General Principles

Meet Kevin Kelly. He is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He is also the originator of many great technology and startup philosophy. He is one of the titans who has given many tips and tools to Tim Ferriss and the originator of the seminal thought on a thousand true fans. In this episode, we dive deeper into Kevin Kelly's ideas and how one can be as great and prolific a writer as him.

(@VanicaViorica) and Ionut (MistreanuIonut). They are the founders of MyFocusSpace, the go-to-place for any remote worker. A place where you know you can stay accountable and push things forward. In this episode we learn about how Viorica and Ionut built MyFocusSpace in less than three months. Going deep into understanding how one might validate their hypotheses alongside building a high quality product rapidly. Learn about the tech stacks used by Ionut and how he managed to balance being an entrepreneur in resident at Entrepreneurs First at the same as building MyFocusSpace.

Wonder how to start a new bank? How to tackle the world's biggest problems?

Serial entrepreneur, former Bridgewater employee and the founder of Jefa, Emma Sánchez Andrade Smith (@emmyagsmith) joins us to share her story into entrepreneurship. How she solves problems from principles thinking and how she went about building Jefa. What is the go to market strategy, how to talk to users and how to build a business in an emerging market. We also explore the financial inequalities between men and women - how most of the unbanked are women!

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Show notes:

* (1:48) Lessons from school: Duke University and the London School of Economics

* (4:35) Banks are designed for men

* (6:03) Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Principles

* (17:14) Women are great customers

* (23:46) Fixing Wealth Inequalities

* (29:40) The role of Mothers and finance in the household

* (36;24) Thinking about customer acquisition costs

* (39:11) Being a community first bank

* (46:43) Rapid fire questions

Meet Viorica (@VanicaViorica) and Ionut (MistreanuIonut). They are the founders of MyFocusSpace, the go-to-place for any remote worker. A place where you know you can stay accountable and push things forward. In this episode we learn about how Viorica and Ionut built MyFocusSpace in less than three months. Going deep into understanding how one might validate their hypotheses alongside building a high quality product rapidly. Learn about the tech stacks used by Ionut and how he managed to balance being an entrepreneur in resident at Entrepreneurs First at the same as building MyFocusSpace.

Meet Janessa (@Janessanwhite). She is the Co-CEO and the Co-Founder of Simply Eloped, a marketplace business in the US that provides elopement packages. On top of that, she was a scout at IndieVC helping Indie businesses. In this episode with Janessa, we dive into how to start a marketplace business from scratch. We learn about how she started the business at the time with the person she was dating (now partner), how to build with your partner and how to be a really customer-centric business in a marketplace with both customers and vendors.

Meet Nazra. She was seventeen years old when she decided to quit university and join as the first employee of The Knowledge Society (TKS), where she built out their community and global network. TKS is an innovation program for teenagers, helping the next generation of Elon Musks. 13-17 year olds have been building Brain Computer Interfaces, tackling Alzheimer's Disease, working on CRISPR and consulting for Microsoft.

Nazra (@nazranoushad) joins us in conversation to share what goes on at TKS, what's the secret behind these brilliant teenagers, and a bit on her jam - community building. Tune in to hear how Nazra herself created her own learning plan and accelerated her learning journey. How she thinks about career, what she sees as the big problems to tackle and how to build a meaningful community.

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Wonder how to start your own D2C Product and Brand?

Caleb Ulffers (@calebulf) shares with Daniel Jiang (@ikigaibydesign) about how he started Haven Athlethic. Coming from a marketing background and solving a problem he had himself after a gym mishap, Caleb went and built a product that he would enjoy. Listen in as Caleb shares his experiences on how he learned how to build and sell a product from scratch. His lessons would be very valuable to anyone hoping to start their own D2C company.

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Show notes:

* (2:11) How to conceptualise and design your product

* (5:12) How to do pre-sales

* (10:01) How to work with family and friends

* (12:15) How to find the right manufacturer

* (19:08) Noah Kagan and company validation

* (21:21) Spending money on ads

* (30;57) Pricing for samples

* (36:41) Building relationships with suppliers

* (41:52) Talking to customers

We speak to Hamilton Keats, a fintech founder who started a fund in his 20s, about what he learnt from being ousted from his first business, the biggest problems in personal finance and his top tip on building wealth early.

We speak to Ennis Chung, brand architect and process artist, about how best to explore your personal brand and the challenges of making a foot fetish comedy musical documentary.

We chat to Marie Dollé, experienced media researcher and writer of 'In Bed with Social' about newsletters, trends in media, and how to build a content curation pipeline so you don’t miss out on information you care about.

Long has Typeform dominated the startup forms space. Tally.so, a startup by Marie Martens and Filip Minev is setting out to disrupt that. Tally allows one to create forms for all purposes in seconds and easily share or embed them into a website. The pair in Belgium, Marie, an ex-marketer, Filip, a founder of Delta (a cryptocurrency portfolio tracker), discuss the lessons in building Tally.

In this episode we uncover how Marie and Filip have gone about building in a more public and Indie way for their business, Tally.so. We also try to understand the lessons that they have gleaned alone the way. A podcast brought to you by ViralWeGrow (https://viralwegrow.com/).