39: Rocco Haro (Kickback Space)
Revenue: Real Startup Stories
English - July 07, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Technology revenue technology ecommerce dtc saas startups founders Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 38: Maksymilian Podraza (Accenture)
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Rocco Haro is the Founder of Kickback Space, a 3D video communications company. In this episode, we talk about Rocco going from a software developer to a startup founder including the mistakes he made along the way and the first steps he made after coming up with the initial concept.
Our discussion focuses heavily on the early days of a tech startup, where things are very abstract. The key, from my point of view, is to really refine your idea, talk to potential customers, and get them to buy into your vision early. Think in terms of hours or days, not months or years.
GUEST
Rocco Haro LinkedIn
Kickback Space Website
PODCAST
Safa Mahzari
Patreon
Alluxo Website
RESOURCES
"Super Founders" by Ali TamasebTERMS
EE = electrical engineering
IDE = integrated development environment
Flask = Python micro web framework
LSTM = long short term memory
Overfit = when a statistical model is too many parameters tied to a set of data points, making it hard to be useful on any another set of data
Underfit = when a statistical model has too few parameters and cannot adequately capture the structure of the data
Ambivert = someone with a balance of introverted and extroverted features
Tech debt = the cost of rework needed to be done in the future due to shortcuts today
GPU = graphics processing unit
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Episode intro
0:52 - Rocco's background
4:46 - Being a software developer
14:08 - Being a solo founder vs. co-founder
23:11 - What is Kickback Space?
37:16 - Recruiting a team and focusing efforts
56:40 - Wrap up and final thoughts