The Founder's Formula Podcast

The Founder's Formula Podcast

The Founder's Formula Podcast is designed to bring current founders, co-founders, founding CEOs, and aspiring entrepreneurs alike the latest and greatest insight from founders who have "been there and done that".

Episodes

September 12, 2023 30 mins

In today’s episode, we talk with Brannon Santos, Founder & CEO at ChatGems about building a startup pre-revenue and his experiences as a first-time founder, and how his company is revolutionizing the customer feedback process for teams struggling to make sales, generate revenue, and retain those customers.

 

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In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Veronica Jow, Founder of Avid Sports Medicine, Harvard Graduate, and Team Physician of The San Francisco Giants and University California Santa Cruz about how a pivot during COVID kept her business going strong and how she's creating a scalable practice by doing what's in the best interest of her customers.

 

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In today’s episode, we talk with Stephanie Valenti, Portfolio Advisor at Hatchet Ventures, she is a 3X C-Suite Executive, Strategic Advisor at multiple companies, and a dean of several schools at Pavilion University, about the common mistakes founders make going from $1M to $10M and how to get ahead of them early.

 

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This episode of The Founder's Formula Podcast recaps the best moments from our amazing guests for the month of July.

 

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Episode 29: Creating a Unique Business Model with Owen Barrett, Founder & CEO at Rayven

Episode 30: Taking Big Concepts and Simplifying Them with Emily Molstad, Co-Founder & CEO at Valis

Episode 31: Creating Raving Fans with Leslie Greenwood, Founder & CEO at Chief Evangelist Consulting

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In today’s episode, we talk with Leslie Greenwood, Founder and CEO of Chief Evangelist Consulting about how her experience building communities for startups, helping them create raving fans, and about how she went from pivoting to tech at the age of 44, to working with tech companies regularly in her business.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Emily Molstad, CEO & Co-Founder at Valis, about how she stood up her sustainability venture and the learnings as a technical founder she experienced over the last 18 months.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Owen Barrett, Founder & President at Rayven, about how his company is paying people to fight climate change with their unique investing and net zero real estate business model.

 

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This episode of The Founder's Formula Podcast recaps the best moments from our amazing guests for the month of June.

 

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Episode 25: Creative Curiosity and Navigating the Co-Founder Search with Jake Kaempf, Founder at The Everyday Company

Episode 26: Key Components to User Acquisition with Taric Mirza, Founder & CEO at Arrive

Episode 27: Enabling Customers to Spread Joy with Grayson Hogard, Founder at Grove Cookie Company

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In today’s episode, we talked with Milaena Ferrarese, Co-Founder and CEO of Healthy Kinnect a results-oriented app that personalizes accountability for health and wellness.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Grayson Hogard, Founder of Grove Cookie Company. He shares his journey from the military to logistics, to becoming a first-time founder with his wife.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Taric Mirza, Founder and CEO at Arrive about user acquisition and how he's going about product distribution as a second-time founder.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Jake Kaempf, the Founder of The Everyday Company, and we discussed how his creative background and curiosity in business helped him navigate the challenges of putting together a team for his newest venture.

 

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In this episode of The Founder's Formula Podcast, we recap the top moments from our 12 guests during season 2.

 

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James Oliver Jr, Founder & CEO @ Kabila

Daniel Rau, Co-Founder & CEO @ Veterati

Howard Kim, Founder & CEO @ Mementum

Andrew Backs, Founder @ Pilot44 Labs

Conor Lamb, Co-Founder @ SkinTheory

Mark Jacobson, Founder & CEO @ Terrain

Vadim Slavin, Portfolio Advisor @ Hatchet Ventures

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In today’s episode, we talked with Holly Diamond, Founder of Work Onward, about her transition from education to recruiting to standing up the world’s most intuitive career marketplace.

 

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This episode of The Founder's Formula Podcast recaps the best moments from our amazing guests for the month of March.

 

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Episode 21: From Technical Lead to CEO with Matias Troccoli, Founder & CEO at Gybe

Episode 22: How to Find Founder Education with Work Experience with Sarah Porter, Co-Founder & CEO at MedDefend

Episode 23: Turning a Service-Based Business Into a Product with Angel Ramirez, Co-Founder & CEO at Cuemby

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In today’s episode, we talked with Hitomi Mizugaki & Angel  Ramirez Co-Founders at Cuemby, about how their experience over the years working together and building a Cloud Native community helped stand up their product.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Sarah Porter, Co-Founder & CEO at MedDefend, about how her tenure as a salesperson at early-stage startups gave her the insights she needed to start her own company.

 

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In today’s episode, we talked with Matias Troccoli, CEO and Co-founder at Gybe, about his journey as a technical leader and now experiencing the go-to-market side of the business as a CEO.

 

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

Episode 17: From Software Engineer to Founder with Conor Lamb, Co-Founder at SkinTheory

Episode 18: Scaling Talent in a Startup with Mark Jacobson, Founder & CEO at Terrain

Episode 19: The Investor Approach Part 1 & 2 with Vadim Slavin, Portfolio Advisor at Hatchet Ventures

Episode 20: Implementing GTM Experience in a Technical Product with Michael Aibel, Co-Founder & CEO at Singulairity

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In today’s episode, we talked with Michael Aibel, Co-Founder & CEO at Singulairity.io, about how he went from a sport fisherman, to GTM leader, to a first-time founder in a technical space.

 

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