Project A Podcast

Rainer Berak, Operating Partner at Project A has worked with plenty of founders over the past years. And thanks to Project A's network, he's in touch with hundreds more. Every founder and every company is different, but all startups have to tackle the same 5 topics if they want to build a successful company: Growth, Tech, People, Data and ESG.

Rainer is asking a standard set of 42 questions to all of them. Their answers are as individual as they are, but together they provide great guidance for all those who have decided to be entrepreneurs themselves.

This week's guest: Pia Frey, Co-founder at Opinary

Rainer Berak, Operating Partner at Project A has worked with plenty of founders over the past years. And thanks to Project A's network, he's in touch with hundreds more. Every founder and every company is different, but all startups have to tackle the same 5 topics if they want to build a successful company: Growth, Tech, People, Data and ESG. Rainer is asking a standard set of 42 questions to all of them. Their answers are as individual as they are, but together they provide great guidance for all those who have decided to be entrepreneurs themselves. Listen in, become part of this exchange and who knows: maybe you'll be next to share your 42 answers.

In our latest podcast episode Florian Heinemann and Rainer Berak talk with Project A's VP Talent Acquisition, Andrea Althaus about career opportunities for young talents. How do I make a career in management? Does it require more generalist or specialist capabilities nowadays? They also discuss how you can benefit from startup experience and why operational work can be useful for a career in management.

In this episode we'll discuss how business and technology changes the art market and what NFTs have to do with it. Tamer's guest for this topic is Kerstin Gold, Art Market Strategy Consultant and co-founder of the Art+Tech Report. Learn more about the forces and the reactions of an industry that is changing rapidly.

Fabian Furtmeier and Dominik Unützer are co-founders of Amazd, a personal conversational storefront which set out to overcome the current flaws of today's online customer journey. Often customers have to spend time on tedious research, sifting through incomplete product information to then be faced with the sheer agony of choice. Amazd helps customers make better purchase decisions by virtually connecting them with real human product experts. Listen to their story and how they plan to change the online shopping experience with Amazd for good.

In this episode Uwe and Leo chat about various topics, including Leo's personal journey into VC, the state of Crypto in 2021, why Project A's is doubling down on data infrastructure, investing in Open Source, competing against US investors in Europe and many others.

This episode is a conversation with Amber Riedl, founder of Makerist - a DIY marketplace - on how she found her first 100 true fans and last year exited the company to fabfab. Amber guides us through her journey from growth hacking to entering new markets and how the pandemic shaped what she is focusing on today.

In this episode we'll discuss the process of creating a product strategy - step by step. Guests are Klaus-Peter Frahm and Michael Schieben, creator of the product field and field.so and experts when it comes to product strategies.

Perhaps your startup is growing too fast and you can't keep up. Maybe you're trying to throw together an MVP on the cheap. Whatever your situation, might have considered outsourcing some development work. But projects can go off the rails if you don't plan properly. We know both sides of the story because we outsource our developers too. So who better to ask about outsourcing than Project A's own CTO, Stephan Schulze?