Throughout this series of interviews, I’ve talked to several non-tech entrepreneurs who’ve shared their insights and tips on building a startup. So, in this interview – the 10th in The Startup Journey series – it was great to sit down with a technical founder – Adarsh Jain. Besides that, it never…
Making the jump into entrepreneurship, and building a startup, is rarely a rational decision. A good example of this comes from an entrepreneur I got to know recently, Sean Yu. He started his career at Lehman Brothers and Gryphon Investors. At this point, the rational decision for Sean was to…
When serial entrepreneur Illit Geller started telling me her story, I could instantly see why the fintech startup she founded, TradAir raised $11M in its latest funding round. She didn’t just build a solution for her target market, she built it with her target market. Reaching out to them, listening to…
Roughly a year ago, I started reaching out to fintech founders to ask them about their startup journeys, and discover how they overcame the common hurdles of building a fintech. My goal in doing this was to bring valuable insights to our community of entrepreneurs. After all, one of the…
We often talk about how people are the most important aspect of your startup. Whether it’s your team, advisors, investors or clients, having the right people in your corner can be the critical difference between success and failure. And when it comes to finding those people, your relationships are as…
Finding a technical co-founder is one of the biggest challenges faced by startup founders. Here’s how Audapio’s Founder Dudley Gould overcame this common startup hurdle. I started my entrepreneurial journey like most first-time founders. I had a great idea, with the industry knowledge to turn it into a business vision.…
The best business ideas don’t come from the entrepreneurs who are focusing their efforts on becoming the next Gates, Zuckerberg or Branson. They come from entrepreneurs who can see unsolved problems and inefficiencies in the market. Just like Christian Nothacker.It was a gap in the market that inspired him to…
As CTO at Altar.io, a large part of my work revolves around observing the forward-looking industry trends (including fintech trends) that affect how we create innovative products. The fintech industry is experiencing a paradigm shift across multiple vertices of the technology spectrum, which has been accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic. …
Whether you’re thinking of launching a startup or in the trenches of your first entrepreneurial venture, any morsel of advice from someone who’s been in your shoes can be like gold. That’s why I sat down with serial entrepreneur Alex Tonelli. He knows a thing or two about the hurdles…