Startup Life Show with Ande Lyons

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EP 129 - Social Impact Startup Founder Leads Hackathons for Equality Jun 28, 2021

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Courageous and compassionate conversations are the seeds that lead to cultural change, especially within the workplace.
For over 10 years our guest, social impact startup founder Marie Roker-Jones, has been leading gender and racial diversity strategies to create cultural change.
A seasoned founder, Marie is the co-Ceo of Essteem, a platform that organizes Equalithons (hackathons for equality), a first-of-its-kind, virtual DEI events that connect tech companies that uphold diversity and inclusion commitments to underrepresented tech talent who want to work for those companies.
As the founder of Raising Great Men, Marie built a movement for parents, empowering them with resources to raise culturally aware and socially conscious children.
She was the senior editor for The Good Men Project, a multimedia, cross-platform site that asks, “What does it mean to be a good man in the 21st century?”
Marie also has workforce and career development experience creating workforce re-entry programs for underrepresented communities through coalition building, employment readiness, networking opportunities, and community outreach.
She has helped tech companies and startups with their diversity hiring goals through Veteran and military spouse initiatives.
Marie dives into her passion for racial diversity, inclusion and equality, and how she and her co-founder Hugo are building a platform to help corporations hire and retain overlooked tech talent.
00:00 - meet Marie Roker-Jones!
10:35 - 4 memorable startup mistakes Marie made with her first business
16:00 - how racial diversity and equality became Marie's north star
20:35 - meet Essteem + Hugo - a terrific co-founder story!
30:15 - roadblocks faced by folks transitioning into the tech industry and how Essteem helps dissolve these roadblocks
39:50 - how Essteem proved its value proposition
46:45 - a vulnerable concern many founders have: underdelivering + I don't want to screw this up!
55:40 - how you can add wind to Essteem's sails
Please visit Essteem https://www.essteem.com to learn more about how their platform organizes Equalithons (hackathons for equality), a virtual DEI event that connects tech companies that uphold diversity and inclusion commitments to underrepresented tech talent who want to work for those companies.
Please connect with Marie via:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marieroke...
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/marierokjones
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marierokerj...
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
http://andelyons.com
#hackathonsforequality #racialdiversityandinclusion
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EP 128 Scaling a Healthy, Plant-Based and Sustainable Food Business Jun 24, 2021

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Taking a recipe and scaling it for mass production, especially when it has a shelf-life, is one of the hardest business models to start.
Our guest, JimmyTay Trinh, is the founder of Naturally Noah’s, a food business providing an array of delicious, vegan instant pho noodle soups.
JimmyTay and his family members were suffering from chronic illnesses and obesity. While they loved consuming pho noodles, JimmyTay knew the instant soups on the shelf were toxic – filled with high levels of sodium and saturated fat.
A former restauranteur who honed his craft at the Culinary Institute of America, JimmyTay knew he could create a healthy, vegan version of pho noodles that would help his family and other folks lead healthier, sustainable lives.
He created a delicious variety of instant pho soups, figured out how to scale the recipes, designed the packaging, secured proper nutritional labeling, beta tested in local stores, learned how to mass produce the recipes, and Naturally Noah’s is now a nationally distributed food product!
Chef JimmyTay shares the BEST advice for food founders, including:
00:00 - Meet Chef JimmyTay!
06:45 - Food accelerator program SKU - https://sku.is/
11:00 - JimmyTay's origin story
14:25 - proving Naturally Noah's value prop
28:00 - the mantra that helped JimmyTay get through the tough days
28:40 - Practice Patience - Stitch that on a Pillow moment!
31:00 - brilliant food product pricing advice
36:00 - funding advice for your food business (thanks Mom!)
44:00 - nutrition label advice
48:05 - founder life - JimmyTay's daughter arrives during Hurricane Harvey - in the car!
52:05 - rebranding a food product line - what's involved: team + brand promise + vision
54:25 - why authenticity is important for your business proposition
57:50 - how entrepreneurship has served JimmyTay
59:00 - best product and ingredient vendor advice for food founders!
To learn more about the delicious instant vegan pho soups at Naturally Noah's, please visit: https://naturallynoahs.com
Connect with JimmyTay and follow Naturally Noah's:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmytayt...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eatnaughtynoahs and https://twitter.com/JimmysJourny
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturallyno...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NoahsPhoNood...
SOSV - https://sosv.com/invest/
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Ande Lyons
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#adviceforscalingafoodbusiness #veganphonoodlesoup
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EP 127 She Created a Platform So No Employee Has to Choose Between Work and Family Jun 22, 2021

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No employee should have to choose between work and family.
Providing access to trusted care and earning a living rate for delivering that trusted care is a problem that needed solving.
Our guest, Anita Gardyne, is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Onēva, a company she co-founded in 2014 to solve this problem.
Onēva reimagines the career for caregivers while providing an enticing and essential employer-provided benefit to client employees.
Anita, a working mother and caregiver to her mom, faced her own frustrations in finding trusted care for her family through the existing marketplace.
Believing access to trusted care AND earning a living rate for delivering quality, professional care are human rights, she went to work.
Anita collaborated with Microsoft to build Onēva’s technology platform, welcoming them as the system’s first customer in 2016. Onēva now plays a critical role in providing access to safety compliant in-home care for businesses, customers and caregivers.
A technology business visionary, Anita is an award-winning Black businesswoman with a personal mission of extending women’s careers, closing the pay equity gap faster, and creating thousands of living wage jobs.
Prior to Onēva, Anita spent nearly 2 decades in leadership positions including her role as CFO at Quantum (Seagate), leading a disk drive business unit generating $3.5B in revenue.
Anita holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BA in Economics and Economics in the Black Community from UC Berkeley.
ABOUT ONĒVA:
A certified Minority Owned Business and employer-provided technology platform that matches FBI background checked in-home care providers with employees to help them achieve greater work-life balance and peace of mind. Through the benefit, caregivers are able to carve their own schedule and pursue jobs that best match their skillset while employees are comforted to know available caregivers have living FBI background checks, are fairly compensated, and are trustworthy to care for elders, children, those with disabilities, pets, and home needs.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.oneva.com
Connect with Anita on LinkedIn here:
Follow ONĒVA on social media here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/onevainc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onevainc/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oneva/
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EP 126 Helping Formerly Incarcerated People Transition Through the Journey of Entrepreneurship Jun 18, 2021

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Kahlil Gibran
After spending twenty-two years in and out of correctional institutions, our guest, Quan Huynh, was paroled from a life sentence in 2015 and created his first company six months later.
Described as a mighty warrior, a magician, and a mountain of goodness, Quan is the bestselling author of Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence.
Quan is also the senior post release program manager for Defy Ventures, a non-profit helping those with a criminal past transform their lives through the journey of entrepreneurship.
Defy Ventures’ entrepreneurial programs enable one of America’s largest forgotten communities to defy the odds. Its entrepreneurs-in-training accelerator program provides the skillsets and mentoring needed to launch a business.
In 2016 Quan received the Peace Fellowship Award for his work with the Alternatives to Violence Project. He’s been featured in Entrepreneur, PBS Newshour, Talks at Google, and numerous other publications and podcasts.
"No matter the prison, the key to unlocking the door is in each one of us."
"Every human being is worth salvaging and everyone has the capacity to change."
Quan transformed and inspired everyone during our delicious conversation, including:
00:00 - Meet Quan!
07:52 - Quan's origin story
09:54 - Shift Happens
15:10 - Quan starts the first ever grief and loss group for incarcerated men
23:52 - How journaling led to Quan's love of writing
25:50 - Quan's parole story
33:30 - Transitioning from prison to entrepreneurship
40:00 - Diluting biases and limiting beliefs
45:00 - The birth of Sparrow on the Razor Wire - Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence - written for the men Quan left behind
48:50 - Authors are creative entrepreneurs
55:02 - Meet Defy Ventures and volunteer!
You can purchase and DONATE copies of Quan's book here: http://bit.ly/SparrowInTheRazorWire.
Learn more about Quan and his remarkable work in the world here: https://quanxhuynh.com/.
Follow and connect with Quan on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quanxhuynh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/quanxhuynh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quanxhuynh/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quanxhuynh
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAi6...
Learn more about Defy Ventures here: https://www.defyventures.org/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
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EP 125 Reimagining the Way We Create and Use Video Games Jun 15, 2021

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Gaming for Good – how wonderful is that?!
Our guest, Mariam Nusrat, is the Founder of GRID - Gaming Revolution for International Development, a tech start-up that aims to unleash the power of video games to educate, engage and empower people for positive behavior change.
GRID is powered by a global team of young professionals who share a passion for video games and social change. They have created games on reproductive health, climate change, health pandemics, animal welfare and STEM learning and have games in the pipeline on child abuse, financial literacy and skills for the future.
GRID grew as a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) Commitment to Action and has been featured twice on the CGIU stage in sessions moderated by President Bill Clinton.
The team is currently building Breshna - a no-code platform that creates video games with no-code, at low cost and lightning speed.
Mariam, an Education Specialist at the World Bank, believes in the power of young people, especially women, and has a vision of a world where empowered girls are not a minority but a norm. Her favorite quote this year is “Why can’t “run like a girl” mean win the race?”
Mariam dropped gems the entire conversation, including:
00:00 Meet Mariam!
11:42 - why no code video game dev has not been mainstreamed
14:00 - being a woman in a male-dominated industry
16:38 - accepted into the Clinton Global Initiative University
20:55 - outstanding advice for side-hustling founders
23:25 - Andelicious Moment - Marian's terrific fund raising advice
28:00 - why it's time for a no-code video game building platform (think CANVA or SQUARESPACE)
28:50 - meet Breshna!
30:40 - why building in public helps you build your business
38:40 - be a category leader (Ocean Programs Accelerator: https://oceanprograms.com)
53:15 - Mariam's generous offer to share her dev team at cost - email her: mariam.adil@gamingfordev.com
54:25 - sign up for Breshna's game jam - July 17
58:25 - Stitch That on a Pillow!
To learn more about GRID, click here:
To learn more about Breshna, click here: https://breshna.gamingfordev.com/
Please connect with Mariam and follow GRID here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamadil
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gamingfordev
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamingfordev/
How Not to Waste Time and Money on Product Development: https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEMVP
What if Someone Steels My Idea: http://bit.ly/StealIdea
Scroobious Pitch It Plan: http://bit.ly/SLSScroobious
Ocean Programs Accelerator: https://oceanprograms.com/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
http://andelyons.com
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EP 124 Marketing Technology Optimization for Consumer Brand Businesses Jun 10, 2021

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Are you ready to launch your consumer brand business and wondering how to make a splash that results in solid sales results without breaking your marketing budget?
Our guest, Joselin Mane – Founder & CEO of LITBel Consulting and Boston TweetUp – is a marketing strategist that leverages engineering principles to guarantee marketing results using his proven MMT method.
Joselin has been helping consumer brands increase their profits while also decreasing their costs by strategizing, building, and optimizing proven sale and marketing funnels within 90 days.
Working with companies like Toyota, Dreamworks Studios, Indochino, Warner Bros., Eventbrite, and Cadillac, Joselin knows how to leverage online marketing technology to streamline digital marketing and social strategies and organize and promote events for long term sales growth.
In 2009 he launched Boston TweetUp and single handedly developed a network of over 100 Boston area event partners while managing the most socially active event calendar and promotional network in the Boston area to date! (One of the many reasons Joselin is a beloved member of the Boston Startup Community.)
Virtual and in person event planners will love Joselin’s 5 phase event planning and promotional process that, when followed, guarantees the success of any event.
Share the top thing you learned using the hashtag #JMBday. Respond by June 9 @ 12pm ET - 30 minute Strategy Session; after June 9 @ 12pm ET - 15 Minute Strategy Session.
Joselin shared valuable advice to help you create the best experiences for your consumers so you can stand out from the crowd... and he shared terrific mindset hacks you can immediately implement to help ease your founder journey.
00:00 - Meet Joselin - Happy Birthday - woo hoo!
07:16 - Mindset Hack for Founders - how to stay even keel during the tumultuous times
10:00 - Mentorship Matters and excellent Mastermind Group Advice
14:45 - Origin Story - looooove!
18:00 - get to success faster - fish where the fish are - a terrific analogy for startup founders to provide something the market wants - Andelicious Advice
20:50 - why digital marketing and consumer brand marketing
27:10 - why proving the value proposition is so important and ROI advice
32:57 - how to give more and create a memorable experience with your consumers
35:00 - the power of asking really good questions
37:10 - Boston TweetUp rocks
40:00 - how Joselin serves clients - MMT Method
46:40 - Joselin’s 5 phase event planning and promotional process that, when followed, guarantees the success of any event
56:30 - how to handle imposter syndrome and founder inadequacy
Learn more about Joselin's MMT Method and marketing services here: https://litbel.com/
Follow and connect with Joselin here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joselinmane/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoselinMane
Clubhouse: @joselinmane https://clubhousedb.com/user/joselinmane
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joselinmane/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
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EP 122 Create a Pitch Video to Humanize the Capital Raise Process Jun 03, 2021

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Are you seeking funding for your startup and struggling to connect with the right people and resources because you don’t fit traditional pattern matching?
Our guest, Allison Byers, founded Scroobious, a pitch video platform for under networked founders to be discovered by the right investors with the right message in the right way.
With an MBA and 15+ years' experience building and leading startups, Allison has previously raised nearly $10M, and she has deep experience utilizing data to understand human behavior, strategic planning, fundraising, and product management.
Allison adds so much value to founders during our conversation, especially if you're raising capital.
When you submit a pitch deck or one-pager to an investor or Angel Group, it can feel impersonal.
I mean, how can they tell you’re uniquely qualified to successfully build your business from words and images on a PowerPoint presentation?
Allison shares how Scroobious helps you break down the barriers to finding funding through its Pitch it Plan - a self guided pitch deck process that will help you create a successful outcome for your fundraising efforts.
Allison provides a $50 discount to the Scroobious Pitch it Plan - click on this link and get started: http://bit.ly/SLSScroobious
Please visit Scroobious to learn more about all the platform features: https://www.scroobious.com/
Follow Allison on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/apbyers
And connect with Allison on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-b....
00:00 - meet Allison!
11:40 - the awe*mazing story behind Scroobious' name!
13:43 - how Allison proved her value prop - it's all about the data, baby!
21:20 - Allison brings an Andelicious Moment to the audience with her traction story
22:56 - finding a technical co-founder advice
28:15 - Allison explains how the Scroobious Pitch it Plan works
33:35 - outstanding eye contact advice for video pitching
39:00 - Allison's vetted framework for a pitch narrative that works for the founder and the investor
53:15 - Allison's Founder Journey advice and insights
55:05 - STITCH THAT ON A PILLOW - "stick with it"
56:20 - what Allison has learned professionally and personally from the Founder Journey
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
http://andelyons.com
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EP 121 Helping Newly Minted Entrepreneurs Stay Focused Through Accountability Coaching May 31, 2021

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When you launch a startup, staying focused on critical path activities can be a challenge. Especially when you are transitioning from an Employee mindset to an Entrepreneur mindset.
Our Guest, Drew Duperval, is a serial entrepreneur and a startup consultant helping entrepreneurs monetize their passion, start their business, and manifest their 5-year vision.
He’s the founder of Young Hustlers Under 40, otherwise known as YHU40 (@yhunder40), a business and personal development network for entrepreneurs dedicated to helping founders save time, scale their businesses, and expand their network through events and accountability coaching.
Drew's passion is to help startups, freelancers and 1st Gen business owners organize their ideas and businesses. He has consulted with dozens of entrepreneurs (barbershops, salons, restaurants, consultants, etc), and spoken to hundreds of students, parents, and entrepreneurs at various events around the East Coast.
In his “free time” Drew hosts the Scale your Business podcast and volunteers at local non-profits One Little Light (@OneLittleLightOrg) and Strong Women In Action (@SWIABoston).
Drew delivers the best advice for your new business! From profitability habits to mindset hacks, and everything in between.
To learn more about Young Hustlers under 40 click these links:
https://www.yhu40.com/
https://www.yhu40.com/mastermind
https://www.yhu40.com/bookclub
Please follow and connect with Drew here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duperval/
YouTube:
1. Personal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSjR...
2. Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxE2...
Instagram:
1. Personal: https://www.instagram.com/drewduperval/
2. Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/syb.podcast/
3. YHU40: https://www.instagram.com/yhunder40/
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
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EP 120 Having It All Doesn't Mean Doing It All Alone May 29, 2021

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Are you the type of person who values doing everything on your own? Do you avoid asking for help because you believe it makes you appear weak and inexperienced?
How’s that working for you?
Our guest, Elayne Fluker, is author of the new book, Get Over "I Got It" (HarperCollins Leadership), where she encourages unapologetically ambitious women to learn how to embrace support not only for their success, but also their peace of mind.
As a speaker at organizations such as LinkedIn, the United Nations, the Women Presidents’ Organization, NYU, Columbia, Spelman College and Howard University, Elayne gives women a roadmap for making empowered asks and living a fulfilled life.
Elayne is also host of the Support is Sexy podcast where she has interviewed more than 500 diverse women entrepreneurs around the world, and she is founder of SiS.Academy -- an online learning platform educating and empowering Black Women entrepreneurs.
Elayne shares her founder journey/startup stories along with outstanding advice to help you embrace asking for support.
My favorites: her acronym HELP and Put Fun on Your Calendar - a delicious Stitch That On A Pillow moment!
Please purchase your copy of Get Over "I Got It" here: http://www.getoverigotit.com/
You can learn more about Elayne here: http://www.elaynefluker.com/
Subscribe to the Support is Sexy podcast here: http://elaynefluker.com/podcast
Share SiS (Support is Sexy) Academy with all your black female founders - here's the link: https://www.sis.academy/
Be sure to follow Elayne everywhere she glows here:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/elaynefluker
Twitter - https://twitter.com/elaynefluker
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elaynefluker/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elayneflu...
Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!
Ande Lyons
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EP 119 Investing in the Untapped and Outperforming Startup May 26, 2021

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Diverse founders continue to face significant challenges when raising capital to grow and scale their companies.
Zane Venture Fund is changing the landscape of venture capital by supporting underrepresented founders in their quest to create thriving sustainable businesses that provide generational wealth opportunities for their families and their communities.
Comprised of a diverse team of operators, engineers, and advisories, Zane Venture invests in exceptional talent who are building tech-enabled solutions across the Southeast.
To increase the success rate for first-time founders, the Zane Venture Team created Zane Access, the programmatic vehicle that delivers the access underrepresented founders need to build sustainable businesses and generational wealth. This includes access to peers, business experts, mentors, and investors.
Stefanie Diaz is a partner at Zane Venture Fund and Chair of the Board for Zane Access, two organizations founded to address the $4 trillion opportunity, largely untapped, diverse teams bring to venture.
Stefanie has been named an Atlanta Startup Wonder Woman by Hypepotamus, listed as one of 39 Atlanta Female Leaders to Follow by Startup Sisters, and has 15 years of experience spanning marketing, entrepreneurship, and investor relations.
She serves as Co-Chair for TiE Atlanta Angels, an Advisor at Atlanta Tech Village, and a mentor at Techsquare Labs’ Atlanta Startup Battle, and continues to run The Women Only Experience (WOE), one of Atlanta’s most dynamic and diverse organizations for female founders, which she founded in 2017.
Stefanie also hosts a podcast, She Conquers Capital, where she amplifies the voices of diverse female CEO’s, venture partners, and angel investors.
Getting capital into the hands of female and minority entrepreneurs is hard. Stefanie’s passion for empowering underrepresented founders and her expertise in investor relations power her contributions to shifting the flow of capital.
Learn more about Zane Venture Fund here:
TEAM: https://zane.vc/team/
ZANE ACCESS: https://zane.vc/access/
Zane Venture Fund: https://zane.vc/
Follow Stefanie and Zane Venture Fund on social media here:
https://twitter.com/thestefaniediaz
https://twitter.com/zaneventurefund
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thestefan...
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zane...
https://www.instagram.com/thestefanie...
https://www.instagram.com/zaneventure...
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