Abyss Gazing
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -A podcast about how entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and the US are building their businesses and navigating these turbulent times. Check out www.abyssgazing.com for full show notes and transcripts.
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Telemedicine for Pets, She Eats Her Own Cat Food! Bootstrapped and growing rapidly
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBAthena started her career in banking after graduating from Carnegie Mellon. She got her first taste of entreprenurship helping to organise the Art Basel Art Fair in Hong Kong and got into the event planning industry. After that, she became the third employee at DoctorAnywhere, a telemedicine company based in Singapore, leaving to start her own pet telemedicine company with her friend. https://zumvet.com/ Learn her insights on: - bootstrapping the ZumVet app using an external techn...
He Buys SaaS Companies Using SBA Loans and Scales Them Up
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBCaleb is the founder of Compass Point Opportunity Fund. He has experience with buying and selling businesses from brick & mortar industries to info-marketing and SaaS. https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-page-6560142/ He shares with us: - Case studies of how he finds and does due diligence on deals ranging from a homeschooling business to forex trading software - Financing options from seller-based financing to SBA loans for acquiring a business - Sources you can use to find SaaS bu...
Every Time He Changes Careers, A Global Crisis Happens
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBZenos started his career working at Microsoft straight out of high school. After working for a few years, he left to travel the world while doing a degree, meanwhile starting a web agency together with his brother. He tried out a few startup ideas with his friend in Singapore before ending up with hmlet. https://www.hmlet.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenosschmickrath/ Learn: - how he got his start in entrepreneurship with selling auto parts in school - how he got a job at Mic...
How Biotech Startups Are Creating COVID-19 Vaccines
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBAkshaya Bansal finished a PhD studying how to use light to destroy cancer, joined Entrepreneur First to try her hand at entrepreneurship before joining Esco Ventures as an Associate. Learn about Esco Venture's venture programme for biotech experts, the biotech system in Southeast Asia, and about biotech approaches to developing COVID vaccines. https://www.escoventures.com/ Company Carmine Therapeutics (https://www.carminetherapeutics.com/) Book Age of Stagnation Tools Airtable ...
How Pakistan's Largest Telemedicine Platform did 10x more consultations during COVID-19
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBSara Khurrum is the founder of Sehat Kahani, Pakistan's leading telemedicine platform. She started the company after experiencing first-hand the problem of married female doctors in Pakistan having limited opportunities to leverage their skills in full time jobs. https://sehatkahani.com/ Learn: - she started out Sehat Kahani by partnering with rural clinics - how she gets more and more female medical talent on board - how she created the mobile app in a few weeks in partnership w...
How Rathin Shah Used A Picture of A Monkey to Get into Y-Combinator
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBRathin Shah is the CEO and Co-founder of Spenny, a FinTech app helping millennials in the Indian market invest their spare change. He started his career at JP Morgan, then launched his first startup creating pallets for shipping, which he exited before entering Entrepreneur First to launch Spenny. https://spennyapp.com/ Learn: - What he took away from JP Morgan that helped him on his startup journey - How he validated the idea that became Spenny using a picture of a monkey - his e...
How She Went From Writing Quests For Games to Helping Security Companies Manage Threats
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBJoining us is Natalie Doran, CEO and co-founder of Lytehouse, which does manages threat detection for security control centres. Learn about Natalie's journey from through the world of startups and social entrepreneurship to her current startup, Lytehouse. She shares her insights and experiences on: - the importance of co-founder fit, in terms of skills as well as alignment - working on startups with a mission driven by social impact - how she tried to validate a few prior startup ...
Largest digital pharma distributor in Russia, She 4Xed sales in first month of COVID
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBElena Vatutina is the founder and CEO of Pharma Global, Russia's leading digital pharmaceutical distributor and education platform. https://pharma.global/ Learn how: - she got started in entrepreneurship from teaching her classmates dancing, - she started Pharma Global as a pharmaceutical education company then transitioned into distribution and logistics. - how she increased her sales 4x during COVID Books Creative Inc Tools Slack iPad Entrepreneurs Evgeny Chichvarkin Advi...
Privyr helps Goat Farmers and Course Creators increase ROI by 10x
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBAaron grew up in the US, graduated from UC Berkley in CS where he joined an early stage startup in college before coming back to Singapore for National Service. He came back to Singapore and worked for larger corporations including Blackrock and GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, helping them deploy CRM software. https://www.privyr.com/ Learn about: - the time he almost wanted to ask his parents to legally disown him - how helping adoption of new software across an existing ...
Replacing toothbrushes and recycling food waste, he helps sustainable products go to market
June 22, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBBrice started his career helping football (soccer) clubs find sponsorships in Asia, then got into sustainability. He's running BizSu, where he helps sustainable products go-to-market and helps companies find sustainable solutions. https://bizsu.co/ Learn: - how he managed to get leading hotels to give him B2B deals on sustainable bottles - how he plans to transition to B2C distribution with COVID-19 Books Subtle art of not giving a fuck Alvin: [00:00:00] Hey guys, welcome to Ab...
How Andre Lorenceau Raised $1M In Two Days
June 22, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBAndre Lorenceau, serial entrepreneuer, Forbes 30 under 30, co-founder of LiveLike, a sports VR startup, and DiviGas, a startup aiming to revolutionize hydrogen purification talks about his journey into entrepreneurship, how he faced OCD, his struggles during his journey, tips about fundraising, and how he's dealing with the coronavirus situation with his current startup, Divigas. Books Hard Thing About Hrad Things Venture Deals Tools Trello Miro WhatsApp LinkedIn Sales Navigator ...