What to know how to turn your idea into a successful start-up? Who will be part of your founding team, what do you do on when things get tough? Susanne Mitschke and Patrick Renner are successful founders based in beautiful Santa Monica. Because they would not be where they are today without their great mentors, the two Forbes "30 under 30" talk about their own story and invite other founders and investors to share their stories and knowledge.
Going all-in on your startup idea with Cooper Jones
In this Episode, Susanne & Patrick, and I talking to Cooper Jones, co-founder, and CEO of Rah Rah. Rah rah is a platform that helps college students to make sense of campus life and, for example, book activities and services. Cooper and his co-founder started their entrepreneurial journey with Rah Rah while being still employed at Accenture. They took a leap of faith, quit their jobs and Cooper even liquidated his retirement savings plus took on a loan to start Rah Rah. This is what I call skin in the game. Cooper talks about how he got started when he knew it was time to quit his job and how he raised $2.8 million from Angels. If this is the first time listening to foundersmart, we make podcasts about entrepreneurship that are fun and informative. Hit subscribe so that you don’t miss any of our episodes and consider giving us 5 stars. And now without further due, give it away to Cooper Jones of Rah Rah.
28 Oct 2020
From pastor to entrepreneur with Josh Daneshforooz
Just imagine, you graduated from Harvard in Theology and become a pastor. And then, you leave everything behind and start a software company that is providing language and translation services. You raise venture capital, move from Texas to California and are all in on your start-up. From pastor to start-up founder sounds crazy to you? Well, this is exactly what Josh Daneschfruuz, co-founder and CEO of Lango did! Josh talks to us about how he found his first customers and how he managed to raise a seed round of $2 million US dollars, and also why the path he took from pastor and entrepreneur is actually not that far apart as we might think.
21 Oct 2020TRANSCRIPT
Finding the perfect co-founder and smashing the taboo of menopause with Alessandra Henderson
Thank you for tuning into Founder Smart. Your podcast about entrepreneurship. Finding the right co-founder, and validating your idea without spending a fortune are two topics that are really important for anyone who is getting serious about starting their own business. The one question I always get when I talk about my journey as an entrepreneur is: how did you meet your co-founders and where can I find my co-founder? This week, we talked to Alessandra Henderson, CEO, and co-founder of Elektra about how she met her co-founder, how she validated her start-up idea, and what it means to run a company smashing the taboo of menopause.
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Finding the perfect co-founder and smashing the taboo of menopause with Alessandra Henderson
Published 21 Oct 2020 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a lot of importance in that co-founder dating and really giving yourself time and space and skillset is certainly important, but I also think a lot of personality, what your philosophy is and how you approach company building and culture, what your end goals are. We actually wrote out, and if anyone is actually interested, I have emailed this to a couple of people since, but We each did homework about a month into our relationship where we, it sounds like a dating, but we wrote out, what are your values? How do you work best? What's your favorite communication forms? Would you wanna build a remote company? […]
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