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  • Netflix No Longer Controls the Streaming Story (TSP Insights)

    Netflix for long dictated the streaming story, they set the narrative that other media companies scrambled to follow. But all that is changed now.

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  • #28: Build In Public or Not? w/ KP

    In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to KP, Build In Public guy on Twitter.

    Full conversation includes:

    • What is Build In Public?
    • Why Build In Public?
    • Cornering Keywords on Internet
    • The Good, Bad & Ugly of Build In Public

    & more.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Chris Devore (Investor in Remitly, Auth0 & Outreach), Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with Mohan Belani, Founder of E27.

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  • Venture Fund is a Startup (TSP Insights)

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    Launching a, a venture fund is not for the faint of heart, uh, and it is very much a startup activity. 

    Geoff Harris & Nataraj talk about the challenges of launching a venture fund. Geoff spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

    Full conversation includes is available here and includes:

    • Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft
    • Angel investing to raising a fund
    • Core insight behind Flying Fish
    • AI Use cases for future
    • Web3 & Venture

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com) , Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc) , Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund) , and others.

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  • #27 Geoff Harris: Managing Partner Flying Fish VC

    In this episode of Startup Project we spoke to Geoff Harris, Managing Partner Flying Fish VC. Flying Fish is a thesis driven fund focused on Al/ML.

    Geoff Harris spent 15 years at Microsoft in engineering leadership and executive leadership positions. His career at Microsoft began in digital media where he ran the Windows Media Player team.

    Full conversation includes:

    Developing Natural language processing at Microsoft

    Angel investing to raising a fund

    Core insight behind Flying Fish 

    AI Use cases for future

    Web3 & Venture

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and others.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with Mohan Belani, Founder of E27.

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  • NFTs in Games? (Bonus Clip)

    Liron & Nataraj discuss about what problems is NFTs fixing?

    Transcript:

    Nataraj: What about NFT first games? ,

    Liron: So the, I guess the game pitch is, you know, you worked hard to earn this NFT item through your skill in this game, and now you’re gonna go play another game. Right. So don’t, you wish that you could still have like a comparable thing in that other game, right?

    So that’s supposed to be the pitch.

    Nataraj: Yeah. I mean, gameplay should be the pitch, right? Like that that’s I, I guess you’ve made this point with he as well. I think in one of your tweets, you are a, you have your product, right? Like why your product is good, but most of the websites advertise why the token is good.

    Liron: If the problem is I’m gonna play two different games by two different developers. And I, I worked hard to level up my character and invest in one game.

    Liron: Well, maybe it’s fine that I start from scratch in the next game. Right? Like how has it suddenly, like crypto has made us like such geniuses that we think it makes sense to like, not start from scratch in, in new games.


    Liron Shapira is known as the guy who write twitter threads about web3 use cases including Axie Infinity & Helium.

    But before becoming twitter famous, he is also a founder & angel investor and currently runs a YC backed startup called Relationship Hero.

    The irony in his angel investments is he made life changing money by investing in Coinbase which was a 500x return on his investment.

    Full conversation includes:

    • Failure with Quixey (50M+ Series C)
    • Relationship Hero (YC Backed)
    • Seed Investment in $COIN (listen for exit multiple)
    • Investing in Russian Bonds
    • Web3 Use cases (cross border payments, helium, NFTs in gaming, Uber on Web3, Identity)

    Nataraj is a PM at Azure, investor & host of thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at  twitter.com/natarajsindam.


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  • Is BYJU’s Democratizing Education?(Bonus Clip)

    Nataraj & Eric (Hustle Fund) talk about how an Indian company BYJU’s despite its flaws is helping democratizing education. 

    Full conversation includes:

    • Beat the GMAT (Eric’s Startup)
    • Defining hustle
    • Raising fund 1
    • First 10 investments
    • Building the brand

    For Full conversation with Eric check out Episode 21 of Startup Project.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with web3 critique Liron.

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  • #26 Mohan Belani: Co-Founder of E27.co

    Todays guest is Mohan Belani the co-founder of E27.co. E27 is tech publication covering SEA startups.

    I have discovered E27 as I was looking for finding the tech publications covering startup ecosystems that I was interested in following. E27 is like TechCrunch but for Southeast Asia.

    Check out my full conversation with Mohan where we talk about:

    • Origins of E27.co
    • Startups in SEA (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia & Vietnam)
    • Businesses model of e27
    • Two sides of running a media business
    • Events business
    • Angel investing and starting seed stage fund
    • YC effect in SEA startups
    • Starting a Seed Fund

    & many more

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam


    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with web3 critique Liron.

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  • What is Amazon’s Fourth Dreamy Business?

    Jeff Bezos defines dreamy businesses to have these characteristics:

    • customers love it
    • it can grow to very large size
    • it has strong returns on capital
    • and it’s durable over time

    Amazon has 3 dreamy businesses prime, marketplace & AWS. 

    Todd & Nataraj discuss about what is going to be Amazon’s next big dreamy business? Listen to below conversation to find out.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with web3 critique Liron, long time business journalist Todd Bishop or Angel Investor Sajid Rahman.

  • #25 Todd Bishop: Co-Founder of Geekwire.com

    In this week’s episode of Startup Project we spoke to Todd Bishop, Co-Founder of Geekwire. He is a longtime business and technology journalist who reports on subjects including AI, cloud, startups, and health technology, plus Amazon and Microsoft, & hosts GeekWire’s weekly podcast.

    Full conversation includes:

    • Geekwire Story
    • Business model of publishing
    • Covering Big Tech 
    • Amazon’s next big thing
    • Doom Scrolling

    & a whole lot more.

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    Past guests of Startup Project podcast include Ali Moiz (stonks.com), Kirby Winfield (Ascend.vc), Eric Bahn (Hustle Fund), and many more.

    To stay up to date checkout thestartupproject.io & follow us on twitter: @natarajsindam

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    If you like this episode, you might also enjoy the conversation with web3 critique Liron.
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  • 500x Return from Coinbase Angel Investment

    Liron Shapira is known as the guy who writes twitter threads about web3 use cases including Axie Infinity & Helium.

    But before becoming twitter famous, he is also a founder & angel investor and currently runs a YC backed startup called Relationship Hero.

    The irony in his angel investments is he made life changing money by investing in Coinbase which was a 500x return on his investment.

    Here is a clip of him talking about his Coinbase investment. Listen to get the full details of his investment including original investment and over all returns.

    In the full conversation Liron & Nataraj talked about:

    • Failure with Quixey (50M+ Series C)
    • Relationship Hero (YC Backed)
    • Seed Investment in $COIN (listen for exit multiple)
    • Investing in Russian Bonds
    • Web3 Use cases (cross border payments, helium, NFTs in gaming, Uber on Web3, Identity)

    For Full conversation with Liron check out Episode 24 of Startup Project.


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