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Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!The Honor and Rarity of this Moment by the Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonThe closing remarks by the Deputy Governor of Bangkok acknowledging the honor and rarity of this opportunity with his clear understanding of his two-year term and his aim to maximize its impact by using his term effectively, improving education, culture, sports, and social welfare and emphaizing the importance of collaboration and inspiration in public service
This will come with Opportunities and Responsibilities:
1. He acknowledges the honor and rarity of such an opportunity and is committed to making the most of it. And emphaizes the importance of collaboration between the city and the...
2024-06-0103 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!A Misconception of Pad Thai through the lens of Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonIn this clip, the Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon Wangsrangboon on we discuss the following:
Pad Thai Perception:
There is a misconception that Pad Thai is the most popular dish in Thailand, especially among foreigners.
In reality, Pad Thai is less commonly eaten by locals and varies significantly between different restaurants.
Thai cuisine is highly diverse, influenced by many cultures, and locals often prefer other dishes.
Tam Sang (Made-to-Order Dishes):
The true essence of Thai cuisine might be better represented by "tam sang," which means "made to order."
These customizable dishes are more reflective...
2024-06-0101 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Purpose First, Self Awareness, & Importance of Company in Your Work by Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonThe Deputy Governor of Bangkok shares these six values in your self and work:
Self-Awareness and Collaboration:
Understanding oneself and recognizing one's strengths and weaknesses is crucial.
Forming a team with complementary skills is essential for achieving success.
Importance of Goals:
Setting clear and focused goals is vital, especially for social entrepreneurs.
Having a purpose helps sustain motivation through difficult times.
Flexibility and Purpose:
It's normal for goals to evolve over time; the key is to maintain a strong sense of purpose.
Consistent purpose provides direction and drives progress regardless of changing...
2024-06-0103 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!More about the Songkran Festival with Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonIn this section, we discuss the positive experiences with the Songkran festival in Bangkok, highlighting its inclusivity and the opportunity to learn about Thai culture.
- We both express a desire for the festival to evolve into a more engaging platform, potentially expanding to a city-wide level while maintaining the unique identities of different areas within Bangkok.
- The Deputy Govenor stated the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is focused on ensuring safety as a key priority for the festival, implementing measures such as CCTV and regulations to maintain a safe environment for all attendees.
...
2024-06-0105 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Songkran Festival: A Thai Tradition According to Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonSongkran Festival: A Thai Tradition According to Sanon Wangsrangboon, Deputy Governor of Bangkok, the capital and most populous city of Thailand, founded on 21 April 1782 with over 9 million people:
We discuss the significance of the Songkran festival in Bangkok, which is celebrated around April and May to combat the intense heat of the season.
- The festival is not just about water and cooling off, but also about paying respect to family, elders, and reflecting on the passing year, as it marks the Thai New Year.
- It is a three-day festival, but...
2024-06-0103 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Engaging Communities Through Inclusive Policies by Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonThe importance of Community Engagement by Sanon Wangsrangboon, Deputy Governor of Bangkok, the capital and most populous city of Thailand, founded on 21 April 1782 with over 9 million people:
- He emphaizes the importance of engaging the community and distributing power to enable everyone to contribute
- He also discusses the effectiveness of participatory processes in the private sector, leading to quick and innovative solutions
- Highlights the "participatory budgeting" project, where communities are given the power to decide how to use allocated funds
- Points out the scalability of ideas and solutions across different communities, addressing common issues...
2024-06-0103 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Urban Development Priorities in Bangkok by Deputy Governor of Bangkok, Sanon WangsrangboonKey Priorities of Sanon Wangsrangboon, Deputy Governor of Bangkok, the capital and most populous city of Thailand, founded on 21 April 1782:
In his current role, Sanon Wangsrangboon’s main focus is on enhancing city management by connecting various initiatives, including:
High Connectivity of High-Quality Transportation: Emphasizing improvements in transportation, particularly focusing on first-mile and last-mile services.
High-Quality Healthcare Services: Ensuring the provision of top-notch healthcare services for the residents of Bangkok.
And more...
2024-06-0104 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sanon Wangsrangboon| Deputy Governor of Bangkok|Sanon Wangsrangboon
Deputy Governor of Bangkok
Sanon Wangsrangboon is a social entreprenuer, activist, and currently a Deputy Governor of Bangkok who is the youngest to hold the position to date. His responsibility as a Deputy Governor encompasses education, social issues and commerce.
2024-05-2028 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Introducing the Deputy Governor of BangkokSanon Wangsrangboon
Deputy Governor of Bangkok
Sanon Wangsrangboon is a social entreprenuer, activist, and currently a Deputy Governor of Bangkok who is the youngest to hold the position to date. His responsibility as a Deputy Governor encompasses education, social issues and commerce.
2024-05-1901 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Rowena Luk| Founder of Africa Health VenturesRowena Luk is a Tech entrepreneur turned impact investor on a mission to direct capital to groundbreaking, scalable ventures that will dramatically improve access to healthcare in Africa.
She has personally deployed digital health systems in 12 countries across Africa and run teams deploying digital health in 40 countries on this continent.
She created the leading digital health podcast in Africa. She was also a first hire and C-Suite executive of a digital health company now active in 130 countries.
To get the latest news, insights, funding, and job opportunities from healthcare ventures in Africa...
2024-01-2534 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Amanda Wang| Co-Founder & CEO at PotenciaShe believes in the power of education to expand opportunities for underrepresented people, especially people of color. She envisions making education more accessible to those who desperately need it and contributing to a more equitable world.
On this episode, we chat about her startup Potencia, a platform that empowers adult immigrant English Learners towards mutual value-creation of their presence within communities. And her long-term goal is to mentor and share her connections and resources with the next generation of social entrepreneurs that the government or private sector cannot solve.
Become a tutor today: https://www.potenciainc.org/tutor-apply
Make...
2024-01-1654 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Emily Ana Levy|Mighty Well Co-Founder & President | Healthcare/Adaptive KOL| Speaker | MentorEmily Ana Levy is the Mighty Well Co-Founder & President. She is also a Babson Alumnus with several accolades to her name to a name few include:
Awards and Recognition: A Winning Record
• MassChallenge 2016 Finalists (2016 Cohort)
• WIN Lab Boston: Class of 2016
• 1st Place Smith College's Tim and Melissa Draper Business Competition (2016)
• 1st Place RI Business Plan Competition (2016)
• 1st Place Babson B.E.T.A. Challenge (2016)
• 1st Place: Shark Tank from Combined Jewish Philanthropies (2016)
• 1st Place: Pitch To Start at the Babson Entrepreneurship Forum (2016)
• 1st Place: Mass Innovation Night #81 (2016)
• 1st Place: “SheKnows” Pitch Competition (2016)
• Babson Summer Venture Program (Summer 2015)
• Best Undergraduate Student Business at Babson...
2024-01-1244 min
The Adebayo Alonge Podcast ShowBuilding Startups in Emerging Markets: A chat with Jacob FohtungIn this Chat, I talk about my work building startups in Emerging Markets and what Entrepreneurs should know about building market driven and social impact businesses in Africa and similar emarging markets.
2023-12-2151 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Ari Jacobovits-Managing Director, MIT-Africa ProgramAri Jacobovits is an African Affairs strategist and educator focused on the intersection of International Studies and STEM. He serves as the Managing Director of MIT-Africa, connecting MIT students, staff, and faculty to internships, research projects, and teaching & learning opportunities that advance the research, innovation, and education goals of Africa-based organizations. Ari's background is in music, human and economic development, humanitarian affairs, and digital technologies encompassing a variety of business development and operations management roles. While studying early American music as an undergraduate, Ari became fascinated by African Studies, deciding to study abroad in African Studies at the U...
2023-11-161h 01
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Samuel Baddoo| Proud Immigrant | Founder, Fleri (Techstars ‘21)| Harambean|NASDAQ Milestone Maker-Part 2Samuel Baddoo is empowering immigrants everywhere to show ❤️ with intention! (Part 2)
Starting with healthcare, his team at Fleri ensures that the money immigrants send back home goes exactly where they intended. Many words define who Samuel is but none more so than “immigrant” - his story represents the stories of millions of brave, hopeful and selfless individuals. Those who gave up the comfort of familiar spaces to create a new life and future for themselves and those who depend on them. He is all “IMMIGRANTS” and my life’s work is to see them live more authentically - flourishing an...
2023-09-1522 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Samuel Baddoo| Proud Immigrant | Founder, Fleri (Techstars ‘21)| Harambean|NASDAQ Milestone Maker-Part 1Samuel Baddoo is empowering immigrants everywhere to show ❤️ with intention!
Starting with healthcare, his team at Fleri ensures that the money immigrants send back home goes exactly where they intended. Many words define who Samuel is but none more so than “immigrant” - his story represents the stories of millions of brave, hopeful and selfless individuals. Those who gave up the comfort of familiar spaces to create a new life and future for themselves and those who depend on them. He is all “IMMIGRANTS” and my life’s work is to see them live more authentically - flourishing...
2023-09-1418 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sr. Josephine Nabulya|Builders of Africa's Future Awardees 2023| ADNThis is the 2nd episode (finally!!) for Builders of Africa's Future Cohort 2023 series with our partnership with African Diaspora Network is Sr. Josephine Nabulya who belongs to the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix- Ggogonya in Kampala, Uganda.
Sr. Josephine is an accountant by profession, from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and holds a Masters Degree in Administration and Management. Being interested in farming, Sr. Josephine feels called to create an impact in the lives of the people in community through farming by sharing the knowledge she has with them.
2023-09-1117 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Funto Boroffice|Builders of Africa's Future Awardees 2023| ADNThis 4th episode for Builders of Africa's Future Cohort 2023 series with our partnership with African Diaspora Network features Funto Boroffice is the founder/CEO of award winning Chanja Datti Ltd, a waste collection & recycling social enterprise. Chanja Datti Ltd is dedicated to transforming the waste in her environment in Abuja, Nigeria into value by creating jobs and Quidroo, a fintech startup that provides access to working capital for Nigeria SMEs, especially women-owned SMEs. In the last 8+ years, her organization has successfully diverted almost 6,200 tons of waste from uncontrolled landfills, and empowered 600+ women and at-risk youth. Her organization currently has 200 employees...
2023-09-0846 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Joseph (Newton) John-Agyemang| CEO of Eracew (Part 2)This is part 2 of my fascinating conversation with Joseph (Newton), CEO of Eracew: https://eracew.online/.
Beyond being the CEO of Eracew, he is also the Regional Sales Coordinator at Nestle Professional, Youth Innovator, Software Engineer, Copywriter, Digital Marketer, Web/Graphic Designer, Waste to Resource Activist and many more with a focus on impact within his community.
Eracew is a technology company whose business is waste. They offer waste management, waste trading. They are the Uber for waste requests and the Amazon of waste trading providing a clear cut path...
2023-09-0838 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Joseph (Newton) John-Agyemang| CEO of Eracew (Part 1)This is part 1 of my fascinating conversation with Joseph (Newton), CEO of Eracew: https://eracew.online/.
Beyond being the CEO of Eracew, he is also the Regional Sales Coordinator at Nestle Professional, Youth Innovator, Software Engineer, Copywriter, Digital Marketer, Web/Graphic Designer, Waste to Resource Activist and many more with a focus on impact within his community.
Eracew is a technology company whose business is waste. We offer waste management, waste trading. They are the Uber for waste requests and the Amazon of waste trading providing a clear cut path for recycling, from the production...
2023-09-0715 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Mathias Charles Yabe |Builders of Africa's Future Awardees 2023| ADNThis 3rd episode features Mathias Charles Yabe is an award-winning Ghanaian social entrepreneur and innovator. He has interest in food security, clean energy solutions and climate change. He currently leads AkoFresh, an AgriTech startup that offers smallholder farmers climate smart solutions to reduce post-harvest losses and alleviate poverty.
We want to apologize that we're currently working on the 2nd episode that we had with Sr. Josephine Nabulya. Sister belongs to the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix- Ggogonya in Kampala, Uganda. Sr. Josephine is an accountant by profession, from Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi and...
2023-08-3132 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Adeola Ayoola| Builders of Africa's Future Awardees 2023| ADNGrateful for the continuous partnership, now Year 2 with the African Diaspora Network (ADN) with Doers Within Us podcast on profiling Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) Cohort 2023.
This year consists of incredible entrepreneurs spanning five countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.You can learn more about this year's cohort here
Adeola Ayoola is the CEO/Co-founder at Famasi Africa where she leads a Team that manages recurrent medication needs for Africans. With 6+ years working in the different sectors of Pharmacy (retail, hospital & supply chain) she has experienced the problems people with recurrent medications face...
2023-08-2732 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Omoniyi Kolade, Founder & CEO of SeerbitOmoniyi Kolade is the Founder and CEO of Seerbit, a Pan-African enterprise payment platform that enables fast, seamless, inclusive, and secure payments for leading local and global companies present on the African continent. Prior to Seerbit, Kolade founded Blue Science Limited and Frames Technologies Ltd, a fintech company that provided CRM solutions to banks in Nigeria and Africa.
He has over 10 years of working experience in fintech and has introduced many innovative digital products to Nigeria’s banking sector, including EmailMoni, an omnichannel payment app.
Additionally, he has provided advisory services to some of Africa’s mo...
2023-06-0641 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Cindy Willard| Director Capital Activation at Impact CharitableAs part of our continuation of the Virtuous Profit Series, I am excited to present Cindy Willard, Director Capital Activation of Impact Charitable.
Impact Charitable unites catalytic philanthropists with community partners, financial institutions, foundations, social enterprises, and governmental bodies. As a connector and strategic partner, we can help put your innovative ideas into action.
Cindy is a dedicated and mission-focused leader with 20 years of diverse experience advancing program, investment, and other strategic organizational functions in fast-paced philanthropic and nonprofit environments. She thrives in spaces where I can work to advance positive social change through leading h...
2023-04-2620 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Cindy Ai & Mark Kleyner | Founders of Dream VC | Virtuous Profit Series-Virtuous Profit FundAs part of our continuation of the Virtuous Profit Series, I am excited to present Cindy Ai and Mark Kleyner, Founders of Dream VC.
This Virtuous Profit Series invites entrepreneurs, investors, and other interested parties within and outside the Water4 ecosystem leading to the launching of the Virtuous Profit Fund. The essence of this series is building some PR and stakeholders around the Virtuous Profit Fund (creating a Pan-African Network to make on creating prosperity across Africa)
More about Dream VC
Dream VC is an investor accelerator and community-driven educational platform for Africa, p...
2023-02-1554 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Matt HangenI President & CEO of Water4| Virtuous Profit Series-Virtuous Profit FundMatt Hangen grew up in the county outskirts in South Alabama at Rt. 1, Lot 1 on a two-track sand road, starting life in a 600 sq ft abandoned farmhouse that his dad had worked board-by-board to rebuild.
At 25, he moved to Togo, West Africa, and began building equipment from what was lying around to drill wells and install water pumps through local businesses. That 100 feet of soil and rock separated people from life and death was an obstacle worth overcoming in Matt’s heart. Faced with the deathly consequences of the water crisis there, he partnered with local individuals to...
2023-01-1829 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Dr. Nehemiah J. Mabry_Founder and CEO of STEMediaDr. Nehemiah J. Mabry is the Founder and CEO of STEMedia.
STEMedia is an edtech and digital media company that provides edutainment content for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) community.
Dr. Mabry participated in the first cohort of Accelerating Black Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ABLE), an enterprise accelerator program designed to strengthen, energize, and support startups and small businesses led by Black entrepreneurs in the United States within the African Diaspora Network (ADN).
This is a new series to highlight the participants of the first cohort of ABLE as part of our ongo...
2022-08-2449 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Caleb Edwards of Wami AgroThe series ends. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our eleventh guest is Victor and Dela of Ento Farms
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-06-2841 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Victor and Dela of Ento FarmsThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our tenth guest is Victor and Dela of Ento Farms
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-06-2341 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Dr. Hanane Chaibainou_CEO and Co-Founder of BiotessiaThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our ninth guest is Dr. Hanane Chaibainou_CEO and Co-Founder of Biotessia
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-06-2130 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sr. Juunza C. Mwangani-Emerging Farmers Initiative (EFI)The series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our eighth guest is Sr. Juunza C. Mwangani-Emerging Farmers Initiative (EFI)
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-06-1648 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Alexander Thomson-Payan, Founder and CEO of Thomson Group International (TGI)- Part 2Alexander Thomson-Payan is a Babson Alumnus (Class of 2006) and Founder of Thomson Group International (TGI). TGI is a pan-African holding company based in Luanda, Angola with offices in Miami, London, and Hong Kong. TGI's portfolio companies operate in Telecommunications, Logistics/Supply Management, Transportation, Mobile Technology, and Real Estate Development sectors.
In 2007, Alexander at the age of 22 raised over $100,000 from his friends and set on a journey to Angola to start Electrix, a mobile phone distribution company and TGI's first venture. Prior to this experience, he worked at Brightstar, Inc. the largest telecommunications distribution company in the world, n...
2022-06-1510 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Alexander Thomson-Payan, Founder and CEO of Thomson Group International (TGI)- Part 1Alexander Thomson-Payan is a Babson Alumnus (Class of 2006) and Founder of Thomson Group International (TGI). TGI is a pan-African holding company based in Luanda, Angola with offices in Miami, London, and Hong Kong. TGI's portfolio companies operate in Telecommunications, Logistics/Supply Management, Transportation, Mobile Technology, and Real Estate Development sectors.
In 2007, Alexander at the age of 22 raised over $100,000 from his friends and set on a journey to Angola to start Electrix, a mobile phone distribution company and TGI's first venture. Prior to this experience, he worked at Brightstar, Inc. the largest telecommunications distribution company in the world, no...
2022-06-1515 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Justine Abuga, Co-founder of ECOBORAThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our seventh guest is Justine Abuga, Co-founder of ECOBORA.
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-06-0239 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!George Akilimali, CEO and Co-Founder of Smartcore Enterprise LimitedThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our sixth Builder for Africa Future is George Akilimali, CEO and Co-Founder of Smartcore Enterprise Limited.
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast:
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-2632 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Dr. Ahimbisibwe Prosper, Co-founder of mSCANThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network's Builders of Africa's Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our fifth guest is Dr. Ahimbisbwe Prosper , Co-founder of mSCAN.
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork #buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-2442 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Jacques Jonathan NyembJacques Jonathan is of Counsel at Cabinet Nyemb. He is a lawyer and public policy specialist.
He mainly advises companies (multinationals, private equity firms, emerging and start-up companies), financial institutions and sovereign entities seeking to develop, acquire, operate, finance or restructure local and international projects or businesses in sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition, he also has extensive experience advising governments and other local or international public-sector related entities in policy-making and regulation. In particular, Jacques Jonathan has been member of the Experts Team assisting the Permanent Secretariat of the OHADA in the review of the Uniform...
2022-05-2144 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Adam Sulkowski- Associate Professor at Babson College and Author of Extreme EntrepreneurshipAdam Sulkowski- Associate Professor at Babson College and Author of Extreme Entrepreneurship
We talked about the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, and we pondered 3 important quotes: The Process over Product, You are good enough, and it is important we talk about failures in our stories (look at the last past 3 episodes of the podcast)
Adam's +50 publications on business, law, and sustainability are available through the links below. He advises through MIT Enterprise Forum CEE and elsewhere, and has initiated sustainability reporting for organizations. He has visited +115 countries. Resulting insights have been published or cited in the following: - USA Today (from Ir...
2022-05-2039 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sr. Jane Frances Kabagaaju, Nkuruba Health CentreThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our fourth guest is Sr. Jane Frances Kabagaaju, Nkuruba Health Centre
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-1934 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sister Rose Thumitho- Mother Kevin Providence Social EnterpriseThe series continues. A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our third guest is Sister Rose Thumitho- Mother Kevin Providence Social Enterprise
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-1249 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Jamila Mayanja, CEO of Smart Girls UgandaWe’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network. We're profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our second guest is Jamila Mayanja, CEO of Smart Girls Uganda.
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-0644 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Hyasintha Ntuyeko, CEO of Kasole SecretWe’re excited to launch this new series: A collaboration between our podcast, Doers Within Us Podcast and African Diaspora Network.
We’ll be profiling the African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort.
Our first guest is Hyasintha Ntuyeko, CEO of Kasole Secrets, based in Tanzania.
Learn more about African Diaspora Network’s Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) 2022 Cohort with Debra Pacio, Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement at Africa Diaspora Network here on our podcast.
#buildersofafrica #future #changemakers #movers #doerswithinus #Africa #africandiasporanetwork
2022-05-0457 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Yng-Ru Chen- Founder and CEO of Praise Shadows Art Gallery and Praise Shadows Art PartnersAt Praise Shadows Art Gallery, they believe that the art ecosystem is filled with untapped potential, and our work is rooted in partnering closely with artists to develop opportunities in emerging models of creativity and entrepreneurship — exhibitions, commissions, brand partnerships, new technologies, original concepts that no one has ever tried before. Praise Shadows Art Gallery is a commercial gallery space in the Boston area showing the work of emerging and mid-career artists. It opened in December 2020. Praise Shadows Art Partners advises artists and companies in the creative industries on strategic partnerships and marketing. Their work is local, global, and vi...
2022-05-0258 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Debra Pacio- Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Manager at Africa Diaspora Network (ADN)Debra Pacio is the Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Manager at Africa Diaspora Network (ADN). In collaboration with ADN, Doers Within Us Podcast will interview 11 Builders of Africa’s Future, a program within ADN in the months of May and June of 2022.
Builders of Africa’s Future (BAF) celebrates innovation and impact in early-stage African enterprises. The program identifies African entrepreneurs running early-stage nonprofits or for-profit businesses that address key community needs through technology or differentiated business models.
The mission of ADN is to sustainably serve its constituencies, marketplace, and partners. This is inextricably linked to engagi...
2022-04-2638 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Cathy Yee- Founder of IncluvieCathy Yee is all about bringing social change through diversity in film. In addition, to being the founder of Incluvie. She is an Inventor and 2x patent holder. Masters in Engineering. She likes creating & fixing things, and Loves bringing people together.
2022-04-0443 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Bright Chinyundu-CEO of SparcoBright Chinyundu is the CEO of Sparco. Sparco is a Pan African Financial Technology company founded in Delaware, USA with an operational base in South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. We provide financial solutions to both Individuals and the corporate sector in emerging markets across Africa and the rest of the globe. Our payment Infrastructure orchestrates various market players on the continent and enables African businesses to send and receive money, proficiently.
Sparco evolved from BroadPay, a state-of-the-art electronic payment solutions globally. They provide merchants with tools to serve the unbanked under-served population.
Learn more about Sparco
Learn more about BroadPay
M...
2022-03-2845 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Satoshi Shinada-General Partner of Kepple Africa VenturesSatoshi Shinada is the General Partner of Kepple Africa Ventures and a 2019 MBA graduate of Harvard Business School. Learn more about Satoshi via his LinkedIn profile. Learn more about Kepple Africa Ventures.
2022-03-2156 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Rebecca Jiang and Misha Lau- Unspoken WordsNew Series- Doers Within Us: Doers Within Babson
Rebecca Jiang’21 (Babson)
Rebecca Jiang graduated from Babson College in May 2021, and now works as a recruiter for a consulting company. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, attending concerts, and going to the beach.
Misha Lau’21 (Babson)
Misha Lau graduated from Babson College in May 2021. She currently lives in LA (with Rebecca) and works in product marketing at a San Francisco-based tech start up. Some of her hobbies are hiking, playing spike ball, and reading at a park.
For more info...
2022-03-1441 min
The Mindful Wealth PodcastHow to Find Creative Solutions to Development ProblemsEfosa Ojomo and Jacob Fohtung are associates at the Christensen Institute. They have a very simple goal. Let’s stop managing poverty and start stimulating prosperity.
For Efosa, True Wealth is when an individual is content physically, economically, spiritually, emotionally, and socially… the spiritual component is key.
Jacob admits this is a developing reality for him. Before he joined the institute, his definition of success was more indexed to financial success. A typical MBA graduate and the mantra is that how much money you make defines your identity in some way.
2022-03-0841 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Adam Sharpe-Founder of Futurely (A Doer Within Growth Markets)Adam Sharpe is a futurist and meaningful youth engagement specialist. Having spent over a decade in the development sector delivering educational programming to hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia and Europe, Adam recognised the urgent need for a seismic shift in education and skills building to meet today's and tomorrow's collective challenges.
He founded youth futures think tank and transformative foresight consultancy Futurely, co-founded the online futures learning platform Metafuture School, and consults for multinational organisations including the UN and the Asian Development Bank.
He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and...
2022-03-041h 07
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Gwanygha'a GanaGana is currently an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School and Co-Founder at Garage Mobility, an auto tech startup transforming transportation for Africa. Previously, he worked at Boeing as a Product manager within Boeing's Product Development organization, where he led a team on a new platform development initiative.
Gana graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MS in Data Analytics. He co-founded Kebuthreads, an African inspired clothing brand and is a casual Bartender.
2022-02-2024 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Victor Asemota-A Renowned African Entrepreneur and Investor (Part 1)Victor Asemota is a technology entrepreneur and investor who serves as a board member and advisor to leading fintech and investment firms across Africa. He is Africa Partner for Alta Global Ventures, the founder of SwiftaCorp, and an advisory board member of Assets and Resource Management.
A co-founder of the African Diaspora Mentorship and Investment Network, Victor is committed to the growth and mentorship of the next generation of talent on the continent. He volunteers as a global mentor for the Google Launchpad startup community and the Interaction Design Foundation where he is the continent manager for Afri...
2022-01-2438 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Masachs J. BoungouMasachs J. Boungou holds a PhD degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell). His dissertation research focused on how prior adverse experiences (civil war/or genocide) influence the creation of businesses or entrepreneurial ventures. In particular, Boungou’s PHD thesis looked at how immigrants from post-conflict countries connect their past events of civil war and/or genocide to their business creation and succeed as entrepreneurs in Portland, ME. You can access the abstract of his research here. This section will be updated once the research paper is out.
You can reach out to him via his...
2022-01-0949 min
The Switch by Ife Taiwo#015 Jacob Fohtung: Market Creating InnovationsIn this episode, jacob breaks down the concept of market creating innovations and the difference other types of innovations. We looked at why this concept isn’t mainstream yet, and the role the Clayton Christensen institute is playing to take these ideas mainstream . We also spoke about the role of government in innovation..
2021-10-0954 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Yoriko Morita (森田依子)-Founder of Patents IntegratedIntellectual property isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every business is different, with different needs, challenges and goals. As a registered patent agent who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Yoriko has deep experience across the entire innovation lifecycle, bringing that experience to startups, public companies, government entities, law firms and more.
2021-09-1655 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Chia Chou-Chairman of Techvico (Part 1)She is a passionate, motivated entrepreneur in the tech industry aspiring to contribute to machine vision. She is curious but optimistic about the positive changes that AI could bring to our next generations. She is eager to be a part of this movement to make a change while achieving her career success.
In this episode, we talked about where and how she grew up (she is Taiwanese-born), how her career in Techvico started, and her passion for AI/Machine Learning. In addition, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic as a Chairman in 2020 and 2021, and more. We also discussed how A...
2021-07-2826 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Adebayo Alonge_Co-founder Of RxAll Inc (Part 1)Adebayo Alonge is a young and inspiring African who is on a mission to transform the healthcare system in Africa beginning with tackling counterfeit drugs on the continent (along side his co-founders of RxAll Inc., Amy Kao and Wei Lui)
More about Adebayo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Alonge
RxAll Inc: https://www.rxall.net/
2021-07-1325 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Marco Antonio Sánchez García- (Foreign Affairs VP at CONCAMIN México)-Part 1Marco Antonio Sánchez Garcíais the Foreign Affairs VP at CONCAMIN México. He is also the Founder OF Porto ((Clothing Brand) & Real Emporium Club (Real Estate).
He has sold two companies: SAGA (Clothing Brand) and Bull & Midas (Consulting firm with services for entrepreneurs)
More about Marco:https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosaga/
2021-06-1947 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sophia Sunwoo-Founder of Ascent Strategy| Branding and SalesSophia Sunwoo, Founder of Ascent Strategy is back again, and this time we talked about Branding, Sales, and Consistency. In this episode, we talked about a new launch of scholarship program to increase more access of her courses to entrepreneurs that identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) on improving their Sales and most importantly understanding the connection between Sales to Branding and Personal Development.
Ascent Strategy: https://www.ascent-strategy.com/ (Please check that out)!
As mentioned earlier, she is passionate about accelerating the success timelines of womxn and BIPOC entrepreneurs so that th...
2021-05-0336 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Paul Rios- He's innovating how companies market and sell in Latin America and Brazil (Part 1)Paul Rios was born and raised in Queens, NY to an Argentinean mother and a Puerto Rican father. Sadly, as luck would have it, "he plays soccer like a Puerto Rican and baseball like an Argentine."
Since it was obvious from an early age that He was not destined to be a sports pro, he dedicated himself to collecting degrees: B.S. - Mechanical Engineering (Columbia University), M.S. - Mechanical Engineering (The Georgia Institute of Technology), MBA (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management).
Unfortunately, he realized that collecting degrees turned into...
2021-04-2616 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Female Founders by Jessica LiIn this episode with Jessica Li, she shares me her insights on the following key issues on women in entrepreneurship and VC including:
-Women Pitching companies to VCs
-Female focused VC fund: Some examples below:
Chloe Capital
IFundwomen
Jane VC
Female Founders Fund
BBG Ventures
SoGal Ventures
-Female focused startup communities:
TopKnot
Swaay
bSmart
Chief-The Private Network for Women Leaders
-Advice for female investors at male-dominated funds
[Great lessons...
2021-04-2332 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Abhinav Gautam-Entrepreneurship in Rwanda (Part 1)A Long-time friend as well as an entrepreneur and innovator at heart. He prides himself as a startup builder and mentor in Africa and Asia. He is the CEO and co-founder of FreshBox Rwanda. FreshBox Rwanda is disrupting the produce supply chain in Kigali by bringing cold chain solutions to sub-Saharan African markets.
In this episode, he provides some great insights into Entrepreneurship practices in Rwanda, East Africa, and overall Emerging Markets.
Beyond his passion his entrepreneurship and building startups as well as helping others through the use of technology in emerging/frontier markets...
2021-03-3121 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Rebecca Obounou- Haitian American and Assistant Dean for Social Innovation at the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service CenterRebecca is one of a kind. She is a mentor, entrepreneur, innovator, and transcendent leader, and everything in-between. She is a Haitian American and founder and President of Communities for Haitian Entrepreneurs and Startups (CHES), Inc. At CHES, Inc. they consult and accompany business owners and entrepreneurs in rural Haiti through various stages of their startup life-cycles. To date, have engaged over 200 individuals of which +60% have been women.
She also recently launched a business with her husband, Patrick, Obounou Enterprises, LLC, that includes a fitness consulting business and condiment lines under one umbrella.
She is an...
2021-03-2946 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Jumoke Dada- CEO of Premium African Furniture, Taeillo in Nigeria, West AfricaJumoke Dada stopped by the pod and shared her path towards entrepreneurship by founding and managing, Taeillo, the Premium African Furniture Company in Nigeria.
She is a confident, inspiring, and pan-African entrepreneur who wants to transform the furniture industry in Africa as well as across the world. If you are in Nigeria, and you want beautiful premium furniture, you can purchase one directly on the Taeillo.
Do you want to be inspired? Listen to this episode, you won't regret it.
2021-03-2427 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Sophia Sunwoo-Startup Guide For Womxn Entrepreneurs-Ascent Strategy| Water Collective| Forbes 30 Under 30 Part 1She is passionate about accelerating the success timelines of womxn and BIPOC entrepreneurs so that they can build sales engines for their businesses faster and catch up in a male-dominated startup scene.
Making an impact is important to her, and she is actively looking for opportunities to give back to the community whether it’s through speaking or collaborating on events and projects (so can reach out to her- her contacts below!).
She has been building startups since she was 19, an experience she likes to think has been informed by my immigrant entrepreneur parents. I ha...
2021-03-0821 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Jezreel John (JJ) Punzalan with Dionela Bigcas founded Hibla Community and Magiting Coffee Manila- Part 1 of 2 Part SeriesHibla Community Inc. is a small business founded by JJ and his best friend, Dionela Bigcas pursuing the social enterprise model to provide decent, effective, and ethical working conditions for people of local communities around the Philippines. Currently, Hibla Co is doing business as Magiting Coffee Manila as they sell single-origin specialty coffee sourced from the province of Lipa, Batangas in the Philippines.
JJ recently won funding from the United States' Mission to the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) wherein he will be working with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), the US Embassy, and th...
2021-02-2325 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Starting Jamani Ventures (Uncovering Wealth- A book Pending)It took me a long time to accept that it is tough to uncover unknown facts or details that were not necessarily available to an African in Diaspora like me on what it takes to start and run a successful business in the African continent.
I began to reflect on the necessary information and experiences that I needed to have to be able to fully understand what it means to start a business in Africa. Who were the people within my network whom I could talk to in order to provide me with some “insights” into what it t...
2021-02-1707 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Heather Beem, Founder and CEO of Practical Education Network (PEN)Heather Beem is an MIT Graduate and Founder as well as CEO of Practical Education Network (PEN).
"The Practical Education Network (PEN) improves learning outcomes by building teacher capacity. The teacher training program PEN provides is infused with MIT-style, learning-by-doing to enable hands-on science regardless of resource constraints. PEN offers a series of workshops where West African STEM teachers learn, design, and share hands-on activities that complement the national curriculum and are created from low-cost and locally available materials." (Per the website).
In this episode, Heather shares her learning experience at MIT that spurred her to...
2021-02-1030 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!President Stephen Spinelli of Babson College on Survive, Revive and ThriveIn a section in our full interview with President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon the essence of surviving, reviving, and thriving, which I think is an integral component in succeeding in entrepreneurship as well as in Life.
You can see our full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpF01izbpI&t=432s
2021-01-2603 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!President Spinelli of Babson College of Thinking GloballyIn a section in our full interview with President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon the importance of thinking globally as the initial thought of naming Jeffy Lube, Incorporated into Jeffy Lube International.
The mentality onset is critical in building high potential ventures even with just the naming of your company!
Think Big but start small (Jeffy Lube just had 2 stores when it was named Jeffy Lube International)
You can see our full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpF01izbpI&t=432s
2021-01-2401 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!President Spinelli of Babson College making the case for culture as a business modelIn a section in our full interview with President Spinelli of Babson College, he touched upon making the case for culture as a business model as a successful one (with low cost in the Babson Language- breeding sustainability and eventually long-term growth or in other words thriving business).
Take a listen to the complete interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpF01izbpI&t=432s
2021-01-2302 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!President Stephen Spinelli is the current and 14th President of Babson CollegePresident Stephen Spinelli, the current and 14th President of Babson College. He is also the co-founder of Jiffy Lube. Jiffy Lube is an American brand of automotive oil change specialty shops founded in Utah, United States, in 1971. It has been a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell since 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas (wiki).
He is also an alumnus of the college with an MBA, which he completed part-time while working at Jiffy Lube. Finally, he is on the board of Planet Fitness, an American franchisor, and operator of fitness centers based in Hampton, New Hampshire. The comp...
2021-01-1239 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!From 2021 and Beyond!What lies ahead in this podcast! Stay Tuned!
2021-01-0500 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Kevin Richardson, Analyst at First Republic Bank on FDI, Economic Growth, & Emerging Economics (Part 2 of 2 part Series)This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series with my conversation with Kevin Richardson, Master of Finance Graduate 2020 and Analyst at First Republic Bank.
We go through a fascinating paper on the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies co-authored by Kevin Richardson
More about the paper here
More about Kevin Richardson here
2020-12-2930 min
Doers Within Us Podcast-Celebrating Builders of Tomorrow!Tzu Hui Yang (May) and Chih-Hsuan Lu (Jason) at Garage + in Taipei, Taiwan (Part 2)Part 2 of 2 part series of Interviewing Tzu Hui Yang (May) and Chih-Hsuan Lu (Jason) at Garage + in Taipei, Taiwan!
Thanks to these 2 amazing individuals [Tzu Hui Yang (May) and Chih-Hsuan Lu (Jason) at Garage +] for introducing me to some outstanding entrepreneurs at Garage+ as well as providing me with some amazing background about the founding of this shared space earlier this year in Taipei. Jason also shared with me the significance of understanding the definition of "emerging markets" based on metrics such as GDP as well as the history of emerging technologies in Taiwan.
They...
2020-12-2327 min
Trendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersQ&A Session (Final Episode & Part 4 of our Series with Jessica Li- Harvard 2019| VC @ Soma Capital| Content Head at Elpha)Our final episode with Jessica Li as she answers questions based on the topics from our last 3 episodes that began all the way back on Friday, April 24th.
She eloquently provided insightful responses to my questions, which I think it's worth listening to. She also has opted to provide her time and resources to help black founders during these very challenging times in our country. More information about that below:
Questions asked:
From Episode 1: The COVID-19 Impact on entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists
We talked about the impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurs and busin...
2020-06-0533 min
Trendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersJessica Li talks about China (Part 1)This is our third episode with Jessica Li.
Jessica is an investor on Soma Capital and Content Head @Elpha. You can learn more about Jessica and her work via this centralized resource that she put together recently for founders, investors, and operators. Please make sure you check that out as well.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we weren't able to record the entire session to touch on AI and startup space in China, however, we were able to cover most of the interesting topics that Jessica had intended to share on this episode on china fro...
2020-05-2214 min
Trendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersFemale Founders by Jessica LiIn this second episode of this informative series with Jessica Li as she shares me her insights on the following key issues on women in the entrepreneurship and VC including:
-Women Pitching companies to VCs
-Female focused VC fund: Some examples below:
Chloe Capital
IFundwomen
Jane VC
Female Founders Fund
BBG Ventures
SoGal Ventures
-Female focused startup communities:
TopKnot
Swaay
bSmart
Chief-The Private Network for Women Leaders
-Advice for female investors at m...
2020-05-0932 min
Trendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersEpisode 1 of a Part 4 Series: Impact on COVID-19 on the VC space by Jessica Li (Investor at Soma Capital and Content Head at Elpha)In Episode 1 of a Part 4 Series, Jessica Li talked about COVID -19 Impact on the Venture Capital space through the lens of the key points below.
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders, for founders in San Francisco, CA.
"Soma is founded by Aneel Ranadive, who has +10 years experience building startups and investing seed in over 100 startups including Cruise, Rappi, Embarktrucks, Astranis, Atrium and Lambda School (combined valuation of over $30b across all portfolio co’s).
Aneel works with his father Vivek Ranadive, founder of Tibco (sold for $4.3bn to Vista). Tibco software includes big data, analytics, event processing and...
2020-04-2538 min
Trendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersWhat’s all about Africa’s Podcast?This provides a glimpse of why I started this podcast and what’s in store in the coming weeks! Stay tuned :)
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2020-03-1600 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersOne step at a time!Take one step at a time to invest in yourself! This is the final episode of this series: Investing in Yourself!
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2018-01-2804 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersPractice Makes PerfectPractice Makes Perfect is key to ensure that you meet those things you hope to discover about yourself everyday!
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2018-01-2803 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersYou need people to support touYou need people to support to invest in yourself!
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2018-01-2804 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersLearn something new everyday!Discovering new things everyday!
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2018-01-2803 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersUncertainties breed success!Success comes in uncertain phases of your life!
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2018-01-2704 minTrendsetters, Movers, and ChangemakersIntroduction!Make your own podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-fohtung
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2018-01-2701 min