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In this exciting episode of the Brain Cherries Podcast we interview Eliana Salvi, a serial entrepreneur and author of three books. In 2012 she founded her first startup, Pinktrotters, a social network and community for women travellers. She then transformed it into a non profit association while writing a book on her lessons learned from this experience. She later went on to found another business in the tech and video advertising industry, which she is still running, called COSMIC. 

In this episode she shared what she learned from these different experiences, how she managed set-backs, and her suggestions for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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You can read other books Eliana wrote on Amazon, and find her at www.elianasalvi.com

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In this episode we talk with Giulio Digiacomo, a Solutions Consultant at Google working in the advertising division. He'll share with us how Google is leveraging Machine Learning in its different product and service offerings, what is the company's vision for the future of Data Analytics, and how they are planning to democratise AI, making it more approachable to non-experts.



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Giulio's Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulio-digiacomo/



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In this episode, we talk with Zach Wood Doughty, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University who does research at the intersection between Computer Science and Language. He also founded Discoverboard, an online platform for deep "late-night" conversations.

In his research, he uses techniques such as Natural Language Processing and Causal Inference to analyze people's conversations on Twitter, and understand how text can influence public opinion on vaccines and political campaigns.

[Note: the audio is a bit shaky until 14:00, apologies in advance for that. The conversation was too good not to publish!]

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Zach's Website: https://zachwd.com/
Zach's Twitter: @zachwooddoughty

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In this episode we chat about six of our favourite apps that made an impact in our life, either by teaching us something new or making a daily task easier. In our conversation, we share the founder's stories, why they differentiate themselves from other players and in the same industry and how they're staying innovative and relevant. We hope these will improve your life for the better. What are apps that improved your life?

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- Splitwise: a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back
- Canva: a graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters and other visual content.
- Skillshare: a learning platform with online classes taught by the world's best practitioners
- Treatwell: a brighter way to book hair and beauty appointments
- iScanner: it turns your mobile device into full-featured, powerful and fast document scanner
- Stocard: it turns your phone into your wallet and redefine your everyday shopping experience

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In this episode we discuss the entrepreneurial ecosystem in developing economies, do's and dont's for founders looking to raise initial capital.

Fabio Bondiman is a Managing Director at the Paraguay Angel Investors Network, an initiative of 28 funding members created to boost Paraguay's entrepreneurial ecosystem. He has multiple years of experience scouting and evaluating the most promising ventures that seek to raise seed capital, as well as identifying potential investors to join the network.

He is very passionate about entrepreneurship and social innovation. Before joining the Angel Network, Fabio worked as a Project Manager at Koga, a Paraguayan incubator for social businesses, advocated accelerating economic development through entrepreneurship.

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Fabio's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiobm
Paraguay Angel Investor Network: https://www.inversionangel.co/
Techo: https://www.techo.org/

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In this episode we shift our attention to the latest scientific discoveries and discuss topics such as probiotics, food and nutrition, the microbiota and data science in the healthcare sector. Don't miss this episode if you want to find out the origin of the word "gut feeling" or want to know more about a technique with a quite dubious name, called "fecal microbiota transplant" (?!), which can help restore people's gut health.

Our special guest is Martina Poletti, a PhD student at Quadram Institute (University of East Anglia, UK), where she researches how Bifidobacteria modulate autophagy in the gut. Martina holds a BSc in Biotechnology from the University of Pavia (Italy) and an MSc in Molecular Nutrition and Toxicology from Wageningen University (Netherlands).

Martina is also passionate about making science accessible to all. She has herself worked as a science communicator for the European Food Information Council based in Brussels, where she collaborated on European projects focused on nutrition, health and sustainability.

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Martina PhD Profile: https://bit.ly/3gEZxjd
Martina Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinapoletti

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