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Startup Mindsets
by Dan Gonzales
Welcome to The Startup Mindsets Podcast! Dan Gonzales and Earl Valencia will be your hosts. Week in and week out we will dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why innovation now is more important than ever. Discover your startup mindset today!We hope you enjoy the show! :) -Dan and Earl Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupmindsets/support startupmindsets.substack.com
Episodes
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Kenny Eliason | Personal Injury Tech for Lawyers/Clients
Kenny Eliason shares funny career and life stories and what led him to start his company, Record. From being kicked out of Southwestern Law School, getting hired for his Spanish speaking skills at a law firm, to owning multiple businesses and now a startup, teaching as an adjunct Professor at…
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🔋 Energize Your Startup Mindset💡
A couple weeks ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Simon Alexander Ong on Startup Mindsets. Simon is the author of Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment which drew high praise, "This book is exactly what we need in this moment. With so many pulls and strains and stresses, Simon offers us...
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Humanitarianism in Tech
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Creating Unforgettable Team Building Experiences: Lee Rubin CEO/Founder of Confetti
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Jurny's Journey: Luca Zambello Founder/CEO
What's up Startup Mindsets Fam! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, in the spirit of hospitality we have Luca Zambello, Founder of Jurny on the show today. Jurny is a hospitality tech company offering SaaS-based management solutions for the modern traveler. We discuss what it was like during…
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Digitizing Dermatology in Germany: Dr. Alice Martin, Founder of Dermanosatic
Dr. Alice Martin is the founder of Dermanostic and physician in Germany. Alice tells her story of changing her mindset to become an entrepreneur as she says, “Physicians don't take many risks” because risk in healthcare can mean death while risk is a common ingredient when founding a startup. We...
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Making Sure Gig Workers Have Coverr with CEO Kobina Ansah
Our guest, Kobina Asah joins us from Ithaca, New York to talk about his startup, Coverr and how it provides independent contractors stability. Currently 50M+ Gig Economy workers operate in the United States and represent one of the fastest growing labor segments, yet have difficulty accessing...
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Quitting Investment Banking to start a Data Driven Research Platform: James Giancotti, Founder of Oddup
After years of working at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in equity research, James Giancotti felt the desire to create a product that solved problems he experienced as a banker from a technology standpoint. Oddup is a data driven research platform that rates startups primarily in Asia. With...
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Raising Capital from Zoom: Richard White CEO of Fathom YC'21
Richard White has over a decade of entrepreneurship founding UserVoice and Fathom. He takes us through his journey from selling PlayStation cheat codes as a kid to being part of the first YCombinator batch in Cambridge in 2005 to the latest with Fathom in YC 2021. We talk fundraising from Zoom…
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Hacking International Shipping w/ Shelvie Fernan
Fly and Fetch is a startup changing the way people travel and send goods. Based out of Edmonton, Shelvie tells us how she created the company and how things are doing. We also hear about Draper University’s survival week and how coming to Silicon Valley has affected growth. Learn more about how…
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Starting a Startup to Galvanize Startups: Founder of Incued, Josh Furstoss
Startups and Entrepreneurship are at an all time high during the pandemic leaving first time startup founders with the challenge of figuring out what to do. Incued, helps founders with guided business planning. Josh joins us to detail the company’s plans and his journey being a founder. --- This...
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Running Social Media in the Entertainment Industry with Rayson Esquejo
Rayson Esquejo has ran social media marketing campaigns for multiple films including Jobs (2013) Side Effects (2013) and most recently for TFC and Wood Works. Taking a new technology and incorporating it into business strategy is easier said than done. We hear about Rayson's advice for keeping up...
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Reflections from season 3
For this episode, we decided to talk about our impression of Startup Mindsets' last couple guests. We talk about what we found noteworthy, unique, and valuable spanning from executive coaches, franchise owners, to startup founders the diversity in thought is truly amazing. Read our blog and…
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Changing the Aesthetics of Angel Investing
Eli Velasquez is on a mission to create a more diverse pie chart of investors of color. We hear about over a decade of being an angel investor, lessons learned, advice to new angels. More about Investors of Color on investorsofcolor.com More about Angel Capital Association at...
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LastBit YC'20 CEO/Founder Prashanth B.
Catalyzed from not being able to pay for tuition in Switzerland because he recently immigrated from India, Prashanth set out create a solution to Send/Receive Euros instantly via Bitcoin Send/Receive Bitcoin on-chain or on Lightning We also discuss the Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator and virtual Y...
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Startup Lessons from Alluxo Founder, Safa Mahzari
Safa Mahzari, founder of financial reporting software, Alluxo, joins us on this episode. We learn the importance of creating a process and pointing back to the process instead of to the individual. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app...
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Executive Coach and Author: Meredith Whipple Callahan
Meredith Whipple Callahan joins us on this episode to discuss what catalyzed becoming a 2x author and her journey as a religious studies major at Yale to a career as a consultant for Bain & Co. and now an executive coach at Evolution. We talk about how religion intersects with business and the...
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Owning a Chick-Fil-A with Craig Stokes
Welcome to episode 31! Our guest, Craig Stokes, is the owner/operator of Chick Fil A in Canoga Park. But it didn't always start that way, we hear Craig's inspiring career journey from starting at KFC to spending more than a decade in the Air Force, and recently as a TV personality. As we all…
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Curology’s Head of Talent: Derrick Gellidon
A lot is said about tech companies and their products, funding, etc. but none of that matters if you can't surround the team with great employees. Derrick Gellidon has over a decade of recruiting experience working for the Golden State Warriors, Google, Instacart, Lyft, and now heads talent at...
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Building The Future of Work - Rajiv Ayyangar, Founder of Tandem
Remote work and the future of work are hot topics nowadays as distributed workforces took shape during the pandemic. Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams that powers collaboration. We have an exciting conversation with Rajiv Ayyangar, Founder/CEO about how their product reimagines working…
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Music Tech w Founder of Piinky
Becoming a one-hit-wonder is difficult, let alone a music sensation. Piinky, a startup based in London is aiming to put artists in control with their software which gives a birds-eye view and streamlines the publishing process. We hang out with Piinky CEO Adeseye to unpack the business of the…
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Sales Connoisseur: Whitney Sales, Partner at Acceleprise Ventures
Sales are like oxygen for early-stage startups. They can't succeed without it. Whitney has 10+ years of startup experience and founded the sales method. She joins us to breakdown the sales method, what mindset to have when selling, and her career journey from graduating UC San Diego to having a...
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Power of Place: Bluedot Founder/CEO Emil Davityan
After meeting Emil at a bar in San Francisco 4 years ago when Bluedot was a bit smaller, we caught up with him to hear how Bluedot is powering the location services industry, with brands like Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, and other restaurants utilizing location to deliver on point frictionless...
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Building Startups without being an Engineer with Mohara
Welcome back to another edition of Startup Mindsets. Today, we talk about how nontechnical founders can leverage Mohara in creating a minimum viable product and core technology to launch their business. Many startup ideas are great but lack the ability to develop core technology. That's where...
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Sports Betting Innovation w/Dan Healy CEO/Founder of PickUp
The Online Gambling market is growing with 6 new states in 2020 granting approval. With sports becoming a completely digital experience due to the pandemic we talk shop. We hang out with Dan Healy and pick his brain on entrepreneurship, fundraising, and the day to day of running a startup. He…
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Entrépreneurship with Elodie de Marchi Head of Growth at Kaiko
The word entrepreneur has French origins and it means to start something. Today, Elodie de Marchi, Head of Growth at Kaiko joins us from Paris to talk about entrepreneurship and her career journey. We talk about Leaving VM Ware, a 30,000 employee company to join Kaiko a scrappy startup with 16...
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Getting Up to Speed
What's up, everyone! Apologies for the brief hiatus but we are back! Hope you had a happy holiday! Let's get back into the grind. In this new style episode, we talk about recent tech IPOs: Affirm, Roblox, and Bumble, our book progress, and new things we are working on! -Dan Subscribe and leave a...
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Biology and Entrepreneurship with Anil, CEO of Mekonos
In this episode, we talk to Anil Narasimha the CEO/Founder of Mekonos. Mekonos is an innovative biotech startup building solution that enable and accelerate precision medicine, synthetic biology & fundamental science. We learn what it's like starting and running a biotech company from starting in…
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FidoCure Founder Christina Lopes YC'18
One in every two dogs and one in every three cats die from cancer. This statistic is alarming. Christina Lopes, the CEO/Founder of Fidocure, breaks down their mission of being the first precision medicine for pets. We learn about her inspiring career journey, the YCombinator experience,...
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Do the Difficult: Amit Garg - Managing Partner of Tau Ventures
We talk to a venture capitalist, startup founder, and a world-class operator on this episode. Amit shares his inspiring career journey. We discuss investing virtually compared to in-person, what it is like raising money for a startup, venture fund, and non-profit, and the career journey of being…
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Wearing Different Hats - Kelly Lei of Delivering Happiness
Workplace happiness is in question a lot nowadays with high turnover rates and more and more employees disagreeing with management. In this episode, we catch up with our good friend Kelly Lei who helps employees find their belonging. Believing that we don't have just one purpose in life, Kelly's...
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Chief Innovation Officer of San Jose - Jordan Sun
Innovation is a ubiquitous characteristic of startups and organizations in the tech world. In this episode, we talk to Jordan Sun, the Chief Innovation Officer of San Jose, California. We discuss what fits the innovation mold of the city and recent success in closing the digital divide. Moreover,...
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Plentina x Techstars
You can’t do it alone. Entrepreneurship can be isolating especially in the beginning. Today, we learn about Earl’s time in Techstar’s Western Union accelerator. We discuss virtual vs. in person work and learn about the value that having a tribe behind you provides. #startupmindsets --- This…
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South East Asian Startup Scene w/Madhu Iyer of Rocketship.vc
Madhu Iyer is presently a partner at RocketshipVC, a 140M fund that invests in global founders. In this episode, we talk about the South East Asian tech ecosystem, what it's like building a tech unicorn, GoJek, and growing Intuit's Quickbooks platform to 300 million USD. #startupmindsets --- This...
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The Entrepreneur Bug with Line CEO, Akshay K.
We talk about the "Entrepreneurship Bug" and learn about Akshay's humbling journey growing up in India to flipping "WWE" wrestling cards. Today, Akshay is the Founder/CEO of Line, a rising startup which provides access interest-free line of funds without credit-history, paychecks or credit…
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ScienceVest General Partner, Ramphis Castro
Join us as we look at startup fundraising vs venture fundraising with the help of Ramphis Castro, Founding GP of ScienceVest. Learn about why and how ScienceVest is solving the problem of access to capital for science fiction based founders. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest...
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AI/ML at AWS: Tingwei Huang
Being an entrepreneur versus working a nine to five is always a huge topic for discussion. Tingwei Huang is an intrapreneur who's worked on developing innovation within Intel and Amazon most recently. We discuss her time at Intel Capital and how Amazon inculcates a "Day One" mindset within the...
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Sustainability w/Maia Tekle of Dispatch Goods
In this episode, we get to know an up and coming startup attempting to disrupt the containers restaurants and consumers use for food. Dispatch Goods allows for on-demand restaurant food pickup in reusable containers! Maia Tekle, COO of Dispatch Goods, joins Startup Mindsets to share the work she…
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Harvard Business School, Senior Lecturer, Euvin Naidoo
Euvin Naidoo joins us for an action packed discussion about agility’s role in the startup and venture ecosystem. We dive deep into the factor risk plays in any venture and how corporations are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis while best serving the customer. Euvin is a senior lecturer at the…
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Performance Marketing with Ping Rivero of Cognity Labs
Welcome to season 2 of Startup Mindsets. In this episode, we dive more into marketing with Ping Rivero of LendingHome. We talk about startup mindsets in different countries and his switch from software engineering to performance marketing. We cover best practices marketers are applying and how...
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SMP#10: Hustle feat. Cube Wealth's Bez Bajrami
On this special July 4th episode of Startup Mindsets, we talk about the reality of being an entrepreneur through the lens of Cube Wealth, a subscription service focusing on helping the retail investor invest. We learn about the determination and mentality that gets a business up and running.…
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Spotify’s ex head of Marketing, Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran has shared driving marketing success for well-known media tech companies you know today such as Spotify and Netflix. Taking their user base from around the 20 million range to near 75 million users. From growing up in the Philippines to his stints with startups in the valley,...
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SMP #8: Hardware is hard with Founder/President of Sutro, Ravi Kurani
In this episode, Ravi breaks down where he learned about "grit" in his entrepreneur journey. From UC Riverside to India to San Francisco using engineering and technology to solve problems around water became his mission. Tune in as we talk about Sutro's inspiration, humble beginnings, and more....
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SMP #7: The Utlity Mindset w/John Morada VP at Agile Stacks
In this episode, John Morada talks about the "Engineering Mindset" and where his entrepreneurial journey started. We learn about his time as a Vice President at Agile Stacks and what it is like wearing multiple hats from marketing, sales, and engineering in an early-stage startup. Press Play!...
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Ron Ro: Founder of Awair
Ron Ro is the Founder/CEO of Awair, a startup that focuses on providing healthy buildings and spaces. Throughout this episode, we cover Awair's Inception, growth, trials, and tribulations and how inspiration from his dad's "kimchee dream" catalyzed Ron's Startup Mindset and Inspiration." Today,...
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SMP #5: Ishan Gupta, Serial EdTech Entreprenuer/Global Head of Student Ops at Udacity
Episode 5 features Ishan Gupta, a serial entrepreneur with a lasting Silicon Valley imprint. From graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business to being Facebook’s first hire on the ground in India. He also founded Edukart and sold the startup to Paytm prior to becoming Udacity's Global…
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Earl Valencia, Fintech Founder/Co-Host
Get to know the hosts of The Startup Mindsets, Earl and Dan. -Learn about our motivation to create this podcast and write The Startup Mindsets. - What mindset is needed to build a strong startup In this episode, Earl Valencia breaks down his entrepreneurial and corporate journey. From founding…
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Coins PH Founding Team: Beryl Chavez
What's up, everyone! In Episode 4 of The Startup Mindsets, we explore entrepreneurship in Asia with Beryl Chavez, Partner at Alpha Omega Capital Partners & Consultant at UBX Philippines. Beryl shares her insights on working at Coins.ph, the Philippine's largest startup exit to date - Career and...
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SMP #3: Leezel Tanglao Senior Editor/Membership & Innovation at Huffington Post
Leezel Tanglao brings a unique twist to the Startup Mindset's perspectives and shares how her journey in journalism is driven by impact and community. She's worked for HuffPost in New York City and various news outlets in Southern California. In this episode, we learn how going back to the core…
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CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, Jonathan Javier
Jonathan drops by to give his Jwow or Jonathan Words of Wisdom! This week's episode includes: How Wonsulting is helping turn underdogs into winners. Coming from a non-traditional background does not mean you can't break into tech or start a company. How to surround yourself with the right people…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Startup Mindsets Podcast! Dan Gonzales and Earl Valencia will be your hosts. Week in and week out we will dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why innovation now is more important than ever. Discover your startup mindset today!We hope you enjoy the show! :) -Dan and Earl Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupmindsets/support
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