Startup Mindsets

Startup Mindsets

By Dan GonzalesBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Startup Mindsets episodes

  • Dorothy Chang on starting Lynx Collective, Running Kode with Klossy, Investing in Bitcoin in 2012
    Our guest today is Dorothy Chang who has had an incredible career from venture capital, leading a successful nonprofit working with celebrities and billionaires to being an entrepreneur. She shares cool career stories and her take on being an entrepreneur, and lessons throughout her journey.
    She's the Co-Founder of Lynx Collective - Supporting startup founders, helping them make their dreams come true: https://www.lynxcollective.com
    Read their substack: https://lynxcollective.substack.com
    Previously, as the President of Kode With Klossy, she worked with the org to empower young women to break into the tech industry.
    Dorothy spent her career working in technology. Leading marketing and communications for category-leading technology startups and enterprises like Foursquare, Paxos, Brew Media.
    In 2012, she was the first woman to startup a VC fund (Liberty City Ventures) investing in the crypto/blockchain space. I continue to angel invest and advise tech companies - especially where I can be supportive of emerging technologies (Web3, metaverse, etc), female founders and social impact.
    Check out our new & improved website: startupmindsets.com
    56 min
  • #119 Customer Success 101: Luke Diaz CSM @ Optimizely, AppsFlyer, Clearbit, and now Appzen
    Luke Diaz has a passion for building and leading high-performance Customer Success orgs (CSM, AM, SA, Support) to drive 3
    outcomes: 1) accelerate product adoption, 2) drive quantifiable business impact for customers, and 3) achieve best-in-class gross & net retention.
    Customer Success is an underrated segment of startup success, it ensures users are getting value out of the product and even increases their customer value in an increasing revenue stream.
    Luke is also an angel investor and managing partner at DBT (Do Big Things) Ventures having invested in Kahawa 1893 coffee. If you're a coffee drinker use code: Luke at Kahawa's website at checkout for a discount. On the show, Luke shared a story about investing 100K into the company before they got into Trader Joe's and major grocery stores.
    Take a gander at their book summaries of over 40 business and self help books: https://www.dbtventures.com/library
    58 min
  • Julia Arpag: Laid Off to CEO of Aligned Recruiting
    Julia Arpag joins Startup Mindsets to detail her roller coaster career journey from working at SoulCycle to a career in recruiting. After she was laid off from her job she scrambled to get 6 job offers within a few months and decided to take one from Alanna the cofounder of Aligned Recruitment.
    Julia is also an English Major from Hamilton College and describes the best part of her job as seeing people land offers. Julia has successfully run challenging recruitment searches & led high-performing recruitment teams, with a laser focus on the tech industry. She prides herself on deeply understanding her clients so she can deliver best-in-class talent that matches their needs.
    Learn more at alignedrecruitment.com
    39 min
  • The Bar Brothers on Founding Jorny to Provide Personal Growth
    The Bar brothers, Eliran and Itamar, join the podcast today to talk about their company Jorny. They are on a mission to solve the existential crisis that is lack of meaning after retiring and entering a new phase in one's life.
    JORNY is the 1st global hospitality brand, dedicated to midlife growth. Our Growth Compass helps people assess and track their growth, identify their optimal growth “Jorny” and advance towards achieving a sense of purpose.
    Reinvent Retirement.Love your future.
    Join the first-ever global community focused on the second half of life. Built on connecting, exploring and thriving. Your adventure awaits.
    Brought to you by Changed: Download the Changed app and get closer to a debt free future. Automatically send spare change toward your student loans, credit cards, and mortgages.
    Click Here to sign up>>> https://changed.app.link/mmC3elk9hGb
    52 min
  • Being an LP in VC Firms: Alan Kadisch of InvestorMatch.ai
    The hidden hand in all venture capital funds are the limited partners who pledge capital to the fund manager. Today we interviewed, a long time angel investor, physician, and serial entrepreneur Dr. Alan Kadisch.
    Alan details what it is like being pitched by VCs for funding, his thoughts on how food contributes to our health, and why he created InvestorMatch.ai
    Brought to you by Changed: Now's the time to get rid of those pesky student loans. Changed rounds up your spare change from debit purchases and puts them directly toward your student loan payments automatically.
    Sign up & download Changed here: https://changed.app.link/mmC3elk9hGb
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    1 hr
  • Starting the Ice Cream Factory
    Shannon Imler started the Ice Cream Factory from scratch like how he makes the ice cream. From hand cranking out the batches to scaling this to an entire factory and product available in 48 states we hear the behind the scenes.
    They are on a mission to spread happiness to the world through high quality ice cream.
    Enjoy Ice Cream Factory's flavors delivered to your door or if you're a small mom and pop shop, add them to your offerings!
    https://www.icecreamfactoryco.com
    52 min
  • Raising 250K on Shark Tank with $800 in Revenue ~ Nick Sky Founder of Changed App

    We've got an insanely special podcast coming your way. Have you ever felt the burden of student loans or credit card debt? I know I have, those pesky loans won't go away easily but I have a solution for you.


    In this episode, we sit down with Nick Sky, CEO of Changed who shares insights, anecdotes, and invaluable tips on harnessing the power of entrepreneurship.


    Changed started as Dan and Nick were among the sea of graduates struggling with the burden of student loan repayment (43.6 million at latest count). To ease the pain, they created an app that simply rounds up everyday purchases and stashes it in an account. Such if you pay, say $3.65 for a grande Starbucks latte, the app adds and routes that 35 cents short of $4.00 into your account.

    Surprising how fast that loose change adds up to help pay off loans. (It was a “why didn’t I think of that” moment as I listened to their story.)


    Changed offered a winning combination of leveraging technology to help with education-related issues, a concept that totally resonated with me – and apparently also with Shark Mark Cuban. He granted the brothers $250,000 for a 25% equity stake plus his invaluable high-tech, high-profile expertise.


    Since then, Changed has racked up success to make a Shark proud: It’s sent over $25 million in payments, helping members save $50M+ in interest and shorten their repayment time by decades.


    Do Debt Differently: put more money back in your wallet with an app that helps you manage your savings and minimize your debt.

    https://www.gochanged.com



    52 min
  • Shaun Gold talks Jorny, Personal Meaning, and so much more!

    Shaun Gold returns to shed light on an exciting new startup, Jorny

    We talk more about personal meaning as it relates to entrepreneurship, social norms, how Jorny solves this problem for the 50 and up community.


    Some parts of the conversation I found valuable:

    • Find something that transcends the basic needs of your life and pushes you through the gauntlet
      • Makes you avoid the nuisances of entrepreneurship
        • Focus on what you're doing, it's about climbing your own personal mountain.
          • The feeling of I'm doing this either way and it's not going to matter if they say yes or no.
          • Community makes you healthier as you have people you can rely on
          • Having a WHY can get you through any HOW


            • 49 min
          • Investing in Frontier Tech/Ai with Creative Ventures' James Wang + Book News
            What's up Startup Mindsets!
            We have an exciting podcast with General Partner, of Creative Ventures, James Wang. He's held a number of impressive roles working at Bridgewater Associates, Google X, to his own sex tech startup, and now as a venture capitalist.
            Creative Ventures invests in early-stage deep tech companies, solving humanity’s most critical crises—rising healthcare costs, climate change, and labor shortages.
            Learn more about Creative Ventures at https://creativeventures.vc
            58 min
          • From Grassroots to Greatness | Lloyed Lobo (Wall Street Journal Bestseller)
            Dan welcomes entrepreneur, author, and certified 🎲 roller, Lloyed Lobo, drops pearls of wisdom on the podcast, I guarantee you it's worth a listen. Lloyed's achieved success in Silicon Valley by bootstrapping Boast.ai
            His unique background as a young refugee from Kuwait during the Gulf War has shaped his perspective on community-led growth. 
            Some concepts to think about:
            🤔Who are you going through this life/business journey with?
            💭What is your definition of success?
            📣Let us know, we've got a worksheet and want to hear from you!
            Type your definition of success on this form!
            🔑 Points
            How much to pay yourself as a startup founder
            Coming together from the ground up and leveraging people to go from nothing to impact while dealing with risk and uncertainty
            True leaders instill purpose, not just goals
            Going from engineer to cold-caller to startup founder
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            Connect with Lloyed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyedlobo/
            Buy Lloyed’s new book, 'From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth' (Top New Release on Amazon) at  https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Greatness-Iconic-Brands-Community-ebook/dp/B0CFR8F7PH
            57 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!