Startup Mindsets

The word entrepreneur has French origins and it means to start something. Today, Elodie de Marchi, Head of Growth at Kaiko joins us from Paris to talk about entrepreneurship and her career journey. We talk about   Leaving VM Ware, a 30,000 employee company to join Kaiko a scrappy startup with 16 employees  Why direction is vital in entrepreneurial environments  Her work in Corporate Venture Capital and Silicon Valley Bank  The contrast between France's startup scene and SV  Check out them out at www.kaiko.com Keep up with all things Startup Mindsets on startupmindsets.substack.com

In this episode, we talk to Anil Narasimha the CEO/Founder of Mekonos.  Mekonos is an innovative biotech startup building solution that enable  and accelerate precision medicine, synthetic biology & fundamental  science. We learn what it's like starting and running a biotech company from starting in a lab to becoming a product with real-life applications.

One in every two dogs and one in every three cats die from cancer. This statistic is alarming. Christina Lopes, the CEO/Founder of Fidocure, breaks down their mission of being the first precision medicine for pets. We learn about her inspiring career journey, the YCombinator experience, fundraising, the value of the humanities, and what FidoCure is actively doing to combat this issue.

We talk to a venture capitalist, startup founder, and a world-class operator on this episode. Amit shares his inspiring career journey. We discuss investing virtually compared to in-person, what it is like raising money for a startup, venture fund, and non-profit, and the career journey of being an early employee of Google, confounding Health IQ, working at Norwest Ventures, Samsung Next, and how Tau Ventures is leading the charge in applied AI early-stage deals.

Workplace happiness is in question a lot nowadays with high turnover rates and more and more employees disagreeing with management. In this episode, we catch up with our good friend Kelly Lei who helps employees find their belonging. Believing that we don't have just one purpose in life, Kelly's current purpose is to grow people and businesses into their full potential by helping people to create, invest, spend and give resources in alignment with their values.  If companies focused on ensuring workplace happiness and alignment, turnover rates would be lower and a happy workforce equals growth.

Innovation is a ubiquitous characteristic of startups and organizations in the tech world. In this episode, we talk to Jordan Sun, the Chief Innovation Officer of San Jose, California. We discuss what fits the innovation mold of the city and recent success in closing the digital divide. Moreover, we discover Maslow's hierarchy of needs, crisis response vs consensus-driven approach, and his time in the Army as a tech scout.

You can’t do it alone. Entrepreneurship can be isolating especially in the beginning. Today, we learn about Earl’s time in Techstar’s Western Union accelerator. We discuss virtual vs. in person work and learn about the value that having a tribe behind you provides. #startupmindsets

Madhu Iyer is presently a partner at RocketshipVC, a 140M fund that invests in global founders. In this episode, we talk about the South East Asian tech ecosystem, what it's like building a tech unicorn, GoJek, and growing Intuit's Quickbooks platform to 300 million USD.  #startupmindsets

We talk about the "Entrepreneurship Bug" and learn about Akshay's humbling journey growing up in India to flipping "WWE" wrestling cards. Today, Akshay is the Founder/CEO of Line, a rising startup which provides access interest-free line of  funds without credit-history, paychecks or credit scores. Power bank  accounts, bills, money transfers and more.   Find out more about Line at www.useline.com

Join us as we look at startup fundraising vs venture fundraising with the help of Ramphis Castro, Founding GP of ScienceVest.  Learn about why and how ScienceVest is solving the problem of access to capital for science fiction based founders.