EP 168 - Robin Teurlings - CEO The Startup Buddy - The Other 4,850 Had to Figure It Out on Their Own

Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Robin Teurlings, a co-Founder and CEO of The Startup Buddy and a Managing Partner in the Zero Emissions Fund. The Startup Buddy aims to provide startups with the essential support they need, whenever they need it while providing investors with quality investment opportunities.

Some of the topics that Robin and I covered:

• Made his first money when he was 6 years old
• Years later played his recorder on the street to earn money
• Working for Accenture and what that taught him
• First time in Asia was a trip to China in 1997
• That trip inspired him to move to Asia
• Convincing his wife to support his dream to live in Asia and then moving to Singapore together as an adventure
• Following his entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore
• Both this brother and his father were running their own businesses
• Went to Startup Weekend in Singapore and won third prize
• Worked on a company for two years that ultimately failed
• The Startup Buddy
• The Zero Emissions Fund

Some other titles we considered for this episode:

1. I Had the Ambition to Become Prime Minister of the Netherlands
2. I Deal Really Badly With Hot Weather
3. For a Six-Year-Old, That Was a Lot of Money
4. Try Googling for Something that You Don’t Know You Should Do
5. A Practical Framework of How To Work With Customers
6. At This Point, We Don’t, But We Will