Startup Mindsets

Startup Mindsets

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Startup Mindsets episodes

  • Rene Morkos: CEO/Founder of ALICE Technologies & Professor at Stanford

    For this episode, we bring on Rene Morkos founder of ALICE an AI construction simulation and optimization software.  The value Alice brings to construction planners is how they are able to simulate over a million ways to build a building.  We talk in depth about Rene attaining a PhD in construction management at Stanford, creating Alice from his thesis, and life as a professor at Stanford. Meaningfully we found out what kept Rene pushing forward often spending 20 hour days working on getting a PhD and after hearing 300 rejections from potential investors. Today, Alice is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Merus Capital to name a few. Lastly we learn that Rene's startup mindset is pushing the boundaries and finding out when his breaking point would be.  Leave us a review and share us on social!

    44 min
  • Creating the Kayak for Cars, TopMarq's Founder: Quinn Osha
    Selling and buying a car tends to be a hassle nowadays especially when you're trying to get the best bargain. Enter TopMarq a new way to compare the top car websites (Carvana, Carmax etc.) while listing or shopping. CEO of TopMarq, Quinn Osha, joins us on today's podcast to talk about what he's building as a solo founder. 
    Quinn takes us through his experience graduating CalTech and learning how to code on his own, where he gets the ability to tackle new obstacles in business such as learning marketing for the first time, raising funding, and championing progress over perfection.
    38 min
  • Revolutionizing Personal Fitness: Matt Spettel CEO/Founder of CoPilot
    Matt Spettel cofounded CoPilot while he was in undergrad at Carnegie Mellon. In this episode, we hear how it was balancing college and running a startup, how Matt met his cofounder Gabe, overcoming age bias, and building the company to what it is today. 
    We learn about his route to entrepreneurship as a kid who would make his own video games and sell them at school to pretending to be a personal trainer. Fresh off a 6M Series A Round led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with Maven Ventures and TenOneTen Ventures participating.
    Give CoPilot a try!
    38 min
  • Product Management for Startups: Karthik Suresh CoFounder of Ignition

    Karthik Suresh joins us for this episode of Startup Mindsets. Having a career that's varied from being an engineer on Wall Street writing code for algorithmic trading he wanted to pursue a profession that meant more than making money. This lead to an eventual career in product management having worked for Facebook as a product manager before leaving to start Ignition. Listen to learn how early stage product management differs from large corporations and why having more flexibility plays to your advantage as an entrepreneur. 

    Ignition makes launching a product easier by bringing different times together. 

    Go check Ignition out on Product Hunt and see how they can benefit your next launch! 

    Startup Mindsets is now a Bench.co Partner!!! Use our referral link for 30% off your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.

    38 min
  • Ferret: Matt Heisie Head of Product

    The global risk management market is 17 billion and expected to grow exponentially by 2027.  Ferret.ai runs a background check that ensures business is done with the right people to deter being taken advantage of. We hear about his experience at UCLA Anderson and how what's learned in the classroom gets applied directly into the startup the next day then brought back to class to make an ultimate feedback loop.  Matt tells stories of when deals have gone wrong and what Ferret can do to prevent this from happening.

    34 min
  • From Nanny to CEO of WEVE Acceleration: Frances Simowitz
    Frances Simowitz is CEO of Weve Acceleration formerly Numa New York. In on today's episode we learn about New York City's vibrant entrepreneurial scene. Moreover, we learn about Frances switching career goals from wanting to be an opera singer to a bona fide leader in bolstering the startup New York scene for international companies looking for a presence in the US.  Their New York office leverages New York’s thriving innovation ecosystem  to deliver immersive educational programming for startups and  multinational corporations. They offer virtual and in person startup acceleration programs to support US market entry of early and growth-stage international companies. (18:20) Mindset is the limiting factor (24:00) Proving doubters wrong (32:00) Advice to 20 year old self (35:00) Frances' Startup Mindset
    Startup Mindsets is now partners with Bench Accounting!!! Use our referral link for 30% off your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.
    40 min
  • Texas Entrepreneurial Network with Hall T. Martin
    Hall Martin a long time angel investor and creator of Texas Entrepreneurial Network aka Ten Capital joins Startup Mindsets to tell us about his experiences being alongside new ideas and startups for decades. Today TEN Capital helps startups and  growth companies everywhere raise venture funding.  To date TEN Capital has helped entrepreneurs who have raised over $644M.  
    Shortcuts
    22:30 Being a Professor at University of Texas, Austin
    25:50 Is Entrepreneurship born or made?
    27:00 Trying to be innovative in corporations
    29:00 It's the "WHY" that gets you through
    31:00 Startup Team Skills
    34:50 Picking out the white spaces and having a technology roadmap 
    Startup Mindsets is now a Bench.co Partner!!! Use our referral link for 30% your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.
    40 min
  • Jurny's Journey: Luca Zambello Founder/CEO

    What's up Startup Mindsets Fam! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, in the spirit of hospitality we have Luca Zambello, Founder of Jurny on the show today. Jurny is a hospitality tech company offering SaaS-based management solutions for the modern traveler. We discuss what it was like during Jurny's most difficult months in operation during covid and how they made it through. 

    Luca discusses growing up in Italy and moving to attend UCLA, what inspired him to start Jurny, and how he build the company without coding himself. Jurny's raised over 10M USD with notable VCs such as Mucker Capital.

    Be sure to try them out the next time you're looking for a vacation!!!

    Startup Mindsets is now a Bench.co Partner!!! Use our referral link for 30% your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.

    36 min
  • Dermatology Tech in Germany: Dr. Alice Martin, Founder of Dermanosatic
    Dr. Alice Martin is the founder of Dermanostic and a physician in Germany.  Alice tells her story of changing her mindset to become an entrepreneur as she says, “Physicians don't take many risks” because risk in healthcare can mean death while risk is a common ingredient when founding a startup.  We hear about their experiences filming TikToks, recruiting a software engineer, and their mission to digitize dermatology. If you're in Germany, be sure to download their app on the Apple Store.  
    Startup Mindsets is partnering with Bench Accounting for startups!!! Use our referral link for 30% off your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.
    33 min
  • Coverr Founder/CEO Kobina Ansah
    Our guest, Kobina Asah joins us from Ithaca, New York to talk about his startup, Coverr and how it provides independent contractors stability. Currently 50M+ Gig Economy workers  operate in the United States and represent one of the fastest growing  labor segments, yet have difficulty accessing business financing due to  their lack of standard underwriting criteria. COVERR evaluates  alternative and traditional factors to provide contractors with capital  to help stabilize earnings volatility or small emergencies
    (2:45) What is Coverr? (4:00) Inspiration to build Coverr. (7:00) Commentary on why the gig economy experienced growth. (15:50) First experiences with entrepreneurship
    Startup Mindsets is now a Bench.co Partner!!! Use our referral code for 30% your businesses' book keeping services for the first 3 months.
    28 min

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Welcome to Startup Mindsets! Dan Gonzales is your host! Each week, we'll dive into how founders across technology and innovation leaders think about running their business and why entrepreneurship is important in today's world. Subscribe & discover your Startup Mindset today!