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Welcome to the 1st  part of the Pursuit of Scrappiness 2 episode Christmas Special. Janis and Uldis are joined by previous star guests Toms Niparts from Jeff app (full interview in Episode #1), Eerik Oja from Planet42 (Episode #3) and Jone Vaituleviciute from Startup Wise Guys (Episode #20) to discuss the events in 2021 and make predictions about 2022.

In this episode we talk about the Baltic fundraising boom of 2021 and the most impactful stories that we witnessed. We also discuss the sustainability of the pandemic increase in digital adoption and it’s biggest benefactors. Finally we talk about the metaverse and why major global brands are rushing to embrace it.

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[04:10] - ON THE BALTIC FUNDRAISING BOOM

• Global investors joining the hunt for Baltic startups
• Foreign founders moving to the Baltics and building successful companies
• Cross investments between founders and Baltic countries
• Cash-outs on Series A for founders and team
• How do active founders do angel investments
• Impactful rounds besides the biggest ones

[21:10] - ON PANDEMIC BOOMS & BUSTS AND LIFE AFTER COVID

• Why are big pandemic boom stocks busting
• Last-mile/food delivery startups bubble
• Market overreaction during the pandemic
• Under-reaction of the air travel industry - why is it not innovating?
• AI note-takers
• Digital adoption during the pandemic  - is it permanent increase?

[31:30] - ON THE METAVERSE AND CRYPTOIZATION OF BIG TECH

• What is the Metaverse?
• Facebook using the Metaverse as a distraction from its problems
• Why are the big brands jumping on the Metaverse and NFTs?
• Hands on NFT buying experience
• Players in the Baltics that are well positioned to make it in the Metaverse

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James Berdigans is the CEO and Co-founder of Printify - a print-on-demand platform that helps you create and sell custom products. An alumnus of 500 startups and one of the leaders of the Latvian startup community, Printify just raised a whopping 45mUSD series A round to build on their growth in the US and expand in other markets.

In this episode, we talk about the origins of Printify and the rise of the on-demand printing industry as well as starting a business in the US from Latvia. James also shares his scrappy stories of partnering with Shopify, meeting his co-founders, and getting into 500 startups. Finally, we discuss the Silicon Valley investor community and the timing of your series A round.

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[01:50] - THE ORIGINS OF PRINTIFY

• Building on previous venture successes and failures
• Learning from painful mistakes
• What does Printify do

[05:20] - WHY ON-DEMAND PRINTING INDUSTRY IS HOT

• Democratization of content creation and product design

[07:15] - ON STARTING A COMPANY ON THE US MARKET FROM LATVIA

• The attractiveness of the US market
• Benefits of building a US company from Latvia
• Running a lean and efficient digital sales organization
• Supporting sales with content marketing
• Finding one channel to acquire customers without a budget

[12:40] -STORY HOW JAMES PITCHED TO SHOPIFY

• Hustle in Canada leads to a fruitful partnership

[16:45] -  ON GETTING ACCESS TO THE SILICON VALLEY INVESTOR COMMUNITY

• Using 3F’s to kickstart the company
• Raising your first investment from your accountant!
• Getting into 500 startups
• Finding your investor-champion

[22:10] ON BEING BE SCRAPPY & EARNING YOUR LUCK

• Be scrappy! Doing more with less capital
• Story of meeting co-founders
• Definition of luck
• You will get a lot of ‘No’s. but you only need one ‘Yes’
• Bonus: story how Pursuit of Scrappiness got its name

[30:20] - ON TIMING YOUR SERIES A

• Marshmallow test for founders - are companies raising too much too early?
• Having Richard Branson and Will Smith among investors
• How to select the right investors

[36:40] - ON ANGEL INVESTING

• A busy Founder/CEO must have priorities straight
• Angel investors will introduce you to their network

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Website: https://printify.com

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Gerri Kodres is a founding partner at United Angels VC and has been a tech investor for more than 10 years with investments in such companies as Bolt, Veriff, Comodule, Monese, Starship, and many others. Alongside that, he spent almost 10 years with Fortumo as a chief business officer and advisor signing clients such as Google, Netflix, and Spotify.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into tech investing by covering the investment landscape in the Baltics, the roles and responsibilities of a tech investor, the skills to look out for both in founders and investors as well as the timing of investments. We also go ‘behind the scenes in some of Gerri’s investment gems - Bolt and Veriff - to find out how they have struggled and found success.

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[02:00] - INTRODUCTION AND THE ORIGINS OF UNITED ANGELS VC

• Advantage of VC vs. angel investing - more money to do follow-on investments

[18:30] - UNDERSTANDING  TECH INVESTING LANDSCAPE IN BALTICS

• Competition in the tech investing market in the Baltics
• FOMO and herd investing
• Timing the right stage to invest
• Managing founder relationships when also saying “no”
• The investor is never in charge
• Helping struggling portfolio companies
• Missing out on deals

[29:00] - HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF SUCCESSFUL WITH INVESTORS

• What to look for in founders
• What mistakes do founders make when approaching investors
• Skills for a successful tech investor
• How to test for BD skills in founders
• Depth of involvement for investors in different phases

[48:30] -  BEHIND THE SCENES - INVESTMENTS IN BOLT AND VERIFF

• Bolt
  • Cutting out the taxi companies
  • Conquering Africa
  • Preparing for an IPO
  • Europe’s first super app
  • Not a winner takes all market
• Veriff
  • Backing a young founder
  • Fixing a broken cap table
  • Finding success in Y-Combinator

[1:02:40] - CURRENT FOUNDER PROFILE IN BALTICS

• Current demographics of founders on the market
• 3rd generation of startups
• Positive outlook for the Baltics

To reach out to Gerri use:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrikodres/

Website: https://unitedangels.vc/

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Kayra Martinez is a flight attendant and Founder and Director of the non-profit Love Without Borders for Refugees in Need, which supports refugees in Greece by building spaces where art and creativity flourish.  She touches on how she got started, the powerful stories within her refugee art exhibitions,  and the importance of travel as a method to learn, share, and create.

Host: Amy Hager - Social Media Manager at The RISE Travel Institute 
Digital Editing: Kara King - Digital Content Producer
Graphic Design: Shirley Wong - Freelance Art Director

Music: On My Way by Kevin MacLeod
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Eimantas Bekeza is the CEO & Co-founder of Memby, an after-school learning platform that provides top-tier tutoring at a fraction of the cost of private tutors. Eimantas is also a “superstar tutor” himself having tutored since 8th grade and has turned his passion for teaching into an exciting startup.

In this episode, we talk about the origins of Memby and building an EdTech business as well as the development of the EdTech industry as such. We go deeper into what makes a learning experience effective and paint a picture of how the future classroom will look like. 

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[02:30] - INTRODUCTION AND THE ORIGINS OF MEMBY

• Turning personal teaching passion into a business
• Technological differences between countries globally and within Europe
• What is a superstar tutor
• Interaction as the key for quality learning
• Raising the prestige and income for the teacher profession

[16:45] - ON BUILDING AN EDTECH PRODUCT

• Using Facebook Live for the first proof of concept
• Picking markets for geographical expansion
• Scaling challenges 
• Defining a business model
• Sharing the financial benefits of scale with the teachers
• Dealing with seasonality in the business
• Using mentors and accelerators 

[36:30] - ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDTECH AND FUTURE OF LEARNING

• Different learning models fit different people
• Blended online/offline model for the future
• Using the workshop format for school education
• The politicization of the educational system
• Role of new technologies in learning
• Disadvantages of learning online
• Gamification of learning
• Creating content for different learning types
• Adding more freedom of choice for students
• The future for Memby

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Website: https://karjera.digiklase.lt/

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Taavi Rõivas is the Chairman of Auve Tech, an Estonian producer and operator of self-driving vehicles and autonomous transportation systems that are already operational on public roads. He is also former Prime Minister of Estonia, a long-time member of the Estonian Parliament, and an international public speaker on e-government, cyber security, AI, and other related topics.

In this episode, we discuss the development and promise of the self-driving vehicle industry, the interaction of government and business and how to clone Estonia’s success, the future of work and retirement as well as the risks associated with the development of AI and increasing government power.

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[01:45] - INTRODUCTION, AUVE TECH, AND THE SELF-DRIVING INDUSTRY

• Reinventing last-mile delivery of people
• Use Cases for driverless vehicles
• Estonia as a hub for driverless vehicle companies
• Funding of development for such high-risk business

[25:00] - ON GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS

• What’s behind Estonia’s success from the state perspective
• Practical reasons for going digital
• Vision for cross-border digital public services
• Legacy systems are an excuse 
• Digital adoption psychology
• Role of the government for business environment development
• Example of Finland as a historical roadmap
• The promise of the Baltics as a remote work paradise
• Unicorn nation and if the govt helped
• How to keep on the success path
• Challenges in the labor market and migration

[1:01:20] - ON THE FUTURE OF WORK, RETIREMENT, AI AND GOVERNMENT POWER

• Jobs that are ripe for automation
• Universal basic income
• Work longevity and a different “retirement”
• Challenges of AI development
• Lessons from the pandemic

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taavi-r%C3%B5ivas-18399b134/
 

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Tuomas Kosonen is a partner at Inventure, one of the leading VCs in the Baltic Sea region. Inventure has invested in such familiar Baltic companies as Nordigen, Scoro, and Whatagraph as well as Finnish juggernaut and one of the most used apps in the Baltics - Wolt

In this episode, we talk about the Baltic Sea region as one of the leading global tech hubs and the future outlook of the Baltics and the rest of the region. We also discuss the VC investment decision-making process as well as the key challenges in scaling companies. Finally, we cover some of Inventures biggest hits and misses along with the hottest industries in tech today 

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[01:50] - Introduction and the origins of Inventure

[04:20] - The Baltic sea region startup scene history and outlook

• The historical relationship between Finland and Estonia
• First investment in the Baltics - Froont
• Nordic/Baltic bay - global startup hub
• Outlook for the Nordics
• The reasons behind the success of the region
• Baltics as core home market for Inventure
• Challenges in attracting talent to Finland and the region
• Characteristics of Baltic founders
• Norwegian startup ecosystem

[21:25] - Investment decision making process and investing in the Baltics

• The importance of legislation for investment decisions - minor
• Things that VCs are looking for in startups
• Getting in on Baltic deals in time
• Investments missed out on 

[30:15] - The biggest challenges in scaling companies

• Product-market fit
• Having the right people
• Building a compelling story
• Ability to go abroad
• The ability of the founders to grow with the company
• The role of VC in the management team changes

[39:35] - European VC trends and the most exciting industries

• The story of investing in Wolt
• Last-mile delivery industry - clearing up of an accumulated backlog of opportunities
• Why is Amazon not in last-mile groceries?
• Insurance industry - is the hype real?
• Hyping product teams vs industries
• Other hot industries - health tech, agtech, products improving quality of life
• Future of Inventure in the Baltics

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Carlos Paniagua is the co-founder and CTO of Glia - one of the leading digital customer service providers that to date has raised $107 million in VC investment. Coming from Guatemala originally, Carlos has spent a third of his life in Estonia, where he also resides currently and runs the technical team of Glia, while his co-founders and the rest of the team are based in the US. 

In this episode, Carlos shares his experience in running a US-Estonian organization in terms of operations and fundraising. We also have an in-depth discussion on the realities and challenges of a startup CTO as well as a look into the role of digital channels for sales and customer service in the pandemic era.

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[03:35] - Digital communication in customer service

• The impact of the pandemic on customer service
• Digital sales and support channels becoming mission-critical for most businesses

[09:45] -Being based in Estonia and the US, operations, and fundraising

• Choosing Estonia for engineering talent
• Advantages of the time zone difference
• Establishing enough overlap in work hours between offices
• Communication and socializing information that is important
• Ease of relocating to Estonia
• Living, working, and running a company  in Estonia as a foreigner
• Hiring abroad vs. relocating
• What VCs look for from the technical perspective
• Making sure the licensing is figured out throughout your whole tech stack
• Considerations in picking VCs to back you
• The value that VCs bring for the tech side of the business
• The mechanics of the technical due diligence process
• Making past and future tech decisions digestible for investors
• Presenting a US-Estonian company to investors

[34:10] -  The role and reality of being a CTO in a fast-growing company

• Practical involvement of the CTO in various parts of the business (product, sales, engineering)
• Choosing fundamental priorities in development to drive all product decisions
• How to determine if you want/can be a CTO
• Implementing team onboarding practices
• Scaling the team
• Planning of development process and managing expectations
• Product education for customers
• Making feature decisions from customer feedback
• Prioritization in the development process
• Being a technical founder of a startup without significant prior work experience
• Competing for tech talent

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Sandris is the CTO of one of the hottest Baltic fintech startups, Jeff App,  however, in this episode, we focus on Codelex developer school, which he created a few years ago. With Codelex Sandris has added north of 130 able-bodied developers both men and women across different age groups to the market after subjecting them to an intensive 3 months developer Bootcamp.

In a very direct and no bullshit interview Sandris shares his vision that almost anyone can code at a professional level, but also points out that it depends on everyone’s own motivation, explains that discrimination in the job market still exists, and gives advice on what will make developers consider you attractive as an employer

By listening to this episode you will learn:

• That you can become a developer in 3 months if you make an investment in yourself
• What developers value the most in a job/employer
• That 80% of the population are able to become a developer
• How to avoid scams in coding schools
• How to make the decision between remaining a specialist developer vs. a team lead/manager
• How software development is similar to business management
• What the demand for developers will be in the future and the gap between employers and jobseekers
• What salary  will an experienced developer in the Baltics be making in 5 years
• Whether AI will take over developer jobs in the near future

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Rolands is a grade-A hustler who realized early on in his career that he must build companies and products to fulfill his dreams as well as overcome some grudges. Hustling several business ideas, Rolands found himself in the fintech space crunching credit risk numbers from bank statements and now has evolved the business model into providing free open banking and building a crucial piece of financial infrastructure for the successful development of the fintech industry. We also discuss Dr Dre, Netflix and Michael Jordan 

By listening to this episode you will learn:

• Hustling all kinds of ambitious ideas to find the one that sticks
• You don’t have to be completely insane to build a great company, although it definitely helps to build a legendary one
• Pivoting is hard. The larger you are, the harder it gets
• Open banking data is free (at least with Nordigen) and can be used to build a world of fintech applications
• To pivot  fast when you sense stagnation in your current business model
• Don’t look for 100% fit for an open position. Hire for overall talent
• Once you find great talent, don’t waste time and  go all-in to hire them immediately
• If you can avoid hiring, don’t hire. The more people you have, the more nodes of communication you have to manage

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Liudas, a fintech heavyweight, got into RegTech and ID verification as he saw an industry with an exponential rise in relevance for global commerce. Having led a team of 1000+ people before (ex-CEO of Paysera), he is now scaling the Ondato team with rocket speed having grown 6x times in the last 12 months. Liudas shares his management secrets to keep his team aligned on one vision

By listening to this episode you will learn:

• Importance of having a co-founder as it is almost impossible to achieve success alone
• The realities of startup Founder/CEO lifestyle. Hint - it is a 24/7 job and it does not include a Lamborghini
• How to tackle the key challenges in scaling 
• Not to shy away from starting your business in a crowded space
• How to rally your team behind a vision
• How to grow as a CEO from managing 5 to 1000+ people
• Tips on how to ensure high-quality feedback from your team
• The future of the office, meetings, and human interactions
• That, not all VCs are relevant to your startup
• And why setting up your company in London makes sense

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Eerik (EE) and his partner Marten (EE) co-founded Planet42 in 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. They started by borrowing money from their friends to buy and rent cars to people who otherwise would not have access to credit. Talk about taking risks. Since then, Planet 42 has raised USD 20 million from both VCs as well prominent tech entrepreneurs and is on its way to expand to Mexico this year. 

By listening to this episode, you will learn:

• How to build a sustainable corporate culture through radical honesty and kindness
• Hiring Mr. Right vs Mr. Right Now
• Importance of having the right co-founder
• Network effects fo hiring good people
• Picking the right market for your product and ignoring geographical shortcuts
• How to balance running day-to-day operations of the company with fundraising and market expansion
• Prepare for the inevitable arrival of competition to a blue ocean by improving your own game
• How to avoid burnout while building your startup

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We discuss 2 things that have seen a meteoric rise in March - Bitcoin and hundreds of millions of Euros in venture capital investments pouring into instant food delivery in Europe

Will Uldis spend his government stimmy checks to buy Bitcoin and why is Janis so excited about strangers in gorilla costumes bringing cookies to his apartment? Find out in the latest episode

Bitcoin:

• Reasons why holding Bitcoin on your company’s balance sheet could be the most rational thing you can do in the current economy
• And reasons why you shouldn’t do it 
• Tesla made more profit from Bitcoin than from selling cars, but is the current price sustainable in long term?
• Skip the overly technical whitepapers - 4 resources that will help you to learn more about crypto

Food tech:

• Why ‘dark stores’ and ‘ghost kitchens’ are not titles of shitty horror B-movies, but actually a good thing
• 2 companies founded in 2020 raise close to 100M together to deliver groceries to your door in 10 minutes
• With tens of millions of EUR up for grabs potentially in the Baltics who will do that here?
• Will people return to stores when Covid neds or will ‘One app to deliver them all’ rule the land

Highlights of the week:

• A new investment fund in Baltics 
• 51M for Estonian deep tech company

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In our first interview, we are excited to welcome Toms Niparts the Co-Founder and CEO of Jeff-app.com - a matchmaker between people and loans that gathers and utilizes alternative data to help unbanked consumers in Asia access financial services. 

Toms shares his experience of starting a business remotely on the other side of the world, tips on hiring the top talent with a strong cultural fit as well as insights into the future of fintech and consumer apps. Move fast and break things, but don’t forget to set metrics to measure what you’re breaking. 

By listening to this episode you will learn:

• Starting a business fully remotely in a different continent, is it possible?
• Why hiring is the #1 priority for early-stage startups and what are some practical tricks to manage the hiring efficiently and sort through hundreds of applications
• What growth strategies worked for Jeff in getting new customers in Asia without having a huge marketing budget
• What are the key responsibilities of a startup CEO 
• What chapters from Ben Horowitz’s playbook helped Toms to build his company culture
• How to balance product obsession with cold, hard metrics
• Why Square just bought Tidal
• And last, but not least - will having Jack Dorsey’s beard help you to fundraise

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Despite a growing focus on national identity in and outside the Nordics, the Nordic regional identity persists. The participants of this podcast explore what is takes to make a region consisting of numerous nation states a success, comparing it to other areas, such as the Baltics and Eastern Europe. An important concrete example that is discussed is an advert produced by Scandinavian Airlines in February of this year, which sought to deconstruct and construct identity markers of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), and received a wave of feedback, both negative and positive. Listen to this podcast which starts its investigation with ideas of regional identity.

Be sure to also listen to the other nordics.info podcast on identity, which focuses more on national identity!
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Anna Blyablina of Sthlm Fintech Week

“Bringing the Fintech Community Together”

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Women in Tech: Ieva Upeniece of Baltic Sandbox
“Building Communities in The Baltics”

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• https://techchill.co/
• https://infogram.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievaupeniece/
• Baltic Sandbox Accelerator, https://balticsandbox.eu/

Credits:

• Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.com
• Story produced, Edited and Mastered by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/
• Team Support, Janice Geronimo

Short Title: Building Communities in The Baltics