In this podcast episode, Idriss Al Rifai, CEO and founder of Flow48, talks about his journey as an entrepreneur and his experience with fundraising. Idris shares his background as a professional basketball player and military experience, drawing parallels between sports and entrepreneurship, and discusses the critical role of fundraising in startup success and the value of consulting experience for building a strong team and securing funding. He also talks about his company's unique revenue-based financing model and the metrics they use to process loans to startup founders, and much more! Time ..read more

In this podcast episode, Stephanie Demetriou talks about how Maekersuite enables professionals to create talking head videos in minutes. Stephanie shares her journey in startups, her experience as a management consultant, and the development of Maekersuite. She discusses the revenue model, ideal customer profile, and tips for improving video content. Stephanie offers advice on hiring sales and product personnel in a pre-seed or seed-stage startup and much more! Timestamps Starting Maker Suite [00:00:30] Stephanie talks about her journey in startups and what led her to start Maker Suite, a ..read more

In this podcast episode, Payman Taei, founder of VisMe, discusses his journey as an entrepreneur and the development of VisMe, a platform for creating engaging presentations, infographics, and other visually appealing content. Payman talks about his previous experience with three other SaaS companies and his challenges in the agency world. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on product development before seeking funding and creating a lasting income. Payman also discusses the challenges of hiring high-performing employees, creating a safe and open environment for team members, and much mo ..read more

In this episode, Ida Tin talks about her journey of starting a jewelry business, traveling to Mexico, and starting a motorcycle tour company with her father. She also discusses how Clue grew as a company, raising funds from investors and building a successful startup team culture. Ida Tin shares her insights on the venture capital industry and her upcoming book, which aims to provide tips and tricks on how to think twice when building technology that will change the world. Timestamps Starting a Business and Traveling the World [00:00:41] Ida Tin shares her journey of starting her first bu ..read more

In this episode, James Wang, General Partner at Creative Ventures, talks about his journey from working in hedge funds to investing in startups, the importance of finding a career that aligns with one's values and passions, and explores the differences between deep tech and software startups, addressing concerns about automation taking away jobs and discusses the impact of technology on climate change and much more! Timestamps Startups and Hedge Funds [00:00:02] James talks about his experience working in hedge funds and how it exposed him to different people and ideas. He also explains h ..read more

In this episode, Simran talks about her career in sales and her insights on hiring and building a sales team for startups, her journey to becoming a sales manager, and her thoughts on when to hire a head of sales for a startup. She also talks about the characteristics of high-performing sales hires and how to identify them in the hiring process, measuring the impact of a sales rep, motivating a sales team during tough times, and compensating sales reps, and much more! Timestamps Simran's Career Journey [00:00:26] Simran shares her career journey from being a bank teller to becoming a sale ..read more

In this episode, Rob talks about his experience in the startup world, including his successes with HitTail and Drip, his thoughts on bootstrapping versus venture capital, the criteria for implementing a freemium model in a SaaS company, the hiring process for startups, and Rob's decision to launch his new book on Kickstarter, thoughts on angel investing and if founders should angel invest while they are still building their own companies, and much more! Timestamps Robert's interest in startups [00:00:31] Robert's motivation for entrepreneurship and how he got interested in startups. Rob's ..read more

In this episode, Brittany talks about her experience as an accidental entrepreneur, building and scaling her company to eight figures before exiting, appearing on Shark Tank, and her role as chief experience officer at Experience.com. She emphasizes the importance of customer experience and earned growth rate for founders. She advises them to focus on hiring the right people and defining the experience of working with the brand. We also discuss Brittany's new book, "Creating Super Fans," and the writing and promotion process, and much more ..read more

In this episode, Dave talks about his journey from working at Facebook for a decade to becoming a startup founder and eventually a venture capitalist. He shares his experience working with Mark Zuckerberg and his current role as a VC. Dave also discusses his experience as an angel investor and his current venture capital fund, which has a thesis focused on the impact of exponential technologies such as crypto, AI, and deep science on the physical world. The conversation also touches on climate change and its potential impact on the economy and technology, and much more! Timestamps Dave's journ ..read more

In this episode, Christophe talks about Slite’s customers, mission and values about remote culture, high performance in leadership, biggest weaknesses, experience with YCombinator, how has Christophe chawed as a leader, and much more ..read more