Innovation Friday

I have read somewhere that it’s important to move with purpose and urgency. Josh Graham, the co-founder of EHAB is one of those humans who move with purpose.

He is passionate about making a social and environmental impact. That’s why he created EHAB, a weather risk management tool for the construction industry. He believes that innovation in construction can be a catalyst for improvement across the world. This industry faces a lot of risks due to weather changes: physical risks, project risks, administrative risks, health & safety risks, and many more.

Can you build a purpose-driven start-up? How? What is a net-zero world? How can we get there? How does the construction industry impact climate change? These are all questions Josh answered in the new episode.

Advice from Josh: Ask yourself, is this problem inspiring enough and exciting enough that I would want to work on it for the next 50 years? If the answer is no, then probably don’t put your time into that. If the answer is yes, then it’s a long, hard journey and start to learn and start to really try and understand, okay, what are the ways that this problem is being solved today? What are the new ways that problem could be solved?

Books: Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis

contact Josh via Linkedin: @joshgraham

more about the company: ehab.co

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Today you are gonna meet Neta Schreiber. She is a purpose-driven person and a passionate entrepreneur.

Currently, she is a co-founder and CEO of SafeUP, which is building a community of women that support, protect each other, and prevent cases of assault, sexual, and physical harassment. Her platform helps a lot of women worldwide to feel safer.

Advice from Neta: The most important thing is to be very determined by your problem. Like if you believe in your problem and you know that you are the one that needs to solve that, you need to go with that and not give up because most of the early startups that stopped working, you know, it’s because they give up quickly.

Books: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

contact Neta via Linkedin: @netaschreiber

more about the company: safeup.co

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Trishna Nagrani from Panama co-founded Kaiku, a startup that aims at making early-stage funding smarter and faster, while she was in her last year of studies.

Trishna has over three years of experience in the finance sector, currently also working as an investment analyst.

Advice from Trishna: Always be fearless. Take that leap of faith. And I’m not saying it’s going to get easier but at least it gives you the confidence to brave the mountains.

Books: What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman

contact Trishna via Linkedin: @trishnanagrani

more about the company: kaiku.co

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Vivian Nwakah is a serial entrepreneur and strategist with vast experience in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and energy space. Currently, Vivian is the CEO of Medsaf, which is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.

Advice from Vivian: Just be very clear on the WHY you’re building this company.

Books: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

contact Vivian via Linkedin or e-mail: @vivannwakah or [email protected]

more about the company: medsaf.com

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Andrea recently started his entrepreneurial journey with Eat & Joy. He gave up his job at an electric scooter company in New York, returned to Milan, Italy, and together with his team developed an app that allows us to eat a gourmet lunch for as little as 5€.

Advice from Andrea: Never stop believing in the value that you bring by creating a service. There will always be an opportunity out there.

Books: The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman

contact Andrea via Linkedin: @andreamachdipalmstein

more about the company: eatandjoy.life

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This Innovation Friday we have Olivia Bryanne Zank the founder and CEO of Benefactors a fintech factoring company in Rwanda.

She is a product person, passionate about designing and iterating on products that work for a wide range of people. She’s data-driven, having a solid background in statistics and economics.

Advice from Olivia: It’s important that we ask ourselves if we know how the organization itself is going to change and what that requires of management.

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contact Olivia via Twitter: @oliviazank

more about the company: benefactors.io

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In this episode, we talked to Mihai Cepoi from Bucharest, Romania. He has over 5 years of entrepreneurial experience, with a strong background in enterprise sales and SAP accelerator alumni.

Currently, he is the CEO of Jobful, an online recruiting platform based on efficiency and gamification.

Advice from Mihai: Thinking of great ideas is worth nothing. Executing on okay ideas, it’s what makes the entire difference.

Books: Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You mean (Expert Thinking) by Kim Malone Scott

contact Mihai via Linkedin or e-mail: mihaicepoi or [email protected]

more about the company: jobful.io

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Tomas Grönqvist is a former professional cyclist in Italy, who turned entrepreneur and consultant in the area of cycling and mobility management. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of MIOO. In this episode, we talk about the importance of mobility, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and faith.

Advice from Tomas: You need to have a bright, clear vision of where and what do you want to have in the future. But at the same time, you need to confirm all the brutal facts of your current reality.

Books: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

contact Tomas via Linkedin or e-mail: tomasgrönqvist or [email protected]

more about the company: mioo.cc

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Vlad is a romanian tech entrepreneur with solid educational and professional experience in the UK and Denmark. He is highly passionate and engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, trying to grow and to bring digitalization into niche markets. Vlad is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gumzzz, an innovative project in worldwide dentistry, aiming to bring a digital revolution in the way we, as consumers, and dental clinics, interact with the digital world from communication to fulfilling both parties’ needs.

In this new episode, we talk about the importance of getting to know yourself as a person, adding value to society, education, and the truth about entrepreneurship.

Advice from Vlad: I think it’s quite impressive to understand what type of entrepreneur you are.

Resources: Bob Marley interview about richness and money

contact Vlad via Linkedin: vladsuteu

more about the company: gumzzz.com