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B2B Startups CAN Create Sustainable Deal flow |Here's How 💸🚀
jeudi 17 août 2023 • Durée 32:40
Zoltan Vardy spent 20 years in the international corporate world, exited his own startup, and went on to found The Launch Code ( @launchcode9265 ), which reads like a professional playbook for creating sustainable B2B Deal Flow. He's worked with over 200 startups worldwide and shares his knowledge with us on the podcast about what startups SHOULD and SHOULD NOT be thinking about as they develop their sales pipeline.
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Zoltan's Special Offer:
https://zoltanvardy.com/podcast/
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to
1:08 - What Startups NEED TO KNOW about B2B sales that they usually don't
4:40 - Rabbit Deer and Elephant
7:01 - How lead generation has changed over last 5-10 years with new technology
9:48 - How The Launch Code looks at the structure of a startup
12:48 - Should startups hire sales people or train them themselves?
14:28 - How introverted founders can do sales
18:09 - How to prepare a startup for leaving home market and entering US or UK?
25:40 - When SHOULD a startup hire an experienced sales professional?
28:02 - WLD - Every startup getting a startup coach or mentor
30:50 - WLD Big Corporates doing more deals with startups that are riskier
Rise Europe Aims to Overtake the US's Startup Ecosystem | Marisa Schneider - UnternehmerTUM
jeudi 10 août 2023 • Durée 20:03
How do you bring an entire continent's startup ecosystem to the next level and beyond?
Marisa Schneider from @UnternehmerTUMGmbH with their Rise Europe network aims to do exactly that. Bring together the biggest names in the European Startup Scene and Academia like ETH Zurich and Oxford University.
Watch this space to see how they could, in time, rival silicon valley! 🚀
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to the Episode: Rise Europe Aims to Overtake the US's Startup Ecosystem 🇺🇸🔫
1:02 - What is Rise Europe?
2:05 - We want to be on top, but we don't want to be alone on top
3:13 - The May 17th startup multiplier conference?
6:24 - German unicorn, French unicorn...this is what we want to get away from
7:16 - Every member nominates startups for the program
8:48 - What support do the startups get once accepted?
10:34 - What do startups give up for this strong network of multipliers?
11:56 - How to know when the EU has caught up to the US?
13:23 - How important is the absolute number of startups in Europe?
14:25 - What must institutions do for Europe to rise in startups?
16:20 - Europe's USP
18:05 - How to get in touch or follow Rise Europe?
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CONTENDER: From being scammed to CEO | Co-Tasker CEO Tarek Abousamra
jeudi 20 juillet 2023 • Durée 12:50
Co-Tasker was born when CEO Tarek had a horrible experience doing freelance work online. Since then he has invested his time and passion into building a platform that allows people to book a helping hand for any task, big or small, and puts trust at the forefront with data as his secret weapon ⚔️
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to
1:35 - I got scammed
2:00 - Building trust inside the company and with your users?
3:23 - A Typical Use Case - Home Improvements
4:53 - Collecting data EVEN BEFORE he needed it
6:15 - How is data helping shape Co-Tasker now?
7:36 - How did TechStars help Co-Tasker move forward?
9:13 - The Co-Tasker community and how they're building it
11:40 - The plan for Co-Tasker over the next year? RAISE FUNDS and expansion
ON-SITE CONTENDER: This Startup does the Dev Work For You when you Scale Up | Softup's Daniel Kazani
jeudi 13 juillet 2023 • Durée 05:04
Startups are always running out of dev capacity at crucial points, but with Softup that's a problem of the past. They can scale up your dev team for you with a turnkey service aimed at startups and scaleups.
We interviewed Daniel Kazani, Co-Founder at Softup while visiting WERK1 to get a sneak peak in at their brand new co-working and co-living facilities.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to This Startup does the Dev Work For You when you Scale Up
0:18 - How does Softup fix digital development problems for companies?
1:04 - Recruiter or Staffer?
1:28 - Coming to Softup after investment and ready to scale
2:01 - Experiences at old and new WERK1 coworking space - events and networking
3:08 - Just relaxing at the events or intense networking?
4:02 - What's on Softup's dashboard for the next year?
4:42 - Outro to This Startup does the Dev Work For You when you Scale Up
ON-SITE CONTENDER: Climate Crisis Fix with Green Hydrogen | Turn2X's Dominik Schollenberger
mercredi 12 juillet 2023 • Durée 05:03
Green Hydrogen is beginning to replace Natural Gas and Turn2X is leaning in.
We interviewed CTO Dominik Schollenberger during out visit to @werk122 to learn about some of the startups in their co-living and co-working space.
Dominik gives us a look into the important green tech work they're doing to help with the climate crisis as well his experiences as a Co-Liver and Co-Worker at WERK1!
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to Climate Crisis Fix with Green Hydrogen | Startup Turn2X
0:09 - What does Turn2X do in the green energy market?
0:59 - Who are their customers?
1:30 - Can green hydrogen switch out natural gas?
2:16 - Demo plant up and running. Seed funding is next
2:45 - Turn2X is one of the first in the WERK1 Co-Living space
3:05 - First impressions as more startups move in to Co-Living Space
3:29 - Advantages of being the Co-Working space at WERK1
4:09 - Challenges and goals for the next year
4:42 - Outro from What does Turn2X do in the green energy market?
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CoLiving & CoWorking at WERK1 in Munich...ReMaking the Startup Experience | Luka Schnee WERK1 Operations Manager
vendredi 7 juillet 2023 • Durée 08:51
CoLiving is a NEW concept being pioneered by WERK1, who are already known around Germany for their Incubator and CoWorking experience!
Billed as the Most Startup Friendly Place in Munich...WERK1...Let us in for a tour and a chat with Luka Schnee, the CoLiving Operations Manager tasked with turning this brand new building into a thriving community of startup founders.
This is why they're calling it:
"The Perfect SOFT LANDING for a Startup Entering the Munich Ecosystem"
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🗣️ OUR DISCUSSION:
1. What is WERK1 CoLiving and CoWorking?
2. How to apply?
3. What's the WHY behind the new CoLiving concept?
4. What's the experience going to be like on a typical day for CoLiving tenants?
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro to Can WERK1 in Munich ReMake the Startup Experience in 2023?
0:45 - What's been happening over the past couple months leading up to opening?
1:13 - Coliving Apartment Description
1:49 - What comes next for CoWorking?
2:19 - What do people have to do to live in the CoLiving space?
2:36 - How to apply
3:25 - Do CoLivers need to have an association with Werk1 already?
3:59 - What's the difference between old and new CoWorking space?
4:38 - Why make a CoLiving space instead of more CoWorking?
Germany's Top Startup Accelerator on WHY Founders Fail | Eric Weber CEO of SpinLab The HHL Accelerator
jeudi 29 juin 2023 • Durée 38:38
Eric Weber, CEO & Founder of @spinlab-thehhlaccelerator2078 , quite probably Germany's Top Startup Accelerator, discusses with us WHY Founders Fail using a series of Founder Personas they've put together to help guide a startup's development, while enabling founders to recognise certain personality characteristics that can land them in hot water.
This was a FASCINATING conversation! 🤓
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Subscribe on YouTube for the rest of the Persona Videos COMING SOON!
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🎙️ IN OUR DISCUSSION:
1. How does SpinLab HHL stay on top of the Startup Accelerator Rankings?
2. How much should we trust venture capital investment as an indicator of startup success?
3. SpinLab is expanding and opening up accelerator tracks for specific verticals
4. Two of Eric's eight Personas for Founders That Often Fail
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro to Germany's Top Startup Accelerator on WHY Founders Fail
1:04 - What is SpinLab's secret sauce?
2:46 - How does SpinLab measure success for itself?
5:58 - How venture capital can be an indicator of likelihood of failure?
7:42 - How do investors move from wanting revenue before investing but growth after investing?
8:38 - SpinLab's spinoff accelerators Root Camp, Bitlab and more
11:41 - Synergies with farmers who they were already helping with renewables, now with Root Camp they help with Agri-business
Is Analog/Digital Hybrid the Future in 2023! 💾🚀
vendredi 23 juin 2023 • Durée 12:29
Did you know that 70% of the chips in your mobile are analog?
I didn't either until I talked with Sven Köppel of Anabrid Technologies, a German startup who are creating an analog chip for the future that combines the flexibility of digital, with the power and security of analog.
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🎙️ In Our Discussion:
1. What is NEW about Analog Technology?
2. How can Analog help with Security?
3. What are the downsides of Analog that startup Anabrid is working to change?
4. Anabrid now and into the future...selling and raising a funding round for the future of their startup
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⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 - Intro to AI What? Analog/Digital Hybrid is the FUTURE in 2023
0:27 - What is New Analog Technology from Anabrid?
1:18 - How does analog computing help with security?
3:32 - A use case...VERY complex computing problems
5:31 - What are the downsides to analog computing?
7:41 - Building an analog system with economies of scale, like digital is now
9:39 - Anabrid is already on the marketing selling, and raising a Series A round
11:15 - Anabrid's priorities for the next 12 months
11:53 - Outro AI What? Analog/Digital Hybrid is the FUTURE in 2023
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CONTENDER: Startup Offers Home Office as a Service 🤩
jeudi 15 juin 2023 • Durée 09:02
So what is Home Office as a Service and how is it solving the growing problems of isolation, health and well-being problems inherent to working from home?
Niao Wu, cofounder of the German Startup Onyo, talks with us about being an early stage startup fixing home office problems using community and furniture 🙃, and the importance of finding a good cofounder!
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🎙️ In Our Discussion:
1. The problems of working remotely compared to being at the office
2. What is home office as a service?
3. How important it is the core team does sales and finding a strong cofounder
4. The next 12 months...experimentation and sales growth
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⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 - Intro to CONTENDER | This Startup Offers Home Office as a Service?
0:19 - Onyo..Working ON YO terms
0:57 - Comparing working conditions at home to working in offices
1:48 - Getting back aches from working at home
2:13 - Onyo...digital platform to help companies take care of their people
2:36 - Onyo...home office as a service
4:37 - What stage is Onyo at?
4:56 - One year in and making sales
5:13 - Something Niao has learned she wish she knew at the beginning
5:23 - Need a strong cofounder. Take the time to find one.
The Network Startups Dream Of ➡️ XPRENEURS Incubator & Munich Urban Colab!
mercredi 14 juin 2023 • Durée 21:00
👏🏻 The Munich Urban Colab puts startups together in same building as government and BIG private industry with no barriers or hierarchy.
Water cooler moments galore!
👏🏻 The XPRENEURS Incubator Program has begun offering industry-specific tracks made to give the kind of vertical-focused help they need
👤 Dr Leo Martinez is an exited founder himself who now mentors startups at the XPRENEURS program from @UnternehmerTUMGmbH , situated in the Munich Urban Colab.
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🎙️ In Our Discussion:
1. Leo's Work with startups at the XPRENEURS Incubator
2. The Munich Urban Colab is networking center helping startups thrive!
3. The Details of the XPRENEURS Program
4. NEW! Industry tracks for specific startup help at the XPRENEURS Incubator
5. Problems startups face going forward that the incubator is helping with
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⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 - Intro The Network Startups Dream Of ➡️ XPRENEURS Incubator & MUC
0:29 - Leo's journey from Mexico to Germany, building and exiting a startup, and coming back to TUM
1:55 - How closely does Leo work with the startups at XPRENEURS?
3:07 - Is Leo assigned teams that match with his skillset?
3:50 - Does anyone go through the XPRENEURS program twice?
4:20 - How long has UnternehmerTUM been at the Munich Urban Colab?
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