Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Founder Formula
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Founder Formula
By Trace3Technology
The Founder Formula episodes
- Jake Knapp - Founder of Design Sprint
Today’s guest is Jake Knapp, Designer, Advisor, & New York Times Best Selling Author, and someone who cut his teeth on Microsoft Encarta.
Who remembers Microsoft Encarta? For those of you under the age of 30, it was essentially Wikipedia on a CD-ROM. You’d buy it, and then at the end of the year, it would get updated and you’d have to buy it again.
Stick around to hear what he took away from Google and Microsoft and learn how to write a book on the side while still being amazing at your job.Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favorite podcast platform or Trace3.com.
42 min - Jake Knapp, Founder Design Sprint - Why You Need Design Sprint
Today’s guest is Jake Knapp, Designer, Advisor, & New York Times Best Selling Author, and someone who cut his teeth on Microsoft Encarta.
Who remembers Microsoft Encarta?
Show of hands.
For those of you under the age of 30, it was essentially Wikipedia on a CD-ROM. You’d buy it, and then at the end of the year, it would get updated and you’d have to buy it again.
On this episode we talked about:
- The theory behind The Sprint
- What he took away from Google and Microsoft
- Success stories from companies that have embraced The Sprint.
- How to write a book on the side while still being amazing at your job.
Listen to this and all of the Founder Formula episodes at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
42 min - Benjamin Hindman - Co-founder of D2iQ
Today’s guest is Elik Eizenberg, Founder & CTO at BigPanda. On this episode, he speaks with us about his enduring love for data algorithms.
The more you think about founding a company, the more you don’t want to do it. At some point, you’ll have to stop analyzing all the reasons not to and get started.Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favorite podcast platform or Trace3.com.
37 min - Benjamin Hindman, Co-founder D2iQ - A Great and Terrible Idea: Founding a Company With High School Buddies
Today’s guest is Benjamin Hindman, Co-Founder of D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere).
After founding a company with buddies from high school, would you undertake a CEO search and an entire company rebrand? If you did, here’s what you’d learn:
- Why founding a company with high school buddies is a great and terrible idea
- What it’s like to search for a CEO
- The process of rebranding
Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
44 min - Nir Polak - Co-founder of Exabeam
Today’s guest is Nir Polak, Cofounder and CEO at Exabeam.
Join us as we discuss design partners and how they’re superior to beta testers, benefits of refining your product market fit early in your to market process, creating a heat map of scaling communications, and finding investors.
Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favorite podcast platform or Trace3.com.
37 min - Nir Polak, Co-founder Exabeam - Embracing Design Partners Rather Beta Testers
Today’s guest is Nir Polak, Cofounder and CEO at Exabeam.
Founders of tech solutions should sign design partners. Not beta testers.
What we talked about:
- Design partners and how they’re superior to beta testers
- Benefits of refining your product market fit early in your to market process
- Creating a heat map of scaling communications
- Finding investors
Find this episode and more Founder Formula at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
37 min - Elik Eizenberg - Co-founder of BigPanda
Today’s guest is Elik Eizenberg, Founder & CTO at BigPanda. On this episode, he speaks with us about his enduring love for data algorithms.
The more you think about founding a company, the more you don’t want to do it. At some point, you’ll have to stop analyzing all the reasons not to and get started.Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favorite podcast platform or Trace3.com.
35 min - Elik Eizenberg, Co-founder BigPanda - Three Traits of People You Want to Found a Company Alongside
Today’s guest is Elik Eizenberg, Founder & CTO at BigPanda. On this episode, he speaks with us about his enduring love for data algorithms.
The more you think about founding a company, the more you don’t want to do it. At some point, you’ll have to stop analyzing all the reasons not to and get started.
What we talked about:
- Why analysis will keep you from founding your company
- The kind of people you want to found a company with
- Elik’s process of finding his target market
- Starting with mockups
- Why “Panda”
To hear this episode and more like it, subscribe to The Founder Formula on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or tune in on our website.
35 min - Jyoti Bansal - Co-founder of Harness
Today's guest is Jyoti Bansal, serial entrepreneur, tech visionary, and co-founder of Harness. As an entrepreneur, the hardest part about taking a chance on an idea often isn’t when the idea doesn’t work out. It’s when it does work out. Jyoti was kind enough to fill us in on what it takes to prove your startup plan is worth a billion dollars.
In this episode, we cover being a first-time founder, the toll entrepreneurship can have on families, and solidifying a convincing pitch for VCs.Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your favorite podcast platform or Trace3.com.
39 min - Jyoti Bansal, Co-founder Harness - Three Ways to Prove to VCs you’re a Billion-Dollar Company
Today's guest is Jyoti Bansal, serial entrepreneur, tech visionary, and co-founder of Harness. As an entrepreneur, the hardest part about taking a chance on an idea often isn’t when the idea doesn’t work out. It’s when it does work out. Jyoti was kind enough to fill us in on what it takes to prove your startup plan is worth a billion dollars.
In this episode, we cover:
- Being a first-time founder
- The toll entrepreneurship can have on families
- Solidifying a convincing pitch for VCs
To hear this episode and more like it, subscribe to The Founder Formula on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or tune in on our website.
39 min
About The Founder Formula
From the publisher's feed
Every passing moment, a tech startup disrupts life as it was. In humanity’s pursuit of faster, better, and higher capacity, fresh companies are tackling old problems and modern complexities, all…
while pushing the bounds of the future.
The Founder Formula brings you in—behind the curtains and inside the minds of executives at Start-ups that have traditionally only been found in Silicon Valley—and the Venture Capital Firms that fund them.
The Founder Formula brings you in—behind the curtains and inside the minds of executives at Start-ups that have traditionally only been found in Silicon Valley—and the Venture Capital Firms that fund them.