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Innovation Friday
by Adrian CalmaHave you ever wondered which incipient and innovative ideas are out there? Do you know who is trying to bring them to life? Turn them to a successful business? Every Friday you will get the chance to hear about the struggles, the most difficult and most fulfilling moments of fellow entrepreneurs. This podcast is dedicated to early stage entrepreneurs, those that are still fighting in the trenches. It is not about unicorns. Being a founder is harder but more rewarding than you assume it to be. Welcome to Innovation Friday — this is where your startup journey begins.
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Audio Comes First with Audra Gold| EP.29
18m · PublishedEvery week counts in a startup. That advice comes straight from Audra Gold, the founder of Vurbl. She has a vast background in the tech and entrepreneur world, helping start ups build, grow and achieve through her consulting firm Product N.
Vurbl, which is a creator-first, free streaming platform, helps content creators find and grow their audience. Audra says, the way we’ve set up Vurbl is to be very much like a YouTube framework.
Advice from Audra: Go work for a lot of smart people.
Books: Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, Diet for a New America by John Robbins
contact Audra via Linkedin: @audragold
more about the company: vurbl.com
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageNet Zero World with Josh Graham| EP.28
18m · PublishedI have read somewhere that it’s important to move with purpose and urgency. Josh Graham, the co-founder of EHAB is one of those humans who move with purpose.
He is passionate about making a social and environmental impact. That’s why he created EHAB, a weather risk management tool for the construction industry. He believes that innovation in construction can be a catalyst for improvement across the world. This industry faces a lot of risks due to weather changes: physical risks, project risks, administrative risks, health & safety risks, and many more.
Can you build a purpose-driven start-up? How? What is a net-zero world? How can we get there? How does the construction industry impact climate change? These are all questions Josh answered in the new episode.
Advice from Josh: Ask yourself, is this problem inspiring enough and exciting enough that I would want to work on it for the next 50 years? If the answer is no, then probably don’t put your time into that. If the answer is yes, then it’s a long, hard journey and start to learn and start to really try and understand, okay, what are the ways that this problem is being solved today? What are the new ways that problem could be solved?
Books: Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis
contact Josh via Linkedin: @joshgraham
more about the company: ehab.co
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageSafer Streets with Neta Schreiber | EP.27
17m · PublishedToday you are gonna meet Neta Schreiber. She is a purpose-driven person and a passionate entrepreneur.
Currently, she is a co-founder and CEO of SafeUP, which is building a community of women that support, protect each other, and prevent cases of assault, sexual, and physical harassment. Her platform helps a lot of women worldwide to feel safer.
Advice from Neta: The most important thing is to be very determined by your problem. Like if you believe in your problem and you know that you are the one that needs to solve that, you need to go with that and not give up because most of the early startups that stopped working, you know, it’s because they give up quickly.
Books: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
contact Neta via Linkedin: @netaschreiber
more about the company: safeup.co
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageBe fearless with Trishna Nagrani | EP.26
16m · PublishedTrishna Nagrani from Panama co-founded Kaiku, a startup that aims at making early-stage funding smarter and faster, while she was in her last year of studies.
Trishna has over three years of experience in the finance sector, currently also working as an investment analyst.
Advice from Trishna: Always be fearless. Take that leap of faith. And I’m not saying it’s going to get easier but at least it gives you the confidence to brave the mountains.
Books: What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman
contact Trishna via Linkedin: @trishnanagrani
more about the company: kaiku.co
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageChanging the narrative with Vivian Nwakah | EP.25
15m · PublishedVivian Nwakah is a serial entrepreneur and strategist with vast experience in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and energy space. Currently, Vivian is the CEO of Medsaf, which is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.
Advice from Vivian: Just be very clear on the WHY you’re building this company.
Books: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
contact Vivian via Linkedin or e-mail: @vivannwakah or [email protected]
more about the company: medsaf.com
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageCreate a vision with Andrea Mach di Palmstein | EP. 24
13m · PublishedAndrea recently started his entrepreneurial journey with Eat & Joy. He gave up his job at an electric scooter company in New York, returned to Milan, Italy, and together with his team developed an app that allows us to eat a gourmet lunch for as little as 5€.
Advice from Andrea: Never stop believing in the value that you bring by creating a service. There will always be an opportunity out there.
Books: The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
contact Andrea via Linkedin: @andreamachdipalmstein
more about the company: eatandjoy.life
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageIt can be changed with Olivia Bryanne Zank | Ep.23
18m · PublishedThis Innovation Friday we have Olivia Bryanne Zank the founder and CEO of Benefactors a fintech factoring company in Rwanda.
She is a product person, passionate about designing and iterating on products that work for a wide range of people. She’s data-driven, having a solid background in statistics and economics.
Advice from Olivia: It’s important that we ask ourselves if we know how the organization itself is going to change and what that requires of management.
Books:
- The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman
contact Olivia via Twitter: @oliviazank
more about the company: benefactors.io
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageStay in beta with Mihai Cepoi | Ep.22
17m · PublishedIn this episode, we talked to Mihai Cepoi from Bucharest, Romania. He has over 5 years of entrepreneurial experience, with a strong background in enterprise sales and SAP accelerator alumni.
Currently, he is the CEO of Jobful, an online recruiting platform based on efficiency and gamification.
Advice from Mihai: Thinking of great ideas is worth nothing. Executing on okay ideas, it’s what makes the entire difference.
Books: Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You mean (Expert Thinking) by Kim Malone Scott
contact Mihai via Linkedin or e-mail: mihaicepoi or [email protected]
more about the company: jobful.io
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageStuck in traffic with Tomas Grönqvist | Ep.21
16m · PublishedTomas Grönqvist is a former professional cyclist in Italy, who turned entrepreneur and consultant in the area of cycling and mobility management. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of MIOO. In this episode, we talk about the importance of mobility, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and faith.
Advice from Tomas: You need to have a bright, clear vision of where and what do you want to have in the future. But at the same time, you need to confirm all the brutal facts of your current reality.
Books: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
contact Tomas via Linkedin or e-mail: tomasgrönqvist or [email protected]
more about the company: mioo.cc
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--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innovationfriday/messageFixing hotel bookings with Gary Piazzon | EP.20
18m · PublishedInnovation Friday has 41 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 13:48:00. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 26th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 31st, 2024 19:16.
