Skip to content
Startup HandMeDowns cover art

All Episodes

Startup HandMeDowns — 96 episodes

#
Title
1

Episode 96: A Different Approach to Saving the Planet and Why Plastic Water Bottles are the New Cigarettes with Rich ‘Raz’ Razgaitis - CEO of FloWater

2

Episode 95: It's Not Enough to Build Something You Have Think About Distribution with Amir Salihefendić of Doist

3

Episode 94: Creating a New Way to Shop Online with Girish Ramachandra Co-founder & CEO, Shopalyst

4

Episode 93: Why you Need to Build your MVP End to End with Serial Entrepreneur Peter Yared CEO of InCountry

5

Episode 92: How I Sold a Company Before I Went to College and Building Amazing Consumer Focused Startups - Kal Vepuri - Founder of Hero and Serial Angel Investor

6

Episode 91: We Were Selling One Car Per Month When I Joined Tesla - JOhn ROkos - Angel Investor and Entrepreneur

7

Episode 90: Austen Allred Founder and CEO of Lambda School - Transforming Education and How We Learn

8

Episode 89: Marketing Mistakes Startups Make with Gaston Tourn - CMO Appear Here, Ex-Googler, Ex-Badoo

9

Episode 88: How to crowdfund £1million in 4 days with Alex Stefani CEO of Beam

10

Episode 87: You Don't Need More Processes with Ryan Walsh Chief Product Officer at Splice and Formally Beat by Dre and Floodgate VC

11

Episode 86: Hope is Not a Strategy - With Ian Chambers CEO of Mind Candy and Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness

12

Episode 85: Does Money Buy Happiness and Effective Content Writing with - Morgan Housel, Partner at The Collaborative Fund

13

Episode 84: The Importance of Having a Startup Mindset within Multinationals - with Zack Weisfeld General Manager and Head of Ignite, Intel's Startup Mentorship Program

14

Episode 83: Build a Team of Curious People to Achieve Success with Haymo Meran - Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

15

Episode 82: Why All Founders Have to be Great Sales People with Dan Bowyer - Co-Founder and Partner at SuperSeed VC

16

Episode 81: Not All Businesses Need Venture Capital Funding with Andrea Hippeau Principal Investor at Lerer Hippeau VC

17

Episode 80: Creating the right culture starts with leadership - Melissa Daimler Founder of Daimler Partners

18

Episode 79: Angel investor by day world-class DJ by night with Mick Batyske Investor and DJ

19

Episode 78: Peter Rojas - Partner at Betaworks Ventures - How We Built Multiple Media Brands Without Paying for Traffic, Acquisitions, Venture Capital and More.

20

Episode 77: What's your startups moat? Branding Isn't enough with Hadley Harris - Founding Partner at Eniac Ventures

21

Episode 76: I lost everything in 2008 so I was more prepared for COVID-19 with George McGehrin - Founder of The McGehrin Group

22

Episode 75: From Drug Addiction to Successful Tech CEO and Leadership Coach with Michael Brody-Waite Co-Founder of InQuicker

23

Episode 74: The Worse Thing You Can Do is Live With Regret - Patrick Drake Co-Founder and Former Head Chef - HelloFresh UK

24

Episode 73: Self Awareness Helped Us Grow Our Direct to Consumer Business - Abhi Lokesh CEO of Fracture (Rebroadcast)

25

Episode 72: What I've Learned as An Investor For The last 11 Years with Rodney Appiah Founder and Chairman of Cornerstone Partners and Director at Foresight Private Equity

26

Episode 71: How I Sold My Startup for $45m and Why I Started my Next Startup the Following Day with Jude Gomila Founder of Golden

27

Episode 70: Lo Toney Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital. Formerly eBay, Zynga Google Venture Partners

28

Episode 69: Your Life Should Have a Theme, Don't Just Do One Thing with Anthony Frasier Entrepreneur and Strategist

29

Episode 68: Building B2B Products and Why You Shouldn't Get Sucked into The B2C Game with Andrew MacGill, VP of Product at Pager

30

Episode 67: How I Grew Traffic to Millions of Views and Sold My Blog for $9m with Serial Entrepreneur Ramon Van Meer

31

Episode 66: Why Startups Need to Get Good at Telling Stories With Tammy Nam COO of PicsArt

32

Episode 65: How I Built the App Vivino to 36 million Users and Raised over $57m with Heini Zachariassen Founder of Vivino Wine App

33

Episode 64: Stop Taking Programmatic Approaches to Systemic Issues with Ben Hecht President & CEO at Living Cities

34

Episode 63: How to Build Successful Tech Companies and Market Them with Dan Sutera, Serial Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor and Investor

E
35

Episode 62: From raising over £200m to becoming a VC and trying to solve the "pipeline" problem with Ezechi Britton Principal at Impact X Capital and Co-founder of Neyber

36

Episode 61: Why The Best Way to Learn is by Doing with Kai Bond, Serial Entrepreneur and VC at Courtside VC

37

Episode 60: Investing in Diverse Founders with Eric Collins Founder and CEO of Impact X Capital

38

Episode 59: The Importance of a Strong Brand and How to Create One with Alain Sylvain Founder of Sylvain Labs

E
39

Episode 58: Why I wouldn't want to be a startup founder again with Charles Hudson Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor VC

40

Episode 57: We Raised $1m and Sold our App for $48m in Less Than 2 years with Jordan Fliegel MD of TechStars Sports and Serial Entrepreneur

E
41

Episode 56: (Re-run) Why you don't need to burn the ship to be an entrepreneur - Tom Bilyeu Co- Founder of Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory

42

Episode 55: Sales Masterclass with Adam Liebman - VP of Sales at Seated

E
43

Episode 54: Nathalie Molina Niño- Founder of BRAVA Investments and Author of Leapfrog: The New Revolution For Women Entrepreneurs

44

Episode 53: Why You Don't Need Another Book with Angel Gambino

45

Episode 52: (Re-run) How to build amazing products - with Ian White of Business Insider and Co-founder of Sailthru

46

Episode 51: Transforming Education and How We Learn with Austen Allred Founder and CEO of Lambda School

47

Episode 50: Tony Conrad - Serial Entrepreneur and Partner at True Ventures with over $2bn AUM

48

Episode 49: The One Thing All Successful Startups Have in Common With Tammy Nam COO of PicsArt

49

Episode 48: Just Do What You Love and It'll Work Out with David Jamilly Co-Founder of Theme Traders

50

Episode 47: (Re-run) Why Brands Need Personality with Mat Braddy Former CMO of Just Eat and Founder of Updraft

51

Episode 46: (Re-run) Anton Derlyakta - CEO & Co-founder of Sweatcoin and Founder & Managing Partner at Talent Equity VC

52

Episode 45: Marketing Mistakes Startups Make with Ex-Googler, Gaston Tourn - CMO of Badoo

53

Episode 44: Why Diversity of Thought is Extremely Valuable with Porter Braswell - Co founder and CEO of Jopwell

54

Episode 43: The Journey So Far with Patrick Drake Co-Founder and Head Chef of HelloFresh UK

55

Episode 42: Self awareness helped us grow - Abhi Lokesh CEO of Fracture

56

Episode 41: You Don't Need More Processes with Ryan Walsh Partner at Floodgate VC and Formally Beat by Dre

57

Episode 40: Why You Shouldn't Raise Too Much Money with Paul Grossinger

58

Episode 39: What I've learned starting companies with Jack Levine former CEO of Digg and Electric Objects

59

Episode 38: Success takes time - Russ Shaw Founder of TLA and Investor

60

Episode 37: Getting 25,000 downloads a day Patrick Jackson of Disconnect

61

Episode 36: Success = Reading More with Anthony Frasier from ABF Creative

62

Episode 35: Why VC's Aren't Racist with Mckeever Conwell II of TEDCO

63

Episode 34: The Art of Branding with Alain Sylvain CEO of Sylvain Labs

64

Episode 33: E-commerce Masterclass with Brian Berger CEO of Mack Weldon

65

Episode 32: I started Birchbox with tunnel vision with Katia Beauchamp

66

Episode 31: Why I wouldn't want to be a startup founder again - with Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures

67

Episode 30: What founders of color can do to win - With Kai Bond (Part 2)

68

Episode 29: How I Sold My Startup to Samsung within 9 months- with Kai Bond from Catalyst Fund (Part 1)

69

Episode 28: How we get 12m readers per month with Derek Flanzraich Founder and CEO of Greatist

70

Episode 27: Raising money comes with strings attached with Victor Penev of Edamam

71

Episode 26: Facilitating the personal branding revolution with Brian Schechter of SelfMade

72

Episode 25: How I Judge Startups for Investment - With WeWork Labs Cofounder Jesse Middleton

73

Episode 24: Step by Step Guide to Raising Venture Capital - with VC Sumeet Shah from Brand Foundry VC

74

Episode 23: How I started the world's 1ST SOCIAL NETWORK, SixDegrees - with Andrew Weinreich

75

Episode 22: How I started Birchbox with tunnel vision and cold emails - with Co-founder Katia Beauchamp

76

Episode 21: How I got 700,000 Newsletter Subscribers- With Sam Parr founder of The Hustle

77

Episode 20: How to build amazing products - with Ian White of Business Insider and Co founder of Sailthru

78

Episode 19: Why I hate the word patience - With Tom Bilyeu Co-founder of Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory

79

Episode 18: Pushing retail fashion into the 21st century - With CTO Josh Builder from Rent the Runway

80

Episode 17: How we raised £1 million in 4 days via Crowdfunding- with JustPark's Alex Stefani

81

Episode 16: How my app got 500 million downloads and exited for £70million - with Jack Bowman

82

Episode 15: What you learn from chilling with Millionaires - Season 1 Finale

83

Episode 14: Can you trade part time to support your startup? - With Zak Mir

84

Episode 13: The Insane Hustle: Why Founder James Poulter slept on the floor to get Pronto off the ground

85

Episode 12: The new metric all founders need to know- with Dreamstake's Paul Dowling

86

Episode 11: Why we kidnapped a chef to explore JustEat's inner brand voice- with Mat Braddy Ex CMO of JustEat

87

Episode 10: Special Story Episode: How I went from Cab Driver to Founder of $1Billion Startup- Hailo's Russ Hall

88

Episode 9: Are good leaders born or made? How I learnt to manage- with 500 Startup's Matt Lerner

89

Episode 8: The Complete Guide on How To Do Your Own PR- with GeekGirl Meetup's Cathy White

90

Episode 7: How we raised £15 million & why it was a mistake- with Conrad Poulson

91

Episode 6: App marketing masterclass with Moshi Monster's Ed Relf

92

Episode 5: Starting a business abroad with 91Springboard's Varun Chawla

93

Episode 4: Life of a Serial Entrepreneur with Oleg Fomenko

94

Episode 3: Catching a VC's attention with Anton Derlyatka

95

Episode 2: The late intro

96

Episode 1: How I won 18 grants to get my Augmented Reality business off the ground- Silas Adekunle