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In this episode of #KarishmaKonnect, we explore the journey of GUVI (Grab Your Vernacular Imprint), a leading online learning and skill development platform. Incubated by IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, GUVI has revolutionized tech education by making it accessible in multiple vernacular languages. With over 3 million learners and 2000+ corporate partners, GUVI's impactful approach to skilling has caught the attention of the tech world. Recently acquired by the HCL Group, GUVI continues to break barriers and shape the future of tech education.Join us as we discuss GUVI's mission to empower learners, its commitment to bridging language gaps, and how it's creating an inclusive tech ecosystem for all.
Mickael Dang is co-founder of Synakis, a biotech startup developing groundbreaking technology for the treatment of retinal detachment. Still in startup mode, the company is part of UTEST, the University of Toronto's Early Stage Technology Program, which helps deep tech entrepreneurs go from lab to market. Mickael and Wendy connected at the Redefining Early Stage of Investment (RESI) Conference in Boston, where Synakis was among the highest-scoring companies in the Innovator's Pitch Challenge. (The RESI conference is hosted by Life Science Nation and Wendy recently interviewed Dennis Ford, founder and CEO of Life Sciences Nation, which specializes in fundraising for life sciences companies.) Mickael's journey is fascinating. When he arrived in Canada from France six years ago, he could barely string together an English sentence. Today, we find him at the intersection of scientific innovation, entrepreneurship, and global market expansion, having started Synakis while earning a PhD and serving as President of the Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS) of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society). He is also multilingual; he speaks French, English, and some Mandarin. “The PhD is the same concept as being an entrepreneur,” he says. “You need to be very self-driven, very independent as well. You have to come up with your own experiment and come up with the next predicted results. I had this entrepreneurial mindset from the get-go and wanted to do a PhD for purpose, to really get the company out there." Incubated in the laboratory of renowned biomedical engineering professor Dr. Molly Shoichet, Synakis is developing a revolutionary hydrogel-based technology called SNK125. This innovation promises to transform the recovery process for patients suffering from retinal detachment, a serious condition that requires immediate surgical intervention to prevent permanent vision loss. Current treatments for retinal detachment involve using silicon oil or heavy gases to push the detached retina back into place. While these methods work, they come with significant drawbacks. Patients experience blurry vision during recovery and must maintain exhausting, face-down posturing for hours, sometimes for months. In addition, the materials used aren't biodegradable, requiring a second surgery for removal. Synakis's hydrogel technology eliminates all of these challenges, while reducing recovery time from months to just days. The Global Path to Market Equally interesting is the company's approach to global market entry. Based in Canada, the company has already laid the groundwork for international expansion; in 2019, Mickael proactively filed patents across multiple territories, including Europe, Australia, Canada, and China, to ensure protection of its intellectual property globally. And rather than attempting to tackle multiple markets simultaneously, Synakis will initially focus on North America before expanding to Europe and China. This staged approach allows them to establish a strong foundation in their home market while building the partnerships and relationships required for international expansion. Throughout, Mickael and his team have been actively seeking partnerships with established industry giants like Alcon or Bausch & Lomb. There are high costs associated with clinical trials these companies – companies that "own the entire market," according to Mickael – have the expertise and distribution networks necessary for successful commercialization. Funding the Future Synakis is concurrently seeking seed investment and focusing on several critical milestones: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) setup, FDA regulatory filing, and preparation for clinical trials. While its primary focus is on North American investors for practical reasons like time zone alignment and ease of communication, they're keeping their options open for international investment, particularly in regions like China, which possess significant market opportunity. Mickael has constructed a targeted and strategic approach to investor outreach. At the RESI conference, for example, he prioritized meetings with specialized investors like ExSight Ventures, who focus specifically on ophthalmology. These are the meaningful conversations with investors that will ask the hard questions and offer solutions. Looking Ahead Synakis is currently preparing for its next phase of growth. Plans include moving out of the university incubator, creating new jobs in Toronto, and expanding their product pipeline beyond retinal detachment treatments to include drug delivery solutions for other eye conditions. Mickael's key takeaways from his Synakis journey are relevant for any company planning international expansion: Strategic IP Protection: Early patent filing in target markets will protect future opportunities. Staged Market Entry: Starting with familiar markets before expanding globally can help manage resources and risk effectively. Strategic Partnerships: Recognizing when to partner with established players can accelerate market entry and provide access to crucial resources. Targeted Investor Outreach: Focusing on investors who understand your industry can lead to more productive relationships. Cultural Adaptability: Language skills and cultural understanding are invaluable assets in building a global business. Going from lab to market can be, as Mickael says it in French, a "casse-tête" (a “head-breaker”), but the right approach, persistence, and strategic thinking can ultimately turn scientific innovation into global market success. Listen to the full episode to hear more about Synakis's journey from university lab to potential global market player, plus more real-world advice for expanding internationally. Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickael-dang/ Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/synakis/ https://utest.to/ https://termis.org/index.php?q=termis-syis-am
Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct exposure to compute assets, and create compute derivates, empowering investors to effortlessly yield from compute, the currency of the future Why you should listen Compute Labs believes that compute will become the currency of the future, they are committed to democratizing access to this advanced AI infrastructure. Their mission is to establish the financial ecosystem for compute as an emerging asset class from zero. By leveraging blockchain technology and enabling financial derivatives, Compute Labs aims to reshape AI investments and create diversified opportunities for investors interested in capturing the most fundamental infrastructure, AI compute, throughout the AGI journey. They aim to be the premier platform for compute tokenization, derivatives, and structured products. In this conversation, Albert Zhang, founder and CEO of Compute Labs, discusses the innovative approach of financializing AI through compute assets. He explains the vision behind Compute Labs, the tokenization of GPU resources, and how this model aims to democratize access to AI infrastructure. The discussion also covers the engagement of both retail and institutional investors, the collaboration with AI companies, and the roadmap for product rollout. Albert shares insights on the Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, the future of AI and AGI, and why investors should consider Compute Labs as an opportunity in the evolving landscape of AI and crypto. Supporting links Stabull Finance Compute Labs Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.
Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Jasmine Jones, the Co-founder and CEO of Myya, the only online direct-to-consumer, insurance-billable, post-mastectomy intimates brand. Inspired by her grandmother's battle with breast cancer, Jasmine created Myya to address the challenge of finding well-fitting post-mastectomy bras that provide support when you need it most. Incubated at Cherry Blossom Intimates, the brand's retail space, Myya is the next step in the company's evolution, connecting women across the country with certified mastectomy fitters. Myya offers breast cancer survivors a completely customizable virtual post-mastectomy bra fitting, ensuring that all women get the perfect fit. Myya is the only online boutique that can bill insurance directly for its customers, making the shopping process seamless for them. In October 2020, Cherry Blossom Intimates, the Techstars-backed company, closed its $1.25 million seed round, making Jasmine one of the few Black women in the world to close over $1 million in venture funding. A former Miss District of Columbia USA, Jasmine was named a Forbes Under 30 Listmaker in the Retail and E-Commerce category, as well as a Fashion Institute of Technology award-winning lingerie designer, and a Tory Burch fellow. Own equity in MYYA! Jasmine currently has a WeFunder where you can invest to have equity in Myya.com You can invest any amount here in her WeFunder investment opportunity! It takes a village! https://wefunder.com/myya/ https://myya.com/ www.sheangelinvestors.com Follow Us On Social Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn
Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable. We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO. Speakers: Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition Links: Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: GIC: TNO: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :
Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable. We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO. Speakers: Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition Links: Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/ GIC: https://globalimpactcoalition.com/ TNO: https://www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/2023/05/hub-plastic-waste-world-economic-forum/ Related podcasts: What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster? Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable? Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub
Girls That Create host Erin Prather Stafford welcomes Dr. Jenny Woo to the show. Dr. Woo is a Harvard-trained educator and Emotional Intelligence researcher. She teaches at the University of California-Irvine and is the founder/CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. Incubated out of Harvard Innovation Lab, Dr. Woo created a series of award-winning card games and mental health tools to help kids and adults build essential human skills, such as emotional intelligence, social skills, empathy, and communication skills. Her product line has been used in workplaces, schools, and homes in more than 50 countries. For more information about Mind Brain Emotion and its cards, visit mindbrainemotion.com Erin Prather Stafford launched Girls That Create to support the parents and caregivers of creative girls while encouraging greater female representation across the arts. For more information, go to girlsthatcreate.com and follow and connect on Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. WordofMomRadio.com
Executive Summary Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, has been delivering an evidence-based, scientifically proven intervention called Kangaroo Care to low birth weight and premature babies in 2 government hospitals in India since January 2024. Ansh estimates that their programs are saving, on average, 4 lives a month per facility and a total of 98 lives per year. The cost of one life saved is approximately $2077 (current costs, not a potential estimate). Ansh is now replicating the programs in two additional hospitals, doubling their impact before the end of this year.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neonatal conditions[1] are among the top 3 causes of death worldwide[2]. This makes neonatal mortality one of the largest-scale causes of suffering and death today. In 2022, 2.3 million babies died in the first 28 days of life (i.e. the newborn/neonatal period) (World Health Organisation, 2024). Let's compare [...] ---Outline:(00:06) Executive Summary(02:33) I. The Problem and Solution(04:29) II. Introducing Ansh(08:36) III. Our Impact To Date(09:02) Baseline Neonatal Mortality(10:49) Lives Saved(12:56) Cost-Effectiveness(15:36) IV. Our Plans For The Future(16:04) (1) KC Improvements(18:48) (2) Scale Up(20:34) V. Acknowledgments and PartnershipsThe original text contained 12 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 29th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hTEaKau8D4Ah3NPcu/introducing-ansh-a-charity-entrepreneurship-incubated --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing Ansh: A Charity Entrepreneurship Incubated Charity, published by Supriya on May 29, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Executive Summary Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, has been delivering an evidence-based, scientifically proven intervention called Kangaroo Care to low birth weight and premature babies in 2 government hospitals in India since January 2024. Ansh estimates that their programs are saving, on average, 4 lives a month per facility and a total of 98 lives per year. The cost of one life saved is approximately $2077 (current costs, not a potential estimate). Ansh is now replicating the programs in two additional hospitals, doubling their impact before the end of this year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neonatal conditions[1] are among the top 10 causes of death worldwide[2]. This makes neonatal mortality one of the largest-scale causes of suffering and death today. In 2022, 2.3 million babies died in the first 28 days of life (i.e. the newborn/neonatal period) (World Health Organisation, 2024). Let's compare that number to one of EA's other top cause areas. In 2022, 608,000 people died of malaria, which is about 26.4% lower than neonatal conditions. However, we have a cost-effective, scalable model for preventing malaria-caused death (e.g., with AMF and Malaria Consortium). Unfortunately, there has been no equivalently cost-effective and scalable model for preventing neonatal mortality. In this post, we will introduce Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity that is working towards building tractable, scalable solutions to neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). 81% of neonatal deaths happen in low and Low-Middle SDI countries. The disparities in mortality rates between low and high-resource contexts suggest that most neonatal deaths are preventable. In the sections below, we will first introduce Ansh and its mission statement, share our results thus far, and then introduce some of our plans for how to increase our reach and impact over the next few years. We are very excited to share the work we've done so far with the EA community, and to hear your constructive feedback on how we can make our non-profit even more impactful! I. The Problem and Solution More than half of all neonatal deaths occur within the first three days after birth (Dol J, 2021) and over 75% in the first week of life (WHO, 2024), making it imperative to reach babies as soon after birth as possible. Moreover, low birth weight (LBW)[3] is considered the number one mortality risk factor for children under 5. In fact, according to the Global Burden of Disease, around 89% of all newborn deaths in India (the country where about 22% of all newborn deaths in the world occur) happen to LBW and preterm newborns. Further, 81% of all newborn deaths occur in Low or Low-Middle SDI countries (Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, 2019). Hence, the most effective path toward reducing neonatal mortality rates globally lies in developing interventions aimed at helping LBW babies during their first week of life in LMIC contexts. Thankfully, such an intervention exists: Kangaroo Care. Kangaroo Care (KC) needs neither fancy equipment nor expensive technology - the methods of KC are both simple and highly effective, especially for LBW newborns. KC requires early, continuous, and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between the mother (or another caregiver) and the baby for about 8 hours of contact per day-paired with exclusive breastfeeding and close monitoring of the baby. This is often assisted with a cloth binder, between the LBW newborn and caregiver (preferably the mother), to allow for mobility. Estimates from the 2016 Cochrane review suggest that KC can reduce LBW neonates' chance of (i) ...
Incubated inside Google's X project and now deploying in the real world, Wing is an aerial drone delivery company with some interesting parallels to another of Alphabet's "other bets" the gang regularly discuses: Waymo. But, as CEO Adam Woodworth explains, Wing also provides a very different look at how one engineers automated mobility services at a system level, focused more on creating "lego pieces" than specific vehicles. He joins the show to explain Wing's strategy, the unique challenges it faces, and lessons learned along the way.
In October, Renton, Washington-based health system Providence unveiled Praia Health, its latest incubated technology. Praia is a platform-as-a-service developed for health systems to increase patient engagement by personalizing individuals' health journeys and seamlessly connecting them to the right services, products and resources. On today's episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, we revisit host J. Carlisle Larsen's conversation with Sara Vaezy, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Digital Officer for Providence. She joined the podcast to talk more about Praia Health, including its goals and the issues it aims to address. This conversation originally aired on October 9, 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Brian Lee, from Through Cohort and Broken to Beloved Summit interviews Tears of Eden's Founder Katherine Spearing about the Church's harmful teachings on marriage that can result in very real trauma—for single and married people. Transcript (Unedited for Typos and Misspellings)Brian: [00:00:00] Hello everyone, welcome to our session. I'm here with Katherine Spearing. Katherine is the founder of Tears of Eden, a non profit supporting survivors of spiritual abuse, and the host of Tears affiliate podcast Uncertain. She also hosts the podcast Trauma and Pop Culture, and is a certified trauma recovery coach, working primarily with clients who have survived cults, High control environments, spiritual abuse, and sexual abuse.She also provides specialized trauma informed career coaching, as folks with trauma often need extra support for interviewing and networking, which I can attest to. Catherine is the author of a historical romantic comedy, which we talked about last year, Hartford's, a novel that challenges gender roles in a patriarchal society that will appeal to fans of Jane Austen.And she's been a guest on a number of podcasts. including indoctrination, and that's so effed up. She's the author of several non fiction articles and writes regularly at katherinespearing. com and tearsofeden. org. Welcome back, welcome back. [00:01:00] Very excited, Katherine: very excited. Me too. Brian: So we're here to talk today about being single within the context of faith communities, which is a big I don't know anywhere else that I really hear about this talked about, so I'm excited to dive into it.What is it like for a single person within these communities? Katherine: Right, yeah, and I think on the subject of it not being talked about very much, I definitely looked, obviously, that's who I am. So I have looked for books on this particular topic, and they all tend to have this, like, this like, consolation prize flair to it.Like You're a single, but you didn't want this. So here's some tips for being happy despite the situation that you find yourself in as if it's like. So so sad. And so haven't haven't read a lot where I was just like, Oh, like I'm empowered. I'm inspired. I'm [00:02:00] encouraged very, very rarely. And then also just within this topic that I'm very, I'm very passionate about just living a thriving life wherever you are and being very present wherever you are, no matter.Single or not, and I think 1 of the things that I have discovered through just the work that I do with religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors is that to say, hey, like, it's, you know, really important to live a thriving life here. Here are tools to live a thriving life to then. Ignore the systemic issues that then make it difficult to have a thriving life.It's kind of, it's just half of the story. And so there's a lot of. Messaging towards singles of just like be content and be happy within faith communities without acknowledging the things that then make it difficult to be happy. And one example is [00:03:00] I learned very, very young that it was okay for me to be single, but it was okay for me to be single only.If I was unhappy about being single and only I was actively seeking to change that status and at the same time be happy being single and so rejoice in this lot that God has given you, but then also actively seek to change it and actively. Date and actively ask for prayer for your future husband. So, it's very, very stark cognitive dissonance happening within these communities.I also, my, my vocation was ministry and the perspective that I'm coming from for this conversation is. The even growing up in the evangelical church and being in that evangelical perspective, also choosing a vocation of ministry and and being in that for almost a decade. [00:04:00] And and so I think I experienced some of this a little bit more acutely because.I was in ministry and, and happened to be in denominations that were just much more male friendly. And so having being a woman and then also being a single woman some of the stuff I experienced a little bit more acutely. So that's, that's the example that I'm, the perspective that I'm coming from and, and then we'll occasionally use just some stories and examples from clients and, and friends of mine who've also experienced this as well.And. But, yeah, so 1st of full time vocational ministry experience was on the mission field in Mexico. I'm 28 years old. I am the only single woman on this fairly large missions team. I went down. To help plant a church that was like my specific reason for going and the, there was a [00:05:00] headquarters office that I went to every day as part of my work and and, and pretty much right away things like they would have a team meeting for.The church plant, and I was not invited and I, I, I was actively a part of the missions team and would like, go to the office and work in the mission field. All the other women missionaries were. worked at home and were, you know, took care of their children and took care of their homes. They were not actively coming into the offices.They were invited to this missions team. And so right off the bat, I was like different here. Exactly. Just instantly. And in Mexico, the. The that's hierarchy of, of marriage and marital status is even more extreme, I would say, than [00:06:00] than in the, like the South, which is also pretty extreme and.And yet nobody was like, Hmm, it's weird that you're not there. It was like, there was no, and I decided not to make an issue about it, that particular thing. But I was still expected to show up, you know, to church an hour early and help set up and put the coffee on. So I was still a part of this team and help lead the Bible studies and all that sort of stuff, but not part of the planning, not offered a seat at the table.And, and it wasn't a gender thing. It was. The only thing I can think of. A singleness thing. I'm not married. And I think that that was something that I experienced constantly throughout my faith community experience was like, we not a, there's something wrong with you so much, but as a, but a, we don't know what to do with you.Like, we don't know [00:07:00] what category to put you in. Another example was, I was volunteering. Very actively, this is before I went to Mexico in the youth ministry, and I was very, very actively involved in the youth ministry again, like late 20s, considering youth ministry as a potential avenue for ministry.If I did go into full time ministry, and the church that I attended did not have like, singles groups and young marrieds and it was just kind of all adult classes and they were topical, which I think is great and. There was a parenting class, and I thought I'm gonna work. I'm working with youth. 50 percent of that is working with parents and.And then it was targeting like young marriage. Who are my peers? Like some of them are the same age as me. Mm-Hmm. . Some of them are a little bit older, some of them are a little younger. And so it made perfect sense to me that I would go [00:08:00] to this class, which I did, and a week class, I had friends who were leading this class.A married couple that was leading the class, leading the class. And so I knew them and then there was an older couple in the class who had already raised their children and they were there because they wanted to connect to younger families. And they were the only people that talked to me, nobody else talked to me.And it was so. obvious that as soon as there would be like a break or the class would end they would like huddle like so fast it was like like very very quickly just just like ah we don't don't leave us alone yeah with that one we don't Brian: we don't know what to do with her Katherine: we don't know what to do with her and so i'll always feeling that Experience and, and many years later, I worked in [00:09:00] California, which is a very different culture and and I had a very good experience as a single person in California.And I started to wonder after a few years being there, did I make that up? Was that my imagination? Like, like, maybe it wasn't as bad. Maybe it was my insecurity. Like, maybe, you know, I, I felt weird. And so that's why I thought these people were ignoring me or whatever. And then I was in in LA during the biggest part of COVID.So didn't really interact with many people and thought, Oh, maybe I just made it up. Maybe if I go into the spaces and I'm just like super confident, like, they'll be fine. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. And, and yet, even now, when I go into certain communities, and I would say probably the biggest one right now is as extended family that is in the South.And it is a much more just like, Nuclear family focused. [00:10:00] Everything is focused on that and you get married and you have kids and then you raise the kids and they go to college and then they get married and they have kids and then they raise their kids and their kids go to college and then they get married and they have kids and that's just a cycle and rinse and repeat and I would go, go to, go to events, go to weddings, go to funerals, be around this, this community of people and It, I was like, it's still here.It's, it's still real. And, and after like three hours of talking about feeding schedules and potty training, I'm sitting there like, okay, I have a pretty cool life. A lot of cities. I started this nonprofit. I have a book out. I have a podcast. Like I'm a pretty interesting person. No questions, zero interest in my life outside of how much I can engage with their life.And so it's very, it was [00:11:00] very, it's very, very obvious in those. In certain contexts that there's this otherness and this marginalization and just like you're different and rather in engaging with that difference, we're just going to draw a distance and at best you're ignored at worst, they're actively trying to get you to change who you are and change your marital status and try to figure out what's wrong with you that you're not married.Right, that is how that is. Brian: Yeah. Thank you for sharing all that. And I'm, I'm sorry that happened to you and that's not at all alienating. Right? My goodness. Well, and I remember working at a church as a young single man. And I was the worship leader at the time, but it was just. It is a lot of that alienating feeling of, well, who can we hook you up with?When are you going to [00:12:00] get married? Let's pray for your future wife. And all these things, it's like, and there was a big part of me that wanted to get married, but there was also a big part of me. It's like, but this is kind of, I'm fine with this right now. This is the season of life I'm in. And why is there always this need to rush?People through these stages of life that may not be for them at all, because even once you're married, then it's the whole train of, oh, well, when are you going to have kids? And then once you have another one, and then it's like, some people are just never satisfied, right? There's this, there's this weird hierarchy of.Having arrived as a human and it's, I can't even imagine cause I'm not one, but I, it's so much worse for women because not only do you have to get married, but then once you are someday a wife, if you don't become a mother, then you're not really a whole woman and all these other things that I've heard that are just so harmful in these faith communities.Katherine: Absolutely. Yeah. And then, and then the difference, there is a different flavor, but I think between like a male [00:13:00] experience and a female experience. And I remember going to seminary and, and the church planting, there's like a church planting portion of the seminary that I went to and I loved church planting and I thought it was really cool.Well, I was told. You know, you'd be a really good church planter if you were a man. The men were told, don't church plant unless you're married. Like, don't do that. Like, that's, I would not advise doing that. Like, you can't do it unless you're bound to another person or you have a wife to do 50 percent of your free labor.So the pressure, like you're not fully Incubated yet. Brian: Yeah, unlike, you know, Paul or Jesus or so, you know, for all this stuff that's going on in the churches in different faith communities. Why does this stuff happening Katherine: matter? I think the biggest reason why it matters is [00:14:00] it can result in very real trauma to, to constantly feel like you don't fit.Yep. And constantly feel like You are not enough all by yourself. Mm-Hmm. . And that, that that can result in, you know, when you're, you know, supposed to, trying to embrace your life and, and be confident. And be secure and, and love who you are, where you are. And then you're surrounded by people who are looking at you like you're really strange or just like.Saying things like, well, do you even want to get married or accusing you of being too picky or, or constantly receiving this message of you're not fully. You haven't fully arrived yet. You're not a full, complete human. And, and then as you mentioned, I think that this can have just like [00:15:00] implications for just like the wider community as well, of, of people getting married when they're not ready to get married and I, it happens.I am so grateful and honored. That enough people have shared with me that they got married too soon. And enough people have shared with me that the reason they got married was because they were dating someone who wanted to marry them and they were afraid someone else wasn't going to come along. And so they locked it down and, and enough people who have admitted that, which means there's probably a lot of more people who have never.Admitted that because of how much pressure there is like a man saying, hey, you can't plan a church unless you're married. Okay. Let me just find someone to marry me. Oh, maybe in an ideal world. That would never happen. Well, it does happen. And, and there is so much [00:16:00] pressure to, and people end up in these relationships that are Not necessarily healthy because they haven't had a chance to differentiate.And the messaging around marriage and the nuclear family can lead to a lot of enmeshment in marriage and, and people who aren't able to, to create individual identities because they're so wrapped up in, in that, in that partnership for women. It results in a lot of them just surrendering their power and surrendering their agency the minute that they're in that relationship.And, and I have friends now who are in their forties and fifties who are learning about their, themselves and their identity as an individual for the very first time, because they just got married so young, they never had an opportunity to figure out who they were and what they really [00:17:00] liked and. I have friends who have told me, and this makes me very sad, that their predominant emotion once they got married Wasn't joy and wasn't excitement.It was relief. That makes me so sad that it's like, it's over like, so, so sad. And speak so loudly of the amount of pressure and the, and the. Miseries to some extent of being single in these faith communities that isn't self inflicted. A lot of times parts of it. Sure. But, but a lot of it is, is the community itself of not not having.And I have a dozen stories similar to the Mexico story of just like not having a seat at the table simply because well, part of its gender and part of it was marital status and and not being Treated as if I didn't have anything to [00:18:00] offer because, because I wasn't married. And if you are in those communities all the time, you have no other reference.You'll start to believe it. It's really hard to not believe when you're getting that inundated with that messaging, that there's something wrong with me and I don't have anything to offer. Why? Why would I want to be at the church planting meeting? I'm not married. I don't have anything to offer that that type of experience.And it's very, it doesn't just impact single people. I believe very firmly that this. This mentality impacts the wider faith community as well. And as you mentioned, just like, you know, you get married and then it's like when you're going to have kids and the same thing for child free people. Like, you're allowed to be child free, but only if you're actively seeking to change it.Right? Yet also be content with your child freeness, but also be trying to change it. And then my sister, first baby. Baby wasn't [00:19:00] even barely out of the womb and people are asking her when her second child is coming. Yeah, when's the next one? When's the next one? It's like never enough, it's never enough, never enough, never Brian: enough.Yeah, man. It just speaks to how broken these systems are and how flawed the theology is of identity, of wholeness, like you're talking about, of, of, like you're saying, the whole individuation and differentiation piece. It's like, I, you know, you tell your, that story about all the things about Mexico and all these other places.And it's like, and you know, joining these different small groups or Sunday school classes I think of that quote from Walt Whitman or Ted Lasso or whoever you want to say it's from about being curious, not judgmental, right? And so often people in these faith communities default to a position of judgment or assumption, [00:20:00] right?Oh, this poor single person, they must be miserable. Let's adopt them and then try to find every eligible. Whatever, to pair them up with. Parade them, parade them across. Yeah. Well, and then by doing that, you turn them into a thing instead of a person, right? Because they become, you become their project, which never feels good.Never. And then you, you add on the layer of what harm purity culture has done to the church through the 80s and 90s. And all these people, like you're saying, get married young out of a sense of relief to escape the trap of singleness. And then, or they just get married so they finally have sex. Which is awful because they've known nothing about it and weren't ready for it, right?And then, you know, in the 80s and 90s, there was so much vitriol and defense against divorce. And nowadays, Christians are the exact same statistic as everyone else. It's so, so Katherine: common. Yeah, and I mean, and that is one of the [00:21:00] ways that it impacts the wider community as well, is because there are so many divorced people, widowed people, they're single.And, and they're back in that, you know, phase after being married. And it's again, like, what do we do with you? Yeah. Like. Let's find you someone else to marry, like, let's say the cycle starts again and, and it's not, it's not that, it's not a guarantee that marriage A will happen or B will last and, and, and that, and that ability, as you said, to have that curiosity.A kind curiosity. Not a what's wrong with you, but a tell me about your life. Tell me how you feel about this. And, and giving, giving that space [00:22:00] for people to be different and willingness and that judgment tends to come from a place of fear. We, we fear the thing we don't understand. If someone gets married at 22.And has never known a life of singleness, they're not going to know what it's like and so it's going to be very different. It's going to be an anomaly and it's so much, it's easier to just not engage and like, and it's safer. To not engage to some extent of just, you know, I'll let her talk to her people and I'll talk to my people and, and it's very sad to me because it's a very, it can be very isolating, I think, and, and very.What's the word? Yeah, just like, just very kind of, kind of stagnant and, and [00:23:00] oppressive to, to surround ourselves with people who are just like us and in the same stage as us and can talk about all of the things that we talk about. And, and there it's, I think that it's challenging to grow when, when you are.Surrounded by people who are just like you doing all of the things that you do and and how much more vibrant and colorful life is when we can engage with people who are different than us and single people are forced to do that. Because we're often alone or marginalized in these communities. And so we're constantly seeing things from the perspective of the married person, the people with the family, we're able to engage in those conversations about feedings and, and potty training because everyone's doing it [00:24:00] and, and it does take a little more effort from that parent who has, you From that world and, and look around and see there are other people out there and there are other, there are other stories in the world.And I, I mean, I was raised in a very fundamentalist world that was very isolating and very much like feared the outside world and feared people who were different than us and didn't believe the same things that we believed. So it was not because of nurture. Unless it was rebellion, potentially that I love.Encountering people who are different than me. Like I love encountering different cultures. I love encountering people who have, you know, jobs that I've never had different, different lifestyles, different cities, country. Like I just, I love engaging with people who are different and I [00:25:00] find it to be such a fulfilling experience to have so many people that are so different from me.in my life. It's amazing. And I'm sad for extended family and in the South who cannot engage with conversation outside of their bubble. That makes me sad, you know, personally, but then also just like, you don't get to know me. Yeah. Brian: Well, and you know, microcosms of. These echo chambers where this tiny little community's behaviors become normalized and then you view everyone else like you're saying as the outsider as the other and like, well, that's weird when really it's like, actually, it's your little group that you can't see outside of right?So, so how do we break out of that? Like, what can, what can be done? Katherine: Right? Well, I would say just. Speaking to two different audiences and I would say for, I mean, I mean, really for anyone, but for [00:26:00] a single person, I would say, and I've had to do this, actively surround yourself with people who are for you and not for you, but They would prefer that something about you change specifically your marital status.And, and, and they're not constantly trying to set you up or find someone for you. There's nothing wrong with that. And I, I mean, and setups happen within the single community too. Like I. A friend of mine the other day, like, showed me two people in a dating app who are in my community. And and I just, you know, gave her my opinion.Like, this person, they are great, but I really don't think that you would enjoy them. But this person, the little that I know about them, I think that it could be a good fit. And we're not, like, hoarding all the single people. Like, I'm like, I know these two people aren't a good fit for me. They might be a good fit.I've, you know, connect friends in other [00:27:00] cities. Like, Hey, so and so lives in your city. Y'all should get coffee. Brian: Well, and I imagine the big difference is that it's invited, right? Instead of imposed. Katherine: Yes. She showed me the people on her dating app. I'm like. Asked my opinion. 100%, 100 percent that the invitation has been given.And it also within the context of actually knowing the person, not just, Hey, this person is single. Yes. That's good. Together. Yeah. You actually know what would be good for them. And, and so surrounding yourself with people who Campioning you excited for you excited for your life, and I, I have actively had to do that and have had to seek out people and fill my life with people who are on my team and cheering me on and there are some people in my life who still find it a little strange, you know, [00:28:00] my.Marital status, but they're, they, they have kind of moved to being more of a, an acquaintance simply because of, of, of that particular part of it is that it's not, I'm not fully accepted in their eyes and they're not fully able to engage with my life right now. And so that might happen. And it's challenging, but it's also absolutely 100 percent worth it to be surrounded by people who are for you.And then for just like the wider community, I think just cultivating, as you have already stated, curiosity and a interest and people who are different, and that will serve. across the board for any marginalized community of just being willing to engage and ask questions and not treat like a [00:29:00] project as you, as you mentioned, as someone that I need to fix or my token single friend.Yay! I have one. Well, the Brian: other thought I just had is like, or what I often see in churches or faith communities is that the single people get treated as free labor. Because they're single. So you must have all the free time in the world to go volunteer for this thing or take care of this thing. And it's like, can we also stop doing that, please?Katherine: Absolutely. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't mention this at the top of the conversation, but in that same church planting experience in Mexico, usually when you start a church, first thing you need is a pastor. And then the next thing you need is a worship leader. And then the next thing you need is a children's minister.And I saw it coming. I saw it coming. I was like, no, I was like, I drew, I was like, I don't care if I get fired. No . Yeah. I will not be in charge. Yep. Of Brian: children's mission. Well, and I've heard horror stories from missionaries on the field who, [00:30:00] for their team meetings or staff meetings, same kind of a thing for the single people who were there as part of the team.Fully part of the team. Mm-Hmm. don't get invited to meetings because they are expected to stay behind and babysit for all the married couples kids, it's like. What, you know, what is that Katherine: I did during the team meeting? What is Brian: that? Exactly. Yeah. And it's just, you know, and you know, you're a trauma recovery coach night.I don't think either of us are actually therapists or counselors, but, you know, when I think of not just trauma, but complex trauma, like the CPTSD part, it's, it's when these little traumas are drip by drip happening over and over and over again, over an extended period of time. And so it makes sense why.We get indoctrinated with these ideas or why it's so hard to break out of those kinds of systems or Find and surround ourselves with these people who are curious about us and for us and all those things who? Want a real identity? for our single friends [00:31:00] Or single people that we don't know that we want to become friends with.And it's like, I just want to know who you are. I don't care that you're single or not single or a wife or not a mother yet, or any of these things, like it applies to pretty much every stage of life. If we would allow people to just be people and not projects. We would go a long way. I Katherine: think. Absolutely.Yeah. Just let what? Yeah. And that just simple curiosity of just letting someone be who they are. And, and maybe they will share that they really do want to get married and, and they are sad and hold space for them in their sadness as you would hold space for anyone grieving. Yeah. And, and not necessarily, Yeah.Okay, let's fix this. Let's find someone for you. Like that's grief like any other kind of grief. Yeah. And, and let's let, let's grieve together rather than. Yeah. Seek to find [00:32:00] the thing that will take this pain away because it's, it's not going to take the pain away really. It's, there's going to be something else, you know, like we're never.We're never, and I think I learned that recently from the the speaker at the retreat con for Tours de Vida in our first in person event. And she just, she talked about thriving and she gave us this, this grid of all these different like seasons of life and stages of life and your career and then your family and then your relationships and then your friends and then your church community and like all these different, you know, bubbles of our.You know, acquaintances and, and spheres of our lives. And, and she was like, you're never going to be thriving in every single one. Yeah, and that doesn't mean you're not thriving. Yeah. Just to have a few that are not going well does not mean you're not thriving. And it was really, really helpful because I felt like I was always searching for the state of equilibrium and which [00:33:00] everything was going well.All the time. We're never going to be in that place, whether we are married or single or otherwise. And so, so being willing to hold that space for someone wherever they are in that and not try to fix it just as we would for anything else. And not treat it like it's this other thing, like we don't, this disease to some extent.So let's stay Brian: away and yeah, well, and you briefly touched on it earlier, but the idea of singleness is not just about I've never been married before or been on a date or any of those things, but it's it's also people who have been divorced or widowed or whatever those things are. And it's like when we allow them to just be people.And grieve with them in that process, if they are grieving, right? And then not jump to try to solve their problem of, Oh no, you're single and alone again. How do we set you up with someone else? It's like, no, that's not the answer. It's like, be curious, ask, like, Has anyone asked what they actually want? [00:34:00] Or are looking for?Or are they perfectly happy being single? Or is it a married couple completely happy never having kids? Yes, whatever the situation is, right? And I think there's so much that can be said for Meeting people where they are and on allowing them to be where they are in the season that Katherine: they're in. Yeah.And then I think just to kind of wrap it up of in order to be willing to accept someone where we are, we, I think we have to acknowledge some of that theology that has been ingrained into us that dictates this mentality that marriage singleness and parenthood is more ideal than. Being trialed free and, and the people who have been told that they're selfish for not wanting children or you're not a full complete human being until you're married and joined to another person those, those messages are very damaging and, and that is where that trauma comes from.So some of it's [00:35:00] just. It's cultural. I'm like just swimming in it and that's just the way it is. But some of it actually comes from really damaging messaging about deep things. And that might be something that people need to wrestle with before they can even get to that place. Of accepting someone who's different because if it's like, you're not just different.There's actually something wrong with you and you're actually doing something wrong by not having kids or you're actually doing something wrong by getting divorced or, or, or something like that, then it's going to be hard to engage. So that might be something that folks just need to. Wrestle with and yeah, figure out what they Brian: believe.Yeah, that's really good as we wrap up you mentioned your retreat con. Would you tell us more about Katherine: it? Woohoo. Yes. So tears of eden is As mentioned earlier is the non profit for survivors of spiritual abuse and from folks from the evangelical Community primarily. We had our [00:36:00] first in person event in October.And one of the things that Tears of Eden does is we do provide resources to sort of name that experience. But we do seek to be trauma informed. And one of the things that is helpful for healing trauma is, is integration between our minds and our bodies and engaging our bodies in that healing process.And so we had a speaker and she was. A phenomenal, wonderful person. And then and then we also had just very embodied workshops when normally you would go to, you know, maybe a small group and like, sit and listen again in a workshop all of these workshops are very active embodied workshops. We had yoga.We had improv. We had dance. We had a story jam, which is this live storytelling event and that Opportunity for people to tell stories and have an audience engage with them. Just a very embodied event and it was so cool. It was so fun. It was I hope everyone who is a survivor gets [00:37:00] that experience of being in person.With someone who's also had that experience. There's something extremely special about just like meeting someone and knowing instantly that they get it. It's just, there's nothing like it. It's, it's really, really cool. So yeah, everyone gets to do it Brian: sometimes. I love it. Congratulations on getting to do that.Yes, it was great. It was very exciting. Where can people find you or RetreatCon Katherine: online? So my personal website is katherinespearing. com and my main social media presence is on Instagram at katherinespearing. And Tears of Eden is tearsofeden. org. We also have a podcast and the main social media presence for Tears of Eden is the Uncertain Podcast at, at Uncertain Podcast on Instagram as well.So check it out. Brian: Awesome. We'll provide the links for everyone down in the session notes. Catherine, thank you so much for participating again and helping move toward healing Katherine: and [00:38:00] wholeness. Wonderful. Thanks for having me.
Jeff Owens, Co-Founder of Layer1 blockchain Haven1 Jeff Owens is Co-Founder of Haven1 – an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain purpose-built to provide a secure and trusted environment for on-chain finance. Jeff was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Coinbag, which helps businesses and institutions manage and de-risk their on-chain assets. Jeff has been in the blockchain space as a builder, advisor, and investor since 2015, before which he held senior product roles at global fintech firms including travel platform Agoda and web-based telepharmacy company TelePharm. Photo link: Jeff Owens, Co-founder of Haven1 Profile Links: ● Haven1 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Haven1official ● Jeff Owens on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffowens13/ About Haven1 Haven1 is an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain designed to offer a secure and trusted environment to drive the mass adoption of on-chain finance. Incubated by the team behind digital wealth platform Yield App, Haven1 incorporates a provable identity framework and robust security guardrails at network level to provide retail, professional and institutional investors with an on-chain finance platform that facilitates innovative use cases and closes the gap between traditional finance and Web3. To learn more about Haven1, visit https://www.haven1.org/. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support
Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz. (2 Part Series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: CE-incubated tobacco & NCD policy Charity: updates, funding gap, and future plans for Concentric Policies, published by Yelnats T.J. on December 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Executive Summary Tobacco is a massive global issue: 8 million annual deaths and 230 million annual DALYS (15% and 9% of global totals respectively). There are evidence-based policies - outlined by the WHO's MPOWER framework - that countries can adopt to reduce tobacco use. Policy advocacy for implementing MPOWER measures in neglected countries can avert DALYs with cost-effectiveness matching GiveWell's top charities. Since starting in mid-September, Concentric Policies has engaged with seven ministries of health, met with four, and received a partnership request from one to develop a multisectoral plan for noncommunicable diseases. Closing our Year 1 funding gap ($21,000) is critical for building the necessary capacity to support our government advocacy plans in 2024. About Us Concentric Policies is a nonprofit focused on preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases. We support the adoption of evidence-based health policies in countries underserved by large NGOs and the international community. Through collaboration with governments, civil society, and citizens, we aim to reduce the unhealthy consumption of tobacco, alcohol, sodium, and sugar. Concentric Policies provides free assistance by engaging stakeholders, strengthening the evidence base through research, and offering technical assistance throughout the policy process. Concentric Policies was launched through Charity Entrepreneurship, a London-based incubator that turns well-researched ideas into high-impact organizations. Charity Entrepreneurship has helped launch over 30 charities that are now reaching over 20 million people annually with their interventions. Problem Annual deaths from tobacco were 6 million in 2013 and rose to 8 million before the pandemic. Today, more people are killed annually by tobacco usage than malaria, HIV, and neonatal deaths combined… twice over.[1] In addition, tobacco usage increases healthcare expenditures, decreases productivity, exacerbates inequality, degrades the environment, and contributes to child labor. This EA Forum post from World No Tobacco Day covers these harms in more detail. Solution The WHO's MPOWER framework provides cost-effective demand-reduction measures to help countries reduce tobacco consumption. Since MPOWER was introduced globally 15 years ago, an estimated 300 million less people are smoking than might have been if smoking prevalence had stayed the same.[2] Tobacco taxation is the most effective (and cost-effective) intervention for reducing tobacco consumption, yet it is the most neglected intervention.[3] Tobacco has an average price elasticity in LMICs of around -0.5, meaning that for a 10% increase in the retail price of tobacco, consumption decreases by 5%.[4] Opportunity The number of countries that have adopted at least one MPOWER measure at the highest level of achievement has grown from 44 in 2008 to 151 in 2022. However, only a handful of nations have full compliance with MPOWER guidelines and 44 countries remain unprotected by any of the MPOWER measures.[5] Despite nearly every country signing the WHO's treaty on tobacco, only 13 nations outside of Europe meet the WHO's recommended minimum of taxing tobacco at 75% of retail value. Since starting work in September, we have learned and reaffirmed the following: Some governments are not aware of the potential ROI from comprehensive implementation of the MPOWER framework Consolidated funding in the tobacco control space has led to only a dozen or so of the highest-burden countries receiving the majority of resources Many smaller countries do not receive any attention from major tobacco control organizat...
Ep. 6.12: The Pitch. It's a big week for the Schitt and the Rose families, as the fate of their entire lives lies in the hands of Johnny, Roland, and Stevie and their trip to The Big Red Delicious. The gals are on edge this week as they await the big news and fret over what's going to happen with David and Patrick. Suit up an settle in as we find out if Advantage Capital will say deal or no deal to Rosebud Motel Group!
Jeff Owens is co-founder of Haven1 - an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain designed to offer a secure, trusted environment to drive the mass adoption of on-chain finance. DeFi with training wheels. Why you should listen Incubated by the team behind digital wealth platform, Yield App, Haven1 incorporates a provable identity framework and robust security guardrails at network level to provide retail, professional and institutional investors with an on-chain finance platform. Haven1 aims to bridge DeFi for Web2.5 users. It is built for secure transactions on-chain, fulfilling Web3's promise to integrate a DeFi feature into the system. Among Haven1's notable initiatives is its provable identity framework, which provides a solution for transparent and verifiable financial transactions. The complexities of transitioning into Web3 require long-term preparation for major communities to adopt due to the issues involved with blockchain awareness, interoperability, user experience, and scalability issues. Web2.5 provides a familiar feel of Web3 through its hybrid purpose, and Haven1 aims to bring Web2.5 users to easily navigate DeFi transactions in the Web3 space. With Haven1, you can seamlessly buy, trade, and sell your preferred assets within the network, free from hefty fees imposed by centralized authorities like banks. To unlock these benefits, all you need is a Haven1 token, and generally, there are no associated costs when moving assets between accounts. In a real-world setting, leveraging Haven1's capabilities for transitioning from Web2.5 to Web3 promises a future of integrated financial inclusivity within the current centralized financial system. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Haven1 Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.
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After launching our first batch of 2023 charities in April, we are now thrilled to announce the launch of four new nonprofit organizations through our July/August 2023 Incubation Program. The 2023 Round 2 incubated charities are:Clear Solutions - Providing treatment for young children to prevent deaths from diarrhoeal diseases.Lafiya Nigeria - Reducing maternal mortality by providing safe family planning options in rural northern Nigeria.Alliance for Reducing Microbial Resistance - Supporting sustainable access to and the development of antimicrobials to combat antimicrobial resistance.Concentric Policies - Preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases through data-driven policymaking. Detailed introductions to the new projects will follow below.Context: The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program July-August 2023The July-August 2023 program focused on global health, including health security and policy-focused interventions. Our generous donors from the CE Seed Network have provided the new initiatives with $583,000 seed funding to kickstart their interventions.In addition to the seed grants, as usual, we will [...] ---Outline:(02:13) Our new charities introduce themselves:(02:17) CLEAR SOLUTIONS(09:01) CONCENTRIC POLICIES--- First published: October 19th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pKDob5yXh2djqdgcP/presenting-2023-incubated-charities-round-2-charity --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
Renton, Washington-based health system Providence recently unveiled Praia Health, its latest incubated technology. Praia is a platform-as-a-service developed for health systems to increase patient engagement by personalizing individuals' health journeys and seamlessly connecting them to the right services, products and resources. On today's episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, Sara Vaezy, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Digital Officer for Providence, joins to talk more about Praia Health, including its goals and the issues it aims to address. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We are down one Beer Buster this episode as Dan was unable to join us, but we soldiered on and welcomed Adrián & Sebastián, founders of Barra Brava Brewing Company and lovers of all things soccer. Incubated on site at Marz Community Brewing Company, where Sebastián is Head Brewer and Adrián is Production Manager, Barra Brava's mission is to ultimately create a home for beer and soccer enthusiasts in Chicago. We chat about the birth of Barra Brava, plans for the future, more incubation plans at Marz, and learn a whole hell of a lot about soccer and the amazing community around the sport loved across the world. This episode's Happy Fun Time segment features quite a tasty game of There's Weird in My Beer. GOAL! Do you love Beer Busters? Of course you do!Why not leave us a rating and review on your podcast platform of choice and consider supporting us on Patreon.
On this episode of Conversations on the Creek, Rob Savitsky chats with Ben Zimmerman, Founder and CEO of Opterrix about the founding of his company, and his viewpoint on how climate change will impact extreme weather events and its implications to the insurance industry. Incubated inside of the venture-build studio at American Family Insurance, now known as Tenney 110, Rob and Ben spend a fair amount of time on this episode talking about what that experience meant to him. Ben shares his thoughts on how the organizational structure and culture at American Family provided the support and the resources to build a property risk intelligence platform that helps insurers proactively prepare and respond to severe weather events. From there, they switch gears and talk about climate change, and how changes in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and floods will lead to more insured losses in the years to come. At the same time, Ben highlights how access to new data sources and exposure visualization tools can provide the industry with a path forward for identifying, quantifying, and mitigating losses from extreme events. As referenced on the show, last year we recorded a parallel episode with Dan Gumpright, former New Venture Lead at Tenney 110. That episode describes American Family Insurance's approach to innovation through its investment in multiple venture concepts. You can listen to that episode here: https://www.duckcreek.com/podcasts/innovating-and-building-new-ventures-with-dan-gumpright-of-tenney-110-american-family-insurance/ Learn more about Duck Creek's partnership with Opterrix by visiting https://www.duckcreek.com/partner/opterrix/. Be sure to check out all our other episodes and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and visit duckcreek.com/podcasts.
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Join us for an insightful episode as I sit down with Eric Wei, the Co-Founder of Karat Financial. Karat Financial is a pioneering platform that offers tailored financing solutions, rewards, and support to creators, enabling them to access and save more money as they navigate their growth journeys. Eric, alongside his co-founder Will Kim, who brings a wealth of financial expertise from Goldman Sachs and Kiva, embarked on this entrepreneurial adventure driven by their shared fascination with creators and the ever-evolving media landscape. Incubated at Y-Combinator, they poured their hearts into refining Karat, obsessively seeking feedback day and night, and building a talented team. Today, the Karat team boasts exceptional individuals hailing from renowned companies such as YouTube, Shopify, Meta, Netflix, and Lionsgate. Join us as we delve into the inspiring story behind Karat Financial, exploring how they are revolutionizing the financial landscape for creators and empowering them to achieve greater financial success. This episode is a must-listen for aspiring creators, industry enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the intersection of finance and the creator economy. Tune in to gain valuable insights and learn how Karat Financial is reshaping the future of creator financing. [Visit our Sponsor: STREAMYARD]
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Presenting: 2023 Incubated Charities (Round 1) - Charity Entrepreneurship, published by CE on May 18, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We are thrilled to announce the launch of four new nonprofit organizations through our February/March 2023 Incubation Program. Executive summary The 2023 Round 1 incubated charities are: Animal Policy International - Ensuring animal welfare standards are upheld in international trade policy Ansh - Empowering mothers to save newborn lives by building healthcare capacity for adoption of Kangaroo Care Healthy Futures Global - Preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis through testing and treatment HealthLearn - Providing the world's best online training to health workers in developing countries Two more organizations got started during the program, but are not officially incubated by CE. We believe that the interventions, chosen by the solo founders, are promising (one was recommended by us as a top idea). We have provided support to both organizations through mentorship and benefits similar to those offered to our incubated projects. These organizations are: The Mission Motor - Building a more evidence-driven animal cause area by training and supporting organizations to use monitoring and evaluation to improve the impact of their interventions Upstream Policies - Driving responsible fishing practices by championing bait fish prohibition Context: The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program February/March 2023 The February/March 2023 program focused on global health and animal advocacy. Our generous donors from the CE Seed Network have enabled us to provide these initiatives with $590,000 in grant funding to kickstart their interventions. In addition to our seed grants, we are dedicated to providing our founders with comprehensive support. This includes continuous mentorship, operational assistance, free co-working spaces at our London office, and access to an ever-growing network of founders, donors, and highly specialized mentors. We have offered several tailored safety nets for those who have decided not to found a charity this program, such as career mentorship, connections to job opportunities, a two-month stipend, or another chance to found a charity through one of our upcoming programs. Our aim is to ensure that all program participants pursue high-impact careers, regardless of whether they found a charity in the given round. We are also pleased to share with you a recently-published video, which showcases program participants sharing their insights on the challenges and benefits of the program. They discuss their motivations for applying, as well as what they found most useful and enjoyable. The footage was filmed during an in-person week held at our London office, and we believe it provides valuable insights into what makes our program unique. We hope you take a moment to watch it. Feel free to learn more about the program here. The next application phase will start on July 10, and close on September 30, 2023. You'll have the opportunity to apply for both the February/March 2024 and July/August 2024 Incubation Programs. For the February/March 2024 program, our focus will be on: mass-media interventions, and preventative animal advocacy. To receive notifications when we start accepting applications, sign up here. Our new charities in detail ANIMAL POLICY INTERNATIONAL Co-founders and Co-Executive Directors: Mandy Carter, Rainer KravetsWebsite: animalpolicyinternational.orgEmail address: info@animalpolicyinternational.orgLinkedInCE Incubation Grant: $110,000 Description of the intervention Animal Policy International is working with policymakers in regions with higher levels of animal welfare legislation to advocate for responsible imports that are in line with domestic laws. By applying equal standards, they aim ...
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We have returned from a long hiatus to discuss a wonderful book entitled Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke. Sarah asked James and Mark to read this book that gives an updated look at Darwin's original model of sexual selection, a topic we covered extensively in Season 4. In this episode we cover the introduction and first 2 chapters of the book.In our conversation about the book, we discuss how Darwin's stereotypical, and simplistic. views of male and female roles in mating and reproduction have persisted 150 years later. As Sarah says, we are still suffering from the hangover Darwin's misogyny. Chapter one of the book does a great job challenging the simplistic notion of what "is a female?", and we explore that topic in detail. Mark was enamored with the existence of gynandromorphs (gyn=female, andro=male, morph=form), organisms that exhibit both male and female phenotypic structures. This led us to discuss the difference between sex and gender and why the simplistic view, often exposed in popular culture of late, of there being only 2 sexes, is incorrect and ignores actual biology. Image taken from https://www.eriebirdobservatory.org/ebo-blog/2021/2/21/a-second-bilateral-gynandromorph-northern-cardinal-in-northwest-pennsylvaniaWe also discuss how stereotypical gender roles influence how biologists interpret the behaviors they observed which often leads to misunderstanding and faulty interpretations. We encourage our listeners to read along with us, as we plan to discuss Chapters 3 & 4 next episode. Lucy Cooke (Photo: David Dunkerley)Here is another example of gynandromorphs, but in butterflies.Image from https://www.earth.com/news/gynandromorphs-half-male-half-female/The opening theme to Discovering Darwin is "May" by Jared C. Balogh. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh/Revitalized_Eyes/MAY Interlude musicBitch Song by Meredith BrooksSage Grouse calls were from Greater Sage-grouse strut display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0M8pZnNlnI
On this episode we are joined by Abdul Rahman, a visionary who was diagnosed to have autism and strives to formulate a plan for society, to make it more inclusive for other people of determination.In this podcast, Abdul discusses;The issues faced by a person with Autism within a school environment.The 5 different levels of Autism.Talking to the Sheikh about Autism awareness.Spreading awareness about autism and how the Gulf differs from the USA in this regard.Creating a culture of championsFormulating a better societal climate for his son, who is also a person of determination.To see videos from the podcast, make sure you follow Rooted Within on Instagram HEREThis podcast is a collaboraton between Rooted Within and ImInclusive;Founded by social entrepreneur Hafsa Qadeer, ImInclusive began as a workplace inclusion community initiative that evolved into UAE's 1st certified social enterprise connecting people with disabilities (People of Determination) to inclusive employers across MENA. ImInclusive provides action-focused training, tools, and resources to a large network of employers that are committed to the journey of disability inclusion.Incubated with Ma'an Abu Dhabi, Authority of Social Contribution, in 2019, ImInclusive is inspired by the journey of Ahmed Qadeer, who is a talented person with disability, living with spina bifida. Today, ImInclusive is a multi-award-winning enterprise recognized by the United Nations, Accenture Middle East, Standard Chartered, C3 Companies Creating Change, TiE Dubai, Visa's She's Next Competition and more. Learn more about iminclusive at www.iminclusive.com or via social media: @iminclusive Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
There's a new parent at the World Bird Sanctuary. His name is Murphy. He's a bald eagle. In March, he began to attract attention when he was spotted incubating a rock in his enclosure. Murphy's fixation on fatherhood went viral, but his story didn't end there. Last week, the sanctuary introduced Murphy to an orphaned baby eaglet. World Bird Sanctuary executive director Roger Holloway discusses the incredible story of Murphy, the bird's unusual journey into parenthood, and what comes next for the now internet-famous pair.
BACKGROUND: According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, in 2020, there were over half a million people experiencing homelessness on our streets and in shelters in America. Seventy percent were individuals, and the remaining 30 percent were families with children. They lived in every state and territory, and they include people from every gender, racial and ethnic group. However, some groups are far more likely than others to become homeless. In the same year, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress revealed that African Americans are overrepresented in the population of people experiencing homelessness compared to their share of the overall US population. A recent report by the Chicago Coalition for the homeless found at least 65,000 people were experiencing homelessness in Chicago in 2020, including those who temporarily stayed with others in addition to people living in shelters and on the street. Additionally, similar to national data, although African American Chicagoans make up roughly 30 percent of the city's population, they represent 70 percent of the City's homeless. For housing advocates and activists, ending homelessness is connected to the moral imperative to end racial inequities within our society's systems, policies, and social practices. INTRODUCTION: Today, we'll be talking with Emily Krisciunas (Chris-shoe-nas), Director of Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness. Incubated at Michael Reese (a public foundation) since 2020, CFTEH seeks to foster a person-centered, ecosystem approach to ending homelessness that reaches across systems and sectors. CFTEH is one of several local networks of Funders Together to End Homelessness - a national network of funders supporting strategic, innovative, and effective solutions to homelessness. CFTEH has more than 30 members and is comprised of a shared table of family foundations, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, and the local United Way. The collaborative is guided by a steering committee of four funders and two full-time staff. Collectively, CFTEH members have directed more than $50 million over the last two years towards efforts to prevent and end homelessness in Chicago, supporting more than 200 organizations across the region since 2020. In 2022, CFTEH launched its first pooled fund effort—the Housing Justice Fund—which makes grants to support advocacy, community organizing, and narrative change efforts. In our conversation, we'll learn about how the local philanthropic sector came together to co-create a strategy to end homelessness in Chicago with providers, advocates, government, community partners, and residents with lived experience. Welcome Emily! QUESTIONS: I'd like to start by having you share with us the origin story of CFTEH. Thanks for having me. Nice to be with you. I think that CFTEH began as a more informal network of, maybe, 10 or 12 local foundations. So much of this groundwork was laid long before I came onboard in 2020. And I think that this group grew out of this observation that philanthropy has a ton of resources, and a ton of power to help end homelessness, but that those resources aren't always well coordinated or optimized. Both within philanthropy and with partners in the public sector. And around the same time, we had colleagues who were connected to the organization that you mentioned in the introduction, Funders Together to End Homelessness at the national level, and were starting to see these local collaboratives pop up in other communities. There was one really notable one in Los Angeles called Home for Good that I think was particularly influential. And so this group of funders started to be interested in replicating that collaborative model here in Chicago. And in order to do that, this group realized that they would need a home, sort of a backbone – administratively and operationally for that work, and we were so lucky that Michael Reese Health Trust was beginning the process to becoming a public charity, which gave them some new resources at their disposal. They could incubate new initiatives; they could advocate in a different way. So, in 2019, before I came onboard, they raised their hand within the group and volunteered to be the home for CFTEH, which enabled the group to hire their first dedicated staff person, which became me. In 2022, CFTEH created its first strategic plan. I understand you conducted a series of listening sessions with community and stakeholders to begin the process. What were the key takeaways from those sessions? It's a great question and felt like an important phase in CFTEH's work. There were two big pushes around listening. The first one came when I started in the role. As a precursor to strategic planning, I met one-on-one with all of the funders who were participating in the collaborative, and I wanted to get a sense of how they thoughts about addressing homelessness, and what their own grantmaking priorities were, and what their motivations were to be in the group. I remember this thing that Marianne Philbin, who is a colleague at Pierce Family Foundation kept saying, which was, “CFTEH should be doing things that it can uniquely do as a group that individual foundations can't do on their own”. And that felt like a recurring theme in all of the conversations that I had with funders. But what I think wasn't clear from the beginning was what exactly that “what” be? What was the unique contribution that CFTEH would have that individual foundations could not do on their own, but that became a guiding set of questions that informed the second round of listening that we did in 2022, which as you said, was focused not within our philanthropic community, but instead on all of our external partners. So, you're exactly right. We did, with your help, interviews and focus groups with at least 50 community stakeholders, and these are people with lived expertise of homelessness, advocates, colleagues in government, policy makers, service providers, and I think there were a bunch of important takeaways from that experience. They really centered around the role that philanthropy has to play in naming and addressing the role that racism has in homelessness, and drawing that connection a little more clearly. They wanted philanthropy's help in promoting this more expansive definition of homelessness, not the often narrow federal government definition of homelessness that is just a person maybe, staying on the street, or in a shelter or on the train, but instead this much more expansive experience of people who are maybe couch surfing, or living doubled-up or under the threat of violence in their home. They were really interested in seeing CFTEH think about its power and how it wields it and how it shifts it to communities who are impacted by homelessness. Partners also had some really helpful critiques, frankly, about the way philanthropy often does grantmaking. About how arduous and burdensome that process can be. How inflexible it can be. That was really something that we saw reinforced in our own grantmaking data that CFTEH reflected on in its strategic planning process where we saw a lot of grants being made just a single year at a time, often restricted. So, we got a lot of feedback from community stakeholders about the role that CFTEH could play in maybe helping model grantmaking in a different way, and nudging and supporting our foundation members in making their grantmaking processes around ending homelessness as flexible and accessible as possible. I understand that from those listening sessions Emerged a set of “guiding principles”. Can you share those principles with us that will guide the work of CFTEH for the next three years? We landed on four of them, and looking back I can see the way that each of them feels really anchored to the community feedback that I just highlighted for you. So, the guiding principles in the CFTEH plan are: To lead with and center racial equity in housing justice in all of the work that we do. The second one is on Targeted Universalism. An acknowledgement that homelessness is so disproportionately experienced by communities of color, and particularly Black and African American communities, and so approaches to ending homelessness ideally will benefit all people experiencing homelessness but should really be targeted to the groups and communities who are experiencing it the most, disproportionately. The third one is around centering people with lived expertise in homelessness and housing instability in all of the decision-making that we do. And we're exploring all day, every day, different ways to do that in the work of CFTEH. And then the fourth one is around this idea that, fostering a person-centered, ecosystem approach to ending homelessness, as you mentioned in the intro. This idea that homelessness is this idea that is really simple, in that the solution is housing, but that it is [also] really complex, in that all of these different systems, frankly, are failing people who come to experience homelessness and are often interacting with the justice system, or the employment system or education system, but at the end of the day it is still a person a neighbor who is experiencing homelessness and that we have to keep the person at the center, even though we're talking about lots of complex systems that are contributing to that persons, perhaps, lack of access to housing. What can you share about CFTEH's strategic plan, including goals and objectives? Our north star in the strategic plan is for CFTEH, this community of funders, to contribute to a significant reduction in the number of people experiencing homelessness in the Chicago region. With that focus, in particular on Black communities who are experiencing homelessness most disproportionately. In the theory of change that CFTEH has developed for its strategic plan, it suggests that if CFTEH leans into these four big functions that we identified for ourselves as an educator, as an advocate, as a model (as I said earlier for our members) and as a convener, we can help advance these three big categories of change. One related to more equitable housing policy, another around shifting power to communities most impacted by homelessness, and the third one is around bringing greater alignment into these often disconnected and disjointed sectors and systems. To your point you just made, that are often contributing to a person's experience of homelessness. And I love that CFTEH, in its pursuit of these goals laid out in the strategic plan gets to be this sort of lab for new ideas. We really can be this model for new ways of working. We learn a lot from other communities that are experimenting in the way that we are, from other funder networks, and communities like New York, LA and Baltimore and the Bay area that are often piloting really different public/private partnerships that we aspire to replicate here in Chicago. So, even though we have a strategic plan, we're trying to make it vibrant and useful as is possible in the work that we're doing every day. Tell us more about the Housing Justice “Pooled” Fund and how it ties into the strategic plan. Yeah, I'm so excited! So excited about this effort. What's interesting is that we don't necessarily set out in the early days of the strategic planning process to have a pooled fund. It wasn't really part of the early conversations about what CFTEH would be, and I think the more we got into the planning process, and the more we reflected on what our members are funding currently, and what our stakeholders really wanted CFTEH to do, the more a pooled fund emerged as a really interesting idea that could fill some of the important gaps. So the Housing Justice Fund, as you said, is a pooled fund, and what that means is that a bunch of our members, around 15 of our CFTEH members, have collectively pooled funding at Michael Reese, as our fiscal sponsor, to launch this grantmaking effort. It's a $2 million dollar pooled fund, and it is specifically focused on advocacy, community organizing and narrative change and public awareness work related to preventing and ending homelessness. And the reason we focused on that cluster of things is because we saw that it really wasn't being funded. That showed up in a lot of grantmaking data that we looked at from our members., We saw that, maybe, 1 or 2 percent of the groups collective grantmaking was supporting that group of things I just mentioned. I also had a ton of conversations with people working in the advocacy space who talked about how hard it was to find funding for their work and it just started to emerge so clearly as the perfect gap for CFTEH to fill. The fund is focused on new and emerging and often small and BIPOC-led organizations that are doing this work. We really tried to, in the application process, to do outreach to organizations that were not receiving funding from any of our members. We are trying to build relationships with new organizations who might have had a really difficult time accessing philanthropy in the past. The last thing I would say is that we tried to design the process really differently. The former grant writer in me, my heart sings around this part of it because we, for instance, designed a process where applicants could choose how they made their requests. They could submit it in writing if that felt like a good fit to them, if they happened to have a grant writer on staff. And if they didn't, or if they felt like using their voice and their story to make their request was a better fit they, instead, could hop on a call with CFTEH staff and we would ask them a set of questions and guide then through, essentially, the application. And then we would, as staff, take on the responsibility of documenting and preparing the group's application, then sharing it back with them for them to review, approve and finalize. We got a ton of takers, first of all, for that kind of format of application, and at least in the first round, a lot of positive feedback about being able to lower barriers to applying. Especially for really tiny, volunteer-led organizations who may not have a grant writer on staff. And then, for organizations, they also then were able to have a narrative prepared describing their work that they felt really good about that, ideally, they can use for applications with other foundations as well. So, the pooled fund has started, and you've started issuing grants? We just announced our first round of grants in December, 2022. We announced $1.2 million in the first round to 11 partners that we're so excited about. They are all doing such incredible work. Some of them are really focused on policy at the city level or state level, either passing city or state ordinance or enforcing one. They are, in other cases, focused on tenant organizing efforts, building the collective power of tenants in a specific building or a specific neighborhood. And then others are focused on narrative change aspect of the fund I mentioned. Trying to challenge conventional narratives about what homelessness looks like, who experiences it and why they experience it, and are using first-person storytelling or art-making or other forms of documentation in order to do that. So, we're so excited to be working with that group of partners, and we're planning to do another round of grant making in the spring or summer of this year. A great deal of growth has happened in 2022. What can we expect from you and your team in 2023? If CFTEH is going to do some cool, innovative things, ideally, we'll do those things and then document what we're learning about them. We learned a lot in the first round of the Housing Justice Fund process about what we can do way better in subsequent rounds and so we're really interested in documenting those learnings and ways to share them, whether its through social media, like you mentioned, or blog posts. I'm so lucky I'm getting the opportunity later this month to be on a panel at the National Funders Together to End Homelessness conference in California. I'll have an opportunity to talk about this work there. But yes, I think that what we're trying to do is learn a lot. Learn and make mistakes and share what we're learning with our members and partners, both regionally and across the country. And, in terms of 2023, it's an exciting question. I think a lot of things come to mind. The first is that CFTEH doubled in size last year, which was a thrill to me, so we hired a new colleague, Kathy Neidorowski, who I have to shout out. She came onboard last year as our CFTEH Program Coordinator and brings this incredible expertise and background as a social worker and a macro social worker, so really thinking about the ways that complex systems interact with each other and impact a person or household experiencing homelessness. So totally thrilled to think about 2023 and what we can do as a small but mighty team of two. And I think the area of growth that I'm most excited about for CFTEH is related to the Housing Justice Fund, in a way because it's about all of the other resources and power that CFTEH has to advance the collective goals of our grantees through the fund. Because we have a lot of ways that we can advocate ourselves. We can join in the advocacy of our grantee partners, and I think in 2023, we're excited to be a lot more visible, vocal and external in that way, and find other ways to support this cohort of grantee partners through the Housing Justice Fund in lots of ways beyond the funding. It's another piece of feedback that we heard a lot from community stakeholders. It's like, “Philanthropy, you have relationships! You can open doors for us. You can bring us with you to meetings, and then let us do the talking. When you make a phone call, someone picks up”. So we're trying to catalog all of the other many ways that CFTEH has power and relationships in community that can advance the collective goals of our grantees. So, advocacy feels like it's very much on the horizon for CFTEH this year and I'm excited with my colleague Kathy to build out the work related to that. CLOSING: Emily, thank you so much for talking with me today about the role of CFTEH in addressing homelessness in Chicago. The links and resources Emily provided today will be added to this podcast for our listeners. LINKS: Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness Funders Together to End Homelessness Michael Reese all Chicago making homelessness history Home for Good REPORTS: Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Estimate of People Experiencing Homelessness National Alliance to End Homelessness HUD Annual Homeless Assessment Report
The right lending infrastructure is what allows lenders to launch new products easily, to adapt products to changing economic conditions or to start an entirely new lending operation.My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Eddie Oistacher, the CEO and Co-Founder of Peach Finance. Incubated inside Affirm, Peach has created a new kind of lending infrastructure that is adaptive and flexible and can scale for virtually any lending product (outside of mortgage).In this podcast you will learn:The founding story of Peach.How Max Levchin, the CEO of Affirm, supported new companies like Peach.The biggest challenges for lenders today.How Eddie describes Peach and where they sit in the technology stack.What an Adaptive Core is and why it is important.The different lending verticals they support.Type types of companies that use their software.What fintechs should be looking for when launching a new lending program.How lenders should think about loan servicing given a possible recession this year.What launching right before the pandemic was like.How their self-service migration tool works and why it is a big deal for lenders.What is next for Peach.Connect with Eddie on LinkedInConnect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
The right lending infrastructure is what allows lenders to launch new products easily, to adapt products to changing economic conditions or to start an entirely new lending operation.My next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Eddie Oistacher, the CEO and Co-Founder of Peach Finance. Incubated inside Affirm, Peach has created a new kind of lending infrastructure that is adaptive and flexible and can scale for virtually any lending product (outside of mortgage).In this podcast you will learn:The founding story of Peach.How Max Levchin, the CEO of Affirm, supported new companies like Peach.The biggest challenges for lenders today.How Eddie describes Peach and where they sit in the technology stack.What an Adaptive Core is and why it is important.The different lending verticals they support.Type types of companies that use their software.What fintechs should be looking for when launching a new lending program.How lenders should think about loan servicing given a possible recession this year.What launching right before the pandemic was like.How their self-service migration tool works and why it is a big deal for lenders.What is next for Peach.Connect with Eddie on LinkedInConnect with Fintech One-on-One: Tweet me @PeterRenton Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes
Daniel Donato is one of the best guitar players in today's music scene. He's 27 years old and his musical style has been said to blend the best of Nashville honky-tonks with an improvisational spirit rooted in the ethos of the Grateful Dead. Daniel tours with his band playing cosmic country music to an ever-growing audience and plays with some of the world's most famous musicians, such as Bob Weir. One band that inspired Daniel is The Beatles - and that's what Jack and Daniel are going to talk about on this episode. How they inspired him, what they represent as creative forces, his favorite George Harrison songs, and how they made timeless music. Check out Daniel's website: https://danieldonato.com/ Daniel's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@danieldonato Follow Daniel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedanieldonato/ If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe to this podcast! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Or click here for more information: Linktr.ee/BeatlesEarth ----- The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all timeand were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon's previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after signing to EMI Records and achieving their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr all released solo albums in 1970. Their solo records sometimes involved one or more of the others; Starr's Ringo (1973) was the only album to include compositions and performances by all four ex-Beatles, albeit on separate songs. With Starr's participation, Harrison staged the Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in August 1971. Other than an unreleased jam session in 1974, later bootlegged as A Toot and a Snore in '74, Lennon and McCartney never recorded together again. Two double-LP sets of the Beatles' greatest hits, compiled by Klein, 1962–1966 and 1967–1970, were released in 1973, at first under the Apple Records imprint. Commonly known as the "Red Album" and "Blue Album", respectively, each has earned a Multi-Platinum certification in the US and a Platinum certification in the UK. Between 1976 and 1982, EMI/Capitol released a wave of compilation albums without input from the ex-Beatles, starting with the double-disc compilation Rock 'n' Roll Music. The only one to feature previously unreleased material was The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977); the first officially issued concert recordings by the group, it contained selections from two shows they played during their 1964 and 1965 US tours. The music and enduring fame of the Beatles were commercially exploited in various other ways, again often outside their creative control. In April 1974, the musical John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert, written by Willy Russell and featuring singer Barbara Dickson, opened in London. It included, with permission from Northern Songs, eleven Lennon-McCartney compositions and one by Harrison, "Here Comes the Sun". Displeased with the production's use of his song, Harrison withdrew his permission to use it.Later that year, the off-Broadway musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road opened. All This and World War II (1976) was an unorthodox nonfiction film that combined newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs by performers ranging from Elton John and Keith Moon to the London Symphony Orchestra. The Broadway musical Beatlemania, an unauthorised nostalgia revue, opened in early 1977 and proved popular, spinning off five separate touring productions. In 1979, the band sued the producers, settling for several million dollars in damages. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), a musical film starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton, was a commercial failure and an "artistic fiasco", according to Ingham. Accompanying the wave of Beatles nostalgia and persistent reunion rumours in the US during the 1970s, several entrepreneurs made public offers to the Beatles for a reunion concert.Promoter Bill Sargent first offered the Beatles $10 million for a reunion concert in 1974. He raised his offer to $30 million in January 1976 and then to $50 million the following month. On 24 April 1976, during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live, producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were watching the live broadcast at Lennon's apartment at the Dakota in New York, which was within driving distance of the NBC studio where the show was being broadcast. The former bandmates briefly entertained the idea of going to the studio and surprising Michaels by accepting his offer, but decided not to. When people first meet Daniel Donato, they're not fully braced for this walking tornado of creative energy. “They think there's something that tips the scale in ways they don't understand,” says Donato about his over-the-top, slightly manic vibe. “But what actual-ly tips the scale is the amount of thought and analysis I put into my work and art, all of which is taken from the lessons of my life.” Donato, a 27-year-old Nashville native, has distilled those life lessons into his debut album, A Young Man's Country, his proper introduction to the general musical audience. Recorded at Nashville's Sound Emporium in a mere two days and produced by guitar-ace Robben Ford, the record weaves outlaw country, Grateful Dead-style Americana, and first-rate songwriting into a singular form Donato calls “21st-century cosmic country.” It might surprise some that the Telecaster-wielding wunderkind, who at 16 became the youngest musician to regularly play the iconic honky tonk Robert's Western World while gigging with the Don Kelley Band, began his musical journey in a purely millen-nial fashion. Before he ever picked up a guitar, he discovered he had an aptitude for music via the video game Guitar Hero. At the time, he didn't feel compelled to try his hand at the real thing until one day, about the age of 12, he heard the electric perfection of Guns ‘N' Roses' “Paradise City” blast from a set of speakers and his world was changed forever. “It was the first time I ever had a vision for my life,” says Donato, who was partly drawn to music because he sucked royally at skateboarding. “I then took one of my dad's old guitars . . . and I literally fell in love with it.” From then on, Donato lived and breathed music, practicing his chops around the clock. He'd play before school, during his lunch break, and in the evenings at home, sometimes falling asleep with the six-string in his hands. It wasn't long before he was busking on lower Broadway in Nashville, playing eight hours a day on weekends for tips. It was after one of those day's sessions that he got a wild hair and snuck into Robert's on a night when house act the Don Kelley Band was playing and his wig-dome was blown. “It was the first time I ever saw a band that was that good up close,” Donato said. “So I'm literally watching them play and I'm crying. I decided right then that I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world.” Donato continued busking outside arenas before John Mayer and Phish concerts and on the streets of Nashville and it was then, while playing on Broadway, that he'd give Don Kelley his business card every Saturday night, hoping for a chance to audition. One day, while still a junior in high school, he got the call to come play. Donato was more than ready, and he delivered the goods in spades. He was so good, in fact, that he became a regular member of the band, performing four nights a week for more than 450 shows with the group. Playing nightly with the Don Kelley Band was a formidable education for the young musician. Jamming regularly with Nashville's most seasoned players, stalwart pickers who may have played in Buck Owens' band, or Dolly Parton's, or Alan Jackson's, ex-panded his musical vocabulary while honing his stage presence. Along the way he was soaking up stories of adventures on the road and learning about the ups and downs of the music business. In short, he was gaining priceless life lessons and a mu-sical education from wells that run deep into the musical history of Nashville. Around the time he turned 18, one of Donato's high-school teachers, a serious music lover who had seen his student play at Robert's, gave him a Grateful Dead box set. It was another eureka moment for the guitarist. His love for the Dead may have been ig-nited much earlier by virtue of the fact that his mother was a bona fide Deadhead who followed the group on tour when she was pregnant with the future guitarist, but it was that collection that changed the way he looked at music. “It gave me a tie to all of the classic country gold I'd been working down at the honky-tonks each weekend,” he said. “Grateful Dead and Merle Haggard had always lived in my heart, but now, the link was made, and I had a vision on how to keep it alive for this generation that I am coming from.” During the days of his Robert's residency, Donato continued to busk at various locales, even playing the Grand Ole Opry, and it is the sum of all these gigs, experiences any teenage musician would kill for, that inform the sounds on A Young Man's Coun-try. “Ain't Living Long Like This,” one of three covers on the album, is a song by Waylon Jennings, who was recording at the Sound Emporium the day Donato was born. “Angel From Montgomery,” a song Donato learned on the fly while busking for tourists, pays tribute to the late John Prine. Donato recorded his unique take on the tune before Prine's death. The Grateful Dead's “Fire On The Mountain” is tacked on to “Meet Me In Dallas,” a tune Donato wrote while on the road with Paul Cauthen. The other seven songs, all originals, showcase the promise of a young songwriter coming into his own, one of the highlights being “Luck of the Draw.” The message of these songs contain the central tenet of Donato's “Cosmic Country” ethos, which is about finding the courage to blaze your own path. As such, it is an ethos the artist extends beyond music into the channels of social media, where he's built up a huge following of devoted “DD Heads,” as his fans call themselves. His pod-cast, “Daniel Donato's Lost Highway,” brings together like-minded creatives to get at the heart of what makes artists tick, for which he's interviewed Brothers Osborne, Brent Cobb, Orville Peck, and Garry Talent of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Incubated to the sounds of the Dead, educated by some of Nashville's finest players, and having more than 2,000 shows under his belt and a social media presence, Dan-iel Donato is indeed a millennial whirligig of creative fire. He's been dabbling in pro-fessional music since the age of 14 and yet he's just getting started. A Young Man's Country is the portrait of a restless artist as a young man, one whose story is singular and is still in its exciting, early chapters — and as this effort shows, the future is indeed cosmic.
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The Department of Higher Education, Haryana, and SACC India, on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Yaman Saini, Founder of YS Chatkara, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing Vida Plena: the first Latin American organization incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship, published by Joy Bittner on December 26, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Vida Plena (meaning ‘a flourishing life' in Spanish) is a new nonprofit organization based in Quito, Ecuador. Our mission is to build strong mental health in low-income and refugee communities, who otherwise would have no access to care. We provide evidence-based depression treatment which is highly cost-effective and scalable. In this post, we: Share how we got started Make the case for why you should care about mental health Demonstrate the evidence base for the solution we are using Hope to make you really excited about Vida Plena's goals and upcoming plans We are proud to highlight that Vida Plena completed the 2022 Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) Incubator program, making it the first CE-incubated organization to operate in Latin America. We (myself, Joy Bittner and my co-founder, Anita Kaslin) are exceptionally grateful for their on-going support and for the network of seed funders who are making this work possible. We are also excited to contribute to the EA community locally, as Vida Plena is one of the very first EA-aligned organizations implementing within Latin America. For the very effective altruist, a TLDR summary: The problem: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 5% of people in Latin America have depression, however, a lack of prioritization means that more than 3 out of 4 people in Latin America go untreated. Ecuador, in particular, has some of the highest rates of depression in the region: causing 8.3% of the total years lived with disability (YLD). The solution: Vida Plena's intervention is based on an evidence-based therapy which is recommended by the WHO as a first-line treatment for depression in low-income settings (WHO, 2020). This program is highly cost-effective as it is delivered by non-specialist community members, which a systematic review of 27 studies found that non-specialists can effectively administer therapy. How you can know this will be impactful: We are replicating a proven program model. The nonprofit organization StrongMinds, operating in Uganda, has treated 150,000 people using the same model of therapy and 85% of people in their program saw significant reductions in their depression. This success has led StrongMinds to be recommended by Founders Pledge (Halstead, 2019) and is the Happier Lives Institute's top recommendation (HLI, 2022). Despite an extensive body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness and impact, Vida Plena is the first to introduce this model to Latin America. Current status: we have certified 10 local community facilitators and are currently running a pilot program with 10 support groups. We're looking forward to sharing the results of the pilot early 2023, but we estimate when fully optional, it will cost $17 to improve a recipient's wellbeing by one wellbeing-adjusted life year (WELLBY). For a comparison, this is 8 times more cost-effective than GiveDirectly (see our full predictive CEA here). How you can help: Stay in touch and spread the word: generous introductions and people sharing time-sensitive information have made all this possible. sign-up to stay in touch here so we can send you news about what's happening and ways you can help Support us financially: we plan to treat almost 3,000 people in 2023, but have yet to secure the full funding to do so. We would be so grateful if you decide to donate or email us at joy@vidaplena.global Section 1: How Vida Plena got started True story - I started Vida Plena because I saw a Facebook post. Specifically, I saw a post about a new type of mental health program being run by local ‘grandmas' in Africa. And the more I read through the multiple published studies demonstr...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Presenting: 2022 Incubated Charities (Charity Entrepreneurship), published by KarolinaSarek on December 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We are proud to announce that 5 new charitable organizations have been launched from our June-August 2022 Incubation Program. Nine high-potential individuals graduated from our two-month intensive training program. The Incubation Program has been designed to teach participants everything they need to know to launch and run an extremely effective, high-impact charity. From analyzing the cost-effectiveness of an intervention, all the way to crafting a proposal for funding, the program participants are equipped with the knowledge and confidence they need to see their chosen intervention become a reality. Eight have gone on to start new effective nonprofits focused on policy, mental health, family planning and EA meta cause areas, and one participant was hired by Charity Entrepreneurship as a Research Analyst. They will be joining our 2023 cohort. Thanks to our generous CE Seed Network of funders, we have helped to secure $732,000 in funding for the organizations, and will further support them with mentorship, operational support, free co-working space in London, and access to a constantly growing entrepreneurial community of funders, advisors, interns and other charity founders. The 2022 incubated charities are: Center for Effective Aid Policy- identifying and promoting high-impact development policies and interventions. Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH)- conducting cause prioritization research and outreach. Maternal Health Initiative- producing transformative benefits to women's health, agency, and income through increased access to family planning. Kaya Guides- reducing depression and anxiety among youth in low-and middle-income countries. Vida Plena- building strong mental health in Latin America. CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE AID POLICY Co-founders: Jacob Wood, Mathias BondeWebsite: aidpolicy.orgEmail address: contact@aidpolicy.org CE incubation grant: $170,000 Description of the intervention: The Center for Effective Aid Policy will work on identifying and advocating for effective solutions in aid policy. This may include: Increasing international development aid Increasing budget allocation to specific effective development programs Introducing new effective development interventions into aid budgets Revising processes which result in improved development aid effectiveness Background of the intervention: $179 billion was spent on development aid in 2021 - that is roughly 240x the amount of money that GiveWell has moved since 2009. While well-intentioned, there is a broad consensus among experts, think tanks, and implementing partners alike that aid effectiveness can be vastly improved. The Center for Effective Aid Policy believes tractable interventions exist in the development aid space that will result in improved aid spending and better outcomes for its recipients. You can read more in their recent EA Forum post. Near-term plans: In 2022-2023, The Center for Effective Aid Policy will identify policy windows and formulate impactful and practical-to-implement policies, which they will advocate to governments and NGOs. They conservatively estimate their chances of advocacy success at $5.62 per DALY - more than an order of magnitude higher than multiple GiveWell-recommended charities. CENTRE FOR EXPLORATORY ALTRUISM RESEARCH (CEARCH) Founder: Joel TanWebsite: exploratory-altruism.orgContact: incubation grant: $100,000 Description of the intervention: CEARCH conducts cause prioritization research and outreach - identifying the most important problems in the world and directing resources towards solving them, so as to maximize global welfare. Background of the intervention: There are many potential cause areas (e.g.,...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing the Rethink Priorities Special Projects Program, published by Rachel Norman on September 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Key points Rethink Priorities (RP) has launched a Special Projects (SP) Program to help start promising EA initiatives by providing fiscal sponsorship and full-service operational support–including, but not limited to hiring, finance, event planning, and communications. A key strength of RP is its operations. We have been able to scale the organization from 1.5 full-time equivalents (FTE) staff to nearly 50 FTE in just four years. The SP Program advances projects that RP would like to see happen and allows these projects to focus on their core work rather than worrying about running their organization. Current special projects include Epoch, the Insect Welfare Project, Unjournal, EA Market Testing, Condor Camp, and EA Pathfinder. There are various ways to get involved in the SP Program: join our team, apply to have your project sponsored, or share with us lessons you've learned incubating projects if you have experience in this arena. Please reach out by submitting an Expression of Interest form. About Rethink Priorities Founded in 2018, RP is dedicated to informing decisions made by high-impact organizations and funders across various cause areas. To date, our team has conducted over 50 person-years of work (you can find all our public research here). One of our key strengths is our operational capacity, which allows us to recruit, onboard, and support talented researchers to produce quality work with minimal bureaucratic red tape. Given our strong operations, RP would like to support other promising EA projects – particularly longtermist ones – in getting off the ground. To this end, we recently launched a new Special Projects Program. About the Special Projects Program As an off-shoot of our Operations Department, Special Projects is a distinct team dedicated to supporting the launch of new projects rather than running RP's day-to-day operations. The team's Acting Director Carolyn Footitt is leading this work with Associates María De la Lama and Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez. Their projects generally fall under two areas: Incubated (internal)–In addition to our research agenda, RP is incubating direct work and other projects that advance our mission. The SP Team works closely with RP staff to launch these initiatives. Once the incubation period for each respective initiative ends, the project will either conclude or spin-off to become an independent organization. Fiscally sponsored (external)–The SP Team is also providing fee-based fiscal sponsorship and support to projects that are managed by individuals outside of RP. Within this model, the project's founders maintain autonomy and decision-making authority while we provide them with operational and fiduciary oversight. Our services Although our involvement will depend on the project, in general, the SP Team will provide operational support to projects much in the way that our Core Operations Team supports RP's work. Such services might include developing and managing budgets, accounting, contracting, running hiring rounds, planning the onboarding of new staff, hosting and developing the project website, and other operations tasks outlined in the below chart. Current Special Projects The SP Team is currently incubating the following projects: LAISR, an AI strategy retreat in Washington, D.C. The provisionally-named Insect Welfare Project to address welfare concerns around the growing insect farming industry Unjournal, an open platform for research relevant to global priorities EA Market Testing, a survey on how to best promote effective giving and action EA Pathfinder, an initiative to advise and support mid-career professionals looking to switch into EA work Condor Camp, an EA a...
Atlanta influencer turned founder Cynthia Ruff is building Hashtag Pay Me, the software helping creators and influencers appropriately price content. Incubated in Georgia Tech's startup accelerator Create-X, Cynthia is building her startup from over a decade of content creation experience. In this energetic episode, learn why she turned down early investor capital to bootstrap Hashtag Pay Me, the evolution of the creator economy, her thoughts on the current state of the growing creator economy, and what monetization opportunities lie ahead for creators.
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana and SACC India on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Yaman Saini, Founder of YS Chatkara, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
A Future Founder Promise podcast clip from the "Stellate Office Hour" interview with Phil Plückthun, Staff Software Engineer at Stellate. Phil Plückthun is a veteran open source developer who created the GraphQL client urql, and he was also hire #01 at Stellate. Phil has been working with the React community since its early days. You may also know him from some other highly popular open source projects like styled-components, where he already started working with our CEO and podcast host Max Stoiber. Phil was also involved with react-ssr-prepass, and react-live. It is noteworthy that the aforementioned GraphQL client urql is now the third most popular choice in the community for GraphQL clients. Hear Phil's perspective on: GraphQL Client urql Beginnings First Principle Novelty Addressed Problems Incubated at Formidable Bias Avoidance Unopinionated and Flexible Design Principles and much more… We are currently doing a couple of team interviews to tell you more about the fine people who work with us at Stellate. We wanna document their stories, and share their perspectives with you. If you got interested in working with us as well, please take a look at our hiring page.
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana and SACC India on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Shivani, Co-founder of The SVAD, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana and SACC India on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Anshuman Rai, founder of NoMargin, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
WoundZipper® is an innovative wound closure device, which incorporates magnets to effectively close wounds. Intended primarily for emergency department use, the device is designed by a board-certified emergency department physician, Dr. Moustafa H. Moustafa.WoundZipper® employs powerful, flexible magnets encased in a proprietary medical-grade coating, designed to adhere to each side of the wound using a hypoallergenic adhesive. The WoundZipper® can be employed to close wounds in a fraction of the time required usingconventional methods. Unlike sutures, staples, and steri strips, WoundZipper® achieves uniform closure along the entire wound to speed healing and reduce scarring. It takes less than a minute to apply, does not require local anesthetic, and is painless.As a new wound closure solution, WoundZipper® was on display IncubatED program at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. (Table #2807-i-8 in the IncubatED section). TheIncubatED program showcases incubator and/or early-stage healthcare products in the emergency department.What I have often witnessed in the emergency department is a couple with a small child who has a laceration that is bleeding, Dr. Moustafa said. The child is upset, the parents are upset, but because it's not life-threatening, staff do not consider it a high priority. This results in frustration for all involved. I designed WoundZipper® to offer an instant solution.”WoundZipper® makes the process of treating and healing a wound fast and effective and increases medical provider efficiency,” Moustafa said. The magnets are pre-aligned as part of the package unit. This provides instant wound approximation since the magnets are immediatelyattracted to each other as soon as the removable layer is taken away.” Faster than staples or sutures. Less traumatic for infants and children. No painful injection. Easy to inspect the wound and reclose. Perfect for high anxiety emergencies. No disposable accessories.The intellectual property associated with WoundZipper® is available for licensing. Visit www.woundzipper.com or watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttyFIp6wbg--------------------------------------------About Got Invention Show:Welcome to the Got Invention Show!Listen to inventors interviews sharing their invention story to the world!Are you patent pending?Do you have a prototype to show and demonstrate?Are you looking to earn royalties from your invention?Are you looking for a manufacturer?Do you want to raise money or find an investor?Do you want to sell your invention?Learn from other inventors or let's see and hear about your big invention idea! Show & tell us about your invention, have your very own video interview to be proud of!Your video can be used to:Post to your social mediaAdd on your websiteSend to bloggers & editorsPitch to licensees or investorsListen to inventor interviews or sign up: www.gotinventionshow.comYour Host of Got Invention Show, Brian Fried. Brian is the host of Got Invention Radio, with interviews of high profile guests including the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Lori Greiner from ABC's Shark Tank, & over 150 individual interviews. www.gotinvention.comBrian connects and guides inventors to earn royalties from their inventions to licensees and brand properties looking for new ideas and intellectual property to expand existing or add to new product lines. Inventor Smart: www.inventorsmart.com Host Inventor Expert and Mentor Brian Fried: www.brianfried.com
Dr. Michael Richter is Scantinel's Commercial Managing Director in charge of strategy, finance, investor relations, and sales & marketing Key topics in this conversation include The difference between frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LiDAR and time of flight (TOF) LiDAR How FMCW provides greater sensing range, velocity data, and object detection information The massive potential of photonic semiconductors The path to mass market adoption for FMCW LiDAR Links: Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/michaelrichter Michael's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-michael-richter-a2079268/ Scantinel Website: https://scantinel.com/ Scantinel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scantinel Michael's Bio:: Dr. Michael Richter is Scantinel's Commercial Managing Director in charge of strategy, finance, investor relations, and sales & marketing. He has a long-lasting senior international management background in the semiconductor, sensor and high-tech industry with a successful history of formulating and implementing sustainable business plans, organizations, and techniques. Michael holds a Doctoral and Bachelor's Degree in Economics from University of Siegen in Germany. About Scantinel: Scantinel Photonics is a world leading FMCW LiDAR start-up company in Ulm, Germany. Incubated in the global optics leader Carl Zeiss AG in 2016, Scantinel spung off as an independent company in 2019 and is backed by ZEISS Ventures and Scania Growth Capital. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana and SACC India on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Kavita, founder of HPM, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every week day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of almost 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul. sign up now and join us every Thursday night for a virtual happy hour. Now on to today's show notes 27 mins David Rothkopf is the CEO of The Rothkopf Group, host of the Deep State Radio podcast, and the author, most recently of “Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump.” The Rothkopf Group produces podcasts including Deep State Radio, National Security Magazine, custom programming for clients and it organizes live interactive web-based and live forums. Rothkopf is a contributing columnist to The Daily Beast and a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today. He is the author of hundreds articles on international, national security and political themes for publications that include the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, the Financial Times, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is also a regular commentator on broadcast media worldwide. His previous books include Great Questions of Tomorrow, National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear, Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government—and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead , Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, and Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. His most recent book is The Great Questions of Tomorrow. Rothkopf has taught international affairs at Columbia University, Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. He has served as a member of a number of boards and advisory boards including those associated with the U.S. Institute of Peace, IREX, the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Previously, Rothkopf served as CEO and Editor of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy Magazine, CEO of Garten Rothkopf and was the founder and CEO of Intellibridge Corporation, an open source intelligence provider to government and private sector organizations. Prior to that he served as managing director of Kissinger Associates. Rothkopf served as deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade policy in the Clinton administration and played a central role in developing the administration's groundbreaking Big Emerging Markets Initiative. Before government, Rothkopf was founder and CEO of International Media Partners and editor and publisher of the CEO Magazine and Emerging Markets newspaper. He also served as chairman of the CEO Institute. He is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. --------- 50:00 Jonathan Greenblatt is the CEO of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its sixth National Director. As chief executive of ADL, Jonathan leads all aspects of the world's leading anti-hate organization. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovative leader with deep experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Since becoming CEO in July 2015, Greenblatt has modernized ADL while refocusing it on the mission it has had since its founding in 1913: to fight the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Under Greenblatt, ADL has modernized its operations, innovated its approaches to counter antisemitism from all sides and enhanced its efforts to combat extremism in all forms. During his tenure ADL rebooted its Center on Extremism that analyzes and monitors extremists and hate groups; launched “Never Is Now” the largest annual convening in the world focused on antisemitism and hate; created the Center for Technology and Society in Silicon Valley to fight the rising tide of online hate and harassment; partnered with the Aspen Institute to launch the Civil Society Fellowship, an innovative program that builds cohorts of emerging leaders across a continuum of ideology and identity; developed the Sports Leadership Council to engage athletes, teams and leagues to confront bigotry and discrimination more effectively; and executed Stop Hate for Profit, the successful campaign that organized businesses, celebrities, nonprofits and policy makers to fight the rampant racism, antisemitism and extremism on Facebook. Jonathan serves on numerous corporate and non-profit boards and has been recognized on multiple occasions for his leadership at ADL. He has been named by The NonProfit Times to its list of Top 50 Nonprofit Leaders from 2016-2020. Recode named Jonathan to its inaugural “Recode 100,” a list of the top 100 people in business and technology. He has been named among the Top 50 Most Influential Leaders in the global Jewish community by The Jerusalem Post and as one of the Top 50 Jews to follow on Twitter by the JTA. Before ADL, Greenblatt served in the White House as Special Assistant to President Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation. He came to that role after a long career in business. In 2002, he co-founded Ethos Brands, the business that launched Ethos Water, a premium bottled water that helps children around the world access clean water. Ethos was acquired by Starbucks Coffee Company in 2005. Following the acquisition, Jonathan was named VP of Global Consumer Products at Starbucks and joined the board of the Starbucks Foundation. In 2009, Jonathan founded All for Good (AFG), the largest database of volunteer opportunities on the Internet. Incubated at Google, AFG developed an innovative strategy to organize the world's volunteer listings. AFG was acquired by Points of Light in 2011. Jonathan also served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide, a diversified media company and as an executive at REALTOR.com, joining the company as a product manager and eventually heading up its consumer products division. REALTOR went public in 1999 (HOMS) and was acquired by News Corp in 2014. Jonathan has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and as a senior fellow at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jonathan graduated cum laude with a BA from Tufts University and earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 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The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad "Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." —JORDAN PETERSON *USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER* There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness. Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas—what he calls “idea pathogens”—that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms—including freedom of thought and speech. The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful weapons to fight back with—if we have the courage to use them. A provocative guide to defending reason and intellectual freedom and a battle cry for the preservation of our fundamental rights, The Parasitic Mind will be the most controversial and talked-about book of the year.
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Adrien Lebegue, Managing Director, Europe, ZA Tech.ZA Tech is the technology venture founded by ZhongAn Online, a global leader in online insurance, and backed by Softbank's Vision Fund. ZA Tech is redefining the insurance landscape by enabling digital ecosystems to easily embed relevant protection within their customer journeys.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as: Start ups to Scale ups Incubated by ZhongAn and SoftBank How does this background impact ZA Tech's day to day? The value of being consumer first ZA Tech's differentiated value How being digitally-native has no limits How being a pioneer in the market brings new regulation challenges Optimisation comes down to nailing technology, vision, people and regulation How do you find people who are suited to this high speed environment? Trust the people and the vision Asking people what frustrates them about the industry Taking the leap from traditional insurance to hyper growth insurtech The impact covid had on embedded solutions How the pandemic accelerated consumer adoption The influx of investment thanks to covid The cultural shift towards a remote structure What makes a good partner?Thank you Adrien for your time, it was great to speak to you!This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.Our host in FinPro Director, Alex Bond Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this podcast Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Presenting: 2021 Incubated Charities (Charity Entrepreneurship), published by Joey on the Effective Altruism Forum. 2021 was the third year that we at Charity Entrepreneurship held our annual Incubation Program. Interest in the program was very high, with over 2000 applications submitted. 27 participants representing 16 countries graduated from the 2-month intensive training program, including teams that will start new organizations, individuals that are being hired by high-impact organizations, regional groups that will conduct research under our mentorship, and a foundation that will focus on providing grants to high-impact interventions. We are delighted to announce the launch of five new charities and want to thank our funders: EA Funds, Open Philanthropy, and the CE Seed Network (a group of high-impact professionals) for their generous donations, which totaled to $537,000 in grants offered to the charities this year. The 2021 incubated charities are: Training For Good - delivering a range of training programs to fill important EA capability gaps and raise the utilization rate of EA talent High Impact Professionals - enabling working professionals to have the biggest positive impact possible Shrimp Welfare Project - improving the lives of hundreds of millions of farmed shrimp in Southeast Asia Healthier Hens - improving the welfare of farmed egg-laying hens via a cost-effective intervention focused on feed fortification Center for Alcohol Policy Solutions - saving lives and promoting well-being through alcohol taxation TRAINING FOR GOOD Co-founders: Cillian Crosson, Jan-Willem van Putten, Steve Thompson Website: trainingforgood.com Contact: contact@trainingforgood.com CE Incubation Grant: $175,000 Description of the intervention: Training for Good (TFG) will upskill people to tackle the most pressing global problems. TFG will deliver a range of training programs to help solve skill bottlenecks in EA cause areas and raise the rate of talent utilization within the EA movement. Background of the intervention: Talent utilization: There are over 6,000 committed EAs, the majority of whom want to pursue impactful careers. Yet many are struggling to find concrete opportunities to implement EA in their lives. TFG aims to raise the rate of talent utilization within the EA movement by creating training programs that enable large numbers of people to enter impactful careers. Skill bottlenecks: Funding for many EA cause areas has grown faster than the number of people interested in them. This has led to a “funding overhang” and an increase in certain skill bottlenecks. TFG aims to solve these skill bottlenecks in EA cause areas by developing targeted programs that fill current skill gaps and advance the capabilities needed to deploy funds effectively in the future. Near-term plans: TFG intends to experiment with different approaches to training before choosing where to narrow their focus. They will pilot the following four training programs within year one: Salary Negotiation for Earning-to-Givers: In November 2021, TFG is launching a training program to help E2Gers maximize their donation potential. If you are interested in participating, please complete this application form by midnight on 7th November. Effective Careers in the Civil Service: In January 2022, TFG will launch a training program for aspiring policymakers. If you are a current or aspiring policymaker within Europe (including UK and other non-EU countries), please complete this needs survey to help us identify the most important skill gaps. EA for Experienced Professionals: Around May 2022, TFG will host a week-long retreat, training corporate executives with 10+ years experience in basic EA concepts and connecting them to the EA movement to fill management skill gaps in key EA organizations. Grantmaking for Im...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: List of EA-related organisations, published by JamieGittins on the Effective Altruism Forum. Write a Review Update: After some suggestions in the comments I made a wiki, which anyone can add to. Hopefully this will enable us to keep the list up to date. I've constantly been discovering new, exciting organisations in the years since I got involved in EA. Recently, I came across WANBAM (Women and Non-Binary Altruism Mentors) and wished that I'd known about it sooner, so I could've started recommending it to people who I thought would be interested. It then occurred to me that people probably have similar experiences all the time in EA. I couldn't find a comprehensive list of EA-related organisations that already existed, so I decided to make one. By collecting as many EA-related organisations as I can into one place, I hope I can help some people to discover some exciting orgs that they wouldn't have otherwise! What this is: A list of organisations that are aligned with some of EA's key principles. The organisations I have included tend to meet a least one of these criteria: Have explicitly aligned themselves with EA Are currently recommended by GiveWell or Animal Charity Evaluators Were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship Have engaged with the EA community (e.g. by posting on the EA Forum or attending EA Global) What this is not: A comprehensive list of every organisation which should be considered ‘EA-aligned'. I don't think this is a useful or even possible distinction to make, since many organisations lie on a continuum of commitment to EA values. As is obvious from scrolling the 80,000 Hours job board, there are many thousands of organisations out there which do effective work in EA cause areas. I have not included EA projects which don't hire staff, or which are national/local EA groups (some of which hire paid staff) to keep the list more straightforward. Despite my best efforts, I imagine I've accidentally left off some organisations which should be on here (or potentially added some which shouldn't be), so I welcome any comments with suggestions of changes! Infrastructure 80,000 Hours – Does research into how people can have greater impact with their careers. Also maintains a high impact jobs board and produces a podcast. Animal Advocacy Careers – Seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement, by providing career services and advice. Incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship. Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) – Evaluates and recommends the most effective animal charities. Ayuda Efectiva - Promotes effective giving in Spain. Their Global Health Fund routes donations to a selection of GiveWell's recommended charities, providing tax deductibility for Spanish donors. They plan to launch similar funds for other cause areas in the near future. Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) – Helps to grow and support the EA community. Charity Entrepreneurship – Does research into the most effective interventions and incubates charities to implement these interventions. Doebem - A Brazilian-based donation platform which recommends effective charities according to EA principles. Donational - A donation platform which recommends effective charities to users, and helps them to pledge and allocate a proportion of their income to those charities. Effective Altruism Foundation (EAF) – Implements projects aimed at doing the most good in terms of reducing suffering. Once initiated, projects are carried forward by EAF with differing degrees of independence and in some cases become autonomous organisations. Projects have included Raising for Effective Giving (REG) and the Centre on Long-Term Risk (CLR). Effective Giving UK/Netherlands – Helps major donors to find and fund the most promising solutions to the world's m...
Men invented religion. we all know why. Women go along with it. That's a head scratcher. Men are what men are. We need what women have. We want what we can't have. We take it by force in the name of the holy Virgin. Gods mom-you understand? She is a woman so it's all good! Gods mom. She's on board, sanctioned the whole endeavor. She even appears to the poor on tortillas and bread. She's a holy one this mother of god. She was a Virgin. Until god got his hands on her. Gods always wants a Virgin. Sound familiar? So wait god Impregnated his own mom? Wow deeper than I thOught! Jesus is god and a Virgin is his mom and god is the dad and it's all a twisted mess. But men wrote the Bible and men created the regulations. We enforce rules and we We regurgitate regulations. Also regret. We throw up and spit out what we don't understand. Like robots or zombies we bow down to men with ignorance. O holy man create my existence! O holy leader create my demise. We need to operate on the American mind. The American psyche. A scalpel. A knife. Some bullets. Some guns. Cut slowly. Watch the blood drip. Cut some pieces off here and/or there. A little blood is ok. Means you're alive and breathing. Snip some neurons. Snipe some morons. Floating in the nothing. Incubated and secure.
Have you ever been told by a medical professional that you and your baby are an example of 'Failure to Thrive'? If you have, this episode is for you and how you can overcome hearing that awful terminology. We chat to the lovely, charming, strong and hilarious Georgia. Georgia is a mumma to the cutest baby boy Elijah who is 18 months old and is a Psychologist, back at work part time. Georgia also has some other babies, incubated baby chickens, making her a new mum of five. Georgia let us in on a little parenting hack, 'Primary Parenting' days, aka 'PP' days, but you will have to listen to find out what that is! She also touches on fussy eating and has a solids smoothie tip. This episode is brought to you with the help of our Sponsor, Night N Day Comfort, who are proud supporters of the Pumped Podcast. Remember to use PUMPED10 at the checkout for a special discount.Go to our website: www.pumpedpoddy.com for more information about us and don't forget to throw us a like on Facebook and a follow on our Instagram: @pumpedpoddyByeeeeeee x
The number of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects has exploded since Kubernetes came onboard, setting the stage for hundreds of tools and platforms that have achieved the various CNCF project maturity milestones of Sandbox, Incubated or Graduated.With the profound influence the adoption of the projects have had on cloud native notwithstanding, it can be easy to sometimes overlook the monumental effort involved in every project by their contributors. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, we look at two CNCF projects that have gone from sandbox to incubation: Crossplane, a Kubernetes add-on for infrastructure assembly and OpenTelemetry, which supports a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for observability.The podcast featured guests involved with the projects including Dan Mangum, senior software engineer, for cloud platform provider Upbound (Crossplane), Constance Caramanolis, principal software engineer, data platform provider Splunk, and on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and Ted Young, director of developer education, observability platform provider Lightstep and an OpenTelemetry co-founder who is also on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosted this podcast.
We take a look at The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad. There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness. Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas—what he calls “idea pathogens”—that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms—including freedom of thought and speech. Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Check out my book
Beta Finance is building a permissionless protocol for people to easily short overheated tokens. Incubated by Alpha and Binance Launchpad, Beta recently garnered a lot of attention by allowing users to short NFD, a fractionalized NFT of a doge painting. I'm joined by founder Allen (@handle) to talk about The importance of shorting in DeFi How Beta works vs. Rari Fuse, Sushi's Kashi and other protocols Miner-extractable value in shorting onchain Host: mrjasonchoi. Not financial advice. Disclaimer: Spartan Capital is an investor in Beta Finance and holds Beta tokens. ------------ Sponsors ------------- PARASWAP is the best place to trade your tokens and get the best price in DeFi today. Get started on paraswap.io/blockcrunch NOTIONAL: Borrow & lend at fixed rates for up to 1 year, or contribute liquidity to earn interest, fees, & NOTE token incentives with notional.finance HEDERA HASHGRAPH: Fund your project quickly and easily with the HBAR Foundation. Apply for a grant and be put on the fast track to success at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply ------------ Disclosures ------------- Disclaimer: Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, a subsidiary of The Spartan Group. All opinions expressed by Jason and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of The Spartan Group and any of its subsidiaries
How prepared is the mobile device ecosystem for the 5G technology, which is expected to be rolled out by next year? Will we again see the stutters that we had seen at the time of 4G? Will the prices come down in the sub-Rs 10,000 handset segment? When will India's semiconductor chip shortage end? And is India ready to have its own fab ecosystem? Qualcomm VP and President for India and SAARC, Rajen Vagadia, answered all these questions in an exclusive interview with Business Standard's Surajeet Das Gupta. Highlights of the Q&A: How prepared is the mobile device ecosystem for 5G technology? • Two advantages this time: Aggressive trials, enough time to build ecosystem • Despite pandemic, first 5G device launched in India in March last year • Even before commercial 5G rollout, there will be healthy 5G ecosystem Do you see prices coming down in the sub-Rs 10,000 handset segment? • OEMs to decide how to bring the prices down • We have made affordable platforms available to them • Such price points coming about soon not unthinkable What's your plan to support the startups in your space? • Role far greater than investing in startups • We provide them access to engineering, labs How many Indian startups have you invested in? • Incubated 77, not invested in all of them • Invested in over 20 companies in India • The number keeps changing as we exit some By when do you think the chip shortage facing India will be over? • Shortage because of sudden demand surge after pandemic • Demand-supply situation to improve somewhat by early 2022 • Some industries like automobile may be plagued for longer Is India prepared to have its own semiconductor fab ecosystem? • Yes and No. Opportunities are huge • Fab is not just one activity – there's a lot before and after fab • A lot of stringent infrastructure requirement needs to be met
Join Ibrahim in another exciting episode as he interviews the guys behind a new Qur'an app that uses AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning to help you with your Qur'an recitation! About Tarteel: Tarteel is a novel Quran application that leverages the latest technology in artificial intelligence to perform speech recognition and analyze Quran recitations. Incubated at MIT and built by technology veterans from Silicon Valley companies - Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon. Our mission is to provide you with the tooling to better understand and memorize the Quran through beautiful interfaces and experiences.The Tarteel team, guided by the principles of Islam and the love of the Quran, works with sincerity, transparency, and proficiency to serve the Muslim ummah and strengthen their faith with Allah - SWT - and His beautiful words. --------
Jeremy Au (区汉辉) is a VC at Monk's Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV's key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy hosts BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech, a global top 10% podcast interviewing trailblazing founders, investors, and rising stars. His mission is to inspire thousands to build the future, learn from our past, and stay human in between. He is an angel investor in over twenty startups across the USA and Southeast Asia. Jeremy co-founded CozyKin, an early education marketplace. He led the startup as CEO from 0 to Series A and acquisition by Higher Ground Education. Won Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition and the MassChallenge grand prize. Incubated by Harvard Innovation Lab's VIP Program and MIT Sandbox. Jeremy co-founded Conjunct Consulting, an impact consulting platform, and bootstrapped the social enterprise to profitability, with over a hundred clients and thousands of trained impact leaders. He consulted across multiple Southeast Asia markets and China as a Bain management consultant. He also served as an infantry sergeant in Singapore. Jeremy is a public speaker and panelist on entrepreneurship, leadership, and community engagement. He has spoken for thousands across Harvard, Deutsche Bank, Singapore Global Tech Network, Boston SPARK Council, Institute of Policy Studies, Civil Service College, and many others. Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and Prestige 40 Under 40. MBA from Harvard Business School and double honor degrees in Economics & Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Jeremy enjoys science fiction, improv, hiking, tea, and being a dad with his family. He enjoys hearing from authentic founders, receiving podcast guest recommendations and new speaking opportunities. Follow Jeremy on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. Read more about Monk's Hill Ventures here https://www.monkshill.com/ and connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyau/ If you enjoyed this podcast, would you consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts here? It takes less than 30 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince new amazing guests to come on the show, and on top of that, I love reading the reviews! Connect with Andrew: Email: hello@andrewsenduk.com Website: https://andrewsenduk.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.senduk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-senduk-1980/
Dr M Dayananda Meitei Self-driven and motivated Medical Doctor turns Entrepreneur started building Health care company from a hostel room with a mission to be a leading health Technology industry in India. A seeker of Knowledge, A visionary, Passionate and motivated leader, motivational speaker, Motto : Explore, applied and inspire . Current Job Profile: MD/Founder, Medilane Helthtech Current Position: MD/Founder, Medilane Helthtech & Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd Personal Life: Born: 02nd February 1991, Heirok Part 2, mayai Leikai , Thoubal, Manipur Parents: M Mangol Meetei and M Mala Leima Spouse: Dr Pinkey (Married on 4th Nov19) Sibling: Three sisters Education: Matric ( Class 10th ) : Slopeland Public School Class 12th : Mem Hr Sec School Bachelor's degree: MBBS from Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal 2012-2017 Professional Journey: Started Medilane in the year 2014 during 2nd yrs of MBBS from 2 staffs to 120 staffs at present . Awards and nominations: • 1st prize in ELEVATE IIT Madras 2020 • 1st prize in UDGAM & IIT Guwahati , 2019 • 1st prize for Idea contest in MANFET 2017 • Incubated in IIM Kolkata • 3rd Prize for ASSOCHAM Start-up launch paid 2021
When you need the motivation to kickstart your venture and drive home some productivity, what's better than having an expert's advice on meeting productivity goals? The Department of Higher Education, Haryana, and SACC India are on their mission to empower startups in the state and we constantly share insights that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Mohammad Shahid of Myiaar Handicraft, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
In this special episode, Jeremy takes on questions from listeners on Compatibility, Role Negotiations & Minimum Viable Relationship. Jeremy Au (区汉辉) is a VC at Monk's Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV's key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy hosts the BRAVE podcast and interviews trailblazing founders, investors and rising stars in Southeast Asia tech. His mission is to inspire thousands to build the future, learn from our past and stay human in between. He is also an angel investor in multiple startups across USA and Southeast Asia. Jeremy cofounded CozyKin, an early education marketplace. He led the startup as CEO from 0 to Series A to acquisition by Higher Ground Education. Won Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition and the MassChallenge grand prize. Incubated by Harvard Innovation Lab's VIP Program and MIT Sandbox. Jeremy cofounded Conjunct Consulting, an impact consulting platform, and bootstrapped the social enterprise to profitability, over a hundred clients and thousands of trained impact leaders. He consulted across multiple Southeast Asia markets and China as a Bain management consultant. He also served as an infantry sergeant in Singapore. Jeremy is a public speaker and panelist on entrepreneurship, leadership and community engagement. He has spoken for thousands across Harvard, Deutsche Bank, Singapore Global Tech Network, Boston SPARK Council, Institute of Policy Studies, Civil Service College and many others. Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and Prestige 40 Under 40. MBA from Harvard Business School and double honor degrees in Economics & Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Jeremy enjoys science fiction, improv, hiking, tea and being a dad with his family. He enjoys hearing from authentic founders, receiving podcast guest recommendations and new speaking opportunities. Follow Jeremy on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/listener-questions-1 You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/listener-questions-1 This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.
AllianceBlock is building the first globally compliant decentralized capital market. The AllianceBlock Protocol is a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 that automates the process of converting any digital or crypto asset into a bankable product. Incubated by three of Europe's most prestigious incubators: Station F, L39, and Kickstart Innovation in Zurich. It is led by a heavily experienced team of ex-JP Morgan, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs investment bankers, and quants, AllianceBlock is on the path to disrupt the $100 trillion securities market with its state-of-the-art and globally compliant decentralized capital market. The first globally compliant decentralized capital market, recently announced that it secured funding under the $100M accelerator fund set up to boost the Binance Smart Chain ecosystem, the latest in a series of announcements made in the past week. It's been a huge few weeks for the DeFi powerhouse, which continues to cement its position within the burgeoning DeFi industry. Rachid Ajaja, CEO and Co-founder of AllianceBlock, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily podcast to share his grand vision for AllianceBlock.
Jeremy Au is a VC at Monk's Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV's key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy is also the host of the BRAVE podcast who interviews trailblazing founders, investors and rising stars in Southeast Asia tech. His mission is to inspire thousands to build the future, learn from our past and stay human in between. He is an angel investor in multiple startups across the USA and Southeast AsiaJeremy co-founded CozyKin, an early education marketplace. He led the startup as CEO from 0 to Series A to acquisition by Higher Ground Education. Won Harvard Business School's New Venture Competition and the MassChallenge grand prize. Incubated by Harvard Innovation Lab's VIP Program and MIT Sandbox.Jeremy co-founded Conjunct Consulting, an impact consulting platform, to deliver over 285 engagements and train thousands of new leaders. He bootstrapped the social enterprise to profitability and handed off to his handpicked successor where it thrives to this day. He also consulted across multiple Southeast Asia markets and China as a Bain management consultant. He also served as an infantry sergeant in Singapore.Jeremy is a public speaker and panellist on entrepreneurship, leadership and community engagement. He has spoken for thousands across Harvard, Deutsche Bank, Singapore Global Tech Network, Boston SPARK Council, Institute of Policy Studies, Civil Service College and many others. Recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and Prestige 40 Under 40. MBA from Harvard Business School and double honour degrees in Economics & Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Jeremy enjoys science fiction, improv, hiking, tea and being a dad with his family. He enjoys hearing from authentic founders, receiving podcast guest recommendations and new speaking opportunities.Key Takeaways3 phases of fundraising - how to prepare your startup for fundraising, organising your fundraising process, and growing your startup with the funds raisedWhy the ability to learn quickly, making good decisions consistently, and emotional self regulation are the must have leadership skills for a startup founderWhy every founder must have the self awareness to grieve when they exit their startup before deciding on the next challengeHow you can deal with a startup failure and why it's like losing a loved oneHow startups can use capital advantage as an economic moatHow as human beings we learn linearly and startups are expected to grow exponentially, and why this makes building startups really hardWays Jeremy gives back to the startup community
It has been rightly said that nothing teaches you like a startup does. Here are two young founders who share their journey of establishing a digital marketing agency of their own right from the scratch. The Department of Higher Education, Haryana and SACC India have empowered hundreds of bright minds by helping them with all kinds of resources required to incubate a successful startup, and DigiCell happens to be one of those. Listen to Aashish and Mayank talk about everything right from their ideas and struggles to experiences and learnings along the way. Do you want to be a founder one day? The takeaways from Aashish and Mayank's journey will definitely come handy!
When you need to meet your startup business goals, what can be better than having an expert's advice on meeting productivity goals for a freshly established brand. The Department of Higher Education, Haryana, and SACC India on their mission to empower startup building in the state are constantly sharing insights and information that can help nurture startups. Here we bring you another powerful resource, a podcast interview with Gaurav, founder of Mechanic Guru, a successful startup incubated with the help of SACC experts.
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana, in associated with SACC India has always helped students to take their business ideas forward in order to create potential startups creating opportunities for all and adding to the wealth in the state. This time, we bring you an interesting and insightful podcast session with one of our successfully established startup “Tasveergraphy” that will help other would-be entrepreneurs to learn key skills and essential guidance on startup building. If you too have a passion to lead an entrepreneurial life and be the change society need, make sure you don't miss episode 14 of our podcast series.
The Department of Higher Education, Haryana in association with SACC India is giving its best to put forth the exceptional business talent by encouraging and supporting progressive youth on founding startups. Here is an interview with Mohit, founder of Park Exo who made the best use of advice and support from Startup Incubator of DOHE in leading his startup business, saving time and adding convenience to life.
DeFi has been the big success story in crypto this year but what does the future of finance actually look like and how do we get there? Building a bridge between traditional and decentralized finance and seeking to unlock trillions of dollars in capital is AllianceBlock, an organization which is building the world’s first globally compliant, decentralized capital market. Backed by three of Europe’s most prestigious incubators: Station F, L39, and Kickstart Innovation in Zurich, AllianceBlock is led by a heavily experienced team of ex-JP Morgan, Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Goldman Sachs investment bankers and quants. Rachid Ajaja is co-founder and CEO of AllianceBlock. With a decade of experience in investment banking, Rachid worked as a Quantitative Analyst in leading investment banks Barclays and BNP Paribas. He has a degree in Computer Science and Signal Processing from IMT Atlantique, and a Master’s degree in Probability Theory, Stochastic Process, and Quantitative Finance from Université Paris Diderot. AllianceBlock is building the first globally compliant decentralized capital market. The AllianceBlock Protocol is a decentralised, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 that automates the process of converting any digital or crypto asset into a bankable product. Incubated by three of Europe’s most prestigious incubators: Station F, L39, and Kickstart Innovation in Zurich, and led by a heavily experienced team of ex-JP Morgan, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs investment bankers, and quants, AllianceBlock is on the path to disrupt the $100 trillion securities market with its state-of-the-art and globally compliant decentralized capital market.
There’s a war against truth and if we don’t win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness. Dr. Gad Saad exposes the bad ideas—what he calls “idea pathogens”—that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms—including freedom of thought and speech. The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful weapons to fight back with—if we have the courage to use them. A provocative guide to defending reason and intellectual freedom and a battle cry for the preservation of our fundamental rights, The Parasitic Mind will be the most controversial and talked-about book of the year. Shermer and Saad discuss: which idea pathogens are the most dangerous, the analogy between biological and ideological parasites, the origin of political correctness and how it was corrupted, identity politics and how it perpetrates bigotry, racism, and misogyny, the psychology of victimhood status (why would anyone want to be a victim?), virtue signaling and why it isn’t virtuous, why social justice is injustice, social justice warriors as sneaky fuckers, the corruption of postmodernism, which began as a form of rational skepticism, Islamophobia, diversity, inclusion and equity, safe spaces, microaggressions, trigger warnings, What is liberalism, anyway? the paradox of tolerance, the dual search for freedom and truth, free speech as the foundation of all other rights, Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome, Collective Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, nomological networks of cumulative evidence in the quest for truth, and how big a problem are we really facing? Gad Saad, Ph.D. (Montreal, Canada), host of the popular YouTube show The Saad Truth and blogger for Psychology Today, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption and is the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, plus numerous scientific papers.
Taking a leap of faith and pivot into a new ground can be scary, but it is what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Welcome back to the Micro Empires Podcast! I'm your host, Jennifer Ives Grimson. In this episode, I interview one of the most inspiring native Nashvillian entrepreneurs with a huge heart for the community, Joshua Mundy. His passion and visionary skill set have developed him into a serial entrepreneur with the ability to think of many incredible ideas and quickly take action to set a goal to meet the needs of the community. Let's dive right in as we talk about how he took his leap of faith into the entrepreneurial world and pivot with a fresh foundation. [00:01 - 07:39] Opening Segment I introduced Josh to the show and talk about how we met I share some of Josh's amazing current project Josh tells us about his background and her money culture he grew up in Grew up in a rather poor family Hustling to make money since he was in a very small age Savings mindset The late encounter of investment and stock exchange [07:40 - 14:29] Coachable Mentality Josh talks about his early entrepreneurial mindset Risk-taker mentality The eager to create something out of nothing The lack of Mentorship Learned everything the hard way Josh talks about the importance of gaining and sharing knowledge as fast as possible Especially in the African-American community Learn from others mistakes Having the Coachable Mentality Learn to be coachable Even though it is your risk to take The solution to helping you move forward Josh talks about the Park Center company where we were working for A place that helps the individual with mental illness get skills to get employment Starting his own Janitorial company while working for someone else [14:30 - 28:39] Stepping out on faith Josh talks about him stepping out on faith He talks about a sermon he got about Peter walking on water He took the pivotal moment to focus on entrepreneurial Been 17 years working for himself Sold his Janitorial company at 24 and starting a coffee shop Facing a huge mess Open for 45 days only Lost a huge amount of money Spending 2 years to recover Trying to create several companies and failing several times Landscape company Maintenance business company Buying some property Josh shares the story about signing a lease when he doesn't have any money Starting a dry cleaner company in the middle of the recession Grew his business Struggle in the first 5 years Expanding his reach [28:40 - 49:31] Planting the seed in the community Create an organization called “The inner Circle” An entrepreneurial community to share information Fighting against the struggling mentality in the community Joining an entrepreneurship center Open The Lab Nashville in 2017 A creative co-working space Incubated some of the best company Occupied the whole building with 3 different companies Josh talks about the Leadership Connect he was a part of Meeting once a week to talk about different issues The lack of diversity in the tech field Getting the African-American community out of the ‘affordable box' Went to Austin to learn about the infrastructure Quick shoutout to my Podcast Producers: Streamlined Podcasts Use promo code: jives and get a discount Revelation to start a Tech School in 2019 The Philosophy of “I Just Go” Approached by Juan Clark to mow his brand called ‘hood geek' Came out with a name “Pivot Tech School” Start to recruit people and instructors Helping people to get opportunities by training them with skill sets Investment in the education sponsorship Engage with your investment and follow it Mentoring program from the sponsor Setting people up for success [49:32 - 01:11:41] Pivoting to a Fresh Foundation Josh shares the story when the building got hit by a tornado on March Watching the building got ripped off Losing 3 income streams in a second Dealing with the shock Building a company from a fresh foundation Revelation to pivot Spent a month to process the loss Starting in the fresh foundation Got prepared for COVID19 Pivoted to the virtual classroom Start the virtual classroom Expanded the growth model Opening the door for everyone Josh shares the story about Deandra, a girl who got the scholarship She did not have the money for a deposit Diandra used her talent to fund her pivot and create her way The goal to get a thousand minorities to get six figures in 3 years What is the one thing that you would need to be a successful entrepreneur? Be willing to take a risk and to fail Develop a tough skin Be willing to bet on your self Innovation is created in the pressure Have the mindset of winning [01:11:42 - 01:13:08] Closing Segment How to get more from Joshua? See links below Final words Tweetable Quotes: “Public opinion around failure is what paralyzes people from taking that leap into entrepreneurship.” - Joshua Mundy “You can really achieve what you put your mind into.” - Joshua Mundy “ If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be willing to take a risk and to fail.” - Joshua Mundy “You have to conquer your fear of failing because innovation is only created in the pressure.” - Joshua Mundy Resources Mentioned: https://www.pivottechschool.com/ Streamlined Podcasts If you'd like to connect with Josh you can find him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Learn more about Joshua and his project on his website at https://www.joshuamundy.com/. You can connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. I'm excited to know more about you. Also, feel free to shoot me an email at jennifer@micro-empires.com.You can call or text 213-973-7206. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode or click here to listen to our previous episodes. This podcast is about YOU. We all have a story; whether your story is a lot like mine or totally different. Maybe you have a good job, but you know in your heart that you want more. Let's Work Together Subscribe to download my FREE eBook, "3 Steps to Pivot and Thrive: Using Micro-Risks to Build Your Micro Empire." Click https://micro-empires.com/coaching and I'll see you there!
Ian Watt is the Chief Product Officer at Tellimer, a Fintech platform for emerging markets investment research, data, and news. today he's talking about his role in building a new business out of another organisation, and how he created a new culture as well as a new tech stack. Also on the show, where is the worst city in the UK for internet outages? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/13/bristol-is-worst-uk-city-for-broadband-outages-with-169-hours-a-year
We're more than halfway through 2020 and thus far, it's thrown almost everyone into unforeseen setbacks and challenges. Many people have already experienced (or are starting to sense) the warning signs of burnout, however, Coco & Breezy are determined to come out of this quarantine stronger ever! In this episode, the dynamic duo shared their stories of how they've built long-term success over the past 10 years and the positive repercussions they've experienced from maintaining incubated intentionality on a day-to-day basis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
According to US Naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, the United States achieved dominance and “victory” over the “high seas” on Earth by enabling and protecting global commercial shipping. Through a strong Navy, a civilian Merchant Marine, and control of strategic geography including coaling stations, island possessions, choke points, and great works such as the Panama Canal, the American shipping domain included all of the “blue waters” of the world's oceans.
This episode featrues Michael Loeb, Founder of Priceline.com, Synapse, and Dozens of other successful companies he incubated at Loeb Enterprises. Here we discuss the role serial entrepreneurs are having in shaping how Family Offices are managed. It's a fascinating conversation with one of the most prolific and successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century. A must listen for anybody who wants to get inside the mind of a serial entrepreneur.
This piece is part 5 of a series. Now it’s time to put it all together. We capture stuff. This comes in through a variety of places: notebooks, email, social media, the reminders app, the notes app etc. It’s worth mapping all of your stuff traps. We take the stuff and translate it into something meaningful. We place those meaningful things into the bucket that makes the most sense. Actions go into the calendar or a list. Incubated items come back to us via a calendar, an email to our future self or a tickler file. (A few items go to trash). We review our calendars and lists as regularly as we need to, as the place from which we choose the next action to execute. We keep the whole system up to date so that we can trust it. It is more trustworthy than relying on our brains but we need to go all in for our brains to be truly freed of the task. There are a few things that I skimmed over and wanted to dig into before I finish off this series. Below I cover reference material and tomorrow you’ll hear about higher horizon thinking and review. Reference material I mentioned in passing that some stuff will end up as reference material. There are many thoughts on this topic but I will only talk to how I do it. If you don’t think this will work for you, find your own path. For physical items If I have something to file away, I think to myself, “what would I look under if I was searching for this?” A statement from NAB is filed under BANK — NAB. A physio receipt goes under HEALTH — PHYSIO. Spare business model canvas print offs are filed under BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS. All of these headings are just dymo labels on a manila folder arranged in alphabetical order. Even if something is a little ambiguous, I’ll still find it. If I’m looking for car registration, I might try RACQ or BARINA but I’ll eventually find it under CAR. The average person doesn’t have that many physical things any more. One day I’ll start scanning them all. One day. For digital items It’s a mess. But it’s a searchable mess. That’s the best I can manage for now.
The Open Policy Agent (OPA) was accepted for incubation by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/04/02/toc-votes-to-move-opa-into-cncf-incubator/). In this chat we spoke with one of the founders of the project Torin Sandall about OPA and why the CNCF is the right place for OPA. We also discuss the company he works for Styra, that works with OPA.
Inspired by his mother’s aloe remedies, Ken Park – Founder/CEO of Detox Water, created a deliciously flavored aloe infused water that is now surging in popularity across the nation. Incubated in his Babson College dorm, Ken started his journey by first private labeling a popular Asian aloe drink. With an appealing name, and striking packaging, Ken’s product caught on and started to move by the pallet. This episode of Just a Taste explores the roots of Detox Water, the potential health benefits of ingesting aloe, and insightful anecdotes and advice on being a successful entrepreneur.
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Incubated in the Tri-Cities, S&S Firepits is a national brand in the fire pits industry. Co-founder Andy stiver tells his story of living and working throughout the Tri-Cities and the development of S&S Firepits in Hapeville. Insider Insights is specifically for business owners and investors seeking opportunities in the Tri-Cities region surrounding Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. This podcast is the qualitative story of business owners, civic leaders, educators and property owners.
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ABOUT THE GUEST Victor Santos is the co-founder and CEO of Airfox. A graduate from UC Berkeley Victor currently lives in Boston and is originally from Brazil. AirFox’s vision is to make the mobile internet more affordable and accessible. Founded by ex-Googlers, AirFox quickly established itself as the leader in affordable data plans for prepaid wireless carriers. Incubated at Harvard’s Innovation Launch Lab, AirFox is a TechStars Boston alumni and is venture backed by Project 11, Launch Capital, and NXT Ventures, among others. DESCRIPTION We talk to Victor Santos, CEO and Co-founder of Airfox. Airfox has been in existence for a long time in the crypto world with the vision of unlocking mobile access to emerging market. Airfox started off by providing wireless care in USA in the form of sponsored internet and moved on to build an app based on blockchain technology. The browser application is designed for low end Android phones which save data while browsing. Every user using airfox browser is rewarded with airtokens which can be redeemed later. Know more about Airfox and Airtokens on this episode of CryptoKnights! LINKS Newsletter : www.airtoken.com Website: http://www.airfox.io/ To invest : www.whitelist.airtoken.com Victor Santos : www.linkedin.com/in/victordossantos Twitter : www.twitter.com/airtoken Whitepaper: https://www.airtoken.com/paper/AirFoxICO_WhitePaper_v3.0.pdf
We take a shallow dive into deep topics. This week the guys tackle the massive world of fast food. What is the perfect fast food meal? Who has the best drive through? How do you incubate string cheese while doing 70mph in an 18 wheeler in rush hour? Find out on this weeks episode of The ShufflePod!
Today we have another great bonus episode featuring Glenn Winokur, Senior Advisor to Healthbox. Before Glenn came on board with Healthbox, he was Co-founder and CEO of Syapse, a company which he Incubated from an idea in a Stanford class to a market leading venture funded start-up that provides a precision medicine data platform enabling healthcare providers to use molecular profiling to diagnose and treat patients. Under Glenn’s leadership over an 8 year period, Syapse raised over $40m in venture funding. Prior to Syapse, Glenn was the CEO of Scalix and Chief Operating Officer of NetIQ, respectively. In addition to Healthbox, Glenn is an advisor to the University of Illinois, Stanford University, and UCSF. And with all this experience, Glenn has become an angel investor with investments including Puppet Labs, Cloud Sherpas (now part of Accenture), SchoolMessenger (now part of West Corp), Syapse, and Panthenon. In today’s episode we cover: Glenn’s background and role with Healthbox The story behind Glenn’s first investment and how did he arrived at the financial position to do so What draws Glenn to investing in Healthcare and why The key things Glenn wants to see if a company that he invests in How important Glenn’s background scaling companies and acting as CEO has been in his investing strategy What Glenn thinks entrepreneurs should consider about when raising from angels Connect with Glenn: LinkedIn Twitter Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to this episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn
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John Auckland is the founder and CEO of Tribefirst, a published author, and a Virgin StartUp Ambassador. He's an expert on all things crowdfunding, and with the increasing interest in this area for businesses, I couldn't wait to get him on the podcast and chat further! In their very own words "TribeFirst helps you build a loyal tribe of customers through crowdfunding, via recognised global platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Crowdcube and Seedrs.". Crowdfunding is a seriously hot topic amongst startups and established businesses alike, and there were plenty of questions I had for John (as well as few from listeners!) to go cover in our discussion. Interested in running your own crowdfunding campaign, or perhaps investing? Then you need to give this one a listen :) In this episode we discuss: What is crowdfunding 'political campaign' vs 'marketing campaign' What are the different types of crowdfunding Which type of crowdfunding is suitable for your business What are some of the platforms you can use for your campaign The ups and downs of in investing in crowdfunding campaigns The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme What control do crowdfunding investors have over your company Overfunding and underfunding The do's and don'ts of running your own campaign The importance of company valuation And as always, plenty more!! Want to find out more about John and TribeFirst? Check out the details below: TribeFirst Website TribeFirst Twitter John Auckland Twitter Useful Links from the podcast: Crowdcube Seedrs Indiegogo Kickstarter UK Crowdfunding Association Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme Crowdfunding for Filmmakers by John T. Trigonis
Elliot Leung from Gaifong in Hong Kong shares his insights in how he consistently gets a ton of media exposure as a small startup. Incubated in Hong Kong-based Cyberport, he shares the advantages and disadvantages of being incubated there. These and other insights in the new GrowthKungFu podcast!
More and more Africans in China are sharing their experiences with the outside world on their own terms. Blogs, videos, songs, etc. are springing up all over the internet to give testimony to their experiences. We are fortunate to have on the pod Shubila Ruth Kikoko, who is pursing a PhD Strategic and Risk Management at Wuhan University of Technology whose memoir "Incubated in China" will be released in August of 2016. This book chronicles her journey from Tanzania to China and will be an incredible resource for anyone that is researching African students in China.
incubate - to develop, to grow, to take form. incubator - apparatus that provides a controlled environment of protection that something immature can be encouraged to develop, to take form. Mar 11:23 KJV] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Liza Minnelli is downing red wine in her tour bus. The stagehands all together look like a Judas Priest cover band. Coney Island is a Ferris Wheel slowing to a stop. Andy Warhol! Incubated babies! Lawsuits! Lions in flames! It all comes together at a Liza concert in 2005. (Non-fiction)
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