Startup Garage

By Startup Garage

This series of podcast is about starting up. The ups, the downs, the burns, the chills, everything. Unplugged.

Hosted by Vaibhav Gogia.... more

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February 05, 2021 #31 What Winning Looks Like (Part 1) Ft. Robert Hussey, Co-Founder, POP Radio
Worked on the Wall Street in the 70s. Started his own company in the 80s. Went public on NASDAQ. Got acquired. The guest for our episode today is a prolific marketing genius and the co-founder of POP Radio, Robert Hussey (Bob). This is the first part of his story, filled with brave decisions and extraordinary achievements. We talk about it all: his early life, career, startup and IPOing!
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57min
February 01, 2021 #30 Ethical Leadership Ft. Roberto Croci, Managing Director, Microsoft For Startups
Roberto Croci is the Managing Director at Microsoft For Startups, MENA region. He has previously served as Regional Head, Google Marketing Platforms - EMEA Emerging Markets (Middle East, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Africa) and has been an advisor to startups since 2008.
Roberto is one of those leaders who has worked at the cusp of startups and corporates for years, and has been driving innovation in the emerging markets. He often talks about ethical leadership, human-centred approach to development and the power of humility, and so in this episode, we explore these topics, along with how these are practiced at Microsoft.
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34min
January 24, 2021 #29 Out-Innovating Ft. Alex Lazarow, VC, Cathay Innovation
Alexandre Lazarow is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation, a global firm that invests across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America in a range of startups including Chime, Neon, Terminal, FinAccel, Zola, Rensource, Paga among others.
Previously, Alex worked with Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm. He is also the author of 'Out-Innovate' published by Harvard Business Review Press in April 2020, where he talks about how global entrepreneurs are re-writing the rules of starting up.
In this episode, we dive deeper into Alex's experiences of investing in global startups, we talk about building unicorns vs. camels and some facets of how entrepreneurs can "out-innovate".
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29min
January 17, 2021 #Breakdown3: The Marshmallow Challenge
The Marshmallow Challenge is a team-based design challenge invented by Peter Skillman which has been a phenomenal experiment in behavioural psychology in groups. The challenge reveals a lot about teamwork and curiosity.
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3min
January 15, 2021 #28 Raising Money As VCs Ft. Charlie O'Donnell, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Our guest for this episode is Charlie O'Donnell. Charlie is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. The fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn - where Charlie was born and raised. Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of The Wing, Canary, Hungryroot, Ample Hills, Clubhouse, Imagen, and goTenna among others. Charlie has a reputation for picking out great companies really early on, as he did with Twitter and Foursquare. He is one of only a dozen individuals to be named to Business Insider's 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech five or more times.
In this episode we talk to him about early 2000s, the dotcom crash, his experiences of raising money as a first-time fund manager and how he pitched to Limited Partners (LPs). This episode can be a great resource to listeners looking to break into the VC industry.
You can read more about Charlie, here and also read his blog: This Is Going To Be Big.
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44min
January 14, 2021 #Breakdown2: First Mover (Dis)Advantage
Is being first in the market always an advantage? Or is there something about second movers since they have been wildly successful? In this short episode, we explore the long-debated idea with a short story of Red Bull.
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3min
January 09, 2021 #27 Fund Of Funds Ft. Mohammad Mustafa, Chairman, SIDBI
For the second episode of season 2, we have invited Mr. Mohammad Mustafa (IAS), Chairman and Managing Director, SIDBI. He has been leading charge of SIDBI's venture capital push in India by acting as a fund of funds to the country's top VCs. His recent book, Demystifying Venture Capital is a fresh take on how the industry is structured, and also has an unbiased viewpoint with chapters like 'ethics in venture capital'. In this episode, we chat with him about his book, about debt vs. equity vs. bootstrapping and about failures in the VC industry.
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26min
January 07, 2021 #Breakdown1: Vanity Metrics & Sanity Metrics
In this short, 5-min episode of Breakdown by Startup Garage, Vishal and Vaibhav chat about why metrics are important for founders, what are vanity metrics and how to avoid the trap.
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6min
January 03, 2021 #26 The CEO Factory Ft. Sudhir Sitapati, Executive Director, HUL
Did you know: over 400 CEOs in India are ex-HUL?
For the pilot episode of season 2, we have invited over Sudhir Sitapati, Executive Director, Hindustan Unilever.
Sudhir has spent over 20 years at HUL, wearing multiple hats across categories, functions and regions and has recently distilled his knowledge and observations of all these years into 'The CEO Factory', his first book.
In this episode, Ayush and Vaibhav co-host Sudhir and talk about his book, HUL's culture of building CEOs, about decision making and leadership. Tune in to hear the full episode.
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37min
November 19, 2020 #25 Investing in SE Asia Ft. Jeffrey Paine, Partner, Golden Gate Ventures
Jeffrey Paine is one of the most active startup ecosystem leaders in Asia. He is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, one of the earliest and most active VC funds of South-East Asia. He also started the Singapore chapter of Founder Institute. In this episode, we chat with him about raising money from LPs, about what makes south-east Asian markets different and about horizontal vs. vertical expansion in startups.
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41min

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How many episodes does Startup Garage have?

The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.