Business: Venture Deals - Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

May 12th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  38 mins 5 secs

entrepreneur, venture capitalist

Venture Deals is a brilliant summary of things to know when raising capital as a founder. It provides a really valuable perspective of how VCs work and provides insights from angles of VCs as well as entrepreneurs.

It is definitely recommended for anyone interested in the details of venture capital funding, term sheets, legal knowledge and acquisitions.

Business: Hooked - Nir Eyal

April 28th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  37 mins 47 secs

business book, customer engagement, hooked, nir eyal

Nico and Sam discuss and review the best-selling book Hooked: Building a Habit Forming eCommerce Business by Nir Eyal.
Hooked is based on Nir Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience.

We get to provide you with practical insights to create user habits that stick and suggest actionable steps for building products people love. Nir's work is an essential cheat sheet for any startup looking to understand product influence and user psychology.

Business: Obviously Awesome - April Dunford

April 21st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  30 mins 4 secs

business mindset, marketing, product positioning, startup tips

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer, or salesperson struggling to bring inventive products to the market, Obviously Awesome is a must-read to make your product stand out in crowded markets. The author, April Dunford's, insights will help you find your awesome, so that your customers can, too.

Business: The High Growth Handbook

April 14th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  32 mins 42 secs

business book, growth, startup tips, tactical advice

Author of 'The High Growth Handbook,' Elad Gil shares his perspective and learnings to scaling startups. It contains tactical advice on key issues for post product-market fit companies such as the role of the CEO, hiring executives, late-stage fundraising, M&A, and other topics.

Business: The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky

April 7th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  32 mins 55 secs

business mindset, entrepreneurship, startup tips

Notice how rare you hear business talking about the middle part of their venture?

Best selling author, entrepreneur, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, Scott Belsky wrote the book to address topics that he found fellow entrepreneurs seldom discuss. No one talked about the bumps in the road — just how something was great until it failed.

The Messy Middle will outfit you to find your way through the hardest parts of any bold project or new venture.

Business: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

March 31st, 2021  |  Season 5  |  27 mins 20 secs

business mindset, ceo, entrepreneurship, startup tips

The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

Business: The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

March 12th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  33 mins 45 secs

business mindset, entrepreneurs, product development, startup

The Lean Startup is a scientific approach to creating and managing startups, largely based on the lean production process which was pioneered by Toyota in Japan. The book clearly defines what entrepreneurship is all about.

Business: Shoe Dog - Phil Knight - The story of Nike

March 5th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  31 mins 1 sec

autobiography, business, mindset

Shoe Dog is a memoir by Nike co-founder Phil Knight. The memoir chronicles the history of Nike from its early struggles to its evolution into one of the world's most recognized and profitable companies. It also highlights certain parts of Phil Knight's life.

The best books of 2020

February 3rd, 2021  |  Season 4  |  35 mins 15 secs

best of, philosophy, taleb

Recap of the favourite books we read from 2020 and the biggest lessons we kept with us

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

January 23rd, 2021  |  Season 4  |  38 mins 59 secs

philosophy, stoicism

One of the greatest Roman emperors personal reflections and exercises to understand himself and the universe

Seneca - On the Shortness of Life

December 26th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  28 mins 44 secs

philosophy, stoicism

A wise collection of thoughts around how to live a good life where you pay attention to what matters and don't get caught up with the troubles and trivialities of the world

The Republic - Plato

November 20th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  23 mins 3 secs

ideal individual, perfect community, philosophy, plato's ideal republic, socrates

The republic is an examination of justice in an individual and justice in a city. To Plato, justice is an appropriate balance between different parts of the whole.

The individual is said that we should be led by reason, not passion or appetite. Everything performs its proper function, while the republic is established for everyone to perform the social role to which they are most suited.

Epicurus

November 16th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  21 mins 22 secs

epicureanism, happiness, philosophy

Happiness is the main goal in life, we can achieve this by pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. But also by taming our desires and enjoying small things

Epicurus focused on happiness instead of virtue because he observed that humans are pleasure-seeking by nature.

Enchiridion by Epictetus

October 19th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  25 mins 30 secs

enchiridion, handbook, philosophy, stoic ethical advice

Epictetus was born as a slave around 50 AD. After gaining his freedom he decided to dedicate his life to philosophy, even opening a school. He didn’t write much about himself, most of his knowledge was written down by his students, particularly Arrian.

The Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo

October 12th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  22 mins 56 secs

autobiography, catholic philosophies, saint augustine of hippo

The book Confessions was the first autobiographical work written around 400 A.D. during Saint Augustine's early 40's. Augustine discussed his regrets for following the Manichaean religion and believing in astrology.

Confessions is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries.

The final days of Socrates - Plato

September 25th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  34 mins 39 secs

last days of socrates, philosophy, plato

Describes the trial and death of Socrates in 403 BC.