Learn Educate Discover

Today marks the one year anniversary of Learn Educate Discover - a BIG thank you to all LED listeners! :)

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This is an in-betweenisode (term borrowed from the Tim Ferriss show), where we share how sharing your passion, interests, opinions and thoughts with people around you can slowly open up doors and opportunities for you, and help you build your tribe.

Our guest on this episode is Neetal Parekh, Founder @Innov8social, Author of the book "51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship", and a regular speaker at various Social Impact focused events. She started with a blog on social impact, and today gets routinely invited to speak at events and conferences, including at places such as Stanford Law School, Santa Clara University Law School, The Good Radio Network, etc.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. How and why Neetal started her blog

2. What stops people from sharing their work and interests, and how to get around this fear

3. The kind of opportunities that opened up for Neetal once she started putting her work out there

4. Importance of showing up and raising your hand

5. Your personal brand vs your project's brand

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Learn about a career in Brand Management in Consumer Products and Goods industry, in this discussion with Uttam Mukherjee, Brand Manager for Fabric Care, and ex-Senior Assistant Brand Manager for Tide, at P&G.

Some of the things we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What does a Brand Manager in CPG do?

2. Comparing Brand Management in CPG with Product Management in Tech

3. The end-to-end process of launching a new Brand and what a Brand Manager works on at each stage

4. Importance of consumer insights in Brand Management (Uttam shares an example from a case study on Old Spice)

5. The 4 qualities needed to excel as a Brand Manager

6. Typical Career Path

7. Interesting and Challenging aspects of the job

8. Recruiting tips for interested candidates

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Arun Penmetsa, Principal @Storm Ventures, talks about working as a Venture Capitalist in this episode. Storm Ventures is a Silicon Valley based early stage Enterprise SaaS focused Venture Fund, with many successful investments including well-known names such as Marketo and MobileIron.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What is Venture Capital

2. Different levels in a VC firm and their roles & responsibilities

3. How Venture Capital is ultimately a relationships based business

4. Typical end-to-end deal process and what a VC does at each stage

5. How working in VC exposes you to brilliant entrepreneurs and ideas on a regular basis

6. How a VC adds value to a startup

7. Future of VC

8. Top 5 qualities a good VC needs to have

9. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job

10. Recruiting tips for interested candidates

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Manny Fernandez is an Angel Investor and Serial Entrepreneur. Manny is the founder of SF Angels Group. In 2014, Manny was named the San Francisco Angel Investor of the Year. In 2016, Manny was named in Inc. Magazine’s list of the top 33 entrepreneurs to watch. He is also the Co-Founder of Equity Crowdfunding platform DreamFunded.com.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What is Angel Investing

2. Importance of Networking to be an Angel (and otherwise)

3. How an Angel adds value to a startup

4. Manny shares examples of his hits and misses

5. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job

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Zach Pinnell, Founder @BlogToJob.com has over 700,000 views on his answers on Quora, and has been able to successfully leverage Quora to drive traffic to his website. In this episode, Zach goes into the mechanics of how you can strategically answer questions on Quora to get more views on your answers that in turn helps you build your brand.

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Zach Pinnell, Founder @BlogToJob.com, and a successful Drop-Shipper, describes what is drop shipping and how you can set up a drop shipping business from scratch, in this episode. With over half a million views on his answers on drop shipping on Quora, and many detailed how-to guides for drop shipping, Zach Pinnell is a great guide for anyone interested in exploring drop shipping.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What is drop shipping

2. Steps to setting up a drop shipping business - how to find a product to sell, how to set up a sales page and how to market it

3. Common mistakes you can make and how to avoid them

4. Marketing ideas you can explore for your sales page

5. Tons and tons of resources

6. Interesting and challenging aspects of setting up and running a drop shipping business

7. How drop shipping can be a great source of passive side income, and can also become a big enough business of it own

Zach shares a number of great resources which you can check out on our website http://www.learneducatediscover.com/#!drop-shipping/uly8d , such as:

The headbands Sales page Zach talks about: http://artisanhabit.com/

Zach's blog where you can sign up for his free video series on how to set up a drop shipping business: http://blogtojob.com/build-profitable-dropshipping-sales-page/

Zach's Quora Profile: https://www.quora.com/profile/Zach-Pinnell

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Shane Zhao, Community Manager at OpenIDEO, describes in detail what the job of an Online Community Manager entails. Great listen for anyone interested in exploring roles in Tech and Startups, with an interest in working in Social Media, Brand Management, Content Strategy, etc.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What is online community management

2. How the community manager plays a key role in the success of challenges hosted by OpenIDEO

3. How the role of a community manager shifts between that of a "Dinner Host" and a "Teaching Assistant"

4. Typical day for a community manager

5. Tactics used by Shane to scale his role

6. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job

7. Further career paths for community managers

8. Advice and resources for interested candidates

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Morgan Miles, Senior Development Manager at PN Hoffman and currently working on The Wharf, one of the largest mixed use development projects on the east coast, describes in detail the job of someone in Real Estate Development.

Some of the areas we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What is Real Estate Development

2. Key stages in a typical Real Estate Development project

3. Impact of working on a big and important project on your career

4. The kind of issues someone in this space needs to work on

5. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job

6. How to recruit for a job in real estate

7. Useful resources for interested candidates

EDIT: PN Hoffman has been working on The Wharf for 10 yrs, not 11.

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Shoji Ueki, Head of Growth & Sales at OrderAhead, describes what working in Growth in Tech entails. Having worked as Director of User Growth at another Silicon Valley based company, Kiwi Inc., and now heading Growth at OrderAhead, Shoji shares a number of great examples and stories that illustrate this job very well.

Some of the areas that we touch upon in this episode include:

1. What someone in Growth works on

2. Thought process that someone in Growth might use to devise various Growth Strategies

3. Examples of growth campaigns that Shoji worked on - what worked, and what didn't

4. How OrderAhead tacked the 2-sided market problem

5. Building a "Growth Loop"

6. Why someone in Growth has to be very comfortable with experimentation

7. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job

8. How interested candidates can stand out when applying

9. Useful resources to learn more about this job

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