Launch and Learn

In this episode we talk to Tynan Allan about his experience as a culture consultant and how he ended up joining the founding team as the director of growth at Liveweb.io, a website tool that is bridging the gap in customer communication through live video chat. We talk all things culture, employee motivation, growth, and what the future of communication could look like.

In this episode, Tomas shares with us about his time running a network community for finance professionals in London before eventually ending up as the COO of Grakn Labs, an open-sourced platform that is changing the way we structure and organise data. He talks about how to grow and maintain and open-sourced community as well as how to stay motivated and live with purpose.

In this episode we talk to serial PM and 2-time co-founder Alfonso Rocha about how to get started in Product, how to prioritise when scaling quickly, and how to have a growth mindset.

In this episode, we talk to Vartika Manasvi about being an entrepreneur in India before moving to Canada and pivoting to what is now Stackraft: a company that is looking to change recruitment and hiring for the better. She talks about what made her move to Canada, the importance of having a clear focus, and what the future of hiring could look like.

For more information about Stackraft, visit https://stackraft.com/ or reach out to Vartika on Twitter https://twitter.com/VManasvi

We take a break from digital products and talk to Anja Willms about her experience in launching and building a health food startup called Shileo after being inspired by a trip to Malaysia. She talks about bootstrapping, the challenges of distributing physical products, and how to keep a clear mind through the ups and downs of running your own business.

For more information about Shileo, visit https://www.shileo.com/

In this episode, Stephanie Feldmann talks about starting Six Reasons, a venture building agency in Munich. She talks about how she got started in entrepreneurship and we dig into her experience in pivoting Keyp from a dating service to a cybersecurity application and all the complications that came along with that.

In this episode, we talk to Gian about his experience launching multiple companies in the food and beverage industry in China including Cilantro, a Shopify-like solution for restaurants looking to take their business online. He talks about his experience in the food industry, working with an agency, and what to focus on when launching a new product.

In this episode, Robert Högler walks us through his journey in launching Lendigo, a small business lending platform based in Nigeria. He covers the challenges in building a team in a new country, how to find your first customers, and what it was like building a FinTech company in an emerging market.

In this episode, Timo Hahn uses his experience launching Wydr to talk about how to validate an idea, build an MVP, and get your first customers.