Startup Project

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In this episode of Startup Project Nataraj spoke to  Jacques Fu Co-founder at Stax, Author of "Time Hacks". 

Stax is an all-in-one payment solution for small business. Stax has raised $245 million in fresh funding, taking its valuation up to $1 billion. The investment saw participation from Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), HarbourVest Partners and Blue Star Innovation Partners, all of which will serve as strategic partners to Stax.

Full conversation includes:

1. Journey of Stax
2. Opportunities in Fintech
3. Crypto
4. Angel Investing
5. Time Hacks

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

Google started and ended about 5 chat application in last 10 years, but the best chat application was already made by them before every one else. It was GTalk!

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Netflix for long dictated the streaming story, they set the narrative that other media companies scrambled to follow. But all that is changed now.

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In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to KP, Build In Public guy on Twitter.

Full conversation includes:

• What is Build In Public?
• Cornering Keywords on Internet
• The Good, Bad & Ugly of Build In Public

& more.

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Chris Devore (Investor in Remitly, Auth0 & Outreach), Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), Todd Bishop (geekwire.com) and others.

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Launching a, a venture fund is not for the faint of heart, uh, and it is very much a startup activity. 

Geoff Harris & Nataraj talk about the challenges of launching a venture fund. Geoff spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

Full conversation includes is available here and includes:

1. Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft
2. Angel investing to raising a fund
3. Core insight behind Flying Fish
4. AI Use cases for future
5. Web3 & Venture

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to Geoff Harris, Managing Partner Flying Fish VC. Flying Fish is a thesis driven fund focused on Al/ML.

Geoff Harris spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

Full conversation includes:

1. Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft
2. Angel investing to raising a fund
3. Core insight behind Flying Fish 
4. AI Use cases for future
5. Web3 & Venture

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

What problems are NFTs solving in games, Liron & Nataraj (twitter.com/natarajsindam) discuss.

Liron Shapira is known as the guy who write twitter threads about web3 use cases including Axie Infinity & Helium.

But before becoming twitter famous, he is also a founder & angel investor and currently runs a YC backed startup called Relationship Hero.

The irony in his angel investments is he made life changing money by investing in Coinbase which was a 500x return on his investment.

Full conversation includes:

• Failure with Quixey (50M+ Series C)
• Relationship Hero (YC Backed)
• Seed Investment in $COIN (listen for exit multiple)
• Investing in Russian Bonds
• Web3 Use cases (cross border payments, helium, NFTs in gaming, Uber on Web3, Identity)

Nataraj is a PM at Azure, investor & host of thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at  twitter.com/natarajsindam.

Full conversation Link: https://thestartupproject.io/2022/08/05/24-liron-shapira-web3-critique-founder-early-investor-in-coinbase/

Nataraj & Eric (Hustle Fund) talk about how an Indian company BYJU's despite its flaws is helping democratizing education. 

For Full conversation with Eric check out Episode 21 of Startup Project. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ceRBSjtTP8ROl8nR9AoT0?si=bf937a7778d24236

Todays guest is Mohan Belani the co-founder of E27.co. E27 is tech publication covering SEA startups.

Full conversation includes:

• Origins of e27
• Startups in SEA (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia & Vietnam)
• Businesses model of e27
• Events business
• Angel investing and starting seed stage fund
• YC effect in SEA startups
• Starting a Seed Fund
• & many more

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

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Jeff Bezos defines dreamy businesses to have these characteristics:

• customers love it
• it can grow to very large size
• it has strong returns on capital
• and it's durable over time

Amazon has 3 dreamy businesses prime, marketplace & AWS. 

Todd & Nataraj discuss about what is going to be Amazon's next big dreamy business?

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Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam