The Startup Playbook Podcast

In Episode 50 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I did followup interviews with 6 previous guests on the show to checkin on their progress and learnings over the last 10 months. The first guest is Tom Ellis, the Investment Director of Mai Capital, a VC fund that invests in opportunities looking to expand into the Chinese market. I […] The post Ep050: Followups, learnings and deep dive from the last 10 months appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 49 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Duncan Anderson, the Co-founder and Director of Edrolo. Duncan left a career with Goldmann Sachs and Google to found Edrolo, which provides Curriculum focused video lessons, exam practice, and study planning tools for year 12 students, teachers and schools. He and his co-founders went through the […] The post Ep049: Duncan Anderson (Co-Founder – Edrolo) on the cycles of learning appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 48 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Dave Scheine, an angel investor, startup advisor and global expansion expert. Dave can be considered one of the leading experts when it comes to global expansion. He helped expand Google’s offices and launch products such as G Suite in countries like India, Ireland and […] The post Ep048 – Dave Scheine (Angel Investor) on winning globally appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 47 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Glenn Gillen, a mentor and investor at Pick & Shovel. Glenn was an early hire at Heroku and led their Add-ons Marketplace business unit where he helped define go to market strategies for over 100 developer facing startups, several of them now well known billion […] The post Ep047 – Glenn Gillen (Investor – Pick & Shovel) on silver bullets and culture appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 46 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Simon Julian, the General Manager and Head of Monetisation at Sitepoint. Sitepoint is one of the world’s large online communities for Web Developers. It has been a pillar of the Victorian startup ecosystem since launching in 1999 with numerous successful spinoffs such as 99Designs and […] The post Ep046 – Simon Julian (GM – Sitepoint) on content and communities appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 45 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Andrew Walton, the Co-Founder and CEO of InteractSport. InteractSport provides software for sports at the national, state, association and club level. They work with organisations such as Cricket Australia, Netball Australia, Australian Rugby Union and The ECB in the UK. Their software collects information […] The post Ep045 – Andrew Walton (Co-Founder & CEO – InteractSport) on listening to customers appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for episode 44 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Terry Gold, the Managing Director of Techstars Adelaide. Prior to joining Techstars, Terry was the co-founder and CEO of Gold Systems, a company he ran for 23 years, the first 9 years of which were bootstrapped before taking $10M in VC investment from Mobius […] The post Ep044 – Terry Gold (MD – Techstars Adelaide) on values, hiring & saying yes appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In episode 43 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I sat down with Jon Baer, a successful founder, investor and author. Jon was the Founder and CEO of two venture backed companies, eBoomerang, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2006 and Artificial Muscle, Inc., a spinout from Stanford Research Institute (SRI). He then stepped […] The post Ep043 – Jon Baer (Founder, Investor, Author) on Decoding Silicon Valley appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In Episode 42 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I sat down with Al and Lucas Ramadan from Play Bigger. Al was one of the pioneers in the global movement of bringing analytics to sports. In the early 90’s he applied data science to the Americas Cup creating a new category of sports performance analytics. In […] The post Ep042 – Al and Lucas Ramadan (Play Bigger) On creating category kings appeared first on Startup Playbook.

In episode 41 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, I interview Kate Talbot, an author, marketer and entrepreneur. Kate has worked with companies and startups such as Virgin America, Kiva and Soldsie on growth marketing. She has also written for publications such as Kissmetrics and Social Media examiner, where she was one of the first people writing […] The post Ep041 – Kate Talbot (Author, Marketer, Entrepreneur) on using snapchat for business appeared first on Startup Playbook.