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AlpMomentumJan Brinckmann: Director - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute (#08)
In this episode of the AlpMomentum Podcast, host Michael Brehm sits down with Prof. Dr. Jan Brinckmann, one of Europe’s leading thinkers at the intersection of entrepreneurship, education, and venture building. As Professor at ESADE Business School—one of the world’s most international and practice-driven institutions—Brinckmann offers a rare inside look into how he develops entrepreneurial talent and why ESADE consistently ranks among the top universities in the Redstone University Startup Index.
Together, they explore how entrepreneurship education has evolved from traditional lectures to case-based learning and now to fully immersive, real-world project work. Brinckma...
2025-12-0858 min
Making It Real#30 Malte Scholz, Co-founder and CEO at airfocus | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannInteresting episode guest in the Making It Real Podcast for all the product enthusiastists out there: Malte Scholz, product manager specialized in the SaaS and mobile tech space. He is Co-founder and CEO at airfocus, a prioritization and roadmapping software for product teams and decision makers. Malte shares with us his top techniques to prioritize features, to decide on the first product version and to build the best-possible roadmap for your product. We also cover the tricks of balancing customer needs and the challenges of scaling development teams. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maltescholzhttps://airfocus.com...
2021-11-2333 minMaking It Real#29 Stephan Schambach, Serial Entrepreneur and E-commerce Pioneer | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannIn today's episode we welcome Stephan Schambach, serial entrepreneur building market changing companies in the e-commerce space. Prior to his current software NewStore, providing Ominchannel-as-a-Service, Stephan launched Intershop and Demandware that was acquired for $2.8 billion by Salesforce. They say timining is everything, when launching a business. But what is the secret to get it right? How to narrow down focus and go big, when there are so many exciting opportunities? And once launched, how to find your first customers? He answers all these questions and shares his take on the NFT space as well as on the European investment...
2021-11-0234 minMaking It Real#28 David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-founder of HEY and Basecamp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannThis episode presents David Heinemeir Hansson, Founder and CTO of Ruby on Rails, HEY, and Basecamp. David is not just a prominent entrepreneur but also the author of four best-seller books as well as class-winning race-car driver. We take a deep dive into building up one of the leading web development tools as well as the core activities to stay relevant in the tech community. He shares with us his take on work-life balance while handling several projects at the same time. Listen to the full episode to hear more about his journey and insightful tips.linkedin...
2021-09-2933 minMaking It Real#27 Vivien Dollinger, CEO of ObjectBox | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannIn this episode we welcome a female founder in the tech space, Vivien Dollinger who co-founded ObjectBox, a database management provider for developers. Vivien's entrepreneurial journey started as a side project that became a high-growh potential company and was along the very few of #Techstars cohorts. Some of the questions we cover: When is the right moment to turn side project to launch? How to get traction in the tech community at start? Why is a tech co-founder important despite the fast growing world of no/low code tools for early product development? If you are about to turn...
2021-09-0735 min
Making It Real#26 Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner of Uncork Capital | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannJeff Clavier began investing into early stage ventures more than twenty years ago and have supported several teams that have reached successful outcomes, among others Eventbrite, Fitbit or Postmates. He has founded Uncork Capital in 2004, one of the most prominent seed funds based in Palo Alto with over $500m under management. In today's episode, he shares with us the current and hottest investment areas he focuses on and why he is passionate about B2B SaaS enterprises. Also, he gives us his take on the current state of the European start-up ecosystem and his advice on avoiding the three...
2021-08-1639 minMaking It Real#25 Saul Klein, General Partner at LocalGlobe | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannSaul Klein, serial entrepreneur and prominent seed investor in the global tech scene, has co-founded numerous game-changing businesses such as LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Kano, Zinc or Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon). Prior, he had a VP role at Skype and was General Partner at Index Ventures. He shares with us his journey to the entreprenurial space and talks about the transition from working at an established company to starting your own business. He highlights the first steps to take as founders to really see the exciting opportunities and elaborates on the way LocalGlobe evaluates investments and helps improve their performance.
2021-08-0445 minMaking It Real#24 Fabian Wesemann, Co-Founder & Group CFO of WeFox | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannThis time our special guest is Fabian Wesemann, Co-Founder and CFO of insurance unicorn WeFox. Wefox recently secured $650 million in capital, giving the firm a $3 billion valuation. Fabian shares with us how they closed their funding round and his take on building relationship with investors. He also gives us advice on finding tech engineers in the start and and making decisions in a team. And if you wondering how to enter and build trust in a regulated industry, this episode is also for you!https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmannhttps://www.linkedin.com/in...
2021-07-2640 minMaking It Real#23 Jasper Masemann, Partner at HV Capital | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannThis episode features Jasper Masemann, partner at HV Capital, one of the most iconic VC firms in Germany. HV Capital invested in more than 200 companies, including market leading companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero and Flixbus. He shares insider tips for first-time founders, such as the dilemma of bootstrapping or initial hiring without an HR person, and reveals the main criteria that they take into consideration before making investment decisions. Our discussion also covers the recent developments in the European Venture Capital space.https://www.hvcapital.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann...
2021-07-1442 min
EsadeIn-company start-up accelerators: the experience of Almirall and Ampersand HealthHaving an in-company start-up accelerator has become an extraordinary source of innovation, ideas, learnings and a way to have the latest technology closer for many companies. The pharmaceutical industry is no exception and a leading company like Almirall has Digital Garden, an accelerator aiming to accelerate the growth of start-ups that offer innovative technology-based services and solutions throughout the patient journey.
In this podcast, Jan Brinckmann, Esade Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of eWorks, talks with Francesca Wuttke, CDO of Almirall and Nader Alaghband, cofounder and CEO of Ampersand Health, one of the start-ups at Digital Garden...
2021-07-0915 minMaking It Real#22 David Nothacker, CEO & Co-Founder of sennder | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannDavid Nothacker is co-founder of Europe’s leading digital freight-forwarder platform, Sennder. The Berlin-based unicorn has recently raised an additional $80 million in funding at over $1 billion in valuation and will use this funding to expand into new regions. David started Sennder 1.0 as an MBA graduate but failed, as his co-founder left him five minutes after signing the investors term sheet. After overcoming this difficulty and setting a clear vision with new co-founders, he managed to turn the company into a unicorn with a team of 800 employees. If you want to find out more about how to excel in #winnertakesitall ma...
2021-07-0632 minMaking It Real#21 Quim Sabrià, CEO & Co-Founder of EDpuzzle | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannQuim Sabria is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edpuzzle, a crowdsourced video-lesson-platform in the K12 space, one of the top of cohort YCombinator startups in the EdTech industry. Edpluzzle combines simple video-editing tools with analytics so that a teacher can take a video and make it personal for their classrooms. Quim started as a math teacher without any tech or business know-how to run a company. He used to make his educational videos that he shared with other teachers who loved the idea and wanted to personalize them on their own. Started as a side project with childhood friends...
2021-06-2932 minMaking It Real#20 Javier Darriba, Co-Founder & CEO of Bloobirds | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannJavier Darriba is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bloobirds. Bloobirds is a sales empowerment platform that guides SDRs and closing reps to convert more prospects into customers. Prior to Bloobirds, Javier also co-founded and led UserZoom as the Co-CEO. Furthermore, he is the Founder & Chairman of The SaaS Institute and an Investment Comittee Member at Encomenda VC. Javier is an enthusiastic entrepreneur, not only in business but in everyday life. He's striving for change, innovation, and creating new things - he raised more than 40 millions funds from Business Angels and VCs and built international operations with offices in Spain, US...
2021-03-2941 minMaking It Real#19 Pau Rodriguez, CEO Methinks AI | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannPau Rodriguez is the CEO of Methinks AI, a software company to unlock life-saving treatments potential worldwide. He is an industrial engineer and MBA graduate by background. Prior to leading Methinks AI, Pau was also a professional rugby player, was a member of the U17, U18, U19 and U20 Spanish Rugby National Team, participated in the Rugby World Cup 2005 and Rugby European Cups 2004 and 2006. He also was the captain of the Senior Catalan Rugby National Team in 2010. Pau is passionate about how technology can change people’s lives for the better. Pau Rodriguez, CEO Met...
2021-03-2237 minMaking It Real#18 Richard Schwenke, Co-Founder & MD Priceloop AI | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannRichard Schenke is Co-Founder & MD at Priceloop AI. Prior to Priceloop, Richard also co-founded Contorion, a fast-growing online shop for professional industrial and trade supply. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Richard was a Senior Consultant at McKinsey and with a project focus on non-food retail, sales & pricing strategy and automotive. Richard is an MIT and RWTH Aachen graduate.Richard Schwenke, Co-Founder & MD Priceloop AI | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #1800:00 How did you get into the entrepreneurship domain? 01:52 Did you start your venture in parallel during y...
2021-03-1548 minMaking It Real#17 David Casellas, Co-Founder & MD of Pridatect | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannDavid Casellas is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Pridatect and Co-Founder of Redpoints, both enterprising and successful SAAS LegalTech Companies. Heading up the Business side of the companies, David nurtured their growth and expanded their business from startups to successful Million€ companies and has been prominent and influential in internationalising business worldwide.David came from a two year spell at FC Barcelona where he was a driving force in the Digital Business team, working on a global scale.David started his first business at 19 years old whilst still studying Business Management and Marketing in th...
2021-03-0836 minMaking It Real#16 Robert Wetzker, Founder & CEO of Aklamio | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannRobert Wetzker is the Founder & CEO of Aklamio. Founded in 2011, Aklamio has become Europe’s most successful referral marketing solution, trusted by companies such as Virgin Media, Vodafone, PayPal, Endesa, o2, and over 300 international brands. Aklamio believes that a company’s best assets are its customers, their networks, and the power of incentive marketing. Their mission is to empower brands to succeed in a customer-centric world by building the world’s #1 platform for customer incentivization. Their 80+ employees work in our HQ in Berlin and London, with teams in Madrid and Paris. Aklamio was ranked 2nd fastest growing technology startup in Ger...
2021-03-0142 minMaking It Real#15 Michael Brehm, Founder & MD of i2x | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannMichael Brehm is the Founder & Managing Director of i2x who helps sales and customer support agents to excel at their job by providing the most intuitive, productive and personally tailored learning to improve each individual’s skill-set. Prior to i2x, Michael has run and founded multiple internationally successful companies in the last 15 years. His last company, Rebate Networks, was an e-commerce and daily deals network. He also was Executive Director & Investor at VZnet Netzwerke Ltd. (schülerVZ, studiVZ, meinVZ). Apart from building companies himself, Michael also enjoys supporting founders as a Partner of Redstone, a Berlin-based VC fir...
2021-02-2247 minMaking It Real#14 Colin McElwee, Co-Founder of Worldreader | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannColin McElwee is the Co-Founder of Worldreader. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and a MBA from ESADE Business School, where he also was the Executive Director of Marketing and Communication from 2001-2010. From 2012-2014, Colin was an invited member of the Global Agenda Council for Africa of the World Economic Forum. Colin has extensive for-profit and not-for-profit experience around the globe. He was an economist for several Brussels-based lobbies to the European Commission. Colin was also the Global Marketing Controller for Scottish & Newcastle where he oversaw Formula 1 sponsorship and product distribution to over 150...
2021-02-1548 minMaking It Real#13 Patrick Spain, Serial Entrepreneur | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannSpain is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded four Web-enabled companies that transformed their industries. Presently he is the CEO of First Stop Health an online and on-call telemedicine and advocacy service used by employers and their employees.Co-founder and long-time chairman and CEO of Hoover’s, Inc., Spain led the company from a small book publisher in 1992 to a profitable, publicly traded online business information services company with $31 million in revenue in 2001 with a sale to D&B in 2003 for $119 million.Spain was also the founder, ch...
2021-02-0844 minMaking It Real#12 Katrina Walker, CEO & Founder of CodeOp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannKatrina Walker is the CEO & founder of CodeOp, Barcelona's first coding school for women and the TGNC community. Prior to that, Katrina worked on the central data science team at eDreams. Being originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she immigrated to Barcelona in 2016 to explore the rising tech scene from a data science perspective. Katrina comes from a multidisciplinary background starting first as a social worker for the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States. She has carried out social research with institutes such as the University of California, San Francisco and the University of...
2021-02-0134 minMaking It Real#11 Aimie-Sarah Carstensen, CEO of Realtainment | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannAimie is the co-founder and CEO of Realtainment, which covers the brands ArtNight, ShakeNight, PlantNight and BakeNight. Her team brings more than 30,000 people together every month. The platform enables 1,000 artists, bakers, and confectioners, florists & bartenders to make a living doing what they love. Realtainment’s vision is to combat digital loneliness with a new brand of “edutainment”, bringing communities together offline again.Aimie-Sarah Carstensen, CEO of Realtainment | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #1100:00 How did you get started?01:30 Did you want to start your venture with a...
2021-01-2535 minMaking It Real#10 Daniel Gutenberg, Investor | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannDaniel Gutenberg is one of the most active Swiss early-stage angel investors and has invested in a variety of high growth startups. Among his portfolio are companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Tesla, Mobileye, Skrill, Netscape and SumUp, where he is also Chairman of the Board. Daniel Gutenberg, Investor | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #1000:00 How did you get into the entrepreneurship world?02:20 Have you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?03:26 How did you decide what to work on?05:54 How did you persuade p...
2021-01-1832 minMaking It Real#9 Lukasz Gadowski, Serial Entrepreneur | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannSerial entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski is one of the core people in Germany’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Lukasz founded his first successful company Spreadshirt in 2002. Today, Spreadshirt has over 1,000 employees and is preparing to go public. Lukasz is also the co-founder of Delivery Hero and founded or co-founded several other companies such as Mister Spex, Vertical Media (Publisher of Gruenderszene) and Circ. Being the founder & CEO of Team Europe and the co-founder of Point Nine Capital, Lukasz is also an active investor and business angel. Among his portfolio are Skyryse, Skydio, Volocopter and a few other undisclosed aviation companies, Miles, Bird, En...
2021-01-1141 min
Glühwürmchen Podcast003 Erste Schritte ins Unternehmertum mit Jan Brinckmann | Glühwürmchen PodcastWarum ist eine Ausbildung hilfreich und wie komme ich zum Gründen?In dieser Folge sprechen wir, Dimi und Lukas, sprechen mit Prof. Jan Brinckmann über seine Einstellung zu den Themen Unternehmensgründung, Business Schools und seine Tipps wie man seine Ausbildung am besten für sich nutzt. Jan ist ein Professor an der ESADE Business School und Investor in verschiedenen Unternehmen wie Pinterest und Semalytix.Viel Spaß!Hier die von Jan genannten Bücher:The Art of the Start: https://amzn.to/35wk2uMPredictable Revenue: https://amzn.to/3bz5UEK
2021-01-0935 minMaking It Real#8 Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannJason Fried is co-founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), a Chicago-based software firm which among others includes his current venture HEY.com. Jason is the co-author of the international bestseller Rework, which was published in 2010. He also writes Inc.'s Getting Real column. Jason lives and builds his businesses under the motto 'It's simple until you make it complicated’. Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #800:00 Jason's founding story and his personal way into entrepreneurship02:52 How Jason met his co-founders05:16 Cre...
2021-01-0349 minMaking It Real#7 Tim Schmitz, COO of Jodel | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannTim Schmitz is the COO of Jodel. Jodel is a very popular location-based communication app which enables its users to discover, follow and participate in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. Prior to creating Jodel, Tim studied at ESADE Business School.Tim Schmitz, COO of Jodel | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #700:00 Tim's personal story in the entrepreneurship domain3:55 What gave you the confidence that Jodel could work?6:00 MVPs in the consumer space and their KPIs11:25 How your KPIs should...
2020-12-2841 minMaking It Real#6 Ariel Poler, Reveri Health | Making It Real Podcast with Jan BrinckmannAriel Poler is the founder of Reveri Health, a company in the human augmentation space that helps millions of people relieve stress, anxiety, chronic pain and insomnia through Alexa-based programs.Prior to Reveri Health, Ariel has founded and ran three Internet companies: I/PRO, Topica & TextMarks. He was an active board member at a number of technology companies, including Strava, Kana Software, LinkExchange, StumbleUpon, Silicon Investor & Odeo.He currently serves on the boards of NeoSensory, Freedom Financial, HUMM & Returnly.Ariel is also an active angel investor. His investments include AdMob, Thumbtack, Flixster...
2020-12-2142 minMaking It Real#5 Florian Heinemann | Project A VenturesFlorian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global Fashion Group, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating...
2020-12-1751 minMaking It Real#4 Michael Wolfe | Serial EntrepreneurMichael Wolfe is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Michael co-founded Gladly and Vontu, worked as the CEO of Pipewise and is also a Portfolio Advisor at Point Nine Capital. Throughout his career, Michael has raised several hundred million of capital through many venture rounds, IPO, and secondaries and has led his companies to two successful acquisitions and one IPO. He is especially experienced in SaaS and on-premise products and led over 20 major development cycles based on a variety of technologies.Michael Wolfe, Serial Entrepreneur | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #4
2020-12-1439 minMaking It Real#3 Tim Schumacher | Serial EntrepreneurTim Schumacher is an entrepreneur since he got his first computer 30 years ago and started coding as a kid. He has founded and lead various companies, including Sedo.com, Eyeo.com (makers of Adblock Plus) and, most recently, the SaaS.group. He also enjoys investing into start ups and mentoring the next generation of founders, especially climate tech founders, where together with Ecosia.org he is building WorldFund.vcTim Schumacher, Serial Entrepreneur | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #300:00 How Tim got into the Entrepreneurship world 01:49 How...
2020-12-1036 minMaking It Real#2 Craig Newmark | Founder CraigslistCraig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist. In the conversation with Jan Brinckmann on the Making It Real Podcast, Craig talks about the early days of Craigslist, philanthropy, why he decided to not monetize Craigslist to its fullest potential and shares his favorite Twitter jokes. Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #2 00:00 How Craigslist got started as a simple mailing list03:00 Why enough is enough03:54 How Craig Newmark started running Craigslist as a hobby07:35 Craig’s decision to create a company and the role of decision-making as an...
2020-12-0731 minMaking It Real#1 Steve Blank | Lean StartupSteve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and recognized for developing the customer development model that launched the Lean Startup methodology. Steve is the author of four significant books in the entrepreneurship world, namely "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", "Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost", "The Startup Owner's Manual" and "Holding a Cat by the Tail". He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Columbia University. Steve Blank, Lean Startup | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #1 00:00 How Steve got started in entrepreneurship07:37 Steve’s evolution as a...
2020-12-031h 02
Terug naar de natuurEric Brinckmann: "Je kunt geen respect opbrengen voor de natuur als je er niet in verblijft."In deze aflevering van 'Terug naar de natuur' spreekt Louis Bijl de Vroe met Eric Brinckmann. Eric is filosoof, schrijver en natuurbeheerder en werkte bij diverse onderwijsinstellingen en adviesbureaus. Nu is hij directeur van landgoed Het Lankheet in Overijssel.
Eric schreef onder andere de boeken ‘Wandelen met Meester Li’ en 'Filosofische wandelingen', dat genomineerd werd voor de Jan Wolkersprijs. Als je met Eric door de natuur wandelt, komt de omgeving op een totaal nieuwe manier tot leven. Een simpele parkwandeling verandert in een tocht door onze eeuwenoude cultuurgeschiedenis en niks blijkt meer zonder betekenis.
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2019-11-071h 26
Endlich-Montag! - Jobsuche & Karriere30 Minuten mit: Prof. Dr. Jan BrinckmannProf. Dr. Jan Brinckmann – Professor für Unternehmensgründungen an der ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
Mit der Existenzgründung ist das so ’ne Sache. Einerseits kann ich mein Ding durchziehen, werde ich meinen ätzenden Chef los, entscheide ich selbst, wer meine Kollegen sind, und so weiter und so fort. Andererseits scheitern 80 Prozent der Gründer. Die meisten sogar recht schnell. Mit Prof. Dr. Jan Brinckmann, dem 41-jährigen Professor für Unternehmensgründungen an der ESADE Business School in Barcelona, spreche ich im Jobsucher-Podcast über die Überbewertung von Geschäftsideen, wie ich als Unternehmer erfolgreich sein kann und warum...
2017-05-2200 min