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Erika Aquino is the founder of M Squad, an organization dedicated to supporting women and minority-owned startups in the areas of sustainability, wellness, education and the future of work. Her career began with corporate roles at Shell, financial services, and as a PR manager at Mandarin Oriental before moving into the startup space with Lendo, where she played a key role in scaling the user base. Erika later took on leadership positions at Infinit-O, where she contributed to their foundation’s philanthropic efforts, and also founded Cebruery, Artisan Ales, a craft beer company in Cebu, which marked a major turning point in her career. The pandemic had a significant impact on her brewery, prompting her to shift focus toward startup investing. Today, she uses her extensive experience to mentor and guide startups globally, helping them achieve a balance between profit and purpose.

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Michael Bantigue Walter Boo are the dynamic co-founders of Invesko, a Filipino-founded investment platform, Invesko's growth was driven by a $1.6 million seed round from regional VC firms in early 2023. The company allows investors to build diversified portfolios with minimal capital by offering fractional shares, SIPC protection, and instant portfolios, thus promoting financial growth and security. Michael shares his journey from working with global brands like Starbucks and Lululemon to leading tech efforts in New York and Hong Kong. Walter, starting fresh in Singapore's startup scene, quickly rose to COO of Invesko. Together, they discuss their inspiration for Invesko, their mission to democratize investments in the Philippines, and the challenges of building a user-friendly stock trading platform.

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Artie Lopez joins us in this episode to share his unique journey coming from a startup coach to become a startup Founder. He also shares the incredible hustle that startups do in order to survive in an investment winter where runways are short. He also shares an amazing #FoundersOnlyTop5 brought to you by Shoppable Business.

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Artie’s Top 5 Founders

Ray Refundo: https://bit.ly/46hCq8r

Gab Benito: https://bit.ly/3soJKjb

Roland Ros & Rexy Dorado: https://bit.ly/3IXZQp2

Sergius Santos, Bradley Cua and Matt Levin Tan

Jason Deniega, Adrian Dayrit & Dan

Special Mention:

Don Pansacola and Aldrich Lim

Lionel Belen

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JT Solis, Ochie San Juan, Lance Villanueva, and Ronald Dime of Mayani join us in this episode where they talk about how they are solving Philippines' agriculture distribution problem. They will share their vast individual experiences that include startups, legal, agriculture and more along with how they bonded over a common goal of helping farmers during the pandemic. They will also share the extreme hurdles they had to overcome during the pandemic and how they were able to scale their ops. They will also share how they raised their $1.7M seed round along with their immediate plans on scaling Mayani further.

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Carlo Ople of Unbox joins us in this episode to talk about how he turned his side hustles in content creation to the famous Unbox Group. He shares how he got his headstart in public speaking by helping his family and how we fell in love with the internet growing that became a springboard in pursuing his first jobs. Carlo also shares the major turning point on why he became very particular in pursuing jobs and side hustles that give him satisfaction that became his fuel to do his side hustles and corporate job. He also shares how he built the Unbox team through the years that paved the way for him to take the full time jump to becoming an entrepreneur. 

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Bo Discarga of Betterteem joins us in this episode to share about how he solved the most pressing human resource problems using his HR analytics company. He also looked back on the struggles he had in his formative years working in fast food chains and starting his BPO career, even before he graduated college. He also shared how his early hustles contributed experience that had brought him into discovering his passion for human resource. Bo also discussed problems in the HR field and how creating Betterteem solved these problems.

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David Bonifacio of Bridge Southeast joins us in this episode as he talks about how they are solving payroll for Filipino companies. David shares how he started his hustle with saving his father's company leading him into the right mindset as he built Bridge. He also shares how they impact the lives of employees using Bridge's payroll system. He also adds how he became a VC with TNB Aura and how he invests in Christian companies with Archangel Impact Capital.

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Well known standup comedian and podcaster James Caraan of The Koolpals joins us in this episode to share the science behind his comedy and how he balances his passion and IT career. James will share his origin story and his lifelong dream of being an actor along with how he ended up in IT. He also shares how he has progressed in his IT career that allowed him to pursue his passion in comedy over the years. He also provides context on the science of how he does his comedy and how it resembles the process of sales and persuasion.

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For our season premiere for 2023, Amanda Cua of Backscoop joins us to share her inspiring journey from being on a gap year in college to creating Southeast Asia's most promising media startups. Amanda will share her early hustles in school and how she decided to take a gap year after high school before going to college because of the pandemic. She will also share how she ended up working in tech startups despite not having any experience and how she was able to learn lots of new things in a short amount of time. She will also share how she created BackScoop and how they grew their following quickly and how they were able to raise funds to kickstart their young journey.

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For our season finale for 2023, Koh Onozawa of Bit2Me joins us to share they became the biggest crypto company in Spain. Koh will share his origin story being raised in an entrepreneurial family in Cebu and launching the award-winning Loudbasstard natural amplifiers. He will also share how he decided to move to Spain and how he was able to join Bit2Me early on as an adviser until he became Co-CEO through the years. Koh also shares the amazing journey Bit2Me had to undergo in order to become the company that they are today along with the exciting things that are in store for Web3 in the years to come.

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