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Agnes Gervacio, CEO of MDI Novare, joins us in this episode to share how she leads one of the biggest and oldest tech companies in the Philippines. She will also share her journey in her illustrious career and how she overcame stereotypes as a woman while she led multiple tech corporations. She will also share great career advice on how employees can break through challenges to climb up the corpor...

In this edition of #AskHustleshare, Ronster will be answering 3 very interesting questions sent by Hustleshare listeners. The first question is about how can founders protect their business solution from being stolen. The second question asks about how social enterprises can raise funds and the last question asks us how to formulate a startup's company culture. Ronster also provides a lot of tools...

Franco Espinos of Bux, a portfolio company of UBX, joins us in this episode to share how startups and businesses can take advantage of Bux's powerful payment processing methods. Franco will also share his journey coming from corporate to how he became a Product Owner in UBX to lead Bux. He'll also share tips for aspiring founders looking to join venture builders or venture funds as a pathway to la...

Cholo Tagaysay, the COO of the largest telehealth company in the Philippines joins us in this episode to share how KonsultaMD provides 24/7 access to high quality medical info to Filipinos. Cholo will also share his amazing journey in tech and digital media that led him to become a key part of the very first Tech IPO in the Philippines thru Xurpas. He will also share lots of amazing advice especia...

In this edition of #AskHustleshare we brought along Franco Varona of Foxmont Capital to answer questions A member of the #StartupPH community asked us centered around the common traits that founders that get investments have. We also discuss the questions that VCs typically ask that reveal the character of the founder they are looking to back along with the traits they look for from each founding...

Cristian Muñoz, Founder of Draper Startup House in the Philippines joins is in this episode to share his intercontinental journey of entrepreneurship. Cristian would share his humble beginnings in Costa Rica and how he ended up studying and becoming an entrepreneur in China. He will also share how he decided to help other entrepreneurs by joining Draper Startup House by bringing it to the Philippi...

Fresh from their stint in Y Combinator as one of the 3 Filipino startups in YC W21, the co-founders of Dashlabs.ai joins us in this episode to share their journey on providing lab software to emerging markets. Philly Tan, Weston Lim, Bryan Giger and Martin Gomez will also share their respective hustles that prepared them to creating world-class healthcare tech that enabled them to come together du...

An anonymous letter sender sent us very interesting questions for #AskHustleshare about the ideal profile of an angel investor or a VC and we brought along Joan Yao, VP of Investments of Kickstart ventures to do a deep dive on it. We also answered how to properly value a startup from a VC's perspective and what the differences are between a corporate VC and independent VC. Got questions you want t...

George Padin of Buko Ventures joins us in this episode to talk about the newest venture fund in the Philippines founded by current and former Lazada and Rocket Internet executives. George will share his crash course into startups in the Philippines and how he learned to handle tech teams by working for Symph and eventually founding Abstract Digital and specialize in creating MVPs for venture-backe...

Our first letter sender in #AskHustleshare sent us several questions about how they can split their equity among his co-founders before they pitched a potential investor for a startup they are working on. Ronster brought along his co-founders in Podcast Network Asia who are experts in this field to answer the questions on how to properly structure splitting equity among co-founders and how to valu...

Grace David the newly minted CEO of Edukasyon.ph joins us in this episode to share how she will lead the growth of the largest education platform in the Philippines. She will also share her background in business and how she was able to have an incredible career in marketing that took her to multiple stops across Southeast Asia. Grace will also share what's in store for Edukasyon and how she plans...

In the very first edition of #AskHustleshare, Ronster gives his take on a post on the #DLSUFreedomWall48782 where a startup founder shared his experience on having 2 failed tech startups. Ronster will dissect the post point by point to give his take on the anonymous poster's learnings and shine some light if hard work is really enough to succeed in a startup. Got questions you want to ask Ronster...

Luis Sia of 335 Fund and PayMongo joins us in this episode to share how they invested in 2 Filipino Y Combinator startups despite being the newest angel fund in the Philippines. Luis will also share his journey as an entrepreneur starting with his drone business all the way to how they got to YC themselves with PayMongo and how they continued to grow after. He will also dissect what it takes for a...

Coach Lyqa Maravilla joins us in this very educational episode to share her journey as an online educator that helps millions of Filipinos. Lyqa will share her she overcame great challenges during her time in school that fueled her to help other people to overcome the same challenges she experienced and bridge the wide gap of eduction through her content. She will also share how she built the team...

Frederic Levy, Chief Commercial Officer of GCash joins us in this episode to share his very inspiring entrepreneurial journey that featured spectacular exits and heartbreaking failures. Fred will share his early beginnings as an entrepreneur in France and how he founded companies in the Philippines like Netbooster and CashCashPinoy. He will also share how he bounced back and joined GCash to help c...

John Januszczak of UBX joins us in this episode to share how Unionbank created a venture studio and venture fund to help startups and businesses in the Philippines. John will also share his unique early hustle in Astrophysics which eventually led him to celebrated career tech and finance. He will also share the startups that UBX have created and what they look for in founders they want to sup...

Sophia Nguyen of LYKA joins us in this episode to share how LYKA became one of the most popular apps in the Philippines. Sophia will share her humble beginnings growing up in the Bay Area and how she accrued skills that helped her through her role as President of LYKA. She will also share how LYKA got traction and gave value to their users and their merchants across the Philippines. This episode b...

Kim Lato of Kimstore joins us in this episode to share her very inspiring story in being one of the e-commerce pioneers in the Philippines. Kim will share her humble beginnings and how she hustled to get Kimstore off the ground and how she grew the company from being a small team to professionalizing and scaling their operations. She will also share how she overcame incredible hurdles that came al...

Roland Ros and Rexy Dorado, the co-founders of Kumu, along with Atty. Josef Acuña of Podcast Network Asia joins us in this playbook to teach how to choose the right co-founders for your startup. They will discuss the characteristics of what to look for in a co-founder and how to look for them and convince them to join your startup. They will also provide great tips and examples of how they recruit...

Stephanie Sy of Thinking Machines joins us in this episode to share her hustle in leading the AI revolution in the Philippines by helping the government and companies make better decisions through frameworks and data. Stef will also share her amazing journey starting out in Silicon Valley while studying in Stanford, putting up her own startup, joining a startup that got acquired and eventually joi...

Vince Yamat, Managing Director of 917Ventures, joins us in this episode to share how passionate Filipinos can turn their ideas into the next big startup powered by Globe Telecom through the corporate biggest venture builder in the country. He will also share how he started out his career in tech and how he moved up the ranks in his earlier hustles and in Globe telecom. Vince also shares how aspiri...

Joyce Pring joins us for our 2nd Anniversary episode to share her journey in lifelong communication that culminated in creating her podcast Adulting With Joyce Pring. She will share her humble beginnings and the sacrifices that she went through growing up to provide for her family. Joyce will also share the inspiration on how she created her podcast and how she creates great content for her audien...

Nikki Jurado also known as Nomad Finance Girl joins us in this episode to share her lifelong entrepreneurial journey that started at the age of 6. She will share all the business ventures she started even as a minor and raising money to start all her numerous businesses without having the personal capital at the start. She will also share how she started her journey in sharing her business success...

Ash Mandhyan of Quanta Digital, An ex-Lazada and ex-Facebook executive joins us in this episode to share his experience in being a vital part of the growth of big tech companies he worked for. He will also bring us back to how he worked and led the digital transformation of the SM group and what ultimately led him to take the jump and become a full time entrepreneur. This episode brought to you by...

Brianna Carney and Kate Ringcodan of CrewBloom joins Ronster in this episode to share how they built a recruitment agency connecting businesses to the top 2% of remote professionals. Brianna and Kate also shares their very unique past hustles and how they decided to come together to grow CrewBloom. They will also share their 7 Core values that startups can use to build amazing culture with. This e...