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 Entrepreneurs is your front-row seat to the stories, strategies, and shifts shaping modern business builders around the world. This podcast goes beyond buzzwords and hype to explore what it really takes to launch, grow, and sustain a company in a global, fast-changing economy. Each episode blends timely entrepreneurship and startup news with in-depth conversations and analysis. You’ll hear about founders winning “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards, breakout innovations in sectors like fintech, life sciences, and AI, and the behind-the-scenes decisions that turned small ideas into industry-defining companies. Instead of just celebrating success, we unpack how those successes happened: the first spark of an idea, early scrappy experiments, the tough calls on team and product, and the pivotal funding milestones. Entrepreneurs also dives into the mechanics of building a business from the ground up. We walk through seed and early-stage funding rounds across different international markets, discuss how to approach investors, and explore alternative paths such as bootstrapping and revenue-first growth. You’ll get clear, practical insight into pitch decks, valuations, cap tables, and how to decide which money is the “right” money for your company. But building something meaningful is never a straight line, and this show doesn’t pretend otherwise. We talk openly about business failure, what to do when a launch flops, how to pivot intelligently, and how to mentally and financially recover when plans collapse. Expect honest founder stories about burnout, co-founder conflicts, hiring mistakes, and the lessons learned the hard way. Technology is a constant throughline. From using AI tools like ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, validate markets, and prototype content, to leveraging automation, analytics, and no-code platforms, Entrepreneurs helps you understand how to use modern tools to work smarter, not just harder. We highlight practical workflows and real examples, not just theory. Mentorship, networking, and community are also central themes. You’ll learn how top founders find advisors, build powerful peer networks, and position themselves for awards, press coverage, and industry recognition. We explore ecosystems—from Silicon Valley to emerging hubs around the world—and show how local policies, capital, and culture shape entrepreneurial opportunity. Above all, Entrepreneurs champions business ownership as a real, viable career path. Whether you’re a student, a side-hustler, a corporate professional feeling the itch to build something of your own, or a seasoned founder planning your next venture, this podcast is designed to be both inspiring and actionable. Tune in for global startup stories, sharp analysis, and the unfiltered reality of what it means to build a business in today’s world.Instant Media Access マネジメント・リーダーシップ マーケティング マーケティング・セールス リーダーシップ 出世 就職活動 経済学
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  • Be Your Own Boss: Inside the 69% Founder Surge

    Be Your Own Boss: Inside the 69% Founder Surge
    2025/12/09
    In this episode of Entrepreneurs, the hosts take a sweeping look at what it really means to build a business in late 2025 – in a world where careers, capital and technology are all in flux. They start with the seismic cultural shift happening in the workforce. Drawing on new LinkedIn data, the conversation unpacks why the number of people calling themselves “founder” has exploded – up 69 percent in a single year and nearly tripling since the Great Reshuffle. With almost four in ten U.S. professionals saying they hope to work for themselves as soon as possible, the classic nine-to-five “stability” story is being rewritten. The hosts explore how layoffs, return-to-office battles and economic volatility are pushing people toward self-direction, and how AI tools, global talent and low-cost platforms have quietly lowered the barrier to launching something of your own. From there, the episode dives into the “founder’s blueprint” that separates the dream of entrepreneurship from actually making it work. Through a VC lens of “will and skill,” the hosts explain why investors back people before plans, and why judgment, resilience and storytelling matter more than a perfect deck. You’ll hear the hard-earned lessons of founders like Yossi Strux of Kvation, who rebuilt after a painful failure by surrounding himself with a personal board of mentors instead of trying to go it alone. The conversation then zooms out to the capital environment, where extremes define the market. Gaming startups are enduring a decade-low funding drought even as player spending hits new highs, while deep tech and fintech ventures are still attracting mega-rounds. The hosts spotlight cross-border payments startup Frex, debt administration leader GLAS, and a surge of deep-tech investment in unexpected places like Newfoundland and Labrador, where companies such as Kraken Robotics, CoLab, Spellbook and Sparrow Bioacoustics are drawing global attention. Listeners are also introduced to new models for building ecosystems, from venture studios like First Founders in Nigeria, which create and fund companies from scratch, to long-running community hubs like CHYE in Brooklyn. You’ll hear how policy and corporate strategy can either turbocharge or stifle founders: India’s expanded “small company” definition that cuts red tape for scaling startups, open-innovation programs like BPCL’s Ankur, Kevin Hart’s Coromino Fund bringing AI training and grants to underserved entrepreneurs, and the unintended consequences of New Zealand’s graduate-earnings metrics that may quietly discourage students from starting businesses. Along the way, the hosts weave in rich case studies across ad tech, media, sustainability, infrastructure and consumer brands – from interactive TV ads and OTT platforms to recycled textiles, EV charging infrastructure and plant-based wellness drinks – all anchored in one recurring theme: resilience. The episode closes on a more personal, reflective note. Using the metaphor of a business as a garment that should be neither too small nor too large, the hosts challenge you to ask whether your venture serves your purpose, or whether the chase for scale is starting to consume you. In an age of unprecedented entrepreneurial opportunity and pressure, this is a grounded, honest guide to deciding not just how to build, but how to build without losing yourself.
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