Founders State: Recent Episodes
Musa Ato
Founder @LeagueofRebels. I love the entrepreneurial mindset, business strategy, and models. Here, I look to discuss with entrepreneurs from all across the globe, to learn about their approaches, strategies, and our similarities.
On this episode, I chat with the creative entrepreneur behind Hawkins-Bucklew jewelry design. I try to understand the thought process of how she creates, prices, and markets her jewelry.
On this episode, I get to peek behind the curtains of the firm building the League of Rebels App. Over the past couple months i’ve been closely working with Sterling and his team, as they develop and test our forthcoming app. So, I was quite excited to dig in with the man himself, to understand his journey in entrepreneurship, the path for Sandbox Commerce specifically, and also the business model and domination plans.
We circle back around with Brandon Thurman and Ibrahim Dikko of ROOG, to discuss how current trends have taken off with the concept for their app pre-launch. What exactly is ROOG doing to ensure they can either catch and harness this minority business shopping support wave, or get their product out in time, or get shoppers and small businesses alike to know of their coming..
I sit down for a chat with Lisa & Liz Sikora; the most lovely mother-daughter team pushing the bar in MTO women’s formal clothing. Amberleaf, the multi-generational design centered brand caters to women of all ages, sizes, shapes, and color. In this episode, I get to explore not just the working dynamics between the Mother/Daughter team, but also how they manage their production team in Chengdu, China, the business model, how COVID affected their operations, and also how they’ve since pivoted as a result.
Future plans for the Amberleaf brand, and if they’ll be enrolling Liz’s new born into the company anytime soon.
I chat with Nifemi Aluko, the Stanford graduate helping foreign multinationals access the Nigerian market with a soft land. Nifemi founded kpakpakpa in 2014 with the sole purpose of providing access to credible information about Africa.
Since then, he has steadily built a record of helping individuals and organizations succeed in the region.
Discussion with Brandon Thurman, Founder & CEO of ROOG. We cover capital raise, dealing with VC's and bootstrapping.