Angelneers: Insights From Startup Builders

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...

Jeff Solomon is a 6x founder with 3 exits, most notably selling his SaaS CRM company 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:...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

Ayal Yogev is a co-founder and CEO of Anjuna Security, an enterprise enclaves company that secures applications in untrusted environments from malicious software, insiders, and bad actors--without recoding. In this episode, we are going to talk with Ayal about his mission of closing an old data security gap.

Our guest in this episode is Charlie Kwon, a seasoned corporate development executive and acquirer of numerous companies at Maxim Integrated, Cisco and Intel Capital. We sat down with Charlie to talk about why is it important for founders to understand the M&A process from the acquirer's perspective.

Haseeb Budhani is a co-founder and CEO of Rafay Systems, a provider of enterprise-grade Kubernetes management for today’s modern applications. In this episode, we sat down with Haseeb to talk about his journey as a serial entrepreneur, and his mission of helping DevOps deploy modern applications on Kubernetes with ease.

Joseph Melika is the co-founder and CEO of Inspectiv, an end-to-end security solution that continuously identifies security vulnerabilities and provides security assurance to customers of rapidly growing tech companies. In this new episode, we spoke with Joseph about his journey as a techie and entrepreneur, and the nuances of crowdsourced application security space.

Kaitlin Christine is the CEO & Founder at Gabbi, Inc. where she is solving delayed diagnosis of preventable diseases that affect women, starting with breast cancer. In this episode, we sat down with Kaitlin to talk about her journey championing patient empowerment, the lessons she’s learned, and the advice she has for others building industry-disrupting technology.

Our guest today is Brandon Metcalf, a co-founder and CEO of Place Technology, a developer of financial forecasting and business planning software used to serve SaaS and professional services. In this episode, we sat down with Brandon to talk about helping SMBs solve the challenges that come with financial forecasting.

Our guest is Ed Sterbenc, an accomplished enterprise sales leader and senior executive, a true rainmaker, and a musician in his spare time. In this episode, we are talking with Ed about the finer points of rainmaking.

Luke Kanies is the founder of Puppet and Clickety and advisor to numerous startups on matters of customer segmentation, high-level product, market strategy, authenticity throughout the product and story, and founder team dynamics. His interests include the future of work, redistribution and decentralization, worker dignity, and automation and power tools. In this episode, we are talking with Luke about turning ideas into startups.

Evangelos Simoudis is a seasoned venture investor with 20 years of experience, advisor to global corporations, and a recognized thought leader in big data, digital platforms, and corporate innovation. Prior to his investing work, Evangelos had spent 20 years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales, and engineering. He is also the author of the books, The Big Data Opportunity In Our Driverless Future and Transportation Transformation. In this...

Our guest of this episode is Ryo Koyama, a co-founder and CEO of Remote.it, a company that helps telcos, ISPs, and enterprises to secure their Internet connectivity. We are talking with Ryo about the finer points of securing IoT devices and access to cloud resources while building a better Internet for all.

Our guest today is Arjun Mendhi, a co-founder and CEO of Molten, a cloud platform that streamlines core operations of media and entertainment enterprises. In this episode we are going to talk with Arjun about media-tech and why is it a huge opportunity for innovation right now.

Mark Kofman is a co-founder and CEO of Import2, a software company that helps to transfer business or personal data between cloud apps. In this episode, we are talking with Mark about the risks and dangers of data lock-ins.

Ron Berman is a professor of marketing at Wharton. He focuses his research on online marketing, marketing analytics, and the marketing actions of startup firms. Back in 2011, as part of the group of collaborators composed of Berkeley and Stanford faculty members, Ron co-authored the Startup Genome report, in-depth research about what makes Silicon Valley startups successful. In this episode, Ron talks about the findings of this seminal research project.