FIM or For Inquisitive Minds is a podcast interviewing top researchers, PhD students and other academics on their cutting edge research. We break down each topic so it is easy for anyone to pick up, and then build up the knowledge base so everyone can understand the respective theses and purposes of each interview. Topics covered include human rights, machine learning, cancer research, health informatics, energy storage, quantum computing and more! Cover art photo provided by Joanna Kosinska ...
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Testing your ideas against reality can be challenging. Not everything will go as planned. It’s about keeping an open mind, having a clear hypothesis and running multiple tests to see if you have enough directional evidence to keep going. This is the How I Tested That Podcast, where David J Bland connects with entrepreneurs and innovators who had the courage to test their ideas with real people, in the market, with sometimes surprising results. Join us as we explore the ups and downs of exper ...
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Whether its your first company, or your 12th, starting a business is hard. Since this is a path Upile and I felt that pain and continue to feel it. In order to improve our chances of success, we reached out to dozens of serial entrepreneurs and asked them questions. Instead of just having coffee however, we recorded the conversations so you can benefit. There is a new episode each week, and each episode is about 20-30 mins. Have a listen, and let us know what you think! Learn more from our L ...
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Ali Jiwani | How I Tested AI Powered Education
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Ali Jiwani shares his entrepreneurial journey, from starting a food delivery platform to building Slay School, a personalized learning platform. He discusses how he used data to predict success in his previous ventures and how he applied those insights to Slay School. Ali explains his approach to acquiring early customers through Reddit and Discord…
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Marc Wandler | How I Tested Upcycled Barley Flour
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Marc Wandler, the co-founder of Susgrainable, shares his journey of turning beer waste into sustainable flour and baked goods. He started the business as a student project and quickly learned from rapid feedback cycles. By sampling the product at farmers markets and cafes, he honed in on his target market and gained valuable customer feedback. He a…
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Maura Mitchell | How I Tested Women Led Micro Businesses
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Maura Mitchell, a lawyer and MBA, shares her work at the Women's Business Development Center, helping micro businesses test their assumptions and scale. She guides entrepreneurs through a process of testing their early ideas using the Lean Startup Method and the business model canvas. Mitchell emphasizes the importance of market research and custom…
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Janna Bastow | How I Tested Pricing Packages
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In this conversation, Janna Bastow, founder of ProdPad, shares her insights on testing pricing and packaging strategies. She discusses the importance of understanding the different roles and decision-makers in B2B purchasing, as well as the challenges of navigating the procurement process. Janna also talks about the evolution of pricing at ProdPad …
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Andi Plantenberg | How I Tested A Mission To the Moon
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In this conversation, David J Bland interviews Andi Plantenberg about her experience with testing and experimentation, particularly in the context of NASA missions. They discuss the importance of testing early stage ideas, the challenges of navigating a culture of perfection and safety, and the need for fluidity and adaptability in the face of unce…
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Aaron Eden | How I Tested Ideas at Intuit
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Aaron Eden shares his background and experience with experimentation, particularly within Intuit's Design for Delight (D4D) and Innovation Catalyst programs. He discusses the importance of adapting the approach to fit the company's culture and the challenges of marketing and socializing the process internally. Aaron shares success stories, such as …
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Brandy Old & Craig Elias | How We Tested Student Entrepreneurship
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Brandy and Craig discuss their collaboration and the challenges they faced in teaching entrepreneurship and de-risking startups. They highlight the importance of testing and iterating through customer interviews, surveys, and landing pages. They also emphasize the need to overcome biases and consider counterfactuals when evaluating risk. The succes…
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Kate Hopkins | How I Tested a Portfolio Ops Platform
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Kate shares her journey of building OneGuide, a platform that provides leverage to PE and VC firms. She initially started with a marketplace model, but realized that startups were not willing to pay for access to experts. She then pivoted to selling to PE and VC firms, offering them a centralized platform for resources and an extended network of ex…
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Aaron Slessinger | How I Tested Hot Desks at HP
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Aaron Slessinger, a product leader at HP, discusses the challenges of testing hardware and software together, specifically in the context of hot desking and hybrid work environments. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the needs and pain points of end users, as well as the shift towards prioritizing the end user experience in B2B products…
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Markus Müller | How I Tested a B2B MedTech Compliance Product
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Markus Muller, co-founder of Flinn, shares his journey of testing ideas and building a business in the healthcare industry. He emphasizes the importance of testing assumptions and using experiments to validate ideas. Markus discusses the use of LOIs (Letters of Intent) as a tool to gain commitment from potential customers. He also highlights the va…
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Janina Urbach | How I Tested a Dog Shower
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In this conversation, Janina Urbach from the Hansgrohe Group shares the story of how they developed a dog shower as a new product. The idea came from a customer interview and they validated the need through desk research and conversations with dog owners and groomers. They used pretotyping and 3D printing to test and iterate the product. They also …
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Dave Masters | How I Tested Buying and Selling Homes
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In this conversation, Dave Masters, Director of Product at Realtor.com, shares his insights on testing and experimentation in big companies. He discusses the need for testing and how to break out of the feature factory mindset. Dave shares a case study on how they tested a new product idea using customer interviews and concierge testing. He also ta…
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Chris Guest | How I Tested Custom Fitted Eyeglasses
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In this conversation, Chris Guest discusses the importance of understanding problem perception and the nuances of desirability testing. He shares insights from his experience with Topology Eyewear, where they tackled the problem of ill-fitting glasses. Chris explains the Problem Perception Spectrum and how it helped them position and communicate th…
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Organisations which sell services or products to mass audiences struggle to understand the reasons why their customers are happy, and especially how the preferences evolve over time. The problem of understanding reasons for customer satisfaction over time stems from methodological difficulty in analysing written customer reviews as time series data…
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13 Human rights as sources of national and international criminal law
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Mattio argues that in the last few years laws have increasingly become a preferred and often unquestioned means of attempting to enforce human rights. The use of human rights to mandate expanded penalty (intended as the entire “penal field”, including its laws, sanctions, institutions, practices, discourses, and representations) is mostly to be see…
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12 Liquid biopsy and characterising tumour molecular features from blood
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Prostate cancer is a very heterogeneous disease with variable molecular phenotypes and clinical outcomes. The challenges and clinical unmet needs are to understand how the tumor evolves and effectively track the disease change along the treatment. Circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) in plasma is fragmented DNA present in our circulation and analysis…
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11 Pulminary hypertension with Mun Ching Lee
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10 Exploring the perceptions of patient safety in the NHS ambulance services
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Keegan explores ambulance settings are incredibly under-researched when compared to that of hospitals and primary care settings, and so it's very exploratory and aiming to capture perceptions of staff in regards to how they view patient safety in general, the reporting of incidents, organisational culture, etc. For Inquisitive Minds is a fortnightl…
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09: Simulating our universe using machine learning with Davide Piras
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Davide is a PhD student at University College London, studying how machine learning could be applied to replicate simulations of our Universe. His main research thus focus on Astrophysics and generative algorithms, even though he published a paper on intrinsic alignment a couple of years ago. To learn more about him, you can visit his LinkedIn prof…
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08: An eco-friendly solution to help prevent Schistosomiasis with Rhianna Williams
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Rhianna works at Imperial College London, raising funds for research within Medicine and Sciences. She also conducts research into Neglected Tropical Diseases, such as Schistosomiasis. This study examines ecological theory and sustainable intervention methods, using the Senegal River in Uganda as a lens. You can reach her via LinkedIn; https://www.…
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07: The Benefits of Autophagy with Gautam Runwal
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Gautam has completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge and will be moving to UCSF as a postdoctoral scholar. His current research interests encompass studying the human brain in context of neurological disorders using various cellular and molecular biology techniques. For more information related to autophagy and his contributions to the fie…
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06: Optimal Solutions in 5G using Coding Theory with Rafah El-Khatib
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Rafah did her PhD in Coding Theory at EPFL, Switzerland and is now a data scientist at ING in London. Her research focused on the analysis of an optimisation algorithm, called belief propagation, that is used in telecommunications and machine learning, among other fields, using notions from functional analysis. Her conference and journal papers can…
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05: Using Machine Learning to test drug responses with Will Bowers
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Will Bowers is a PhD researcher at the institute of Cancer Research. He is focusing on defining biomarkers of tyrosine kinase inhibitor response in soft tissue sarcoma. To break that down, soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a rare cancer category (<1% of all cancers) which skews more towards young people. Receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (RTKIs) are a…
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04: Why don't pancreatic cancer cells die? Ask Caroline Haegeman
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Caroline is a PhD student at Imperial College studying pancreatic cancer. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of resistance to cell death in cancer and novel therapeutic approaches to tackle this. To do this Caroline uses techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 screens, bioinformatics and in vitro studies. For more information or to get in …
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Oliver Schmidt has a PhD researcher at Imperial College in Energy storage. He is looking at the Future cost of electricity storage and its value in low-carbon energy systems. He analyses future cost reduction potentials using experience curves, expert interviews, bottom-up engineering models and look at market and system value using energy system m…
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02: A Discussion on Intergroup Conflict and Aggression/Social Psychology with Dorottya Lantos, PhD Candidate
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For Inquisitive Minds is a fortnightly podcast showcasing post graduate work in all areas. The podcast seeks to identify ground breaking research and bring it to the masses. On this podcast we chat about many areas of social psychology. Why groups work together, why conflict starts, and why we are currently getting so decisive. We finish with an in…
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01: Quantum Computing with Pavlos Apostolidis, PhD
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For Inquisitive Minds is a fortnightly podcast showcasing post graduate work in all areas. The podcast seeks to identify ground breaking research and bring it to the masses. Pavlos Apostolidis obtained his PhD in Quantum Physics at University College London in 2018. His research focused on advances in the field of solid-state quantum computation, a…
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FIM or For Inquisitive Minds is a podcast interviewing top researchers, PhD students and other academics on their cutting edge research. We break down each topic so it is easy for anyone to pick up, and then build up the knowledge base so everyone can understand the respective theses and purposes of each interview. Topics covered include human righ…
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Introducing FIM - For Inquisitive Minds. Check it out and learn about what we are working on! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fim/support
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Ep 10: Yariv
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Yariv is the CEO of Leap Gaming. He started the company with little idea of the industry and followed a non-traditional path. He talks about why competition is not enough, and you should aim for domination in your industry. He also mentions why listening to the users isn't always the best way to innovate, and sometimes you have to put your ideas ou…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Ep 9: Victor Purolnik
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Starting a mobile agency is one thing, but building trust while working abroad is another. Victor details his thinking process and explains why he chose this business and how he built it. There are some good takeaways for anyone looking into the services business, or offshoring any of their work. You can find Victor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Ep 8: Louise F
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Todays episode features our first female serial entrepreneur and wow has she done a lot. From a media mogul to fitness studio company and beyond. Its a long podcast, but every minute includes some pearls of serial entrepreneurship wisdom. Let us know what you think!https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisee/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spo…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Ep 7: Victor G
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There are few people who are born hustlers and Victor Guixer Martin is definitely one of them. He has tried his hand at multiple different startups and finally settled on one he really likes. He talks about the financial side of working in a startup and what it takes to launch it successfully. Its a unique take on entrepreneurship, not only because…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Ep 6: Donovan Yang
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Today we chat with Donovan Yang aka Goldenboi. He's a young shark looking to disrupt the way marketing and influencing takes place. Don talks to us about his mindset and what he thinks it takes to succeed. Its great talking to young entrepreneurs because their optimism and hunger is still very much alive. Have a listen and let us know what you thin…
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Serial Entrepreneurship w/ Ali & Upile: Ep. 5 Avaneesh
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Todays episode features Avaneesh Shivananda, founder of a gaming company with a background in both the UK and India. Avaneesh has started a few businesses and he understands the value of hustling. We apologise for a bit of the noise issue in this episode, but the content is amazing. Have a listen and let us know what you think!https://www.linkedin.…
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Serial Entrepreneurship w/ Ali & Upile: Ep. 4 Larry Lau Pt.2
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In part 2 we dive into how Larry is building his current business and what some of the mechanics are. If you're interested in the venture space, this might be a good one for you! You can learn more about him on his LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/larrylau/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jiwani/support…
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Serial Entrepreneurship w/ Ali & Upile: Ep. 4 Larry Lau Pt.1
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In this episode we interview Larry Lau, a long time entrepreneur, turned investor and then turned back into an entrepreneur. We discuss some of the amazing work he has done from being a success in high school, to starting a venture studio like model currently. You can learn more about him on his LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrylau/-…
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Serial Entrepreneurship w/ Ali & Upile: Ep. 3 Ken Y Pt.1
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In this episode we chat with Ken Yang, a serial entrepreneur with a very interesting start. He's super young and already launched a number of ventures with various companies. In this episode he talks about how he started, why he wants to be an entrepreneur, and what roadblocks he had to get over to be where he is. Learn more about Ken here: https:/…
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Serial Entrepreneurship w/ Ali & Upile: Ep. 3 Ken Y Pt.2
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Ken talks about what it was like being interviewed by Steve Mann and his latest startup. He mentions why blockchain is blowing up and why this is an area he wants to invest his time in. Ken also gives us some good advice on how to proceed down this path. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jiwani/support…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile: Episode 1
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This is our first podcast episode..ever. Be merciful.In this episode we talk about why we are starting a podcast on serial entrepreneurship. Both of us have worked on a number of different ideas but felt there was something missing. We wanted to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have started multiple companies. Instead of asking them for a co…
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Serial Entrepreneurship with Ali & Upile : Ep 2. V Jozi
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We're chatting with Vahid Jozi on what it takes to become a serial entrepreneur. Vahid has worked on multiple ideas across Canada and Iran, and he also invests in various companies. He talks about his framework for starting a business, what we need to be successful, and his overall journey. Check out his full profile here https://www.linkedin.com/i…
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