Mea Culpa, lessons learned in startups

Want to build a startup? Prepare for the game of emotional energy! - Kosta Kolev

In this episode: Kosta Kolev, An engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature; he calls himself an operator that loves building new products and teams from the ground up.He has built and launched new businesses and products across London, Hong Kong and Berlin.

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Game development, how hard can it be? - Patrick Lee

In this special episode: Patrick Lee, Patrick is co-founder of Rotten Tomatoes, Alive Not Dead, Hobo Labs and more. He will talk about how hard it is, even for an experienced founder, to start a gaming company.

He's being interviewed by Casey Lau for the Startup Lessons Learned Postmortem Conference

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I didn't tell my parents at first - Leo Wong

In this episode: Leo Wong, a Hong Kong University of Science and Technology that straight out of school started SensBeat, an omv app and Yue Dong app that raised US$1million while still in college.

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If my mum can use it, this company can use it! - Thomas Pun

In this episode: Thomas Pun, an entrepreneurial technical product manager with a strong sense of UX design and business. Started at Apple as a video codec engineer and had way too many tech advisor roles at known and lesser known startups to mention. He’s a Stanford and Y-combinator alumni.

 

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You can reach so many people with just lines of code - Karen Contet

In this episode: Karen Contet, co-founder & CEO of AngelHub, the first SFC-licensed startup investment platform in Hong Kong. Karen is also a co-founder of WHub.io, a Hong Kong startup ecosystem builder designed to foster meaningful connections with local startups, talents and investors. Before that, Karen started her career as a trader in banking and has a background in computer science and coding. She talks about the transition from corporate to startups, building websites, startup recruitment, and much more.

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In early stage startups there's often no investment data, you have to make that data - Jeanne Lim

In this episode: Jeanne Lim. Founder and CEO of Nama Institute which advocates a higher wisdom to living, leading, and innovating. She’s the former CEO and CMO of Hanson Robotics, an AI and robotics company, known from Sophia, a social humanoid robot. She’s also a startup advisor, angel investor and career marketer.

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I've spent a car worth of angel investments, but no returns - Daniel Chun

In this episode: Daniel Chun, CEO of Remotec Technology, a company focused on smart controls, home automation and IoT. He’s also an adjunct lecturer in technology at HKU Space, inventor and angel investor. We will talk about his experiences in mobile payments, a well preforming toy store and IoT licenses challenges.

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My co-founder took the IP, investor and client - Bhavneet Chahal

In this episode: Bhavneet Chahal, CEO & Co-Founder at GoSkills, an online learning company with personalized courses built by a completely remote team, with staff spread around the globe. She is also a former account manager of Groupon. She will talk about her co-founder who took off with her startup, how she scaled her startup GoSkills with Groupon and her lack of cooking skills.

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I had to go back and appologize for the wrong advice - Atin Batra - Twenty Seven Ventures

In this episode: Atin Batra, General Partner at Twenty Seven Ventures, a global VC Fund that invests in EdTech and Future of Work Startups. An ex-entrepreneur, he loves the sport ultra-marathon trail running. And much more.

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Does this makes sense? - Koen Munneke - Intrinsik

In this episode: Koen Munneke, CEO & Co-Founder at Intrinsik, a SaaS healthtech platform that connects medical device producers with their clinicians. Named by Galen Growth as one of the leading Healthcare startups in Asia. A 500 Startups alumni. He talks about accepting advise, personal learnings, and handgrenades.... And much more.

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