Podcasts about Stellaris

Catch the spirit. This week, we celebrate the return of Ska, Warped Tour, and all the Best Bands of our youth. There's news from the Stellaris front, discussions on best BG3 builds, Norris admits he cried at the end of The Boy and the Heron, and the gang gets in touch with both their feminine and masculine sides. Also, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, David Beebe Music by David Beebe

There are No Checklists or Frameworks on HOW TO BE A VC?So how do you even know if it's the right path for you?Unlike most jobs, venture capital comes with an extremely long feedback loop. It can take years before you know whether the bets you made actually worked out. That's why most seasoned VCs say: only choose this path if you're in it for the long haul.This conversation will help you think through that choice. Whether you're considering VC as a career, love building businesses, or just want to understand who really calls the shots on a cap table.On The Neon Show, we have with us two operators turned investors:Gaurav Ranjan, Principal at Prime Venture Partners, has led deals including Dozee, Hitwikcet, Poshn and Gallabox.Naman Lahoty, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners has been part of investments like Zouk, Nestasia, Dashtoon and Lumio.They share lessons from evaluating thousands of startups - what they've unlearned about pattern-matching in investing, why Excel projections mostly fail and why founder empathy might be the most underrated edge in venture capital.It's truly a conversation between three VCs on what it really takes to be a VC today.0:00 – Stellaris Partners X Prime Ventures0:43 – How Founders Turn Into VCs4:19 – Do VCs Need an MBA or Consulting Background?6:32 – Why Startup Projections Rarely Come True8:43 – Are VCs Naturally Good Founders?11:19 – Startups we Evaluated & Founders we Met14:51 – From First Pitch to Deal Close19:02 – Why VC Feedback Loops Are Extremely Long21:00 – No Checklists. No Frameworks.25:27 – Why On-Demand Rebranded as Quick Commerce Won?29:20 – The Stellaris Framework to Evaluate Founders35:53 – Why Indian VCs Must Think Independently38:28 – Rapid Fire: The Big One We Missed39:16 – The One We Loved But Didn't Back42:23 – Startups We Wish We'd Invested In43:55 – Investors We Admire the Most47:20 – Do We Believe Peter Thiel's Theory?52:35 – Startup Stories: Slack, Flickr, Dozee, Rupicard57:15 – The GTM Hack That Led to Product Discovery58:15 – Babygogo & Atomic Work59:55 – All-Nighter Code Sprint for the Demo1:00:55 – Lessons Founders Taught Us1:06:30 – What We Miss About Being a Founder1:10:28 – When Do You Decide If You Are a Good VC?1:13:28 – Building a Fund V/S Building a Startup-------------​​India's talent has built the world's tech—now it's time to lead it.This mission goes beyond startups. It's about shifting the center of gravity in global tech to include the brilliance rising from India.What is Neon Fund?We invest in seed and early-stage founders from India and the diaspora building world-class Enterprise AI companies. We bring capital, conviction, and a community that's done it before.Subscribe for real founder stories, investor perspectives, economist breakdowns, and a behind-the-scenes look at how we're doing it all at Neon.-------------Check us out on:Website: https://neon.fund/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShowwConnect with Siddhartha on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7-------------This video is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the individuals quoted and do not constitute professional advice.Send us a text

Norris bought a Switch 2; let's see how much shame he feels. This week we talk on the Summer Games Fest, Mario Kart World, what the fuck is happening with Stellaris, Doom: The Dark Ages, Crypt Custodian. Gaaaames. Also, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, David Beebe Music by David Beebe

Mike and Cliff talk a lot of nonsense about government control, bending time and space, Stellaris, and Wrestlemania.

This week on Critical Arcade, Dave and Nick take to the stars in Stellaris, where diplomacy, warfare, and questionable ethics collide in a galaxy teeming with possibilities. As they forge their own interstellar empire, they'll have to balance exploration, technological advancement, and the occasional existential crisis when a sentient AI starts asking too many questions. Will they embrace the path of peace, fostering alliances and trade with other civilizations? Will Nick decide that diplomacy is overrated and declare war on anything that moves? Can Dave resist the urge to genetically modify his entire population into something completely unrecognizable? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Venture Capitalists on Venture CapitalIn this episode we have Alok Goyal and Ritesh Banglani, Partners at Stellaris Venture Partners, one of India's top VC firms. We go into details on running a VC firm in India. We discuss the ambition of Indian founders, what are the next B2B SaaS billion-dollar outcomes, market-first vs. founder-first investments, decision-making process at Stellaris and why DPI (Distributed to Paid-in Capital) is the ultimate measure of success.If you're curious about how top VCs invest, what makes a great fund, and what advantages Indian startups have in the AI race then this episode is for you. 0:00 - Stellaris Venture Partners Introduction0:50 - How Stellaris Measures Success3:16 - Deal Sourcing in Venture Capital5:40 - Coverage Ratio in Venture Capital7:39 - Contrarian Bets: Mamaearth and Whatfix9:34 - Independent Conviction in Venture Capital12:03 - Trust in Venture Partnerships15:12 - The War Stories Behind Stellaris' First Fundraise18:10 - Fundraising during COVID22:30 - How Stellaris Raised Its Third Fund26:31 - Stellaris' Investment Strategy30:08 - Founder-First Vs. Market-first Investments36:32 - Strengths of Stellaris' Four Partners41:07 - Culture of Open Disagreement in Decision-Making48:08 - The Ambition Levels of Indian Founders50:08 - Next Billion-Dollar SaaS Companies From India56:17 - How Venture Investing in India Has Changed57:38 - Decision-Making in Stellaris vs. Other VC firms1:07:43 - Global AI Trends and Stellaris' Investment Thesis1:11:31 - Opportunity For Indian AI Startups1:16:17 - How Stellaris is Evolving with Time1:17:24 - The Need for Bigger Outcomes in Fund Three-------------Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journeys from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.-------------Check us out on:Website: https://neon.fund/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theneonshoww/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beneon/Twitter: https://x.com/TheNeonShowwConnect with Siddhartha on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthaahluwalia/Twitter: https://x.com/siddharthaa7-------------This video is for informational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the individuals quoted and do not constitute professional advice.Send us a text

Midnight Madness Radio Episode 307 with Stellaris, SVANZICA, Worlds Beyond, JIMMY McG, LEVEL THE PLANET, SHOWDOWN, LILIAC, THE SMOKIN KILLS, NECTAROUS, DAN SINDEL, CROWNDROP, PETER ZANTEY, UPTRODDEN CYNIC, MARSHALL WATKINS, GENGVEJ, LESS THEN PERFECT, MIDNIGHT MURDER SHOW, SEVENTH LEGEND, SUZY & THE SUBSTITUTES, SATURN SUNRISE, POCKET FULL OF WOLVES, Shawn Michael Perry & Only The Brave, GANG OF NOISE, SKYNYRD RISING, THE SOUL JUICE BAND, EVEN IN DEATH, BONEYARD, HAROLD DAVIS, R-HUMAN, TAKE BACK THE SUN, CRUELLA D'VIL, MOVING LINES, D.N.D, GAONA, THE RISING FALL, VERDANT FIELDS, THE BLACK HEARTSRINGS, KENNY SHIPMAN BAND, SEPHERIN, DAYMES ROCKET, cl0cks0ng, THE POSTER KIDS, THE FODS, OUTLAW DEVILS, BLOOD DESECRATION, EIGHTBALL, AUTUMN KILLERS, ALCH3MY, THE MYSTIC EUPHORIA PROJECT, LARRY PASCALE, HUBANWIF, SABBATAR, and EDEN AGE UNDERCOVER. Hardy Mills from Hardman Productions has an interview of Dawn Melanie.

This week Andrew, Aaron, and Keith played the listener requested Stellaris by: Paradox Games. Stellaris is a 4x real time strategy game where you play an alien race trying to carve their place among the solar system. Govern your planets, negotiate diplomacy, or commit galactic war crimes, the choice is yours. Stellaris also happens to be one of the oldest non 1st party game pass games, but now that we covered it, it will probably get removed, because that's how it usual goes. Check out our sponsor for a limited time January bundle! www.magicmind.com/bagjan   Join our channels! https://linktr.ee/gpgb

שורפים משחקים, הפודקאסט לגיימר העצלן, על כל המשחקים כולם. השבוע אנחנו מתעמקים במשחקים שיתופיים – מ־Nom Nom Galaxy ו־PlateUp שיוני שיחק עם הילדים, דרך Clank! Catacombes ו-Wavelength שאביב שיחק במפגש חברים. וגם: יהודה צלל אל סטלאריס ו-Vampire Survivors. שורפים משחקים – תוכנית מספר 382 – הוקלטה בתאריך 04/12/2024 0:00:00 – פתיח וקשקושים 0:02:43 – חדשות ודיונים 0:04:46 – Clank! Catacombs 0:14:54 – Wavelength 0:22:00 – Life is Strange: Double Exposure 0:33:42 – Baldur's Gate 3 0:36:39 – Nom Nom Galaxy 0:40:06 – PlateUp 0:44:50 – Boomerang Fu 0:47:29 – Polytopia 0:49:02 – Stellaris 1:01:51 – Vampire Survivors 1:12:16 – ציפיות לעתיד משתתפים: יוני בראל, יהודה חלפון ואביב מנוח. הערות הפרק באתר תמיכה בתוכנית הפודקאסט באפליקציות כל הפרקים -- Baldur's Gate III, Boomerang Fu, Clank! Catacombs, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Nom Nom Galaxy, PlateUp, Polytopia, Stellaris, Vampire Survivors

In Xbox Kompakt werfen wir jeden Samstag einen Blick zurück auf die vergangene Woche und fassen für euch die News-Highlights rund um unsere Lieblingskonsole zusammen - eigentlich bei YouTube, doch jetzt bekommt ihr alle Infos auch hier auf die Ohren! Inhalte dieser Folge im Detail: 00:00 Hey Leute 00:33 MS Flight Simulator - https://t.co/wQ3wRQK8Id 02:25 Xbox Cloud Gaming - https://t.co/cDKc6ZynUu 03:31 This is an Xbox - https://t.co/yGddlQG5X2 05:05 Darum eine Xbox - https://t.co/By2VwKZEm8 05:49 Kommentar der Woche 07:26 Game Awards - https://t.co/QwyhfR9fbU 10:21 GOTY-Nominierungen - https://t.co/1dqxDkUv4v 10:44 GTA-Trilogy - https://t.co/nFmzsR3S2m 12:59 Life is Strange - https://t.co/aKUWMTWdcj 13:38 Xbox Game Pass - https://t.co/XUfbpMxplf 14:17 Free Play Days - https://t.co/eYmE6NO31d 14:34 Hot Rod Mayhem - https://t.co/keMd24uUDH 14:52 Empyreal - https://t.co/aNiNH3MwoB 15:12 Inayah - https://t.co/05DU0VMiGI 15:39 Pathfinder GOTY - https://t.co/FrYzkN1td8 15:55 Dynasty Warriors - https://t.co/Zl9sCQB7dj 16:13 War Robots - https://t.co/awRcFfX1Ms 16:27 Amerzone - https://t.co/dfgUbZt6ma 16:42 Straßenmeisterei Sim - https://t.co/2gJMDHFXEL 16:55 Mandragora - https://t.co/3IZSCLeac9 17:03 Steel Seed - https://t.co/tHXNZihIVN 17:18 Assassin's Creed - https://t.co/C10u8ywcSW 17:36 Star Wars: Outlaws - https://t.co/6NBgCIwNez 17:54 Stellaris - https://t.co/HQhwdjvX6v 18:11 NfS Unbound - https://t.co/azLVaRjebC 18:20 Dungeons 4 - https://t.co/mACpCwGXMp 18:29 TDU Solar Crown - https://t.co/zaGpOoVkiG 18:49 Back 4 Blood - https://t.co/2rFshTixNU 19:24 Control 2 - https://t.co/1TiCmofDB5 19:57 F1 Manager - https://t.co/mjcrd49vV3 20:34 Xbox-Highlights - https://t.co/7vdP0DrlxJ 20:47 Stalker 2 - https://t.co/XbzUzf0Cba 24:41 Vorschau 25:02 Ciao ciao!

Cities Skylines 2? Miserabel gestartet und bis heute nicht für Konsolen erschienen. Life By You? Eingestampft und abgeschrieben. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2? Fragt nicht. Was ist nur los bei Paradox Interactive? GameStar-Autor Reiner Hauser hat mit den Schweden gesprochen und diskutiert mit den Strategiespiel-Heroen Maurice Weber, Steinwallen und RangerArea über seine Erkenntnisse und die Probleme von Paradox.

In this episode, we discuss the recent controversy surrounding The Verge and its decision to publish information about Valve's secret shooter Deadlock. We also touch on the unusual request from the Black Myth: Wukong studio, asking influencers to avoid including feminist propaganda or COVID-19 references in their coverage. Micah expresses his ongoing frustrations with Fortnite and why the game never seems to sit right with him. We wildly speculate as to what Dreamcast game VP candidate Tim Walz was into that got his console taken away. Finally, Brad shares his experience venturing into the expansive world of Stellaris.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about 7 Days to Die, Fortnite: Reload, Stellaris, and much more! The Grind: Kole: 7 Days to Die. Dennis: Roboquest. Fortnite: Reload. iRacing. Moxie: Stellaris. Warframe. Ben: Beat Saber. Hi-Fi Rush. The Multiplayer: What games took the biggest risks? The End Boss: GameStop shuts down Game Informer. Until Dawn is getting a movie adaptation. Diablo IV glitch made permanent. Sega made an arcade game without a computer or a screen.

Candela Obscura like you've never heard it before. Cinematic, and dramatic. Join us for our most incredible production yet. 

Already out on YouTube, this episode will come to our podcast next week! 

This week, an unsupervised Kris and Lucas co-opt the podcast for real RPG sicko discussions. We also discuss Final Fantasy 14, Shin Megami Tensei 5, Stellaris, Mon-Yu, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS Intro - 0:00 | Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail - 0:46 | Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance - 46:51 | Stellaris - 1:27:27 | Mon-Yu - 1:31:11 | Outro - 1:45:09 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): + The Shin Megami Tensei 5 Power Hour | Brian Said Something About A Blowjob, But Might Just Be A Hurricane | + In Case of Primal, Break Glass | Okay, FF7 Reference, Here We Go... No! It Was a 1.0 Reference All Along! | + What If We Just Told FF4 Again, But Worse | + Healing Difficulty Level is Dependent on How Much My Teammates Fuck Up | Anytime You Make A Choice, She's Like "You Shouldn't Trust Either of These Motherfuckers" | + 7/10, But A Really Good 7/10 + Truly A Sicko Episode If There Ever Was One | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode hosted and edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

This week the crew gets cozy in a big ol' English villa, drinking tea and growing plants and such. We're playing Botany Manor, come on in! We also talk a bit about Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, some Stellaris, and we go chill out in Matt's Movie Corner to round out the night. Also, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe

We may have already used this episode title before, but I'm certainly not going to check. This week, Mike learns about the downsides of slavery, Norris learns the downsides of drinking 5 sour sodas, Steph learns how to travel back in time, Jack learns what's behind the thousand year door, and Dave learns from Matt that he's wrong and movies are actually good. Also, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai, David Beebe, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe

What happens when you mix Mandy, Super Hot, Wanted, and Where's Waldo? You get this month's GotM: Children of the Sun! We deep dive into this puzzle sniper, but at the end there's also some Stellaris updates, because it's claimed another victim. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, David Beebe, Mike Parker Music by David Beebe

It's surprisingly roomy in here. This week we really try our damndest to talk about video games, but somehow go kind of off-track. We do talk a bit on Factorio, Stellaris, Hades, and Minishoot Adventures, which *is* a pretty good list of games. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, David Beebe Music by David Beebe

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that's free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it's AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business(00:31:02) OpenAI's Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo's robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source(00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE's Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta's New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements(00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety(00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They're Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art(00:58:54) Google's invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) AI Outro Song

This week the gang can't help talking about Warhammer and Final Fantasy, but there's also some hot Stellaris news, Norris is searching for a Golden Idol, and, bah god, is that Baldur's Gate 3's music I hear!? Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Jack Shirai, David Beebe Music by David Beebe

This podcast is full of patches and updates, but the guys also discuss Destiny finally getting Horde mode, PS VR2 production reportedly being paused as Sony seeks to move backlog of unsold units, the Stellaris spin-off changing its name to Nexus 5X, and Assassin's Creed Jade likely delayed to 2025. The news includes: Stardew Valley‘s […] The post Episode 718: Patches first appeared on Gaming Podcast » Podcast Feed.

This podcast is full of patches and updates, but the guys also discuss Destiny finally getting Horde mode, PS VR2 production reportedly being paused as Sony seeks to move backlog of unsold units, the Stellaris spin-off changing its name to Nexus 5X, and Assassin's Creed Jade likely delayed to 2025. The news includes: Stardew Valley's 1.6 update is finally live Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection gets first patch following troubled launch Marathon fan revival coming to Steam with Bungie's blessing Ubisoft reveals generative AI project for NPC dialogue Palworld propels Xbox to best ever month of console playtime Let us know what you think.

We talk to Henrik Fåhraeus about his leadership at Paradox Interactive, including the game design of Stellaris and the Crusader Kings series. Henrik explains how artificial intelligence can bring a game world to life, and how The Ur-Quan Masters influenced the story and universe of Stellaris.0:00 - Theme music0:14 - Introductions1:18 - Henrik and UQM3:07 - Influence of UQM6:40 - Science fiction and Stellaris12:54 - What is creativity16:05 - Games with living worlds21:23 - Storytelling in games27:17 - Artificial intelligence29:19 - UQM as a living world33:33 - Producing meaning with AI45:58 - Future of games50:28 - Replayability at Paradox55:14 - Crusader Kings58:04 - Emergent storytelling1:01:58 - Playing games you made1:06:35 - UQM alien races1:11:05 - Sandbox vs. story1:17:50 - RPGs with systemic worlds1:24:02 - UQM2Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/theurquanmasterDiscuss with us on Discord - https://discord.gg/rasVCDmYKpPlease support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/pistolshrimpLearn more about Pistol Shrimp - https://pistolshrimpgames.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Explores the significance of understanding probability in decision-making, drawing on personal experiences with computer games like Stellaris, board games and roleplay games. Combining this with YOUR perspective. What did you remove? What do you add? What you choose and not.

Rob talks, at length, about one of his favorite games, Stellaris.  He gives Matilda control of his discord soundboard, but for future reference Craig does not record soundboard sounds.  oops!   Host: Rob @Confessor_x   SU now has it's own twitter if you'd like to submit topic ideas, questions or advice- @simplyunprofes1 Music by Ross Malcolm Boyd Please give us a rating and review wherever you listen to us, and as always check out our Website (distractionsmedia.com) for links to other things we do!

Back to a 3 person strong team, but will we learn why Pete was playing Stellaris rather than on the podcast last week? Don't bet on it. We have breaking news on the pod, with instance reactions to The Day Before shut down. Pete's played multiple news games and we recap The Game Awards 2023:What We've Been Playing:CocoonTW: Three KingdomsCOD WarzoneAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora

We're back and largely on time as we dig in a little more on the gaming handhelds after some extended traveling, the new PS5 (and maybe a little about what it might mean for the PS5 Pro), go back in time with Stellaris, Dave the Diver, Dredge, and more.  This week's music:  Muse - Map of the Problematique

We spoke with Bibhu Prasad Das, CEO & Co-founder of Propelld, a Series B funded Bengaluru based fintech specializing in providing personalised education loans to students and families in Tier 2/3 cities.  Propelld bases their lending decisions on selected course's end-use, deep borrower underwriting, and by taking a partner-led model. Backed by marquee investors such as Westbridge Capital, Stellaris, and India Quotient, the company was founded with the mission to make education financing more accessible and affordable for Indian students.  Propelld leverages technology and ventures deep into its target segment (i.e. supplementary/out of school education and higher education) by collecting alternate data points to determine a student's forward looking capabilities and motivations. Listen in to this fascinating chat where we touch upon inherent underwriting challenges within education lending, how Propelld has tackled them to unlock the potential of this market as a large-TAM-low loss segment, and the perspective needed by institutional investors looking to take exposure in this space. Hope you enjoy this TRANSFIN. Podcast with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran, where we converse with entrepreneurs and business operators running successful startups, profitable SMEs and family promoted firms on one end, and top investment professionals representing VC/PE/credit funds on the other. The objective is to bring out an "actionable" perspective converging the world of business and investing. If you're a founder and if you'd like us to drill down your model, feel free to drop us a line at edit@transfin.in

Sit with Jennifer Didier and Jean Anne Booth as they discuss the world of Venture Capital.  After a great career and millions of dollars made, Jean Anne Booth come out of retirement for a corporate adventure that would change the life of loved one and those like her.  As a serial entrepreneur, Jean Anne Booth has 30 years of experience in high technology. Her background spans from P&L business unit management to marketing; product definition; systems, software, and applications engineering; silicon development engineering; and operations and product engineering. Jean Anne was the founder of Luminary Micro, the creators of the Stellaris® microcontroller (MCU) platform and the first to market with ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller solutions. Luminary Micro was purchased by Texas Instruments in May 2009. Jean Anne left TI in November 2011 after serving as the General Manager for TI's Stellaris family of products. Early in her career, Jean Anne worked with AMD's embedded microprocessor products for 10 years in a number of management, marketing and engineering roles. Jean Anne holds a BSEE from the University of Texas and an MSCE degree from National Technical University. Reach her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanannebooth/ Website: https://www.unaliwear.com/

On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Jean Anne Booth, CEO of UnaliWear, headquartered in Austin, TX, USA.  Jean Anne Booth, a serial entrepreneur, brings over 30 years of high-tech experience and has raised over $100M in venture capital for her startups. UnaliWear's Kanega watch, the only 24/7 medical alert with fall detection, features a patented quick-swap battery system. Jean Anne Booth was the founder of Luminary Micro, creators of the Stellaris® microcontroller platform, which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2009, and Intrinsity, sold to Apple in 2010. UnaliWear's Kanega watch is the ONLY 24/7 medical alert with fall detection, featuring a patented quick-swap battery system. The company's patented RealFall(TM) technology is revolutionizing fall detection and response. Jean Anne shares the importance of consistent investor communication and effective cap table management. She highlighted the untapped potential in the silver tech space, urging investors to recognize the significant purchasing power of the 60+ population and challenge cultural biases. Visit UnaliWear at , and connect on LinkedIn: and . Follow them on Twitter: and . Reach out to Jean Anne Booth at _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

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How to get started AND stick with it.‍Please don't forget to share with us on Instagram when you are listening to the podcast AND if you are really wanting to show us love, then please leave a 5 star review on iTunes! [Click here to leave a review on iTunes]‍p.s. Some links are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. Please understand that we have experience with these products/ company, and I recommend them because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions we make if you decide to buy something. Please do not spend any money unless you feel you need them or that they will help you with your goals.‍Episode Transcript (Auto-Generated - Please Excuse Errors)Michael: All right. It's time to talk with our featured guests, Manal Sampat. What's up, Manal? Minal: I'm doing great. How are you? Michael: Not as good. You travel a ton. Where have you just, You came from SmileCon, right? Recently? Yeah. Minal: Yep. I spoke at SmileCon in Florida before Florida, I was in Aruba before Aruba, I was in Pennsylvania before Pennsylvania.I was in Virginia. I don't even know. It's, it's been, it's been, uh, it's been a lot of travel, which is amazing because I, I love to travel and I get, I love to speak. So it works out. Michael: Yeah, that's good. So then I know in SmileCon, you, you did quite a bit of, uh, workshops. If you don't mind me asking, like, what's your favorite topic to discuss?When it comes to marketing, Minal: can you, I mean, it's like asking you to choose between your children.I don't know what would be my favorite topic. I mean, I love everything. I love internal marketing. I love social media. I guess my best feeling is to provide the tools for people to implement. you know, for my thing, no matter what I'm teaching or how I'm doing the workshop, I want to implement, like, for example, like, I just spoke at SmileCon and some other meetings, and like, I have, you know, doctors messaging me saying, hey, I just implemented this, or I just did this, and oh my god, I can't wait, or I'm now obsessed with doing reels, I love it, right?And that's what I want, like, end of the day. No matter what topic I'm hearing about or how deep dive you go into marketing, any kind of marketing, it's getting somebody super excited and having them take action because that's what makes it work is the action. So if they can do that, it's amazing. Michael: Yeah. And I feel like a lot of the times the doctor, the practice owner may come excited or even the office manager, but the rest of the team really isn't all that excited or they're not ready for it.Or maybe they excited one day or two days and then they died down. Right. So. Talk to us if you can give us like a step by step process or system on how can we get our team excited and continue to be excited about marketing? Minal: Oh, it's, I think that a lot of it comes down to making sure that your team is one, they understand your goals.And to the house, they get incentivized. There's something in return coming up because you have to realize the team members are busy. They're already busy doing their actual job. So if you want them to now work on your marketing so that you could grow your practice, there should be some sort of give and take, right?Creating simple systems like, Hey, guys, our goal for this month is. So we are at 80 right now. If we get 100 new patients and everybody gets this, or you create incentive based on who's scheduling the patients, right? Or you can say, hey, our goal this month is to get 30 new reviews. So, let's go ahead and create a goal and create an incentivization.Now, for some team members, it works well, if they're individually incentivized for others, it works where it works. Well, if they are creating a, a, Big team kind of, you know, if you reach together with 30 reviews, we're all going to go and get many and patty. So I like we're all going to go for a happy hour or something like that.But you want to create a goal. I have a lot of practices and I get practices at my own events. Um, you know, from anywhere between 3 to 18 team members, they literally fly them to the destination events that I throw and they bring their team members and usually they make that happen as hey, let's let's reach this goal.And if we reach this goal, then we can all go to Aruba. We can all go to Turks and Caicos. We can all go here. and so now the whole team is excited and moving towards this goal because they want to do that. The first thing is you need to create some sort of excitement, incentive around it, just because not everybody's organically going to share your practice.And if any of the listeners here have my book, chapter five of my book, where I say teamwork. literally goes through the exact systems of creating and getting your team excited about marketing. So it's, it's, and it goes through the steps of how do you start with it. It goes through the steps of, you know, what you need to do as well.So it's super, once you start implementing it, it becomes easier. Michael: Gotcha. Okay. So then you mentioned incentives to provide of all the incentives you've seen your clients, practices, people you've spoken with what has been the best, like Oh, yes, this is really going to keep the fire lit under Minal: the team.It's very hard because I work with practices who are one providers to practices that are 60, 70 locations. So their incentive package and how they work their system is very different. If you are a smaller practice. Then, yeah, clearly you have you could do individually in civilization or a group one. If you are a multi location, then you have a lot more team members, right?So it's not easy for you to fly 50 team members to some kind of a location. Maybe you fly your management team or your. Marketing team or your clinical team. So it depends on it. You know, your practice culture, you know, your team members, you know, is it going to work well as a group celebration for reaching your goals or individual incentives or perhaps both or maybe taking them out for, you know, some sort of a destination kind of event or whatever it is retreat or however you want to call it.It really. comes down to your specific. I have practices who do as simple as 5 for every new patient that we scheduled or all the way to, hey, we are going to fly to whatever, and take everybody with us. So it just really, it just really depends. Michael: Gotcha. Okay. And then what if they are trying, like, I've seen this before where they're like, yeah, they're excited.They're, they're trying to reach the goals, but month one, they didn't month two, they didn't now they're getting demotivated month three month. And then they just kind of like, we just doctor, we can't reach it. We need. More money for ads, or I don't know, something, Minal: do you not? Yeah, so it's, it's different, right?So what I used to do was, Michael, I used to be the marketing ambassador for a dental practice. because of that, I did this every month. And the way that I kept the team super excited was every single month, I held a 90 minute meeting. Now, this wasn't like a meeting of like, here's a memo. This is what we are doing, right?Like, no, this will be a fun meeting. So I used to come up, I came up with this game, like a Jeopardy, like a Jeopardy game, but what I would do is, um, we'll, you know, shut down in the lunchtime. Get everybody gets lunch. You know, the lunches at the practice and they know this is a team meeting and I would create the jeopardy game and then in the jeopardy game, I would have all the questions, right?It will be clinical questions from desk questions, but also marketing questions and then all of the questions will have points. 5 point question. 10 point question. 20 point question bonus. And I would divide the team into different departments. So depending on how big your team is or how big your practices are, you could divide them into teams and you create a competition.And what people have to do is, because they know these questions are coming, this is where you add everything, something new you implemented. Perhaps you are doing a whitening promotion this month, or perhaps you change your FA, right, your financial agreement this month, or perhaps you change your script, for something with clinical, or something with the front desk.Whatever it is, you come up with all the questions, and you put your team members in smaller teams. And now you create a competition where you run this meeting as a fun team activity, and you would be shocked how much they all got excited every single month with everything we were doing, including marketing.And we will have a winning team and the winning team will get like some kind of a prize or a gift card or whatever it is, whoever it's in the winning team, and they would literally study. So they would go on like if they know the team meeting is scheduled for next week, like the week before I would start getting questions, they would be on the website.Checking out what promotions we are running, or they would be on like the social media checking it out, or they will, the clinical team will be asking the front desk team. Hey, what did you guys change this month? And you know, vice versa. And they all got super excited for this game because they knew it was happening.There was a winning team. There was all this fun questions. And it was a great way to learn because instead of creating. a memo, again, nothing against memo, but that could be boring. But now you would have some sort of a question. Hey, we just changed our appointment time for new patients this month.And then people were like, what is our new appointment time? And then, you know, the team, I would get buzzers from Amazon. They're like 20 bucks you get. So it's like buzzer. Everybody's trying to buzz and everybody's trying to, you know, get super excited about it. And it's amazing. It's super fun. And now everybody's talking about, oh, the new appointment time that we have for the new patient and the entire team is present there.So everybody knows about it. Everybody's making a note. And I did this every single month. And then during that same meeting, I would share the goals. I would share whatever, You know, where we are trying to be, whether it's marketing, because again, I was a marketing ambassador. So I did the whole marketing part.What do we, what results do we want? How are we working as a team? Where are we really lacking? What do we need to do to accomplish that? And it worked great. if you want to keep your team excited, you have to be excited. And you have to show that excitement to them, right? Like I would even go in and at the, at the lunch, at the lunch room, I would, I would have a graph or even in the dry erase board.I will tell them where we are every single day with our new patient numbers. So every single day they came down and be like, okay, we are at X. Well, this is our goal. So I'm like, are those people calling? Are we converting them? What do we need to do? And tell me what I need to do at my end. Sometimes they will come to me and say, Hey, next week schedule is falling apart.Can you go ahead and push out some social media ads? You got it. I'm going to push out some social media ads. Let's go ahead and do this. So there was this full on communication. Every day that I just kind of posted information, so they all knew where we were. But on a monthly basis to show them how excited we were, the doctors were, and I was, and the management, the team members were now excited too.Because if it's not in front of you, you're going to forget about it. It has to be in front of you. You have to get excited about it. Michael: Gotcha. So, one key thing that I feel like you're talking about too is, you kind of give the accountability to one person. In this scenario, it was you, right? So, who do you recommend, if it's a smaller practice?You know what I mean? Who can we give this accountability to and then almost kind of like train them to do this? Minal: It's easy. I mean finding the person who we want to be accountable one day how to be somebody that is organized So they could take on this task and they could stay organized with it. But the second is the personality They need to have like a fun energetic personality where they can actually help with marketing and with you know, capturing Content for social media or like working with the team and getting them excited because they are excited.Right? So you do need the personality. So organization personality. And then the third part is you want somebody who is also okay with tech. You don't want somebody who absolutely hates technology or is not even themselves on social media. You know, that doesn't help you because they don't understand how it all works.So those are the three things and you want to give them extra time. So you may be thinking of somebody already on your team that you have. and you can easily give them two hours extra a week is what you would need to get started with. And then you could add more and more and more, but you could get somebody on your team, or you could put out an ad and get a part time person who can come in.Or maybe you have a niece, a nephew, a daughter, a son, a friend, somebody, you know, uh, who's totally into this kind of stuff. And they can come in and kind of help out to for for few hours a week. So you can easily do that. The reason I said that you want somebody in charge of it is because, as you and I both know, when it's everyone's job is nobody's job.Yeah. So, somebody needs to take on the ownership of this and get excited and get the doctors and share with the doctors so the doctors are also excited. And this is true for the doctors. You need to be excited. You need to be excited because I sometimes get a lot of team members who are super excited and they will call me and be like, the doctor just won't take photos and videos.Doctor, this is your business. This is your practice. If you don't take photos and videos, why should your team care about your marketing? Right. Why should they even put anything in? Because you don't put anything in. So that's just some real side talk And if you are uncomfortable with photos and videos, perhaps select a brand ambassador, like a practice ambassador for your practice who can interview you or show it.But at the end of the day, it's your business and you're as a leader. How you act and what you do is what the team sees. You are the leader of the practice. You are the owner of the practice. So if they don't see you doing this or hustling or getting excited about it or sharing about it, then they are not going to do it either.Michael: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So then capturing the content for social media, that's super important to have in house, you would say? Oh Minal: yeah, 100 percent because everything happens inside your practice. Michael: Okay, so then they... According to you, like, or your advice, what's the best right now, like today, to be like this is the best type of content you need to capture for social media?Minal: Reels. less than 30 second videos. Videos of what? Oh, so much. This could be anything from a practice culture, to patient appointments, to testimonials, to a tour of your practice, to the team having fun, the morning huddle, you know, the doctor sharing a tip. It's just, it has to be a, Less than 30 second video and the 1st frame of the video, like you could even do a video and photo, photo, photo, photo.You know, you could create 1 video with videos and photos, but the beginning has to be some kind of motion. So the beginning slide of that 30 second video has to be a video and all the listeners here, if you were to go onto my Instagram page, uh, you'll see that I have a couple of reels on there. You'll see that one of those reels is like me in a boat, and you'll see, if you click on it, you'll see that I start with a video of me sitting on the boat, like smiling kind of thing.But then there's like a photo, photo, photo, photo, video, photo, photo, right? But so what it does is, You have, in general, your audience spends three seconds. before deciding if they want to watch your content. Our attention span is three seconds. And because it's three seconds, you have to capture them right away.And if there's movement, they usually are like, what's happening here? Cause we are nosy people. So we're like, hold up, what's going on in this video, right? So you want to always start the first frame with a video, and then you could have fun with a reel where you could combine videos and photos together, things like that.But the first thing is always a video. Okay. Michael: So video first, And everything else later on, how often should we be doing this? Because some people are like, I'm going to do it three times a week or Minal: I mean, you want to share at least four times a week, but you don't have to share a video four times a week.That's, you know, you don't necessarily need to do that. You just need to share consistently four times a week, real photos and videos. And this is why it's so important that your content collection happens inside the practice because you and I both know that. If you see that photo of that stock family wearing their blue shirts and their blue dresses one more time on social media.You know, everybody knows which one I'm talking about. That's not, it just doesn't work. Stock doesn't work. Um, the whole point, like the first word in social media is social. You have to be social. The first word in Facebook is face. You have to show your face, right? The first word in Instagram is Insta. It has to be something that captures their, their attention right away.So these platforms are not even lying to you. They're telling you it's in their names, what they want. So it's not really that hard to figure out what kind of content the hard part is. A consistency staying consistent and actually sharing. and many times I would have practices reach out.They're like, our social media is not working. And I'm like, let's take a look. And they probably shared something three weeks ago and they haven't shared anything since then. So what happens is the algorithm is like, well, you're not showing me any love, so I'm not going to show you any love, right? It's all about how much time you're spending there.It's all about how much time people are engaging with your post, what's going on. So again, if you don't show the platform any love, why should the platform show you any love? So the things are just there. So the trick is to stay consistent. So you want real photos and videos and you want to post every other day.So that comes out to be three to four times a week. And that's totally fine. Photos just start simple photos and videos. If you look at your patient, uh, your appointments, and let's say that you're open for five days a week, and let's say I'm going to be super like conservative, right? And let's say that you only see five patients a day, and you're open for five days a week.That's 25 patients you're seeing a weekly basis. Can you capture four photos? From 25. Yeah, you can. You could capture a photo with a patient with a doctor, the doctor coming in the morning, the team doing the morning team huddle, You could share photos of you guys, you know, going out to lunch together.You could share a testimonial from a patient. So you could share it. Photos and videos and always, just a side note, always get a written consent from your patients, for anything that requires marketing. Yeah. Michael: I know when it comes to pediatrics, it's kind of easy to, you know what I mean? Like, share those photos and talk about it and it's like, it's a cute kid, right?Like, here you go. When it comes to adults, do you ever feel, Manal, like sometimes you're looking at a practices page and you see like, them with the patient, them with the patient, them with the patient, and you kind of grow numb to it. You're just like, oh, another one. Can there be something, a better idea of them with the Minal: patient?Yeah, that's, to be completely honest with you, Michael, my favorite patients for social media are boomers. I have so many clients, practices who are killing it, killing it on social media by showcasing boomers. You know why? Because boomers love you. They are the ones who come on time to their appointments.They bring you cookies. they bring your cards. They know everything that's happening in the practice. They are super supportive. They respect you. They listen to your treatment. So I love to showcase boomers, but you want to do different fun things. So you want, like I mentioned, you want to have a combination between your practice culture.And your patients. So you want to show off your team huddles. You want to show photos of the doctor to the patient. You want to do a high five a great day, or you want to go ahead and create a testimonial, quick testimonial video with your patient as well. So there is so much content that you could do.And again, if you go to Instagram. on Minaal's stamp at LLC. I share all of this. Like I share, give you like nine dental reel ideas. You have them. I actually tell you what to post. Uh, hook ideas. Hook is what goes on the reel. It's a subject line that captures somebody's attention. I share it with you.I have an entire post on how to get your team excited about marketing. So all of those specific tips. You can easily grab, information is always there. It's the overload. And this is why I don't want to give out too much on the, on the podcast. Cause this is what happens when I usually do that.They get overwhelmed and they're like, Oh my God, there's no way I can do this. You can do this. All I want you to do, if you're talking about social, is start with four posts a week. That's it. That's your job. Your job is to start with four posts a week. I don't even care if the same posts are all patient photos of the doctors.It's fine. Just first get consistent with it. Just make sure you're implementing it. Then go crazy with all the trends and what's happening. But the first thing is to get started. It's like working out. You can't just run a marathon right away, right? You have to go slow. You have to practice every day. You have to get your speed up.You have to get your stamina up. You have to work out every day. This is similar to that. So it's harder for you to jump directly into the big stuff. Uh, you know, if I'm here talking about like, go ahead and find this and go ahead and do this and, you know, push it this way where you're creating a different kind of reaction and you're changing how it looks, you're going to.Say, Oh, that's too much. And that's the thing. Just start. Now, if you are somebody who has already started, good for you. Amazing for you. You're doing awesome. This is when you start leveling up and this is when you do start utilizing all those trends and topics and start, creating cross marketing and start collaborating with other people on Instagram and Facebook.Collaboration means whatever you post also goes on their page. You start creating internal contests with your patients. So there's a lot more you could do, but just get started. Thanks. Michael: So just get started four days, out of the week. Yeah. And then how can we just get started with getting the team motivated?Cause they feel like you told us a lot of like amazing stuff, but like, let's just say for example, the doctor's listening, he's like, okay, I have the perfect person in my team. She's going to be able to do this. I call her marketing manager, marketing Minal: director, whatever, marketing manager and marketing ambassador, content, social media manager, the name is just a name.Michael: Yeah. And then I give her what specific duties that she needs to do. Minal: Capture four photos or videos a week and schedule them on social media and then go and engage with them. Okay, and then you only need two hours a week to do that, so you don't need to do more than that. Their job should just be, Hey, look at our schedule.Look at the patients coming in. Let's highlight the patients that are more likely to take photos and videos with us because they love us. They're amazing. They're awesome. Let's capture a review from this patient. Let's go ahead and take a photo with this patient. Right? Let's go ahead. We have a team meeting coming up.Let's make sure we take a photo of the team meeting. So on a Monday morning, they should just look at the whole schedule and be able to tell what photos they're capturing. And then what I do is you always want to take photos and videos and create into a library. So let's say you did a team meeting and you took 20 photos.Don't share 20 photos only share 5. Save the 15 for future, right? So, because you will have those times where you have a lull or it's not, it's crazy busy and you don't have time. But if you have a library of photos, you can always take those photos out and just share them. So, you know, take a lot of photos, keep the library open, but their job should literally be take four photos and videos.Start with our patient base and what our team's doing. And let's just share that. And once we do that. This is when we can start adding more and creating it But yes keep it if you are brand new starting at this and you're talking to a team member also don't overwhelm them Keep it very simple for Michael: them as well Gotcha.Okay. This has been fantastic. So besides that I know You got something coming up pretty big which is I mean, you got a lot of things pretty big coming up, but... Minal: Uh, no, you're kind. Uh, yeah, I have CEO on the Beach in Aruba coming up. So, I'm super excited. So, CEO on the Beach is a destination conference, pretty much.Um, you know, I've done it, uh, I called CEO on the Beach because I grew up in St. Thomas, and... Beach is my thing. Island life is my thing. So, done the event in St. Thomas, have done the event in Turks and Caicos in 2023. And in 2024, it's going to be in Aruba! And it's super fun. It's all different topics. There is marketing, there is practice management, scheduling systems, there is clinical topics.I have amazing speakers coming. There's panel discussion. And like I said, everybody, you know, depending on who they are, your team members are welcome to join us. So, it's a fun event. How many days is it? So it's one full day is three days, but it's different audiences, right? So one full day is for coaches, consultants, speakers and companies in the industry.And then there are two half days for dentists and teams. And I say half days because you're in Aruba. you know, so we start at 8 a. m. We end at 1 p. m. Because I know none of you are going to stay inside in a room in a conference room in Aruba. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. And then, um, I'm kind of the event see on the beach.My, it's known for like epic beach parties, like in Turks and Caicos, we run the number one beach in the world for like a dinner and sunset and dancing and all the fun stuff in Aruba, the beach party is on a private island with flamingos. Michael: That's pretty cool. Yeah. Minal: You know, I kind of want to provide experience.Like, if you're coming to Aruba, that's awesome. And you write it off as a workation because it's a work trip, so you're writing that off. You're also kind of, you know, doing that. But at the same time, I always want to do the beach parties are my way of doing something that you won't otherwise do, right? So this, going to this private island and Being there checking it out, seeing actual flamingos, uh, you know, on the islands, interacting with them and stuff.So the beach parties are epic. They are pretty fun and people come with family and friends. Like, they really make it into a workation because the hotel gives a group room rate for over a week. So most The people come with family and friends and it becomes into a big, uh, big like networking event, but lots of fun and learning at the same time.Michael: That's nice. What's the hotel that, or is it already kept Minal: out or now? Yeah. Yeah. Everything is, I mean, we are, we are 50 percent full. This is not till July 2024. It's already 50 percent full. so it is in Aruba Marriott and Stellaris. So that's the, that's the hotel and the dates are July 25th to 27th. Michael: Okay.So there's going to be a link to that in the show notes below. And at the same time, if you type in TDM 150, you get a pretty awesome discount. So type that in there, TDM 150, and then that's also going to be in the show notes below as well. But any final pieces of advice, Manal, that you want to give to our audience?Minal: Um, no, like I said, if you're just getting started, keep it simple. Your job should just be to stay consistent. Just, it's just like working out. If you want to get better, you know, if you want to get in a better shape, you just have to show up every day and you just have to work out, right? You can't work out once a week and then don't work out three weeks and then go back to it.So keep it super simple. If you are somebody who has already started it and you are like, yes, I'm ready to. Level up. This is when you start using the trending sound. This is when you start getting more creative. You can use platforms like Canva and CapCut for like your videos and stuff as well.So you could start getting a lot more stuff. And if you're already on it, you're probably much following some of those trends as well. And then, as I said. Be excited about it. Like share those numbers every day or on a monthly basis, create fun meetings for the team so that they're excited about it and they get to see you and they get to see how amazing this is going to be.And they are into it as well. So remember, you are the leader. How you show up for this is how your team's going to show up for this. that's a big part of this. And the practice that I was a marketing ambassador was 25, 000 patients and like 40 team members. So I had a lot of writing on, you know, I have to create all 40 team members to get excited.So it could be done. You can totally do this. Baby steps, just baby steps. Michael: Baby steps. Awesome. So guys, thank you so much for tuning in. It's been a pleasure, but at the same time, and I'll thank you so much for being a part of the podcast. It's been a pleasure too. And at the same time, if you guys want to go in the show notes below.Click on any of our links to reach out to her and then check out CE on the beach in Aruba and type in TDM 150 just to go check out that awesome discount. Okay, it's awesome. Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll talk to you in the next episode Thank you‍

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen   Hey Folks! This week we start off the show with some discussion about the most recent Honkai Star Rail patch and how it does a Pokemans. From there we dive into the Stellaris offshoot Star Trek Infinite and how it is more than just a reskin.  This leads into a long winding conversation about how games feel wildly different once you tweak a few variables.  All of that takes a brief detour into how frustrating it is that the Sea of Thieves PVE mode has some limitations. Bel goes into a bit of a rant about how all live service releases are awful until they have a year or two under their belt and how “the vision” show be burned to a crisp. We talked a bit about the Microsoft Deal for ActiBlizz finally closing and the possibility of World of Warcraft for Gamepass.  Finally, we get moored in a discussion of Path of Exile as we always seem to lately and talk a bit about Kodra clearing his first two voidstones.   Topics Discussed: Honkai Star Rail does a Pokemans Star Trek Infinite How it is more than just a reskin of Stellaris How Games Change when you Tweak a few Variables Frustrations of Sea of Thieves PVE limitations Microsoft Deal Finalized World of Warcraft on Gamepass When? Path of Exile Kodra Clears Gets some Voidstones

Captain Cug and the rest of the Stellaris crew investigate the mysterious space-station since Scofield is being... a little shady about the details of his trip. Thanks to Shayne Plunkett & Jesse Wright of Meadow Vista Media, who created this season's intro theme: www.meadowvistamedia.com Twitter: @MVM_Studio IG: @meadowvistamedia Buy our book, The Ultimate Random Encounters Book: bit.ly/RandomBook Find out more about the show at our website: www.vre.show Show pins and more: shop.vre.show Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/VRE Follow us @VRECast

Hello everyone!!For our first episode this September we talk about one of our favourite games, and better yet, one of our favourite space games! Paradox Interactive's Stellaris!We have a great chat on how to engage wit Sci-fi and the approaches involved with a macro and micro lenses in this strategy game. We also chat about how to create a sense of history (or not) and how it really can be fun to create and be involved with your own stories in your Galactic Empire.Have fun!Please support our Patreon if you're interested and want access to early content and the bonus Reading Corners! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Intro Music: The Planets, op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, Gustav Holt, 1916Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Stellaris has arrived at it's mission's destination. The crew have many questions about the space station they've discovered, and the new passenger(s?) that they're picking up. Thanks to Shayne Plunkett & Jesse Wright of Meadow Vista Media, who created this season's intro theme: www.meadowvistamedia.com Twitter: @MVM_Studio IG: @meadowvistamedia Buy our book, The Ultimate Random Encounters Book: bit.ly/RandomBook Find out more about the show at our website: www.vre.show Show pins and more: shop.vre.show Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/VRE Follow us @VRECast

This week Matt's here to tell us about the radical Stellaris fundamentalists, Dave is down bad for Baldur's Gate 3, and Norris has given himself to the Grievous Miracle of Blasphemous 2. Mike meanwhile just wants us all to have a nice night's sleep. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, David Beebe, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe

Eric at the Night Market and his Schrödinger rotisserie; Jon at the coast. Microsoft makes useful logs more available, the SEC will require breach notifications within 4 days on an 8-K, and the JumpCloud breach is attributed to North Korea. For fun we have Red Rising book 6, and the space strategy game Stellaris. Enjoy! 0:00 - Intro 6:58 - MSFT Expanded Logging 9:17 - 8-K Breach Disclosures 13:21 - JumpCloud DPRK Link 18:45 - Jon's AI Experiment 23:43 - Red Rising book 6 26:27 - Stellaris

It's a glorious Torgo-less episode as Quark's Most Famous Bartender joins the crew as we talk about 80s Jeff's and Darren's big geeky trip to Los Angeles, John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl, Dopl mini figures, Angel's Flight, the Bradbury Building, Scum & Villainy, geek museums, pickled eggs and pigs feet, almost Walt Disney's house, Lords of Waterdeep, Hogwarts Legacy, Stellaris, Dungeons & Drag Queens, Roll20 and Deb's D&D campaign, Comic-Con the Cruise, James Cameron vs AI, Vanderpump Rules (really?), Chuck, Faith movies and the Hollywood strike, and the rest of the week in geek news.  Pour yourself an oversized Saturday morning bowl of Geekios, it's time for GeekShock!

Intro - Metz describes his experience being takent through Stellaris by a seasoned player Content (7:07) - Discussion of Chapter 2 of An Evil Guest, by Gene Wolfe. Check out more at alzabosoup.com.

Paradox' neues Star-Trek-Strategiespiel hat für Micha keine Chance gegen das beste Star-Trek-Spiel überhaupt: die Mod New Horizons für Stellaris.

This week, Zach and Jeff Finally get back into Clank! Legacy, and Adrian fails at building an Akropolis.   00:04:03 - What have we been playing: Clank! Legacy, Heat, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Revive, Grizzled Armistice, LE: Aliens, Akropolis 00:45:05 - Banter! featuring: Diablo 4, Zelda, Stellaris, Spiderman 01:07:43 - News: Gloom 2.0 01:12:28 - News: TTR: Legacy 01:19:38 - News: Warhammer 40k 10th 01:27:48 - News: Gencon Preview   MHGG Twitch Slack Channel  Patreon Guild  

0:00 Google's Chromebook X project 1:35 Twitch adds new labels 3:29 Reddit removes, reinstates mods 5:40 Stellaris 6:36 QUICK BITS 6:49 FTC sues Amazon over Prime dark patterns 7:28 EA Games splits from EA Sports 8:26 DP Review bought by Gear Patrol 9:35 Secret Invasion's AI intro 10:33 Eve Online gets Excel support News Sources: https://lmg.gg/bfmVZ

In Episode #83, ahead of the 2023 National Theatre on Ice in Fraser, Michigan, June 27-30, Kendall LeClaire joined us to help us learn more about the theatre on ice discipline. Kendall is the director of Spokane Figure Skating Club's theatre on ice program Stellaris and head coach of their competitive team, the Stellaris Ice Theatre, which will compete at the National Theatre on Ice in Fraser.For more on Stellaris Ice Theatre:https://www.spokanefigureskating.org/theatre-on-iceFor more on the 2023 National Theatre on Ice Championships:https://www.harmonynation.org/toinationals2023This Week in Skating is hosted by Gina Capellazzi and Daphne Backman and is a cooperative project between Figure Skaters Online and Ice-dance.com. New episodes are available every Monday.Website: http://www.thisweekinskating.comEmail: thisweekinskating@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinskatingTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/thiswkinskatingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinskatingSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/this-week-in-skating-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Finally, with a moment to herself, Stella takes time to get to know her new friendSpecial thanks to AlchemyFox for providing creepy laughter!Be sure to follow Alchemy on twitter!https://twitter.com/AlchemyFoxwww.twitter.com/roaringtrainerswww.patreon.com/roaringtrainerswww.etsy.com/shop/roaringtrainersSpecial thanks to the following for the use of their music:Karl Casey for the use ofThe VisitorIs it too late?Stranded on EuropaFrozen in FearManhunterFind more music by Karl here!https://whitebataudio.com/ Poor Alexei for the use ofThe Long GoodbyeFind more music by Poor Alexei here!https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Poor_Alexei

This time on Video Game Tango we catch up with the Microsoft/Actvision Blizzard Acquisition! Then we've got discussions on Stellaris and the recently released Everspace! Then it's handhelds again! Tune in to find out what a Rogally is, what it does, and what it costs! Official documentation from CMA regarding their denial of the Microsoft/Activision Blizzard Acquisition - https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/microsoft-slash-activision-blizzard-merger-inquiry EU Could Approve Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Acquisition Next Week - https://gamerant.com/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-eu-approval-report/ - Article by GameRant Activision Hires Queen Elizabeth II's Former Lawyer to Lead CMA Appeal - https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-hires-queen-elizabeth-iis-former-lawyer-to-lead-cma-appeal - Article by IGN EA Comments On Microsoft-Activision Sale And Why It Doesn't Matter To Them - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-comments-on-microsoft-activision-sale-and-why-it-doesnt-matter-to-them/1100-6513971/ - Article by Gamespot Some Blizzard Devs Worry Departures Could Hurt World Of Warcraft And Other Games - https://kotaku.com/blizzard-diablo-iv-world-warcraft-remote-work-delays-1850421033 - Article by Kotaku Xbox Teasing 2 Big Games for Upcoming Showcase - https://gamerant.com/xbox-showcase-games-2023-avowed-hellblade-2/ - Article by GameRant Asus ROG Ally: Pricing, release date, and everything you need to know about the Steam Deck rival - https://www.xda-developers.com/asus-rog-ally/ - Article by XDA Developers Official ASUS ROG Ally site - https://rog.asus.com/gaming-handhelds/rog-ally/rog-ally-2023/ ASUS ROG XG Mobile - https://rog.asus.com/external-graphic-docks/rog-xg-mobile-2023-model/

On this episode of Ruff Talk VR our hosts Dscruffles and Stratus have a double feature of virtual reality game reviews. It starts with Ghost Signal: A Stellaris game, a new space roguelite game on the official Meta Quest store set in the Stellaris universe published by Fast Travel Game with development from Windswept Interactive. In the second half of the episode our hosts breakdown and review Peaky Blinders: A Kings Ransom - a VR game adaptation of the hit TV series Peaky Blinders developed and published by Maze Theory and available now on the official Meta Quest store! Listen now for all our thoughts and final ratings of these two VR games!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rufftalkvrIf you enjoy the podcast be sure to rate us 5 stars and subscribe! Join our official subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/RuffTalkVR/Discord: https://discord.gg/9JTdCccucSThis podcast was sponsored by Kiwi Design - the premier company for Oculus Quest accessories. Visit our affiliate link below to shop for your VR accessories including knuckle straps, lens protectors, head straps, link cables, and more while also supporting the podcast!Affiliate Link: https://www.kiwidesign.com/?ref=RuffTalkVRGet 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code RUFFTALKVR at MANSCAPED.com!Visit Mindway to get your meditation and mindfulness started today! https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5978805525464490/Ghost Signal Store Link: Peaky Blinders VR Store Link:*We are paid a commission through affiliate links to help support the podcast on the Kiwi links abovePatreon: https://www.patreon.com/rufftalkvr Support the show

Stella's spirit-journey into the distortion world yields interesting results.www.twitter.com/roaringtrainerswww.patreon.com/roaringtrainerswww.etsy.com/shop/roaringtrainersThanks to Robbie Whiplash for editing this episode, and for the AWESOME creepy variation on the TRT opening theme!Check out Robbie's band here!https://megatronix.bandcamp.com/Special thanks to Audio Hero for the use ofMaelstromTriadsFind more music from Audio Hero here!http://audiohero.systemsinteractive.ca/Blue Dot Sessions for the use ofVelda TallowPlataxVik Fence DronaFind more music by Blue Dot Sessions here!https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_SessionsDefrini for the use ofPause for ThoughtSpookFind more music by Defrini here!https://freemusicarchive.org/music/defriniGigakoops for the use ofFox with a KnifeFind more music by Gigakoops here!https://freemusicarchive.org/music/gigakoops/Serge Quadrado for the use ofForebodingFind more music by Serge here!https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadradoZapsplat for the use ofGhosts Walk HereAll sound effectsCheck out Zapsplat for all your podcast audio needs!www.zapsplat.com