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Episodes
(00:00) Introduction to Semyon Dukach's Journey
(02:12) From Immigrant to Entrepreneur: Semyon's Early Years
(04:52) The MIT Blackjack Team: Risk and Reward
(10:09) Starting Fast Engines: The First Company
(20:15) Taking SMTP Public: A Unique Journey
(30:09) Transitioning to Investing: The Angel Investor Path
(45:55) Leading Techstars: Mentorship and Growth
(49:40) One Way Ventures: Investing in Immigrant Founders
(57:32) Navigatin...
(0:00) Intro
(5:10) Building a competitor to Facebook while at MIT
(10:03) Joining Endeca instead of starting a company
(14:40) Deciding NOT to go to business school to get an MBA
(16:31) Creating a side hustle with early Apple App Store products
(22:50) Becoming an entrepreneur inside Endeca and learning the power of vertical focus
(27:28) Launching Toast as an iPhone app
(30:18) Finding early product market fit
(35:07) Execution ...
(0:00) Intro
(1:55) Early entrepreneurial influences
(5:20) Starting Wistia
(8:11) Shredding business plans and burning thru savings
(11:02) The portfolio website for artists that didn't pay the bills
(12:44) The first business customer
(15:22) Going up against YouTube and Vimeo
(18:50) The Starbucks barista healthcare backup plan
(21:00) Raising an angel round
(24:50) Closing a $12/month deal after a summer of sorrow with...
(0:00) Intro
(3:45) Buying CustomMade - relaunching and making every mistake in the book
(7:09) Raising VC for CustomMade and getting on the VC train
(11:24) CustomMade failing
(17:17) Starting ButcherBox as a hobby business while collecting unemployment
(21:56) The 3 core decisions that led to ButcherBox success
(28:06) Growth hacking to Go To Market success
(36:47) Starting 3 businesses at the same time to land on ButcherBox
(41:...
(0:00) Intros
(1:50) Growing up in a family of doctors
(5:13) Getting his first software job at Thompson Financial during the original internet boom
(7:26) Writing software to automate himself and all the interns out of a job
(11:40) Building and launching one of the first SaaS products in 1997
(16:09) Making a mistake leaving his first job for more money
(18:33) Quitting after 2 weeks without any planning
(19:40) New startup job a...
(0:00) Entrepreneurship as a kid, starting a business in high school that won a $50,000 contract (6:57) Role models: Mom with her home based piano teaching business was earning 4x his father (12:49) Paying for his own college education with the money he earned in high school (15:42) Getting a job in Silicon Valley in the late 90's (17:53) Timing matters: Chamath Palihapitiya was just 1 year ahead in college - "you can crash your ca...
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