Podcasts about making it real

Each day of the Omer has its own unique personality and lessons for personal growth. Let's journey together from now until Shavuos, trying to make the most of this amazing period.omer #sefira #countthedaysandmakethemcount #jew #jewish #torah #torahfortoughtimes #rabbiroodyn #bringthemhome #rabbi #torahanytime #Judaism #Israel #shiur #responsetotragictimes

This week the SOL Citizens are joined by AngryPCTech and Victura who produce real world collectible assets inspired from the Star Citizen universe. Featuring: GriffinGamingRPG and Nomad1701 Video: "The NASA Scientist Who Invented the Super Soaker" by Great Big Story YouTube: https://youtu.be/SYq6aKLuSk0?si=E9otHi-LW7DsFcLL Merchandise: Streamlabs Store: https://streamlabs.com/solcitizens/merch Design by Humans: https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/SOLCitizens/ SOL CITIZENS are supporters and backers covering the development of Cloud Imperium Games upcoming games "STAR CITIZEN" and "SQUADRON 42". Patreon: patreon/solcitizens Twitch: twitch.tv/solcitizens Twitter: twitter.com/solcitizens

The first step in doing anything great is to get started. When it comes to opening a business, forming an llc is a great place to start. On this week's re-released episode of An Hour Early Podcast, Aaron walks us through the process of opening an llc and gives practical advice to help turn the dreamer into a doer.  Want to book Aaron to speak at your organization? Be sure to reach out at anhourearlyllc.com

The massively prolific John Romero made 86 games before the hit Castle Wolfenstein and follow-ups DOOM and Quake. Now working on a new shooter in Unreal, he speaks to us about work ethics, culture shocks and starting over, this week on The Fourth Curtain!Thank you for listening to our podcast all about videogames and the amazing people who bring them to life!Hosted by Alexander Seropian and Aaron MarroquinFind us at www.thefourthcurtain.comCome join the conversation at https://discord.gg/KWeGE4xHfeVideos available at https://www.youtube.com/@thefourthcurtainFollow us on twitter: @fourthcurtainFeaturing the music track Liberation by 505Please consider supporting the show by pre-registering for our Season Two Kickstarter at www.thefourthcurtain.com/kickstarter

In this episode Elizabeth Adams speaks with Ella Mesma, Dancer and Director of The Ella Mesma Company, an international dance and circus theatre company. Ella shares her journey from studying politics to claiming her hearts desire as a dancer and her place as the founder of her own dance company. Along the way Ella faced into the constant inner dialog of not belonging, the common ageism prejudices as a late comer to the dance industry to the way this journey informs the themes of her company productions.  May listening to this episode inspire you to follow your dreams To book tickets to upcoming events with Ella Mesma visit: https://ellamesma.co.uk To deep dive on the 4 Modes of Relating check out the THRIVE in Connection Immersion at www.maverixmaker.com For free content and more regular updates join the THRIVE community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4099191343684909/

The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.

You're about to hit play on Part 3 of the Business Within Your Business Unemployed & Afraid Mini-Series, and join your host side by side in the creation of an online course - an idea that could work fantastically well for your business too... In this Mini-Series with Squarespace, we're exploring all the questions and tackling the very real challenges along the way, so that YOU feel more empowered in making your own online course real.  The. Work. Has. Started. [eep!] and in this episode I'll be giving you all the dirty details on:  The content creation process of my online course for building a small-business a big branded podcast How I'm approaching pricing  What's challenging [and delaying] me The unexpected pivots since I got started And everything I've learnt so far to help you get through your course build too If you haven't got an idea for your own online course already, by the end of this episode you might just have an idea cooking for your zone of genius.  Hidden inside your business, is another business, ready to be built on everything you learned to get you here. Be one of the first to access my online course on building your business a big podcast at goodsideofthebed.com.au  Check out Squarespace Courses at https://www.squarespace.com/ecommerce/online-courses And don't forget to follow Unemployed & Afraid on IG , Threads and LinkedIn Join our Facebook Group And show your support for this independent podcast and small business by shouting your host a cuppa at buymeacoffee.com/unemployedpod   You can reach your host on email kim@unemployedandafraid.com.au on IG on LinkedIn or via unemployedandafraid.com.auSupport the show by shouting me a cuppa (or 2): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unemployedpodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's Devotional "Your Faith is Making it Real" Joshua 1:1-5 lmjministries.org Join us for coffee, conversation and community. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justbeinglmj/support

Lots of people get stuck on the big idea, whether it's for a new business or a next step at work. It's easy to believe that what separates the successes from the failures is that moment of inspiration. But the reality is that the answer often lies much more in execution. In hard work. It's that cheesy but accurate Thomas Edison quote: it's 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Loads of people have good ideas. But they will remain just ideas unless you learn how to execute. How to take that idea from your mind, beyond a powerpoint presentation or a business plan, to something real and functioning. Helping us to explore this topic in this episode, we have someone who has taken their ideas and made them real to great success, not once but twice. Jennie Jonson MBE is the CEO of My First Five Years, the next-generation parenting app designed to combat anxiety and give parents evidence-based tools, knowledge and support. Within a year of founding in 2021, MFFY had raised over £1.5m in seed-funding and is now growing at a fantastic rate.  Prior to My First Five Years, Jennie founded one of the UK's largest nursery groups, Kids Allowed, running it for 17 years before successfully exiting in 2020. She was the first female to win the UK Private Business Awards CEO of the Year and was voted UK's Businesswoman of the Year in 2019.  We took loads away from our conversation with Jennie. Here are the top tips for making it real: Validate your ideas with your personal experience - or someone else's. Sense check: will this work?Check what's already there: is someone else already trying to solve the same problem?If they are, that doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't do it - maybe it's validation of the need. But maybe you should work with not against them.Find your 'brains trust': who's experience and talent can you leverage?Work fast: minimise wasted time and effort by filtering ideas quicklyAccept feedback: Listen to what people are telling you. You don't have to agree with everything you're told but sometimes you need to accept the weight of feedback and make a change or walk awayCan you make it real on your own? Or do you need a co-founder or sponsor?Make it simple: you need to be able to explain your idea very quickly and in a way that people can just 'get' whether it's in a few sentences or a couple of slides (and maybe even just one line)Be resilient: Take feedback, change as needed, but don't be dissuaded if you still believe there is the core of a good idea.What's your measure of success? Set yourself some goals and targets that you can benchmark against.

Watch On YouTube! Due to the teachings being delivered in this series we recommend you click over to our YouTube channel to get the most impact.  AUDIO ONLY BELOW As we go through life, we have many different experiences, circumstances, and results. And we're constantly having thoughts, reactions, and emotions towards those things. When we … Building the Business of Your Dreams Part IV – Visualizing Your Desire and Making it Real Read More » The episode Building the Business of Your Dreams Part IV – Visualizing Your Desire and Making it Real first appeared on The Successful Mind Podcast.

This special smoke episodeI talk to Mr. Tubi, Independent film director and actor Terry ' T.Millions" Mills. We discuss his films "Swap Out", "Recognize" and "Recognized 2". We discuss the process of making a movie and distrubuting the movie. We discuss how he uses his personal experiences to make the movies more real. We talk about how he want to use Porn in Cinema to make the love making more real and add shock value. We tells me his time working with Master P and Katt Williams and more. You can only see the video version of this episode on Spotify Want More Content. Become a Premium Smoker https://anchor.fm/smokethisova/subscribe for 6 Premium Podcasts and Special episodes ($4.99 a month) Sponsored By https://lsswirl.com/ https://eroticismmagazine.com/ https://www.xsitebunny.com/ blusherotica.com/videos Proud Member of The G.W. District Black Podcast Network https://www.shopgwdistrict.com/pages/podcast-network Porn/ Music/ Social Media https://allmylinks.com/pornrapstar Get The Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/s-t-o-merch-store/ Guest: Terry " T. Millions" Mills https://www.instagram.com/tmillions69/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smokethisova/message

Rabbi Efraim Stauber speaks about how a real relationship with Hashem will help us stay strong when faced with challenges in Shmiras Einayim and other areas.Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@gyeSubscribe to our Podcast→ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3HOEr1F→ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3HNZcdF→ Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3XS7AOUOr wherever Podcasts are available!Learn more about GYE: https://guardyoureyes.com/

Are you on my mailing list, sibling? Join here solasystems.xyz for email broadcasts from The SOLA System to help you work to cultivate the self-clarity, self-acceptance and pride to BE who you are. The SOLA System + Siblings, the 6 month online 'unmasking unschool' guiding you on a journey through The SOLA System, alongside a community of siblings to share the journey with. Learn more: solasystems.xyz/siblings Episode summary: The skills for the DOING part is sometimes known as ‘executive function' skills. Such as: task switching, organising, prioritising, flexible thinking, working memory, multi-tasking, impulse control, keeping track of what you are doing, starting and finishing tasks, managing time...  And while these may not be our strengths, difficulty with these skills are also NOT reflective of bad character (“lazy” “selfish” etc). But, they can be where many of us get stuck. Because traditional approached to DOING (executing on) your intentions, don't fit. To do lists… don't work. Self-admonishment… doesn't work and leads to burnout. Task switching a million times a day…. doesn't work. Sticking to a schedule with lots of transitions and bits and emails… does't work. Excitement… works… but only lasts as long as the dopamine of the thrill of the new thing. So how to get unstuck around the DOING when typical routes to doing, don't work? This is a question I'm intending to help people answer, as The SOLA System program is going through a refresh. And in this episode, I share a bit of my thinking about why. _____________________ The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late-identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the confines of normativity. Unmask, unravel the false ideas of who you are and emerge from systemic invisibility into the light of your full self. Learn more at solasystems.xyz

We don't even realize it, but many of us spend more time and attention preparing for a holiday than we do planning out our lives. In this episode, Monette shares tips on applying the same energy you used to prepare for Christmas toward your own life and planning the year you want in 2023!

The meaning of Christmas is that God takes salvation, puts it in your heart, and seals you as his child.

I'm a baal bitachon! I know that every single thing Hashem does is for the best. Until...until the slightest little curve ball has me screaming. Can you relate? This clip is taken from Shmuz on the Parsha. Watch or download the full version here: https://theshmuz.com/series/ted-talk-on-the-parsha/

Today I'm doing my happy Raindance because we welcome back, Kiki Athanas, the host of the Making It Real Podcast, Chief Content Officer @ Meal Garden and Founder of AdaptDaily, an adaptogen wellness company. Being a wellness entrepreneur can be as overwhelming as it is rewarding. Kiki Athanas interviews experts who provide clarity & actionable examples for your health & nutrition business. Each episode provides relevant information to build, grow, & optimize your practice - whether that be practical strategies or underlying mindset shifts to support your greatest success. Kiki takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Making it Real podcast and she shares her top tips for amplifying your impact and authority with podcasts. In this episode, we talk about: The premise and audience of Making It Real. Kiki's favourite Making It Real episodes. (See links below) Top tips for hosting your own podcast. Top tips for being a podcast guest. Advice for building a profitable nutrition business. Kiki's incredible giveaway of a free month of MealGarden PLUS a lifetime discount. Full show notes and links mentioned are available at https://badasspreneurs.com/making-it-real/ =====

Welcome to your weekly dose of The Psychedelic Psychologist. Tim shares his deep respect for psychedelics. He describes his story with MDMA and psilocybin. Going into colorful detail about how he is coming to terms with living with his psychedelic experiences. Sharing the importance of how he connects to what he really wants in his life. Furthermore, Tim shares the reality of how he came out of his sessions and shares the importance of managing expectations. Ultimately, talking about the importance of actively integrating the experiences with practical tools.Tim is a wonderful testimony of being honest, empathic and full of love with what the experiences can provide and how you can use them in your world exploring psychedelics.Pick up your copy of The Psychedelics Integration Handbook or go to healingsoulsllc.com to set up an integration appointment.

Shmooze given by Rabbi Avraham Kanarek by Thursday Night Seder, recorded in Yeshivas Ohr Reuven, Monsey NY.

SERMON: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl- "The Sabbatical Year and Debt Forgiveness:  Making It Real in 2022" May 14, 2022

Three women from Uganda, Bangladesh/Britain and Australia are striving to bring the voices of those most affected by the climate crisis to the front and centre. And John Shipton, Julian Assange's father, marks three years of Julian being held in custody, and talks about a new documentary called Ithaka.

DevOps for Systems Engineers is critical, but still often misunderstood and confusing. How do I get started? Are my customers really seeing the need to incorporate these skills? We will do our best to demystify things in this session.

#RealTalk #Grief #LetItGo This is it! The final video in the 19 video series, "Let it Go!" This is the wrap up that ties it all together and David explains how for all these steps to work, for the healing to come and for us to truly Let it Go! we first need to work on Making it Real!  Join us at our YouTube channel for the video version of this episode and free access to the questions. Chapter navigation is in the video description! https://youtu.be/5p8M5WKZr2Y Want to learn to do what David does? https://www.heartchangeu.com Visit us directly at: https://www.effectiveheartchange.com/ Visit our parent ministry: https://www.livefreeministries.com/ Consider supporting our mission to bring everyone quality, free content that uplifts, edifies and exhorts us to live godly lives: https://livefreeministries.kindful.com/?campaign=1075931 Live Free Ministries, Inc. is a religious US 501 (c)(3) non-profit, EIN 48-1201468 T-shirts and merch more your style? 100% of the profit goes directly to the ministry. https://live-free-ministries-omega.creator-spring.com/ Host: David A. Case Co-Host: Dale Producer/Editor: Matthew All content filmed & edited at Studio 104  

Kiki Athanas joined the Meal Garden community over 7 years ago and shares her journey as an entrepreneur and her goals for the Making It Real podcast in 2022.    In this episode, we talk about… How Kiki met Jeff and John through Meal Garden How Meal Garden inspired Kiki's coaching and supplement businesses Why Kiki decided to host a podcast sponsored by Meal Garden  Kiki's mission of the podcast to move your business forward  Shifting the podcast conversations from questions to action items   Requests for feedback on how you're implementing what you learn and referrals for potential podcast guests    Links to Resources: Kiki's Website - https://www.kikiathanas.com/   Kiki's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kiki_athanas/   Inviting your feedback: What value did you get out of this podcast episode? What could we have done differently to make it a more successful listening experience for you? What questions do you wish were asked or elaborated on further? Let us know! Email the host directly: kiki.athanas@mealgarden.com    *This podcast is sponsored by Meal Garden ~> Sign up today with Kiki's code for a 3-month special offer via this link: https://www.mealgarden.com/signup/practitioner/?promo=WITHLOVEFROMKIKI&source=Podcast 

We hear this often during the Christmas season - Immanuel, God with us. We believe it, but sometimes it just remains something we hear or say. How do we experience this very intimate truth? How does He make Himself real to us? How does He show Himself to us - just to us - in the specific way He knows we will understand and hear? With the help of John Lynch's devotional "Trust for Today" we dive into this reality of God with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-3/support

Interesting episode guest in the Making It Real Podcast for all the product enthusiastists out there: Malte Scholz, product manager specialized in the SaaS and mobile tech space. He is Co-founder and CEO at airfocus, a prioritization and roadmapping software for product teams and decision makers. Malte shares with us his top techniques to prioritize features, to decide on the first product version and to build the best-possible roadmap for your product. We also cover the tricks of balancing customer needs and the challenges of scaling development teams. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maltescholz https://airfocus.com linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann 00:00 Intro 00:50 How Malte joined the entrepreneurship space 3:50 Building a first version of a product 5:10 Time until launching a first version 6:25 What does airfocus do? 8:10 Feature prioritization as a product manager 11:35 What framework should I use for prioritization 13:10 Staying on track with the product roadmap 14:55 Challenges that founders face in product development 16:40 What should go into a first version? 19:15 Balancing customer needs 21:15 Assessing the impact of the next release 24:20 Hiring and sustaining a great team 27:55 Quick fire round: Person Malte admires the most | What is so broken that entrepreneurs should fix immediately | Technology that will transform the future | Favourite management concept 32:50 Closing

In today's episode we welcome Stephan Schambach, serial entrepreneur building market changing companies in the e-commerce space. Prior to his current software NewStore, providing Ominchannel-as-a-Service, Stephan launched Intershop and Demandware that was acquired for $2.8 billion by Salesforce. They say timining is everything, when launching a business. But what is the secret to get it right? How to narrow down focus and go big, when there are so many exciting opportunities? And once launched, how to find your first customers? He answers all these questions and shares his take on the NFT space as well as on the European investment ecosystem. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanschambach https://www.newstore.com linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann 0:00 Intro 1:00 The energy that powers Stephan 03:03 Stephan's passion for building companies internationally 06:20 The challenges of starting international companies in Europe 09:30 Finding ideas for new ventures and executing them 14:00 How to determine the right time for launching a startup 18:10 The influence of the first customer 21:10 How to find the first customer 22:30 Trends to watch out for in the ecommerce space 25:30 Stephan's take on opportunities with NFTs 27:45 Raising venture capital in Europe and building a European tech stock exchange 32:45 Quick fire round: Middlename | Something broken that entrepreneurs should fix immediately | Technology that will transform the future | Core concept 33:52 Closing

The first step in doing anything great is to get started. When it comes to opening a business, forming an llc is a great place to start. On this week's episode of An Hour Early Podcast, Aaron walks us through the process of opening an llc and gives practical advice to help turn the dreamer into a doer. 

This episode presents David Heinemeir Hansson, Founder and CTO of Ruby on Rails, HEY, and Basecamp. David is not just a prominent entrepreneur but also the author of four best-seller books as well as class-winning race-car driver. We take a deep dive into building up one of the leading web development tools as well as the core activities to stay relevant in the tech community. He shares with us his take on work-life balance while handling several projects at the same time. Listen to the full episode to hear more about his journey and insightful tips. linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://dhh.dk https://rubyonrails.org https://basecamp.com 00:00 Introduction 01:05 David's journey as a business student to open-source web development 04:30 Core ingredients for a successful web development framework 06:55 Most effective way to showcase a tech product 10:30 Staying relevant in a community 14:00 David's passion for Ruby on Rails 16:45 Focusing on one vs. balancing several projects 25:30 David's take on the 80 hours work week and his experience as a book author and competitive race car driver 30:45 Quick fire round: middle name - what entrepreneurs should fix immediately - technology that will transform the future - software recommendation - core concept 33:25 Closing

In this episode we welcome a female founder in the tech space, Vivien Dollinger who co-founded ObjectBox, a database management provider for developers. Vivien's entrepreneurial journey started as a side project that became a high-growh potential company and was along the very few of #Techstars cohorts. Some of the questions we cover: When is the right moment to turn side project to launch? How to get traction in the tech community at start? Why is a tech co-founder important despite the fast growing world of no/low code tools for early product development? If you are about to turn your idea and make it real, this episode is definitely worth to listen! linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann linkedin.com/in/vivien-dollinger https://objectbox.io 00:00 Intro 00:55 Does research qualify one for entrepreneurship? 02:53 Vivien's journey to the startup space 07:50 Financing and building a successful team 08:55 Vivien's pitch for ObjectBox 10:05 The need for having great technical people in-house 13:05 Obtaining traction and the long way to getting first sustainable revenues while keeping the motivation high 17:45 Finding and selecting a first investor through Techstars 19:55 What it takes to grow adoption and foster growth with an open source product 25:55 How to develop a great developer community 28:45 Vivien's advice to her younger self - the right balace between focusing on the venture and other parts of life 31:19 Quick fire round: Favourite management concept - underdog software tool - dream job if not heading a tech company 35:01 Outro

Jeff Clavier began investing into early stage ventures more than twenty years ago and have supported several teams that have reached successful outcomes, among others Eventbrite, Fitbit or Postmates. He has founded Uncork Capital in 2004, one of the most prominent seed funds based in Palo Alto with over $500m under management. In today's episode, he shares with us the current and hottest investment areas he focuses on and why he is passionate about B2B SaaS enterprises. Also, he gives us his take on the current state of the European start-up ecosystem and his advice on avoiding the three most common mistakes made by early stage founders both in the ideation as well as in the product building phase. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffclavier https://uncorkcapital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann 00:00 Introduction 0:50 Why and how Jeff joined the entrepreneurship world 02:35 Jeff's reasons for moving to the US & becoming a VC 05:45 The first investment in the time of the Web 2.0 & impressive returns 11:25 Investment hypothesis: Coming from seed investments to also having a growth fund 13:55 On which sectors Jeff focuses his investments 15:35 The opportunity for B2B SaaS companies 17:05 Jeff's view on the European start-up ecosystem 22:50 Advices for founders in the early stage 25:30 How to find the right idea for starting a start-up 27:10 Common mistakes made by founders 29:35 After having the idea - how to build the product 32:45 Jeff's personal advice for getting into the entrepreneurship space 34:28 Quick fire round: Thing Jeff is most proud of; most useful software tool; what would Jeff be if not a VC 38:15 Closing

Saul Klein, serial entrepreneur and prominent seed investor in the global tech scene, has co-founded numerous game-changing businesses such as LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Kano, Zinc or Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon). Prior, he had a VP role at Skype and was General Partner at Index Ventures. He shares with us his journey to the entreprenurial space and talks about the transition from working at an established company to starting your own business. He highlights the first steps to take as founders to really see the exciting opportunities and elaborates on the way LocalGlobe evaluates investments and helps improve their performance. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/saulklein https://localglobe.vc 00:00 Introduction 1:31 Saul's journey into the entrepreneurship world 3:40 Disrupting the newspaper industry as a 22 year old 6:25 Seeing entrepreneurship in a new light at netscape 08:55 Making the transition from working at an established company to starting an own business 11:20 First startup experiences at a MIT spinn-off and getting to know the VC and M&A space 13:55 Founding LoveFilm 16:00 Being an Marketing Executive at Skype 19:10 Advice on finding THE entrepreneurial opportunity 23:55 First steps to take as a founder to really see the exciting opportunities 29:53 How to enhance the performance of the start-up as a VC 37:55 How LocalGlobe finds the startups to invest in 43:56 Quick Fire Round: who Saul admires the most | biggest risk currently | #1 recommendation for aspiring entrepreneurs 44:38 Closing

This time our special guest is Fabian Wesemann, Co-Founder and CFO of insurance unicorn WeFox. Wefox recently secured $650 million in capital, giving the firm a $3 billion valuation. Fabian shares with us how they closed their funding round and his take on building relationship with investors. He also gives us advice on finding tech engineers in the start and and making decisions in a team. And if you wondering how to enter and build trust in a regulated industry, this episode is also for you! https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-wesemann-6036a629 https://www.wefox.com 0:00 Introduction 1:18 They way investment banking helped Fabian to grow into the startup ecosystem 2:30 How Fabian & the team found the idea for WeFox 4:42 The first version of WeFox 6:20 Evolution of the business model and why the first idea never stays 11:25 How to build trust as an InsureTech 13:15 Convincing a strategic partners as a young startup 15:00 The first rounds of raising venture capital 17:03 Finding tech engineers as business people when founding a startup 19:20 How to build deep domain knowledge, in this case insurance 22:10 Advice on building an amazing team and how to make decisions in a team 25:48 Closing a VC round at a 3 billion valuation 29:50 Communicating effectively with investors: unit economics, data room, pitch deck, etc... 33:58 Building trustful relationships with investors over time 37:05 Quick fire round: trading live with someone for a day, most useful & so far not well known software tool, what should entrepreneurs fix immediately, personal highlight of the day 40:15 Closing

This episode features Jasper Masemann, partner at HV Capital, one of the most iconic VC firms in Germany. HV Capital invested in more than 200 companies, including market leading companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero and Flixbus. He shares insider tips for first-time founders, such as the dilemma of bootstrapping or initial hiring without an HR person, and reveals the main criteria that they take into consideration before making investment decisions. Our discussion also covers the recent developments in the European Venture Capital space. https://www.hvcapital.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmasemann 0:00 Introduction 0:50 Jasper's road to join HV Capital 3:50 Why Jasper started a venture first before joining VC 7:15 Should a first-time founder start with a scalable project which can be VC backed? 10:45 Is bootstrapping a better way to get experience at first? 12:25 Why you have to make mistakes with your startup 13:35 What is the core ingredient of a successful venture? 17:25 Why Jasper enjoys to do early investments - but why other companies need some traction so that Jasper invests 19:10 Customers have to be willing to pay for your product 22:13 The importance of customer acquisition and pricing strategies 24:25 Discussion about churn 25:40 Biggest mistakes from which Jasper learned 28:15 How to hire a great team as a founder when you do not have someone for HR 30:05 Why you should use headhunters and how to find the right one 31:20 Current developments in the EU VC space - is there a bubble? 36:40 What is sustainable for a startup - should you always listen to the VC trend projections? 38:40 Quick fire round: who you admire the most | most useful software for entrepreneurs that is underappreciated | something broken that entrepreneurs should see differently | life-long dream 42:07 Closing

How do you make green features work for affordable housing residents? What do you do if they're not working? Developer Mutual Housing California learned from experience about the importance of resident engagement at their ambitious net zero energy development, Mutual Housing at Spring Lake, in Woodland, California. In the first episode of the Green in Action podcast, host Kimberly Vermeer spoke with Bryan Dove, Director of Asset Management at Mutual Housing California, and Spring Lake residents and youth leaders Gerardo Brambila and Manuel Maravilla about how owner and residents learned together to make net zero real for residents. Learn more about MHC at http://www.mutualhousing.com/. For episode show notes, visit www.urbanhabitatinitiatives.com/podcast-home/. Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/UHIPodcast

David Nothacker is co-founder of Europe's leading digital freight-forwarder platform, Sennder. The Berlin-based unicorn has recently raised an additional $80 million in funding at over $1 billion in valuation and will use this funding to expand into new regions. David started Sennder 1.0 as an MBA graduate but failed, as his co-founder left him five minutes after signing the investors term sheet. After overcoming this difficulty and setting a clear vision with new co-founders, he managed to turn the company into a unicorn with a team of 800 employees. If you want to find out more about how to excel in #winnertakesitall markets, whether it is a good idea to exit a built-up venture and how to build effective teams, then listen to the full episode! https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-nothacker https://www.sennder.com 0:00 Introduction 1:12 What is sennder? 2:44 All about the numbers: employees, revenue expectations, valuation of sennder 4:06 How David started sennder 7:40 What is harder to get as a platform business - demand or supply? 11:02 How to find co-founders and how working together works best 16:04 What David thinks about having luck as an entrepreneur and his exit strategy 20:19 Lessons learned on how to grow faster than the competition 23:20 How to onboard talent in a fast growing company (from 200 to 800 employees in one year!) 26:14 Organizing digital teams and sharing the culture 28:31 Quick-fire round: favorite activity | method to stay productive | personal hero 32:14 Outro

Quim Sabria is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edpuzzle, a crowdsourced video-lesson-platform in the K12 space, one of the top of cohort YCombinator startups in the EdTech industry. Edpluzzle combines simple video-editing tools with analytics so that a teacher can take a video and make it personal for their classrooms. Quim started as a math teacher without any tech or business know-how to run a company. He used to make his educational videos that he shared with other teachers who loved the idea and wanted to personalize them on their own. Started as a side project with childhood friends, the business made it to Silicon Valley and received a seed round which resulted in $800.000. In this episode Quim shares with us his insights on the main steps to create and accelerate high-growth companies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquimsabria/ https://edpuzzle.com/ 0:00 Welcome back & introducing Quim Sabrià 1:14 How Quim started EDpuzzle 3:06 How to find co-finders 3:57 Pros and cons of founding a venture with friends 8:23 How to working effectively in bigger founding teams 10:05 Quim's top 3 learnings from his participation in the Y Combinator 15:48 Quim's number 1 metric 17:55 Many people say "don't sell to the government" - How Quim managed this challenge 20:27 Steps after finding the product-market fit 23:17 Growing a startup in a lean way 25:19 The process of going fully remote as a company at the US west coast 27:56 How to organize a remote sales team 30:48 Quick fire round: New middlename | What should entrepreneurs fix immediately | Technology that will transform the future 31:50 Outro - until next time :)

Javier Darriba is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bloobirds. Bloobirds is a sales empowerment platform that guides SDRs and closing reps to convert more prospects into customers. Prior to Bloobirds, Javier also co-founded and led UserZoom as the Co-CEO. Furthermore, he is the Founder & Chairman of The SaaS Institute and an Investment Comittee Member at Encomenda VC. Javier is an enthusiastic entrepreneur, not only in business but in everyday life. He's striving for change, innovation, and creating new things - he raised more than 40 millions funds from Business Angels and VCs and built international operations with offices in Spain, US, UK and Germany. The greatest pleasure for him is going to work every day where he's part of a team of inspiring professionals who are also nice people. He enjoys spending his free time with his family, books and on meditation. Javier Darriba, Co-Founder & CEO of Bloobirds | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #20 00:00 Javier's first steps into the entrepreneurship domain 04:00 Founding companies in economic crises 06:10 The problem of building service companies 08:46 Turning consulting into a software business 13:00 How did you build the software for UserZoom and Bloobirds? 15:10 Learnings about hiring a great team 17:25 Thoughts about building product 19:10 How do you think about building a tech team? 20:21 How long should a launch take? 22:15 Co-developing your product with the customer together 23:23 Sell it before you make it? 27:21 How did you get the first customers with UserZoom? 28:18 Building global companies from Barcelona 31:30 How do you determine which markets to go to? 35:27 How do get the first customers in new markets? 39:39 Top mistakes founders do when trying to sell their product 45:21 What keeps you going?

Pau Rodriguez is the CEO of Methinks AI, a software company to unlock life-saving treatments potential worldwide. He is an industrial engineer and MBA graduate by background. Prior to leading Methinks AI, Pau was also a professional rugby player, was a member of the U17, U18, U19 and U20 Spanish Rugby National Team, participated in the Rugby World Cup 2005 and Rugby European Cups 2004 and 2006. He also was the captain of the Senior Catalan Rugby National Team in 2010. Pau is passionate about how technology can change people's lives for the better. Pau Rodriguez, CEO Methinks AI | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #19 00:00 How did you decide to start a company? 02:54 Starting a Health Care company, what was your background? 04:19 You were a professional rugby player - did that help in your entrepreneurial career? 05:55 How important is it to have an entrepreneurial mindset? 07:10 How to be successful in Health Care without a background in biology 08:50 About Methinks AI 11:26 Collaborating with hospitals 15:08 What Pau loves most about his work 16:07 Regulations in Health Care and main things to watch out for 18:13 How did you reach out to experts in the field? 20:15 Trusting your gut feeling 22:08 Combining a great vision with a top team and doing your best work 23:15 Monetization in Health Care 26:32 How to build a business focusing on value delivery 29:52 What are the next steps for Methinks AI? 33:10 How do you learn?

Richard Schenke is Co-Founder & MD at Priceloop AI. Prior to Priceloop, Richard also co-founded Contorion, a fast-growing online shop for professional industrial and trade supply. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Richard was a Senior Consultant at McKinsey and with a project focus on non-food retail, sales & pricing strategy and automotive. Richard is an MIT and RWTH Aachen graduate. Richard Schwenke, Co-Founder & MD Priceloop AI | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #18 00:00 How did you get into the entrepreneurship domain? 01:52 Did you start your venture in parallel during your consulting job or went all in? 04:05 How did you find your first investors? 06:51 The idea behind Contorion 08:16 Getting both the supply and demand side right on a platform model 13:05 Evolving your venture one step at a time 14:59 What to do if you lose money per transaction 19:00 How merchants can bring value to suppliers 22:03 How to set your prices right 27:46 Advice for collecting quality data 32:20 Filtering data for machine learning 39:55 Exiting Contorion and starting Priceloop AI 41:49 Richard's top 3 learnings for aspiring founders 46:28 What do you enjoy the most about creating startups?

David Casellas is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pridatect and Co-Founder of Redpoints, both enterprising and successful SAAS LegalTech Companies. Heading up the Business side of the companies, David nurtured their growth and expanded their business from startups to successful Million€ companies and has been prominent and influential in internationalising business worldwide. David came from a two year spell at FC Barcelona where he was a driving force in the Digital Business team, working on a global scale. David started his first business at 19 years old whilst still studying Business Management and Marketing in the digital sector, specialising in digital business. David Casellas, Co-Founder & MD of Pridatect | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #17 00:00 How did you got started in the entrepreneurship space? 05:24 What was the trigger to go for your own entrepreneurial venture? 09:20 How did you start the venture without having clients? 12:49 Closing first customers 16:34 How to deal with rejection 19:20 How did you go about building your product? 23:29 Advice on finding a technical co-founder 26:38 Hiring a professional CEO 33:19 What's next for you?

Robert Wetzker is the Founder & CEO of Aklamio. Founded in 2011, Aklamio has become Europe's most successful referral marketing solution, trusted by companies such as Virgin Media, Vodafone, PayPal, Endesa, o2, and over 300 international brands. Aklamio believes that a company's best assets are its customers, their networks, and the power of incentive marketing. Their mission is to empower brands to succeed in a customer-centric world by building the world's #1 platform for customer incentivization. Their 80+ employees work in our HQ in Berlin and London, with teams in Madrid and Paris. Aklamio was ranked 2nd fastest growing technology startup in Germany (Financial Times, Europe's 1000 Fastest Growing Companies, 2019) and continues to expand internationally. Robert has a background in engineering. Prior to founding Aklamio, he led the research team at TU Berlin's Competence Center for Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Robert Wetzker, Founder & CEO of Aklamio | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #16 00:00 What's your personal journey into the entrepreneurship space? 01:32 From a researcher to starting a company - how did it come about? 03:49 How did you take the first steps to build your product? 06:30 How did you get in touch with your first customers? 08:49 Doing sales as a founder 11:12 When is the right time to start contacting your target customers? 12:35 What's the best way to reach out to people when you have nothing to show for yet? 14:52 How many customers do you need to determine a common base for a scalable product? 17:23 How can technically strong people be a sales-driven CEO and find a specialized sales person? 20:01 What are your core lessons learned in the process from doing the first sales to building Aklamio as an impactful company? 24:08 How to approach internationalization 26:14 Should you start with one country manager first or build a small team early on? 30:46 For people looking into referral marketing, what are the core lessons learned that you can share? 33:48 Besides the size of incentives, what are other components of a successful referral campaign? 36:39 What's next for Aklamio? 38:54 What is your core advice for people who want to make it real?

Michael Brehm is the Founder & Managing Director of i2x who helps sales and customer support agents to excel at their job by providing the most intuitive, productive and personally tailored learning to improve each individual's skill-set. Prior to i2x, Michael has run and founded multiple internationally successful companies in the last 15 years. His last company, Rebate Networks, was an e-commerce and daily deals network. He also was Executive Director & Investor at VZnet Netzwerke Ltd. (schülerVZ, studiVZ, meinVZ). Apart from building companies himself, Michael also enjoys supporting founders as a Partner of Redstone, a Berlin-based VC firm managing multiple corporate venture funds through their unique VC-as-a-Service approach. More about i2x: https://i2x.ai More about Redstone: https://www.redstone.vc Michael Brehm, Founder & MD of i2x | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #15 00:00 What's your personal story into the entrepreneurship domain? 03:46 The studiVZ success story: Why did you decide to take on the challenge to battle Facebook? 07:59 How did you meet your co-founders? 10:01 What was the game plan of studiVZ having huge competition like Facebook? 13:36 Do you have to put in an incredible amount of hours to get your venture going in the beginning? 18:15 Painting schools pink as a marketing hack for schülerVZ 19:29 Getting users for a consumer app 23:01 Core mistakes you see in other ventures 28:33 After having launched Rebate Networks and a VC, how did you determine the opportunity for i2x? 31:59 Development of i2x 34:25 How can you finance a technology venture before revenues? 38:39 Convincing potential customers to sign a letter of intent 41:13 Passion, resilience and timing 43:44 How can you judge if it's the right timing for your product? 46:17 What do you personally enjoy the most in entrepreneurship?

Colin McElwee is the Co-Founder of Worldreader. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and a MBA from ESADE Business School, where he also was the Executive Director of Marketing and Communication from 2001-2010. From 2012-2014, Colin was an invited member of the Global Agenda Council for Africa of the World Economic Forum. Colin has extensive for-profit and not-for-profit experience around the globe. He was an economist for several Brussels-based lobbies to the European Commission. Colin was also the Global Marketing Controller for Scottish & Newcastle where he oversaw Formula 1 sponsorship and product distribution to over 150 countries. He co-founded Worldreader in 2010 with the vision of creating 100's of millions of readers in sub Saharan Africa. More about Worldreader: https://www.worldreader.org Follow Worldreader on Twitter: https://twitter.com/worldreaders Contact Colin: Colin@worldreader.org Colin McElwee, Co-Founder of Worldreader | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #14 00:00 What is Worldreader about? 01:28 Is Worldreader an NGO? 02:44 How did Worldreader get started and what did you do before it? 06:58 Going from a vision to making it real 09:27 How did you get started with Worldreader? 14:52 Advice on how to form first relationships when you're starting out 16:47 Networking in times of Covid 19:33 Approaching developing markets 22:28 How did you get Worldreader to where it is now? 25:17 Taking Worldreader to the next level 28:23 From the first few hundred readers to 300,000 users 32:55 Making high-quality content accessible in Africa 37:21 About content contribution 40:38 Do you have a guiding concept to make things real? 44:29 What is for you personally most rewarding about entrepreneurship?

This episode is a further deep dive into one of the most frequent questions we hear about home-based production, “How can I get over the initial hump of starting a home-based production business?” The second of three episodes, this segment discusses the nuts and bolts of the start-up process. It includes preparing the space as well as sourcing equipment, supplies, and ingredients.  There are two ways to start a new venture. One is to jump right in—building the proverbial plane while flying it. The other is to plan and organize. This episode argues that organizing and planning ahead is a much better way to go. It gives you the headspace to experiment and improve the quality and efficiency of production. This is the principle that podcast host, Cory Heyman, has used to prepare his own home for his new production business. He describes how he organized his limited space and the special issues he considered while preparing to make food and personal care products, especially decisions about separating personal and business items, food and chemicals, and food with allergens from food without allergens. Cory also discusses how he has sourced new items and the challenges of buying the right amount of supplies and ingredients to get good pricing but not have too much product on hand. Next week's discussion, the last of the mini-series, will focus on research and development, branding, ecommerce, and the big reveal about the launch of Cory's first products!  For more information about the movement behind the podcast, visit our Facebook Group, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/350301745982098; follow us on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/cotcup/, check out examples of our guests' creations on Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.com/cotcup/boards/, and subscribe to our email list (https://cotcup.com/lp) and receive our living document, the Eightfold Path Plus One Guide to Success for Home-based Producers, and future updates.

In this our 10th episode of the Virti XR training podcast, Nick is joined by Sam Watts, Immersive Partnerships Director at Make Real. In the conversation, we discuss the use of VR in enterprise applications and how VR can be implemented as part of a blended learning approach. We also talk about the importance of metrics, collaborative implementation and defining learning outcomes as Sam shares his experiences, examples and thoughts of the rapidly developing industry. External links for more information about Sam: https://twitter.com/vr_sam https://medium.com/@vr_sam/interviews-quotes-blog-posts-more-3ecf3eee2d16#.ifdqgecq3 Tweet Virti: @virtimed Contact Virti: https://virti.com