Founder Smart - Startup Podcast

In this Episode, Susanne & Patrick, and I talking to Cooper Jones, co-founder, and CEO of Rah Rah. Rah rah is a platform that helps college students to make sense of campus life and, for example, ...

Just imagine, you graduated from Harvard in Theology and become a pastor. And then, you leave everything behind and start a software company that is providing language and translation services. You ra...

Thank you for tuning into Founder Smart. Your podcast about entrepreneurship. Finding the right co-founder, and validating your idea without spending a fortune are two topics that are really impo...

Hello and welcome to another founder smart episode. Today, we’re talking to Todd Heine a successful US immigration attorney turned founder! Forbes Magazine crowned Todd the US Visa Whisperer, as he he...

It’s Wednesday and you know exactly what’s coming: a new episode of founder smart! Today, our guest is Jose Herrera, co-founder, and CEO of Hire Horatio. Jose is talking about how his job at Wall...

Welcome to another founder smart episode, this time with Daniela Corrente, who is the CEO & co-founder of Reel, a fintech startup that helps consumers to save up, so that they don’t have to take o...

It’s Wednesday, we all know what this means: a new Founder Smart episode. Today, our guest is Michael Maylan, co-founder and COO of Stasis Labs and a fellow Forbes 30 under 30. Stasis is a really awes...

In this episode, we’re talking to Emily Hochman about her entrepreneurial journey and her startup Wellory. In this weeks podcast, Emily explains how she came up with her start-up idea, how she go...

It is time for another Founder Smart episode. Today our guest is Ariel Elizarov, Co-Founder and CEO of Lazarus, a startup in the digital health space that helps doctors to catch cancer early. We ...

Today we’re talking to Brandon Fassberg, Founder of the Avocado Club. We talk about how to start a food business and what you need to know when considering crowdfunding such as Kickstarter for your st...

Today we’re doing something a little different. BBC host Quentin Cooper spoke to Susanne about how we transitioned from MindMate to Citruslabs. We talk about all highs and lows and what you can do whe...

On today's podcast, we welcome Sara Bates, Co-Founder & CEO of MamaMend the go-to resource for childbirth, recovery, and postpartum health. We talk about bootstrapping, when it’s the right time to...

For this week's episode, we talked to Anuj Bhalla, Founder & CEO of servicemob. Anuj is an ex-management consultant turned entrepreneur. He has over 10 years of consulting work under his belt and ...

Our guest today is Jay Kapoor, a Venture Capitalist, Angel Investor, and an all-around great guy. Today we talk fundraising with a special focus on your first round of venture capital. What are invest...

Today we’re talking to Maex Ament. Maex is a successful serial entrepreneur with multiple exits under his belt. Maex, a founder with multiple exits under his belt, shares his take on Silicon Valley, w...

Our guest today is Alyssa Petersel, who is CEO and Co-Founder of MyWellbeing a leading platform in the mental health space. Today we talk about starting a business as a solo founder and how to take ca...

Today we are talking to Matt Volm about his experience of shutting down his startup Tali. Matt shares the mistakes he made and talks about strategies on what founders can do to spot problems early. He...

Today we are talking to Ben Taylor, who is the co-founder and CEO of Softledger, a FinTech startup in the accounting space. With Ben, we talk about how to start a business in a highly regulated indust...

Our guest today is Monique Villa, who is an investor with Mucker Capital, a venture fund based out of Los Angeles. One of Mucker's capitals portfolio companies Honey just was sold for $4 billion to Pa...

Our guest today is Yashar Faranjani, who is co-founder and CEO of dental hardware startup smiletronix. We talk about the difficulties of starting a hardware startup and discuss strategies on how to ov...

Many founders dream to start their business in the US and in particular the Silicon Valley. However, for non-US nationals, moving to the US can be a challenge. Our guest Liran Rosenfeld and his compan...

Warum wir uns für ein Remote Team Modell entschieden haben besprechen wir in der heutigen Folge. Was sind Vorteile und Probleme und was müsst ihr beachten wenn ihr dieses neue Modell der Arbeit bei eu...

Heute geht es um das Thema: Krise! Der Coronavirus legt gerade überall auf der Welt das soziale Leben und die Wirtschaft lahm. Einige Wirtschaftsgurus sagen bereits eine größere Krise als die im Jahr ...

Heute geht es das Thema Start-up Accelerator. Im Detail wollen wir uns auf den Accelerator Techstars fokussieren, der einer der besten Accelerator Progamme der Welt ist. Wir haben das Programm in 2016...

Auch beim Thema des heutigen Podcasts geht es wieder um Investment. Letztes mal haben wir die Top 10 Fragen die Investoren gerne stellen besprochen. Heute geht es um die Fragen die du einem Investor s...

Und heute geht es um die Investoren Fragerunde, die Q&A nach dem Pitch und wir reden um die Top 10, die Top 10 Fragen die die Investoren euch stellen werden, UND, warum die Investoren das fragen. ...

In der heutigen Sendung geht es um das Thema Fundraising mit dem Fokus auf die perfekte Vorbereitung. Wir sprechen über: Was ist Due Diligence Welche Materialien brauche ich für Investoren Wie si...

In der heutigen Folge geht es um das Thema "das erste Investment". Wir besprechen unter anderem: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einer Pre-seed Runde und einer Seed-Runde Welche Typen von Investor...

Heute geht es um das Thema: Silicon Valley. Sehnsuchtsort vieler deutscher Startup Gründer. Aber: muss man wirklich ins Silicon Valley um erfolgreich zu sein? Patrick und ich haben dazu sehr viel zu s...

Heute geht es um das Thema: Der erste Kunde. Wir fokussieren uns under anderem auf: Eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung wie wir den ersten Kunden gewonnen haben Welche Sales Tools haben wir verwende...

Heute geht es um das Thema Produkt. Wir befassen uns mit den Fragen: Wie komme ich von einer Idee zu einem Produkt? Wie kann ich einen Prototypen kostengünstig entwickeln? Wie validiere ich meine ...

Du hast eine gute Startup Idee, bist dir aber nicht sicher, ob du lieber alleine gründen solltest oder einen Mitgründer an Board holen sollst? Du hast bereits jemanden gefunden mit dem du ein Startup ...

Wie started man eigentlich ein Unternehmen? Wie findet man eine Idee und braucht man gleich Investment? Die beiden Unternehmer Susanne Mitschke und Patrick Renner sprechen über Motivationen, Ideenfind...