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Allison Byers is a trailblazer in the realm of equitable capital distribution. As the founder of Scroobious, her tech company is quickly driving innovation by removing barriers to partnership among diverse founders, investors, and service providers through scalable online education, community, and data-driven curation. Before founding Scroobious, she spearheaded a medical device startup, securing nearly $10M in funding before its acquisition, and encountered firsthand the gender bias prevalent in fundraising. With over 20 years of experience in startup and tech roles, Allison stands as a seasoned entrepreneur and a catalyst for change having co-authored California Senate Bill 54, signed into law, which requires venture funds to report diversity metrics. She is actively championing initiatives in other states including MA Senate Bill 978 and NY Senate Bill A09786. Beyond her entrepreneurial pursuits, she serves as an angel investor, Boston Co-Chair of the national non-profit All Raise, Executive in Residence at Merck Digital Sciences Studio, DEI task force member of the Angel Capital Association, and is a sought-after startup mentor and dynamic speaker. Key Takeaways: 01:17 The Vision of Equitable Access to Capital 07:08 The Stark Reality of Funding Disparities 10:47 Reframing Inequity as Opportunity 17:28 The Insanity of Expecting Change Without Action 22:43 Building Scalable Solutions Through Technology 32:13 Empowering Entrepreneurs to Forge Their Own Paths 33:00 Collaboration as the Key to Success Quote of the Show: 10:47 “Holy cow, what a business opportunity. Almost 100% of Black founders and 98% of women aren't being funded by venture capital.” Podcast Information Want PR that actually matters? Get 30 minutes of expert advice in a fast-paced, zero-nonsense session from Karla Jo Helms, a veteran Crisis PR and Anti-PR Strategist who knows how to tell your story in the best possible light and get the exposure you need to disrupt your industry. Click here to book your call: https://info.jotopr.com/free-anti-pr-eval Ways to connect with Allison Byers: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-byers/ Company Website: https://www.scroobious.com/ How to get more Disruption/Interruption: Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/eccda84d-4d5b-4c52-ba54-7fd8af3cbe87/disruption-interruption Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disruption-interruption/id1581985755 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6yGSwcSp8J354awJkCmJlDSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, Brenda speaks about purpose with Allison Byers, founder of Scroobious, a tech company driving innovation to equitable capital access by removing barriers to partnership among diverse founders, investors, and service providers. Scroobious is a platform that is working toward equitable capital access: In Allison's words “ fair representation of all segments with the exclusion of none” - now into its fourth year – having served over 900 founders. “Finding the funding and the people are critical to early stage success of a company.“ Listen to Allison's personal story of Scroobius and how her relationships that go back 20 years ago and an introduction to the newly appointed President and COO of Scroobiuos. You can find out more about Allison, Scroobious, and other resources mentioned in this podcast at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-byers/ https://www.scroobious.com/ For founders working on a pitch: Scroobious is dedicated to empowering founders for successful fundraising. Our platform provides invaluable resources including online learning modules featuring investor-vetted content, personalized pitch feedback, tailored pitch practice sessions, access to a vibrant community of hundreds of diverse founders, and connections with investors. Click here to apply for a sponsored (free!) account. You can also join our Lite plan for just $1 to access our community, events, and curated resources immediately. For early-stage investors: Scroobious connects you to a network of brilliant and diverse founders solving important problems. These founders have worked with us to clarify their story, showcasing comprehensive pitch material and coachability. Click here for a quick platform demo. Visit this website, register, and then use promo code EARLYINV for a free 6-month trial at the Stripe checkout page. After the trial, it's $10 per month (cancel anytime). Complete brief onboarding questions to enter the portal and start messaging founders! https://www.newswire.com/news/scroobious-scales-up-to-meet-the-urgent-call-to-support-diverse-22415543 additional content here : https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-54-SIGN-MSG.pdf Transcript: 00:04 Hi, I'm pleased to announce something very special to me, a new subscription-based service through Next Act Advisors that allows members exclusive access to personal industry insights and bespoke 00:32 corporate governance knowledge. This comes in the form of blogs, personal book recommendations, and early access to the founder's sandbox podcast episodes before they released to the public. If you want more white glove information on building your startup with information like what was in today's episode, sign up with the link in the show notes to enjoy being a special member of Next Act Advisors. 01:01 As a thank you to Founders Sandbox listeners, you can use code SANDBOX25 at checkout to enjoy 25% off your membership costs. Thank you. 01:19 Welcome back to the Founder's Sandbox. I am Brenda McCabe, your host. I'm delighted that we're now into the third season of this monthly podcast that reaches entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate board directors, and VCs. All interested in building resilient, scalable, purpose-driven businesses with an undergirding aspect of great corporate governance. 01:45 I admission, my mission at NextAct Advisors, which is my consulting firm, is really simple. It's just building the scalable, well-governed and resilient businesses. My guests to the podcast are themselves founders, business owners, corporate directors, professional service providers who like me want to use the power of the private enterprise, small, medium or large to make change for a better world. With each of my guests, we go through some storytelling. 02:13 about their origin stories. And we will touch on topics around resiliency, purpose-driven enterprises and sustainable growth. And again, my goal is to provide a fun environment in this sandbox where we can equip one startup founder at a time to build a better world through great corporate governance. Today, my guest is Alison Byers. I'm absolutely delighted that she's joining me all the way from Boston. 02:41 Allison is joining and she wears many hats, but she is going to talk a lot today about her founder journey of Scroobius. And it is a very unique platform that unlike other platforms in the ecosystem used by startups, this is one that has a purpose to improve equitable capital access by providing pitch education for founders while making connections with investors. 03:11 to put unused capital to work. And we're gonna hear more as we get into the podcast. I like to have guests that are also very mission-driven as mission-driven as I. And you are, Alison, unequivocally mission-driven in your purpose after you yourself encountered gender bias firsthand while you were fundraising. So I think it'd be appropriate 03:40 story to start telling now. So thank you for joining me, Allison. Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me, Brenda. And absolutely love being so aligned in our missions and being able to talk about how we can use business elements to accomplish the mission-driven motives that we have. So. 04:02 Yeah, I'm happy to share my origin story for Scroobious. And we're a four-year-old company, so I incorporated in January of 2020, which maybe we'll hit on later what it means to incorporate right before a global pandemic. The initiative started after I, as you said, experienced pretty extreme gender bias myself. 04:26 So before Scroobious, I joined scientific co-founders and launched a medical device company out of MIT in a hospital system here in Boston. And I was the business one on the team and did all the things from incorporation through our fundraising. And we did raise almost $10 million at that company going through a series A prime. And then I really struggled to raise our series B. So we ended up going to early acquisition. And 04:52 I didn't know any of the things that I know now. I was not in this space before then. And Medical device is a pretty specific industry with pretty specific investors. So you're kind of in that world. But we were acquired in an asset sale. The people that acquired us were men. And not too long after, raised $55 million. And not. Yes. 05:21 Every time I share that, there's eyes open. A multiple of what? 10? Yeah. And it was very clear to me that the one thing I could point to that was different was my gender. And I was co-running the company with another woman. So we were two women out there doing this, and one more woman involved in the company. But it's. 05:48 it set me on a path of trying to understand what happened. And so that's when I researched the field of capital allocation and investing in pitching first just to understand how I could have failed so badly. That's the internalization that many founders have when they're unable to raise the capital your company needs. And very quickly found all the data that I know you're very familiar with. But for those who are listening who maybe aren't, 06:17 Nationally, 1.8% of venture dollars go to women-founded companies. And in my state of Massachusetts, that number is 0.9%. We're also ranked one of the worst states, 47th, for supporting women-owned businesses. And once you learn that, as devastating as it is, it also releases that internalization of failure. Because you say, oh, I didn't actually fail. I just did not know. 06:45 that I was operating in a system that's designed to keep me marginalized. I was not likely to raise that money regardless of how well we were operating the company or how strong our fundraising pitch was. Okay. So that's my origin story for wanting to dedicate my professional career to working toward more equitable access to business capital. And it's not solely focused on women owned companies, is it? Exactly. 07:15 Yeah. So tell us a bit more about Scroobious and starting a company. And right when the pandemic, you know, set in here in the United States and we locked it went into lockdown. So, right. Yes. So I did at least a year of research before deciding. 07:33 what I wanted to do was meant to be a for-profit company structure. I didn't rush into it. That's not my nature. Did my full market analysis and primary and secondary research, thought about our own capitalization plan, then decided to incorporate in January of 2020. So, impeccable timing. But I know we'll talk about that a little later too in terms of how do you handle what 08:02 startups throw at you and building without the ability to predict how your business might fluctuate or how the macro economy might fluctuate around you. But no, we don't focus only on women. That's of course my lived experience. But when I researched it, pretty much any segment where founders identify as underrepresented in some way, receives incredibly inequitable distribution of. 08:31 business and growth capital. If you look at it by gender or race, that's true. If you look at it by geography or by sexual orientation or military veteran status, neurodiversity, there's a lot of different ways that people can identify as underrepresented. And we don't define that for somebody. Nor do we exclude anyone from our platform because we're really working toward equitable distribution which means 09:00 true representation of all segments to the exclusion of none. So, yeah. I love it. Can you say that again? That's a great tagline. So you're working towards? So we're working toward equitable distribution, which means fair representation of all segments to the exclusion of none. Fantastic. Yeah. So we've got white dudes in there too, right? Like we're not turning people away. 09:27 But our own go to market strategy was to and is still to partner with organizations that are diversity first as well, so that we're building the community that represents what should be equitably represented based on our population. 09:45 So let's go into the actual platform itself. It is a platform, right? Yeah. You've got founders on one side receiving pitch education and you have more, and you have investors on the other side. So how does a founder experience Scroobius? Yes, great question. And we are definitely a platform and we actually have three key stakeholders. So there's some marketplace elements with the founders and investors on two sides, 10:15 What we've come to discover, and this is part of the building and pivoting and resiliency of a startup, is that true understanding of how important relationships are in accessing resources and capital. This is not a transactional industry. And so the third key stakeholder here are service providers and program partners. They are very underutilized. 10:44 in this space and they are key connection nodes. And so we are a true platform with all three at the center there. But for founders, to answer your question, yes, we're a scalable platform. We were designed intentionally to scale because with all three of those stakeholder groups, they number in the millions. This is a huge market. And so 11:08 Founders enter our platform and immediately they can access our flagship program called the Pitch It Plan, which is full of micro lessons online, asynchronous access, about everything to do with fundraising strategy and pitching and building those relationships with investors because that type of quality education written from an authentic perspective of understanding that it is different. 11:37 for underrepresented groups and making it accessible and understandable for everyone is not easy to access. It's not freely out there. So your labor of love, for lack of another word, you've curated that and probably through your professional service providers, how did you curate that specifically for underrepresented? So it's all... 12:03 created by us. This is proprietary education, and we do work with providers. In addition to our custom material that we add to all the time based on the needs of our community, we also host workshops twice a month with industry experts on all kinds of topics related to early startup building. Apologies, I do have a cold today, so I'm going to lose my voice every so often. Yes, just. 12:31 But it's based on hundreds of interviews with investors, hundreds of interviews with founders, and personal experience of myself and others on the team to really create different material that speaks to the heart of what founders want to know. So for an example, we have a lesson on how do you give a 10-minute pitch? How do you give a five-minute pitch? How do you give a three-minute 12:57 What if you have a one minute pitch? What exactly goes in there? And we provide the insight into why it is important to an investor. So they get both the lesson and the understanding of why does this matter to do it this way. So they have access to that. And alongside it, they can upload draft material and get personalized feedback from our trained reviewers. So it's a combination of online learning 13:27 Again, that asynchronous scalable human delivered feedback that founders really do need to feel comfortable and confident. Once they have worked through our program, they have the ability to share their pitch and their profile with the investors, right? So that they can get in front of our network of... 13:50 vetted and active angel investors who are specifically looking to diversify how they find opportunities so they can put their capital toward the founders they're looking for, even if they are not in their geography or not in their known network or affinity groups. Is it national? United States actually? We're actually international now. We have founders all over the place. Yes, our community has grown. We've worked with over 900 founders now in basically four years. 14:19 Yeah. Wow. Excellent. And how does the investor then experience it? So are they actually contacted by the founder? Or can they just peruse Scroobius platform, identify opportunities that fit within their investment thesis? How does that work? Yeah. So it's a great question. And again, we've built a differentiated platform by listening to what. 14:48 investors want and we focus on angel investors. We're pretty specifically finding those who are more likely to write checks to our founder base to underrepresented founders and angel investors represent an enormous untapped opportunity. So when they join our platform they do give us some information when they on board about their thesis and what they're looking for and then. 15:11 They can see all of the founders who have uploaded their material, which includes both a comprehensive deck, because we QA what goes up there, and a short video introduction. So they can see the human behind the deck. And that is really core to how we curate for investors what they see. We are measuring variables both about the business and about the founder. 15:36 and constantly learning from the investors as they engage with different pitches, what are they actually drawn to? So that's the AI behind this is building an engine that's a little bit like Netflix, where it's constantly learning based on what you watch and suggesting other things you might like, right? Based on your behaviors, we're incorporating that based on your behaviors. Here are other founders that you might like. 16:05 And so you can log in and get a very customized experience. We also heard pretty loud and clear from angel investors that there's a variety of reasons why they might like to keep their anonymity and not be on a list or have founders reaching out to them constantly. And so they do. They make the first outreach to the founder and they can make that outreach anonymously if they want. 16:29 So they can open a founder's pitch material and ask questions within it, either with their name attached or anonymously, the founder still needs that feedback, still needs that connection. And then they can choose to reveal their name later on. If this seems like someone you want to get to know better. So that's in the investors control. Yeah, totally in the investors control. Interesting, interesting. And it's asynchronous. So if the investor were to ask any questions, then the 16:57 founder does see those and can answer. Yep. Everyone gets an email. They can answer in the platform. They can answer via email. You can have a whole conversation about a slide in a pitch deck in that slide to, again, make efficient use of everybody's time and decide, is this worth a 45-minute call after you can get through some of that conversation? Excellent. So you did share. I wanted to get into some of the metrics that there have been. 17:26 900 founders already experiencing Scroobiouss. What about investors? Because I had an interview just some time back. It dropped this month with Marsha Dawood. Oh, yeah. And she has her podcast, The Angel Next Door, and her new book has just released. I asked her, how many angel investors are actually in presently United States? There's only 300,000. I mean, if you think about that, we are a small group of. 17:55 angels and her mission with the book is to increase the number of people that become angel investors. So like back to you and there are funds of course. Yeah. Yeah. I know I was just with Marsha the past two days contributing to the Angel Capital Association Women Investors Forum and I got her book yesterday. I'm very excited to read it. So yes, and that I will 18:24 representative of the potential for angels that could be actively investing. And it's also very difficult to measure. There is not a good comprehensive set of data on angel investing activity because it does not have to be reported. So you can't scrape it. So personally, I believe that number to be much higher in reality. 18:52 And there also is, I think it's $32 billion in unallocated capital based on inactivity of angel group members. Wow. There are members who are part of that group, but not investing through the group. And that was pretty key in my research as well. To put this capital to work, it means they're not finding the people they want to put their money behind. So 32 billion in dry powder would be the word, right? Yeah, basically. Yeah, that we know of. 19:21 That's of angel group members and not every angel is a member of a group. Right. Right. So, yeah. So in terms of our own investor platform, we launched it last year in twenty twenty three and we've been working on a somewhat invitation basis. Although we do make it open to anybody to join. But we're really looking to have people who actively write checks to those who identify as underrepresented as part of our platform or those who are. 19:49 active investors in looking to start establishing those relationships. Again, we're not transactional. We don't affect the investment through our platform, but we are looking to make more of those connections. We're the infrastructure that allows investors and founders to find each other. I think it's around 40 or 45 active angels in there. We have... 20:15 multiple financings that have happened by discovery on our platform. And it really hasn't been that long a period of time. I know. And in a tough market, very tough market. Yeah, in a tough market. Although again, an angel is an entirely different investor than a fund manager. And where fund managers might go stagnant, angels don't necessarily do that. Excellent. And in the show notes, there will be links, Alison, to Scroobius. 20:45 as well as some other materials you've provided. In addition to your day job, right? You're now into your fourth year of running Scroobius. You also have been a catalyst for change and you have co-authored the California Senate Bill 54 that was signed into law in October, 2023. What's this bill about, Allison? 21:13 I got excited last year when I saw this and I got a lot of phone calls from VCs saying I need women. I need underrepresented found companies. Well, I'm very glad it already catalyzed calls to you and awareness of this. But no, I'm extremely proud to have participated in this and Scroobius is my company and we're making demonstrable change and growing quickly. But yes, I do also a number of other advocacy efforts. 21:42 Again, it's dedicating myself toward working to equitable access. And policy is something my own company needs and other companies in my space because this is unregulated territory for the most part when it comes to trying to move the numbers on at least venture allocation of capital. Again, different than angels. So the bill deals with venture allocation. 22:08 But it will require venture funds to publicly report diversity metrics about their prior year's investments. It is a California bill, but California is responsible for over 30% of investing activity and this will have a global, was it 30 or 60? I might have mixed up that stat. I'm so sorry. But... 22:32 It will have a global impact because it is about having a nexus in California, which could mean you invested in a company with a nexus in California, but your fund is located elsewhere. You will still need to report. And so nexus is defined in the bill. I've actually read it. And it comes into effect in 2027, or is it immediate? 22:53 So reporting requirements. Yeah, they're working through the implementation of it now. It was signed into law in the last year, and there's a whole lot of things that need to happen before this is implemented and enforced. But there are a number of efforts, especially in the private industry, that are already helping funds figure out how to make this the most efficient that they can. And it's information they're collecting anyway. 23:21 This is a data collection bill. It's to establish that baseline of where are the dollars going? So we have accurate data and they have it, they're just not reporting it. So now it will be available to anybody who wants to go see and have an enormous positive impact on future policy, but also on entrepreneurs and how they spend their time because it is not 23:46 transparent to any entrepreneur now, unless they're going to scour every website of every fund and then look up the leadership to know, does a fund write checks to women? Is it worth my time to go do that? So this is not telling anyone where they must invest their money. It isn't dictating that at all. It's just saying, we need a baseline of accurate quality data. 24:12 Because to date, all those numbers we cite, even the ones that I quote, they're from private companies. They're from Pitchbook and Crunchbase. And there's data flaws with their collection as well. Absolutely. And did you pick off California, start with California because of the sheer presence in the ecosystem? Because you're also championing initiatives in other states. 24:41 like the Massachusetts Senate Bill 978 and New York Senate Bill 809786. Yes, there were a lot of strategic reasons for California to start, although it's interesting. 24:59 work on Massachusetts legislation in this space predated the work in California. And we started by working with what we have been pursuing and are still pursuing in Massachusetts over there, over in California. It shifted to a different type of bill for a variety of reasons. I have learned a whole lot about this process in co-authoring that bill. But there's so much that goes with getting policy. 25:27 A lot of it again is people oriented, relationship oriented. California was a, we were there at the right time in the right place with the right people to push that through. I love it. We're going to switch gears a little bit here. And you made an important announcement in the past couple of days. Congratulations on the appointment of president and COO Ralph Gross III. 25:57 Thank you. He's joined you at Scroobius. And if you see the announcement on LinkedIn, it goes into detail about how relationships are important. So you've mentioned, you've touched on relationships several times, right? When you're an entrepreneur, you are an entrepreneur, you founded Scroobius, right? Can you share how relationships matter when building your business? That's the 26:27 And now that you have a COO and president, how's your day job gonna change? All right? Thank you. Yes. Well, I mean, we're now really the perfect example of why a platform like Scroobious and ours in particular needs to exist because it is relationship driven. And people will say everything in business is relationship driven, but there's plenty of transactions that happen and finding the funding. 26:56 And the people are critical to early stage success of a company. It's very different at the early stage. And for our story, I was introduced to Ralph three years ago by a woman who's on our advisory board, who I had actually met nearly 20 years ago when I won a scholarship from her as an MBA student. And he became one of our very first investors. He has an 27:24 exceptional career in large financial institutions and investment banks. But earlier on, he did attempt to start his own company. And it was very similar to what Robin Hood ended up being. But as a black man, he really couldn't raise the funds that he needed. So he experienced that bias as well when he was attempting to go the entrepreneurship route. And it's always stuck deep with him. Right. So he has a 27:51 very strong resonance with what we're building and our mission and firsthand experience, right? That authentic lived experience is something you cannot replicate and the connection with your stakeholders. We both have them. We both have them from the entrepreneur's perspective. And we both have them from an investor perspective. I'm an angel investor as well. And clearly, so is he. But we've developed our relationship over the three years of him being 28:18 of our team as an investor on my cap table. And very recently, he made the intentional decision to leave that corporate career and join us as our as leadership as our president and COO. So we'll be working very closely together as CEO and COO. And it accompanied a $500,000 investment into the company. So we have capital we need to really grow. This is a game changer. 28:48 for the trajectory of Scroobious, both from a capital perspective and a leadership perspective. Amazing, amazing. So I wanted to bring us back to the Founders sandbox and my guest. And again, you're very mission-driven, Allison. And I always like to ask my guests what the meaning is of three. 29:17 kind of terms that I use when I'm working with my clients. And those are resilience, purpose-driven, and scalable slash sustainable. But what does resilience mean to you? Please. So resilience is somewhat similar to me when people talk about grit. It's the quality of taking. 29:44 an unexpected circumstance and figuring out how you utilize that and move forward. And so for me, an easy example is that a month into my company building, we were in a global pandemic. I have two young children who all of a sudden had no school to go to, and all the things that life throws at you. I immediately had to decide, do I close the company down right away? 30:14 Or do I figure out a way to keep doing this? And so when I think about being resilient, there's a lot of elements to that. But that for me was, OK, I'm going to take it, and I'm just going to modify how I build this company. Because it's too important to just close it, and I'm too dedicated to it. And it really did impact our own growth. I was going to go raise a big round. That was my plan. Go do what I did before and start raising. I'm building a scalable venture backable company. 30:43 And immediately I had to say, nope, that's not what I can do anymore. So what do I do? How do I build slower? How do I make this a reality based on the circumstances that have been dealt to me? And we really turned it into a positive for how we've grown. And you did the data gathering. And also really just I love that 31:11 My guests share a personal experience, but personal slash professional, right? And that is an exceptional example of starting a company, incorporating it in the pandemic after experiencing the gender bias in your own previously venture-backed company. So amazing, amazing. What about purpose-driven enterprise? What does that mean to you? 31:40 Each guest has a different, this is kind of my favorite part other than your origin stories. I love it. It's really interesting. The word purpose to me is very interesting because I do a lot of speaking about social entrepreneurship and impact entrepreneurship, but purpose is a little bit different for me. It doesn't have to mean that you're an impact oriented company, but it reminded me of 32:11 guidance that we give our founders is something you need to be attuned to is as you're talking about your company and as you're pitching for the thousand and eighty second time, if you don't naturally get very excited about what you're talking about, that's a warning signal for yourself that you might have lost some of your purpose. Okay. It doesn't really matter what you're building, but as the founder, 32:40 you have to have a direct tie to the purpose of why you're building what you're building or your company is at risk of crumbling because as the leader, if you lose that, where is the North Star for everybody else? Excellent. And you often mentioned the word authenticity during this podcast today. And I think that, forgive me for 33:07 putting words in your mouth, but if a founder is authentic in sharing what that purpose was when creating the company, is don't lose that North Star. Thank you. Absolutely. You know, there's too many stories of companies receiving large amounts of funding and burning it and having to close. And there's too many founders that just want to be a successful founder, which is not. 33:34 it doesn't have that authenticity that you're talking about. And right, the other side of that is having the lived experience to be authentic with those who you are servicing with your company. And I mentioned it before, but again, that's when investors talk about a moat, which some of that lingo is so annoying to founders, but that's a moat, you can't replicate that. 34:00 You can't replicate someone's lived experience. And we're seeing that right now with some backlash in FemTech funding, where more FemTech funding is going to men than to women. They can never have that lived experience. It doesn't matter how close to a woman they are. They can't. And that is not ever going to be as authentically received by customers as somebody who shares that lived experience. Amen, sister. 34:29 Yes, I am co-leading with the TiE SoCal chapter. It's an entrepreneurial membership organization, a competition of women-led companies. We're in our third year, very large cohort, that's in semi finals and independent judges, male and female. It's amazing the energy. And we've talked about nails. We talked about an air purifying machine. The gamut of 34:59 you know, feminine or women-led companies was amazing. And just, we have a second session today. Yeah. And that's, you know, that's something that I talk a lot about and I try to get this message through because it's not something that people always communicate, but you know, the lack of funding to women, to black founders, to any, to take your pick of underepresentation. For women, it is not just a women's problem. 35:28 We're not just building companies only for women. This is an everybody problem. We are building companies addressing enormous societal needs. And without our contributions to that innovation and to that problem solving, every single person is suffering, not just women. Thank you, Allison. Other term, scalable growth. What's that mean to you? Scalable. 35:58 Um, so scalable means that you are building something that is intentionally designed to reach many, many people and that you are doing it in a way where you can effectively sustain that growth, sustain that scale. Right. 36:21 and there are businesses that are made to be scalable. Scroobious is made to be scalable and there are businesses that are not and both are completely needed and fine, but there is a distinction. And if you are not building something scalable, you're probably not right for the venture capital funding model of how you capitalize your business, but you still might be right for angel investing or loans or debt. 36:49 whatever other type of capital you can add to your stack. But that isn't a very important thing to know. And again, something we educate in our platform for founders, it's not always clear to founders what is the right path or how to understand the venture capital business model and why it requires scalability to be viable. Exactly. And I love that you are all encompassing at Scroobious, right? It's equitable capital access. 37:18 So not all businesses are venture capital, subject to venture capital. All right, so that's amazing. My last question, did you have fun in the sandbox today? Absolutely. I do love that question. We build humor into everything we do. I think humor is just a critical element of building. And if you're not having fun, what are you doing? 37:46 You have to be able to have fun. So yes, thank you for making a fun podcast experience. Thank you, Allison. So to my listeners, if you liked this episode with Allison Byers, CEO and founder of Scroobius, sign up for a monthly release of the Founders Sandbox where founders, business owners, corporate directors and professional service firms provide stories on how to build with strong governance a resilient, scalable. 38:14 and purpose-driven company to make profits for good. Thank you for joining me, Allison, and until next month. Thank you so much, Brenda. That was fun.
In this episode of the She+ Geeks Out podcast, we speak with guest Allison Byers, founder and CEO of Scroobious, about her journey into entrepreneurship. Allison shares how she reclaimed her career after facing gender-based professional roadblocks and what it looks like to face the challenges of fundraising in the male-dominated venture capital industry. Allison discusses the concept behind Scroobious, which aims to make fundraising more accessible for underrepresented entrepreneurs by providing education, personalized feedback, and connections to angel investors. We dig into her involvement as a co-author of California Senate Bill 54, which mandates the collection of venture capital data, and her advocacy work with organizations like All Raise. Links We Mention:Scroobious, SB54, All Raise, Olympics Blog Post(00:06) Olympics, Paralympics, Inclusion, Workplace, Inspiration(13:15) Building a Diverse and Sustainable Company(25:05) Navigating Venture Capital and Angel Funding(32:47) Intersection of Human Capital and AI(42:38) Venture Capital, Diversity, & Mentorship(51:11) Future Trends in Diversity & Entrepreneurship(56:45) Empowering Women in Business(01:03:40) Thanking Allison Visit us at https://shegeeksout.com to stay up to date on all the ways you can make the workplace work for everyone! Check out SGOLearning.com and SheGeeksOut.com/podcast for the code to get a free mini course.
Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Allison Byers, the Founder & CEO of Scroobious, a scalable, algorithmic platform connecting founders and investors through education and personalized curation, with a mission to enhance diversity in the startup ecosystem. Prior to founding Scroobious she launched and co-ran a medical device company spun out of MIT where she raised nearly $10M before it was acquired. Her earlier career includes over a decade of startup and tech operator roles. Allison is also an activist (California Senate Bill 54, MA Senate Bill 978/House Bill 1708), angel investor, startup mentor, speaker, Co-Chair of the national non-profit All Raise Boston chapter, and Executive in Residence at Merck Digital Sciences Studio. www.sheangelinvestors.com www.scroobious.com Follow Us On Social Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn
Fundraising is a challenging process which is often confusing, drawn out, and ultimately leaves many founders frustrated. Statistics show that for certain founders, there appears to be an additional imbalance which is causing concern across the innovation ecosystem. Despite extensive data showing the benefits of a diverse founding team, underrepresented and underserved founders are still regularly being overlooked when it comes to dollars being distributed to startups.Allison Byers, CEO and Founder of Scroobious, steps forward to share her personal experience from medtech leader, to inspirational diversity fundraising champion. Her mission is to remove unfair, and often unseen bias in the pitching process through a combination of community and data science.Scroobious is leveraging the modern business plan, aka, your pitch deck, to help level the playing field for all founders when it comes to fundraising. Their value-driven platform teaches the top tips when it comes to building your story and conveying the best message to showcase your innovation, all while forging connections with funders too.If you want to learn more about how you can wow with your next investor presentation, or how a 19th Century poem is helping to celebrate and reap the benefits of diversity, then be sure to tune in so you can be equally inspired and informed.
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Featured Guests: Allison Byers, founder & CEO, Scroobious, and co-chair, All Raise Boston chapter | Priya Saiprasad, co-founder & general partner, Touring Capital | Kfir Kachlon, managing partner at 91 Ventures Governor Newsom passes the first diversity disclosure bill of its kind for VC firms in California, venture is supporting Israel with financial aid, and food consumption is down due to an appetite-killing drug.
Our guest, Tonia Jahshan, was recovering from a difficult time in her life when she had her first cup of tea… and it was love at first sip.You will be inspired by her startup story and will love hearing how she built her direct sales wellness drink empire to extraordinary heights, by building a thriving, committed community, one sip at a time.Tonia is the founder of Sipology, a multi-million dollar direct sales company selling wellness drinks and accessories.Tonya founded Sipology after suffering a miscarriage and traveling to Nova Scotia for a pause. While there, she had her first cup of Earl Grey de la Crème tea, and for the first time in weeks, things felt better.She launched Sipology in 2007 to share the healing power of tea with the world.In 2012, Tonia pitched the business on Dragons' Den (Canadian Shark Tank) and accepted an offer from Dragons Jim Treliving and David Chilton, skyrocketing the business to new heights.BTW: Tonia's pitch is the all time best pitch at Dragons' Den and is used as an example for potential guests pitching to be on the show. Also, Sipology's deal holds the record for the fastest closing of a deal on the show.Today, Sipology does millions in annual sales and has tens of thousands of consultants selling its products.The company has been recognized as one of Profit 500 Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies, and Tonia was named Canada's #1 Female Entrepreneur by W100 and 1 of 6 Women to Watch by Forbes.Watch Sipology's Dragons' Den pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_AqVsorxQTo learn more about Sipology, please visit: https://www.sipology.comConnect with Tonia and Sipology online via these social platforms:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sipology/ and https://www.instagram.com/toniajahshan/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steepedteainc and https://www.facebook.com/ToniaJahshan/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonia-jahshan-29977410/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC ApplicationSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Leveraging LinkedIn as a Startup Founder is a different strategy than when you were an employee. You need to build your authority as the leader of your new business, while appealing to potential investors, business partners and talent.Our guest, Donna Serdula, is a leading authority on LinkedIn profile optimization. As the founder and president of Vision Board Media, a professional branding company, Donna helps individuals and companies tell their unique stories on LinkedIn and beyond. Via her website LinkedIn-Makeover.com, Donna and her team of over 20 writers and coaches help people collide with opportunity and transform their lives via future-forward career branding. Donna has authored two editions of LinkedIn Profile Optimization FOR DUMMIES, and she has been featured on many news outlooks, including Forbes, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, LA Times, and NBC.Learn more about Donna and how she helps folks with a Linked Makeover here:https://www.linkedin-makeover.com/Connect with Donna on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/todonna Hire Donna to speak here: https://donnaserdula.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#linkedinoptimization #leveragelinkedin #linkedinforstartupfounders #startupfounders WHAT WE LEARNED00:00 - Meet Donna Serdula06:00 - How to add Career Break to Your LinkedIn Profile09:00 - Donna's origin story16:00 - You have to educate your target audience, sales and marketing is not enough19:50 - How to brand your profile on LinkedIn25:50 - How to use LinkedIn Profile Optimization28:00 - zhuzh up your profile every month or two (pro tip!)34:00 - Getting asked to author a For Dummies edition for LinkedIn Profile Optimization38:00 - The best strategy for your LinkedIn headline40:00 - How to connect and invite on LinkedIn47:00 - The best advice for using LinkedIn's search engine50:00 - How to optimize your time on LinkedIn55:00 - Use LinkedIn's Bell featureJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Knowing when to form and build a Board of Directors is a challenge for many startup founders.Once the Board is formed, how to manage and communicate with the Board presents an additional burden on founders.Our guest, Mahendra Ramsinghani, co-authored Startup Boards: Getting the Most of Your Board of Directors with Brad Feld, and has all the insights and advice you need to skillfully navigate this important segment of your startup's structure.Currently, Mahendra is the Founder of Secure Octane - a cybersecurity seed fund based in the San Francisco Bay area.He's invested in over fifty pre-seed and seedstage companies and, as the former Director of Venture Capital Initiatives for Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), Mahendra led the legislation for two Fund-of-Fund programs in Michigan. Mahendra is also the author of two additional books - The Business of Venture Capital and The Resilient Founder.To purchase a copy of Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors, please visit: https://amzn.to/3N7YfjzConnect with Mahendra via these links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahendraram/Website: https://www.thebusinessofvc.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#boardofdirectors #startupboards #buildingeffectivestartupboards #founderadvice WHAT WE LEARNED00:00 - Meet Seasoned Startup Investor Mahendra Ramsinghani09:00 - Mahendra's origin story13:00 - Not knowing what to do can be either paralyzing or empowering18:00 - Mahendra's investor journey - how it began and how it's going25:00 - Secure Octane32:00 - When does a startup need to establish a Board34:00 - Who should be on a Board and how many members are needed based on stage of funding: Seed/Series A-D36:30 39:00 - Legal requirements for Boards and fiduciary responsibilities41:00 - What are the Board's responsibilities and what are the Founder's responsibilities43:20 - Who is in charge45:00 - Communication strategies and intellectual honesty48:00 - How does a Founder deliver bad news to a Board of Directors54:00 - Board of Director's Compensation Packages57:00 - How to off-ramp a toxic Board MemberJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
With 20+ years working for the post office, our guest had a dream to one day own her own postal store with the ability to individualize customer service and provide guidance.In the spring of 2019 that dream came true when Tiffany Townsend founded Ship Black, a logistics super center focused on serving black owned e-commerce businesses.Ship Black is a one-stop-shop for startup businesses. It provides fulfillment services, education, and guidance in the customer service realm to elevate its customers' ecommerce business and the effectiveness of their supply chain. Tiffany is also an advocate for autism awareness, regularly volunteering her time and resources to support local organizations, and providing warehouse apprenticeship training and jobs, which helps individuals gain the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the logistics and warehousing industry.To learn more about SHIP BLACK, please visit: https://shipblack.comTo receive the education you need to succeed at shipping with your business, please visit: https://shipblackuniversity.comFor a FREE Consultation with Tiffany and her team, please email: info@shipblackuniversity.com and put FREE in the subject line.Connect with Tiffany and SHIP BLACK on social here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ship-black/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-townsend-sb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shipblackcoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/shipblackco/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#fulfillmentcenter #blackownedbusiness #supportingblackownedbusinesses #ecommerce WHAT WE LEARNED:00:00 Meet Tiffany Townsend07:00 - Turning a dream into a reality12:00 - Buying an existing business14:00 - Pandemic pivot = mobile mailroom for Tiffany's community!20:00 - How serving customers ecommerce needs created SHIP BLACK - a one-stop-shop fulfillment center25:00 - Tiffany used Houston Ship Station for a seamless integration into all ecommerce platforms29:30 - The Pound Cake Story - how Tiffany saved an act of kindness during the pandemic 30:00 - The BEST ecommerce shipping advice you'll ever receive36:00 - Bootstrapping your business to success39:00 - Mailing solution specialist - Tiffany's educational arm of SHIP BLACK: https://shipblackuniversity.com44:00 - NOW is the time to fix and enhance all your product shipping needs!49:00 - the cheapest way is not always the BEST way50:40 - shipping insurance advice and insights53:00 - how Tiffany serves the autism world with specific training and skills learning for folks on the SpectrumJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Social media strategies often leave you feeling like you're working for the social media platforms. Our guest and his team built an AI solution that helps make social media actually work for you and your business.Rhys Ryan, is the Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of Ekkobar, an AI solution giving you control over social media and the narrative you want to tell.Ekkobar uses social listening to keep an eye on the conversation and lets you know if anything needs immediate attention. There's also a web-based assessment platform letting you dig deep into the conversation to understand what is being said and how best to respond. Rhys began his career working for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Microsoft, HP, and Tandem. At these companies, he was able to utilize his degrees in computer science and math to create new computing techniques for cryptography, security, and early-day data science. Over his career Rhys has created award-winning patented technology that brought audio, video, telephony, natural language processing, and data science into the entertainment world. Tap the link to RSVP and join me for a delicious conversation with Rhys. You'll learn how his startup is helping brands control their narrative on social media while refining their ability to engage with customers.Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#brandreputation #controlthenarrative #socialmedia #activeintelligenceWHAT WE LEARNED ON THIS EPISODE:00:00 Meet Rhys Ryan09:00 - Mediocrity in large corporate environments led Rhys to launch his own business12:00 - an extraordinary lived experience in tech from the 70s, 80, 90s and 00s14:00 - I solve problems - this is the common thread of every founder18:30 - Why True Blood should have used Rhys' algorithm!24:00 - We spent five years to build ekkobar - here's what we learned28:00 - How ekkobar could have help Bud Light30:00 - The For and Against AI model38:00 - Best advice for neurodiverse founders on how to negotiate the startup landscape with an Asperger's brainJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Our guest, Rajia Abdelaziz, is the Co-Founder and CEO of invisaWear, the best safety jewelry and fashion accessories technology on the market.From her own personal experience, Rajia understands how important it is to feel safe. She was walking to her car after an event at college, when a car full of guys pulled up next to her, yelling frightening comments at her, and when one of the guys started to get out to take action, Rajia was able to run and get in her car, unharmed. However, the feeling of being extremely helpless did not go away. Which is why, at just 21 years old, Rajia and her Co-Founder, Ray Hamilton, developed invisaWear, a life-saving technology for jewelry and fashion accessories. invisaWear's smart jewelry and accessories allow users to instantly connect with friends, family and authorities in case of an emergency. They look like necklaces, bracelets, keychains, fitness bands, and even scrunchies… but they are actually safety devices!With a double press of the button on the accessory, ADT Security sends a discreet alert containing the GPS location to up to 5 pre-configured emergency contacts and optionally alerts authorities. ADT is able to connect directly with 9-1-1 dispatchers at the nearest dispatch department and send help if needed. In just two years, Rajia and Ray developed the hardware and software, got the app approved on both iOS and Android, and over the following 3 years raised $3 million in funding to develop invisaWear's wide range of smart jewelry and accessories.With over 560k followers and 32 million views, invisaWear's TikTok channel consistently educates viewers on sexual assault awareness and other protective and defensive measures folks can take to stay safe.Rajia is a BostInno 25 Under 25 Recipient and has a Dual degree (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. To learn more about invisaWear please visit: https://www.invisawear.com/Follow invisaWear on social media here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invisawear/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@invisawearConnect with Rajia on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajiaabdelaziz/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#lifesavingtechnology #sexualassaultawarenessmonth #sexualassaultprevention JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.What We Learned:00:00 Meet Rajia Abdelaziz11:00 - Believe in yourself15:00 - how to be a success entrepreneur at 2123:40 - best co-founder advice for startups26:00 - how invisaWear built its MVP30:00 - leveraging an Indiegogo campaign for traction33:00 - how invisaWear manufactures product locally36:00 - invisaWear's packaging strategy41:00 - how invisaWear works44:20 - leveraging partnerships - the ADT story59:45 - pitching investors when you're a woman1:06:00 - best advice for managing founder doubt1:08:00 - what does success look like today vs. when invisaWear was launched
To be their best selves, both professionally and personally, women need time in a welcoming space and place.Our guest, Shubhi Rao, spent years as a senior executive at Fortune 100 companies and understands how important women-centric spaces are for professional and personal growth.That's why she launched Uplevyl, a global digital platform designed to transform the lives of all professional women through shared experiences, peer connections, and highly curated, personalized content.A software engineer, finance and corporate executive, board member, global citizen, community leader, daughter, wife and mother, Shubhi is uniquely qualified to help women around the world to level up their skillsets and mindsets in a safe, female-centric online platform.Shubhi has served as a senior executive with Alphabet Inc./Google, Tesco (U.K.), PricewaterhouseCoopers (U.K.) and Ford Motor Company, among others. She also sits on the board of directors for organizations such as the Open Lending LLC, Center for Global Development, and International Center for Research on Women.To learn more about Uplevyl, please visit: https://www.uplevyl.comFollow Uplevyl on social media here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplevylInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/uplevyl/Twitter: https://twitter.com/uplevylTo learn more about Linking Ventures, please visit: https://linkingventures.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#femalecentric #professionaldevelopmentforwomen #femaleleadership #femaletechfounderJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Having a Mentor is an essential part of career growth, especially for the under-networked tech worker.Our guest, Kirk Fernandes, is the Co-Founder of Merit, a tech mentorship and recruiting platform for the under-networked. Merits mission is to democratize the professional network by giving every knowledge worker in the world a world class network. With 6,000 members, the majority of which are women and people of color, Merit is is self funded by its community and team.Kirk has a decade of product leadership at Microsoft, Hightower, and VTS. He has mentored and managed 100s of product managers, designers and engineers throughout his career, and he's deeply passionate about building products, brands and teams.To learn more about Merit, please visit: https://www.get-merit.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #hrtech #mentorshipmatters JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. #hrtech #undernetworked #mentorshipmatters #techmentorship
Bootstrapping your startup without relying on raising capital and loans is an ideal strategy, especially given the current investor and banking landscape.Our guest, Melissa Widner, has the best advice to help you launch and build your startup, without raising capital.She's the CEO of Lighter Capital, the pioneer and leader in revenue-based financing for tech startups, founders, and companies. Previously, Melissa was the Managing Director of NAB Ventures, the VC arm of the National Australia Bank, and a General Partner at Seattle based SeaPoint Ventures. A seasoned founder, Melissa has first-hand experience building a business from the ground up. She was the founder and CEO of 7Software, a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company acquired by Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR, acquired by SAP). Melissa is also the co-founder and Chairperson of Sydney-based Heads Over Heels, an organization that supports women entrepreneurs running companies with high growth potential.To learn more about Lighter Capital, please visit: https://www.lightercapital.com/To learn more about Heads Over Heels, please visit: https://www.headsoverheels.com.au/Follow Lighter Capital via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissawidner/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighter-capital/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightercapital/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LighterCapital/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LighterCapitalThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #raisingcapital JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥#raisingcapital #femalefounders #bootstrapstrategies #startupstrategiesandadvice
40 million drivers can't transition to electric vehicles without an affordable and convenient EV charging infrastructure. Increasing access to affordable public charging not only encourages the adoption of EVs, but leads to cleaner air and healthier communities.Our guest, Tiya Gordon, is Co-Founder and COO of itselectric, a cleantech startup bringing EV charging to the millions of drivers who cannot charge at home as they park their cars on city streets.itselectric does this by overcoming city electrical grid limitations by using energy from buildings to power a publicly accessible curbside charger.In return, they share revenue with the property owners.It is a collaborative economic model and one that allows for EV chargers to be deployed within cities at speed and at scale.Tiya has spent over 20 years in design, leadership, and operations across a range of disciplines for some of the country's top firms and institutions. Her work has received the industry's top accolades, including The National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.To learn more about itselectric, please visit: https://www.itselectric.us (tap the Get Involved tab!)Follow and connect with the itselectric team via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/itselectric/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itselectric_co/Twitter: https://twitter.com/itselectric_coThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #evchargingstations #cleantechJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
When people are given the opportunity to take someone else's point of view - walk a mile in someone else's shoes - bias against stigmatized groups is reduced.Our guest, Aubrey Grant, MD, is the Co-Founder and Chief Equity Officer of Equity Commons, where he and the team are integrating a unique blend of cross-disciplinary research, cutting edge technology, and established discussion-based learning to bring organizations highly effective and engaging approaches to address the complexities of implicit bias. Dr. Grant is a clinical sports cardiologist at Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital with specialty training in advanced cardiac imaging. He is dedicated and passionate about investigating health disparities. As a cardiology fellow at Georgetown University, he began serving with the American Heart Association to raise awareness on inequities in medicine. Outside of clinical duties, Dr. Grant is passionate about implicit bias and leveraging technology and innovation to create thoughtful and engaging mitigation strategies for physicians.To learn more about Equity Commons, please visit: https://equity-commons.com/productFollow Equity Commons on social via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equity-commons/Twitter: https://twitter.com/EquityCommonsVRThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #virtualreality #implicitbiasJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
He had zero experience in the liquor industry. He didn't have a background as a food scientist. He knew no one, had no connections, and had never worked in a bar, restaurant, or distillery.What our guest, Jackie Summers, did have was an abundance of audacity, passion, and the ideal Mentor, who helped him quickly build the social capital and liquor industry knowledge he needed to launch a liqueur brand from Brooklyn, NY!After 623 failed attempts, Jackie was able to create the first-ever shelf stable version of a 500-year-old beverage he called Sorel: an Hibiscus flavored, Caribbean classic, handcrafted artisanal liqueur.In 2016 Jackie was unable to keep up with demand and had to close down Jack From Brooklyn. But he never lost sight of his dream, and relaunched the brand in 2021, partnering with America's oldest distiller, Laird & Company, where he can produce thousands of bottles of Sorel.Jackie is a James Beard Finalist, a seasoned public speaker, and has many accolades to his credit, including being ranked among the world's “100 Most Influential Bar Industry Figures” by Drinks International Magazine for 4 years in a row and being named one of The 50 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Food.To learn more about Sorel, please visit: https://sorelofficial.com/Follow Jackie and Sorel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theliquortarian/https://www.instagram.com/sorelofficial/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #blackownedbusiness JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
Innovation is often inspired by biomimicry - the design and production of materials modeled on biological entities.Our guest, Sissi Liu, is passionate about solving complex societal problems with cutting-edge technology, and she was inspired by the metalmark butterfly for her innovative new product.After nearly 20 years in clean tech/sustainability, entrepreneurship, and venture investing, Sissi co-founded Metalmark Innovations to tackle air quality and climate change challenges.Metalmark Innovations is a Public Benefits Corporation and is releasing its patent-pending product: Tatama, the first self-cleaning commercial air purifier. Inspired by the nanostructure of the metalmark butterfly's wings, Tatama provides air cleaning with HEPA-grade filters that capture 99.97% of airborne particles.Once a month, Tatama quickly destroys the captured materials and renews the filter for the next cycle, resulting in indoor air that's far cleaner than outdoor air, without the hassles of typical air purifiers.You can learn more about Metalmark Innovations here: https://www.metalmark.xyz/Follow Metalmark on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metalmark/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIP If you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. #biomimicry #airquality #climatecrisessolutions #publicbenefitscorporation
Many parents are seeking ways to give their children a better head start financially in life.Our guest, Ksenia Yudina, is a chartered financial analyst, a Mom, and the Founder and CEO of UNest, an app that empowers parents to easily invest and save for their kids' future.After coming to the U.S. from Russia at 18, Ksenia took on $180,000 in debt to pay for college. She quickly realized that many other graduates were strapped with debt and saw a need for a more accessible savings vehicle than the traditional 529 that requires confusing paperwork and fees.In 2020, Ksenia launched UNest, and has raised over $38 million from well-known VCs to build her fintech platform into a popular savings and investment vehicle for parents.With many of UNest's team members located in Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, Ksenia had to work around the clock to evacuate her team members to safety.To learn more about UNest and download the app, please visit: https://www.unest.coBe sure to follow UNest on LinkedIn and Twitter here:https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-nest/https://twitter.com/UNestThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.combestpodcastforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥ #fintechfounder #startupstories #raisingcapital #femalefounder #startupstrategiesandadvice
Research shows that aligning company and personal purpose improves productivity, retention, and overall wellness in the workplace.Greg Sloan, CFP®, CEPA, CPMTM, is the Chief Purpose Officer and Co-Founder of Go Beyond, a talent development company that leverages behavioral science and technology to help companies attract, engage, and grow their people.Go Beyond has humanized and gamified the purpose discovery process for both company and worker. Their SaaS platform includes on-demand videos, self-guided exercises, and behavioral assessments to build a purpose-centered culture.With over 25+ years of experience in financial services, Greg is a serial founder who discovered the benefits of activating personal purpose in the workplace and loves sharing this knowledge with other leaders. To try Go Beyond, please visit: https://www.gobeyond.work/solutions/purpose-pulse and select "try it for yourself" and receive 15% off using promo code Ande15. Measure the 6 Factors driving disengagement, turnover, and burnout: https://www.gobeyond.work/solutions/purpose-pulseConnect with Greg and Go Beyond via these social platforms:Greg Sloan's personal LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregonpurpose/Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-beyond-work/Greg Sloan's personal Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/greg.sloan.520Company's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/trygobeyond.workGreg Sloan's personal Twitter:https://twitter.com/gregonpurposeTwitter:https://twitter.com/GoBeyond_workGreg Sloan's personal Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/gregonpurpose/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gobeyond.work/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #hrtechstartupJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
How does one take a brilliant expertise and turn it into a thriving, profitable B2B tech platform serving thousands of paying customers?Our guest, Lee Rubin, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Confetti, a young, well-funded startup helping companies create memorable, easy-to-plan experiences that inspire dynamic workplaces, encourage healthier offices, and motivate happier, more holistic teams. Today Confetti is loved by 2,500+ businesses such as Google, Facebook, Spotify, and many other startups, firms and agencies. A visionary culture leader with a decade of experience in B2B sales, Lee is one of the world's experts on remote event planning. Under her leadership, Confetti scaled from $0 to $12 million in annual revenue within 2 years using only $2.5 millon in funding. Lee now leads a team of 60 people who support a customer base of over 4,000 unique paying companies. Her hope is that Confetti not only offers a place for people to easily and quickly book these experiences, but to be a vehicle that changes the relationship people have with their jobs and the people they work with by making it more meaningful.To learn more about Confetti, please visit: https://www.withconfetti.com/Connect with Lee and follow Confetti via these social platforms:Lee via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubinl/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/with_confetti/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/withconfetti/Twitter: https://twitter.com/withconfettiThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #femalefounder JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
Supporting and funding entrepreneurs is a terrific way to accelerate economic development in a community.Our guest, Ian Cain, is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of QUBIC Labs, a startup incubator and innovation hub focused on helping entrepreneurs and innovators to develop world-class companies to serve businesses, governments, and people.QUBIC Labs is located in Quincy, MA – the birthplace of many famous founders and innovators: from John Adams and John Hancock to Howard Johnson's ice cream parlors and hotels, and our beloved Dunkin Donuts.Ian also serves his local community as an elected representative to the City Council in Quincy, MA, a member of the Board of Directors at Bay State Community Services, and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton. To learn more about QUBIC Labs, please visit: https://www.qubiclabs.comFollow QUBIC Labs online via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qubiclabsTwitter: https://twitter.com/qubic_labsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/qubic_labsThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestpodcastforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Founders – you work so hard to be prepared for investors' questions during your pitch presentations.But are you qualifying those investors? Your time is valuable, and you need to minimize the chance of wasting your time with investors who will not invest in your startup.Our guest, Alex Iskold, is a 4x founder, a software engineer, an investor in over 150 startups, and the Founder and a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures, where he leads pre-seed rounds, backs visionary founders who are creating technologies of the future, with a specific focus on biotech, deep tech, platform and API companies.Alex writes one of the top startup blogs (a personal fave!), called Startup Hacks, and is a life-long learner and deeply interested in Complexity Science and Systems Thinking. (https://www.startuphacks.vc/)Prior to founding 2048 Ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. He was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO).Alex currently serves as a Coach and a VC in Residence at the Harvard Business School, and he previously taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU. 11 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors During the First Meetinghttps://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/21/11-questions-founders-need-to-ask-investors-during-the-fist-meeting30 Questions Investors Ask During Fundraisinghttps://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/13/30-questions-investors-ask-during-fundraisingTo learn more about 2048 Ventures, please visit: https://www.2048.vc/Follow Alex via:Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskoldLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iskold/Startup Hacks: https://www.startuphacks.vc/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestpodcastforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Karen Lee is on a mission to reimagine e-commerce for beauty lovers by providing a trusted market place for buying and rehoming new beauty products.Glou Beauty is empowering beauty lovers to become more conscious consumers, pushing against an industry that encourages over-consumption.As the first consumer-to-consumer re-commerce marketplace for beauty, Glou enables consumers to easily buy and sell makeup, skincare, and beauty products.The platform is an environmentally friendly option as it both minimizes waste and maximizes the useful life of a beauty product, while allowing consumers to shop different beauty brands and products at an accessible price point. Good for the planet, good for the wallet!An actor, sailor, polyglot, robot-fixer, and beauty product encyclopedia, Karen spent 8+ years in fashion and luxury and, in just 5 years, earned her HBA & MSc from Ivey Business School, and an MiM from CEMS schools Tsinghua University and Bocconi University.To learn more about Glou Beauty and it's rehoming platform, please visit: https://www.glou.coFollow Glou Beauty everywhere it glows:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gloubeauty/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glou-beauty/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gloubeautyThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.combestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
You don't have to come up with a terrific idea to become an entrepreneur. You can buy and scale an already established business!Our guest, Allegra Stennett, is the Co-Founder of New Majority Capital, an impact investing firm that addresses the racial and gender wealth gaps in the United States by providing training and capital for BIPOC and women entrepreneurs to buy and scale existing small businesses.Prior to launching NMC, Allegra completed an MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management and an EdM in Education Policy & Management at Harvard Graduate School of Education.After graduating at Andrews University, Allegra was a commercial and investment banker at J.P. Morgan for 5 years, where she covered a variety of multi-billion dollar client relationships in the Healthcare, Industrials, Oil & Gas, and Nonprofit sectors; launched a second language program to prepare 5,000 tri-state employees for expat assignments; and was the only person in her banking cohort to personally close a $100 million transaction.To learn more about New Majority Capital, please visit: https://newmajoritycapital.com/To learn about New Majority Capital's Wefunder Campaign, please visit: https://wefunder.com/newmajoritycapitalBe sure to follow Allegra and New Majority Capital on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-majority-capital/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/allegrastennett/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers! Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #racialwealthgapJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Helping schools help students is a mission that began in Alyse Maslonik's childhood.From living in a domestic abuse shelter to creating a self-funded business that now raises millions of dollars for under-privileged children, Alyse has experienced it all. At age 21, with a measly $63 dollars to her name, she packed up everything she owned and set out on a journey to change her life. By the age of 23, she was managing a multi-million-dollar property asset in Charlotte, NC and went on to become one of the youngest Sales & Marketing Representatives for a custom home builder in the Charlotte region, where she developed a love of helping people achieve their own piece of the American dream through home ownership.With fierce determination and a belief that she could make a difference, Alyse founded RedefinED Advisors LLC, a strategic development partner for non-public and private schools that now offers a wide array of services to help schools grow funding and enrollment.As CEO of RedefinED Advisors LLC, Alyse continues her lifelong mission through the Triumph Over Tragedy Scholarship Award, which provides additional scholarships to students that have demonstrated their ability to triumph over tragedy and who have remained resilient in the face of adversity.To learn more about RedefinED Advisors, please visit: https://www.redefiningeducation.org/Connect with Alyse and RedefinED Advisors on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/redefiningeducation/Here's the link to the TECH IN MOTION Fireside Chat: https://events.techinmotion.com/fireside-chat-c-light-technologiesThe link to Dan Pallotta's Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/bfAzi6D5FpMThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startupadviceJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
The chemical industry has become the third largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, with more than half of its resources ending up in waste streams.Our guest, Daniela Blanco, Co-Founder & CEO of Sunthetics, is solving this global problem by making the chemical industry more sustainable by helping it fast-track innovation, which leads to better materials and more efficient processes.Daniela obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from New York University (2020). At Sunthetics, she developed ground-breaking machine-learning platforms that enable the development of new chemicals, materials, and processes up to 15 times faster, significantly reducing R&D emissions by up to 95%.Daniela has multiple patents on sustainable chemical technologies and has been named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy North America, Rising Star in Sustainability, Top Innovator Under 35 in Latin America by MIT Technology Review, Top Female Founder by Inc Magazine, Top Graduate Inventor by Lemelson-MIT, Global Student Entrepreneur Champion, and Brightest AI-CI Mind by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.Her story and vision led her to co-star in National Geographic's recent documentary, Own the Room, available to stream on Disney+.To learn more about Sunthetics, please visit: https://sunthetics.io/Please follow Sunthetics on social here:Instagram: @suntheticsmlLinkedIn:Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥ https://andelyons.com #bestpodcastforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
If you build it they will come is a popular myth in the startup ecosystem.Our guest, Cindy Fossouo, Founder & CEO of Information Systems Builder, loves solving the problem facing many tech founders: how to market their products and services to their ideal customers.Her San Francisco-based firm is a branding and marketing company providing services for tech startups seeking to differentiate their product and stand out in a crowded and noisy world.From competitor research to building a sales funnel, Information Systems Builder gives the tech founder and their team the framework they need to reach their target market and revenue projections.Cindy is also a deal partner at a venture capital firm where she helps connect startups with capital.Through the success of Information Systems Builder, Cindy's goal is to help other startups succeed in every way possible.To learn more about Information Systems Builder, please visit: https://www.informationsystemsbuilder.com.Connect with Cindy on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-fossouo-a2b9791b8/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.combestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Innovative products, services and behavior changes are key ingredients for solving the world's most pressing issues.Our guest, Lori van Dam, is the CEO of Hult Prize, an organization that inspires student entrepreneurs to solve the world's biggest challenges through innovative social enterprises with positive global impact.Hult Prize was launched in 2009 by a group of Hult International Business School students with the support of the Hult family, founders and owners of EF Education First, and benefactors of the Hult International Business School.Through its year-long competition, over 100,000 young people in 120 countries work to create high-impact startups that address the annual challenge in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Finalists pitch their businesses to a panel of expert judges, and the winning team receives 1 million USD in funding to make their idea a reality.Prior to joining Hult Prize, Lori spent six years as an executive leader for Susan G. Komen, as executive director of The One Fund Boston, which was created by the Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts to provide support for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing victims, and for 20 years she worked for EF Education First, a global education company.To learn more about the Hult Prize, please visit: https://www.hultprize.org/Follow the Hult Prize on these social platforms:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hultprize/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hultprize/Twitter: https://twitter.com/hultprizeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hult-prize-foundation/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #hultprizeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUP Get an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
Founders - you will be INSPIRED by and UPLIFTED from this delicious conversation with global clean beauty brand founder Kim Roxie!Southern belle, seasoned makeup artist, licensed esthetician and member of the Cosmetic Executive Women, our guest – Kim Roxie – experienced firsthand how multicultural women have been overlooked in the clean beauty market.At the age of 21, with a $500 investment, she opened her own makeup shop that catered to multicultural women in her hometown of Houston, Texas. After running her shop for 14 years Kim launched LAMIK Beauty in 2020 as an e-commerce clean beauty company making LAMIK the first black-owned clean makeup brand carried by the major beauty specialty retailer, Ulta.com – changing the clean beauty game in Houston, Texas and beyond.Kim has received numerous awards including the Barack Obama and Joe Biden Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service, the Houston Business Journal's “40 under 40,” the Innovation Map Award's “Top Founder under 40”, the American Business Journal's Most Influential Young Executives and “one of the 30 Black Stars” by Face2Face Africa.She is so beloved by her hometown, that the City of Houston formally named June 23rd as Kim Roxie day in her honor!At 46:00 on the audio, Kim demonstrates how to use LAMIK's Revelation Brow Due while chatting with us - awe*mazing! https://lamikbeauty.com/collections/b...To learn more about LAMIK Beauty and to purchase products, please visit: https://lamikbeauty.comPlease follow LAMIK Beauty on social:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LAMIKCosmeticsInstagram: https://instagram.com/lamikbeautyTwitter: https://twitter.com/lamikbeautyThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.combestpodcastlforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Who's ready for some tea from the leading source for LGBTQ+ business news, served with dignity and depth?Our guest, Travers Johnson (he/him), is the Founder & CEO of Queerency, an award-winning LGBTQ+ business media startup, and the Creator of LGBTQ+ Business Week, an annual 7-day celebration of queer-owned small businesses.The winner of the Google News Initiative Pitchfest and the Maynard Institute Media Entrepreneurship Award, Travers' delicious delivery of the queer economy news through Instagram and TikTok reels has made him a worldwide favorite media founder!An award-winning content strategist and editor with 15 years of experience in digital media, book publishing, and email marketing with companies including Penguin Random House, Edelman, Mailchimp, and Scholastic, Travers was trained at Morehouse College and Georgetown University, and is passionate about helping people tell their stories across various mediums.To learn more about Queerency, please visit: https://www.queerency.com Follow Queerency on social media here:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@queerencyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/queerencySubscribe to Queerency's Newsletter here: https://www.queerency.com/newsletterThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥ https://andelyons.com #bestpodcastlforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyons https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
You're never too old to realize a new dream and build an innovative tech business.Our guest, Danielle D. Duplin, is the Founder and President of FreeWind Productions, an award-winning public speaking coach, and an executive producer of strategic innovation programs.She's also a beloved Mentor and Pitch Coach to hundreds of startups and scaleups via MassChallenge, FinTech Sandbox, Leading Cities Accelerator (Smart CitiesTech), TechStars, JETRO (Japan's BioTech), AGENCY (AgeTech), and AARP AgeTech Collaborative – many of which have raised millions of dollars and won ‘best in show' challenges.Danielle's latest entrepreneurial venture is Founder of AGENCY: Worldwide Innovation for Living Longer and Aging Better, a global community of innovators focused on improving the aging journey; as well as Cofounder of the Founders Over 55+ Collective to help “late in life” founders grow their companies and signal a counternarrative to ageism.Please reach out to Danielle via email: danielle@freewindproductions.comYou can learn more about launching a business after 55 by visiting: https://www.agencytoinnovate.com and connecting with them online via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agency-cic/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AGENCYCICConnect with Danielle on these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielledduplin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielleDDuplinThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.combestpodcastforstartups #startupstories #proaging #livelongerJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Menstruation is one of the many bodily issues women have been taught to suppress.Our guest, Rachael Kim, said “enough with the silence,” and is actively changing the social conversation around menstrual health.She's the Co-Founder and CEO of My Comma—an organic period care subscription platform amplifying women/BIPOC led brands to menstruators, and powering new routines.My Comma represents the pause to take care of oneself, acknowledge the different facets of you, and the fact that it takes more than yourself to change the social conversation around menstrual health.This work gave rise to the Femtech Salon series taking place in LA, ATL, MIA with other high growth cities — to support and amplify diverse femtech founders by creating more connected ecosystems in their respective local cities.A Forbes Trailblazer, Rachael is a Northwestern and London School of Economics alum who spent 10 years working for Strategy, Risk, and Analytics in Accenture. As an ex-corporate intrapreneur turned social impact entrepreneur, after experiencing health issues, she uses her superpowers for gender equity, particularly period equity while supporting overlooked businesses.To learn more about My Comma, please visit: https://mycomma.life/Newsletter subscription link: https://mycomma-news.beehiiv.com/subscribeThe Quarterly box subscription link: https://mycomma.life/products/the-quarterly.Follow My Comma on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycommalife/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mycomma/Connect with Rachael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachael-m-kim or via email here: rachael@mycomma.life.Check out Shine Registry for your business shower or to gift a founder: https://www.shineregistry.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥ https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplifeJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyons ANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/ How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
What do you get when you combine beautiful dispensers, a sanitizer people love to use, and a commitment to doing business in a better way?A hand sanitizer system that prevents more plastics from polluting our planet and helps to remove existing plastics too! Our guest, Ashley Wayman, is the Founder of Shimmy – a customizable and eco-friendly hand sanitizer system elevating the way businesses provide this necessary consumable to their employees and customers.Built to last, Shimmy's impeccably designed containers are made with as little plastic as possible, and all refills are packed in easy-to-recycle aluminum. They also partner with Climate Neutral and Plastic Bank® to offset their carbon emissions and plastic footprint.Prior to founding Shimmy, Ashley led Integrated Promotions for Wayfair through their IPO in 2014, and led the mobile marketing team at Rue La La during the flash sale site craze.To learn more about Shimmy, please visit: https://getshimmy.com and follow Shimmy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/getshimmy/Inquire for your business to have Shimmy for your sanitizing needs! Visit: https://getshimmy.com/#contact_formThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
Every woman, regardless of hair texture, deserves a wig that resembles the hair that she lost.Our guest, Pamela Shaddock, is Co-Founder and COO of Coils to Locs, a social impact, for-profit enterprise that addresses a healthcare disparity: the lack of coily, curly, ethnically inspired wigs at cancer center hospitals and medical hair loss salons that can be purchased with health insurance reimbursement if applicable.Pamela and her Co-Founder (and sister!) Dianne Austin are intimately aware of how dehumanizing fighting cancer and traction alopecia can be, even with the best efforts and the most compassionate care. Hair loss adds to the feeling of powerlessness and loss of control, especially when you can't find a wig that resembles the hair you lost.A professional film, TV and stage actress with a strong background in nonprofit, Pamela co-leads the company's free health, wellness and beauty workshops for cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.Add wind to Coils to Locs Equity Crowdfunding Campaign on Wefunder here: https://wefunder.com/coilstolocsTo learn more about Coils to Locs, please visit: https://coilstolocs.comTo purchase a Coils to Locs wig, please visit: https://coilstolocsstore.comFollow Coils to Locs on Social here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coils-to-locs/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coilstolocswigs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoilsToLocsTwitter: https://twitter.com/CoilstoLocsPamela's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelashaddockThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
Are you ready to say Hasta Luego to 2022 and Hello Gorgeous to 2023?Our guest, seasoned founder, mouthy activist, super opinionated blogger and Host of the popular $h!t We Don't Talk About Podcast, Mia Voss, joined us again on the 3rd Annual Andelicious Startup Life LIVE Holiday and Solstice Celebration!Mia and I touch on so many topics, including:• Mia's Year in Review – WOWZA • Glorification of entrepreneurship • White supremacy and capitalist hustle culture based on slavery per our friends at The Nap Ministry• Musk + Elizabeth Holmes + what happens to unicorn founders• Ageism in the startup ecosystem (and everywhere!) • The blame/shame game… Founders feeling shame for: bad hires, not raising $$$, not being a Unicorn, etc.• CU BYE Clubhouse• funding female founders • women's rightsTo learn more about Mia's extraordinary work in the world, please visit: https://miavoss.live/May 2023 be structured enough for success and achievement and flexible enough for creativity and fun.Waving from Boston and wishing you a Happy, Joy-Filled Holiday Season!Ande ♥TMC Services - Founded in 2001, Mia has been the HBIC (head broad in charge) on so many commercial & multi-family projects as the Quality Assurance/Punch List Management Inspector - making sure that things are up to high quality standards for the end user. It can be a thankless job since she basically gets paid to boss construction teams around. She is also a co-founder and brand ambassador for Inspect.com - an online search engine for finding the perfect inspector.Host of the Popular Podcast Shit We Don't Talk About. Launched in 2021 this podcast is for everyone. Mia covers topics including Anxiety, Suicide, Racism, Breast Cancer, Childless Matriarch, Neurodiversity and the list continues.Mia Voss Live - offering her opinionated opinion on brands & products including cars, green lifestyle products and more. Since women make over 85% if not more of overall buying decisions, we need to know what great products can be trusted!Mia On The Go - luxury travel blogging was the name of the game until March 2020 - before that, Mia had been collaborating with numerous travel agencies and marketing agencies to showcase various city and countries including Denver, Chicago, New York, Boston, Lake Tahoe and more. Country adventures included Italy, Zimbabwe and South Africa.https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #startupstrategies JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show! https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE:https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/ Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIP If you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Events are a great way to bring people together, and share a moment, message or idea with a captive audience. They do, however, take considerable time, effort, and organization to execute successfully.Our guest, Dr. Shanna M. Scott, has fine-tuned the art of event planning with her business, Shanna Scott PR & Events, removing the stress and effort from her clients' shoulders.For 18 years Dr. Shanna and her team have produced luxury lifestyle and transformational events and messaging that leave their clients delighted from the experience and thrilled with the results.To learn more about Shanna Scott PR & Events, please visit: https://www.shannascott.com/Connect online with Dr. Shanna via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannamscott/ Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better.Waving from Boston – cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #startupstories #startuplife #startupstrategies #eventplanner JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Did you know the fashion industry is responsible for over 4% to the global greenhouse gas emissions? And it's not just a carbon impact, but water, chemicals, deforestation, textile waste, microplastics and more.The U.S. market presents a huge opportunity to systemically refashion apparel supply chains to localized demand chains.Our guest – Lisa Morales-Hellebro – is catalyzing this paradigm shift as CEO and Founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), automating on-demand manufacturing for the $2.7 trillion fashion industry via the first network of localized microfactories, connected via a shared tech stack — good for people, planet, and profits.She's also the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of REFASHIOND Ventures, a NY-based, early-stage supply chain technology venture fund that invests in startups refashioning global supply chains.With a clear passion for supply chain challenges, Lisa founded The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt early-stage supply chain innovation around the world.Please join me on Friday, December 9th at 12pm ET to meet Lisa and learn why she's passionate about helping fashion tech and supply chain startups achieve industry adoption, growth, and scale.To learn more about REFASHIOND Ventures, please visit: https://www.refashiond.com/To learn more about REFASHIOND OS, please visit: https://www.refashiondos.com/Please connect with Lisa and REFASHIOND via these social platforms:Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisahellebo and https://twitter.com/REFASHIONDLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/supplychainlocalization (Lisa) and https://www.linkedin.com/company/refashiond/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #fashiontech #supplychain JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com. Ande ♥
The exciting anticipation of launching a new business can quickly fade if a newly minted founder isn't properly prepared for startup life.Born into an entrepreneurial family, Alejandra Santos is deeply empathetic to the struggles and challenges entrepreneurship presents. That's why she launched Startup Tandem – to help entrepreneurs start their businesses off on the right foot!Startup Tandem's finance and business services are curated specifically for startups, they fit all business needs at any growth level, and their clients are early-stage Startups in the CPG, SaaS, and professional service industries.Alejandra began building her startup resilience muscles years ago, when she arrived in Miami from Honduras at the age of 17 with no support, money, or family. During her first few years in the US, Alejandra struggled to keep a roof over her head and food on her table, while at the same time pursuing an education. She persevered, earned degrees in finance and accounting, worked for 14 years as a finance and accounting consultant, and recently completed her Master's degree from Pepperdine University.NEED HELP?While tuning in live (or later via replay), be sure to ask any questions you're struggling with in your startup journey. The answers Alejandra and I provide will help you and other founders tuning in!To learn more about Startup Tandem, please visit: https://www.startuptandem.com/Be sure to connect with Alejandra and Startup Tandem via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aalejandrasantos/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-tandem/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startuptandem/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better.Waving from Boston – cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #startupstrategies JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
A recent study reported the #1 reason people were quitting their jobs was due to a lack of career development and advancement.Serial entrepreneur Sandra A. Babu-Boateng is solving that problem with her new tech startup LegacyShift: a B2B market network platform that matches members with internal experts for skills training, mentorship and career support.Sandra personally experienced some of these issues during her corporate career, when she found herself unprepared to navigate corporate culture as a Black woman. Not seeing a pathway to growth and success, Sandra left corporate America to become a serial entrepreneur. Prior to launching LegacyShift, Sandra co-founded PanaGenius Inc., a U.S. based digital media company serving global Black audiences. As CEO, she built the company's flagship brand Face2face Africa, into one of the largest Black-owned media platforms, reaching over 3 million monthly readers globally and engaging thousands of professionals and industry leaders in conferences each year. You can learn more about LegacyShift here: https://legacyshift.com/Connect with Sandra on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-babu-boateng-7576a921/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #femalefounders #techfounder JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
How do you instill a sense of resilience in students that allows them to look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity? You teach them entrepreneurship!On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, we celebrated National Entrepreneurship Month and Giving Tuesday by amplifying one of my favorite nonprofit organizations: BUILD.BUILD utilizes entrepreneurship education to help students develop ownership and agency over their own academic and career success, while addressing racial equity and career opportunity gaps by giving under-resourced youth the building blocks to fast track their future and become the CEOs of their own lives. The BUILD partners and volunteers play a key role in helping their students launch micro-enterprises, succeed in high school, and build a network of supportive adults committed to opening doors for them in the future.As many founders know, developing an entrepreneurial mindset helps students develop the capability to envision a future that's filled with possibility. When kids graduate from BUILD's programs, they have a plan and a vision for their future!Please join me in supporting this impactful organization! You will love meeting BUILDS's phenomenal President, Thais Rezende; a former student sharing his journey – Tony Shavers, III; and you'll hear from educators, students, mentors and fundraisers, all adding their delicious wind to this wonderful organization.To add wind to BUILD's sails with a donation - especially a sustainable, monthly donation - please tap this link: https://bit.ly/BUILDGivingTuesday2022Follow BUILD on social via these platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildorg/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BUILDNationalFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BUILD.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/build1600Thank you for carving out time to learn about BUILD and add wind to their sails - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #youthentrepreneurship JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
How does a founder know when it's time to launch a PR campaign for their startup, and how do they get media prepared?Our guest, Sabrina Stocker, is a PR expert and founder of Two Comma PR, a unique public relations agency helping businesses get media exposure and quickly build their online brand presence.A former tennis coach and player, Sabrina studied for her MBA at Edinburgh Business School, where she became the youngest person ever to graduate.Combining her sports and business knowledge, Sabrina started her own events company, running tennis tournaments for children. From humble beginnings, where she used her own medals and trophies to give to the winning children, Sabrina expanded the company, running over 400 tennis tournaments a year with a team of 42 brand ambassadors, and a six-figure annual revenue. Sabrina provides step-by-step advice and guidance on how you can build credibility and gain media attention throughout our delicious conversation. She also shares the best founder journey advice from her lived experience.To learn more about Two Comma PR and DOWNLOAD Sabrina's FREE giveaway The Trusted Authority Checklist, please visit: https://www.twocommapr.com/Connect with Sabrina on these social platforms:LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinastocker-publicrelationsexpertINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sabrinastocker.r/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife #howtogetpr JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
How it started: co-hosting networking events and roundtables for founders.How it's going: a Florida-based hybrid accelerator and seed VC fund helping early-stage startups scale!Our guest, Justis Mendez, was born in the Stockyard neighborhood of Cleveland. Raised by his grandparents and single mother, Justis went on to teach himself finance and build networks across the country.He founded startup Qu Parking, an "Airbnb for residential parking,” and led business development for Pinata, a fintech startup based in NYC helping tenants earn rewards for paying rent. In 2017 Justis Co-Founded OneSixOne Ventures with Pablo Casilimas, a hybrid accelerator and VC seed fund. The 10-week accelerator program covers topics from building an MVP and customer acquisition, to forming a team and raising capital, and has a strong mentorship component.To learn more about OneSixOne Ventures and apply to their accelerator, please visit: https://www.onesixone.ventures/Follow and connect with Justis and OneSixOne Ventures on these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onesixone-ventures and https://www.linkedin.com/in/justis-mendez-a78453b6/Twitter: https://twitter.com/161venturesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/onesixoneventures/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/Innovation Studio: innovationstudio.org/programs/scale/driving2043SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
For a brand-new startup and its first-time founders, an accelerator program is an ideal opportunity to get valuable peer, mentor and financial support.Our guest, Caroline Winnett, is the Executive Director of one of the world's leading accelerator programs and a global hub for entrepreneurship: Berkeley SkyDeck.Founded by UC Berkeley students, alumni, and faculty who were seeking to bring their scientific and technical discoveries to market, the program is ranked second to Stanford in producing venture capital-backed entrepreneurs.SkyDeck has a strong DEI initiative and, since 2018, has significantly grown the number of startups founded by female founders and historically-overlooked founders.Caroline is a serial entrepreneur, civic activist, angel investor, advisor and board member of several startups, as well as and a frequent speaker on startups, accelerators, women in business and consumer neuroscience. Please join me on Tuesday, November 15 at 12pm ET to meet Caroline, hear her amazing founder and funder stories, and learn why she's leading a top, world renown accelerator program.AMPLIFY YOUR STARTUPWhile tuning in live, be sure to share your business name, one liner and website in the comment threads during the live show - Caroline and I will showcase and celebrate your startup to the LIVE and REPLAY Viewers !Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.comJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Improving systemic social and environmental challenges isn't just for nonprofit agencies.Our guest, Pauline Koelbl, is a gender-lens/impact investor and a leading innovation expert in developing and emerging economies, with over 20 years' experience in international affairs and venture philanthropy.She's the Founder and Managing Partner of ShEquity, a fund providing smart investment to impactful, innovative, and scalable African female-led and owned businesses; and she's the Founder/CEO of AfriProspect, a company focused on connecting African innovators with global markets. Pauline is also the co-founder of PROWAH (Professional Women of African Heritage) and is currently serving on a variety of Boards of impact driven companies/organizations including impact investing funds, universities, as well as those promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.To learn more about ShEquity, please visit: https://shequity.com/Follow Pauline and ShEquity via these social channels:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauline-koelbl-36112327/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/shequity/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulineKoelbl and https://twitter.com/ShEquityAfricaThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstories #startuplife JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVECONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Growing up an underestimated, first-generation Mexican-American daughter to immigrants, our guest, Lolita Taub, had a dream to give her family a better shot at life.Today Lolita is a General Partner at Ganas Ventures, where she invests in pre-seed and seed community-driven companies in the US and Latin America, with a mission of creating generational wealth in community.With 15 years working within the Silicon Valley ecosystem, she has accomplished $70M+ in sales and made 90+ investments as an Angel Investor, she's a Scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and a VC at Backstage Capital and The Community Fund.Lolita is also a Co-Founder of proprietary matching tools Startup-Investor Matching Tool, the GP-LP Matching Tool, and the LaaS (Lolita as a Service!) community, which brings along a community of over 4K+ founders, funders, and ecosystem friends.Forbes and Inc Magazine have featured Lolita as a woman promoting investment in underestimated founders and funders. She has a BA from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the IE Business School. Lolita is currently in LATAM, hunting for unicorns, and most importantly, she is a dog mom to the cutest Dachshund mix, Choco.To learn more about Lolita's awe*mazing work in the world, please follow her everywhere she GLOWS:Lolita Taub: https://lu.ma/lolitataub Ganas Ventures: https://www.ganas.vc/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolitataub/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/ganasvc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lolitataub and https://twitter.com/ganasvcInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lolitataub/ and https://www.instagram.com/ganasvc/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupinvestor #startuplife CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Bringing an MVP to life can be expensive, time consuming, and heartbreaking if the results aren't customer and investor ready.Our guest, Ayush Singhvi, launched Byldd to address a gap he saw in software entrepreneurship: aspiring founders spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ineffective developers or agencies without receiving a marketable product. Byldd is an MVP Development Company that helps founders build revenue-generating, scalable MVPs for under $10K using a combination of proprietary technology and pre-built modules.Ayush's love for the high-energy, results-oriented world of entrepreneurship, and the idea of solving problems through software, drove him to the startup world in 2014. Over the next 4 years, he took on the roles of product manager, senior engineer and CTO at early-stage and scaling companies.To date, Byldd has helped 40+ founders go to market, get their first customers and start scaling. Companies Byldd has worked with have generated $100Ks in revenue, have been accepted into YCombinator and raised money at 8 figure valuations.To learn more about Byldd, please visit: https://byldd.com/Connect with Ayush and Byldd on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushsinghvi/https://www.linkedin.com/company/byldd/Check out Ayush's favorite resources here:https://www.fullstory.comLean Startup: https://amzn.to/3FACe9mThe Hard Thing About Hard Things: https://amzn.to/3fnxWrbThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #mvpdevelopmentcompany #buildascalablemvpCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/Girls Just Wanna Have Funds Movie Fundraising Campaign:https://girlsjustwannahavefunds.wedid.it/campaigns/10889ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Everyone deserves to feel valued, included and set up for success during the hiring process.Despite being highly skilled in their professions, our guests, Joseph Williams and Cayelan Mendoza, were consistently overlooked for job opportunities and were often filtered out of application processes by systems that wouldn't consider them because they didn't have degrees and came from non-traditional working backgrounds.So this dynamic duo created an AI-driven platform called Clu, a skills-first job marketplace and the first safeguarded and psychologically safe hiring tool for neurodiverse and vulnerable job seekers. This innovative hiring process gives everyone a better opportunity to demonstrate their skills… regardless of where they learned them… in a safe and accessible environment.To learn more about Clu, please visit: https://getaclu.ioConnect with Joseph and Cayelan and follow Clu via the following social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdttwp/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/cayelan-mendoza/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/getaclu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getaclu.io/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.comPsst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious documents and resources for startups ready to download and ease your founder journey. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Our guest, Pascale Diaine, a partner at Storm Ventures, is passionate about and committed to investing in female founders of early-stage B2B enterprises.Her investment thesis focuses on sales and marketing automation, AI/ML, IoT, retail tech, AR, computer vision, and robotics applied to the enterprise space.Before joining Storm, Pascale founded Orange Fab, the corporate accelerator of the European Telco Orange, and managed cohorts including Talkdesk (today worth $3B), Wonolo, Rallyteam (acquired by Workday), Verdigris, Pixlee, and many more.She also started an alliance of corporations piggybacking on Orange Fab's deal-flow and helping cohorts land their first Fortune 500 customers. To learn more about Storm Ventures, please visit: https://www.stormventures.com/Follow and connect with Pascale and Storm Ventures via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paskale/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/storm-ventures/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pascale and https://twitter.com/stormventures Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #venturecapital #femalefounders #b2bsaas Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious documents and resources for startups ready to download and ease your founder journey. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Anyone's life can change in a split second from a catastrophic accident, stroke or other tragic event. Our guest, Mark Raymond Jr., Founder of the Split Second Foundation, had his life change in a split second when he broke his neck after diving into shallow water while boating with friends in 2016. The accident resulted in him becoming a C-5 quadriplegic. During Mark's immediate recovery from his injury--inpatient and outpatient therapy--he learned that there are extreme gaps in the recovery process and few resources available to people after being discharged from therapy.He founded Split Second Foundation in 2018 and dedicated it to making people aware of the growing but oftentimes invisible population of people with disabilities, advocating for their rights, funding cutting-edge research, and providing clear cut steps to immediately impact their lives. Within three years of starting the foundation, Mark was able to open Split Second Fitness, which is the first inclusive gym in Louisiana with an intentional focus on people living with paralysis, amputation, or other neurological conditions. Because the majority of people with severe disabilities cannot afford traditional fitness programs, the organization charges a $50 monthly membership fee, providing access to the facility and equipment as well as access to a physical specialist to assist them with weekly training. To learn more about Mark's Foundation, please visit: https://www.splitsecondfoundation.org/For details about the Show the Love Gala 2022, please visit: https://www.splitsecondfoundation.org/eventsConnect with Mark and Split Second Foundation on these social channels:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splitsecondfoundation and https://www.instagram.com/markraymondjrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/splitsecondfoundationLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-raymond-jr-45a61379/Learn more about NOLA Street Renaming Commission here: https://nolaccsrc.org/Learn more about ABLE Today here: https://www.abletoday.org/A shout out to Propeller: http://gopropeller.org/ Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #livingwithdisability #disabilitypride #disabililtyrights Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious documents and resources for startups ready to download and ease your founder journey. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.00:00 Meet Mark Raymond Jr19:50 How Mark chose the name Split Second 25:00 Mark names first fundraiser Dependence Day to celebrate all those who are dependent on others for care and for help!33:40 Mark envisions a world where we lean on community to create solutions for complex issues.57:14 I don't measure success by money, I measure it by impact and how I make people feel.57:28 I don't focus on What If... I focus on What's Next. Every day I wake up and focus on a problem that will help other people.Ande ♥
Continuous improvement is key for founders.However, most founders level up their game during a “trial by fire” moment, versus a nicely planned professional growth program.Our guest, Eric Siu, is an investor, founder, and advisor to companies, and he's on a mission to empower folks to level up their game – professionally and personally.As the founder of digital marketing agency Single Grain, Eric has worked with companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Salesforce. He has invested in startups Eight Sleep, Levels, Lime, Toucan, and more.Eric also hosts two podcasts: Marketing School with Neil Patel and Leveling Up, an entrepreneurial podcast where he dissects growth levers that help businesses scale.In his youth, Eric was not academically or socially successful, but he was a serious high-level eSports and poker player. He ultimately found how to convert his focus and success in gaming into a successful career in marketing.To learn more about Eric's remarkable work, please visit: https://www.singlegrain.com/ and https://heroes.levelingup.com/heroes/.Please follow Eric via these social platforms:https://www.instagram.com/ericosiu/https://twitter.com/LevelingUpNFT and https://twitter.com/ericosiuhttps://www.youtube.com/c/LevelingUpOfficialThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.comPsst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious documents and resources for startups ready to download and ease your founder journey. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
When our guest, Lydia Simmons, Founder and CEO of M.O.O., was unable to obtain the level of Ob/Gyn support required during postpartum, she turned to her knowledge of food as a foundational and core means of health into a 1OO% Vegan, Superfood Postnatal with 7 ingredients that supports women from Day 1 of Postpartum and up to 2 years of Breastfeeding and into Lifestyle Wellness.Lydia sought the advice of chemists, physiologists, and nutritional scientists to bring her product to market. Her goal was to assure premium ingredients, a 30-day supply to aid women with the cost of affordable health and wellness supplementation, and items safe for nursing to best support maternal health.Today M.O.O. (Moms Official Objective), offers a full range of products that have assisted thousands of women worldwide in reducing the harsh effects of nutritional deficiency and hormonal imbalance during motherhood. To learn more about Lydia and M.O.O.'s wonderful products, please visit and follow here:Website: https://everymoo.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/every.moo/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EveryMOO.us/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #postpartum #blackfemtech #maternalhealth Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious documents and resources for startups ready to download and ease your founder journey. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Our guest, Cyndi Bray, didn't expect she would become an entrepreneur when she bought a new washer/dryer set, but that is exactly what happened. While her new dryer claimed to have an excellent Energy Star rating, she found that her bed sheets were constantly swirling into giant wads, increasing the amount of time she had to run the dryer and wasting energy in the process. With zero experience, Cyndi took on the task of finding a solution: teaching herself physics, CAD drawings, creating prototypes and eventually trademarking a product and bringing it to market in a stunning 14 month turn-around. The result is Wad-Free for Bed Sheets! While launching her business during the pandemic certainly had its challenges (especially on the manufacturing and supply chain side), Cyndi has found great success, including pitching Wad-Free to the Sharks on Season 13, resulting in a Shark fight to secure the deal with Wad-Free! To learn more about Wad-Free for Bed Sheets, please visit: www.wadfree.com Connect with Cyndi and follow Wad-Free on social via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyndi-bray-0213941a9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/WadFree1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wad_free/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WadFree YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cLTQ-W-JUJwML8eiWzlHw WAD-FREE PURCHASE LINKSWebsite: https://wadfree.com/products/wad-free™-for-bed-sheetsAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wad-Free-Bed-Sheets-Prevents-Laundry/dp/B08DMDT7DFThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #laundryhacks #sharktank #femaleinventorPsst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious FREE documents and resources for startups. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.Ande ♥
Women's health tech founders are faced with an uncertain landscape of laws and regulations, especially since the recent overturning of Roe vs. Wade in the US.Our guest, Bethany Corbin is an experienced healthcare and femtech attorney. She believes the international femtech community has the collective power to transform the standard of care for women's health. As a member of this industry, Bethany's goal is to spread awareness of femtech, disseminate meaningful insights that allow new founders and entrepreneurs to bring their health innovations to life, and mentor the next generation of femtech leaders.DISCLAIMER: This recorded conversation is for informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Transmission of the conversation is not intended to create, and viewing and/or listening does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. Viewers and listeners are advised to seek professional help if they are concerned about a specific legal issue.To learn more about Bethany's legal services, please visit: https://femtechlawyer.com/Tune into Legally FemTech podcast here: https://nixongwiltlaw.com/podcast-legally-femtechConnect with Bethany and follow her on social media here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanycorbin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/femtechlawyerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/femtechlawyer/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #femtechattorney #femtech Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious FREE documents and resources for startups. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
In this episode, Mario and James help you overcome imposter syndrome. We hear from Allison Byers, CEO of pitch deck platform Scroobious, and Brandon Brooks, Co-Founder of VC firm Overlooked Ventures, as they share inspiring stories about how they overcame imposter syndrome and had great results. If you're feeling the podcast, please subscribe on your fave podcast player, rate it, and leave a review. Also, please share it on social media. You know we LOVE dad jokes. Submit your dad joke here and it might get featured on the show! Lesssssssss go!
In today's venture capital industry, we see a lot of what I call mirrotocracy, not meritocracy.Our guest and her team saw an opportunity to create an Institutional fund that empowers emerging and often diverse VC fund managers. Courtney McCrea is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recast Capital, where they believe that emerging managers of venture funds, particularly those with diverse partnerships, represent both an underserved market and overlooked business opportunity.The Recast Team is taking a new approach to meeting this need with an educational program to empower the next generation of venture capitalists called the Enablement Program.Courtney's background prepared her for this initiative. As a Managing Director of Weathergage Capital, a boutique fund of funds focusing solely on the venture space, she made commitments to 100 funds and seven direct co-investments.Prior to Weathergage, Courtney was a General Partner with Weston Presidio, a leading diversified private equity firm based in San Francisco. To learn more about Recast Capital, please visit: https://recastcapital.com/To learn more about Recast's Enablement Program, please visit: https://recastcapital.com/enablement-program/Connect with Courtney and Recast Capital via these social links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/recast-capital/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneymccrea/Twitter: https://twitter.com/recastcapital and https://twitter.com/courtneyrmccreaThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #babynutrition #babyformula #plantbasedmilk * Specifically: 58% of venture capitalists are white men, 20% are Asian men, 11% are white women, 6% are Asian women, 2% are Black men, and 1% Black women, 1% are Latinx men, and nearly 0% are Latinx women.Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious FREE documents and resources for startups. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
It was not a US baby formula shortage that led a mother of four to develop a plant-based milk for babies and toddlers. Three years ago, our guest, April Kelly, was battling postpartum depression and struggling to breast-feed her newborn. Traditional formula seemed like the only solution for Kelly and her husband, but it ended up causing more problems for their baby girl, including intestinal gas and skin reactions.Desperate for a satisfied baby and a few nights of sleep led Kelly to wonder what was causing her precious treasure to suffer.After researching ingredients and consulting with their pediatrician, Kelly and her husband created a coconut-milk based formula for their daughter, free of soy, palm oil, gluten and lactose. Soon after Kelly launched The Sure Company, focused on bringing a ready-made plant-based milk recipe to market that provides complete nutrition, quality, and convenience.To learn more about Sure! please visit: https://www.thesurecompany.com/To participate in Sure!'s RegC campaign, please visit: https://wefunder.com/sureBuy a copy of Believe It! here: https://amzn.to/3wAi3DbConnect with April and Sure! on social here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-kelly-1b56a49b/https://www.facebook.com/thesurecompanyhttps://www.instagram.com/thesurecompany/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestpodcastforstartups #babynutrition #babyformula #plantbasedmilk Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious FREE documents and resources for startups. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Sarah Scala had been out to friends and family for years, but it wasn't until recently that she let her clients know she is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.A dynamic consultant, coach, and educator, Sarah Scala provides LGBTQ+ Leadership coaching, organization and leadership development, executive coaching, change management, public speaking facilitation, and team development solutions. Through her consulting practice, Sarah developed a reputation for providing sustainable results for her clients. Since 2012 she's has been transforming the performance of executives, leaders, and teams, helping them reach their highest potential. Sarah supports US-based and global clients across cultures, generations, geographies, and diverse industries. To learn more about Sarah and her work, please visit: https://www.sarahscala.com/ If you're interested in Sarah's LGBTQ+ coaching, please visit: https://www.sarahscala.com/lgbtq-solutionsConnect with Sarah via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahscala/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarahscalaconsultingTwitter: https://twitter.com/SarahAScalaStay in touch with Sarah via her:Blog: https://www.sarahscala.com/blog2Newsletter: https://www.sarahscala.com/joinReach out to Susu Wong and Tomo360 for digital marketing services: https://tomo360.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #LGBTQIAbusiness #lgbtqia Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! You'll also find some Andelicious FREE documents and resources for startups. ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Karolina Attspodina is a passionate supporter of sustainable green innovations that help fight climate crises and pollution.A Ukrainian-born serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience in the Tech industry, Karolina joined Qian Qin in 2021 and co-founded WeDoSolar.An EU-based greentech startup that offers smart balcony solar solutions Europe-wide, WeDoSolar enables users to lower their dependence on grid energy while reducing their CO2 footprint by up to 600kg and saving up to 25% of electricity costs each year.These innovative solar modules work from a normal plug and have an app you can use to create your own virtual power plant and track the power production levels.To learn more about WeDoSolar, please visit: https://we.do.solarPlease connect with Karolina and follow WeDoSolar via these social platforms:WeDoSolar Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/we.do.solar.energy/WeDoSolar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/we-do-solar-energyWeDoSolar Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.do.solar/Karolina's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolinaattspodina Karolina's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/attspodina/featuredKarolina's Twitter: https://twitter.com/attspodinaBe sure to reach out to Karolina if you have any funding suggestions or introductions via this email: karolina@we.do.solar.Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestpodcastforstartups #climatetech #greentechnology #verticalsolarpanelsPsst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.
Did you know vehicles are the only non-disease, top-ten causes of death worldwide?Our guest, Rashid Galadanci, is CEO and Co-Founder of Driver Technologies, an AI-based mobility tech company that delivers a safer driving experience. He was inspired to start Driver Technologies to share the benefits of advanced vehicle technologies without barriers to access and improve safety for everyone. The app transforms a driver's phone into a dash cam designed to improve road safety and make mobility technology more accessible. Rashid is also a Venture Partner at The Social Entrepreneurs' Fund, and a Director at Pigeonly. To learn more about Driver Technologies, please visit: https://drivertechnologies.com/Be sure to follow and connect with Rashid and Driver via LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/drivertechnologiesinc/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashid-galadanci/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #insurtech #techstartups Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – thank you! ♥ You'll also find content just for the Startup Life LIVE Show viewers - ideal information to help you on your founder journey.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
What is the difference between growing and scaling a business, and why does it matter?Our guest, Sarah Dusek, is intimately familiar with scaling a startup. In 2009, Sarah Co-Founded Under Canvas, a premier Glamping Company with Glamping resorts outside of National Parks across the US & Canada. The business was sold in 2017 for over $100 million, providing the opportunity for Sarah to launch a purpose driven fund.Today Sarah is the Co-Founder and Managing General Partner of Enygma Ventures, a venture capital fund that focuses on female entrepreneurs in Southern Africa. She also offers online courses for early-stage entrepreneurs, and to date 5,000 entrepreneurs have completed the programs, becoming investor-ready and learning how to build valuable companies.Sarah has an LLB Law degree from Exeter University, UK, and an MA from University of Manchester in Missiology. She divides her time between the US and South Africa with her husband and two children.To learn more about Enygma Ventures, please visit: https://www.enygmaventures.com/Follow and connect with Sarah and Enygma via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahhdusek/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/enygmaventures/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnygmaVenturesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/enygmaventures/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enygmaventuresfundThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestpodcastforstartups #howtoscaleastartup #venturecapital Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
What can a founder do if their startup is considered not fundable or bankable?Kedma Ough, MBA is dubbed the Small Business Superhero. A nationally recognized business development and business funding expert, she loves breaking down the barriers to big capital for small businesses!As one of today's most respected authorities on Small Business Funding, Kedma has advised more than 10,000 businesses leveraging $100 million in funding access. For two decades, Kedma worked in SBA leadership roles with the Women's Business Center Program and Small Business Development Centers. Her best-selling book Target Funding® through McGraw-Hill is a navigation system to identify targeted grants and funds for business owners. From a credit score of 450 to 820, Kedma has helped thousands of business owners gamify the business funding path towards success. She's a proud fifth-generation entrepreneur and her great-great grandfather peddled various products throughout Ireland. You can learn more about Kedma here: https://kedmaough.com/Follow Kedma everywhere she glows on social media here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kedmaough/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kedmaoughpo...Twitter: https://twitter.com/kedmaoughThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#targetfunding #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #smallbusinessfunding Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
How do you recruit top talent when you're a startup?Our guest, Mandy Edmund, is known among the VCs in the Bay Area as having an uncanny ability to define the go-to-market leadership needs of an early-stage company. She loves working with early hiring teams, providing clarity on what is needed in a role, and helping Founders with their pitch to top talent. A seasoned founder with a successful exit, Mandy is currently the COO for SwingSearch, a recruiting agency for startups and high-growth companies seeking top-tier talent. Renown Venture Capitalists confidently refer SwingSearch to their portfolio companies to lead end-to-end searches.Mandy is a Board Member of WorldWide Orphans Foundation, an active Mentor at Techstars, and a Mom to three amazing daughters.To learn more about SwingSearch, please visit: https://swingsearch.com/Please connect with Mandy and SwingSearch via these social platforms:IG: https://www.instagram.com/swingsearch/LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/swingsearch and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-edmund-9b80a916/TW: https://twitter.com/swingtalent and https://twitter.com/mandy_edmund?lang=enThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #femalefounders #talentacquisition Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
Making history is Santia Deck's superpower!A Social Media Influencer with over 800,000 loyal and engaged followers, a published author, fitness model, TV personality, Public Speaker, and a former track and field collegiate athlete, Santia made history by being offered the highest paid contract in women's football history.Most recently, Santia added Successful Startup Founder and CEO to her long list of wins with the launch of TRONUS, where she made history a second time by becoming the first female athlete to own a shoe company. The innovative footwear brand has been experiencing impressive growth since its launch in the Summer of 2020, landing contracts with major national athletic footwear stores.Despite the pandemic, Santia led TRONUS to record sales, celebrity praise and a dedicated base of customers. The company continues to expand.To learn more about TRONUS, visit: https://tronusofficial.com/Follow and connect with Santia and TRONUS on social via these platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tronus-llc/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/santia-deck-033b6b85/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TronusOfficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tronusofficial/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.comPsst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy and keep me powered to serve more founders – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
In this episode of the podcast, Mario and James help you learn how to get people to say yes to your proposals. We mentioned the pitch deck platform, Scroobious, to help you create your investor deck. And here's the Hustle Fund VC YouTube video about creating pitch deck slide titles. If you're feeling the podcast, please subscribe on your fave podcast player, rate it, and leave a review. Also, please share it on social media. Lesssssssss go!
Our guest, Lauren Salz, is passionate about using financial and technological innovation to improve the lives of American homeowners.She's the co-founder and CEO of Sealed, a home wellness company on a mission to make homes healthy, comfortable, and clean for the planet. Sealed designs, manages, and finances home weatherization and electrification projects, making it easy and affordable for people to be more comfortable while using less energy. Under Lauren's leadership, Sealed grew 350% from '20 to – ‘22, and was named one of the 10 most innovative energy companies of 2021 by Fast Company. In April, 2022 the company expanded its Series B Funding to $45 million in order to accelerate its mission to electrify homes in major markets.To learn more about Sealed, please visit:Follow and connect with Lauren and Sealed via these social platforms:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurensalz/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/sealed/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sealedhomesHere's the book Lauren mentioned: Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross: https://amzn.to/3zFvQu4Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com Psst: If you're thinking “Wow – that Andelicious Advice really helped me,” please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee – a breve cappuccino will make my heart and mind sing with joy – thank you! ♥https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andelyonsCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Founder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinShe Angel Investors 6 Ways to Fund Your Business ecourse: https://bit.ly/35nFCnOANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
How can a nonprofit raise more from the right funders without obnoxiously hounding them?As a former Executive Director for a $3 million nonprofit she grew from $300k, our guest, Mallory Erickson, deeply understands the nonprofit funding hustle.Which is why she solved that problem and has helped thousands of nonprofit leaders love their fundraising process!Mallory is an executive coach, fundraising consultant, and host of the podcast What the Fundraising, aimed at supporting nonprofit leaders to fundamentally change the way they lead and fundraise.Through her signature framework, the Power Partners Formula™️, Mallory provides unique tools to help nonprofits fundraise more from foundations, corporate partners, and individuals. She has trained over 20,000 fundraisers using her unique win-win framework, which combines best practices from executive coaching, science-backed behavior design, and fundraising strategy. To learn more about Mallory's fundraising services, please visit: https://malloryerickson.com/freeTune into and subscribe to What the Fundraising here: https://malloryerickson.com/instagramwtf/If you're seeking an outstanding speaker for your next event, email Mallory mallory@malloryerickson.com. Follow and connect with Mallory via social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_malloryerickson/ and https://www.instagram.com/whatthefundraising_/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallory-erickson-bressler/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/malloryericksoncoachThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#nonprofitfundraising #nonprofitstartup #bestyoutubechannelforstartups CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinShe Angel Investors 6 Ways to Fund Your Business ecourse: https://bit.ly/35nFCnOANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
When you fund women, you'll save the world!Catherine Gray is leveling the playing field for female founders through her multi-media platform, She Angel Investors.A Speaker, Producer, Author, Founder and Host of the Invest in Her podcast, Catherine focuses her extraordinary energy on empowering female entrepreneurs by providing resources and connections to help accelerate the funding process.Her popular ecourse, 6 Ways to Fund Your Business, is designed to inform and educate female founders so they can dissolve the roadblocks and secure the funding their startup needs to succeed. Catherine has produced several award-winning films including the very first documentary film about gay marriage called ‘I Can't Marry You,' narrated by Ellen DeGeneres's mom Betty, which aired on PBS in more than 60 cities nationwide. She also co-produced several documentary films for the LOGO network, which led her to start her own production company called Corp Shorts, and eventually Bold Girls Media.To learn more about She Angel Investors, please visit: https://SheAngelInvestors.com.Check out Catherine's E-course “6 Ways to Fund Your Business” here: https://bit.ly/35nFCnOSubscribe to Catherine's podcast here: https://InvestInHerPodcast.comWatch Catherine's inspirational Tedx Talk here: https://youtu.be/Ms-tROEeLn4Follow and engage with Catherine via these social media platforms:INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sheangelinv... and https://www.instagram.com/catherinegr...FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sheangelinve...https://www.facebook.com/catherinegray1TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sheangelsinvestLINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/catherinelgray/Learn about Andrea Quinn's wonderful work in the world here:https://andreaquinncoaching.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#femalefounders #fundingfemalefounders #bestyoutubechannelforstartups CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder University: https://course.founder.universityhttps://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinShe Angel Investors 6 Ways to Fund Your Business ecourse: https://bit.ly/35nFCnOANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
Eli Angote has spent the last decade running TheBestNotary and fulfilling over 60,000 successful notary appointments while building a network of top performing notaries around the country. With a strong background in sales, computer science and a paralegal, Eli was uniquely positioned to launch TheBestNotary, which began as a Bay Area based side hustle. With its extensive experience and proven track record, TheBestNotary goes beyond notarization and logistics to providing document quality review and preparation, scanning, printing, assembly of estate planning binders, document recording in counties across the US and more. Eli has a deep interest in social justice and providing jobs, mentorship and opportunities for people who have been overlooked and left out of the job market including the neurodiverse, veterans, senior and returning citizens as well as proven performers from under-resourced neighborhoods. To learn more about TheBestNotary, please visit: https://thebestnotary.net/Be sure to connect with Eli on social media:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijahka/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elitweets and https://twitter.com/thebestnotariesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/elimotivates/Here are Eli's book recommendations:The Cold Start Problem: https://amzn.to/3PebRYy5 Dysfunctions of a Team: https://amzn.to/3aKJbHQHere's Eli's favorite tool that helped his business:https://onfleet.com/ - advanced logistics softwareThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startuplife #documentservicesCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder University: https://course.founder.universityElizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund VC, How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
Inspired by the story of Black Wall Street, Ikechi Nwabuisi launched a social moneypooling platform to help the African Diaspora build wealth within their own communities. A former VC, wealth manager and ex-NFL player, Ikechi has over 5 years' experience building social apps and has been focused on Blockchain since 2015. In 2018, he founded TRiBL (Techstars ‘19), an all-in-one social moneypooling platform building a bridge between Web3 and the culture, and providing a social wallet that allows communities to build wealth together.TRiBL makes creating a crypto-powered investor club as simple as a group chat, like an all-in-one Discord for DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). TRiBL has secured partnerships with VISA, Circle (USDC), & Prime Trust to integrate a digital wallet into their community-centered platform to enable borderless commerce.A recognized leader with publications in Black Enterprise, Yahoo Finance, and Afrotech, Ikechi is an active member in crypto communities CBEE, Black NFT Art, Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Aku & more.To learn more about tribl, please visit: https://jointribl.com.Connect with Ikechi and tribl via these social platforms:TWITTER: https://twitter.com/jointribl and https://twitter.com/buisi_xINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/jointribl/?... LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/join... and https://www.linkedin.com/in/ikechi-nw...Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #cryptoinvesting #fintechfounderCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder University: https://course.founder.universityANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
“I know how to win, and I will win.”Our guest, Luis Mendonca, has the BEST mindset for the founder journey!In 2017 he launched Elite Home Fitness Franchise, an in-home and luxury residential personal training franchise. That's right, they come to YOU!Luis didn't set out to be a founder. After overcoming major life challenges, he was inspired by the birth of his daughter to BE more and bring more of his potential to the world.He dove deep into personal and professional growth, and when he saw a problem and opportunity in the fitness landscape, he found his purpose.With a clear vision of serving folks who want or need to improve their fitness without leaving home, Luis created a business map he could scale using the franchise model. He also saw how the business could add value to the community through charitable events.Today Elite Home Fitness is serving over 200 residences in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with plans to grow regionally, and then expand nationally.To learn more about Elite Home Fitness, please visit: https://www.eliteinhomefitness.com/Connect with Luis on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-mendonca-29784a182/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#fitnesslife #blackfounders #franchise CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifewithAnde https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder UniversityANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquier – CANVA EXPERThttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjONicky's CANVA Trainings for Your Startup:https://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/canva-trainingGET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter
Startup Life is a wild ride, especially if you're a Female Founder.Our guest, Cheryl Contee, has been using her entrepreneurial and leadership skills since pre-school!In 2008 she founded her first startup, Do Big Things (formerly called Fission Strategy) a mission-driven digital agency using social technology to create social change around the world. She grew the company from 2 people to 10 in its first year with millions in revenue. Cheryl was also the co-founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company.Today Cheryl is the CEO of The Impact Seat Foundation, whose mission is to create a world in which women, especially women of color, can be successful business leaders. In her wonderful book, Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success, Cheryl harnessed her lived founder experience and provides a practical guide to help founders ride the startup life like a boss.To learn more about The Impact Seat Foundation, please visit: https://impactseat.org/Tap this link to order Cheryl's book Mechanical Bull: https://amzn.to/3yrAhIt Tap this link to order Barbara Clarke's book Build Your Board, Build Your Business: https://amzn.to/39S4ruQConnect with Cheryl and The Impact Seat via this social channels:LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-impact-seat/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylcontee/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ch3ryl and https://twitter.com/ImpactSeat Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#femalefounders #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #startupstrategies CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBFounder UniversityANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/
Being viewed as a “minority” can be exhausting and frustrating, especially when you're up against a trifecta of bias.Our guest, the Fierce Female Founder Kerry Schrader, was not going to let the triple plied bounty of bias stop her from reaching her dreams as a successful founder.In 2015 Kerry teamed up with her daughter, Ashlee Ammons, and they founded Mixtroz, a tech startup that helps meeting attendees easily mix, meet and mingle with one another; all while helping the event organizer learn more about attendees based on their in-app responses to customized questions.This dynamic Mother/Daughter team went on to close a $1 million round of funding, making them the 37th and 38th Black Female Founders to ever close a $1M+ round of funding. A breast cancer survivor and a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Kerry has more than 25 years' experience positively impacting the human assets of large companies, including Ford, Alcoa, and Sears Holdings Corporation.To learn more about Mixtroz, please visit: https://www.mixtroz.com/Watch this fun video to learn how Mixtroz works: https://youtu.be/XE8xseZYN-EConnect with Kerry and Mixtroz via these social channels:Twitter: https://twitter.com/mixtroz and https://twitter.com/themillplusInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mixtroz/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mixtroz/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerryschrader/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥http://andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/Think In Color: https://thnk.cc/3rDdzrBANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjO00:00 - Andelicious Announcements06:50 - Meet Fierce Female Founder Kerry Schrader09:00 - Mixtroz launch story - Human First, Technology Second13:00 - how Mixtroz found the ideal product development team21:00 - Mixtroz website tour32:00 - Kerry was shocked at the high-level of discrimination she faced when she raised her first round of capital35:00 - being scrappy can only work for so long - you need money, not more mentorship48:00 - how Mixtroz pivoted to virtual engagement during the pandemic50:45 - Kerry learns she has breast cancer right after they raised a family and friends round
Did you know knitting sparks creativity and provides mindful rhythmic motions resulting in a more positive state of wellbeing?Our guest, Kristen Lambert, is the creative visionary behind the knitwear brand Third Piece.Third Piece started as a passion project for Kristen after being drawn to the uniqueness of a hand knit scarf with which she immediately responded, “I need that!” What started as a side hustle soon transitioned to something more when the buyers of Henri Bendel and Bergdorf Goodman along with dozens of boutiques came calling to carry Third Piece. For the next few years, Kristen learned the ins-and-outs of textiles, fibers, and manufacturing, pop-ups and eventually opened up a brick-and-mortar retail location.While recruiting the talent to craft each handmade piece, Kristen connected with the most inspiring women that wanted to knit Third Piece designs and work with the brand. Each woman had a unique experience of what knitting meant to her. Inspired by these passionate stories, Kristen expanded Third Piece into DIY Knit Kits and began teaching thousands of people how to knit.To learn more about Third Piece please visit: https://thirdpiece.com/Please follow and engage with Kristen and Third Piece via the following social channels:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thirdpiece_/ and https://www.instagram.com/kristenmlambert/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kristenmlambert and https://www.tiktok.com/@thirdpieceLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenmlambert/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-third-piece/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheThirdPiece/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheThirdPieceThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #knitwear #sustainablefashion https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifewithAndehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
As a teenager our guest, Seattle native Billy Price, suffered a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the chest down, losing the ability to move his fingers. Daily tasks became difficult. Using his creative mind and unyielding spirit, Billy never gave up. He persevered, facing life's challenges with tenacity and determination.A specific problem Billy had was finding a pair of shoes that he could put on independently and actually be happy and proud to wear. So, as many founders do, he solved that problem and created BILLY Footwear.Today BILLY Footwear is featured in hundreds of stores, including Nordstrom and Zappos!Along with his life-long friend and co-founder Darin Donaldson, Billy strives to add value to the lives of others and make a measurable difference in the world, one foot at a time.To learn more about BILLY Footwear please visit: https://billyfootwear.com/Connect with BILLY Footwear via these social channels:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billyfootwearInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/billyfootwear/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/billyfootwearWatch my favorite episode of Billy's Open Book Live Stream Series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTYWCaiyOcAnde ♥https://andelyons.com#bestyoutubechannelforstartups #disabilitypride #footwear https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Visible Hands Latinx Founders Fellowship: https://vhlx.visiblehands.vc/Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjO
As a 30-year champion for Black businesses, our guest, Jill Johnson, is a pioneering voice for inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems and is creating a new paradigm for the access to capital conversation.Jill is the co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL), based in Newark, NJ. IFEL, founded in 2002, is an independent, nonprofit organization that supports economic development through entrepreneurship.IFEL's mission is to eradicate the systemic barriers that prevent access to the knowledge, networks, and capital required for entrepreneurial success and wealth creation.Jill is the driving force behind a new initiative, the Making of Black Angels, to drive diversity and inclusion within the investor ecosystem.Learn more about IFEL here: https://www.weareifel.org and Connect with Jill and the IFEL team via these social platforms:https://www.linkedin.com/company/weareifelhttps://twitter.com/weareifelhttps://www.facebook.com/weareifelhttps://www.instagram.com/weareifel/You can learn more about WOCONN here: Be sure to check out Making Black Angels here: https://makingblackangels.org/If interested, sign up for Intro to Angel Investing sessions (webinar style) here:https://makingblackangels.org/upcoming-eventsOR the same content, but at your own pace on the Teachable platform: https://weareifel.teachable.com/Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com #bestyoutubechannelforstartups #deiinvestors #makingblackangelsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSBlack Girl Ventures Pitch Program – Apply to pitch at https://bit.ly/bgvpitch by July 1stArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Startup Station: https://thestartupstation.com/Elizabeth's How to Raise a Seed Round: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14N9R1ZNervLjIR4bi5VjfEDkOSDAFclkGMT06kHwbPI/editLearn more about Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjO
Allison Byers is the Founder and CEO of Scroobious, which offers human-first fundraising for diverse entrepreneurs. As an experienced guide in venture capital, she has grown her own businesses to great success and helped others do the same. She continues to serve as a mentor, advisor, and angel investor for several companies such as Techstars, femmebought, BonBillo, HerSuiteSpot, and Vitalize Venture Capital. In this episode… One of the most powerful draws to entrepreneurship is the promise of opportunity. There's the capacity to make something from nothing and create your own path towards success. For some, this dream is realized. However, reality is often much more complicated. Allison Byers knows this struggle all too well, having attempted to start her own business before encountering excessive pushback. In her research, she found that women receive only 2% of all venture capital dollars. Because of the data and her own experience, she has pivoted her career to give other diverse entrepreneurs the opportunities she struggled to find. Dov Pollack sits down with Allison Byers, the CEO and Founder of Scroobious, to discuss fundraising for diverse entrepreneurs and their companies. They start with her own career and the experiences she had as a mother in business. They then dive into the world of venture capital, fundraising campaigns, and fixing the flawed system. They also talk about data and how it can be used to understand human behavior. Hear the rest on this episode of the Next Wave Leadership Podcast!
Is it possible to build a global platform for media production and creatives, raise two rounds of capital and lead a fully remote team at the age of 22 and without a high school degree?Our guest, Jonas Ngoenha, says YES YOU CAN! He's the Co-Founder & CEO of Beazy, a SaaS-enabled marketplace for content production based out of Switzerland and Mozambique. A photographer, freerunner, and a high-school drop-out, Jonas is proving that you can't let the world define your founder journey.Launched in 2018, Jonas and the Beazy team help companies find the creatives, equipment, and locations they need for their photo/video productions and give them collaborative tools to manage everything.Beazy has worked with great companies such as Zalando, Bolt, Pinterest, Delivery Hero, Babbel, SellerX, GetYourGuide, Bombinate and many more. They currently have a growing community of over 5000 creatives in 150+ cities in 50+ countries.To learn more about Beazy, please visit: https://www.beazy.co/ - use Discount Code: BzyDemo to receive 10% off your first project!Here's the link to Jonas' video re: scraping LinkedIn for specific contacts, especially fundraising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMnOeSmruC4Connect with Jonas and Beazy on social:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beazy/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-ngoenha/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRFJIejSPlsCmJDIQR8Glw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beazy.co/ and https://www.instagram.com/jonas.ngoenha/ How to calculate the LTV/CAC Ratio00:00 - meet Jonas05:00 - freerunner journey stories12:00 - how the academic career parents reacted when Jonas dropped out of high school16:00 - meet Beazy.co18:30 - big hairy audacious idea vs. reality20:37 - your idea doesn't matter unless you execute on it23:00 - success is not a straight line34:00 - Scroobious! https://bit.ly/SLSScroobious38:00 - how Beazy works42:45 - how to calculate the LTV/CAC ratio 48:50 - building community from day one52:45 - best HubSpot testimonial EVERThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥https://andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjONicky's Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_PlaylistGET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter
Allison Byers is the founder and CEO of Scroobious, which is increasing diversity in the startup ecosystem by affordably helping founders create compelling pitch material and a platform to help investors easily find those founders. Her earlier career includes over a decade of startup and tech operator roles. Prior to founding Scroobious, Byers launched and co-ran a medical device company spun out of MIT where she raised nearly $10 million and experienced first-hand the challenges that come with fundraising as a female founder. Byers is also an angel investor, frequent startup mentor and advisor, speaker, and works with dozens of diversity-focused accelerators, non-profit organizations, and university programs. She received her MBA from Boston University, is a mom of two young children, and is a vocal proponent of parent entrepreneurs.
Studies clearly illustrate that investing in women-led companies is great business for investors, yet the biggest chokehold in venture capital continues to be gender injustice.Our guest, Xiao Jean (XJ) Chen, is an award-winning business and technology hybrid, angel investor, and the Founder & CEO of VenturePole, a Swiss-based, AI-powered venture investment platform.VCs continue to display little innovation in how they make investment decisions, which is infected by human bias, resulting in a gender gap of over $130 billion.VenturePole is armed with smart tools, including Investment Risk Rating, Valuation Calculator, Company Strength and Weakness Analysis, as well as automated due diligence.To learn more about VenturePole, please visit: https://venturepole.com/When you join VenturePole, your first 30 days are free. To receive an entire year FREE use this discount code AFTER the 30-day trial: AndeConnect and follow XJ and VenturePole via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venturepole/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaojeanchen/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/xiaojeanchen and https://twitter.com/VenturePole Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xj.chen/ and https://www.instagram.com/venturepole_/ How platform works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmxiUJFG2w Learn more about Scroobious here:Grab Peter Theil's book Zero to One here: https://amzn.to/3u5boAt00:00 - meet VenturePole founder Xiao Jean Chen09:00 - how XJ used a Google scholarship and hackathons to dive deep into tech13:00 - how difficult it is for female founders to raise funds, especially for nonwhite female founders17:00 - why aren't VCs looking at more female-led deals?19:00 - for every 4 male-led startups, there are 3 female-led startups doing the exact same thing28:00 - The real reason female entrepreneurs get less fundingDana Kanze - watch the whole TED Talk here:https://www.ted.com/talks/dana_kanze_the_real_reason_female_entrepreneurs_get_less_funding?language=en29:00 - how VenturePole's platform works35:00 - what is gender injustice in venture capital?54:00 - is it okay to be a solo startup founder or do you need co-founders58:00 - who really writes the check at a venture capital fund?Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjONicky's Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_PlaylistGET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter
Have you ever felt like a deer in headlights when an investor asked you a question you had no idea how to answer?Our guest, Renata Merino, knows exactly how you feel, and she's ready to help you deliver the best responses to investor questions!A 25-year operator, former investment banker, and Chicago Booth MBA merit scholar, Renata is a Latina serial entrepreneur turned investor and venture capitalist. She relishes in helping founders scale and has been featured in the media on women empowerment, diversity in venture, and the power of networking and building community. A single mom of 2 children, you can often find Renata at an early morning 5AM HIIT workout or kicking off her early morning Instagram videos telling her story of overcoming adversity within her life.To learn more about Renata's remarkable work in the world, visit: https://renatamerino.com/To connect with Renata on social, click these links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatamerinobregstone/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RMB2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renatamerino45/ Blazing Babes: https://blazinbabes.org/Grab a copy of The Stiletto Network here: https://amzn.to/3ndE4SIArtyfactos: https://artyfactos.com Scroobious: https://www.scroobious.com/The Capital Network: https://thecapitalnetwork.org/fellowship-for-femalefounders/11 Questions Founders Need to Ask Investors: https://www.startuphacks.vc/blog/2016/09/21/11-questions-founders-need-to-ask-investors-during-the-fist-meeting00:00 - meet Renata Merino!06:00 - Renata's origin story12:00 - gaining large brand marketing/product management + development experience at fortune brands like: State Street, Reebok, Nestle, Life Fitness, Radio Flyer 20:00 - deep market research is your friend and the gift that keeps on giving!21:35 - founders: always be reiterating23:00 - the challenges women face when they are mothers wanting to be present with their children and they are pursuing a meaningful career ... and there's no flexibility in the workplace for them to do both.25:25 - leverage your women networks to scale your startup - this strategy helped Renata meet the founder/innovator of Radio Flyer, and she was hired!31:30 - how Renata came up with a business that she could do while the kids were sleeping - Andelicious Moment!33:00 - women get it done because they have to - Stitch That On A Pillow!39:10 - workout and dress for success every day - it's good for your mental health42:20 - why Renata transitioned from founder to investor44:10 - raising captial? Do your research! Renata shares an outstanding example of getting an investor's attention via a cold LinkedIn approach.48:20 - you need to have shared values with the folks on your cap table51:55 - best advice for handling handling tough investor feedback1:01:01 - how can founders meet investors1:02:10 - excellent advice re: equity for Advisory Board Members1:04:00 - how to get beta test feedback when your product is not yet FDA approved.1:08:33 - the BEST response to give an investor when they say no.Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande ♥Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.comANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEAGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it's the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17STARTUP DOX Do you need attorney reviewed legal documents for your startup? I'm a proud community partner of Startup Dox, a new service provided by Selvarajah Law PC which helps you draw out all the essential paperwork needed to kickstart your business in a super cost-effective way. All the legal you're looking for… only without confusion or frustration. EVERY filing and document comes with an attorney review. You will never do it alone. Visit https://www.thestartupdox.com/ and use my discount code ANDE10 to receive 10% off your order.SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/Visit Nicky's CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDgDHkkma3YhOf7uy8TAbt7HdkXhSjOGET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons TikTok: @andelyons
Welcome back to How To Build An App!In this episode, we're taking a deep dive into how to create and present an investor-ready pitch deck.Our guest is Allison Byers, and honestly, she blew us away with her experience in this realm.Her background is actually in psychology and after being passed up for a job that she was way overqualified for, she decided to try her hand at business.Clearly, that worked out for her! She went from fundraising over 10 million dollars for a startup medical device company to founding her own fundraising platform, Scroobious.You'll hear more about Scroobious in this episode, but basically it's a virtual platform and community to quickly and meaningfully connect underrepresented founders, investors, and partners. This episode is definitely a must-listen for all founders.Allison covers what to include and not include in your pitch deck, how long it should be, tips on presenting, and even runs through different types of investors and what you should go for.This is your guide to creating a pitch deck that will lead you to the right investors and the funding you need for your own startup!---Learn more about Scroobious here: https://www.scroobious.com/ Follow Allison on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-byers/ Follow Allison on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/apbyers?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor ---This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency. We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months. If you have an app you're building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.Make sure you're following Strides:Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/
Allison Byers, Founder & CEO of Scroobious, is an MBA with 15+ years of experience building and leading data-driven start-ups. She focuses on utilizing data to understand human behavior and has done everything from management consulting, to advising Google on marketing and strategy, to co-running a medical device company where she raised nearly $10M. Her model for building a clear and concise investor-ready pitch deck has been published in Business Insider and she is a frequent pitching advisor, mentor, and speaker. She is now committed to helping underserved founders get in front of the right investors with the right message. ----- There's an honest conversation among women leaders that I don't see happening nearly enough. This roundtable + workshop is my response to that void. In the company of other trailblazing women, bring forward and witness your truth, voice, and impact in a way that accelerates progress for all women. LEARN MORE: https://thestefaniediaz.com/forward/
Are you seeking funding for your startup and struggling to connect with the right people and resources because you don't fit traditional pattern matching?Our guest, Allison Byers, founded Scroobious, a pitch video platform for under networked founders to be discovered by the right investors with the right message in the right way.With an MBA and 15+ years' experience building and leading startups, Allison has previously raised nearly $10M, and she has deep experience utilizing data to understand human behavior, strategic planning, fundraising, and product management.Allison adds so much value to founders during our conversation, especially if you're raising capital. When you submit a pitch deck or one-pager to an investor or Angel Group, it can feel impersonal.I mean, how can they tell you're uniquely qualified to successfully build your business from words and images on a PowerPoint presentation?Allison shares how Scroobious helps you break down the barriers to finding funding through its Pitch it Plan - a self guided pitch deck process that will help you create a successful outcome for your fundraising efforts.Allison provides a $50 discount to the Scroobious Pitch it Plan - click on this link and get started: http://bit.ly/SLSScroobiousPlease visit Scroobious to learn more about all the platform features: https://www.scroobious.com/Follow Allison on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/apbyersAnd connect with Allison on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-b....00:00 - meet Allison!11:40 - the awe*mazing story behind Scroobious' name!13:43 - how Allison proved her value prop - it's all about the data, baby! 21:20 - Allison brings an Andelicious Moment to the audience with her traction story22:56 - finding a technical co-founder advice28:15 - Allison explains how the Scroobious Pitch it Plan works33:35 - outstanding eye contact advice for video pitching39:00 - Allison's vetted framework for a pitch narrative that works for the founder and the investor53:15 - Allison's Founder Journey advice and insights55:05 - STITCH THAT ON A PILLOW - "stick with it"56:20 - what Allison has learned professionally and personally from the Founder JourneyThank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.comANDELICIOUS ADVICE:For more DIY startup advice, please subscribe to my Newsletter, Let's Stick Together – because it takes a village to raise a business: http://bit.ly/AndeliciousNewsletter JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVESTREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/GET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/ https://angel.co/andelyons
This week Zach Rego talks with Allison Byers, Founder & CEO of Scroobious about the best strategies to find and pitch your products to Investors. You can listen on Apple or Spotify now.
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