Inter:views | Cracking The Entrepreneur Bottleneck

KPIs Are Boring!

It's amazing the journeys some entrepreneurs can have. Carsten Ley is one of them. From Germany to Vietnam via Mexico, from the corporate world to entrepreneurship, Carsten now specializes in experience management. 

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of OKRs vs. KPIs, why managing experience start with listening and the advantages of being an entrepreneur. 

More about Asia PMO: https://www.asiapmo.com/

Technology On Its Own Doesn't Grow Your Company

Julien started his career in the aeronautics and automotive industries, before moving to South-East Asia. 15 years ago, he founded CEL, a supply chain consulting company, a bit by luck, and a lot because he saw an opportunity. 

In this interview, we discuss about opportunities, strategy, technology, international expansion and resilience. 

More about CEL: https://www.cel-consulting.com/

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Overcome Your Fear, Go For It!

Anna is the Founder and CEO of WeEncourage, a fundraising platform and open source AI tool that helps empower women.

She went from a retail business into building something she had 0 experience about. The calling to make an impact was too strong, she could not resist.

It's one of the most inspiring conversations I've had. We talked a lot about resilience, overcoming fear, failure and how routines can build efficiency. 

More about WeEncourage: https://encourage.fi/

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We Don't Exercise Our Storytelling Muscle Enough

Tom helps tech businesses telling their stories in a more creative and engaging way. We cover in details 2 key questions: Why is it often difficult to describe our business to others? What makes a good story (cues: tension and relability)? 

Also on this episode: how to scale up a small business, and why you shouldn't neglect your health for the sake of your business.  

More about Tom: https://www.tomhayton.com/

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Do The Uncomfortable Work, Serve Others First

Heloise is an impact-driven passionate entrepreneur. She's the CEO and co-Founder of Husk Ventures, a social enterprise that aims at improving livelihoods of small farmers by turning rice husk into biochar. 

She tells us all about this fascinating topic. She also shares practical key entrepreneurship lessons, in particular, how asking the right question could have saved the business 1 year.

More about Husk Ventures: http://www.huskventures.com/

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Follow Your Intuition and Never Give Up

If you want to know what it takes to be impact-driven and persevere, don't miss this episode! 

Meet Kirsi, the Founder of ViLike. She's passionate about using technology to make people physically move. Her crazy entrepreneur journey began at the university. Crazy because she lost all the data twice! Which means she started her company from scratch 3 times! This is her story.  

More about ViLike: https://vilike.fi/

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Take Time Out To Reflect On Significant Decisions

Richard is the Founder and Managing Director of Cimigo, a market research agency operating in Vietnam and Indonesia. 

He defines himself as a curious mind, which brought him to Asia in the early 90's. We talk about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur in a region that has been changing fast, and how ego can get in your way. This episode also includes the biggest mistake I've ever heard and the client's amazing reaction. 

More about Cimigo: https://www.cimigo.com/en/

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A Leader Is Invisible But Available

Berta is a designer and entrepreneur at heart. She's the co-founder of TeamLabs, a campus of innovation and entrepreneurship.

As Berta says: "Entrepreneurship cannot be taught, you need to live it." She tells us about the importance of learning, and how entrepreneurship is the most important educational tool of our time. 

More about TeamLabs: https://www.teamlabs.es/

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Entrepreneurship Is A Sense Of Ownership

Ville is Maria01 CEO, the largest start-up campus in Finland. A former entrepreneur himself, today his clients are all entrepreneurs. 

In this episode, we talk about how his motto drives his life, entrepreneurship mindset, leadership, challenges and recipes for success. He also tells us about the start-up scene. 

More about Maria01: https://maria.io/

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Discipline Is Everything

Meet Bob Chua, the founder of the Asian e-commerce platform BlinQ.

We cover 1 fundamental of structuring a business: being disciplined. He also tells us about how he created and successfully exited Pulse Group PLC, prior to his current venture.

Find out more about Bob's company: https://www.blinq.fashion