Francis Lacoste enters the podcast to speak about how he fuels growth for VPs of Engineering as a coach. Drawing from decades of startup experience at Heroku and Salesforce, Francis puts into practice operational principles that help teams scale past 20 employees.  He coach technical executives to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures. He help CTOs transition from “building the product" into “building the org that builds the product”. I support them in growing their team building and relational skills. -Career Before coaching, he spent over twenty-five years in the open ..read more

In this podcast episode, Dan catches up with Rene Morkos, CEO of Alice Technologies about his company's advancements in construction scheduling and simulation. Rene highlights the invention of a parametric scheduler and simulator, which now deploys 100 times faster, and the unexpected optimization of schedules with their software. The company has seen positive beta feedback and a shorter sales cycle. Morkos discusses targeting conferences for customer acquisition, maintaining company culture in a distributed team, and the complexities of scaling and managing a growing organization. The epis ..read more

David Gaz is the founder and creative director behind several successful ventures, including the award-winning documentary "Kindness Is Contagious" and The Bureau of Small Projects, a branding agency dedicated to amplifying the impact of small businesses, startups, and nonprofits. The Bureau of Small Projects is a think tank of sorts. They're rated in the top 5 agencies in the Los Angeles area for branding and marketing. Their clients are not these well known brands but unknown organizations struggling to make a difference or well known people in their own right with noble missions, but not hu ..read more

Our guest today is Dorothy Chang who has had an incredible career from venture capital, leading a successful nonprofit working with celebrities and billionaires to being an entrepreneur. She shares cool career stories and her take on being an entrepreneur, and lessons throughout her journey. She's the Co-Founder of Lynx Collective - Supporting startup founders, helping them make their dreams come true: https://www.lynxcollective.com Read their substack: https://lynxcollective.substack.com Previously, as the President of Kode With Klossy, she worked with the org to empower young women to break ..read more

Luke Diaz has a passion for building and leading high-performance Customer Success orgs (CSM, AM, SA, Support) to drive 3 outcomes: 1) accelerate product adoption, 2) drive quantifiable business impact for customers, and 3) achieve best-in-class gross & net retention. Customer Success is an underrated segment of startup success, it ensures users are getting value out of the product and even increases their customer value in an increasing revenue stream. Luke is also an angel investor and managing partner at DBT (Do Big Things) Ventures having invested in Kahawa 1893 coffee. If you're a c ..read more

Julia Arpag joins Startup Mindsets to detail her roller coaster career journey from working at SoulCycle to a career in recruiting. After she was laid off from her job she scrambled to get 6 job offers within a few months and decided to take one from Alanna the cofounder of Aligned Recruitment. Julia is also an English Major from Hamilton College and describes the best part of her job as seeing people land offers. Julia has successfully run challenging recruitment searches & led high-performing recruitment teams, with a laser focus on the tech industry. She prides herself on deeply underst ..read more

The Bar brothers, Eliran and Itamar, join the podcast today to talk about their company Jorny. They are on a mission to solve the existential crisis that is lack of meaning after retiring and entering a new phase in one's life. JORNY is the 1st global hospitality brand, dedicated to midlife growth. Our Growth Compass helps people assess and track their growth, identify their optimal growth “Jorny” and advance towards achieving a sense of purpose. Reinvent Retirement. Love your future. Join the first-ever global community focused on the second half of life. Built on connecting, exploring and ..read more

The hidden hand in all venture capital funds are the limited partners who pledge capital to the fund manager. Today we interviewed, a long time angel investor, physician, and serial entrepreneur Dr. Alan Kadisch. Alan details what it is like being pitched by VCs for funding, his thoughts on how food contributes to our health, and why he created InvestorMatch.ai Brought to you by Changed: Now's the time to get rid of those pesky student loans. Changed rounds up your spare change from debit purchases and puts them directly toward your student loan payments automatically. Sign up & down ..read more

Shannon Imler started the Ice Cream Factory from scratch like how he makes the ice cream. From hand cranking out the batches to scaling this to an entire factory and product available in 48 states we hear the behind the scenes. They are on a mission to spread happiness to the world through high quality ice cream. Enjoy Ice Cream Factory's flavors delivered to your door or if you're a small mom and pop shop, add them to your offerings! https://www.icecreamfactoryco.com ..read more

We've got an insanely special podcast coming your way. Have you ever felt the burden of student loans or credit card debt? I know I have, those pesky loans won't go away easily but I have a solution for you. In this episode, we sit down with Nick Sky, CEO of Changed who shares insights, anecdotes, and invaluable tips on harnessing the power of entrepreneurship. Changed started as Dan and Nick were among the sea of graduates struggling with the burden of student loan repayment (43.6 million at latest count). To ease the pain, they created an app that simply rounds up everyday purchases and st ..read more