School of Splice

This season, we're talking about issues that startup founders and creators in the School of Splice mentorship program faced on their journeys. This episode is about Duuya Baatar. Duuya runs the Nest Center for Journalism Innovation and Development, that helps you support media in Mongolia.

How do you even begin building out a website for your startup? Don't just tell people what you do — tell them what you do for them. And how do you get your website to do that? By thinking of it as an employee with a job description — and a set of goals to hit. Here's how Duuya and Nest did it.

Also starring Talha Ahad of The Centrum Media in Pakistan, and Jenny Hsu.

Hosted by Rishad Patel and Alan Soon. Produced by the amazing people at Lawson Media.

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School of Splice

This season, we're talking about issues that startup founders and creators in the School of Splice mentorship program faced on their journeys. This episode features Bhrikuti Rai. Bhrikuti is one of two co-founders of Boju Bajai, a Nepali podcast about politics, media, and feminism in South Asia.

Going into the School of Splice, Bhrikuti had a goal of wanting to connect podcasters across Nepal to help improve the local podcast industry, and to tap into an important growing community. So they decided to build All Ears, an online podcast festival. Here's how they did it.

Hosted by Rishad Patel and Alan Soon. Produced by the lovely people at Lawson Media.

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Listen to the Boju Bajai podcast

See the Boju Bajai website

School of Splice

This season, we're talking about the issues that founders in the School of Splice mentorship program have faced on their journeys. In this episode, we're focusing on Zurairi A. R., the news editor at Malay Mail, Malaysia's oldest newspaper. 

Zurairi wanted to figure out a way of explaining what was going on in parliament to Malaysians, and decided to fill that gap with a newsletter. He teamed up with his assigned School of Splice coach, Pankaj Mishra, to work through building it out.

Hosted by Alan Soon and Rishad Patel. Produced by the mighty folks at Lawson Media.

Connect with Zurairi on LinkedIn

Connect with Pankaj Mishra on LinkedIn

School of Splice

This season, we're talking about the issues that founders in the School of Splice mentorship program have faced. Let's hear from Nabilah Said, who was editor of ArtsEquator in Singapore. She wanted to find out what her community wanted from their media organisation so they could serve them better.

Nabilah's coach Jane Mahoney had some great advice around thinking about what products to build next. Most importantly, does it meet an audience need? (Hint: what your audience needs from you is very rarely content.)

Hosted by Rishad Patel and Alan Soon. Produced by the fine folks at Lawson Media.

Connect with Nabilah Said on LinkedIn

Connect with Jane Mahoney on LinkedIn

This season, we're talking about the issues that founders in the program have faced. We hear from Jason Hendriks, who's trying to grow the Meld Community into a thriving non-profit media around international students in Melbourne. Jason and his coach Jane Mahoney discuss how to take a community-first approach to product development.

Notes

Meld Community

Connect with Jason Hendriks

Connect with Jane Mahoney

School of Splice

Welcome to Season 2 of School of Splice.

In this season, we're focusing on some of the issues that founders in the program have faced. We're learning from Annelis Putri, an entrepreneur and consultant who's putting together Indonesia Business Post, a media company that connects businesses around the world with investment opportunities in Indonesia. She talks with her coach Ross Settles about how to go about raising her first money.

Notes

Y Combinator's tips on how to build a seed round pitch deck

Lion Publishers has ideas to help you improve on your fundraising

Understanding Series A, B, C

At the School of Splice, we're being more specific with the training. Folks who've signed up have very specific needs, eg. listening to their community, branding the mission, or learning how to start something as simple as a newsletter. Your feedback told us we needed to do that better. 

Also, we've waived the fees — and we're putting all of this content out publicly. It'll allow us to get this into the hands (ears?) of more people so that we can then, in turn, learn from all of you. 

Season Two is the School of You.

More about School of Splice:
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http://splicemedia.com/

There are no people problems — only process problems. If you have the right structure, right workflows, and the right processes in place, you'll be able to build a strong and effective team. In this School of Splice lesson, we'll talk about how to go about building a great team with the right hiring, retention and training strategies.

Knowledge and insights from Kunda Dixit (Nepali Times), Ross Settles (University of Hong Kong), Padma Priya (Suno India), Roby Alampay (PumaPodcast), Jakub Górnicki (Outriders), Jane Mahoney (Private Media), Yan Oak (Thibi), Khalil Majeed (Faqcheck Lab), and Ian Yee (The Fourth).

Hosted by Alan Soon and Rishad Patel, and produced by those fabulous folks at Lawson Media.   

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The whole point to operations is to create something. And to do it more efficiently, more accurately, and more consistently over and over again. Welcome to the fourth School of Splice foundation lesson. This one is all about building the right workflows for the outcome you're looking for.

Knowledge and insights from Talha Ahad (The Centrum Media), Janie Octia (Facebook), Shubangha Pandey (Himal Southasian), and Darshini Kandasamy (Between The Lines).

Hosted by Alan Soon and Rishad Patel, and produced by the nice folks at Lawson Media.   

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2021 will require you to go deeper in building a direct relationship with your users or audiences, but with your true believers. Unless you’re able to capture attention and build a relationship, you can’t monetize, and therefore, you don’t have a business. 

Hosted by Alan Soon and Rishad Patel, and produced by the nice folks at Lawson Media.   

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