Startup Mindsets

Startup Mindsets

By Dan GonzalesBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Startup Mindsets episodes

  • Kenny Eliason | Personal Injury Tech for Lawyers/Clients

    Kenny Eliason shares funny career and life stories and what led him to start his company, Record.


    Learn more about The Client App That Legal Teams Love at https://www.recordclient.com

    Collaborate with us as a brand partner: https://www.passionfroot.me/startup-mindsets


    Our debut book, Startup Mindsets, is set to be published this November. Read all about it https://www.penguin.sg/book/startup-mindsets

    1 hr 11 min
  • A Doctor Serial Entrepreneur: Jon Baktari, MD

    Dr. Jonathan Baktari is the founder of E7 Health, U.S. Drug Test Centers, and eNational Testing. He was formerly the Medical Director of The Valley Health Systems, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Culinary Health Fund. He also served as clinical faculty for several medical schools, including the University of Nevada and Touro University.


    We landed a book deal with Penguin Random House SEA and I spoke a bit about my debut book this November.

    Enter your email for a chance at a free copy of Startup Mindsets: A Blueprint to Thrive in an Innovation Driven and Globally Connected World. Enter Email Here: ⁠https://www.startupmindsets.com/contact⁠
    Sponsors: --------------------------------------------------------------
    SHOUTOUT TO OUR SPONSOR: SHRED SAFE LLC is a Dallas Fort Worth based shredding company for businesses with paper shredding needs.
    VISIT: ⁠https://www.shredsafe.org⁠ OR DIAL 469-265-8142 FOR MORE INFORMATION


    Learn more about Jonathan and his businesses below

    https://www.baktarimd.com
    https://www.enationaltesting.com

    https://www.usdrugtestcenters.com

    https://www.e7health.com

    45 min
  • Resetting in Miami & Texas: Book Deal with Penguin Random House SEA

    I had the time of my life traveling to Miami and Houston. Here are my thoughts on the beauty of getting out of your hometown by enriching your mindset and energy.

    We landed a book deal with Penguin Random House SEA and I spoke a bit about my debut book this November.

    Enter your email for a chance at a free copy of Startup Mindsets: A Blueprint to Thrive in an Innovation Driven and Globally Connected World. Enter Email Here: https://www.startupmindsets.com/contact


    Sponsors: --------------------------------------------------------------

    SHOUTOUT TO OUR SPONSOR: SHRED SAFE LLC is a Dallas Fort Worth based shredding company for businesses with paper shredding needs.

    VISIT: https://www.shredsafe.org OR DIAL 469-265-8142 FOR MORE INFORMATION





    12 min
  • E127: Julia Enthoven: Getting Mentored by Carol Dweck, Quitting Google for Entrepreneurship, Raising a Series A, Growth Hacks

    Julia Enthoven is the Founder & CEO @ Kapwing, the startup that provides a new, collaborative platform for creating images, videos, and GIFs.

    Highlights:
    📝 GROWING UP IN DALLAS AND MOVING TO STANFORD & SAN FRANCISCO
    📝BEING MENTORED BY CAROL DWECK
    📝 INNOVATE ON DISTRIBUTION PROCESS
    📝 LEAVING GOOGLE TO START KAPWING
    📝 HOW KAPWING CREATES CONTENT IN LESS TIME
    📝 SEEING THEIR WATERMARK ON PRESIDENT ZELENSKY'S SPEECH VIDEO

    📝 The startup environment in 2019 vs 2024 and why it's harder to raise money

    📝Why content creators should keep creating, best restaurant in SF
    Give Kapwing a try for your next video edit: kapwing.com
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    SHOUTOUT TO OUR SPONSOR: SHRED SAFE LLC is a Dallas Fort Worth based shredding company for those with paper shredding needs.
    VISIT: https://www.shredsafe.org OR DIAL 469-265-8142 FOR MORE INFORMATION
    OUR BOOK: STARTUP MINDSETS: A BLUEPRINT TO THRIVE IN AN INNOVATION DRIVEN AND GLOBALLY CONNECTED WORLD is set to publish this year with Penguin Random House.
    To stay in the loop: subscribe to our email list: https://www.startupmindsets.com/contact


    57 min
  • Starting a Business is a Personal Finance Decision

    What up Startup Mindsets fans! I just had to come on here and spill my 2 cents about what it's actually like running a business and its affect on your personal finances.


    Last year as a side hustle we made about 2.5K from the podcast which is something to celebrate as an entrepreneur. A lot of people will judge you for starting a company but only you know how fulfilling and rewarding it truly is.


    Your business has costs and so do you! What are you willing to pay to grow? AKA what are you willing to sacrifice in exchange for what you want? Is there an asymmetrical ROI?

    How sustainable will it be? How much cash runway do you have?


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    https://youtube.com/@startupmindsets


    Thank you for listening be sure to subscribe!


    8 min
  • 150,000 Rides Later Circuit Cofounder Alex Esposito

    Dan catches up with one of the first startup founders he met while working as an analyst at VU Venture partners.


    Circuit is an all-electric, on-demand, local shuttle service. Download the app & Ride Circuit. https://www.ridecircuit.com

    Connect with Alex on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/espositoalexander


    Interested in sponsoring this podcast via strategic ad placement? Give us a holler: ⁠https://www.startupmindsets.com/contact


    Time Stamps

    2:45 What is Circuit? On demand shuttle service focused on small trips 

    10:00 Selling advertisers

    19:00 Operating and scaling a mobility operation, 

    20:00 Moving 150K passengers a month 

    21:25: Thoughts on autonomous cars 

    27:00 When was your first Uber ride?

    34:10: Getting first customer and starting the company

    35:10 testing out an idea for a company and keeping desk jobs until it made sense financially to leave

    Taking out 3 car notes to start the business 

    38:00 Closing first advertiser for 10K 

    44:00 Differences of working as an employee of a company vs being a founder


    Get in touch with Startup Mindsets/Dan. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners on our⁠ Substack email list⁠.

    Website: ⁠https://www.startupmindsets.com⁠

    Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/dan.podcasts⁠

    Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@startupmindsets⁠

    Linkedin:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangonzales1

    55 min
  • Ed Latimore | Secrets to Transform Your Mindset

    Ed Latimore is a writer, physicist, and Professional Heavyweight Boxer. He's been on the world's top podcasts such as Fresh n Fit, Knowledge Project, and Modern Wisdom. It was an honor to interview Ed and we're delighted to share our conversation.


    Ed's Website: https://edlatimore.com

    Learn how to control your mind, body, and emotions with my Stoic Street-Smarts Newsletter

    Follow Ed on X: https://x.com/EdLatimore


    Get in touch with Startup Mindsets/Dan. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners on our Substack email list.

    Website: https://www.startupmindsets.com

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dan.podcasts

    Youtube: https://youtube.com/@startupmindsets

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangonzales1


    Interested in sponsoring this podcast via strategic ad placement? Give us a holler: https://www.startupmindsets.com/contact


    Time Stamps

    (14:34) If you don’t take a risk, there’s no way to get tough. 

    (30:11) Approach 1,000 women to get with 100.

    Approach to a formidable situation. There’s an a symmetrical ROI

    (39:54) Getting quoted by Steven of Diary of CEO

    (40:32) Getting quoted by James Clear

    (46:32) Setting limitations, Why people do it

    (50:32) Era of humanity we’re in is way different

    (64:40) We only see the highlights not the downs on social media




    1 hr 10 min
  • Culture is how you do everything - Francis Lacoste the VPE Coach

    Francis Lacoste speaks about how he fuels growth for VPs of Engineering as a coach. Drawing from decades of startup experience at Heroku and Salesforce, Francis puts into practice operational principles that help teams scale past 20 employees.

    He coaches technical executives to become leaders who nurture amazing engineering cultures by helping CTOs transition from “building the product" into “building the org that builds the product”.


    Before coaching, he spent over twenty-five years in the open-source and cloud developer tools industry. He started as a software engineer working on open-source technology. He transitioned into engineering management at Canonical. Francis' experience with remote environment led him to Heroku where he built the remote engineering culture.

    In 2019, he realized that the engineering management path wasn't fulfilling to me, and moved into a role dedicated to supporting the engineering culture within the Salesforce Platform.- He's worked remotely for 24 years.
    Interested in promoting your product/service via sponsoring the podcast? Fill out this form.
    Learn more about at https://thevpe.coach


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      • 47 min
    • Exciting Updates from Rene Morkos and ALICE
      In this podcast episode, Dan catches up with Rene Morkos, CEO of Alice Technologies about his company's advancements in construction scheduling and simulation.
      Rene highlights the invention of a parametric scheduler and simulator, which now deploys 100 times faster, and the unexpected optimization of schedules with their software. The company has seen positive beta feedback and a shorter sales cycle.
      Morkos discusses targeting conferences for customer acquisition, maintaining company culture in a distributed team, and the complexities of scaling and managing a growing organization.
      The episode delves into Alice Technologies' impact on the construction industry and its commitment to continuous innovation.
      Entrepreneurs shouldn't value themselves based on how well a company performs.
      ALICE Core harnesses the power of optioneering to find the most efficient construction paths, all based on your existing P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud schedule.
      36 min
    • Attract Don't Sell: Bureau of Small Projects CEO David Gaz

      David Gaz is the founder and creative director behind several successful ventures, including the award-winning documentary "Kindness Is Contagious" and The Bureau of Small Projects, a branding agency dedicated to amplifying the impact of small businesses, startups, and nonprofits.

      The Bureau of Small Projects is a think tank of sorts. They're rated in the top 5 agencies in the Los Angeles area for branding and marketing.

      Their clients are not these well known brands but unknown organizations struggling to make a difference or well known people in their own right with noble missions, but not huge budgets, like Animal Planet Star Jackson Galaxy who has an incredible nonprofit to help at-risk shelter cats, or Bill Nye the Science Guy.
      The Bureau Of Small Projects started as an incubator within their old firm and it was so successful that it actually out-performed the parent company so in the spring of 2014, they spun The Bureau Of Small Projects off into its own company.
      Kindness is central to our brand values and our vision.

      Attract Don't Sell, Create attractors (15:30)

      Problems Scaling a company (18:30) A $100,000 Problem

      Learning how to Trust and Delegate to employees (25:18)

      Pricing a service: websites, marketing (30:00)

      You can't fail if you don't quit (43:00)

      How word of mouth of one client lead to AI startups becoming their clients (48:00)

      A film on luck (01:08:33)

      Hear how Kindness is Contagious

      Be a path, not a goal person




      1 hr 22 min

    About Startup Mindsets

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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!