Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!

Intellectual property isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every business is different, with different needs, challenges and goals. As a registered patent agent who also happens to hold a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, Yoriko has deep experience across the entire innovation lifecycle, bringing that experience to startups, public companies, government entities, law firms and more.

She is a passionate, motivated entrepreneur in the tech industry aspiring to contribute to machine vision. She is curious but optimistic about the positive changes that AI could bring to our next generations. She is eager to be a part of this movement to make a change while achieving her career success. In this episode, we talked about where and how she grew up (she is Taiwanese-born), how her car...

Adebayo Alonge is a young and inspiring African who is on a mission to transform the healthcare system in Africa beginning with tackling counterfeit drugs on the continent (along side his co-founders of RxAll Inc., Amy Kao and Wei Lui)  More about Adebayo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Alonge RxAll Inc: https://www.rxall.net/

Marco Antonio Sánchez Garcíais the Foreign Affairs VP at CONCAMIN México. He is also the Founder OF Porto ((Clothing Brand) & Real Emporium Club (Real Estate). He has sold two companies: SAGA (Clothing Brand) and Bull & Midas (Consulting firm with services for entrepreneurs) More about Marco:https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosaga/

Sophia Sunwoo, Founder of Ascent Strategy is back again, and this time we talked about Branding, Sales, and Consistency. In this episode, we talked about a new launch of scholarship program to increase more access of her courses to entrepreneurs that identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) on improving their Sales and most importantly understanding the connection between Sales t...

Paul Rios was born and raised in Queens, NY to an Argentinean mother and a Puerto Rican father. Sadly, as luck would have it, "he plays soccer like a Puerto Rican and baseball like an Argentine." Since it was obvious from an early age that He was not destined to be a sports pro, he dedicated himself to collecting degrees: B.S. - Mechanical Engineering (Columbia University), M.S. - Mechanical Engin...

In this episode with Jessica Li , she shares me her insights on the following key issues on women in entrepreneurship and VC including: -Women Pitching companies to VCs -Female focused VC fund: Some examples below: Chloe Capital IFundwomen Jane VC Female Founders Fund BBG Ventures SoGal Ventures -Female focused startup communities: TopKnot Swaay bSmart Chief-The Private Network for Women Leaders -...

A Long-time friend as well as an entrepreneur and innovator at heart. He prides himself as a startup builder and mentor in Africa and Asia. He is the CEO and co-founder of FreshBox Rwanda. FreshBox Rwanda is disrupting the produce supply chain in Kigali by bringing cold chain solutions to sub-Saharan African markets. In this episode, he provides some great insights into Entrepreneurship practices...

Rebecca is one of a kind. She is a mentor, entrepreneur, innovator, and transcendent leader, and everything in-between. She is a Haitian American and founder and President of Communities for Haitian Entrepreneurs and Startups (CHES), Inc. At CHES, Inc. they consult and accompany business owners and entrepreneurs in rural Haiti through various stages of their startup life-cycles. To date, have enga...

Jumoke Dada stopped by the pod and shared her path towards entrepreneurship by founding and managing, Taeillo , the Premium African Furniture Company in Nigeria.   She is a confident, inspiring, and pan-African entrepreneur who wants to transform the furniture industry in Africa as well as across the world.  If you are in Nigeria, and you want beautiful premium furniture, you can pu...

She is passionate about accelerating the success timelines of womxn and BIPOC entrepreneurs so that they can build sales engines for their businesses faster and catch up in a male-dominated startup scene. Making an impact is important to her, and she is actively looking for opportunities to give back to the community whether it’s through speaking or collaborating on events and projects (so can rea...

Hibla Community Inc. is a small business founded by JJ and his best friend, Dionela Bigcas pursuing the social enterprise model to provide decent, effective, and ethical working conditions for people of local communities around the Philippines.  Currently, Hibla Co is doing business as Magiting Coffee Manila as they sell single-origin specialty coffee sourced from the province of Lipa, Batang...

It took me a long time to accept that it is tough to uncover unknown facts or details that were not necessarily available to an African in Diaspora like me on what it takes to start and run a successful business in the African continent. I began to reflect on the necessary information and experiences that I needed to have to be able to fully understand what it means to start a business in Africa....

Heather Beem is an MIT Graduate and Founder as well as CEO of Practical Education Network (PEN).   " The Practical Education Network (PEN) improves learning outcomes by building teacher capacity. The teacher training program PEN provides is infused with MIT-style, learning-by-doing to enable hands-on science regardless of resource constraints. PEN offers a series of workshops where West Afric...

In a section in our full interview with  President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon the essence of surviving, reviving, and thriving, which I think is an integral component in succeeding in entrepreneurship as well as in Life.  You can see our full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpF01izbpI&t=432s

In a section in our full interview with  President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon the importance of thinking globally as the initial thought of naming Jeffy Lube, Incorporated into Jeffy Lube International. The mentality onset is critical in building high potential ventures even with just the naming of your company!  Think Big but start small (Jeffy Lube just had 2 stores wh...

In a section in our full interview with  President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon making the case for culture as a business model as a successful one (with low cost in the Babson Language- breeding sustainability and eventually long-term growth or in other words thriving business).  Take a listen to the complete interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpF01izbpI&amp...

President Stephen Spinelli , the current and 14th President of Babson College.  He is also the co-founder of Jiffy Lube. Jiffy Lube is an American brand of automotive oil change specialty shops founded in Utah, United States, in 1971. It has been a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell since 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas (wiki).  He is also an alumnus of the college with an MBA,...

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This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series with my conversation with Kevin Richardson, Master of Finance Graduate 2020 and Analyst at First Republic Bank. We go through a fascinating paper on the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies co-authored by Kevin Richardson More about the paper here More about Kevin Richardson here

Part 2 of 2 part series of Interviewing Tzu Hui Yang (May) and Chih-Hsuan Lu (Jason) at Garage + in Taipei, Taiwan! Thanks to these 2 amazing individuals [Tzu Hui Yang (May) and Chih-Hsuan Lu (Jason) at Garage +] for introducing me to some outstanding entrepreneurs at Garage+ as well as providing me with some amazing background about the founding of this shared space earlier this year in Taipei. J...