Elani is a leader in building high-growth startups through streamlined operations. After earning her master's from King's College, London, and serving more than two years at the Peace Corp. Elani spent almost a decade helping emerging tech companies develop, optimize and scale their operations marketing, and people processes. Elani is now the venture program manager at MDR Lab.

Topics

• What is MDR Lab (1:55)
• Three different arms of MDR lab (2:33)
• Build vs buy - which gives you the biggest return on your investment (3:54)
• How does MDR decide which companies to have in the accelerator? (5:12)
• How the Launch program works (8:13)
• What is MDR Lab's strategy when it comes to investment (13:50)
• The MDR Lab Venture Studio (16:05)
• The long term strategy for MDR Lab (16:38)
• Emerging tech (19:56)
• How Elani keeps up with what's going on (23:38)
• Building a community around MDR Lab (25:30)

Full transcript of the episode can be found at FringeLegal.com

Resources mentioned

• The Lawyer - Horizon Newsletter
• Y Combinator
• MDR Lab
• Strictly VC
• Nate's news
• Elani on Twitter