Innovation Friday

Chris Bello is an entrepreneur, a real estate investor, and agent from Houston, Texas. He is also hosting the Entrepreneur Motivation Podcast.

Advice from Chris

Get focused. You have to pick something and stick with it.

This was the first piece of advice. He also elaborates on finding a mentor, adding value to others, having a morning routine, and networking.

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Together with Tim Rath we talk about the benefits of social media advertising and how to measure the success of an advertising campaign. He started as an instagram influencer and is now one of the co-founders of Yoyaba.

There are so many entrepreneurs, and especially freelancers, that I see focusing  on making the perfect business card, the most amazing looking websites. And they go to all possible events. But what you should focus on are the activities that produce cashflow.

Because only when you produce cash cashflow, you should allow yourself to spend time with all these other things.

You must focus on the money making activities first.

Recommended book: The third door -- Alex Banayan ( goodreads link )

Frederik Tholey and Tobias Groß made a small business from their passion of playing Santa, Weihnachtsmann2Go. In this episode, you will find out how they build up their business and rewarding Santa’s job can be.

Cooperate with others in a way that can benefit you both and be willing to get your hands dirty. If you need to, hand out flyers.

Andra from Reelwurld (amongst others, she is quite active when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship), this week’s guest, believes in equal access to knowledge and technology. 

Stay true to yourself, always. Go and try out your idea as soon as possible, learn from that. Don’t give up. It sounds very dramatic, but if you believe in it, other people will too.

This week episode features Manuel Korfmann from eazy.

Manuel is especially interested in hardware and making computers accessible to all people. That is why he is going to build a portable computer for less than 10 euros.

Before starting a company, a person should try to live on no money the longest they can. […] To understand how much 25 cents can mean to a person. Understand the difference between 1 euro and 10 cents.

This week’s episode of Innovation Friday welcomes Georgina from Wolfpack Digital.

Georgina is interested in psychology, tech, and business management. Through entrepreneurship she could bring all her interests and skills together.

You’ll find out how they build an application to help people fight gambling addiction. As she just came from Slush Shanghai, she gives us some impressions from the event. Together with her co-founders, they organized a treasure hunt for their team, with the treasure being…

Persevere. It may sound like a cliche, but what I would like to tell myself if I met myself five years ago, is not to be discouraged by the fact that the actions I take today generate immediate results.

Persevere. It may sound like a cliche, but what I would like to tell myself if I met myself five years ago, is not to be discouraged by the fact that the actions I take today generate immediate results.

The third episode of Innovation Friday is an interesting discussion with Mircea Popa from medicai.

Mircea is a second time entrepreneur. Together with his team, they enabling patient-doctor collaboration, imaging investigations, online storage and sharing..

We talk about how it is to build medical solutions that include cloud storage, which obstacles you can expect, what to expect when you go fundraising, and how rewarding a thank you can be.

Advice

Mircea gives us some pieces of advice:

One of them is: build something of value, then you don’t have any issue raising money.

The second episode of Innovation Friday is a friendly discussion with Katrin Reuter from trackle.

She started started the company based on a personal need: track the body temperature to understand her fertility.

We talk about how it is to building medical hardware, which obstacles you can expect, how you can tackle the, and how free an entrepreneur really is.

Advice

At the end, she shares two pieces of advice, for us, the fellow entrepreneurs: one of them is: have women representing their view in every product and every project team and wherever it’s possible.

 A friendly discussion with Sebastian Cerone from LESS Industries makes the very first episode of Innovation Friday.

He started in Argentina, attended an accelerator in Chile, moved to Australia, and is living now in Gdansk, Poland.

We talk about the early struggles of being an entrepreneur, but also about the time when he organized one of the biggest robotics events in Latin America. It’s fascinating!

At the end, he also shares two pieces of advice, for us, the fellow entrepreneurs: the first one is sell, sell, sell, sell.

Every Friday you will get the chance to hear about the struggles, the most difficult and most fulfilling moments of fellow entrepreneurs.

Listen to this episode to find out what it is about.