The Traction Stage

Here we go to Africa, where we find many people who work hard but have difficulties in earning a good income as well as in saving for their futures. And these are exactly the issues that our next guest, Abolore Salami, is addressing through his startup: Riby. Riby provides cooperatives a platform to organize their … Continue reading Riby: How a Fintech Got Traction By Helping People On Accessing Financial Services In Africa – with Abolore Salami [Ep#8]

Undoubtedly, personal financial planning is at the core of all significant financial achievements we have in our lives. Considering that our biggest financial goals are achieved only through the right balance between long-term and short-term spending decisions, it is important to have a good discipline to achieve them. Bambu developed a digital solution that provides … Continue reading Bambu: How a Robo-Advisory Platform For Financial Institutions Generated B2B Traction – with Ned Phillips...

A patient who needs to communicate with her doctor in another language. An accused person that needs to speak in foreign country court. A deal going on between two negotiators of different native languages. What all these cases have in common? The need for an interpreter. Today, we’ll know the story of Boostlingo, an unified … Continue reading Boostlingo: Traction Of A Platform That Connects Interpreters To The World – with Dieter Runge [EP#6]

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Steven Novick was decided to adopt healthier eating habits in his life. However, as everyone that has taken that decision, he noticed how difficult it was to find healthy food for affordable prices. To solve this problem, he decided to found Farmstand. In our fifth episode, Steven Novick … Continue reading Farmstand: How a Sustainable, Ethical And Healthy Food Startup Found Traction – with Steven Novick [Ep#5]

In episode 4, I interviewed Roy Stein, co-founder of BabelBark—an american startup that connects dog trainers, walkers, groomers, shelters and veterinaries directly with pet parents via a mobile enabled platform. Roy brings into the conversions very insightful elements as: the idea generation, solving the chicken-egg dilemma, prototype development, beta testers communities and the platform monetization strategy. Today, the BabelBark has … Continue reading BabelBark: Traction In a Multi-sided...

In this episode, I interviewed Dam Mulhem, co-founder of XXII—a french startup that designs solutions based on Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dam brings to the conversation important elements that have helped XXII to get in the traction stage as: economies of scope, B2B vs. B2C, culture evolution … Continue reading XXII: Finding Traction in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Technologies – with Damien Mulhem [Ep#3]

Today, my guest is Alexander Varvarenko, founder of ShipNext. Based on his strong knowledge and experience in the transport industry, he’s been focused on developing a solution to tackle supply chain inefficiencies. ShipNext’s platform is strongly based on processes digitization and automation and aims to improve transparency as well as lower supply chain participant costs. … Continue reading ShipNext: Traction in Ships-Cargoes Platform, through Expertise and Technology – with Alexander...

Crijn Bouman and his partners wanted to radically change the process of batteries recharging forever. In 2004, they've founded Epyon Power through which they aimed to reduce the recharging time from several hours to 15-30 minutes only. By counting with their team's skills they've overcame challenging hurdles in the way and, after 4 years, Epyon started seeing some traction. In 2011, it was acquired by ABB, a giant in the technology industry.