Best Wishpond Podcasts (2024)

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How Wishpond Transforms Online Marketing for Small Businesses: Interview with CEO and Co-Founder, Ali Tajskandar 37:24

7M ago37:24

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Episode Notes In this episode, Ray Walia interviews Ali Tajskandar, the founder and CEO of Wishpond. Wishpond is a marketing tech company that specializes in helping small businesses thrive in the online marketing realm. Tajskandar discusses the challenges faced by small businesses and how Wishpond's comprehensive marketing platform bridges the gap…

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PayMyRent's Story of Merging Nigerian Insights with Canadian Property Needs with Tosin Ogunyemi, Founder of PayMyRent 37:41

8M ago37:41

37:41

Episode Notes Dive into "Founder Journey" with host Ray Walia, as we traverse the entrepreneurial terrains of diverse markets. This episode spotlights Tosin Ogunyemi from "Pay My Rent", a platform that's reshaping the way Nigerians save for their annual rent. Learn how this solution, birthed from unique African challenges, is now navigating the Can…

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Construction and Connections: what's the importance of community when building a startup with Syed Ahmed, CEO and Co-founder of OnTraccr 50:30

8M ago50:30

50:30

Episode Notes Join Ray Walia as he embarks on a captivating exploration of Syed Ahmed's transformative journey from a fresh-faced entrepreneur to the driving force behind OnTraccr, a game-changing proptech startup. In this episode, Syed candidly recounts the trials, tribulations, and triumphs that have marked his path, shedding light on the resilie…

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A Radiant Ride: Exploring Hyperspectral Technology and Founder Trials with Francis Doumet, CEO of Metaspectral 35:16

9M ago35:16

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Join us in this eye-opening episode of 'Founder Journey,' where we explore the cutting-edge world of hyperspectral imaging and delve into the highs and lows of being a founder with Francis Doumet, CEO of Metaspectral. From the exciting advancements in technology, including 100 times more information collection than conventional cameras, to the real…

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Startup Harmony: The Role of Friendship in Business Success with Cecelia Zhou, COO of ICTUS Audio 43:33

9M ago43:33

43:33

Episode Notes Join Cecelia Zhou, co-founder of ICTUS Audio, as she shares her remarkable journey of building ICTUS Audio, a dynamic production house and education center. Discover how Cecelia and her co-founders navigated challenges as friends and co-founders, establishing a strong corporate structure and implementing efficient systems. Gain insigh…

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Creating a Buzz: Daily Hive's Birth and Growth with Founder Manny Bahia 32:51

10M ago32:51

32:51

Join us on the Founder Journey podcast as we delve into the entrepreneurial journey of Manny Bahia, co-founder of the successful media company, Daily Hive. Starting as a humble blog, Vancity Buzz, in 2008, Daily Hive has since expanded across multiple Canadian cities, attracting millions of unique visitors and page views each month. In this engagin…

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Scaling the Unscalable: The Defang Founders' Journey to Revolutionize Startups with Lio Lunesu, Prakash Sundaresan, and Antoine Cote of Defang 47:27

10M ago47:27

47:27

Episode Notes Join Sam Chan, VP of Programs at Launch, as he hosts an enlightening episode of Founder Journey. In this episode, Sam is joined by the innovative team behind Defang, including CEO Lio Lunesu, Antoine Cote, and Prakash Sundaresan. Listen as they delve into their diverse experiences working at tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, and …

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From Startup Struggles to Real Estate Triumphs with Josh Lopour, Co-Founder of EveryState 27:29

11M ago27:29

27:29

Episode Notes Welcome to Season 4 of “Founder Journey,” the podcast that uncovers the hidden aspects of startup founders’ unique journeys. In this enlightening first episode of Season 4, join host Ray Walia, CEO of Launch Ventures, as he engages in an insightful conversation with Josh Lopour, Co-Founder of EveryState, to unravel the remarkable jour…

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Uploadcare’s Journey From Russia to Vancouver Through the Start-up Visa Program | Igor Debatur, Uploadcare

1+ y ago

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This episode of the Founder Journey features Igor Debatur, Launch member and Uploadcare’s Co-Founder & CEO. The company helps engineering teams to launch new products faster and remove annoying loading times for websites and apps. In the episode, Igor shares how they started to build a solution for their web development agency and then commercializ…

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Navigating the Ups and Downs of Startup Life | Joanne Chang, Co-Founder at PicCollage 35:12

2y ago35:12

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This episode of the Founder Journey podcast features Joanne Chang, Co-Founder at PicCollage. PicCollage is a creativity app that allows 200+ million users around the world to create fun and playful designs combining photos, text, drawings, and stickers. In the episode, Joanne shares what mindset shift is required when you become a founder, which up…

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Building a Marketplace in the Construction Industry | Anjani Duddukuru & Rachana Kapadia, Co-Founders of Suppliers Cave 23:56

2y ago23:56

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This episode of the Founder Journey features Anjani Duddukuru and Rachana Kapadia, Co-Founders of Suppliers Cave, the online platform that connects suppliers and buyers of industrial products and services. The company helps contractors and stockists liquidate surplus material, rent equipment and machinery, whereas suppliers can improve their online…

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Changing the Future of VR Adoption | Hani Abu Ghazaleh, Co-Founder & CEO of Mental VR 23:48

2y ago23:48

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This episode of the Founder Journey podcast features Hani Abu Ghazaleh, Co-Founder & CEO of Mental VR. Mental VR is a software company specialized in creating immersive & engaging VR experiences for education, training and entertainment. It is headquartered in the UAE with a core technology studio in Montreal, Canada. In the episode, Hani shares ho…

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GameOn's Journey From B2C to B2B & Going Public | Matt Bailey, Founder & CEO of GameOn 14:06

2y ago14:06

14:06

This episode of the Founder Journey features Matt Bailey, Founder & CEO of GameOn. The company started as a B2C free-to-play prediction app with 20-30k monthly users. After having lost almost all of them due to COVID, GameOn has successfully transitioned to a B2B game technology company and gone public. In the episode, Matt shares how he coped with…

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Exploring Mexico's Rapidly Growing Tech Hub | Alejandro Martinez, Parvada Cowork & Co

2y ago

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This episode of the Founder Journey features Alejandro Martinez, Administrative Manager at Parvada Cowork & Co, a coworking space in one of the biggest tech hubs in Mexico, Monterrey. In this episode, Alejandro talks about the benefits of coworking spaces for entrepreneurs, the latest startup trends in Monterrey, popular tech sectors, and exciting …

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Successfully Navigating Through the Pandemic as a Travel Tech Company | Local Adventures

2y ago

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This episode of the Founder Journey podcast features one of Launch's own Maple companies, Local Adventures! Local Adventure is a travel tech company based in Guadalajara, Mexico. In this podcast cofounders Daniel Peña, Moisés Vera and Sebastián Rodríguez talk about their love for adventure travel and how that converted into building a successful co…

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Circular Economy in LatAm's Fashion Industry | Ytzia Belausteguigoitia, Troquer

2y ago

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The 2nd episode of the Founder Journey podcast features Ytzia Belausteguigoitia, Co-founder and CEO of Troquer, a digitally native, omnichannel luxury re-sale platform in Mexico that has developed and inspired the Latam market into adopting a circular and sustainable consumption model. In this episode, Ytzia talks about the 'circular economy', sust…

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Overcoming the Challenges of Building a Venture Fund in Mexico | Alejandro Gonzalez, Redwood Ventures 30:49

2y ago30:49

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Hosted by Ray Walia, CEO Launch Ventures and Launch Academy, this episode of the Founder Journey podcast features Alejandro Gonzalez, Managing Partner at Redwood Ventures from Guadalajara Mexico. At Redwood Ventures, Alejandro Gonzalez focuses on portfolio and investment strategy, leveraging his experience as an entrepreneur, investment banker and …

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Malte Bucken - Previous Cofounder of Tripcombi 49:33

2+ y ago49:33

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Malte Bucken caps off Founder Journey Series Season 2! Malte discusses building a company with a distributed work force, challenges before the pandemic and his entrepreneurial journey with Tripcombi, a travel metasearch engine!

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Turgay Birand - CEO of Edition Guard 34:55

2+ y ago34:55

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Turgay Birand is the CEO and Co-founder of Edition Guard, a secure eBook sales platform. They are also a Launch Academy startup visa success story! Turgay is an international entrepreneur who now calls Canada home. In this episode we discuss the misconceptions and advantages of bootstrapping your business, and the culture of hustle porn and how it …

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Henry Bee - CEO of CoPilot AI 31:01

2+ y ago31:01

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Henry Bee is the CEO and Co-founder of CoPilot AI. CoPilot AI makes it easy to find and engage with high value leads using LinkedIn. Henry discusses the struggles and frustrations when things just don't seem to be working out. He also discusses the opportunity to pivot and how to navigate that.

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Tea Nicola - CEO and Co-founder of CI Direct Investing (Wealthbar) 46:56

2+ y ago46:56

46:56

Tea is the CEO and Co-founder of CI Direct Investing (previously Wealthbar) a company that makes it easy to build your financial future with convenient online savings, investing tools, and financial advice at your fingertips. Tea gets real and talks about obstacles in entrepreneurship, benefits of mentors, her personal experience of how stress affe…

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Boris Lau - Sr. Software Engineer of Khan Academy 39:37

2+ y ago39:37

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Boris Lau was previously the co-founder of Pathful, a 2013 Techstars company that allows retailers to understand how visitors interact with their content. Pathful was acquired by Mobify, which got acquired by Salesforce. Boris shares his experience working with his co-founder, how they make decisions together and the importance of trusting each oth…

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Bosko Milosavljevic - CEO and Founder of Keeprop 20:45

2+ y ago20:45

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Bosko is the Founder and CEO of Keeprop. Keeprop is software for companies that want to automate services and optimally manage workforce and assets. He was also a part of Launch Academy's Maple program! Originally from Serbia, Bosko talks about the sacrifices he has made as an entrepreneur, work life balance, and being prepared to fail. Get inspire…

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Kenny Huang - CEO of Tiny Rex Games 43:13

2+ y ago43:13

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Kenny Huang is currently the CEO of Tiny Rex Games. From EA to Bluebat to Tiny Rex Games, Kenny shares his lessons learned leading up to the ultimate exit! Bluebat games were part of the Growlab cohort, where Launch Academy started! Kenny touches on the emotional rollercoaster of startup culture, starting a company for the second time and the diffe…

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Roger Patterson - CEO and Co-founder of Later Media 41:52

2+ y ago41:52

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Roger Patterson is the CEO of Later Media and Co-founder of Launch Academy! Later is an all in one social media marketing platform for the top social networks. Roger initially worked for large companies for 4 years but realized he wanted to make more of an impact, so he made the jump into the startup world. On the way he faced several challenges, l…

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Dejan Pralica - CEO of SoleSavy

2+ y ago

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Dejan Pralica is the CEO and co-founder of SoleSavy, a marketplace and tight knit community for sneakerheads! In this episode Dejan tells us how he managed to build SoleSavy without a technical cofounder, how members of the SoleSavy community are changing eachothers lives in more ways than just shoes, and how difficult fundraising was during the pa…

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Nicole Parmar - CEO of Gunkii

2+ y ago

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Nicole is CEO of Gunkii, the worlds sexiest tongue scraper saving relationships one breath at a time! Nicole jumped into the tech industry full force. She moved to San Francisco and dove head first into growth hacking and marketing. Prior to that she has written several books that can be found at Indigo. Now she is CEO of Gunkii alongside her partn…

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Hirad Motamed - CTO and Co-founder of Dr. Bill 33:35

2+ y ago33:35

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Hirad Motamed is the CTO of Dr. Bill, a medical billing solution for physicians in Canada. Initially they tried to build an expense tracker for small business which turned out to be a horrible idea. How did they make the pivot? In this episode, Hirad also talks about how he realized he didn't need a typical career, feeling extremely pressured in hi…

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Alex Popa - Co-founder of BOAST.ai 49:46

3y ago49:46

49:46

Alex Popa is the co-founder of BOAST.ai and Launch's Traction conference. Thousands of companies use BOAST.ai to get more money faster for less time and audit risk. In this episode, we learn about Alex's beginnings, how he got into R&D Tax, and how he raised an impressive $30 million with one investor!…

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Kris Hartvigsten - Founder and CEO of Dooly 37:44

3y ago37:44

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Kris has been in the tech industry for a long time. He is the founder of Dooly, a connected workspace that allows people to focus on their high value tasks by helping speed up the process of the tedious yet important tasks that need to be done. Kris touches on the importance of knowing who you are, never forgetting where you came from and the impor…

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Alex Benjamin - President of You Move Me 42:59

3y ago42:59

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Alex Benjamin, an Australian-Canadian entrepreneur who has started multiple companies. He grew up with a father who worked at the bank, was always interested in the stock market and was constantly surrounded by people trying to raise money for their business'. At one point in his journey he wasn't enjoying his work and the people he was surrounded …

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Collin Stewart - Co-founder and CEO of Predictable Revenue

3y ago

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Collin Stewart is a resilient entrepreneur who co-founded Predictable Revenue, a company that helps business' grow with outbound sales development. Collin has gone through some serious f*ck ups and shares them all with us. He talks about the problems he faced as an early founder and knows that many can relate. This episode may help a lot of early s…

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Sylvia Rayner - Managing Director of And-Co 1:09:40

3y ago1:09:40

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This entrepreneur is currently building an elevated private office space concept in Coal Harbour where you can eat, workout and work in the same building. How did Sylvia Rayner get to where she is now? She started with humble beginnings of working at a print shop in Kits to owning her own picture shop in Squamish to starting a hypnotherapy business…

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Lloyed Lobo - Co-Founder and President of BOAST.ai 44:59

3y ago44:59

44:59

We are concluding our last episode in our #FounderJourneySeries Season 1 with Lloyed Lobo. He is the Co-founder and President of Boast.AI and our Traction conference Co-founder! Lloyed walks us through his humble beginnings growing up in Kuwait, the switch that made him jump ship into starting his own company, building a tech company in San Francis…

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Gary Boddington - CEO of PlayWize 43:25

3y ago43:25

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Gary is an expat South African, former Olympian, and experienced entrepreneur. Currently, he is CEO and co-founder of PlayWize, previously SportsTech.io. Playwize allows professional and non professional athletes to create, find and score sporting, educational and brand opportunities all over the world. This seasoned entrepreneur and former athlete…

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James Clift - Founder of Holopod 33:45

3y ago33:45

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James Clift has been building companies for 15 years. He started his first company when he was 15, importing cars from the US and flipping them in Vancouver. Currently, he is the founder of Holopod, an app that helps you get your best work done on Slack. In this weeks episode, he talks about challenges he has faced as a founder, how to not fall int…

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Jayesh Parmar - Founder of Gunkii 35:43

3y ago35:43

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Jayesh is a Canadian entrepreneur who has built some great companies. He was the founder of Picatic, a Launch Academy company, which has now been acquired by Eventbrite. In episode 12 of Founder Journey Series, Jayesh talks about his beginnings, how he started his first startup, exited, became an angel investor, and is starting another business but…

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Kelly Hoey - Author and Speaker, Build Your Dream Network 34:41

3y ago34:41

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Kelly Hoey is the author of Build Your Dream Network. She is also one of the most influential women in the tech industry. She's an entrepreneur, speaker, one of the most well connected people in New York's startup scene, and a proud Canadian! In this episode Kelly gives us examples of how to stand out from the crowd, why you should build a business…

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Greg Smith - CEO and Cofounder of Thinkific 38:46

3y ago38:46

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Greg Smith is the CEO and Cofounder of Thinkific, the #1 online course creator. With Thinkific, you can turn your expertise into a thriving business by creating your own courses. Greg Smith talks about how covid has impacted business', the importance of revenue, the proper entrepreneurial mindset, and gamevchanging advice. https://www.thinkific.com…

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Charlyne Fothergill - SR. HR Business Partner of CTO.ai 31:06

3y ago31:06

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Charlyne Fothergill is the Sr. HR Business Partner at CTO.AI, a serverless Kubernetes platform for building, deploying and managing Cloud Native workflows. Charlyne, who is constantly surrounded by entrepreneurs, brings a meaningful HR perspective in this episode. She has seen and dealt with many cofounder issues. She talks about what to look for i…

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Ian Mackinnon - CTO and Co-Founder of Later Media 25:20

3y ago25:20

25:20

Ian Mackinnon is the CTO and Co-Founder of Later Media, the worlds favorite Instagram marketing platform, where you can plan your social posts visually, post automatically and get tailored insights to help you and your brand grow. He is also a Launch Academy alumni and Launch Ventures portfolio company. In this episode of our #FounderJourneySeries.…

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Dr. Alexandra Greenhill - CEO and Founder of Careteam Technologies 37:07

3y ago37:07

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Not only is Dr. Alexandra Greenhill a physician with her own practice, but she is the CEO of 2 tech companies as well. Dr. Greenhill dives deep into the needs of the medical industry, a favorite book that has helped her in her entrepreneurial journey, and how she leverages Traction conference to her benefit. https://careteam.tech/…

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Jason Smith - CEO and Co-Founder of Klue 36:17

3y ago36:17

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Jason Smith is the CEO and Co-founder of Klue, a new way to capture, manage, and communicate market insights from the web and across the company, in platforms you already use. Jason talks about the importance of company culture, the effects of covid on him and his company, the endless opportunities in the B2B world, Want to join the KLUE team? They…

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Boris Wertz - Founding Partner of Version One Ventures 36:27

3y ago36:27

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Boris Wertz is the founding partner of Version One Ventures. Version One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in the next generation of mission-driven founders. He is also a mentor of our CEO Ray Walia! In this weeks episode, Boris discusses his journey from entrepreneur to investor, how he built his fund, what he looks for when he inv…

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Darius Eghdami - President of FansUnite 29:47

3y ago29:47

29:47

Darius is the President of Fans Unite, a sports and entertainment company focussing on technology related to regulated and lawful online sports betting and other related products. In this episode, a few things we discuss are how to bounce back from an idea that doesn't work, the importance of work-life balance, the ability to be vulnerable with you…

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Melissa Kwan - CEO and Co-Founder of eWebinar 34:29

3y ago34:29

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Melissa is the CEO and co-founder of eWebinar, an automated webinar solution which combines pre-recorded video with real-time interactions and live chat to deliver a delightfully engaging experience for attendees. Ray and Melissa chat about what it takes to start a company, what it means to be successful, the importance of surrounding yourself with…

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Daniel Eberhard - CEO and Founder at Koho 23:29

3y ago23:29

23:29

Daniel, a serial entrepreneur, is the CEO and Founder of Koho, a company that is helping Canadians take charge of their finances without a bank. Learn about his journey before Koho, what inspired him to start Koho, the realities of raising money, the importance of coaching and therapy for yourself and your business, and his co-founder fallout at Ko…

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Natalie Cartwright - COO and Co-Founder at Finn.AI 26:15

3y ago26:15

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Natalie Cartwright is the Co-Founder and COO of Finn.AI, a conversational AI company that strives to improve the financial lives of 100 million people by 2025. Natalie shares a lot of valuable insight with us and her best advice as an entrepreneur. From navigating difficult moments, learning how to gain a great support network, dealing with rejecti…

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Founder Journey Series Introduction 2:47

3y ago2:47

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What is required to start a startup? What defines a successful startup? How do entrepreneurs navigate difficult moments? Do I want to run a company that becomes venture fundable? What do you do after you've raised venture capital? How do you succeed? STAY TUNED! We are launching on February 5th on IGTV! Featured in this episode: Natalie Cartwright …

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