Farmstand: How a Sustainable, Ethical And Healthy Food Startup Found Traction – with Steven Novick [Ep#5]
After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Steven Novick was decided to adopt healthier eating habits in his life. However, as everyone that has taken that decision, he noticed how difficult it was to find healthy food for affordable prices. To solve this problem, he decided to found Farmstand. In our fifth episode, Steven Novick […]
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BabelBark: Traction In a Multi-sided Platform For The Pet Industry – With Roy Stein [Ep#4]
In episode 4, I interviewed Roy Stein, co-founder of BabelBark—an american startup that connects dog trainers, walkers, groomers, shelters and veterinaries directly with pet parents via a mobile enabled platform. Roy brings into the conversions very insightful elements as: the idea generation, solving the chicken-egg dilemma, prototype development, beta testers communities and the platform monetization strategy. Today, the BabelBark has […]
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XXII: Finding Traction in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Technologies – with Damien Mulhem [Ep#3]
In this episode, I interviewed Dam Mulhem, co-founder of XXII—a french startup that designs solutions based on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dam brings to the conversation important elements that have helped XXII to get in the traction stage as: economies of scope, B2B vs. B2C, culture evolution […]
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ShipNext: Traction in Ships-Cargoes Platform, through Expertise and Technology – with Alexander Varvarenko [Ep#2]
Today, my guest is Alexander Varvarenko, founder of ShipNext. Based on his strong knowledge and experience in the transport industry, he’s been focused on developing a solution to tackle supply chain inefficiencies. ShipNext’s platform is strongly based on processes digitization and automation and aims to improve transparency as well as lower supply chain participant costs.
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The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
This is certainly a must-read book for everyone who wants to understand the dynamics of disruptive and sustaining innovations. Throughout the book, Clayton Christensen brings essential conclusions from his study about the Hard Disk industry evolution. These conclusions help us on understanding why disruptive innovations represent such a big threat to established companies. Why is […]
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
“Zero to One” is about Peter Thiel’s (provocative) insights on how founders lead their startups to achieve success. As the Co-founder of Paypal and an experienced venture capitalist, Peter Thiel knows well how Silicon Valley works. His statements about monopoly, venture capitalism, innovation, competition, value, technology, mindset and attitude, and money will make you think […]
Epyon Power: Traction in Cleantech by Refocusing Target Market – with Crijn Bouman [Ep#1]
Crijn Bouman and his partners wanted to radically change the process of batteries recharging forever. In 2004, they’ve founded Epyon Power through which they aimed to reduce the recharging time from several hours to 15-30 minutes only. By counting with their team’s skills they’ve overcame challenging hurdles in the way and, after 4 years, Epyon started seeing some traction. In 2011, it was acquired by ABB, a giant in the technology industry.
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