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Margus Klaar is a founding partner of Brand Manual an international service design and branding agency, speaker, teacher and author. He'a a Swiss-Swedish-Canadian-Estonian currently living in Stockholm. In this episode, we talk about service design, digital transformation, culture and his experiences in the public and private sector.

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Safe water is not a privilege according to Dr. Parag Agarwal, founder of JANAJAL and social entrepreneur for 33 years. He realized that there was a big gap between demand and supply of pure drinking water, and that the price was exorbitant. 

This made him embark on a journey to use tech to deliver safe water for all.
Janajal has been selected by the government of India for implementation of a $50 Billion drinking water scheme by 2024 under the Jeevan mission.

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Sissel Hansen shares her story from wanting to launch a startup in Berlin, coming from Copenhagen. Then realising the lack of access to information when moving to another ecosystem. This experience led her to start what is now called the 'startup guide' that helps aspiring entrepreneurs get access to information and get started across multiple countries. Great talk where we go through some of the challenges and learnings, and the journey to date.

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The story of 3 friends since the age of 11, musicians and now business partners, focusing on a specific niche: Audio Branding. They managed in less than a year to work with some of the most prominent brand, visual and graphic designers around the world, accelerating their business during the pandemic.
An awesome chat, all the way from Argentina with Gabriel I. Agüero, Dalmiro Lacaze and Mauro A. González, co-founders of Drop Music Branding.

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Marie-Pierre Schickel is an ex business consultant, university lecturer, angel investor and startup mentor who migrated into brand strategy and left a career in academia to focus again on real projects. Annamaria Tartaglia is the Founder of the BrandSitter, Chief Marketing and Communications Director at prominent Italian brands in Luxury, Fashion and Beauty, cofounder of angels4Women, lecturer and startup mentor.
This podcast is a casual conversation, tackling multiple topics around fashion, sustainability, mindset, responsibility and accountability... Topics we discuss over coffee in a non virtual life! Enjoy!

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Péter Kovács started his career as a head hunter, meeting and hiring people in an unconventional way and grew a large, ever expanding network across five continents. He takes us through the rollercoaster of a journey (including the pandemic) which led him to build the global Startup Awards, with a goal to overcome geographical borders with his co-founder Kim Balle and shares learnings and stories.

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Kamal Hassan, founding partner Loyal VC, a global VC fund that relies on process to deliver returns. In this episode he shares his journey to date and what helped him shape the vision of his global fund which aims to evolve the VC model. He takes us through his approach to investing in startups, with many examples, key learnings and research.

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Simon Squibb is an entrepreneur, investor, author, podcast host, social media influencer and mentor who strongly believes in Luck, hence the name of his podcast the good Luck Pod. He left home at 15 and went on to built 18 companies and invested in 65. He retired at the age of 40 and is currently on a mission to help 1 million people find their purpose and start their own businesses, doing it all for free.

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Nivi Sharma is the COO of BRCK and a co-founder of eLimu that was later acquired, the first company to digitize the Kenyan Primary School curriculum for revision and literacy. She spent the last 7 years or so of her career to developing EdTech solutions in emerging markets, specifically Kenya, Africa and reaching emerging markets in Latin America. Through her work which is quite on site, immersed in the realities as well, since the work is mainly in remote areas, Nivi aims to give access to the internet to 800 million Africans who currently don't have access, primarily for children education but also businesses.

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In this episode he takes us through how he had to adapt to remote work when the pandemic hit. We go through his views and experiences about online public speaking, engagement and even try a remote activity that showcases how emotions can be conveyed when speaking.

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