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Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

Startup Life Show - Ande Lyons

Are you curious about how a business is born – why someone was compelled to leave a paycheck and benefits behind to head off into the wild blue yonder, without a safety net, navigating high levels of uncertainty, and risking financial ruin?Entrepreneurship is an adventure, and you will love hearing these phenomenal founders share their nail-biting moments and their uplifting wins – often occurring within hours of each other in any given day!As a 4x Founder I easily resonate with each guest"s uniqe

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57:06

EP 189 Ugandan Startup Recycles Plastic Waste into...

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons ·

2022/04/15

Serial and social entrepreneur Ronald Mugaiga has a powerful, purpose-driven mission for his Ugandan startup, Ecomak Recyclers.To build eco-friendly products solving waste pollution, poverty and unemployment while mitigating climate change and creating jobs for marginalized women and youth.Ecomak Recyclers is a social enterprise developing eco-friendly, durable and long-lasting building plastic bricks and blocks from post-consumer plastic waste using a chemical free and energy saving extrusion

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EP 188 Building a Curated Fashion Marketplace for...

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2022/04/12

Looking stylish and fashionable doesn’t have to end after you reach 45!Our guest, serial entrepreneur Janice Ozguc, is the Co-Founder of VNV – a curated, fashion marketplace that solves for fit, style and easy discovery for the modern woman whose desire to look great has not changed even though her body and fashion preferences have.Frustrated by the lack of stylish clothing for women over 45, Janice (a Baby Boomer) and her co-founder Rachel Stevens (a millennial) teamed up and launched VNV on

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58:57

EP 187 Best Advice for Launching a Biotech Business

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2022/04/08

Our guest, Nicole Homer, is Co-founder and COO of biotech startup Hx Innovations, where they are transforming biomechanics technology into a portable camera to enable coaches and trainers to collect human movement analytics to individualize training programs, determine levels of fatigue, enhance return to play protocols, and safeguard against foot and ankle injuries. Nicole drives the mission, vision, and direction of the company; creating and implementing business operations strategies; forming

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EP 186 Connecting Early-Stage Startups and Investors

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2022/04/05

Are you tired and discouraged from cold calling investors?Our guest, Eleanor Haglund, is the Founder of Allianse, a platform that provides a warm introduction to investors.The Allianse platform connects investors to vetted founders in an unbiased way both through search and tailored recommendations. Entrepreneurs get introductions to capital aligned with their mission and investors get early access to (and the ability to follow the journey of) startup deals they might otherwise miss.Allianse also

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59:50

EP 185 Scaling a Global Marketplace for Media...

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2022/03/29

Is it possible to build a global platform for media production and creatives, raise two rounds of capital and lead a fully remote team at the age of 22 and without a high school degree?Our guest, Jonas Ngoenha, says YES YOU CAN! He’s the Co-Founder & CEO of Beazy, a SaaS-enabled marketplace for content production based out of Switzerland and Mozambique. A photographer, freerunner, and a high-school drop-out, Jonas is proving that you can’t let the world define your founder journey.Launched in 2018,

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EP 184 Simplifying Minority Compliance in the...

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2022/03/25

What happens when a woman civil engineer decides to change the minority landscape in the construction industry?She builds an app that easily and instantly connects top-rated minority subcontractors and job seekers with construction contractors!Our guest, serial entrepreneur Angela Sanchez, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Merge-Tek - a social enterprise for construction stakeholders to discover, connect and track compliance for services from minority owned businesses. She is also the Founder and CEO of

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EP 183 Teaching Women How to Use Their Writing Skills...

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2022/03/22

Can you actually make a living as a writer, while making an impact?Our guest, Javacia Harris Bowser, is an award-winning freelance journalist and the founder of See Jane Write, which a friend of hers once called “the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pens.” See Jane Write is a website and community for women who write and blog that Javacia founded in 2011 in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Her newly released book, Find Your Way Back, is a collection of essays that demonstrate how Javacia used writing

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EP 182 LatinX and Woman Owned VC Firm Addressing...

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons ·

2022/03/18

Until we change who writes the check, we can’t change who receives the check.In 2016 our guest, Senofer Mendoza, Founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures, launched her purpose-driven venture capital firm to address the funding gap in pre-seed investment.Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture investing in areas where they have deep domain expertise, using a proven due diligence model. The firm focuses on diversity as playing an important role in

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EP 181 How to Dissolve the Mental Blocks Holding...

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2022/03/15

Are your thoughts preventing you from successfully leading your startup? Our guest, Chana Mason, understands how negative thoughts can hold us back from success.A gang of armed men broke into Chana’s childhood home in Bogota, Colombia, and held her family hostage. Her family miraculously fled to Miami, but 5-year-old Chana’s sense of safety was decimated.Two decades later, Chana still dealt with PTSD, anxiety, and depression. To heal herself, she dove into a journey to rediscover her peace and joy

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EP 180 Using Entrepreneurship to Ignite the Potential...

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2022/03/11

Entrepreneurship isn’t just for adults.Our guest, Ayele Shakur, is the CEO of BUILD.org, a national nonprofit whose mission is to use entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities and propel them to high school, college, and career success.BUILD’s unique program offers students a four-year entrepreneurship experience designed to reinforce the Common Core, develop 21st Century Skills and motivate student engagement in school. Starting in 9th grade, BUILD students

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EP 179 Franchising a Brick and Mortar plus App...

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2022/03/01

When you feel good, you can take on the world!Our guest, Brittany Driscoll, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Squeeze, a way better massage experience from the founders of Drybar. In fact, she was the person who took DryBar from $30M to more than $100M in revenue.Squeeze’s revolutionary app-based booking and payment platform makes scheduling, paying, tipping, and rating easy, peasy, so you simply float out with the ability to tip and rate your therapist at your leisure. You can personalize services

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EP 178 How to Lead Your Startup During a Turbulent Time

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2022/02/25

Turbulent times will happen when you're scaling a startup.Are you prepared? How do you lead when your startup’s growth slows, plateaus, or even declines?When turbulence hits, you must know how to communicate effectively with your team, investors, customers… AND manage your own turbulent internal dialogue!Our guest, Monique Maley, is a CEO, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. In 2011 she founded Articulate Persuasion, her third entrepreneurial success and a company that cultivates authentic and

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EP 177 Creating International Internship Programs for...

Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons ·

2022/02/22

Preparing our future founders and leaders with meaningful internships is a gift that keeps on giving.Our guest, Fredrik van Huynh, is an award-winning Swedish-Cambodian Entrepreneur, and the Co-Founder of Absolute Internship, a leading global internship program matching university students with internships in-person and remote at top companies around the globe. Since 2009, Absolute Internship has helped over 5,000 students with more than 800 corporate partners in world-class cities including

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EP 176 What Startups Need to Know About Conversion...

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2022/02/18

Conversion rate optimization is a valuable tool in a startup’s took kit. Especially for eCommerce sites.It helps you dive deep into your key audience and identify what language or messaging best speaks to their needs, resulting in greater customer conversion and retention.Our guest, AJ Davis, is a conversion rate optimization (CRO) specialist. She’s the founder of Experiment Zone, which helps online businesses grow their revenue by improving the user experience of their website using scientific

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EP 175 How to Amplify Your Startup Story and Founder...

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2022/02/15

Newly minted founders need to quickly build credibility and social capital while building their business.Our guest, Brandy Whalen, is the co-founder of Kitcaster, a podcast booking agency that books podcast interviews for funded start-up founders, entrepreneurs with exits, and C-suit execs.Brandy’s passion is helping people quilt together patches of their personal, professional, and visionary journey to create a compelling story… and then amplify that story through guest appearances on aligned

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EP 174 Let’s Talk About Race and Other Hard Things

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2022/02/11

Sometimes we think the safest path when confronting hard things is avoidance – “I don’t want to talk about it!”What if I offend the other person? What if they challenge my beliefs? What if I ruin a relationship?Our guest, renowned speaker, author, and equity consultant Dr. Nancy Dome, co-founded Epoch Education in 2014 to provide leaders in education and business with accessible professional development in diversity, inclusion and belonging, and equity.In her book Let’s Talk About Race (And Other

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EP 173 Empowering Black ParentPreneurs

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2022/02/08

Raising businesses and babies at the same time can take a toll on ParentPreneurs! Especially Black ParentPreneurs.James Oliver, Jr. is CEO of the ParentPreneur Foundation, which empowers Black ParentPreneurs to succeed at entrepreneurship so they may leave a legacy for their beautiful Black children. As a parent of twins who were born prematurely and weighed only two pounds each, two days before he started a tech accelerator, James has a deep understanding of the challenges facing Black

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EP 172 Building a MedTech App For People With Low Vision

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2022/02/04

Rebecca Rosenberg is the Founder & CEO of ReBokeh, a startup dedicated to enhancing the lives of those with visual impairments with simple, comprehensive assistive technology solutions. Rebecca was born with oculocutaneous albinism, a condition that affects the body's ability to produce melanin and causes moderate to severe visual impairment as well as reduced pigmentation in the hair, skin, and eyes. In July of 2019, Rebecca founded ReBokeh to develop assistive technologies more appropriate for the

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EP 171 Launching a New Venture Fund to Support...

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2022/02/01

Founders need a deep purpose – a north star – to help them navigate the murky waters of founderhood.Our Guest, Kevin Withane, is passionate about purpose-driven startups that make the world a better place. He’s the founder of Diversity X, a pre-seed to seed-stage venture capital fund (in the works) to support UK and European-based underestimated founders of purpose-led startups and tech startups focused on solving issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.While he’s building Diversity X, Kevin

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EP 170 Investment Platform Making Venture Capital...

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2022/01/28

Studies clearly illustrate that investing in women-led companies is great business for investors, yet the biggest chokehold in venture capital continues to be gender injustice.Our guest, Xiao Jean (XJ) Chen, is an award-winning business and technology hybrid, angel investor, and the Founder & CEO of VenturePole, a Swiss-based, AI-powered venture investment platform.VCs continue to display little innovation in how they make investment decisions, which is infected by human bias, resulting in a gender

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