We're curious about the journeys of other founders. With good reason. It's a key way we learn. No matter what your goal or your ambition, it's challenging, affirming and insightful to hear about other founder's journey. This show presents the stories, those dizzying highs and gut churning lows, of everyday entrepreneurs, visionaries just like us, some of whom have gone on to become not very everyday at all.
30. Michael Su - Garden State Cafe and ghost kitchen founder
Along with three other co-founders, Michael Su has opened a new cafe and it's not your typical enterprise.
Between 6am and 4pm, it trades as Garden State Cafe. After hours, it transforms into an 8 menu ghost kitchen for Ubereats, and soon-to-be late-night diner.
With a previous career in finance, hear the intriguing story of this 20-something year old entrepreneur, testing the boundaries of his startup.
16 Mar 2023
29. Harry Katsiabanis - Taxi Link journey
Harry Katsiabanis has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial ventures, some successful others not so successful.
In this episode, we talk through the aftermath of Taxi-Link which he took all the way to the ASX as a public company.
Covid was not very good to this start up and the venture was not able to trade through Melbourne's paralysing lockdowns. Harry managed to pay all creditors in full but suffered significant financial loss.
As Harry says “With devastation comes innovation” and he undertook extensive research into new business models and industries and landed upon his next idea.
2 Mar 2023
28. Jasna Drastic - Miana nappy bag founder
When Monash mother, Jasna Drazic, couldn’t find a nappy bag she could take to her day job, she went ahead and designed one herself while on maternity leave.
After some market research and prototyping, her brand Miana launched online in 2021 and has since grown its social media following. Based in Glen Waverley, this one-woman business aims to provide chic design at affordable prices.
In this episode, we learn more about what motivates founders to push on through the hard times of an early start up.
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