How do you go from from zero to startup success? How do you find product market fit, growth channels, and build a rockstar team?
In Minimally Viable, we interview founders, VCs, advisors, and mentors on exactly those questions.
We are Jonathan and Kevin, founders at Polar, an early-stage EdTech startup. The questions we discuss with our guests are exactly the questions that keep us busy at Polar.
We go deep into topics directly relevant for any tech founder and those aspiring to be one - finding an idea, iterating on product market fit, prioritizing and iterating on features, conducting user research and feedback, building an MVP, growing at an early stage, finding exponential growth channels, building a team and hiring, and more.
For more details about Polar, visit getpolarized.io and follow us on Twitter at @getpolarized
Minimally Viable Episode 31: Smriti Tomar, Founder at Stack on the Founding Journey and Creating India’s First Automated Investing App
In today’s episode of Minimally Viable, we talk with Smriti Tomar, Founder of Stack, India’s first automated investing app. She shares how her work at Citibank and investing and trading her own money influenced her journey with Stack. Smriti shares how Stack not only focuses on helping people save for their life goals and invest even the smallest amount of money but also focuses on education. Stack creates webinars and other content to educate the community and this has ultimately been how they increased engagement and new users. We talk about the lack of financial literacy and accessibility in India, especially in rural India. Smriti discusses her goals for Stack to become the Vanguard of India and to educate and help all the people in India manage and invest their money. Smriti discusses Stack’s growth by creating more diversified portfolios, incorporating crypto in portfolios, and providing services to manage all personal finances. We also reflect on our individual founding journeys, the challenges we experienced, and how we continue to grow. Smriti shares about her journey as a 25-year-old female founder and the challenges associated with that. She shares her goals of one day creating a female-focused fund and helping other women entrepreneurs in India.
Minimally Viable Episode 30: Thomas Mueller, CEO of Evan GmbH, on the Intersection of the Digital World and Traditional Enterprise World with the Emergence of Web 3.0.
In today’s episode of Minimally Viable, we talk to Thomas Mueller, CEO of Evan GmbH. Thomas shares his 20-year tech journey and passion for bringing tech into the real world. He reflects on the start of his tech journey when the internet first came out to where we are now with the emergence of web 3.0. Thomas shares how his experience led him to found the start-up, Evan GmhH with the idea of bringing blockchain and web 3.0 technology into the traditional real economy. We talk extensively about the future intersection of web 3.0 and enterprise and use cases in solving non-digital problems digitally. Thomas shares how the biggest challenge for traditional enterprises to enter the web 3.0 space is collaboration with competitors. We also discuss the challenges and resistance during the transition to DAOs and more decentralized governance. Thomas shares his thoughts on NFTs and the metaverse, where they will be in the future, and how they will influence the growth of web 3.0 and the digital economy. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasxmueller/)