Ian Balina was born in Uganda and moved to the US when he was 8 yrs old. He has been in the US since that time. Although his family was well off by Ugandan standards, but once they came to the US, his entire family was living off his Father’s student stipend as a PhD. He experienced culture shock when they came to the US. There were different standards for discipline in school and it was just hard to get used to. He got his degree in computer science. When he was 12, he … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
How to use networking to build communities and businesses with Raj Daniels
Raj Daniels was born in London to parents from India. He grew up in London and moved to the US when he was a teenager in the late 80’s. His family settled into the Dallas area and he absolutely loves it. He studied at the University of Texas, worked in the family business, and also started his own company, called Open Time App. The goal of the app is to help people connect and build communities by providing technology tools to connect them. In this episode you will … [Read more...]
How to take your side gig to 1000+ paying users in a year with Tim Hill
Tim Hill is from Australia and comes from over 8 years in advertising and digital agencies including Hoodlum, Reading Room and BMF. He is passionate about data-led marketing and leads product direction and operations at Social Status. He always knew there was a better way to quantify the results you are getting from social media. That led him to start a side hustle to solve the problem and he ended up growing it to become his full time business. From … [Read more...]
How to validate your product idea in 4 weeks with Murali
Murali is the founder of Agile Entrepreneurs where he runs a program called 4 Week Startup (4WS). 4WS teaches entrepreneurs how to validate a product idea in just 4 weeks. Murali was also an active board member of Immigrants' Support Network (ISN) where he played a pivotal role in lobbying for H1B dual intent law which benefits many immigrants on their greencard process. In this episode Murali also talked about: How he ended up in the US Why he chose … [Read more...]
How to Create a Start Up to Build Technology Products with Tomasz Kolodziejak
Tomasz Kolodziejak was born in Warsaw, studied in California. For two years he taught Microeconomics as an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, and was the Founder of Polish Government’s initiative in Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley Acceleration Center. Tomasz Co-Founded Inteliclinic, where one of their main products is an intelligent sleep mask called Neuroon. He was able to do a Kickstarter campaign (where he met the goal in 24 hours) and also raise some VC … [Read more...]