The 4 Best The Mentors Podcast Episodes
1) How To Create An Unfair Advantage
The best opportunities are often in the long tail where no-one is looking. This is one of the reasons why startups have an advantage over established businesses - unique strategies can be quickly test...Show More
2) Why It's The Perfect Time To Start A Company
We're in a unique time in history right now where the whole world is going through an experience together. While it's clear that there's a lot we don't know about the spread of a pandemic and it's eve...Show More
3) How To Get Influencers and Celebrities To Support Your Work, with Heneka Watkis-Porter
Why would a billionaire agree to be interviewed by someone who just started her own podcast? For most of us, celebrities and ultra-successful people seem completely out of reach, but Heneka Watk...Show More
4) Fundraising 101: Getting Investor Meetings
Investors often require a warm introductions to take a meeting, so how do you meet one if you don't have a big network? When we moved to New York City we knew few entrepreneurs and no investors, yet w...Show More
5) How freeCodeCamp Is Creating Thousands Of Programmers With Only 12 Employees
When a founder decides to build an impact driven organization, at some point they have to make an important decision on whether to structure it as a for profit entity or a non-profit. While a for-prof...Show More
How freeCodeCamp Is Creating Thousands Of Programmers With Only 12 Employees
31:05 | Feb 23rd, 2021
6) How An Engineer Turned Himself Into A Master Marketer And Successful Entrepreneur
Kevin Urrutia decided to teach himself to code while in college so that he could turn all the different business ideas he had into reality. Little did he know that after years of building apps and web...Show More
How An Engineer Turned Himself Into A Master Marketer And Successful Entrepreneur
49:44 | Nov 18th, 2020
7) What’s Next For The Mentors
In today's episode we're sharing an update on what's been happening with our own entrepreneurial venture, School16, and how our publishing schedule for The Mentors will change going forward. Hosted on...Show More
8) How a SpaceX Engineer Launched a Rapidly Growing Consumer Health Startup
This week we got the chance to interview a former SpaceX Engineer and founder of biohacking startup Levels as part of a special podcast recording hosted by School16 in front of a live audience.In this...Show More
9) What You Should Learn Before Starting A Company
This is one of the most common questions we get from aspiring entrepreneurs. The answer, however, is less about what you should learn and more about how you should do it. Entrepreneurs come ...Show More
10) The Power of Small Actions and an update to The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist
This is a follow up to our recent episode titled The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist and how one small act eventually resulted in a job offer. We often come up with reasons not to do something or t...Show More
The Power of Small Actions and an update to The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist
09:15 | Aug 17th, 2020