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General Principles

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  • Startup advice sounding the same? We explore the alternative perspectives on entrepreneurship and making impact from the viewpoints of successful creators and builders. Join us on a weekly series as we uncover the principles: the strategies, tactics and mental models behind how some of the greatest impact builders operate and approach their work.
    2021 - General Principles
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Episodes
  • #10 Kevin Kelly: Hundred True Fans, Creator Economy And How To Become A Great Writer

    #10 Kevin Kelly: Hundred True Fans, Creator Economy And How To Become A Great Writer
    Dec 27 2021

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    (3:21) Dropping out of college

    (7:24) Kevin Kelly's changing philosophies

    (10:21) How Kevin Kelly generates ideas

    (13:39) Tool for thoughts

    (20:43) Rapid prototyping

    (23:49) Why innovations come from startups not corporates

    (27:16) A Thousand True Fans

    (31:13) Infinite Games

    (39:46) You want to have down time

    (43:18) Kevin's fave things and reccomendations
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    52 mins
  • How To Start A Neo Bank and Smash The Glass Vault Feat. Emma Sánchez Andrade Smith, Founder of Jefa

    How To Start A Neo Bank and Smash The Glass Vault Feat. Emma Sánchez Andrade Smith, Founder of Jefa
    Dec 1 2021
    Wonder how to start a new bank? How to tackle the world's biggest problems? Serial entrepreneur, former Bridgewater employee and the founder of Jefa, Emma Sánchez Andrade Smith (@emmyagsmith) joins us to share her story into entrepreneurship. How she solves problems from principles thinking and how she went about building Jefa. What is the go to market strategy, how to talk to users and how to build a business in an emerging market. We also explore the financial inequalities between men and women - how most of the unbanked are women! --------- * Want to be featured in a future episode? Email: team@viralwegrow.com * Are you interested in Web3? Have you been exploring the wonderful world of Web3 Communities? Check out https://guildsdao.com as your discovery portal to the best Web3 Communities. --------- Show notes: * (1:48) Lessons from school: Duke University and the London School of Economics * (4:35) Banks are designed for men * (6:03) Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Principles * (17:14) Women are great customers * (23:46) Fixing Wealth Inequalities * (29:40) The role of Mothers and finance in the household * (36;24) Thinking about customer acquisition costs * (39:11) Being a community first bank * (46:43) Rapid fire questions
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    49 mins
  • #9 Viorica Vanica and Ionut Mistreanu (MyFocusSpace) - How To Build A Remote Co-working Product in Three Months

    #9 Viorica Vanica and Ionut Mistreanu (MyFocusSpace) - How To Build A Remote Co-working Product in Three Months
    Jul 17 2021

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    * (1:18) How it started 

    * (3:07) Product validation

    * (6:52) Getting initial users

    * (8:57) Scoping out an MVP 

    * (12:00) Prioritising features

    * (15:37) Keeping the team all aligned remotely without overloaded meetings

    * (19:01) Metrics

    * (24:22) 6 Month Goals
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    29 mins
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