Alicia Roisman Ismach, Serial Fintech Entrepreneur - Focus on Payment & Banking Technology. Alicia left Argentina at the age of 16 years old. She dreamt of changing the world. Listen to her story of how she is living up to her dream.

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• It's wise to follow both a curious mind in the startup world, but also mix this up with further education at University
• Get a mentor, no matter what level you are at
• If Alicia can leave her home country as a young girl of sixteen to follow her dream of changing the world, then what's your excuse?

Vadim Rogovskiy, Tech Entrepreneur and CEO of Clickky

3 facts about Vadim:
- co-founder of a few mobile startups in different spheres
- partner in an angel seed fund WannaBiz
- at the age of 26 years was on a cover of Forbes Ukraine in a list "30 under 30" entrepreneurs

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• Start with a low cost side project or hobby to avoid early financial risk
• You'll know when it's time to quit your day job. In Vadim's case, it was when his side project was earning $10,000 per month
• Starting your own startup means you'll be the leader of your own life 

Nathan Raffel is an actor and successful serial entrepreneur. You may recognize him from a Chevy commercial 🚘... but he has done much more beyond acting that he loves to share with other entrepreneurs!

He is currently working on a new startup Bout Dad Life with his best friend Travis Laurendine. This is his current project building a community focused on highlighting dads doing right by their families.  

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• Awesome branding and marketing helps protect you from competitors and a race to the bottom. Just think how valuable and iconic logos of Facebook and Twitter are to attracting users and downloads
• Starting with a personal problem to be solved is the best way to start a startup
• Dad's are getting something awesome with BoutDad.life

Emily Utter - Earning Six Figures Coaching Adventurous Entrepreneurs

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• Adventurous entrepreneurs put lifestyle first before their business
• The #1 mistake when quitting a corporate job is going it alone
• Earning a successful living starts with your own connections built through speaking gigs and networking

Zahi Boussiba CEO & Co-Founder at Appsee. Zahi walks us through his inspiring journey with Appsee. Over 5 years Appsee has gone from 2 guys in a garage coding to a well funded company with thousands of customers in wide range of industries.

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• Starting a startup is HARD. Expect the journey to last 5 to 10 years
• Start with a problem, build a prototype, get paying customers - only then seek funding
• Understand the users journey through your app. Zahi discovered 70% of his users were not sharing their location when first asked, hence engagement was very low

Notes from recording an episode of The Eventual Millionaire with Jamie Masters [Tardy]

• What do you think to The App Guy Podcast Mission?
• What input do you have on future guests?
• My episode on The Eventual Millionaire goes live 15th December 2017

Adam Barker CEO & Co-Founder at MagnaPass. We talk about raising funds for an early stage startup, real life examples of going through a pre-seed Angel syndicate, aiming for a raise of £300,000 and tips for pitching to groups of investors. Listen out for the entertaining story of sleeping in the car during a snow storm to pitch to investors in the morning.

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• work your own network in the early days. You may be surprised who invests in your startup
• know your own business inside out when pitching to investors
• explain the problem, your projections and vision during short pitches, but leave a lot of the 'meat and potatoes' for the inevitable questions at the end

Paul Kemp, host of The App Guy Podcast: Inspiring Founder Stories, Growth Hacking, Funding, Beta Testers, Big Data, Lifestyle, Startups. In this episode, I run through 15 Of The Biggest App Entrepreneurial + Life Lessons From The Last 500 Episodes

• Focus on your strengths, find the vehicle to share your gifts with the world and have a clear sense of the people you want to serve
• Solve a real world problem, ensure enough people also think it's a problem, confirm people will pay for your solution before investing the time and money to build your product
• Build an audience, listen to want they want then deliver a minimum viable product to test, validate and gain valuable feedback. Follow your data and pivot if necessary

Alex Quilici, the CEO of YouMail. YouMail is an intelligent call manager that stops robocalls with its highly accurate caller ID and smart blocking technology. They’ve developed a monthly robocall index that tracks the scale and scope of invasive robocalls nationwide that has been frequently cited in national media. YouMail was recently called a superior alternative to iOS 10’s Visual Voicemail and Google Voice in a PCMag software review. 

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• In the US, the entrepreneurial culture is massive with something like 28 million people having started some form of business

• Sometimes, the entrepreneur doesn't choose the problem to focus on, but its the problem choosing the entrepreneur

• Success can often mean working on a problem that lots of consumers agree is also a problem, having a good solution to the problem and having a great team focussed on the problem