Demystifying the startup world for early-stage entrepreneurs through engaging interviews with the most important people from the startup ecosystem. We provide our listeners with a gentle push in the right direction to take action on their innovative ideas and to see entrepreneurship as a real opportunity to learn and hopefully succeed in business. Guests range from design thinking experts such as Prof. Ezri Tarazi (Ideo & Design Tech by Technion) and startup program managers like Thomas Schi ...
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Building a successful German food startup during COVID with Mathyas Lopez Redetzki
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Mathyas is the founder of El Origen a German food startup bringing healthy snacks from Latin America to Europe! They produce and distribute tasty organic plantain and manioc chips which are currently available in over 6000 stores in Germany. Unfortunately, this episode got interrupted by connection issues and I lost the first 20 minutes. But this s…
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3 simple steps to start your own company with Alan
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This week's podcast is a clip from an event I hosted together with Forge Accelerator in 2021. Most first-time entrepreneurs get overwhelmed in the beginning and struggle to know what their next steps should be. In this podcast, I go through 3 simple steps that you can use from TODAY to start building your own business. Each of the steps includes a …
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The most overlooked step in building a business with Adam Forbes
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If you're struggling with how to start building a start then look no further than this podcast! Developing deep relationships with your future customers as early as possible is absolutely critical for business success. And Adam Forbes is an expert in this area helping startups to accelerate their path to product market fit, spend efficiently on mar…
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25: Bootstrapping during times of war with Alyona Mysko
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If you're looking for a real-life example of how to build a startup, look no further than Alyona Mysko from Ukraine. She's the founder and CEO of FuelFinance a FinTech startup making finance cool again for startups and small businesses. Her journey to date has involved persevering through both COVID and the war in Ukraine. Throughout that time she …
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24: Why Startups Struggle to Scale with Olav Carlsen
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Olav Carlsen is a Silicon valley CFO veteran having worked with many startups there for over a decade taking two of those companies public. The most recent of those companies was PortalPlayer Inc. known for "delivering technology to Steve Jobs". They worked exclusively with Apple and provided almost everything that went into the first generation of…
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23: Why VCs are just like Startups with Dr. Alex Kern
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In this episode, Dr. Alex Kern and I go deep into the world of Venture Capital discussing how VCs are a lot of more Startups than you might think in terms of their structure as well as how VCs are financed and the competitive nature of the VC market. Alex also provides a nice overview of how VC funding is layered from pre-seed to Series A, B, etc, …
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22: comfort of successful investing comes with artificial intelligence
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Franz is the co-founder and head of business development at Sub Capitals a FinTech startup from XPRENERUS Incubator at UnternehmerTUM in Munich They’re democratizing access to artificial intelligence for everyday investors like me and you. They've just launched their platform neoland.ai where you can test out their amazing tailored AI experience on…
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21: How to become a leader at UnternehmerTUM with Patrick Remerscheid
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We're back after a long break! I'm joined this week by Patrick Remerscheid a scholar at the Manage and More program at UnternehmerTUM. Patrick gives you the full low down on this amazing program that is helping shape the future leaders and startup founders of Germany! It's an 18-month program open to bachelor and master's students from either Techn…
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20: Critical Thinking, Innovation & Startups with Karl Thomas
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#20 Startups are really good at running with an idea - usually in any and all directions possible - in a way we’re all good at running with things, going with the flow - but taking a step back to slow down and thinking critically about your business can be the difference between a failed first-time entrepreneur and a true innovator. Critical thinki…
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How to find a co-founder with Damla Obermeir (#19)
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The number 1 question I get asked as a startup coach is "How to find a cofounder" - it's not easy. Building relationships, in general, is hard but there are a few key things you can do along the way to improve your chances of finding the right person for your "startup marriage" because let's face it - it really is a marriage with your cofounder! Da…
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How an Ex-VC exited his innovation media startup with Matt C Smith (#18)
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Matt C Smith has been around the block a few times in the startup world. He's an ex-VC whose first investment became a unicorn, he's helped many startups scale in his role as COO & CFO & he exited his own "Innovation Infotainment" media startup after two short years. I call him a pioneer in this podcast and I think he really is. Making that switch …
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Sustainability through Battery Innovation with Simon Engelke (#17)
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Simon is the founder of Battery Associates a community of global talents who inspire and lead the future of battery innovation. He's a true visionary committed to improving the sustainability of our world through Battery Associates. They currently run a Battery MBA 3 times per year (something truly unique), they have an active & thriving community …
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Code University, carbon offsetting & Zebras with Niklas Terrahe (#16)
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Niklas is the co-founder of NUL a monthly carbon offset subscription helping companies to become climate neutral one team at a time. He's currently completing a unique bachelor's specifically designed for student entrepreneurs at CODE University in Berlin, Germany. In Niklas' own words CODE is "like an accelerator for students with a bachelor's deg…
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Inside a DeepTech Incubator with Barbara Mehner (#15)
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Barbara is a managing partner of Xpreneurs Incubator part of Europe's largest entrepreneurship center UnternehmerTUM. In this episode of the podcast, Barbara provides a behind-the-scenes look at a DeepTech Incubator & shares the exciting journey of one of our hugely successful alumni teams: Isar Aerospace. Xpreneurs offers promising Deeptech startu…
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Bringing Distruptive Tech to Surgery with Adrian Kilian (#14)
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Adrian Kilian is the co-founder and CEO of Mango Medical, a MedTech startup from Germany bringing Patient-specific implants to the operating room for surgeons. In this podcast, Adrian talks about Mango Medicals' journey so far in the MedTech world diving into the different programs they joined, difficulties they've faced along the way. Most importa…
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Deeptech Startup Diagnostic Tool with Vish Sahasranamam (#13)
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Vish Sahasranamam is the co-founder and CEO of FORGE Accelerator, one of the leading corporate & government-focused accelerators in India. In this podcast, Vish explains the many ways startups and aspiring entrepreneurs can engage with Forge Accelerator and shares his own personal story as an entrepreneur leading up to the founding of Forge. We als…
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Exiting a Bootstrapped Digital Health Startup with Annika Panoff (#12)
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Annika Panoff is passionate about digitization in healthcare - something that can be tricky to do in a conservative market with patients’ lives on the line. Despite the well-known difficulties with digitization in this space, Annika helped take a bootstrapped digital health startup, Exonor, to a successful EXIT while serving as COO / CFO. In this i…
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Lessons learned from a serial entrepreneur with Zee Floris (#11)
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Zee Floris, a serial founder from The Netherlands, shares his lessons from working on several of his own startups from baby gear and photo editing to his recent company focusing on food allergies. In this extremely open podcast Zee shares some of the reasons why his previous startup ideas failed and how the lessons from these failures have helped h…
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Top human resource issues in startups and how to fix them with Max Rupp (#10)
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Max Rupp goes in-depth on the most common mistakes made by startups when it comes to human resources and talent acquisition. He discusses why not having an HR process is a huge mistake for startups and he shares some fantastic tips for how to avoid these mistakes and grow a successful business and team. He also shares some great HR resources for fu…
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Deeptech, & Getting Your First Paying Customers with Pearse Coyle (#9)
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Pearse Coyle, a founder, and investor from Ireland goes in-depth about the state of startup funding in Europe, the barriers that deep tech startups face when transferring from academia to the market, and his secret sauce for helping tech founders validate their ideas early on. We also touch on the important but often overlooked source of funding fo…
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Bringing AI to Healthcare with Sam Tukra (#8)
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Sam is a Medical Engineer with a passion for machine learning. He's the founder and CEO of Third Eye Intelligence, a startup leveraging the complex data in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for their self-designing AI-driven early warning system. Their AI solution helps patients by predicting the risk of organ failure, mortality, and length of stay, in v…
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Innovation, change & conflict with Falko (#7)
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We all know that the weakness of some big companies is their lack of speed in adapting to changes and that for startups being agile is a major strength. But for both big companies and startups change management as part of the process of innovation is still something of a challenge. In this episode of the podcast, Falko Döring from Puzzle Innovation…
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The Entrepreneurial Masterclass at Technical University Munich with Niclas Mauss (#6)
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Technical University of Munich consistently ranks as the top university in Germany for entrepreneurship through their own unique programs and their relationship with UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s largest entrepreneurship center. In this podcast, Niclas-Alexander Mauss and I discuss TUM’s latest push to support student entrepreneurs even more with their …
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A New African European Startup Program with Simin k. Fard (#5)
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In this episode of the podcast, Simin k. Fard from UnternehmerTUM International goes in-depth about the African European Digital Venture Program (AEDV). After over 150 applications the AEDV program has selected 6 startups from Ghana and Tunisia to join this 3-month virtual pre-accelerator program. The aim is to give these 6 startups access to know-…
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How To Build A Community with Dr. Jagadeesh Gandla (#4)
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Jagadeesh is a community builder that has positively impacted the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people through the various initiatives he has started such as the Indian Empowerment Network and DareToStart. His whole life is based around community building and impacting people’s lives at scale. This is something that I‘m extremely interested…
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Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs with Anna Bayer & Adrián Ng González (#3)
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I'm joined by Anna Bayer and Adrián Ng González from UnternehmerTUM International to discuss the Erasmus for the Young Entrepreneurs program! This program provides some cool opportunities for both Startups and Companies looking to host budding entrepreneurs and for young entrepreneurs to travel across Europe and get mentored by experienced startups…
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A Fresh Approach for Design Thinking with Prof. Ezri Tarazi (#2)
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In this episode of the podcast, I got a chance to chat with Prof. Ezri Tarazi, a world-renowned industrial designer, theorist of Design Thinking, and serial startup co-founder. Prof. Tarazi has been consulting the Israeli government on innovation programs in the industry for almost 20 years and co-founded the IDEO branch in Israel. Prof. Tarazi, to…
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Democratizing access to Business Opportunities with Thomas Schier (#1)
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I got a chance to sit down with Thomas Schier, co-founder of Disruptors.ai (previous name "STARTUP Anywhere" mentioned in the podcast) to speak about his exciting journey through the startup ecosystem and the launch of his brand new program for global entrepreneurs that helps bridge the gap with incubators and accelerators across the world. Check o…
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