Helping Founders Successfully Scale Their Startup
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Whether you're a tech founder or a non-tech founder, you need help to successfully scale a startup. Our guest, Software Engineer turned “The Mary Poppins of Startups”, Naily Makangu, is passionate about bringing her multi-faceted toolkit to lead complex software projects and launch products. With over ten years of experience, she has a proven track record of turning around struggling technical projects and organizations, from seed startups to large corporations such as Siemens Industry Software. Naily has a gift for bridging the gap between tech teams and the rest of the business to ensure su ..read more
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EP 288 Building the Best All-in-One SaaS Solution for Mentoring, Connectivity & Skills Development
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Fostering connection among employees and company leaders is hard enough to do within brick and mortar walls. Building company culture and forging employee relationships without the four walls is a challenge many companies are failing at today. Our guest, Dave Wilkin, is an award-winning serial LGBTQ+ entrepreneur who grew up in a small, rural town, and experienced firsthand that mentors and meaningful connections were critical to accessing career-progressing and skills development opportunities. He solved this problem by launching Ten Thousand Coffees (10KC) and building the only all-in-one ..read more
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EP 287 A Digital Health Platform Expanding Access to Peer Support and Group Therapy
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
You are not built to do life alone. But how do you get the real support you need to navigate the real life events you’re sailing through? This delicious conversation on the Startup Life Show is with Tamar Blue - the fab female co-founder of MentalHappy – an online health platform that provides access to peer support and group therapy, especially for people of low-income, underrepresented populations, and people living in rural areas. What I especially loved about this conversation was how Tamar’s life beautifully prepared her to be the ideal co-founder of MentalHappy! From her hugely succe ..read more
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EP 286 Understanding and Solving Funding Inequities in the VC Industry
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Less than 2% of Venture Capital funds go to Women and Minority Owned Businesses. Our guest, Professor Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, is the Founder and Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. With $260,000 in funding from the Kauffman Foundation, Banu launched the lab to investigate WHY this abysmal under 2% number exists and find ways to solve it. During our delicious conversation we dove deep into the data pool to learn what Banu and her team have uncovered and how this data may help improve the funding of under resourced founders ..read more
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EP 285 How She Built a Direct Sales Wellness Drink Empire, One Sip at a Time
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Our guest, Tonia Jahshan, was recovering from a difficult time in her life when she had her first cup of tea… and it was love at first sip. You will be inspired by her startup story and will love hearing how she built her direct sales wellness drink empire to extraordinary heights, by building a thriving, committed community, one sip at a time. Tonia is the founder of Sipology, a multi-million dollar direct sales company selling wellness drinks and accessories. Tonya founded Sipology after suffering a miscarriage and traveling to Nova Scotia for a pause.  While there, she had her first cup ..read more
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EP 283 How to Successfully Bootstrap your Startup Business
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Bootstrapping is how many newly minted founders launch their startup. Using their own savings and borrowing capability to get their business off the ground. However, lack of funding can cause a founder to freeze, to get caught in a mindset chokehold that prevents them from moving forward... from seeing solutions. How do you get unstuck? Our guest, Tiana Sanchez, is the queen of dissolving mindset blocks that keep folks from achieving their dreams. AND… she shares outstanding advice and pathways to help you bootstrap your business to achieve traction and increase valuation ... because when ..read more
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EP 282 How Startups Can Leverage ChatGPT to Drive Growth and Innovation
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Everyone’s chatting about ChatGPT, but how does one successfully leverage this AI to grow a startup? Without increasing the work load, distracting your engineers, disrupting the work flow and causing headaches for founders? Our guest, Shanif Dhanani, is here to help! He’s the founder of Locusive, where he and his team help businesses understand and build systems that connect their internal and proprietary systems to ChatGPT, enabling internal employees, customers, and other stakeholders to reap the benefits of using large language models on their own data. Shanif has a strong background in ..read more
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EP 281 An Eco-Conscious Micro-Mobility Company Focused on Safety and Equity
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
It takes a considerable amount of courage, purpose, resilence and tenacity to bring a Micro Mobility (scooter-bike!) startup to life! With an entrepreneurial spirit that was evident from a young age, our guest – Emil Nnani - took the business world by storm when he launched his first venture at just 17 years old. His tenacity and vision led him to achieve his first million in sales by the age of 22. A serial and seasoned entrepreneur, Emil takes us on a wonderful journey through his earlier businesses - a mechanic business, a clothing line, a singing career (hip hop Christian music) and an e ..read more
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EP 280 Attract Business Partners, Investors, and Talent with Your LinkedIn Profile
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Leveraging LinkedIn as a Startup Founder is a different strategy than when you were an employee. You need to build your authority as the leader of your new business, while appealing to potential investors, business partners and talent. Our guest, Donna Serdula, is a leading authority on LinkedIn profile optimization. As the founder and president of Vision Board Media, a professional branding company, Donna helps individuals and companies tell their unique stories on LinkedIn and beyond. Via her website LinkedIn-Makeover.com, Donna and her team of over 20 writers and coaches help people colli ..read more
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EP 277 An AI Solution that Makes Social Media Work for Your Business
Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons
by Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons
2M ago
Social media strategies often leave you feeling like you're working for the social media platforms. Our guest and his team built an AI solution that helps make social media actually work for you and your business. Rhys Ryan, is the Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of Ekkobar, an AI solution giving you control over social media and the narrative you want to tell. Ekkobar uses social listening to keep an eye on the conversation and lets you know if anything needs immediate attention. There’s also a web-based assessment platform letting you dig deep into the conversation to understand what is ..read more
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