A three-part series breaking down the lunchtime panel from Dean Wasserman’s Angel Investor Bootcamp, which was moderated by Charlie Harary and featured angel investor Moshe Neuman (Valued Ventures), entrepreneur turned investor Andrew Ackerman, and founder Kumesh Aroomoogan of Accern (who has raised funding from nearly 200 angels).

 Produced by Uri Westrich  

In Part 2 of his interview with Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman, Waze cofounder Uri Levine describes why the team initial refused Google’s offer then accepted a revised one six months later, the founding motivations of frustration and revenge, and his experiences with venture capitalists.

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In this interview with Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman, Waze cofounder Uri Levine delves into the inception of the idea, the difficulty but importance of focusing on solving a problem rather than pushing a solution, and founding-team dynamics.

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Dr. Jonathan Donath delves into leadership and entrepreneurial lessons he learned from his two founding experiences.  He discusses the evolution of his professional career as a chiropractor, his dilemmas about selling his practice, and his recent transition from owner of a private practice to employee in a larger healthcare company.

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After founding a successful private practice, Dr. Jonathan Donath had an idea for a non-profit that would collect $1 per day from thousands of donors and distribute the funds to a different recipient every day.  That idea became Daily Giving, which in 4 years has distributed $7.5 million to dozens of charities.  Jonathan discusses the lessons learned from both founding experiences and some of the unique challenges he faced along the way.

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Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman explore which founder’s dilemmas are universal and which only apply to high-potential startups, with implications for for-profits vs. non-profits, small businesses, and family businesses.

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Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman tackle a listener question about the impact of pivots on the startup and the team, and examples of Lean Startup being applied at Sy Syms.

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Prominent founder-CEO Gilles (Yaakov) Gade joins Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman (and the Sy Syms Honors Program students) again to discuss why an innovative visionary is attracted to regulated industries, how he was able to found tech-heavy Cross River Bank without having a tech background, and other founding challenges he has faced.

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Prominent founder-CEO Gilles (Yaakov) Gade joins Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman (and the Sy Syms Honors Program students) to explore the power of focusing on values, how to maintain that focus despite explosive growth, how R’ Jonathan Sacks zt”l shaped the founding of his company, and other founding dilemmas he has faced at Cross River Bank.

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Charlie Harary and Dean Noam Wasserman delve further into the aftermath of the IPO through which Julie Feder led Aura Biosciences, the challenges of career dedication and Julie’s solutions to those challenges, and finding meaning and impact through a career in finance.

Produced by Uri Westrich