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Demystifying the startup world for early-stage entrepreneurs through engaging interviews with the most important people from the startup ecosystem. We provide our listeners with a gentle push in the right direction to take action on their innovative ideas and to see entrepreneurship as a real opportunity to learn and hopefully succeed in business. Guests range from design thinking experts such as Prof. Ezri Tarazi (Ideo & Design Tech by Technion) and startup program managers like Thomas Schier (Startplatz & disruptors.ai) to social entrepreneurs like Dr. Jagadeesh Gandla (EIT Health & DareToStart) and managers from prominent student programs like Niclas-Alexander Mauss (Technical University Munich, Entrepreneurial Masterclass).
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Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Matt C Smith has been around the block a few times in the startup world. He's an ex-VC whose first investment became a unicorn, he's helped many startups scale in his role as COO & CFO & he exited his own "Innovation Infotainment" media startup after two short years.
I call him a pioneer in this podcast and I think he really is. Making that switch towards mobile-first video-based content during the early days was probably one of the smartest moves Matt made - helping him to catapult "The Lunicorn" to where it is today.
We go in-depth about Matt's whole journey from working as an investment analyst at Condé Nast's corporate Venture arm, helping multiple startups scale after investment, supporting an angel investors accelerator, and finally setting up & exiting his video media company "The Lunicorn".
Matt shares plenty of advice for up-and-coming entrepreneurs as well - throughout this entire 1h podcast.
So enjoy!
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Connect with Matt C Smith
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-c-smith-1391754a/
Check out The Lunicorn
and their amazing YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4wBOYSNOXxCNbWVy19be-g
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Simon is the founder of Battery Associates a community of global talents who inspire and lead the future of battery innovation.
He's a true visionary committed to improving the sustainability of our world through Battery Associates. They currently run a Battery MBA 3 times per year (something truly unique), they have an active & thriving community of experts and entrepreneurs in the battery space, and on top of all that, they are pushing innovation with both software and hardware products.
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss
- Why batteries are so essential for the future of planet earth & humanity
- How Simon has bootstrapped Battery Associated to date
- How a community can be leveraged to grow your business and impact
- Tips on how to grow your business on LinkedIn, Slack & Clubhouse
- Why failure is an essential element of entrepreneurship
Simon completed his Ph.D. on Lithium-ion batteries at the University of Cambridge. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the Trinity Bradfield Prize and Cambridge University Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a member of the Global Shapers Community and World.Minds. Simon has been invited to speak at various events including the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) and Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. He served as Co-Curator of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Strategic Intelligence for Future of Energy and Batteries and as Fellow of the WEF Global Future Council on Energy Technologies.
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Connect with Simon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonengelke/
Check out Battery Associates
Check out the Battery MBA
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Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Niklas is the co-founder of NUL a monthly carbon offset subscription helping companies to become climate neutral one team at a time.
He's currently completing a unique bachelor's specifically designed for student entrepreneurs at CODE University in Berlin, Germany. In Niklas' own words CODE is "like an accelerator for students with a bachelor's degree". We dive into details
In this episode of the podcast, we dive into the details of how NUL utilized rapid prototyping and automation to build a startup that more or less runs itself! He also provides details about how CODE university, which is only 3 years old but has already produced 2 startups, is structured and how you can apply to get into this unique bachelor.
On top of all this Niklas also works at the German Startup Association which in my opinion is one of the most important organizations for startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Germany. Niklas discusses the many things they do to support startups in Germany and how you could join.
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Connect with Niklas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nterrahe/
Check out NUL
German Startup Association (Bundesverband Deutsche Startups)
CODE University of Applied Sciences
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Barbara is a managing partner of Xpreneurs Incubator part of Europe's largest entrepreneurship center UnternehmerTUM.
In this episode of the podcast, Barbara provides a behind-the-scenes look at a DeepTech Incubator & shares the exciting journey of one of our hugely successful alumni teams: Isar Aerospace.
Xpreneurs offers promising Deeptech startups a 3-month equity-free program helping teams to get their first customers and investment.
Apart from the Xpreneurs program they also run a wide range of European acceleration programs focusing on different verticles like Urban, Mobility, Smart Region, Food & Climate.
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Connect with Barbara
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-barbara-mehner-17b09656/
Check out our brand new office: Munich Urban Colab
https://www.munich-urban-colab.de/en
Xpreneurs Incubator at UnternehmerTUM
(2x batches per year, next deadline July 19, 2021)
EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator
https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/business-creation/accelerator/
ScaleUp4Europe
Weconomy
EIT Food Accelerator Network
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YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5JMHc-ewQlhu3b4lXj0hg?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Adrian Kilian is the co-founder and CEO of Mango Medical, a MedTech startup from Germany bringing Patient-specific implants to the operating room for surgeons.
In this podcast, Adrian talks about Mango Medicals' journey so far in the MedTech world diving into the different programs they joined, difficulties they've faced along the way.
Most importantly, Adrian addresses the age-old question of "when should you go all-in with your startup?" by sharing his own experience with making this decision with mango Medical.
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Connect with Adrian
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-kilian/
Mango Medical
MedInnovate Graduate Program at Technical University Munich (based on the BioDesign Method)
https://www.in.tum.de/campar/teaching/medinnovate/
http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingWs17BioInnovation
Book recommendation: Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies by Stefanos Zenios
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Stefanos-Zenios/dp/0521517427
XPLORE Pre-incubation program at UnternehmerTUM
https://www.unternehmertum.de/en/services/xplore
Xpreneurs Incubator at UnternehmerTUM
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Vish Sahasranamam is the co-founder and CEO of FORGE Accelerator, one of the leading corporate & government-focused accelerators in India.
In this podcast, Vish explains the many ways startups and aspiring entrepreneurs can engage with Forge Accelerator and shares his own personal story as an entrepreneur leading up to the founding of Forge.
We also take a deep dive into a new free startup diagnostic tool they developed called the “Forge Venture Rubric” designed as a self-assessment tool for startups to validate their potential across 6 different areas.
We discuss the difference between startups developing an end-product going to market versus a core product that can be used in many products and enter larger markets. Vish also shares 2 great case studies from successful startups that are a part of Forge Accelerator.
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Following an 8 year career in the global telecommunications industry working for companies such as Cisco and Nortel Networks, Vish went on to complete his MBA at IM-Bangalore in 2010.
He has co-founded two startups one of which, Pawaa became Cisco’s first Indian startup acquisition in 2015.
Vish co-founded Forge Accelerator with Shankar Vanavarayar in 2015 supporting industrial & government-focused deeptech startups. Today they offer several Government and corporate-focused startup accelerator programs, education for aspiring entrepreneurs through partner universities, free educational resources for founders, and investment in startups.
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Connect with Vish
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishforge/
FORGE Accelerator
Forge Venture Rubric
https://blog.forgeforward.in/forge-venture-rubric-a-startup-diagnostic-tool-b7b840efe337
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Annika Panoff is passionate about digitization in healthcare - something that can be tricky to do in a conservative market with patients’ lives on the line. Despite the well-known difficulties with digitization in this space, Annika helped take a bootstrapped digital health startup, Exonor, to a successful EXIT while serving as COO / CFO.
In this insightful podcast, Annika discusses the journey of Exonor to their impressive exit sharing along the way the lessons she’s learned while scaling the startup.
Among many interesting topics discussed, Annika discusses diversifying the products and services of Exonor, the importance of cash flow management while growing, how to work with and sell to hospitals and how to sustain growth without money from Venture Capital firms.
✌️____ ABOUT ANNIKA PANOFF____✌️
Annika is passionate about digitization in healthcare with a background in management and business consultancy working for companies across Europe and in India.
She has a background in Industrial engineering and management having worked for Siemens as a consultant and account manager and CGI where she is now the Director of Consulting.
Her role at Exonor was as COO / CFO supporting the digital health company in delivering consulting & professional services to Scandinavia and Finland for systems in secondary care like Critical care, Chemotherapy, Maternity, and EMR.
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Connect with Annika Panoff
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annikapanoff/
Exonor Group (now merged with EVRY)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/exonor/about/
EVRY
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Zee Floris, a serial founder from The Netherlands, shares his lessons from working on several of his own startups from baby gear and photo editing to his recent company focusing on food allergies.
In this extremely open podcast Zee shares some of the reasons why his previous startup ideas failed and how the lessons from these failures have helped him to become a better entrepreneur today.
Pivots are a natural part of any startup journey and Zee also shares his experience with pivoting the business model of Allergyn Club. He also discusses his strategy for approaching venture capital firms and angel investors - something that is a priority for all entrepreneurs!
✌️____ ABOUT ZEE FLORIS ____✌️
Zee is a serial entrepreneur from the Netherlands and a lover of all things innovative and automated.
He has a background in psychology and quickly left the corporate world to go build his own vision with several startups from Hadley’s Baby Gear and HelveticoPhoto to his most recent venture AllergynClub.
Zee is also now a co-founder and CTO with The Strong Startup helping provide free daily educational content for early-stage entrepreneurs around the world.
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Connect with Zee Floris
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zefanja-floris/
Allergyn Club
HelveticoPhoto
Hadley’s Babygear
https://www.instagram.com/hadleysbabygear/
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YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5JMHc-ewQlhu3b4lXj0hg?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanarmstrong5/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheStrongStartup
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Max Rupp goes in-depth on the most common mistakes made by startups when it comes to human resources and talent acquisition.
He discusses why not having an HR process is a huge mistake for startups and he shares some fantastic tips for how to avoid these mistakes and grow a successful business and team.
He also shares some great HR resources for further reading for founders.
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Max Rupp has extensive experience with Human Resources (HR) and Talent Acquisition (TA) having worked at successful startups like KONUX and Freeletics in Munich, Germany.
He is currently a Customer Success Manager at LinkedIn and as a side project offers Pro Bono Consulting for startups around all questions regarding HR & Recruiting.
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Max’s Pro Bono HR consulting for startups
Connect with Max Rupp
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilianrupp/
Basecamp book
https://basecamp.com/books/calm
Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
Hub Spot
Personio HR Software
People to follow: Jan Tegze
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jantegze/
People to follow: Daniel Mühlbauer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/futureofhr/
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Pearse Coyle, a founder, and investor from Ireland goes in-depth about the state of startup funding in Europe, the barriers that deep tech startups face when transferring from academia to the market, and his secret sauce for helping tech founders validate their ideas early on.
We also touch on the important but often overlooked source of funding for startups, Revenue through avenues like Paid Pilots. Pearse explains why you should always try to aim for a paid pilot as well as some tips for closing those deals.
✌️____ ABOUT PEARSE COYLE ____✌️
Pearse Coyle is a founder and investor from Dublin, Ireland with an extensive background in computer science and innovative technology.
He has been the founding CEO, first investor, or first head of sales in 11 tech ventures, 6 of which have gone on to scale and/or successful exit.
He founded Deeptech Seed Fund, a venture capital firm, in 2018 together with Tom Burniece who is based in San Jose, California.
Deeptech Seed Fund is a multi-stage investor that invests early in new ventures in Europe that have achieved a significant breakthrough in technology/science and now wish to exploit a global commercial opportunity.
They invest only in ventures that have come through one of their partner incubator programs.
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Deeptech Seed Fund
https://www.deeptechseedfund.com/
Connect with Pearse Coyle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearsecoyle/
Innovation and Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) pilot programme (UK based)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/icure-evaluation-of-pilot-programme
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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thestrongstartup/