13 episodes
Starting Line - The New Founders Podcast Swivol Media
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5.0 • 9 Ratings
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There are plenty of guides and podcasts about your path to unicorn status, but what if you're just starting out and not sure where next week's income is coming from? When everything is on fire, how do you choose which one to put out first? And how do you stay well and ensure the process brings you energy instead of draining it? Starting Line: The New Founders Podcast features interviews with founders and small business owners from a range of fields who started from scratch, whether they are still in the early stages of building a business, or further in their journey. We take their stories from the beginning and talk about the things they think helped them succeed and the things they'd do differently.
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Introducing The Bootstrap: Startups from Scratch
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10. Tania Stacey - East Forged
Tania Stacey had a successful background in sales management before entering the tea industry in 2013. Since then, she's built her knowledge working along side tea farmers, tea scientists and professionals in Taiwan, the USA and Australia.
She joined forces with Kym Cooper in 2017 to build a crafted RTD (Ready to Drink) tea industry with an innovative modern tea beverage startup focusing on cold brew nitro iced tea.
East Forged launched in 2020 and has been a successful participant in the Woolworths funded accelerator Seedlab Cultivate.
In this episode, Tania shares her journey to becoming a founder, the process of developing a co-founder relationship, and the challenges and the successes of the East Forged experience to date.
Learn more about East Forged at https://eastforged.com/
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9. Dom Woolrych - Lawpath
Dom Woolrych is the co-founder of Lawpath — Australia's number one online legal platform that has helped over 300,000 small businesses across Australia. His mission is to transform and digitalise the legal industry to make it accessible to all small businesses and show lawyers that there are many non-traditional opportunities in the legal sector.
Dom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology and the Australian Legal Technology Association (ALTA) board member. In 2022, Dom became a finalist at SmallBiz Week Young Hero Awards in the Young Innovator category and was voted the top 20 University of Technology Alumni.
In this episode, Dom shares his own journey as an entrepreneur and we discuss the way he dealt with early setbacks in achieving his career goals, the vision that became Lawpath, and more.
You can follow Dom on LinkedIn, and learn more about Lawpath at https://lawpath.com.au/
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2022 Production Note - We're back next week!
Hear a quick note from host Scotty Allen about our plans for 2022, new ways to interact with us, and a call for founders with interestingly imperfect stories to tell on new episodes of Starting Line!
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8. Nick Hunter - Paper Moose
Co-Founder and CEO of Paper Moose Nick Hunter is incredibly passionate about building teams and purpose driven brands. Having built Paper Moose from the ground up from first principles he cares deeply about creating an environment where creativity and people thrive. Coming from an entertainment background Nick delivers creative work that either entertains or adds value to the end customer and loves working with businesses that are working towards a better future. Paper Moose is on a mission to spark positive change through creativity, this year saw the company’s 10th anniversary and to mark the milestone they shifted their positioning to the change makers and launched a buy on give one initiative in which creative resources are donated to organisations that are helping decarbonise the planet.
You can learn more about Paper Moose at http://papermoose.com
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7. Anthony Kwok - Zilio
Anthony Kwok - Co-founder of Zilio, shares his journey from a bullied kid to professional martial artist to startup co-founder, and how his 3D Virtual Fit technology came to be. It's a raw and honest chat about the challenges of childhood, identity, and the hurdles involved with being a non-technical founder.
You can learn more about Zilio at https://www.zilio.com.au/
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Customer Reviews
Insightful founder interviews
You don’t often get to hear excellently produced interviews with start up founders who are still in the early stage of their journey. Guaranteed solid gold here!
Engaging, fun, practical
This is one of the best examples of telling founder stories I’ve heard. I sometimes find the standard interview format hard to stay engaged with, so this more storytelling approach really appeals. I love the little notes of humour but also how the focus is very much in the founder telling their story. Great for people in the startup space or people in leadership.
Great start and looking forward to more
Love the way the founder stories are told, the touch of humour, and the practical advice and examples. Have subscribed and am excited to hear more.