The podcast that explores the fears, anxieties, and challenges that plague founders of all types, and discusses ways to recognize, confront and harness those fears into positive, actionable steps to overcome them that can end up benefiting you and your team in profound ways.
What Scares Startups
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The podcast that explores the fears, anxieties, and challenges that plague founders of all types, and discusses ways to recognize, confront and harness those fears into positive, actionable steps to overcome them that can end up benefiting you and your team in profound ways.
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3/11/2022
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March 11, 2022
#011 - Shane Mang: Let Your Passion Take the Wheel
<p>Our guest in this episode of "What Scares Startups" is Shane Mang. Shane is the founder at Landware Entertainment, and is also the Director of Global Sales and Outbound Licensing at the children's entertainment giant, Spin Master.</p> <p>Shane talks with us about diving headfirst into being a founder with no prior startup experience at all, setting out to create a product that you yourself want but that doesn't currently exist and allowing that to become the driving force and the passion that fuels everything else. Shane also talks about the importance of knowing that failure and challenges are going to arise during your founder journey, and that letting the experts and specialists that you're working with be the experts and specialists is the key to making sure you are ready and able to handle those inevitable speed bumps as they appear.</p> <p>This is another great one, so make sure to check it out to hear more!</p>
March 11, 2022
#010 - Ryan Dunnison: From Disillusionment to Do It Yourself
<p>On this episode of "What Scares Startups" our guest is Ryan Dunnison. Ryan is a game designer, instructor/teacher, and the Owner & Founder of Playful Fox Games Inc.</p> <p>Ryan talks to us about being disillusioned by working at some of the big AAA game studios and his realization that there's a better work reality that you can create for yourself if you decide to take the leap into being a startup founder. He discusses how he took that leap a little too early himself initially, but how now that's only made his return to the startup space filled that much more with renewed vigour and wisdom.</p> <p>Join us, and give this episode a listen for more!</p>
March 11, 2022
#009 - Jericca Cleland: Trusting your Team, Yourself, and the Mission
<p>Today's guest on "What Scares Startups" is Jericca Cleland. Jericca is the Founder, CCO and Writer/Director at Oridian Entertainment. With over 25 years of experience as a writer & director, Jericca worked at Pixar Animation Studios designing cameras and staging for major blockbuster films like Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo. Before moving into film, she was a computer game developer at both Sierra On-Line and Pixar Animation Studios, and more recently, she also creatively designed, directed, and co-produced an award-winning VR experience based on the Oscar-nominated film ‘Song of the Sea’ with Oculus, and is the creative force behind mobile AR game Wildermage, gamifying walks in outdoor spaces.</p> <p>Jericca brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our conversation and talks to us about one of the most foundational pieces of success that all start-ups require at their core - the importance of trust. Trust in your team, trust in yourself, and trust in the mission. Jericca also discusses the challenges she's faced being a female senior executive / founder, and the ways that she's managed to overcome many of those hurdles over the years.</p> <p>Again, lots of great stuff in this episode that you won't want to miss, so be sure to check it out for more!</p>
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