The Startup Playbook Podcast

In episode 20 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Paul Bennetts and Kaushik Sen, two of the co-founders behind Spaceship, a mobile only superannuation fund that has technology as a core focus of it’s investment mandate. With little more than “an idea on a sheet of paper” the Spaceship team have received backing from […]

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In episode 19 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I sit down with Ben Dunphy, Investment Director at Blue Sky Venture Capital Blue Sky VC is a late stage fund that has a portfolio that includes companies such as Shoes of Prey, Vinomofo and aCommerce. In the interview, Ben covers a range of topics including what a […]

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In this episode, I interview Jodie Fox. Jodie is the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Shoes Of Prey, which allows women from around the world to design and create their own shoes. To date, Shoes of Prey has raised US$24.6M, had over 6 million pairs of shoes designed on their site and have opened […]

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In Episode 17 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Tom Ellis, Investment Director of Mai Capital, a $20M VC fund that assists startups looking to expand into the Chinese market. Prior to his role with Mai Capital, Tom was the Director of Business Relations at Crosstivity and spent a number of years in corporate […]

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In episode 16 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Sam Wong, Head of Operations at Blackbird Ventures and Partner at the Startmate accelerator program. Sam started her career as a lawyer, before joining Surf Stitch as the Global Product Manager, growing the company from 40 to 300+ employees. She then founded CapacityHQ, a marketplace […]

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In episode 15 of the Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Ash Maurya, the man who literally wrote the book on applying lean methodology to startups. Ash is the Founder of LeanStack and WiredReach, author of Running Lean and Scaling Lean and the creator of the Lean Canvas In this episode, Ash Talks about, the value of […]

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In episode 14 of the Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Ben Chan, Executive GM of Envato, the world’s leading marketplace and community for creative assets and creative people. Envato owns and operates several successful marketplaces on the “Envato Market” such as themeforest, audiojungle and videohive. To date they have paid out over $400M to users of […]

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In episode 13 of the Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Peter Huynh, Co-Founder and Partner of US$50M fund Qualgro which invests in technology startups in SE Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand. Since launching a year ago, the fund has made 11 investments in its’ first year, in tech startups based in Singapore, Malaysia, India, […]

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In episode 12 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Adir Shiffman, Chairman of Catapult Sports – the world leader in wearable athlete analytics for elite sport. Adir has had an incredible career. Initially qualifying in medicine and practising as an MD, Adir made the switch across to becoming a startup founder and over a period […]

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The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep011 – Tristan Pollock (EIR & Venture Partner – 500 Startups) on funding, marketplaces and sex, drugs & rock’n’roll of Silicon Valley August 23, 2016 rohitbhargava Podcast In Episode 11 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Tristan […]

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