX, Udayan was the first growth hire at Razorpay where he built the product growth team that drove growth across all verticals of Razorpay. He's also worked across multiple startups in India and San Francisco.

In this episode of Pit Stops To Podium, we had a conversation about Product Marketing Fit with Andrew Goldner. He's the Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthX, a venture fund that helps first and then invests. They work alongside B2B founders in rising cities to help them find product-market fit. Andrew has been in the startup scene since 1998, based in NYC, Hong Kong, Singapore, Palo Alto and Nashville. He Kicked off his career when the Internet was first commercializing as a tech lawyer for Alta Vista, Yahoo, DoubleClick, Salesforce and others pioneers. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:58 - Who's GrowthX? 02:57 - Who's Andrew Outside The Work? 06:47 - What Means "Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast"? 09:14 - Learning Precedes Revenue 12:47 - You're Not Selling Until You Find Product Market Fit 15:25 - What Being In The Green Zone Of PMF Means 16:57 - The 5 Steps To Confirm Product Market Fit 22:56 - How To Find Product Market Fit 28:58 - Engage With Andrew //ENGAGE WITH ANDREW Andrew's LinkedIn GrowthX LinkedIn Page //LINKS GrowthX - 5 Steps To Product Market Fit GrowthX - Do These Things To Find Product Market Fit GrowthX - The Revenue Accelerator // SUBSCRIBE! Subscribe to RevPartners YouTube Channel New "pit stops" every week. Join our growing community! // STAY AWESOME & DO IT BIG!! Website: revpartners.io Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

After repeatedly being frustrated with the current offerings for residential home cleaning services, three friends decide to take matters into their own hands and set up an innovative marketplace boasting living wages and top notch quality cleaners.  Thank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by Rainforest Alberta. The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta. Host: Al Del Degan I have been involved in software development for more than 25 years. I have started companies, lead companies and worked for companies - doing many different things. I am honored to be considered a leader in Alberta's innovation ecosystem, and I give back as much, and often as I can. When I am not working or podcasting, you will find me pursuing my passions of photography, crypto investing, and wood working along with the occasional round of golf. Guest: Yeonsil Kang, MSW, helps manage the mission and vision of Home Spritz and their relationships with cleaners, clients, and investors. She ensures the company is growing and maintaining the core vision of the company. From an education and social work background she focuses on the social vision while managing a for-profit company in a challenging environment. She has been through the Alberta Accelerator by Global 500 and The Alberta Revenue Accelerator by GrowthX both powered by Alberta Innovates. She manages a team of over 40 cleaners, admin, and developers. Please be sure to share this episode with everyone you know. If you are interested in being either a host, a guest, or a sponsor of the show, please reach out. We are published in Google Podcasts and the iTunes store for Apple Podcasts We would be grateful if you could give us a rating as it helps spread the word about the show. Show Links: Home Spritz Alberta Innovates Show Quotes: "So I remember we had about six different cleaners within the time period of two or three months. And I just simply wasn't comfortable cuz they all knew our door code into our house and their quality wasn't consistent."    "So Covid was quite hard for many people and a lot of industries. But for cleaning a lot of residential cleaning companies went out of business because of that issue." Credits... This Episode Sponsored By: Home Spritz Episode Music: Tony Del Degan Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan  

In this episode, Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner of U.plus and co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, discusses topics such as intrapreneurship, digital innovation, and business leadership. He talked about how he bridges the gap between ideas and revenue.  Sean shares his entrepreneurial journey and how his accelerator program is innovative and effective. Sean's favorite book is “Good to Great by Jim Collins “, have you read it? Check out all our guests book top book recommendations here” and let us know your favorite.   https://theleaneffectpodcast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheLeanEffectPodcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/272448766629082/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lean-effect-podcast/ Insta: @theleaneffectpodcast Twitter @EffectLean Guest: Sean Sheppard https://www.linkedin.com/in/seansheppard/ sean@u.plus Host: Mark Dejong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-de-jong-investor-lean-advisor-0288695/ Mark@4ppartners.ca https://www.4ppartners.ca Phone: 1-778-807-9691

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Welcome to the third and final installment of our Edmonton Startup Week podcast series.On today's episode I sat down with the mind-expanding Andrew Goldner from GrowthX to learn about the work he and his partners are doing to help build innovation and venture capital opportunities in Alberta and beyond. (You'll learn more about the Alberta Innovates Revenue Accelerator in our interview.)GrowthX is an early-stage venture capital fund, but they do things differently. They've sequenced the path to product-market fit to help founders reduce the time it takes to get investment-ready.  By working with founders, GrowthX then generates reliable insights that earns them the opportunity to invest.A few of our many stops along the way include a discussion around what Andrew calls the signal to noise ratio and how founders need to protect their time, the importance of humility and the need to learn from our mistakes, and his mantra that everything communicates.Welcome to Shift!Bio    Andrew Goldner is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, an pre-Series A venture fund that he started in Silicon Valley with three other go-to-market experts.Andrew has been in the technology sector since 1998, based in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore, Palo Alto and Nashville.Andrew began his career in technology as a lawyer for the early Internet pioneers in Search (Alta Vista and Yahoo), AdTech (DoubleClick), SaaS (Salesforce) and others while practicing law. He left private practice at Skadden Arps to join DoubleClick leading up to the Google acquisition and then co-founded a financial news business at Thomson Financial leading to the Reuters acquisition. He then served as Publisher of Reuters News and then Co-Founder and Managing Director of the company's legal media business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.In Silicon Valley, Andrew was early at Guidespark, an employee communication SaaS startup, and BrightTalk, a content marketing SaaS startup. He then co-founded GoodMoney to democratize high-performance, values-based investing. During that “wonderful learning opportunity,” Andrew met his current partners and co-founded GrowthX.Andrew is a Kauffman Fellow, Regional Board Member of Venture for America, and a Mentor at Endeavor, Alchemist Accelerator and Galvanize. Andrew is a visiting lecturer at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management where he teaches two popular multi-day seminars: Entreprenurial Sales and Venture Capital. Andrew received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati and his law degree from Georgetown University.Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and organizations that are contributing to Alberta's strong tech ecosystem.

Problem-solving often takes more than one person. The collective knowledge and individual perspective toward a problem help solve it and accelerate growth. On this episode of Advertising is Dead, Varun is joined by Abhishek Patil, Founder of GrowthX. He talks about how he built a community of individuals in charge of solving growth problems across domains, who come together to try and brainstorm solutions. Further, he tells us about establishing GrowthX- a course for mid to senior-level folks to understand the challenges of internet-run businesses and learn ways to tackle them. You can find Abhishek Patil on LinkedIn | Twitter | InstagramCheck out Growth X on Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeTalk to Varun Duggirala on Twitter and Instagram: @varunduggiFind full videos on the AiD YouTube ChannelThe show is available across platforms:Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | JioSaavn | Gaana | Amazon MusicYou can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/androidor iOS: https://ivm.today/iosDo follow IVM Podcasts on social media.We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.

“Do you really want to get big fast? You take my money, I'm going to poke you in the eye every day going forward.” GrowthX CEO and founding partner Andrew Goldner shares how his Valley-founded early-stage VC firm found product-market fit with Canadian accelerators, common misconceptions founders have of the VC business model, and a bunch of go-to-market tips. Sponsored by Thinksound. 

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel China and co-founder of GrowthX- an award-winning corporate innovation accelerator. Kapil Kane shares lessons from his experience at the intersection of technology and innovation working for Apple and Intel. Kapil Kane also shared lessons learned and how teams and organizations of all sizes can encourage innovation and intrapreneurship.   Some highlights:-Kapil Kane's start in design and innovation-The importance of not being afraid of failures-Organizational leadership and innovation lessons learned first as an intern and then as a design lead at Apple -Kapil Kane on why he left Apple to work for Intel and the differences in the two organizations' cultures and practices -How Patrick Gelsinger changed the trajectory of Intel and brought the Grovian culture back to the organization, as well as reinstituting OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)-Kapil Kane on co-founding and running GrowthX in China-How organizations can encourage greater intrapreneurship and innovation-Kapil Kane's perspectives on the different leadership and managerial approaches between Chinese and American executives Mentioned:John Rossman (Listen to John Rossman's episode on Partnering Leadership)Books Mentioned:The Lean Enterprise by Trevor Owens and OB FernandezZero to One by Peter ThielAutobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa YoganandaConnect with Kapil Kane:Kapil Kane on Tedx TalksKapil Kane on LinkedInConnect with Mahan Tavakoli:https://mahantavakoli.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahan/ More information and resources are available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: https://www.partneringleadership.com/

Ben & Jay venture into technology, invention and intrapreneurship with Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation for Intel Corporation in China.  Kapil co-founded and leads GrowthX, an award-winning corporate - startup accelerator that has launched multiple new businesses generating $400M+ in projected revenues through bottoms-up innovations in areas of AI, IOT, 5G & new silicon technology.  Hear about how Kapil developed this platform for inventors, as well as his experiences at Apple in the days of Steve Jobs.View Kapil's TEDx talkThe Sherpas on Twitter:A Sherpa's Guide to InnovationBen TingeyJay GerhartSupport the show

In this episode of the Sales Secrets podcast, founding partner of GrowthX and serial entrepreneur Sean Shepperd joins Brandon to talk about riding or fighting trends, and ensuring that you're creating opportunities out of failures. Sean also talks about our natural resistance to change, and how sellers can help clients overcome it.SUBSCRIBE TO SALES SECRETS PODCASTITUNES ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/s...​SPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/1BKYsQo...​YOUTUBE ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVUh...​THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY SEAMLESS.AI - THE WORLD'S BEST SALES LEADSWEBSITE ► https://www.seamless.ai/LINKEDIN ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/seamlessai/JOIN FOR FREE TODAY ► https://login.seamless.ai/invite/podcastSHOW DESCRIPTIONBrandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson, entrepreneur, and founder of Seamless.AI. Twice a week, Brandon interviews the world's top sales experts like Jill Konrath, Aaron Ross, John Barrows, Trish Bertuzzi, Mark Hunter, Anthony Iannarino, and many more -- to uncover actionable strategies, playbooks, tips, and insights you can use to generate more revenue and close more business. If you want to learn the most powerful sales secrets from the top sales experts in the world, Sales Secrets From The Top 1% is the place to find them.SALES SECRET FROM THE TOP 1%WEBSITE ► https://www.secretsalesbook.com/LINKEDIN ► https://www.linkedin.com/company/sales-secret-book/ABOUT BRANDONBrandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson (over $100M in sales deals), multi-million dollar sales tech entrepreneur, motivational sales speaker, international sales DJ (DJ NoQ5), and sales author who is obsessed with helping you maximize your sales success.Mr. Bornancin is currently the CEO & Founder at Seamless.AI delivering the world's best sales leads. Over 10,000+ companies use Seamless.ai to generate millions in sales at companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Slack, Dell, Oracle & many others.Mr. Bornancin is also the author of "Sales Secrets From The Top 1%" where the world's best sales experts share their secrets to sales success and author of “The Ultimate Guide To Overcoming Sales Objections.”FOLLOW BRANDONLINKEDIN ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonbornancin/INSTAGRAM ► https://www.instagram.com/brandonbornancinofficial/FACEBOOK ► https://www.facebook.com/SeamlessAITWITTER ► https://twitter.com/BBornancin

Kapil Kane is the Director of Innovation at Intel China where he co-founded & runs GrowthX- an award-winning corporate-startup accelerator. He is also the creator of the first multi-touch screen at Apple, where went on to lead product design on iPod, MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac & eventually the iPad.More about our guest:Kapil has deep expertise in areas of technology, innovation & entrepreneurship through advising startups & engaging with leading accelerators, universities & NGOs around the world as well as speaking at large global conferences. Born & brought up in the tiny seaside province of Goa, Kapil completed his Bachelor Degree in India & went on to receive a Masters in Engineering from Stanford University in California, eventually finding his way back to Asia in Shanghai where he has been living with his family for the past 13 years. Over the past 20 years, he has helped design & launch world-class products & businesses at the intersection of arts, design & technology. ------------------------------------------------Episode Guide:1:42 - What Is Innovation?3:44 - Focusing outside of execution5:18 - Invention  to Innovation timeline6:04 - Post-it invention7:35 - Growth X11:39 - PC farm and VR Cinemas15:11 - Portfolio approach18:51 - Works in the accelerator20:16 - What isn't innovation25:41 - Advice for innovators28:01 - Best innovations-------------------------Resources Mentioned: Companies: Growth X:  Venture Capital and Revenue AccelerationIntel China Apple--------------------------OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel China, and Co-founder of the corporate accelerator GrowthX. Kapil and I talk about his journey from his early product development days at Apple working on the first touchscreen, to today where he runs Intel's award-winning accelerator. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help the new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat to what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript with Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel ChinaBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today, we have Kapil Kane. He is the Director of Innovation at Intel China, and co-founder of the GrowthX Corporate Innovation Accelerator. Welcome to the show. Kapil Kane: Thanks Brian. Glad to be here. Brian Ardinger: You are calling in from Shanghai right now in the midst of a pandemic lockdown. Let's talk a little bit about your journey into the world of innovation. Kapil Kane: I was doing my PhD at Stanford when I dropped out of the program to join Apple, to build the touchscreen. The very first task, I remember I was an intern at the time. And I was the very first engineer to actually make a drawing of the touch screen. Like a revision 0 0 1.And my journey started from there. Although the touchscreen project failed. We had to hand it over to this other team, that was working on a secret project, which turned out to be the iPhone. But my last project at Apple was iPad. So, I came around full circle. And then I left Apple and joined Intel to actually create a tablet version of Classmate PC, which was inspired by one laptop per child from MIT Media Lab, which is to create an affordable education computing device for the emerging market or for the less fortunate as it was envisioned. And then on, you know, I got into this role of Innovation Director at Intel China. And so that's my journey. Brian Ardinger: Excellent. Tell us a little bit about how you got to China. And how you got to cofound this corporate innovation accelerator called GrowthX. Kapil Kane: Coming to China was with Apple. This is when we were developing the very first Mac Book Air. And at the time, if some of you guys remember, it was called a Unibody. That means it was carved out of a solid block of metal. Whereas everything before that was sheet metal, and hundreds of parts joined together.So, it was a completely new way of manufacturing a product. And so, we were designing the product as well as designing the manufacturing process at the same time. So, we thought it would be better to have some of the designers move to China so that we can do both designing product and process at the same time. And so, I volunteered. As a, so I was one of the first three product designers to move from Cupertino to China. And I've been here ever since. Brian Ardinger: Let's fast forward to today, you're running this thing called GrowthX. How did the idea of a corporate innovation accelerator start and then give us some insight into what's going on with GrowthX?Kapil Kane: Intel has this amazing culture of innovation. And it's something that I can think of it like the Google's 15% thing. Where we encourage our employees to spend a percentage of their time on things they believe is important for our future. And so, we have lots of this cool innovation that has been created in the labs.And around 2005, that's when I took over the innovation at Intel China. We saw that there's lots of cool things happening in the labs, but we couldn't find those things being commercialized. Not lending into the market. When I took over this role, this role was created because until that point, there was lots of different efforts of innovation, like very vibrant culture. Even to the date, there's a very vibrant culture of innovation. And we thought we needed some streamlining.And so that's when they created this position to streamline all the different innovation activities at Intel China. And we have around 10,000 people here in China. So, it's by no means small offsite operation. It's a pretty huge operation. Brian Ardinger: Kind of a little bit different than a lot of companies. A lot of companies we hear about the fact that most of the core is not that innovative. And so, they created an accelerator kind of program. Or a lab to kickstart that. But where at Intel, it seems like the reverse it's like you had to kind of harness or extra harness some of the activity. Kapil Kane: Exactly. And also, the concept of accelerator is, is quite different. Like if you look at the other corporates who are building accelerators, they are accelerating outside startups with the hope that they will get to know what they're doing. They may be able to acquire them or partner with them. But for me, I didn't even know what an accelerator was when I took over this role. And in my very first week, I happened to be in a round table conference at American Chamber of Commerce. And the guy sitting next to me happened to be running China's very first startup accelerator, Chinaaccelerator. The guy, William Bao Bean. He's a legend in China.And I just happened to ask him what he does. And he explained to me the concept of accelerator. And I thought, you know, maybe I can replicate this right inside of Intel because we are so much creativity. We just need to give them the tools to turn those cool innovations into viable businesses. And that's where the idea for accelerator came along.And that was the, the birth of GrowthX, where we started up as accelerators. We pick the teams. We make them believe they are actual startups. We have the CEO, CTO, CMO, and we bring them in a batch of cohort. And we have business sprints. We have around eight sprints focusing on different aspects of business. We have mentors.We have entrepreneurs in residence. And we run this outside of Intel from a coworking space. So, it's just like any startup accelerator. Just the thing is that all the startups are internal projects. And we've been running this for six years now. Brian Ardinger: Let's talk a little bit about some of the differences or similarities that you've seen between entrepreneurs in the outside versus intrepreneurship. And are there key skillsets, mindsets, tool sets that are similar or different.Kapil Kane: I think what we are seeing, and it may be different for different companies. For us, most of those innovators will come to our accelerator. They are techies. You know, they get very excited about the technology. And they have no real background in business. So, we spend a lot of time and effort to make them understand that it's not about, can you build it, but should you build it? That's where we focused on changing their mindset. If we change their mindset, like, you know, typically they're of this mindset that I will build something, then I will show it to the customers. Or they think that customers won't even look at us. If I don't have some finished product to show to them. And this is where we turn it on its head and tell them that you don't need anything. You just need a sketch. You need a questionnaire. And you're not trying to sell something. You're trying to understand the challenges. So, think of it that way as you engage with your potential customers is don't be ashamed or embarrassed, that you're not in the show. You are simply, think of it as if you're co-designing with them. Or trying to collectively solve the challenges.So that's the biggest challenge we have. I think technically they're amazing, is this business mindset that we're trying to cultivate. Not just business mindset. The, the lean startup kind of a methodology, you know, is like build, measure, learn, do an MVP. Test it. Learn, iterate. So that's one big change. I say, because like outside entrepreneurs, founders, I see they're more, I mean, again, you know, there's all flavors of entrepreneurs. But our guys are always very tech focused, and they don't understand about the fundraising and stuff. Although I have seen they're very, very good at tapping into the resources to move their ideas forward.And even to the point that they sometimes feel like getting into our accelerator, and doing all the sprints is like homework, just to get to the seed money, seed funding, to build something. But in their head, they are still, you know, that's what they want. But they have to go through all the motions of the accelerator as something like, you know, they had to do in order to move their idea forward.So, I still believe that's entrepreneurship, but it's in a different way. Because they still want to move their ideas forward. Right. So, I used to really get frustrated in the beginning. But now I think, you know, in the end, their goal is the same. It's just, they have a different idea of how to get to the goal.Brian Ardinger: Can you talk a little bit about how you go about identifying which people or companies, so to speak, to get into the accelerator? What's your evaluation process to identify who might be successful at this? Kapil Kane: So, I think that's a very good question. And it took us some time to figure it out. There are a few things. The ideas, they aligned strategically to where Intel wants to go. That's one thing. Second thing we also realized is we are good at accelerating adjacent innovations. That means building something on top of something that exists, rather than this breakthrough moonshots. There are two reasons. Just because we are in China and our employees, they interact a lot with our customers who are based in China, right? Like all the electronics are made in China. So typically, they come up, their innovation ideas are about how can we empower our customers. They're more customer centric. They're more something that, you know, hey, we have this product. If we tweak it this way, I can open up a completely new market segment, which can bring us millions of dollars. Rather than saying, hey, let's invent a new chip. Or let's invent a completely new manufacturing process. So that's the second thing. The third thing we look at is like a founder accelerator fit is, are these guys coachable? And can we really help them in the short period of time of like four months. And the way we do that is before we do the intake, into the accelerator, we have only five slots per batch. And we do two batches a year. And we get anywhere from 30 to 60 applications. And we'll shortlist of about 15 to 20 and bring those teams into the bootcamp.And during the bootcamp, we help them build their business case. And help pitch their business case in a very short time. And during this bootcamp, we also challenge our founders to go, and actually talk to the customers. Make cold calls. Or do a survey, right. And that tells us if these guys are really willing to get out of the building or not.And we also see if they've incorporated the advice from the coaches into their final pitch or not. So, we also make our evaluation based on that. So, it's like, you know, the kind of innovation. The strategic fit to Intel and the founder accelerator fit as well. Brian Ardinger: Are only teams coming into the accelerator or do they have to have a team, or can an individual founder apply? Kapil Kane: Individuals can come in, but once they get into the accelerator on the very first sprint, their assignment is to resource their team with, you know, CEO, CTO, and CMO at the minimum. Brian Ardinger: And that allows them to have enough people to actually run experiments and create something to move it forward. Kapil Kane: Yeah. And also, the skill, you know, because typically like I said, if a founder is a very bright technologists, he may not really understand everything on the business side. So, we encourage them to get people from the sales and marketing groups to join in.And we also give them enough budget to hire interns and MBA intern for example, to act as a CMO. And also, you know to hire tech talents as well for that short period of time to work on their ideas, so that they can focus on the business side of the things. Brian Ardinger: So, I'd like to talk a little bit about the balance between this inside innovation versus outside innovation. So, companies that come through GrowthX are they expected potentially to spin out into a startup outside of the company? Are they been brought back in these technologies? Talk a little bit about this inside outside balance. Kapil Kane: So, 90% of the companies are inside. We have only been able to spin out one company so far. After activating around 60. Okay. So very, very small ratio. So mostly you can think of them as internal teams coming to the accelerator to de-risk their business plans, to bring back to the business units. Having said that we have accelerated external startups as well. And by that it's not to invest and take an equity in them. But to work with them on identifying a business opportunity for Intel and going to market together.So basically, startups who are building on top of our core technologists, who are working in a field that we are never been to. So, this is a way we could test the market at the same time. We can help the startups as well by providing them with the technology, all our resources and jointly see if we can and like, you know, break new grounds together. So, we have done that, and we had some successes there. But our main focus is accelerating internal innovations and trying to line them into the market. Brian Ardinger: That brings up a great question that is always asked, especially in the corporate environment, is like, how do you measure success? Because a lot of times corporates have a different way to measure outcomes because they're working with existing business models, existing optimization. Versus in a startup environment where a lot of it is unknown. So how do you go about measuring success? Kapil Kane: The two ways we measure success. One is the business impact. That means what's the real revenue created from the projects that we accelerated. So, these are direct like revenue numbers. This is X million dollars created from this project. Second is the revenue potential that those projects create. So that's on the business side of things. The second way we measure it is people impact. Impact on people. How we are helping people grow. And we actually ran a study where we tracked the people who went to our accelerators for two years. And we saw that on an average, we have anywhere from 1.5 to 6 times accelerated career growth for the people who have gone through the accelerator. So, it could mean two things. There is no causation, right? There's a correlation. It could be one thing that are we are attracting good people. Our second could be that we are upscaling people. Which is both good because we know like if we had to do something really cool and innovative, we know who these people to count on. Right. And the second thing is it's good to upskill people. So those are the two ways we measure our success. Brian Ardinger: And I think a lot of corporates have a tough time finding those curious restless entrepreneurs within their own companies. And this might be a great way to help figure that out. Obviously, a lot of startups don't make it. You know, the number of ideas that you think are going to make it, there's a large portion that fall by the wayside. How do you deal with failure? Or what happens to the teams and that, that don't get to where they were hoping to get at the very beginning? Kapil Kane: That's the win-win part of intrepreneurship versus entrepreneurship. When you are an entrepreneur, you have your day job. Your paycheck. No matter what you do, but the payoff is also limited. Right? I think one of the great things about intrepreneurship and especially, let's say for the GrowthX are those who are not successful, they simply go back to what they were doing before. But if they are successful also, they typically go back to a day job. They will hand it over to the business units to take it forward.So, for them, their goal is to come up with new ideas and bring those new ideas to the market. So that's the kind of people we have. We have people who have been through our accelerator three times, four times. And try to bring lots of ideas to the market. Some people have maybe succeeded once in three times. Some people have multiple projects that have been successful. But the trend we have seen is people coming in. Getting their idea to the next level. Going back, coming up with more ideas.Brian Ardinger: Awesome. So, you've been in the trenches in Asia, looking at kind of what's hot. What's next? What are some of the trends that you're seeing that you're excited about? Kapil Kane: Oh, man. I'm not really like a trend kind of a guy. But I see a lot of noise in metaverse. I see, you know, like this digital transformation is also pretty big here because there are lots of SOEs here who are trying to digitalize. Retail, new retail is a huge buzz in China. So, those are kind of the buzz things. There's also like a lot of deep technology initiatives in China, especially zero carbon. Space tech is also picking up. Yeah. So, I'm excited more about like a long-term sustainable things. Rather than the short term, shiny things. The bigger problems.They are the bigger problems. You know, but I think the China is definitely taking the long-term approach, right. With their five-year plans. With the policies, aligning the whole industry in that direction. Some of them may fail. Some of them will succeed. But at least we see like a huge effort going in those directions.Like for example, in the past five-year plan, it was AI, Smart Manufacturing. Right. Also, there's this thing about the Smart Cities was also part of the last five-year plan. There was something called Common Prosperity. So, they want to make the second tier, third tier cities also prosperous. But I think the biggest thing, if you want to just think about China for the long run is the Sustainability, Carbon Zero and Space. Maybe even Quantum Computing. They are really going into this steep tech, rather than cute tech. Brian Ardinger: The great way to explain it. Cute tech. Well, Kapil I want to thank you for coming on Inside Outside Innovation and sharing your insights and your expertise. Really do appreciate your time. If people want to find out more about yourself or about GrowthX, what's the best way to do that?Kapil Kane: I think the best way to reach me is on LinkedIn. I mean, LinkedIn used to be open in China until it was blocked a few months ago. So, if you guys want to reach out, best place is LinkedIn. Brian Ardinger: Excellent. Well, thanks again for coming on the show. Really appreciate the time and looking forward to staying connected and stay safe out there.Kapil Kane: Thanks. And thanks for having me on the show, Brian.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREYou can also search every Inside Outside Innovation Podcast by Topic and Company.  For more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.  

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of... Product Mastery Now with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode:  Today we are talking about how your organization can more effectively innovate, using precious resources wisely to create new value. We may not talk about your organization by name, but what we will learn together will certainly apply and help you. Joining us is Kapil Kane, the Director of Innovation for Intel China. He is also the founder of GrowthX, a corporate startup accelerator. His experiences have helped him integrate the advantages of large organizations, like Intel, with the scrappiness and agility of startups, and we get to benefit from the insights he'll share with us.

Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel China and co-founder of award-winning corporate innovation accelerator GrowthX, has wide-ranging experience in product design and shares insights about his customer- and employee-centric approach to design and innovation. He explains how the accelerator stimulates innovation at Intel and how they have adapted to be responsive and innovate faster during these times of uncertainty.     KEY TAKEAWAYS   [02:45] Where Kapil grew up and what he dreamed of doing.    [03:40] Why his first experience in the US was very different for Kapil.   [04:20] Kapil interns for Apple and finds consumer electronics product design more satisfying.    [05:24] Working on a revolutionary project at Apple, Kapil drops out of school.   [06:14] Why testing is such an integral part of the design process for a great product.   [06:38] The challenge of testing a revolutionary product!   [07:59] Why Kapil moved to China in 2007.   [09:14] The rapid prototyping and positive attitude allowed Kapil to make quick progress.    [10:36] The do/try/break/iterate approach in China which differs from his experiences of design in India and the US.   [11:15] Enterprising attitudes allow quick access to resources nationwide.   [13:00] China's consumer electronics design work is very customer centric.   [14:20] Intel recently empowered a local group to create products for the local market based on core technology.   [15:19] Employees working close to customers are identifying needs in the local market.   [17:41] How hackathons are used to generate initial ideas.   [18:25] Various seed programs develop proof of concept.   [19:30] How the accelerator Kapil co-founded explores feasibility and business viability.   [20:48] Multiple sprints prepare viable ideas for investment and launch.   [21:38] How market conditions changed the process and opportunities for technology.   [23;36] The pros and cons of innovating with hybrid work arrangements.   [24:31] The benefit of experimentation away from company headquarters.   [25:11] Kapil has found that consumers are more forgiving in China about new products.   [25:55] How customer feedback and (hackathon) research affect product development.   [27:43] The shift to empathetic mindsets in validation interviews involves understanding customers' pain points.   [28:48] Innovation is best achieved in environments where people are allowed to challenge the status quo.    [31:43] How Kapil's creative approach successfully stimulates innovation at Intel.   [34:59] Transferring business understanding upstream enables innovation in an ever-changing environment.   [37:03] Stimulating innovation and testing business cases early on encourages employees to be intrapreneurial.   [39:08] Kapil spends most of his time supporting the idea selection process—especially bootcamps and business pitches.   [40:15] Team coachability during bootcamps is an indicator of performance in the accelerator.   [41:15] Why has Intel's accelerator been successful and others' have not?   [42:21] The two factors Kapil attributes to the innovation program's overall success.   [44:12] Why a flexible attitude also matters.   [45:44] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: In addition to empathizing with clients, have empathy for your employees. Listen to their ideas. Give them a platform and an environment to play with their ideas. Enable them. Empower them and you can explore all types of innovation—moonshots and incremental and adjacent innovation.      RESOURCES   Kapil Kane on LinkedIn    Kapil Kane's podcast Between Two Friends   GrowthX's website     QUOTES   “Many times, the success rate is quite, quite small. I would say 10 to 15%, so not all projects you start in an accelerator will have an ending.”   “In general, this pandemic I think has brought more opportunities for technology, especially in data centers, PC, and internet streaming.”   “The cool thing is that not being in your headquartered country or the headquartered market, you have more chances to experiment.”   “I think the definition of innovation is not limited to technology. When people hear innovation, they think new ideas are being built in a lab.”   “You need to create real value from the innovation by landing those innovations into the market.”

This podcast was first published in 2015. Since then our guest has founded Growthx, Lightjump Capital and SVG Partners. Will Bunker talked to Richard Lucas and Sam Cook. Will was the founder of One-and-Only.com (currently owned by Match.com). He is a successful entrepreneur and investor. Richard and Will chat about their philosophies around investing. They discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with people that can bring you new ideas and ventures. Finally, Sam and Will look into analyzing data and its use in predicting startup success. Will Bunker LinkedIn GrowthX Borrow my doggy Innovation Nest Open Coffee Krakow About your host - Richard Lucas Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded, led and/or invested in more than 30 businesses, Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre-schools to leading business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here, watch is autobiographical TEDxTarnow talk here. Sam Cook was the co-host of the Project Kazimierz podcast from 2015-2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/entrepreneurship-and-leadership

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Thank you for 1 million downloads of Make It Happen Mondays Podcast! We are incredibly grateful for your listenership and couldn't be more proud of this milestone. Let's countdown the top 5 episodes of all time! Episode #3: This replay of Episode 109 welcomes Sean Sheppard, who's friendship spans years with John. Sean is a 5-time Founder and has 3 successful exits on his resume already, he's now running GrowthX. He's always been a salesperson, but Sean goes deep in this podcast about the routes of new sales professionals. His introduction to the industry involved building repeatable processes, testing and optimizing everything as far as you could. He cares a lot about helping the new generation of sales professionals to get that level of training and grounding.

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The world is evolving rapidly. In today's world, people don't just use products but interact with them at a higher level. As consumption habits change over time, people are using products in different ways. In order to stay on top of trends and changes, companies have a lot to think about. The challenge ahead of companies is that there are alternative products coming up at the same time. The onus is thus on them to showcase the unique value their product provides and how it addresses the needs and necessities of the customers. With insights from the generation of finest founders, today we have with us Udayan Walvekar, Product - Growth at Razorpay and Co-founder of GrowthX sharing his thoughts on product growth journeys. Razorpay is India's first full-stack financial solutions company. Started in 2014, Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. GrowthX is India's top learning platform for high-performance founders, product teams, growth teams, and early-stage startup founders. Founded in 2019, GrowthX's mission is to create million growth teams across all organizations over the next decade. Udayan shared compelling insights on: The importance of growth teams in product-based organizations How growth teams help in extracting the best value of the product What is the core value proposition and how do you define it What are cognitive biases and how one should tackle it Getting users to adopt new features on the app What is product-led growth and how does it lead to better user acquisition, engagement, and retention How nudges can help brands create the ‘aha' moment The importance of no-code in today's product world Tune in to understand how product-led growth can help you deliver the best value of your product and grow your business exponentially.

Founded in December 2016 and bagging many awards from Central Ministry, Webboombaa was co-founded by Mr. Durairaju, who faced multiple failures in his college life, but a winner of Top 30 under 30 award from Impact Weekly Magazine, and his co-founders and friends, Sarath Ravikumar and Varun Kumar. Mr. Durai is also one of the few founders who has taken an exit from his startup. Mr. Durairaju is an Engineering Graduate from Anna University, Marketing and Operations Graduate (MBA) from Sri Sairam Group of Institutions, Artificial Intelligence Powered Marketing Graduate from IIM, Calcutta and also learnt Product Growth and Marketing from GrowthX. He was a Business development Student Ambassador in Uniq Technologies, Co-Founder and CEO of Astute Fanfare, and now is also the Co-Founder of Brandinfluencerz. His startup Astutue Fanfare was started while he was a college student. Want to learn more about a Startup, founded by a Marketing executive and his friends? Tap the Play Button! Curious to know who's behind Tamilpreneur ? Listen to the intro of S5E1 - https://open.spotify.com/show/5f59gJfY5VIqP3NkPJwi3d Follow us on our Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/tamilpreneur/ Checkout our Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCHKQxZv7Y&t=1s&ab_channel=Tamilpreneur. If you are listening on Spotify, Google podcast - please Subscribe :) If you are listening on iTunes make sure to Rate and Review the podcast. Yes, It really helps !! Tamilpreneur - 1 Lakh Tamil entrepreneurs by 2025

An interview with Sean Sheppard. Sean is the Founder of GrowthX & GrowthX Academy. He is a globally recognized thought leader in sales, marketing, innovation and education with over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, including as a five-times sales founder. In addition to helping dozens of startups find product-market fit and predictable revenue models, Sean helps global multinationals to identify new applications for their existing technology portfolio, bring new products to market with profitable business models, and organize and train self-managing early product-stage sales and marketing teams (including for Bridgestone, Canon, Faurecia, Clariant, and others. Oh and he's a great guy too. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinnovators/message

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'the traditional venture model is broken for pre-Series A investing...but we cracked the code' SOLUTION: "We have a simple clause in our LPA that allows us to invest fund capital, not just in writing a check to help the company, but in paying people to help them in exchange for additional equity at a minimum of a 50% discount on that equity."

On this week's episode, we sat down with the Founding Partner and CEO of GrowthX, Andrew Goldner. GrowthX is a venture capital firm focused on helping their portfolio companies find product-market fit through their extensive go-to-market program. We discuss the complexities of achieving true product-market fit, content marketing, important sales traits, how to launch a product, and the Nashville startup scene. Visit GrowthX at GrowthX.com Visit us at MiddleTechPod.com Watch the episode on YouTube Twitter Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Evan's Twitter Logan's Twitter

When launching a product to a new market, think of your company as a stranger entering into a strange world, talking to other strangers about strange things. In short, you have a lot to learn. Sean Sheppard, Founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, has over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, and has started and sold 5 businesses. Through his work with GrowthX, Sean helps entrepreneurs find product-market fit and grow a profitable business.

Sean Sheppard is the founder of GrowthX and today we talk about the challenges of starting a company during a pandemic and selling to customers that are more risk averse. We also dive into Sean’s vision for a Professional Sales College. That’s right. Sales College. In Sean’s vision this will be the first fully accredited for-profit, post-secondary school for professional sales education. It’s a big dream. And as you’ll hear, perhaps one whose time is finally here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Sean Sheppard, founding partner of GrowthX. In addition to helping dozens of startups find product-market fit and predictable revenue models, Sean helps global multinationals to identify new applications for their existing technology portfolio, bring new products to market with profitable business models, and organize and train self-managing early product-stage sales and marketing teams. Sean was named as One of the Top Sales Influencers You Should Be Following on Social Media. Sean is an active mentor, advisor and guest lecturer at global startup accelerators, innovation conferences, and colleges and universities. He’s now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy. In our discussion, Sean talked to me about: The biggest problem innovative products have and that's product-market fit How to embed a learning framework in your organization The skills necessary to thrive in the knowledge economy Listen to the podcast to find out more. Show Notes and Blog The Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Disney+ Hotstar, with its unparalleled mix of high-quality local and global content, continues to enthrall viewers. Millions are mesmerized by shows and movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars, and Disney+ original programming such as films, series and documentaries. But how do you turn frequent viewers into loyal subscribers? In episode #401 of our bi-weekly series Reimagine Growth sponsored by CleverTap, our host Peggy Anne Salz talks with Shobhit Singhal, Disney+ Hotstar Associate Director of Product. Shobhit discusses how a smart approach to segmentation and data-informed personalization efforts combine to create “Growth Loops.” He also shares how using audience insights allowed the company to introduce viewers of high-octane sports to other content and grow subscriber numbers. And take advantage of the opportunity to learn how top leaders in Google, Branch, CleverTap, and GrowthX are reimagining acquisition, engagement, and retention. Unlike any other webinar series, CleverTap’s brand new growth series of webinars walks you through every growth stage. A bonus: insider tips to help you optimize Google App Campaigns. It’s all happening on September 22, 23 and 24 – and you can register here.

Kapil Kane คือผู้ก่อตั้ง GrowthX องค์กร Startup accelerator ระดับรางวัลที่ช่วยพัฒนาสตาร์ทอัพหลายบริษัทในหลายวงการ จะเรียกเขาว่าผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการพัฒนาสตาร์ทอัพก็ไม่ผิดนัก ไปฟังสรุปบทสนทนาระหว่างไอติมและ Kapil ถึงทัศนะเกี่ยวกับการเริ่มทำสตาร์ทอัพสักแห่งเป็นของตนเอง มุมมองต่อผู้ก่อตั้งสตาร์ทอัพใหม่ๆ รวมถึงการทำงานระหว่าง corporate และ startup ที่อาจมีหลายอย่างนำมาปรับใช้ร่วมกันได้ เพราะในยุคนี้ การทำงานอย่างสตาร์ทอัพอาจใช้ได้กับทุกงาน ไม่ใช่แค่กับสตาร์ทอัพเท่านั้น #Podcast #พอดแคสต์ #SalmonPodcast #RISE #InTheNameOfWork #ParitW #KapilKane #GrowthX #IntelChina

Kapil Kane is a founder of GrowthX, an award-winning start-up accelerator organization, which helps develop many start-up companies in many industries. It is not wrong to say that he is a professional start-up developer.  Let’s listen to Kapil’s attitude toward launching one’s own start-up, his opinion on new start-up founders, and his view on cooperation between corporates and startups whose mindset, nature and techniques can be shared and applied with each other. #Podcast #พอดแคสต์ #SalmonPodcast #RISE #InTheNameOfWork #ParitW #KapilKane #GrowthX #IntelChina #Intel #Startup

Ever wondered why one start up fails but another succeeds?What is the formular for success?In this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast, Silicon Valley veteran Sean Sheppard shares his experience and advice from years in the start up world on some of the fundemental rules that can increase your chances of success.Sean is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets and Founding Partner, GrowthX and Co-Founder, GrowthX Academy

Sean Sheppard joins me on the podcast to talk about maintaining a competitive edge in today's innovation economy.You’ll Learn:When do you have product-market fit?Why can "founder bias" be so harmfulMaintaining a competitive edge in the innovation economyAbout Sean SheppardSean is a serial entrepreneur VC and co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, with three successful exits, who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. He was recently named the #2 Online Sales Influencer and contributor at The Huffington Post. He’s now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.

--------------- Episode Outline --------------- [04:39] Sean’s background [07:16] Operational issues and then the other one had to do with just the fundamental shift [10:13] Reason these companies were failing, had more to do with people and the behaviors of the people [11:18] Realize that affiliation with a company who's been successful in that industry [12:04] Hiring and supporting and developing and growing other humans [14:34] If you think about things from a red, yellow, green perspective, you put people in a stoplight bucket [16:35] Best fit based on their characteristics and attributes because the majority of the Academy students are adult learners. The true character of a person is not how you act in this life, but how you react. [17:04] If you don't like something, you already know it. It's probably not going to continue to enjoy it. [19:22] There's social responsibility, corporate responsibility, environmental responsibility, and personal responsibility. [20:19] Starting over with the concept of what problems do my customers have right now that can really solve, and growth mindset is going to be more important. -------------------- Sean's Inspirations: -------------------- His father ------------------ Connect with Sean: ------------------ LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/seansheppard ) Twitter ( https://twitter.com/seanasheppard )

We are lucky to have invited Sean Sheppard on the show today, founding partner at GrowthX. GrowthX invests in post-revenue, capital-efficient B2B SaaS and marketplace startups that want help finding product-market fit. Sean is a globally recognized sales and marketing thought leader with over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, including as a five-times sales founder.  Sean is an active mentor, advisor and guest lecturer at global startup accelerators, innovation conferences, and colleges and universities including NASDAQ, 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Galvanize, Alchemist, GSVLabs, London Business School and the Owen School of Business at Vanderbilt University. In today's conversation we learn a little more about how Growth X has created an approachable formula that companies can apply to achieve and maintain true growth. Contact info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seansheppard/ https://growthx.com/startups/ https://gxacademy.com/ - Learn From Industry Expertsand Launch a Career You'll Love

How To Find Product-Market Fit With Sean SheppardConnect With Sean: growthx.comgxacademy.comwww.linkedin.com/in/seansheppard@seansheppardAbout Sean:Sean is a serial entrepreneur VC and co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, with three successful exits, who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. He was recently named the #2 Online Sales Influencer and contributor at The Huffington Post. He's now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.Resources:Come Join Our Community of Titans At: theluckytitan.com/tribeCheck out the TOP TOOLS AND TRAININGS ENTREPRENEURS ARE USING TO WIN IN THE ONLINE MARKET: https://theluckytitan.com/resources

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In this week's podcast we talk to Sean Sheppard. Sean is a serial entrepreneur VC and co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, with three successful exits, who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. He was recently named the #2 Online Sales Influencer and contributor at The Huffington Post. He’s now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.

Sean Sheppard is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy. He is also a Huffington Post contributor, mentor and guest lecturer. Sean has been named a “Top 20 Sales Influencer” and has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. Sean came from humble beginnings. His father was in the military during the Vietnam War and he was born while his parents were stationed in Naples, Italy. He moved all over the world during his formative years which he credits for his ability to quickly adapt to any environment. Colleagues say that Sean is the purest example of both an entrepreneur and a leader. He is known as someone with deep experience and valuable insights across multiple industries. He is said to bring a rare charisma and positivity to any room. He is on a mission to create a better future, empower others, and help everyone grow in order to serve others to the best of their abilities. On this episode of Sales Secrets From The Top 1%, Sean explains his top secrets to sales success and how to start implementing them in your career immediately!

Sean Sheppard is perhaps the world's authority when it comes to Growth Marketing. Sean has founded 5 companies, 3 of them successfully exited and is the Co-Founder of GrowthX. Unsure what Growth Marketing actual is? Sean goes into depth on what it is and how we can all use Growth Marketing to discover new channels for sales.

Sean Sheppard is the founder of GrowthX. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, and Sean discuss the impact of COVID on the startup and investment environment, Silicon Valley and elsewhere, trends in the world of no code, and ways that startups can generate revenue and adapt in this challenging environment. For more innovation resources, check out insideoutside.io

Sean Sheppard is the founder of GrowthX. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, and Sean discuss the impact of COVID on the startup and investment environment, Silicon Valley, and elsewhere, trends we're seeing in the world of no code, and ways that startups can generate revenue and adapt in this challenging environment. For additional innovation resources, check out insideoutside.io.

Design Thinking is highly user-centric. It revolves around a deep interest and understanding of customers' needs and comes up with meaningful solutions to meet those needs. Companies are keen to engage in innovation but ONLY a handful actually create extraordinary results. Join Dr Kevyn Yong, Chief Learning Officer, SIM and his special guest Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation & cofounder at GrowthX corporate accelerator, Intel Corporation, as they share on the need to break out of the organisation's mould and think creatively to identify the right problem and arrive at new possibilities and solutions. The session is hosted by Graham Brown, CEO & Founder, Pikkal & Co - B2B Podcast Agency. Listen to the podcast to discover the conversations with leaders from across the region to discuss the forces, opportunities and challenges that are shaping the Future of Work.

Today we are talking with Sean Sheppard the Founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy! We are here to talk about the future and philosophy of growth hacking, why it is important, and what new workers in the tech field can do to be more innovative! ## Links: https://twitter.com/seanasheppard https://gxacademy.com/people/sean-sheppard/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seansheppard/ https://www.instagram.com/seanasheppard/ ### GrowthX Academy http://www.growthx.com/ http://www.gxacademy.com/ http://gxacademy.com/blog/ https://twitter.com/growthxvc https://www.linkedin.com/company/growthx/ https://www.facebook.com/GrowthX/ ## Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Freedom is like a product to market 3:00 Find a product that will go at timely fashion you'd win 5:00 "I think that long form podcasting is the new great content marketing channel" #FTW 7:15 The Ability to engage in deep thought... has been lost 9:00 Sides sides sides... How do you interact with other people? 10:00 "It's really possible to disagree with somebody, and still like them!" 11:15 What is Growth Hacking to Sean? 13:45 The skill of learning rapidly 14:30 Entrepreneurship 17:00 "Learn how to build. design, and deploy things" #ZerotoOne 19:00 Foray into entrepreneurship 21:40 MINDSET 24:00 Knowledge Levels #expert 25:00 Knowledge, skills, and behaviors 26:00 Expanding people's perceptions 26:30 What is a polymath to Sean? 28:00 Learn to fail 29:45 How do you define the person you are trying to solve a problem for? 32:00 Growth Mindset 33:25 Hypothesis vs Assumption 34:20 - 36:38 I don't know, what I don't know. 38:00 Mutually beneficial outcomes 38:40 GrowthX 40:45 A lack of stage relevant talent 43:00 Wide ranging reach of growth 44:00 A hub of innovation 46:00 - 47:40 [MC] The Five Skills to Win in the Innovation Economy 48:00 Last Mover advantage https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lasting-mover-advantage-sean-sheppard/ 50:00 - 51:00 [MC] Digital transformation 54:00 Innovation Economy 56:00 Where can you find Sean? 57:00 Outro We matched as PolyCast host, and guest on matchmaker.fm ! If you have a show, or want to be on this one, then go check out the awesome site!

I really enjoyed my conversation with Sean. He shared some amazing insights and wisdom on product to market fit. I also learned the formula F=E-R. Frustration Equals Expectations Minus Results. In addition to his extensive work here in the Silicon Valley, Sean is a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University in the School of Entrepreneurship in Nashville. Sean is a globally recognized sales and marketing thought leader. He was named as One of the Top Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media, as well as Top 20 Inside Sales Influencers. Sean is a former professional golfer, PGA certified golf instructor, and an active mentor, advisor and guest lecturer at global startup accelerators, innovation conferences, and colleges and universities including Galvanize, Alchemist, GSVLabs and the London Business School. Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. He has over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, including as a five-times sales founder. Sean’s deep expertise has been codified into a proprietary market acceleration program and entrepreneurial sales training curriculum. In addition to helping dozens of startups find product-market fit and predictable revenue models, Sean helps global multinationals to identify new applications for their existing technology portfolio, bring new products to market with profitable business models, and organize and train self-managing early product-stage sales and marketing teams. Sean’s successful corporate advisory track record includes work for Bridgestone, Canon, Faurecia, and Clariant. About GrowthX GrowthX provides seed-stage venture capital and market development expertise to a select group of startups seeking product-market fit and predictable revenue. Our focus is on helping the entrepreneur make money - not raise money - and we've got it down to a science. Products and markets are unique, but the path to product-market fit and sustainable growth is not. To see if GrowthX is right for you, learn more at GrowthX.com or gxAcademy.com Connect on LinkedIn: @SeanASheppard

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The world may never be the same after the global pandemic of 2020. We have Sean Sheppard from GrowthX on the show to talk about product-market fit, pivoting in the post-pandemic, and how entrepreneurs can protect and even grow in the new economy. GrowthX: https://growthx.com/ GrowthX Academy: https://gxacademy.com/ Digital Marketing Masters: https://hookseo.com/podcast

Today joining me is Sean Sheppard of growth X I brought Sean on to the show to discuss How to generate revenue right now. Sean lays out 6 steps to getting organized and fixated on generating revenue. Unique Growth Strategy: How to generate revenue now Orient yourself around the problem right now first What do I need to do to survive? Put together a market milestone – reverse funnel Build an initial customer profile for right now on a use case you can crush right now – focus on fit – do they have the need – focus on the problem 25 words or less, can you construct a value hypothesis around that problem in repeatable way. Tell me what you think? Less work How to monetize it? Fastest and easiest way to do business together. Make it as easy as possible – reduce funnel friction and keep it easy Outreach and execution – construct a campaign – target people at the top of your funnel – email, phone scripts and talking scripts and other channels. Two Final Questions: What is the hottest digital marketing technology that you are using or want to use? Xfinity video search   Who is the most influential person in Sales or Marketing Today?  Dr. Neil Rackham – Andy Paul’s James Clear, Ryan Holiday To hire Sean or his team to help commercialize new innovations or find product - market fit, email him at sean@growthx.com   Bio: Sean is a serial entrepreneur VC and co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, with three successful exits, who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. He was recently named the #2 Online Growth Marketing Influencer and contributor at The Huffington Post. He lectures at London Business School and The Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt among others. He’s now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.

There are times in life and in business when the world throws us a curveball. Our ability to adjust to those curveballs defines who we are and our success. On this episode of Marketing Trends, we wanted to talk through how to go about making those adjustments. Sean Sheppard is the Founding Partner of GrowthX and he hopped on the phone with us to discuss his eight strategies marketers can use to navigate through a crisis. Plus, he shed some light and hope to anyone who might be struggling. 3 Takeaways: Spend as much time as you can on how you can help your customer, maybe in a way you haven’t considered before Together we can find ways to make things right for everyone It’s not just what you do, it’s how you approach it and the important thing is to keep things positive --- Marketing Trends podcast is brought to you by Salesforce. Discover marketing built on the world’s number one CRM: Salesforce. Put your customer at the center of every interaction. Automate engagement with each customer. And build your marketing strategy around the entire customer journey. Salesforce. We bring marketing and engagement together. Learn more at salesforce.com/marketing.  To learn more or subscribe to our weekly newsletter, visit MarketingTrends.com.

Whether you are an aspiring founder, or seasoned sales professional – success comes from growth. The best, long term sustainable growth strategy is selling more and generating income (versus raising money).  I had a chance to speak with Sean Sheppard, a serial entrepreneur, venture capital master and founder of GrowthX. We wind a conversational path […]

Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe for Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful - personally and professionally. Let's Get Cooking! This episode welcomes Adam August, Co-Founder of Batch, The Cookie Company. Adam leaders Batch in the day-to-day operations and executes the long-term vision of being a nationally recognized brand. In 2015, after working in sales for the Miami Dolphins and running the operations for a startup fitness company, a chance encounter with Charles Schwab Jr. on a ski trip in Chile, led Adam to move to Appleton, Wisconsin to resurrect Scolding Locks. A 100-year-old bobby pin manufacturing company that was on the verge of closing its doors and putting 13 employees out of job. Having no experience in manufacturing, Adam had to figure it out, and figure it out fast. In just 10 months, he managed to double the customer base, reduce the company debt in half, change the manufacturing process to reduce the amount of inventory, repair fractured relationships with key vendors, and save the jobs of 13 employees. One Wisconsin winter was enough for Adam, so he decided to move back home to the Bay Area and break into the startup world. He landed a job with one of the hottest cybersecurity startups, HackerOne. There, he quickly became the top producing sales development rep because of his creative and persistent approach. Adam’s success caught the eye of GrowthX, a Venture Capital firm specializing in investing in seed stage startups. They recruited Adam to join one of their portfolio companies, Aptology, as the first sales rep. Unconventional is one way to describe Adam’s career path. However, it has taught him that he thrives in unfamiliar situations. His ability to adapt, overcome obstacles, and maintain a level of self-belief is what has led him to be successful at each stage of his career. Visit Batch's website at https://www.batchcookieco.com/. Recipe For Success is filmed live every Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in the Huizenga Catering Kitchen at JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. It is hosted by Laurie Sallarulo, President & CEO of Junior Achievement of South Florida. The show appears live on video on Facebook and Instagram. The audio is posted two days later on JA’s YouTube Channel and various podcast sites.

On today's episode of the podcast, John has a conversation with a serial entrepreneur VC named Sean Sheppard, who is currently the Co-founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy. He is also the lead instructor at the latter. Sean's storied career in tech makes for an insightful conversation with Papola, in which they discuss everything from Sean's time spent as a “teenage arms dealer”, to his current role training future tech workers. They even touch on Sean's stint as a professional golf player. More from our guest: Twitter GrowthX Academy Bio Crunchbase Bio References from this episode: Atomic Habits by James Clear The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson Unlimited Wealth by Paul Zane Pilzer

Deb sits down with Andrew Goldner, Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of GrowthX, for a conversation about recognizing needs first before even considering possible solutions to social injustice challenges in the same way successful for profit companies seek client base and market share. Andrew advises to "first, always ask what you need to KNOW, then go after what you need to DO" when starting a venture of any kind. He cautions against becoming enamored with your idea to the exclusion of understanding if the idea will have any impact at all to those you hope to benefit. This and more as Deb and Andrew talk about using a business lens to increase impact social impact space.

Today we’re revisiting an interview where Matt spoke with two entrepreneurs from Nashville, Tennessee. Sashank Purighalla is the CEO of BOS Framework, a product framework that helps developers get an MVP to market quickly. Andrew Goldner is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and founder of GrowthX, an investment firm that helps organizations commercialize innovation through capital, talent and know-how. Both Sashank and Andrew have a lot to say about building an awesome minimum viable product (MVP). Launching a tech product can be a very rocky road for a startup. Technical issues are common, and user feedback during the early days of rollout is often focused around bugs and glitches rather than the product’s core features. This makes it difficult for teams to hone in on what’s working and what isn’t, which can delay the process of reaching product-market fit. And this all wastes a startup’s most valuable resource: time. For these reasons, our guests on today’s episode of the Igniting Statups podcast believe the traditional process for developing a minimum viable product (MVP) is broken. The first is Andrew Goldner, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and founder of GrowthX, an investment firm that helps organizations commercialize innovation through capital, talent and know-how. Joining him is Sashank Purighalla, CEO of BOS Framework, which provides a pre-built suite of APIs, plugins and UI components for startups that are building software applications. According to Andrew and Sashank, the MVP process shouldn’t just be about building software—it should be about evaluating the market and creating a product that solves a real need. By leveraging in-depth research and tools that jump-start technical development, startup teams can discover what their market needs and spend their valuable resources building that solution. That means reaching product-market fit, revenue and profitability sooner, which could make the difference between startup growth and startup death. In this episode with Andrew Goldner and Sashank Purighalla, you’ll learn: Why a successful product has to do more than sound interesting. Reasons why venture funding might be the wrong choice for a startup. How GrowthX is fueling venture capital growth outside Silicon Valley. The big problem with the traditional MVP process. The benefit of market acceleration programs for discovering market truth. How a pre-built tech framework can help companies get to product-market fit. Andrew’s and Sashank’s greatest hopes for entrepreneurship in middle America. Please enjoy this conversation with Andrew Goldner and Sashank Purighalla!

Sean Sheppard, Sales Influencer and the Founder and CEO of GrowthX, joins me again on this episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS GrowthX is a Silicon Valley venture capital partnership with an accelerator focused on sales and an academy that trains people in sales, marketing, design thinking, and data science and aims at developing markets. Sean describes the ‘lasting-mover advantage’ for companies that own the customer use case. Sean reminds his clients to go slow so they can go fast later. Look first for the customer profile of ‘Mr. Right Now.’ The first into a market is not the last in the market. Apple was not the first GUI; Google was not the first search engine. Sean gives examples. The first company to the market can rarely sustain its position. Sean teaches three keys to build a lasting-mover advantage. The first is to own the use case by earning it through value. The use case is changing at a faster rate than ever. Andy Grove wrote that only the paranoid survive and that we constantly have to be staying out in front of everyone and everything. Sean’s partner, Andrew Goldner, asks people where their focus is. The second key to build a lasting-mover advantage is to figure out, once you own the use case for the customer, how do you own their thoughts and actions around it? Think about what you’ll do next based on what you’ve learned from what you did for your customers yesterday. They will guide you to where you need to go. Sales organizations are wholly focused on acquisition — closing the deal. They invest in marketing, sales support, Sales Executives and technology but forget about customer onboarding, adoption, retention, and growth. The third key to lasting-mover advantage is to design an organization around the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed for learning, defining, solving for, and owning the use case as it evolves, with the proper roles in place. Who drives the functional data-driven learning loop? Sean suggests it is not an individual contributor but a person with market development responsibility and with certain skills and knowledge — the commercialization leader. ‘Stage relevance’ refers both to the product within the market, and to the qualities of the person that proactively develops and maintains the evolving use case. Andy says you have to keep learning and developing to be prepared. Sean reads biographies, histories, self-help and personal development books — no fiction. Always have a mindset to learn, grow, and do better. Your life will start to change positively. Turn off the TV and read. Powered by ringDNA: the revenue acceleration platform that helps businesses scale growth through AI. Visit ringdna.com/andy for exclusive Sales Enablement content. _ Formerly the Accelerate! Your Sales podcast with Andy Paul

Has successfully grown dozens of early stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets, As founding partner, I currently lead market development strategy for the GrowthX portfolio of companies. GrowthX provides seed-stage venture capital and market development expertise to a select group of startups seeking product-market fit and predictable revenue. Our focus is on helping the entrepreneur make money - not raise money - and we've got it down to a science. Products and markets are unique, but the path to product-market fit and sustainable growth is not. GrowthX Academy trains individuals and their companies in the skills needed in the innovation economy. Programming areas include Market Acceleration, Entrepreneurial Selling, Growth Marketing and UX Design. https://growthx.com https://gxacademy.com https://twitter.com/growthxvc

Andrew is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. He has been in the technology sector since 1998, based in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Palo Alto. Andrew began his career in technology as a lawyer for the early Internet pioneers in Search (Alta Vista and Yahoo), AdTech (DoubleClick), SaaS (Salesforce) and others while practicing law. He left private practice at Skadden Arps to join DoubleClick leading up to the Google acquisition. Andrew then joined Thomson Financial where he co-founded their financial news business leading to the acquisition of Reuters. At Thomson Reuters, Andrew served as Publisher of Reuters News, where he worked on innovation and design-thinking with nearly 3,000 journalists based in 200 countries worldwide. He then became Co-Founder and Managing Director of the company’s legal media business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. After 6 years in Asia, Andrew returned to the U.S. and returned to helping early-stage companies. In Silicon Valley, Andrew was early at Guidespark, an employee communication SaaS platform, and BrightTalk, a content marketing SaaS platform and professional community. He then co-founded GoodMoney to democratize high-performance, values-based investing. During that “wonderful learning opportunity,” Andrew met his current partners and co-founded GrowthX. Andrew is a Kauffman Fellow, Trustee at the Nashville Children’s Theatre, Founding Organizer of Nashville Entrepreneur Week, Regional Board Member of Venture for America, and a proud Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Palo Alto, Matter in San Francisco, WeWork in Nashville, and, nationally, at Galvanize. Andrew received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati and his law degree from Georgetown University. GrowthX provides seed-stage venture capital and market development expertise to a select group of startups seeking product-market fit and predictable revenue. Our focus is on helping the entrepreneur make money - not raise money - and we've got it down to a science. Products and markets are unique, but the path to product-market fit and sustainable growth is not. GrowthX Academy trains individuals and their companies in the skills needed in the innovation economy. Programming areas include Market Acceleration, Entrepreneurial Selling, Growth Marketing and UX Design. https://growthx.com https://gxacademy.com https://twitter.com/growthxvc

On yesterday’s episode of Mission Daily, we introduced you to Andrew Goldner, the co-founder of GrowthX, and we learned about his journey from lawyer to tech entrepreneur.  Today, we have Part 2 of Andrew’s interview, in which he discusses some advice he gave to Mission co-founder, Ian, about being “coin-operated,” and his strategy when it comes to investing in new companies. He believes that investing all comes down to looking at a company’s revenue, the knowledge founders have about their revenue streams, and how reliably they can predict them into the future.  “The reality is that not all revenue is created equally,” Andrew says. He also explains that no company can be built without a strong foundation, and part of that is knowing where you are, where you are not, why you aren’t certain places, and what you need to do to reach your goals. That takes intention, focus and a lot of hard work, but it’s worth it.  Andrew dives into all of that and more, on today’s Mission Daily episode.  — Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org. We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right!

Andrew Goldner is the co-founder of GrowthX, and while he had a passion for technology very early on in life, it wasn’t until later in his career that he decided to pursue his first love.  After initially studying law with the idea of going into politics, Andrew was able to use his technical knowledge to his advantage and build a brand for himself in Internet-based law. Eventually, Andrew gave up life at the law firm and, after a quick detour in the restaurant business, he landed in the world of technology.  He initially worked at DoubleClick, helping salespeople and operations close deals with new partners and customers. In doing so, he learned that making deals was all about personal relationships and finding congruity, two lessons he brought with him to GrowthX. “When I was doing deals, I would encourage the salesperson, no, put down the keyboard,” Andrew says. “Put down the phone. Let's get on a plane, and yes, it's going to cost us a little money and time. Let's go and meet those people in their hometowns. Let's get there the night before. Let's take them out to dinner. Let's start building relationships with them, human interactions, because we're going to build up political points from that, so the next day when I am negotiating with the lawyer I can be more casual. I can be more human.” On Part 1 of his interview with Mission Daily, Andrew talks about his journey from law to tech, entrepreneurship and venture capital, and everything he went through in between. — Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right!

Cities across the world are attempting to replicate the environment that has allowed Silicon Valley to flourish as a hub for business, technology, and innovation. But, according to Sean Sheppard, they all miss the mark on some of the most important cultural and environmental factors. Sean is a founding partner of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy. Through his work with GrowthX, Sean has learned a lot about what kind of environment businesses flourish in while funding start-ups across the globe. In this episode, he sits down with Ian to share the lessons he’s learned from traveling around the world and what cities can do to foster an innovative environment. Mission Daily and all of our podcasts are created with love by our team at Mission.org We own and operate a network of podcasts, and brand story studio designed to accelerate learning. Our clients include companies like Salesforce, Twilio, and Katerra who work with us because we produce results. To learn more and get our case studies, check out Mission.org/Studios. If you’re tired of media and news that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt and want an antidote, you’ll want to subscribe to our daily newsletter at Mission.org. When you do, you’ll receive a mission-driven newsletter every morning that will help you start your day off right!

This is one of those conversations that you think will go one way and it turns out to take many unexpected twists and turns that will make your head spin and have you see Venture Capital completely differently than you ever did! Silicon Valley has transformed the World of Venture Capital, but what the real cost of receiving VC, and is venture capital the way to go for your organization?All to often even people in the VC world can’t be clear about answering those questions. But, if you want to know who can?Stay tuned because you are about to find out. Our guests on this episode are Andrew Goldner & Sean Sheppard.Andrew Goldner & Sean Sheppard are the Founding Partners of GrowthX. Andrew has been in the technology sector since 1998, based in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Palo Alto.Andrew began his career in technology as a lawyer for the early Internetpioneers in Search (Alta Vista and Yahoo), and others while practicing law. He has served as Publisher of Reuters News and then Co-Founder and Managing Director of the company’s legal media business in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.He then co- founded GoodMoney to democratize high performance, values-based investing.During that time Andrew met his current partners and co-founded GrowthX.Sean Sheppard is a Serial tech entrepreneur and currently a founding partner at GrowthX.As a serial entrepreneur Sean Sheppard has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. He was recently named the # 2 Sales Influencer online and contributor at The Huffington Post. As co-founder of Silicon Valley based Seed-Stage Venture Capital Fund and Market Development Accelerator GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, he’s now committed to working with countries, companies and startups on developing the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators and sales leaders on how to execute in the innovation economy.On this episode we dive into:Why Venture Capital need innovationWhy 70% of funded companies fail, and what needs to changeWhy there's a different set of Leadership skills needed for the Innovation EconomyFounders shouldn’t have to leave their homes to build great companiesWhy the best people for founders to raise money from are their customersThe imperative of governments to retrain their workforce for the innovation economyAndPersonal Vs Professional DevelopmentFacing and dealing with Self DoubtFake NewsPromises from a deathbedShould we place the individual over the group or the group over the individual"Faithfulness" has it been vilified? To find out more about Andrew Goldner & Sean Sheppard and GrowthX: http://Growthx.com Twitter @SeanaSheppard @AGoldner To find out more about hiring Dov Baron as a speaker or strategist for your organization: http://fullmontyleadership.com/consulting or http://fullmontyleadership.com/speakingRemember you can now also find us on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or wherever you tune into podcastsAnd on traditional radio stations across the US every Monday and Thursday on: 99.5 FM & 1520 AM Las Vegas102.1 FM & 1640 AM Lancaster, Philadelphia87.9 FM & 810 AM Macon, Gorgia 92.1 FM & 1630 AM Tampa, Florida97.7 The Villages, Florida96.3 FM Boulder, Colorado90.3 FM Milwaukee, Wisconsin 94.7 FM Pittsburg, Philadelphia87.9 FM Colorado Springs, ColoradoAlso look for us on ROKU TV where there’s 100K subscribers. If you are a regular listener, then a big thank you to you for making us the #1 podcast Globally for Fortune 500 listeners! And with a potential reach of 2.5 to 3 million listeners for every show, we’re honoured and grateful to be cited in INC.com as The #1 Podcast To Make You a Better Leader. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean Sheppard is an founding partner of GrowthX, investor and is on a mission to change the perception sales industry. On this episode of The Salesman Podcast Sean explains what the innovation economy is and why sales professionals need to adapt to it before they become obsolete. Resources mentioned: Previous episode of the podcast – […] The post #583: How To WIN BIG In The “Innovation Economy” With Sean Sheppard appeared first on Salesman.org.

Launching a tech product can be a very rocky road for a startup. Technical issues are common, and user feedback during the early days of rollout is often focused around bugs and glitches rather than the product’s core features. This makes it difficult for teams to hone in on what’s working and what isn’t, which can delay the process of reaching product-market fit. And this all wastes a startup’s most valuable resource: time. For these reasons, our guests on today’s episode of the Igniting Statups podcast believe the traditional process for developing a minimum viable product (MVP) is broken. The first is Andrew Goldner, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and founder of GrowthX, an investment firm that helps organizations commercialize innovation through capital, talent and know-how. Joining him is Sashank Purighalla, CEO of BOS Framework, which provides a pre-built suite of APIs, plugins and UI components for startups that are building software applications. According to Andrew and Sashank, the MVP process shouldn’t just be about building software—it should be about evaluating the market and creating a product that solves a real need. By leveraging in-depth research and tools that jump-start technical development, startup teams can discover what their market needs and spend their valuable resources building that solution. That means reaching product-market fit, revenue and profitability sooner, which could make the difference between startup growth and startup death. In this episode with Andrew Goldner and Sashank Purighalla, you’ll learn: -- Why a successful product has to do more than sound interesting. -- Reasons why venture funding might be the wrong choice for a startup. -- How GrowthX is fueling venture capital growth outside Silicon Valley. -- The big problem with the traditional MVP process. -- The benefit of market acceleration programs for discovering market truth. -- How a pre-built tech framework can help companies get to product-market fit. -- Andrew’s and Sashank’s greatest hopes for entrepreneurship in middle America. If you like this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes. You can also follow us on Soundcloud or Stitcher. We have an incredible lineup of interviews we’ll be releasing every Tuesday here on the Powderkeg Podcast. Check it out at powderkeg.com/itunes.

In this episode of Marketing Trends, we explore sales and marketing alignment. We brought in Sean Sheppard, a sales expert, to help explain how organizations can better align the two. Sean is the founding partner of GrowthX and Co-Founder of GrowthX Academy. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully grown dozens of early-stage companies. In addition to his experience as a multi-time founder, Sean ran the sales and business development track at Tradecraft and co-founded the Professional Sales College. In this interview, Sean breaks down the x's and o's of how to get marketing and sales to work together. 2:00 - How to make marketing and sales collaborative rather than competitive. 9:20 - Why marketing should get messaging from sales. 17:00 - Creating product-to-market teams. 23:40 - How to handle product launches. 31:05 - Why SaaS should be service as a software. 37:20 - Evolving compensation plans for marketing and sales teams. 46:50 - How to make sure your star marketers can rise to the top. 55:05 - Best team-building exercises for marketing and sales. Marketing Trends is brought to you by our friends at Salesforce Pardot, B2B marketing automation on the world's #1 CRM. Are you ready to take your B2B marketing to new heights? With Pardot, marketers can find and nurture leads, close more deals, and maximize ROI. Learn more by heading to www.pardot.com/podcast. To learn more or subscribe to our weekly newsletter, visit MarketingTrends.com.

Summary: *Episode Sponsor: Freeeup.com* We speak with Andrew Goldner, Venture Capitalist, and Co-Founder of GrowthX & GrowthX Academy about the importance of entrepreneurs being active in their communities, why core values matter, and how he is helping startups, corporations, and countries commercialize innovation.   Resources Mentioned: (Sponsor)Freeeup.com: Sign-up today for the best freelancers on the web Book: Peace is every […]

Andrew Goldner is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. He has been in the technology sector since 1998, based in New York City, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Palo Alto. GrowthX helps companies and countries commercialize innovation through capital, talent and know-how.Andrew is a Kauffman Fellow, Trustee at the Nashville Children's Theatre, Founding Organizer of Nashville Entrepreneur Week, Regional Board Member of Venture for America, and a proud Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator in Palo Alto, Matter in San Francisco, WeWork in Nashville, and, nationally, at Galvanize. Andrew received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati and his law degree from Georgetown University.follow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/agoldnerlearn more about GrowthX: https://growthx.com/follow upside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/upsidefm

With 20 years' experience in the technology sector, Andrew manages GrowthX's operations and communications, startup sourcing and the Investment Committee and works closely with GrowthX Corporate clients. Andrew is a Kauffman Fellow, Regional Board Member of Venture for America, and a proud Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator, WeWork, Galvanize and Matter. In this episode, Andrew discusses his early career as a lawyer for several prominent Tech pioneers including AltaVista, Yahoo, and Salesforce. Andrew talks about GrowthX's mission as a venture platform deploying capital talent and know-how. Andrew and Hall discuss three important venture capital trends.

In this episode, Hall T. Martin conducts an interview with Andrew Goldner of GrowthX Capital. Andrew talks about GrowthX's model, and why they choose the investments they do. GrowthX looks for startups that are capital-efficient, and invests primarily on software. Their primary focus is on market development: bringing their startups to market.

I met up with Sean Sheppard to learn about his growth based product/market fit approach. My takeaways: Quickest path to product/market fit Product Management Special: Skills, attitude, and mindset for achieving a great market fit Product Development Vs. Market Development A clear and actionable pathway to achieve the skills and knowledge needed to win as an early stage founder or a product manager  The new set of hard skills needed to succeed as a startup founder References: Market Acceleration Program from GrowthX. About Sean Sheppard:   Founding Partner at GrowthX - A seed-stage venture capital fund. Co-founder of GrowthX Academy - A training ground for tech sales, marketing, and design professionals. Contributor for Huffington Post and mentor to several high-growth start-ups Named Top 20 Sale Influencers in Silicon Valley    

On this special edition of the Predictable Revenue podcast, host Collin Stewart invites GowthX co-founder Sean Sheppard into the Predictable Revenue office for a live, wide-ranging chat on sales fundamentals. Sheppard is a San Francisco-based veteran sales leader, investor, writer, mentor...and former professional golfer (the man has done it all). Currently, Sheppard is co-founder and lead instructor at GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, an early-stage venture capital fund and training ground for tech sales, marketing and design professionals. Throughout this episode, Collin and Sean discuss the importance of market development, being a human on sales calls and elevating the status of the sales professional. Highlights include: Sheppard's definition of market development vs. customer development (6:35), different buyer types (21:14), and Sheppard's investigative questioning framework (25:38).

On this special edition of the Predictable Revenue podcast, host Collin Stewart invites GowthX co-founder Sean Sheppard into the Predictable Revenue office for a live, wide-ranging chat on sales fundamentals. Sheppard is a San Francisco-based veteran sales leader, investor, writer, mentor...and former professional golfer (the man has done it all). Currently, Sheppard is co-founder and lead instructor at GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, an early-stage venture capital fund and training ground for tech sales, marketing and design professionals. Throughout this episode, Collin and Sean discuss the importance of market development, being a human on sales calls and elevating the status of the sales professional. Highlights include: Sheppard's definition of market development vs. customer development (6:35), different buyer types (21:14), and Sheppard's investigative questioning framework (25:38).

GrowthX and GrowthX Academy Co-Founder, Andrew Goldner joins Eric at the 3686 Conference in Nashville to talk making deals instead of breaking deals. Andrew shares how his time as a tech attorney inspired him to become a venture capitalist, seeking to help businesses grow and find value in their customers, not their products.

On innovation: "Learn what you need done and what you want to do; use your resources to continue being relevant." Will Bunker is the creator of the technology that became the original big dating site Match .com. He is interviewed by David Cogan, founder of @Eliances and host of the Eliances #Heroes radio show on am and fm and syndicated online. Will and David discuss what he's doing now focusing on GrowthX helping startups find their groove and grow. www.growthx.com www.eliances.com 

On innovation: "Learn what you need done and what you want to do; use your resources to continue being relevant." Will Bunker is the creator of the technology that became the original big dating site Match .com. He is interviewed by David Cogan, founder of @Eliances and host of the Eliances #Heroes radio show on am and fm and syndicated online. Will and David discuss what he's doing now focusing on GrowthX helping startups find their groove and grow. www.growthx.com www.eliances.com 

In this episode, Travis and Stewart interview Sean Sheppard of GrowthX on how to grow your startup, the lessons he has learned along the way, and what you can do differently that will have a massive impact on your fledgling business. We also talk about Facebook's quarterly results and the massive $3 billion Snap Inc. IPO - timely, since Stewart showed up to the recording of this episode wearing his newly acquired Snapchat Spectacles. The future is 10 seconds long, dear listeners.

Why the aren't we teaching people Sales in school? Sean Sheppard, Founder of GrowthX, breaks down the education gap that is not supporting the 50% of grads who go in Sales. How does GrowthX help fill the gap and how to you apply a Sales pipeline to your own "Career Funnel". Rise to the next level with Sean!

Sean Sheppard, Founder of GrowthX and Huffington Post Contributor, joins Entrepreneur Hour to discuss how early stage entrepreneurs can start building to attract the interest of a VC Firm. Today's Sponsor: Active Campaign Resources: Download My Free Business Resources To Sell is Human - By Daniel Pink Mastery - By Robert Greene Spin Selling - By Neil Rackham  

Unlike traditional accelerators that are in business to help developers create product and raise money, GrowthX  is focused on companies with already developed technologies and customers and helping those companies grow exponentially. The GrowthX academy experience is open to companies that are vetted by first being part of the fund’s portfolio. Unlike the typical batch process of many Silicon Valley accelerators, GrowthX accepts 1-2 companies each month to participate in the hands-on and very intensive process.

What if you knew a kooky scientist with a flux capacitor-equipped DeLorean who wanted to take you back in time to meet your younger self? What advice would you give yourself? We're back this week with a week's jam-packed episode as we revisit one of our most popular questions. Our guest to participate in that little thought experiment and answer the question: What is some advice you'd give to your younger self? Hear what Mike Weinberg, Sean Sheppard, Garth Moulton, J. Ryan Williams, Ryan Leavitt, Brian Birkett and Max Altschuler wish they would have known years ago. Listen to this episode on iTunes now. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-the-sales-floor/id1139932210?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes to make sure you don't miss any new episodes or visit SalesFloorStories.com. Mike Weinberg, Bestselling author of New Sales. Simplified. And Sales Management. Simplified Garth Moulton, Co-Founder of Jigsaw, SVP of Business Development at Pipl, Inc. J. Ryan Williams, VP of Sales at LeadGenius Sean Sheppard, Founding Partner at GrowthX & Lead Instructor at GrowthX Academy Max Altshuler, Entrepreneur, CEO at Sales Hacker Ryan Leavitt, Chief Revenue Officer at Learncore The Executive Producer is Joe Vignolo. Don’t forget to check out the companies that make this podcast possible: Datanyze.com and PersistIQ.com

If you aren't making money, you aren't a business. That's why understanding product-market fit is a crucial component for success. Andrew Goldner, Co-Founder at GrowthX, shares his insights into this formulaic process and talks about the importance of supporting businesses in founders' hometowns outside of Silicon Valley.

Episode Summary Andrew Goldner is the co-founder of GrowthX, a trust-network of innovators and investors. GrowthX is more than just a venture capital fund because it focuses on generating value for others first, before making a pretty penny. Prior to starting GrowthX, Andrew was a global business leader and senior technology consultant. Andrew discusses with John on what makes GrowthX different, as well as why startup founders do not need to move locations to build their vision.   Key Takeaways 01:50 - How did Andrew go from Reuters to becoming a VC?   05:15 - You don't have to move locations to get funded. 08:10 - What is the vision of GrowthX?   09:00 - Unless your customers are in that expensive zip code, why even move there?   11:45 - GrowthX will be featuring the founders' faces on their website instead of their company logos.   14:25 - GrowthX plays for the long term and is more intently focused on building stronger relationships than bigger and better profits.   16:50 - When you first join a startup, it's best to just sit and listen to those around you before acting.   18:55 - What kind of attitude does it take to become a good startup founder?  21:15 - How can startup founders remain focused?   23:25 - Remember, you have a set of priorities and others need to respect that.   24:30 - Don't mistake 'being busy' as 'making progress'.   28:00 - Is the fund you're trying to reach really the right fit for your vision 29:25 - How hard is it really to change someone's behavior? Andrew explains.   32:35 - Visit Growthx.com for more info!   Tweetables Busy doesn't mean you're making progress. Focus on quality of investor meetings, not quantity. Humility is a trait investors seek in founders. Attitude allows you to get off the self-esteem roller coaster. Links Mentioned The Successful Pitch GrowthX Essentialism by Greg McKeown Andrew Goldner's Twitter GrowthX Twitter Want the Transcription? Click Here to Download Share The Show Did you enjoy the show? I'd love it if you subscribed today and left us a 5-star review! Click this link Click on the 'Subscribe' button below the artwork Go to the 'Ratings and Reviews' section Click on 'Write a Review'