This is a series of adventures and memories from IN-NO-V8. I have traveled a fair amount, and built up some interesting stories to share along the road. I hope this can be a place to share some unique experiences with you all.
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Interviews with startup founders in all sorts of industries and regions to expand our definition, thinking of what is a startup. Learn from their journey and apply it to your own startup.
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S3E9 An interview with Jeroen Courthout, Founder at Salesflare
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Jeroen Corthout is the Founder at SalesFlare, an intelligent CRM startups and small businesses love to use. It's a zero-input sales pipeline tool that thinks and works for its user, not the other way around. No more manual data entry. Salesflare fills out address book and keeps track of all interactions with the people users in contact with. Jeroen…
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S3E8 An interview with Matthew Stephens, Cofounder of DeviantArt
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Matthew worked at the intersection of design and technology for over 22 years, most recently as VP of Design at The Zebra. He builds high-performing teams and designs award-winning products and brands. Beyond that, he also writes about ethics, accessibility, diversity, and education within design. At The Zebra, he scaled a Design Org from 3 to 22 i…
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S3E8 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast
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Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform. Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014. In this episode, we talked about: How …
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S3E7 From $10M Landscaping business to Uber of Landscaping app with CEO Bryan Clayton
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Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. o…
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S3E6 An interview with Llama Life solopreneur Marie Ng
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Marie is the developer and designer of Llama Life, a tool that helps you work THROUGH to-do lists, not just make them. She's a 4th time founder (sold 2 companies) and previously designed an app that was featured by Apple and ranked in the Top 10 Productivity apps. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, but spent 12yrs living in London and New Yor…
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S3E5 An interview with CEO of Wonderschool, Chris Bennet
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Wonderschool CEO and co-founder Chris Bennett saw too many parents who were anxious and scared about finding child care, as well as educators who couldn’t afford care for their own children while they were at work. He knew that there had to be a better way to address this issue for families and teachers alike. Chris’s appreciation for education g…
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S3E4 Founding Gigster and Made Renovation, an Interview with Roger Dickey
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Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder of MADE. Roger is a serial entrepreneur & active angel investor based in San Francisco. Roger's first company was an AirBnB for tutoring started in Austin in 2006.He entered the games industry in 2007 with a Facebook app startup, launching 19 apps with the largest generating 300M+ page views per month. After an acquis…
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S3E3 A look inside a P/E firm, an interview with Akeel Jabber, Investment Director at Horizen Capital
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Akeel Jabber is the Investment Director and GP of Horizen Capital, an Engineer who was previously a partner and operations director at Wired investors, a micro private equity firm focused on digital asset acquisitions and has been involved in over 15 company acquisitions. Expert in growth marketing strategy and business operations.…
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S3E1 Bootstrapping Microacquire to $600K ARR as a solo founder with Andrew Gazdecki
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Andrew Gazdecki is the Founder of MicroAcquire. Former CEO & Founder of Bizness Apps and Altcoin (both acquired). He likes to build stuff, mostly companies, and in this episode, he tries to tell a story that goes beyond what the company does to how it’s changing markets. Andrew has been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc.com, and Entrepreneur Magazi…
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S2E10 Interview with Capri Wheaton, Cofounder of Thryft, a YC Company
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Capri Wheaton is an avid thrifter and fashion fanatic, she is currently the CEO and Co-Founder at Thryft. She briefly studied political science and philosophy as a Freshman at UC Berkeley before dropping out to co-found Thryft with Sam Yang. Thryft is Shopify for Instagram sellers, they turn Instagram feed into a website in 1 click. It helps Instag…
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S2E9 An interview w/ GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures, seed-stage fintech fund, Sheel Mohnot
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Sheel Mohnot is a Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures - a $75 million seed-stage five-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative FinTech companies globally. He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology and disrupt financial institutions to enable them to act more efficiently.…
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S2E8 Interview with App Store Optimization expert, Steve Young
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Steve P. Young is the Founder of AppMasters, a mobile growth hacking agency that helps companies increase downloads, monetize and skyrocket retentions. He started making apps in 2011 and hit Top 8 under educational games. In 2013, Steve started a podcast to interview successful app creators such as Shazam, Tapbots, and more. Today, Steve has served…
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S2E7 He sold his startup and bought it back for $1. An interview with Elastic Digital CEO, Cameron Avery
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Cameron Avery is an experienced CEO with global channel management experience and extensive industry expertise in B2B IT software and services. Born and raised in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Cameron currently leads Elastic Digital, a well-recognized creative agency for channel marketing and management for big tech companies. Elastic Digital aim…
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S2E6 An interview with Yelp's top Salesperson, Closedwon CEO and Founder Zen Lenon
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Zen Lennon is the founder at ClosedWon, a sales meeting automation platform that books meetings for sales, development representatives, or salespeople. She was raised in Hawaii and moved to San Francisco to study at the University of San Francisco. In 2007, Zen was recruited by Yelp and became the best salesperson, closing over a million dollars in…
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S2E5 Building a profitable podcast hosting startup with just 2 founders. An interview with Justin Jackson
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Justin Jackson is the co-founder of podcast hosting company, Transistor.FM. Justin writes and podcasts about bootstrapping, product marketing, mindful technology, podcasting and learning to code. With such a diverse range of interests, he had lots of info to share about entrepreneurship on this episode of the podcast.…
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S2E4 Sustainable Made-to-Order Fashion Marketplace An Interview with Balodana CEO Dana Todd
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Dana Todd is an internet pioneer and has been in roles such as the co-founder of a top digital marketing agency, founding board member of a global search marketing trade organization, patent holder and now the founder and CEO of a marketplace platform for disrupting the global garment supply chain, Balodana. Balodana is the first and only marketpla…
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S2E3 Raising $7M for a local neighborhood workspaces. An Interview with CEO Christelle Rohaut
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In this episode Pek chats to Christelle Rohaut who is the Codi CEO and co-founder. Codi is a home office-sharing company that lets users lend rooms in their homes for others to work from. They discuss how the pandemic interrupted the business, as well as how it has now launched in San Francisco and is planning on launching in more cities soon.…
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S2E2 Growing a website to 10M users through content marketing with Ian Cohen
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Ian Cohen’s specialty is privacy and FinTech. He is the CEO of Lokker and a leader in financial technology businesses. He serves on the board and is an advisor to multiple FinTech companies. Prior to Lokker, Ian was the General Manager and Chief Product Officer at Experian Consumer Services, as well as the Chief Executive Officer at Credit.com.…
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S2E1 YC backed Daily Planner SaaS with thousands of customers. An interview with founder Ashutosh Priyadarshy
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Ashutosh Priyadarshy is the CEO, Co-Founder of YC Company, and the app called "Sunsama"- an invite-only daily task planner for elite professionals. Going back to his background, Ashutosh was born in India. His parents then brought him to Pennsylvania, USA, where he spent most of his childhood. For college, Ashutosh studied at the University of Virg…
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S1E10 From Food Stamps to $30M in revenue. Interview with Adhere founder and President Ruben Resendez
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Reuben Resendez is the President of Ad Here. He is a Silicon Valley professional who focuses on building systems and introducing cutting-edge marketing initiatives to increase enrollments in the education space. His journey was not always all sunshine and rainbows. Reuben’s story is a true story of troubles, survival, and perseverance. He came to a…
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S1E9 $1.5M in transactions through BillFlow. An interview with CEO Shar Darafsheh
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Shar Darafsheh is the Co-Founder of Bill Flow, a billing page company that helps SaaS businesses architect and implement self-service billings. He started his journey in 2003 when he first moved to the United States. As a young man, he fell in love with programming and had a concept of building and monetizing softwares. In 2005, Shar sparked an int…
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S1E8 Building a 5M Download podcast network. An interview with Cofounder Stephanie Postles
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Stephanie Postles is the CEO of mission.org, a podcasting service that creates podcast shows from the top technology marketing to business podcasts. Her podcasting business tops 20 in the podcast ranking chart, has 4 million downloads annually, producing 600 episodes, and won two of Apple's Best of the Year Podcasts. Her story started in 2011 when …
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S1E7 Running a $250M Fund, an interview with Kai Tse
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Kai Tse is the Managing partner at Structural Capital, an investment firm providing growth capital to finance tech companies in technology-enabled markets. He has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur in financial lending and capital investments. Mr. Kai always was a numbers person. In 1995, he graduated with B.S. Account from the Universi…
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S1E6 Creating a capital raising platform that raised $75M with CTO cofounder Deji Jimoh
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Deji Jimoh is a software development specialist, the CTO, and co-founder of WealthBlock AI- a comprehensive end-to-end capital raising platform that targets three demographics of capital raisers: traditional broker, Venture Captial, and PE firms, and the crowdfunding space. Deji was born in Nigeria and migrated to Boston, Massachusetts when he was …
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S1E5 He bootstrapped his Fintech Marketplace B2B SaaS to profitability, with Sanjay Goel, CEO of NachoNacho
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Sanjay Goel is the definition of progressive tech innovation in the virtual credit card industry. He is the founder and CEO of NachoNacho- a virtual credit card company and marketplace where users can connect, do B2B transactions, sell SaaS products, and create one virtual VISA credit card per subscription. Before he came up with his business model…
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S1E4 This female founder raised over $3M and selling over 7M tea drops with Sashee Chandran, CEO of Tea Drops
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Meet Sashee Chandran, a woman empowering others in the industry. Sashee is the founder and CEO at tea drops. Tea drops is an innovative tea company based in California that creates organic and bagless teas. Sashee's mother was Chinese and her father was Sri Lankan. Before founding tea drops, Sashee worked in Silicon Valley leading digital marketing…
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S1E3 Nattu Adnan: He raised over $9M for his animation files marketplace from Malaysia, with Nattu Adnan, CTO of LottieFiles
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Nattu Adnan is a Co-Founder and the CTO of Lottie Files. He is a Product Designer and Full-stack developer from the Maldives. His story of success began when he left the Maldives and moved to Malaysia to support his wife. Nattu was not expecting to find a job but ended up diving into the start-up industry. According to him, the Malaysian culture an…
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S1E2 He founded 2 game studios with over $50M in revenues with Josh Tsui
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Pek Pongpaet, your host, spoke with Joshua Tsui, the co-founder and CEO of Robomodo, in this episode. Josh's career began in 1993 at Midway Games, where he assisted in the development of WWF WrestleMania The Arcade Game. Before leaving Midway in 1999, he also worked on Mortal Kombat. He and a few colleagues formed Studio Gigante, which worked on Mi…
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S1E1 This female founder raised over $15M for her executive coaching platform with Christine Tao, CEO of Sounding Board
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Christine is the CEO and co-founder of Sounding Board- a female-founded, VC back start-up company innovating in leadership coaching in the $40+ billion leadership and training industry. Before she started her business, Christine was the Senior Vice President of Developer Relations at Tapjoy. She led the growth of over $100 million in revenue in les…
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Episode Three - In which Stephen Is Unfit
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The third in a series of adventures and memories from IN-NO-V8.In this episode: Stephen finds out exactly how many muscles in his body have been dormant for many years whilst getting to grips with Muay Thai training.For more of IN-NO-V8www.in-no-v8.net
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Episode Two - In Which Stephen Catches Up
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The second in a series of adventures and memories from IN-NO-V8.In this episode: Stephen realizes how long it's been since the first episode, and generally brings us up to speed....Hong Kong, Muay Thai, and more...For more of IN-NO-V8www.in-no-v8.net
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The first in a series of adventures and memories from IN-NO-V8.In this episode: Stephen realizes how woefully unprepared he is as he climbs to a temple in Chiang Mai, ThailandFor more of IN-NO-V8www.in-no-v8.net
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