Entrepreneurship

January 2018

A 1 hour set of all brand new and existing Bedouin original productions, remixes and edits recording at the Mixmag Lab in Brooklyn on October 9th, 2015.

1. Bedouin - Hologram (Original Mix)
2. Bedouin - Straight to the heart (unreleased)
3. Nu - Geno (bedouin remix) 
4. Bedouin with pattern drama - Spiral Eyes (Original Mix) 
5. Bedouin - Flight of Birds
6. Bedouin - Cecil (unreleased)
7. Frivolous - Serenade des Excentriques (Bedouin edit) 
8. Bedouin and Lum - Dionysus (unreleased)
9. El Pocho, José Mangual - A Mi Amigo (Bedouin Edit) 
10. Lum - Urpillay (Bedouin Remix)

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Bedouin's music is set within the humanly depths of our minds and souls. Their creativity shines resplendently through every beat, every track and in every set. They will leave you engulfed in spiritual inspiration and feeling transfixed by an unparalleled sacred sensuality...

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujPK9hes9c

Bedouin live @ the Mixmag Lab NYC - October 2015

In this episode of the a16z Podcast sharing more founder stories, Ben Horowitz interviews a16z partner Lars Dalgaard about SuccessFactors, one of the earlier software-as-a-service companies. (It was founded on 2001, IPO'd in 2008, and was acquired by SAP in 2012).

SuccessFactors focused on software for "human capital management" in the enterprise. But what are the success factors in talent, scaling companies, and most importantly, scaling culture? Lars and Ben cover everything from what motivates (the best) founders, the difficulties of entrepreneurship, and team building and building culture. Especially if you have values -- not just an HR offsite exercise -- that mean something, like "no assholes!" .... but then how do you balance a value like that with the desire to succeed (for example, if you have a 10Xer who is an asshole)?? All that and more in this episode. 

a16z Podcast: Scaling Companies and Culture

Read our interview with @ki-records's @christianloeffler and check out this podcast's tracklist here: bit.ly/LoeffPod

Groove Podcast 75

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Groove Podcast 75 - Christian Löffler

"Mobile-first" (and now too AI-first) has been a mantra of sorts in design, but what does that mean at a company, product management, and competitive level? Especially when someone in company X will always say "we should do what Y did" -- even if they have no idea let alone data why Y did it.

And while designing for screens is "like growing a carp in a bathtub" (will inevitably grow to the size of the container), what do design constraints mean in an increasingly screen-less world -- one where everything will eventually become an input ... and even an output? What does it mean to design for a mobile world where "an app isn't really an app" -- and the very definition of apps are themselves evolving, including cross-culturally?

From the age-old question of whether there are design universals to the age-old dynamic of bundling/unbundling, the guests on this episode of the a16z Podcast -- Luke Wroblewski and a16z's Connie Chan (in conversation with Sonal Chokshi) riff, hallway style, on all things design in practice. And on why startups may have the ultimate design advantage.

a16z Podcast: Culture and/of Design

For this episode of Secrets for Scaling, we chatted with Perry Oostdam, Co-Founder and CEO of Recruitee - a SaaS product making it easier to hire a team and grow your business. Founded in August 2015, Recruitee now has over 2,000 SME customers using the software with a team of 15 and growing. 

Perry met his co-founder Paul on a site specifically for finding co-founders. They started out with a gaming company called GeoRun but they found themselves more interested in their side project, which was a better fit for their team’s passions and skills. Hear their full story!

Recruitee's CEO on how a pivot can lead to scaling

A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of “impostor syndrome” around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), those companies have all the data; surely we can’t beat that! Yet there are many ways startups can, and do, successfully compete with big companies. You can actually achieve great results in a lot of areas even with a relatively small data set, argue the guests on this podcast, if you build the right product on top of it.

So how do you go about building the right product (beyond machine-learning algorithms in academic papers)? It’s about the whole system, the user experience, transparency, domain expertise, choosing the right tools. But what do you build, what do you buy, and do you bother to customize? Jensen Harris, CTO and co-founder of Textio, and AJ Shankar, CEO and co-founder of Everlaw, share their lessons learned here in this episode of the a16z Podcast — including what they wish they’d known early on.

Because, observes moderator (and a16z board partner) Steven Sinofsky, “To achieve product market fit, there’s a whole bunch of stuff beyond a giant corpus of data, and the latest deep learning algorithm.” Machine learning is an ingredient, part of a modern software-as-a-service company; going beyond the hype, it’s really about figuring out the problem you’re trying to solve… and then figuring out where machine learning fits in (as opposed to the other way around). Customers are paying you to help solve a problem for them, after all.

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a16z Podcast: The Product Edge in Machine Learning Startups

Presents the podcast, recorded specially for the project Deep House Moscow from — Machete (Sevastopol, Russia).

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Machete — DHM Podcast #216 (April 2017)

A conversation sparked by our promiscuity with 'place' recorded at Schumacher College in Devon England.

Alexa Clay And John Thackara On Placelessness

Following the recent announcement of our fourth fund which at first close of £41M is over 2x larger than our last and 20x bigger than our first, we are joined by Seedcamp partners Reshma Sohoni, Carlos Espinal, Tom Wilson and Sia Houchangnia who share our plans to invest in 100 new startups across Europe and take a look back at how the European ecosystem has evolved over the ten years since Seedcamp launched. 

Seedcamp Fund IV brings together 60 LPs and features big business, venture capitalists and fund of funds from across the globe. Tune in to hear how Seedcamp has innovated its own offering which includes an increase in capital it will invest across pre-seed and seed stages and approval to invest in crypto tokens.

Read more about Seedcamp IV: http://seedcamp.com/seedcamp-iv-welcoming-the-next-generation-of-european-talent-with-our-biggest-and-boldest-seed-fund/

Partner bios:
Reshma Sohoni: http://seedcamp.com/team/reshmasohoni/ | twitter.com/rsohoni
Carlos Espinal :http://seedcamp.com/team/carloseduardoespinal/  | twitter.com/cee
Tom Wilson: http://seedcamp.com/team/tom-wilson/ | twitter.com/tom_wils
Sia Houchangnia: http://seedcamp.com/team/sia-houchangnia/ l twitter.com/siahouchangnia

Introducing Seedcamp Fund IV: Partner Podcast

This Much I Know is the podcast from Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund.

Tune into hear the inside story from startup founders, investors and leading tech voices: the people who’ve built businesses, scaled globally, failed fantastically and learnt massively.

Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp provides the infrastructure to fast-track a founder’s vision and create value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon a decade’s experience backing exceptional talent.

Introducing Seedcamp Fund IV: Partner Podcast

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