Latest Jenny fielding Podcast Episodes

Building and Knowing When to Step Away – with Ken Nguyen

Founder Rising - December 09, 2020 17:29 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Republic cofounder Ken Nguyen made the unlikely journey from general counsel and a law career to entrepreneur. In creating an investment platform for individual small investors, he seeks to democratize wealth. His company partners with Techstars and other investment platforms to connect startups...

Succeeding in Your Startup with the Support of Your Crew – with Tiffany Dufu

Founder Rising - November 18, 2020 14:44 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Cru founder Tiffany Dufu has dedicated her life to “advancing women and girls,” harnessing their ingenuity and talent for global benefit. The Cru matches circles of women who collaborate, both online and in person, to meet their life goals. Tiffany was lucky to have her own crew of supportiv...

Know the Problem That You’re Trying to Solve — with Jonathan Levin

Founder Rising - October 28, 2020 21:37 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
As a startup in the frontier market of cryptocurrency, Chainalysis made a name for themselves as a government investigation service for cryptocurrency. Graduates of the New York Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars, they now provide cryptocurrency analysis that helps organizations manage r...

Finding Motivation by Battling Yourself – with Shastri Mahadeo

Founder Rising - October 13, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
When Unioncrate cofounder Shastri Mahadeo struggled with predicting demand for his specialty tea and matcha import business, he discovered that this was a common supply chain management problem among suppliers of consumer packaged goods (CPG). He met a developer at a Techstars Startup Weekend, a...

Hacking Resilience by Celebrating Small Wins — with Laura Spiekerman

Founder Rising - September 29, 2020 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In 2015, Alloy’s empath founders saw the need to speed up the payment rails to improve financial services onboarding. With funding assistance as a Techstars Barclays Accelerator grad, they developed an identity operating system that banks and FinTechs use to manage their AML/KYC operations and f...

Live Recording: Take All Advice With a Grain of Salt — with Christie Horvath

Founder Rising - September 23, 2020 18:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Founders — especially first time founders — need to walk a careful line with advice. They need lots of it in order to make good decisions, but ultimately, every decision is theirs to make. Christie Horvath, founder of Wagmo, says her biggest tip to other founders is to “take everyone’s advice wi...

Customer Love — with Ben Uretsky

Founder Rising - September 16, 2020 19:37 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
DigitalOcean took on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and grew his company from a five-founder startup in the Techstars Boulder accelerator to a unicorn and highly successful cloud infrastructure provider.  “Customer love” in Ben’s words — the feedback from developers that DigitalOcean met their needs...