#6 Ariel Poler, Reveri Health | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann

Ariel Poler is the founder of Reveri Health, a company in the human augmentation space that helps millions of people relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain and insomnia through Alexa-based programs.

Prior to Reveri Health, Ariel has founded and ran three Internet companies: I/PRO, Topica & TextMarks. He was an active board member at a number of technology companies, including Strava, Kana Software, LinkExchange, StumbleUpon, Silicon Investor & Odeo.

He currently serves on the boards of NeoSensory, Freedom Financial, HUMM & Returnly.Ariel is also an active angel investor. His investments include AdMob, Thumbtack, Flixster, Slideshare, Cornershop, Optimizely, Brightroll, Clearbit, Pantheon, Instructables, VivaReal, Mashery, Viki, AngelList, Homelight, Bios Health, Change.org and NexTag.

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Ariel Poler, Reveri Health | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #6

00:00 What brought Ariel to the internet space in his early days as an entrepreneur

06:37 Is it a good way to raise capital early on to start your company?

08:06 How much equity should you give away as a founder when the company is still young?

11:02 How to build a great team

13:06 How do you decide which opportunity to go for?

15:53 Working on several projects in parallel vs sequential working

18:11 What Ariel enjoys about being early in new business spaces

21:18 What project Ariel is focusing on right now

24:53 Can you apply the 80/20 rule to determine what founders should focus on in the early days?

27:18 What Ariel looks on to determine product-market fit

30:14 How important is it to generate early revenue?

33:00 The #1 mistake founders commit

35:00 Best practices for hiring slow

37:40 Besides Human Augmentation, what else should founders have on their radar?

39:36 Final advice for entrepreneurs who want to make it real