Startup Mindsets

In this episode of Startup Mindsets, we sit down with Ali Greene, co-author of Remote Works, to discuss the future of work and the ubiquity of remote workforces.

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many companies to quickly adopt remote work, Ali shares her insights on how companies can adapt and thrive in this new environment. We dive into the benefits and challenges of remote work from both employer and employee perspectives, including how to maintain company culture and collaboration among remote teams, staying productive and setting boundaries while working remotely.

Tune in to hear Ali's expert insights and learn how to navigate the new world of remote work.

Purchase Remote Works Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Works-Managing-Freedom-Flexibility/dp/1523003316

This week on the Startup Mindsets, we'll meet Daniil and David Liberman, two brothers who share a passion for innovation. The Liberman brothers were born and raised in Russia, they moved to the United States in 2014 to pursue their business dreams. In this episode, we focus on their most recent venture creating a way to buy shares in people called Humanism and working on their own startup, Product Science. 

We also touch on working at Snap. as product designers where they helped introduce avatars, bitmoji, and animation.

 Watch the full episode to gain insight into some of their favorite features including filters and lenses as well as their contribution in pushing the boundaries of Augmented Reality by creating experiences that blend the real world with digital elements.

Time Stamps:

(1:26) Doing business with family

(5:10) Creating Kernel AR which was sold to Snap. Inc for 40M USD

(10:57) Working as Product Directors at Snap.

(24:07) Working with their family members on multiple companies

(26:09) Letting people buy shares in other people via Humanism

(36:58) Product Science

How can exerting energy make you feel more energized? This weeks exciting guest, Simon Alexander Ong, answers this question and discusses other interesting topics on the Startup Mindsets Pod.

Simon Alexander Ong is an award winning life coach and author of the book Energize published by Penguin UK. 

Today, we spoke about why energy is everything, key points Simon made in his book, and fascinating ideas 💡 that have to do with our Energy. Some of the important topics we discussed were: How does working out give us more energy, when we are lazy to start working out in the first place?  How do you recommend people get out of energetic blocks or manage their energy properly? Why people feel exhausted and what they can do to feel energized. The journey from heads to our hearts Selling yourself to yourself before you can sell to others 

Grab your copy of the book Energize: https://www.amazon.com/Energize-Find-Spark-Achieve-Better-ebook/dp/B094F5D3BZ

I first met Eric in 2019 when I was a venture capitalist at VU Venture Partners at the Salesforce Tower in SF. I thought the concept of owning a home in the Bay Area was so farfetched that there had to be a way to innovate and create a solution. Eric displayed founder tenacity climbing up San Francisco hills just to pitch us and today we catch up and learn about how Cher is changing lives. 

In this podcast, Eric talks about what led him to create this company and what drives him to continue. We also talk about taking out a credit card to fund your company and hear how Cher had helped someone living in a van become a homeowner in the town of Long Beach. 

Find out more about Cher at cher.app

Everyone can be a homeowner. Shared homeownership now made affordable and simple.

I know kung fu moments (8:21)

 Experience is a Liability   

The Obsessive Pursuit that characterized the months before Bill Bowerman's waffle maker moment for Nike (13:55)

Keep a bug list (15:50 )  

Experience is a liability (19:50)

Why Jeremy wrote a book (23:17)

Chat GPT Onfolio’s Yury Byalik on remote work, SEO, and adopting new technology in business

Happy New Year! 🎊 Ghaz aka Ghazaleh joins Startup Mindsets to discuss how her 2 decades in public health traveling the 🌍 left her burnt out and seeking a new career as a personal coach. 

We talk best country chips, how one can get involved in humanitarian efforts, and what it’s like working in Paris. 

As the Founder of 9 Paths Development,  Dr. Ghaz Samandari, PhD is a Health Behavior Scientist, ICF-certified  Integral Development coach and trauma-informed practitioner who has  worked with communities of women, government leaders and a variety of  organizations in over 30 different countries. With  a PhD in Health Behavior Science and extensive experience in the  Humanitarian field, Dr. Ghaz Samandari combines health science and  evaluation methods with her training in leadership coaching to provide  whole-system solutions for organizations seeking to make an impact. How the Humanitarian field can help tech  companies build inclusive workplace cultures for everyone to thrive.  (Dr. Ghaz Samandari has worked in 30 countries across the world as a  Health Behaviour Scientist supporting teams on the ground helping  rebuild communities after war, famine

Aloha! (Recorded from Waikiki)

Innovation in a highly regulated market such as cannabis can be tricky to navigate. Enter, Drop, the software solution that empowers cannabis businesses to  deliver more and manage less. They provide you with the essential tools to  take control of your business – from delivery logistics to powerful  marketing and inventory management.

Vanessa  previously co-founded Greenlight Technologies, a leading order-ahead and  digital loyalty software in the cannabis industry, which was acquired  in 2018. She’s been recognized by Forbes Next 1000, Marijuana Venture 40 under 40, and is a part of the Rolling Stone Culture Council.

Key Points

Choosing Entrepreneurship over college in a Filipino family

How entrepreneurship led to getting a better job

Brendon Baker joins us from Canberra, Australia to talk about his debut book, Valuable Change.  He is the Founder and Managing Director of Valuable Change Co, a management agency that helps leaders keep transformation simple and ensure it pays off. Their clients include high-growth tech firms, well-known Australian household names like AGL and South32, and all three levels of the Australian Government. For many organizations, change often involves long meetings, lots of reports, confusion about the goals, and worry about how long it will take and cost. These complexities make 85% of change initiatives in companies worthless.

Brendon has 12+ years experience in change management and believes the profession has over-complicated change management approaches. He has taken it upon himself to simplify it and in doing so help change leaders drive real value.

We discuss what every change leader needs to know to ensure any change they lead delivers the desired results, and what valuable change looks like.

Scientifically-backed momentum strategies that change leaders can use to accelerate their change success. In particular, he could talk about an idea called the momentum path that enables leaders to diagnose the current momentum level of each of their team members.

Brendon's tips on how to generate phenomenal change buy-in at your organization.

💡Valuable Takeaways 👇

Reward - Pain = Decision Humans do not like pain, learn how to maximize the reward and minimize the pain to make decisions easier.  Change comes in ripples.  

Follow Brendon's work on Linkedin and his website. 

Purchase the Valuable Change Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Valuable-Change-What-Need-Ensure/dp/064512270X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Confetti brings teams together via virtual events and team bonding experiences like no one else. Boasting a customer list of Netflix, Google, Spotify, Linkedin and Caterpillar, Confetti re imagines team togetherness and adds value to organizations in intangible ways.  Lee tells us the majority of their customer base comes from inbound interest. 

We hear Lee's experience fundraising up to series A with Correlation Ventures participating. Lee tells us what it’s been like scaling this operation, her mindset as an entrepreneur, and so much more. Confetti's platform allows companies to seamlessly  book fully-customizable, multi-vendor virtual gatherings for their  employees in just a few clicks. From online games and hosted game shows  to shippable experiences, our platform contains dozens of interesting  and unique virtual experiences to support our customers’ desire for  fresh and fun ideas. 

Their platform is already loved by 2,500+ companies such as Google, Facebook, Spotify, and many other startups, firms and agencies