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The Founders Live Podcast

The Founders Live Podcast tells stories of unique and inspiring entrepreneurship from around the world.

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4/19/2020

042 - City Leader Series: Auxi and Tadzoka of Harare, Zimbabwe - Opening More Opportunities In Africa artwork

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042 - City Leader Series: Auxi and Tadzoka of Harare, Zimbabwe - Opening More Opportunities In Africa

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Nick Hughes is joined by Auxicillia Rabwi Business Dev associate and Tadzoka Pswarayi CEO of the Impact Hub Harare, who both are also the Founders Live Harare, Zimbabwe City Leaders. Nick, Auxi and Tadzoka have a fun conversation on how they first met, their decision to launch Founders Live Harare, Nick's experience in Zimbabwe when he visited in the fall of 2019, their experience growing Founders Live in Harare and some tips on what makes a quality pitch. This is another incredible conversation full of many tips and pointers for early stage founders. http://impacthubharare.net/

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4/19/2020

041 - Grace Tolley-Smith of Bippit: Gaining Financial Clarity In A Time of Uncertainty artwork

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041 - Grace Tolley-Smith of Bippit: Gaining Financial Clarity In A Time of Uncertainty

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Nick Hughes is joined by Grace Tolley-Smith from London, UK who is head of product at Bippit.com, which empowers employees to take charge of their finances with expert guidance from a dedicated financial advisor. Nick and Grace enjoy an engaging conversation around the challenges and issues individuals have with personal finances, how Bippit got started and more on their vision in helping improve financial well being. This is fun and informative conversation and we hope it helps you in your financial and entrepreneurial life. https://www.bippit.com/

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4/12/2020

040 - Lorena Soriano of Every.1: Ensuring We Have An Inclusive Future of Products and Employment artwork

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040 - Lorena Soriano of Every.1: Ensuring We Have An Inclusive Future of Products and Employment

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Nick Hughes is joined by Lorena Soriano from Seattle, WA who is Founder and CEO of Every.1, which aims to change the stats to ensure the technology & products currently being designed are representative of the overall population. Nick and Lorena jump into an engaging and educational conversation around the status of equality (or inequality) in the employment, design and functioning of our technology today. Then they talk about the vision of Every.1 and how they aim to change the industry, as well as her female founder experience and other entrepreneurial tips. This is fun and informative conversation and we hope it makes impact with you! Check it out. https://everypointone.com/

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4/12/2020

039 - Gopal Swamy of Conductiv - Are You Solving A Frontburner Or Backburner Problem For Today's New World? artwork

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039 - Gopal Swamy of Conductiv - Are You Solving A Frontburner Or Backburner Problem For Today's New World?

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Nick Hughes is joined by Gopal Swamy from New York City who is the CEO of Conductiv, which increases approval rates on credit card and loan applications for banks. Nick and Gopal open the conversation touching on his experience living in NYC as it has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis and how he has been dealing with it. They then dive deeper into discussion on Conductiv, what they originally built and how that might be shifting due to the changes our world is going through currently.  This is a great conversation full of insights and empathy. Check it out here. https://conductiv.co/

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4/9/2020

038 - Founders Live Group Conversation: Tips and Tricks To Help You Survive Working From Home artwork

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038 - Founders Live Group Conversation: Tips and Tricks To Help You Survive Working From Home

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Nick Hughes and Coach Joia Houheneka hosted this virtual group event on a Zoom call. They talked about tools, tricks and tips people are you using to make this time easier for yourself and your team. It's a useful group conversation on how to best approach this downturn as startup founders and offers some ideas on how to keep your momentum going.

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4/5/2020

037 - Kaitlin Christine of Gabbi: How A Scare With Cancer Changed Her View On Life And Women's Health artwork

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037 - Kaitlin Christine of Gabbi: How A Scare With Cancer Changed Her View On Life And Women's Health

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(This audio was pulled from a recent Founders Live Conversations interview with Kaitlin Christine. You can watch the interview here .) Nick Hughes is joined by Kaitlin Christine of Portland, OR who is the founder and CEO of Gabbi, which helps women take steps to take control of their health and be the expert on their bodies. Nick and Kaitlin have an extremely engaging and emotional conversation around the touching story of how she came to found the company, the vision of Gabbi and how they aim to change the health space, as well as her female founder experience and other entrepreneurial tips. This is an incredible conversation and well worth your time! Check it out. https://www.begabbi.com/

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3/30/2020

036 - James Gray of Tapple: Building A Simpler Marketing Platform For A Data Rich World artwork

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036 - James Gray of Tapple: Building A Simpler Marketing Platform For A Data Rich World

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Nick Hughes is joined by James Gray of Boston, MA who is CEO and cofounder of Tapple, an extremely powerful yet wonderfully simple marketing platform, and can deliver nearly any kind of message you can imagine, anywhere your audience is located, instantly. Nick and James have an engaging conversation around today's marketing, what's working today and what's not working, and how him and his team at Tapple are creating a whole new experience for our data rich world. He also gives his perspective on Founders Live and being there as he and his cofounder pitched at a recent Founders Live Boston event. This conversation is full of golden nuggets for any founder out there. Check it out! https://tapple.io/#/home

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3/30/2020

035 - Melanie Kong of Floop: Being Truly Authentic In Teaching High Schoolers And In Entrepreneurship artwork

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035 - Melanie Kong of Floop: Being Truly Authentic In Teaching High Schoolers And In Entrepreneurship

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Nick Hughes is joined by Melanie Kong from Seattle WA, a High School STEM Teacher and CEO of Floop, a web app that saves teachers time and helps students see the value in feedback. Nick and Melanie dive into a great conversation that starts with her sharing about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her high school teaching experience, how they are dealing with it as a district and what to expect going forward. Then they jump into her new startup Floop, how she discovered the problem in providing quality feedback to high school students and what she and her co-founders did to solve it! So cool. This is full of lessons any founder can take and apply to their life. Check it out! https://www.floopedu.com/

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3/23/2020

034 - Mladen Gajic: We Score Local Businesses To Help Them Reduce Single Use Plastic Waste artwork

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034 - Mladen Gajic: We Score Local Businesses To Help Them Reduce Single Use Plastic Waste

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Nick Hughes is joined by Mladen Gajic of Denver Colorado  co founder and CEO of Plasticscore, a mobile app to help diners reduce single-use plastic waste at restaurants through collective feedback. Nick and Mladen jump into a very intriguing and educational conversation that starts with Mladen describing the current state of plastic and waste in our world - the tragic nature of it all - and then they dive into how his startup is creating a way for consumers to score local restaurants on how green and re-usable they are with their operations. This is full of lessons any founder can take and apply to their life. Check it out! https://www.plasticscore.co/

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3/23/2020

033 - Enoch Olisa: Helping Africans Better Prepare For Exams To Improve Their Lives artwork

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033 - Enoch Olisa: Helping Africans Better Prepare For Exams To Improve Their Lives

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Nick Hughes is joined by Enoch Olisa of Lagos, Nigeria who is Founder of Edsofta, which publishes past questions and study materials to secure offline apps that helps users to prepare for exams. Nick and Enoch start into an interesting conversation about his founder experience in Lagos, Nigeria. They begin by touching on how Nick wasn't able to make the flight from Zimbabwe to Nigeria due to Visa issues, and then get into why Enoch started Edsofta and what his experience has been thus far growing the edtech company. Check it out! https://edsofta.com/home

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