Startup Mindsets

Karthik Suresh joins us for this episode of Startup Mindsets. Having a career that's varied from being an engineer on Wall Street writing code for algorithmic trading he wanted to pursue a profession that meant more than making money. This lead to an eventual career in product management having worked for Facebook as a product manager before leaving to start Ignition. Listen to learn how earl...

The global risk management market is 17 billion and expected to grow exponentially by 2027.  Ferret.ai runs a background check that ensures business is done with the right people to deter being taken advantage of. We hear about his experience at UCLA Anderson and how what's learned in the classroom gets applied directly into the startup the next day then brought back to class to make an ultim...

Frances Simowitz is CEO of Weve Acceleration formerly Numa New York. In on today's episode we learn about New York City's vibrant entrepreneurial scene. Moreover, we learn about Frances switching career goals from wanting to be an opera singer to a bona fide leader in bolstering the startup New York scene for international companies looking for a presence in the US.  Their New York office leverage...

Hall Martin a long time angel investor and creator of Texas Entrepreneurial Network aka Ten Capital joins Startup Mindsets to tell us about his experiences being alongside new ideas and startups for decades. Today TEN Capital helps startups and  growth companies everywhere raise venture funding.  To date TEN Capital has helped entrepreneurs who have raised over $644M.   Shortcuts 22:30 Being a Pro...

What's up Startup Mindsets Fam! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, in the spirit of hospitality we have Luca Zambello , Founder of Jurny on the show today. Jurny is a hospitality tech company offering SaaS-based management solutions for the modern traveler. We discuss what it was like during Jurny's most difficult months in operation during covid and how they made it through.  Luca discu...

Dr. Alice Martin is the founder of Dermanostic and a physician in Germany.  Alice tells her story of changing her mindset to become an entrepreneur as she says, “Physicians don't take many risks” because risk in healthcare can mean death while risk is a common ingredient when founding a startup.  We hear about their experiences filming TikToks, recruiting a software engineer, and their mission to...

Our guest, Kobina Asah joins us from Ithaca, New York to talk about his startup, Coverr and how it provides independent contractors stability. Currently 50M+ Gig Economy workers  operate in the United States and represent one of the fastest growing  labor segments, yet have difficulty accessing business financing due to  their lack of standard underwriting criteria. COVERR evaluates  alternative a...

After years of working at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in equity research, James Giancotti felt the desire to create a product that solved problems he experienced as a banker from a technology standpoint. Oddup is a data driven research platform that rates startups primarily in Asia. With headquarters in Hong Kong, we get to know more of the startup scene in China, ie what makes it so unique and ac...

Richard White has over a decade of entrepreneurship founding UserVoice and Fathom. He takes us through his journey from selling PlayStation cheat codes as a kid to being part of the first YCombinator batch in Cambridge in 2005 to the latest with Fathom in YC 2021. We talk fundraising from Zoom Apps Fund and what it’s like couch surfing while creating a tech company. Stop taking notes on Zoom with...

Fly and Fetch is a startup changing the way people travel and send goods. Based out of Edmonton, Shelvie tells us how she created the company and how things are doing. We also hear about Draper University’s survival week and how coming to Silicon Valley has affected growth. Learn more about how you can get free flights at flyandfetch.com

Startups and Entrepreneurship are at an all time high during the pandemic leaving first time startup founders with the challenge of figuring out what to do. Incued, helps founders with guided business planning. Josh joins us to detail the company’s plans and his journey being a founder.

Rayson Esquejo has ran social media marketing campaigns for multiple films including Jobs (2013) Side Effects (2013) and most recently for TFC and Wood Works. Taking a new technology and incorporating it into business strategy is easier said than done. We hear about Rayson's advice for keeping up with market trends and using social media for its advantages.  Most recently, Rayson worked with Jay L...

Eli Velasquez is on a mission to create a more diverse pie chart of investors of color. We hear about over a decade of being an angel investor, lessons learned, advice to new angels. More about Investors of Color on investorsofcolor.com More about Angel Capital Association at angelcapitalassociation.org

Catalyzed from not being able to pay for tuition in Switzerland because he recently immigrated from India, Prashanth set out create a solution to Send/Receive Euros instantly via Bitcoin Send/Receive Bitcoin on-chain or on Lightning We also discuss the Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator and virtual Y Combinator experience.  Check them out at lastbit.io Sign up for our newsletter featuring new insights o...

Safa Mahzari, founder of financial reporting software, Alluxo, joins us on this episode.  We learn the importance of creating a process and pointing back to the process instead of to the individual.

Meredith Whipple Callahan joins us on this episode to discuss what catalyzed becoming a 2x author and her journey as a religious studies major at Yale to a career as a consultant for Bain & Co. and now an executive coach at Evolution.  We talk about how religion intersects with business and the power of saying "YES" to fear.   Purchase The Intentional Life on Amazon. 

Welcome to episode 31! Our guest, Craig Stokes , is the owner/operator of Chick Fil A in Canoga Park. But it didn't always start that way, we hear Craig's inspiring career journey from starting at KFC to spending more than a decade in the Air Force, and recently as a TV personality.  As we all know, Chick Fil A's hospitality is on a different level. We talk about overcoming overwhelming odds...

A lot is said about tech companies and their products, funding, etc. but none of that matters if you can't surround the team with great employees. Derrick Gellidon has over a decade of recruiting experience working for the Golden State Warriors, Google, Instacart, Lyft, and now heads talent at Curology. In our conversation, we understand what hiring looks like from 0 to 100, to 100 to 1000+ and ho...

Remote work and the future of work are hot topics nowadays as distributed workforces took shape during the pandemic. Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams that powers collaboration. We have an exciting conversation with Rajiv Ayyangar, Founder/CEO about how their product reimagines working in an office virtually, product thinking, Y Combinator, and closing a mega seed round led by Andreessen...

Becoming a one-hit-wonder is difficult, let alone a music sensation. Piinky, a startup based in London is aiming to put artists in control with their software which gives a birds-eye view and streamlines the publishing process. We hang out with Piinky CEO Adeseye to unpack the business of the music industry, what artists are doing to get noticed, and entrepreneurship.  Subscribe to our blog to get...

Sales are like oxygen for early-stage startups. They can't succeed without it. Whitney has 10+ years of startup experience and founded the sales method.  She joins us to breakdown the sales method, what mindset to have when selling, and her career journey from graduating UC San Diego to having a rockstar career in sales. We also talk about how Acceleprise is accelerating women founders and leading...

After meeting Emil at a bar in San Francisco 4 years ago when Bluedot was a bit smaller, we caught up with him to hear how Bluedot is powering the location services industry, with brands like Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, and other restaurants utilizing location to deliver on point frictionless service. We also cover how the company started in Australia, founder amnesia, pitching hundreds of VCs to s...

Welcome back to another edition of Startup Mindsets. Today, we talk about how nontechnical founders can leverage Mohara in creating a minimum viable product and core technology to launch their business. Many startup ideas are great but lack the ability to develop core technology. That's where Mohara comes in and acts as a product team for early stage startups. We sat down with Rich and Benji to di...

The Online Gambling market is growing with 6 new states in 2020 granting approval. With sports becoming a completely digital experience due to the pandemic we talk about how PickUP enables fans to play the headlines.  We hang out with CEO Dan Healy and pick his brain on entrepreneurship, fundraising, and the day to day of running a startup.  He tells us about the startup he founded, Pick...

The word entrepreneur has French origins and it means to start something. Today, Elodie de Marchi, Head of Growth at Kaiko joins us from Paris to talk about entrepreneurship and her career journey. We talk about   Leaving VM Ware, a 30,000 employee company to join Kaiko a scrappy startup with 16 employees  Why direction is vital in entrepreneurial environments  Her work in Corp...