Angelneers: Insights From Startup Builders

The Spellcheck For Buildings with Scott Reynolds

Construction is a massive complex $1.3 trillion industry in the United States. As one of the least digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Upcodes is a construction tech startup that develops building-code compliance tools to help the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry deliver code-compliant buildings. We sat down with Scott Reynolds, a co-founder and CEO of Upcodes to talk about how technology can address some of the AEC challenges.

 

https://up.codes/

https://twitter.com/upcodes

https://www.linkedin.com/company/upcodes

 

 

Syncing Internal Data To Business Systems with Ghalib Suleiman

Polytomic makes internal data accessible to business teams. Data within companies is fragmented. Sales, Marketing, Support, Finance, and Operations teams spend enormous amounts of time repeatedly hunting for data that lives outside of their home systems. Polytomic reduces this time to zero.

In this episode, we spoke with Ghalib Suleiman, a co-founder and CEO of Polytomic, about the nuances of moving the business data where it's needed.

Website: https://www.polytomic.com/

Twitter: @polytomic

Building Successful Online Communities with Siavash Mahmoudian

Our guest in this episode is Siavash Mahmoudian, a co-founder and CEO of Tribe, a platform to build online communities based on a collection of social media best practices. Tribe is popular for its ability to deeply integrate into products and websites via a suite of customizable widgets and comprehensive API. Today we are talking with Siavash about what it takes to build a successful online community.

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Linkedin

Glassdoor

Automating Content Creation Process with KD Deshpande

KD Deshpande is a co-founder and CEO of Simplified, the all-in-one design platform where freelancers, entrepreneurs and teams can collaborate, scale, and grow their content. KD is an entrepreneurial product leader who founded two SaaS companies, built teams & products from the ground up, raised venture capital, and successfully sold the business through an M&A exit. In this episode, we sat down with KD to talk about the evolution of the design space over the past several years, and new design tools that meet the demands of a new generation of designers and design-oriented organizations.

A Crash Course In Customer Development with Jeff Solomon

Jeff Solomon is a 6x founder with 3 exits, most notably selling his SaaS CRM company Velocify in 2017 for $128M. He co-founded the accelerator Amplify.la in Los Angeles (with 100+ investments across 5 funds). For the last 6 years he's been teaching high school entrepreneurship and is one of the top advisors on Clarity.fm. In this episode, we are talking with Jeff about the art of customer development.

Jeff Solomon Personal Site: https://bak.me

Customer Development Course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/startup-customer-development-finding-product-market-fit/?referralCode=799B301D2B1854B56CEA

Email Jeff (see his personal website) if you want a coupon code.

Markup Hero: https://markuphero.com

Here is a coupon code for 6 months of a year plan: HERO6FREEYR

Mike Fishbein's list of customer development questions:

https://mfishbein.com/the-ultimate-list-of-customer-development-questions/

The Future of Software Supply Chain Security with Aaron Bray

Today’s malicious actors are more sophisticated than ever. First-gen products only identify software vulnerabilities and license issues. Technology has evolved beyond Software Composition Analysis. It requires a new breed of defense.

Phylum, a Colorado-based startup helps developers identify and mitigate all major risk classes across the entire open-source software supply chain. We sat down with its co-founder and CEO Aaron Bray to talk about the future of software supply chain security.

Designing The Fit Systems Enterprise with Tom Mohr

Tom Mohr is the founder and CEO of CEO Quest, a Silicon Valley-headquartered forum for CEOs of venture-backed technology companies. Tom is the author of 5 books about startups including "In The Loop" which is centered on building the digital enterprise. We sat down with Tom to talk about fit systems for various stages of enterprise and the new leadership paradigm that makes it happen (in other words: how to build and scale startups).

https://medium.com/ceoquest

https://twitter.com/ceo_quest

https://www.facebook.com/CEOQuestLLC/

 

 

The Operating Room of the Future with Sergio Aguirre

Our guest today is Sergio Aguirre, the founder and CEO of Echopixel, a software platform that enables physicians to use a digital twin of a patient using standard medical images to create a 4D interactive hologram. In this episode, we sat down with Sergio to talk about developing technology that transforms the delivery of patient care and enables precision health.

Website: https://echopixeltech.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/echopixel_inc

 

Bringing Transparency to the Healthcare Coverage with Cedric Kovacs-Johnson

Our guest in this episode is Cedric Kovacs-Johnson, founder and CEO of Flume Health, a digital age health plan administrator intentionally built to reduce healthcare costs, improve quality of care and transform the user experience for both employers and members. We sat down with Cedric to talk about reinventing how the most important companies buy and access healthcare.

Twitter: @cedrickojo

 

The Frictionless Way to Onboard Engineers with Kristen Buchanan

Kristen Buchanan is a founder and CEO of Edify, a software company that aims to solve one of the most critical issues in the engineering industry — remote technical onboarding. In this episode, we spoke with Kristen about her mission of removing friction from onboarding and other aspects of an engineering team's daily life.