The Seed – The Startup Journey

Starting a company is not easy.

In fact, Eric wanted to give up many, MANY times. The most recent? The pandemic rendered his event-booking platform useless and made him lose 5-figures worth of jobs.  

How did Eric keep it together? By maintaining his focus on one goal – to create something EPIC that fosters human connections.   

Today we’ll be chatting with the founder of Epic Dialogue – Eric Sim. Eric started his startup journey back when he was still in school as a design student. From freelancing to getting clients for his own design studio, Eric is now running Epic Dialogue, a social impact marketing agency based in Singapore!

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Here's another episode of Startup Droplet 🌱, where we share our takeaways from chatting with our amazing guests!

In this Startup Droplet, we'll be sharing insights from our previous episode with Victoria Da Conceicao. Victoria started her company when she was 16. She was looking for a way to help her grandmother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She found that coloring pages and essential oils make her grandma happy while improving her quality of life. She decided to turn those into custom care packages and launched her company to help others!

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Victoria was waiting for her grandmother to pick her up from school. She didn't show up.  

Her grandmother was wandering around in a nearby park, seemingly lost, despite it being a familiar neighborhood. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.  

Victoria wanted to help her grandmother, and she found that coloring pages and essential oils make her grandma happy while improving her quality of life. Wanting to help more people, Victoria decided to create custom care packages and launched her company Alzheimer's Brain Box at the age of 16!  

Currently, Victoria is a student at Northwestern who's continuing to fight Alzheimer's, one box at a time!

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Here's another episode of Startup Droplet 🌱, where we share our takeaways from chatting with our amazing guests!

In this Startup Droplet, we'll be sharing insights from our previous episode with Wade Fletcher – the 20-year-old serial entrepreneur who's making student venture capital more equitable through UndercoverVC! Wade is also the Founder of CovIntern (helping students find remote internships during the pandemic), as well as the Founder of ScoreTwo Media (acquired last year)

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Our guest today was balancing financial statements in third grade selling lemonades 🍋...  

Today’s episode is with the 20-year-old founder of UndercoverVC – Wade Fletcher, who’s bringing equity to student venture capital. Wade is also the founder of CovIntern, which helped students find remote internships during the pandemic, as well as the founder of ScoreTwo, a media company he started at 16 which was acquired last year!

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Trying something new!

We'll be sharing our takeaways from chatting with our guests into separate episodes called Startup Droplets 🌱

In this Startup Droplet, we'll be sharing insights from our previous episode with Christian Johnson – a police officer, an Army National Guard, and the founder of Respond AI – an artificial intelligence robotics company for Public Safety and Defense. 

Takeaways:

1. Christian did not know how to code. Now, he’s writing algorithms that link up cameras to drones, capable of detecting objects and transmitting data for him to analyze. Check out how he got started!

2. Being in the army and experience as a police officer made Christian a better founder.

3. Don’t be so hard on yourself, and realize that you and the company need time to mature!

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What superpower would make a police officer 10x more effective? 

Flight sounds like a good one? What if I tell you that is actually happening now?  

Christian Johnson – a police officer, an Army National Guard, and the Founder of Respond AI, is using drones and other robotics with artificial intelligence for Public Safety and Defense. So, not only is Christian fighting crime as a police officer, he’s also flying drones to keep our neighborhood safe!

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MVP = Most Valuable Player? Series A? Product-Market Fit? What?? 

Interested in startups but have no idea what people are saying?  Check out this episode!!  

Terms discussed: 

To hear our guests explain more about these terms:

Swish Goswami on Lean Startup 

Tom Fairey on MVP 

Marc Bernstein on Product Market Fit 

Cliff Holekamp on what VC Investors Look For 

Arnav & Arvind on Crowdfunding 

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What were you doing at 15? If you were like our host Rick, you might have been playing League of Legends or watching anime all day...  

Our guests today are two high schoolers – Arnav Chakravarthy & Arvind Kumar. At 15, they are building SciLynk, the world’s first science social network!  They might be young, but they are ambitious and driven. They learned how to code on their own and are now raising money for their startup!

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Do you know how hard it is to put on a bra? For guys, think about tying a tie behind your back. Now imagine gluing your fingers together and doing that again. Today we'll be chatting with Emma Butler, a recent graduate of Brown university who's building Intimately, a Forbes Next 1000 startup that is igniting an inclusive revolution by selling functional and fashionable lingerie for women with disabilities!

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