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Fundraising – Raise money the smart way

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Anda Gansca – Fundraising – How to raise money the smart way. Yeah, so we talked about having the idea, determining whether or not you should go for it. There is this whole big aspect of company building called fundraising. And there are so many opinions about it. I mean, there are literally camps of […]

Impact – Inspire change & start a revolution

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Anda Gansca – Impact – How to inspire change and start a revolution. In terms of Knotch being a revolution, I like to refer to it as the color revolution. All of my life I felt like I was kind of destined to start one or several revolutions. And so Knotch doesn’t have a choice, […]

Anda Gansca – Knotch – Opinions matter

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Anda Gansca – Knotch – Opinions matter – Elevator Pitch / Intro Hi my name is Anda. I’m the cofounder and CEO of Knotch. Knotch is a network that allows people to connect with each other based on shared interests. It actually allows you to very quickly express how you feel about a bunch of […]

Motivation – The secret to staying motivated

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Anda Gansca – Motivation – The secret to staying motivated when launching your startup. I think motivation is one of those things that you cannot really work on. I think you either have it or you do not. And it really deals with the idea. And so, the process through which I selected the idea […]

Opinions – Why opinions matter

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Anda Gansca – Opinions – Why do opinions matter. Marzena Kmiecik: Why do opinions matter? This is a question that I get asked all the time, and I ask myself all the time, whether or not I have a very good answer. I do not know why they matter. I think they should, I think […]

Pitching – What do investors look for

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Anda Gansca – Pitching – What do investors look for before they invest in a startup. Pitching is a very interesting process, and again there’s a spectrum of people who just wing it, and people who over-prepare and over-Powerpoint and over-everything. Obviously, as with all things, the happy result is in the middle. That’s what […]

Purpose – How to disrupt the World

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Anda Gansca – Purpose – How to build a disruptive company and change the World. So there are really disruptive and awesome things about Knotch, but one of the things that we are really proud of is that we have architected the product from the beginning, to basically, be able to make money later on. […]

Connections – How to connect authentically

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Anda Gansca – How to authentically connect with your biggest startup supporters. You know, once I was doing an interview and I got this question. This journalist was like, “Do you have any rules against meeting investors for dinner?” And I was kind of puzzled. I was wondering why she thought that we should have […]

Startup Tip – Plan for the unpredictable

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Anda Gansca – Startup Tip – How to plan for what you can’t plan for. I learned to let go of all the expectations in the first three months after starting the company. Because every single time we thought something would happen based on the some sort of timetable that we came up with based […]

Team – Hiring product supporters

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Anda Gansca – Team – How to source your product team from your biggest startup supporters. So, one of the biggest challenges for me and Steph, once we found each other, and we decided that we wanted to work together, and we had raised some money, was to hire a team that could rally whenever […]

Timing – Consequences of risky behavior

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Anda Gansca – Timing – What to expect when you quit your job, and take highly irrational risks. So many people have different stories of how they quit their jobs and start a company and how difficult it was and how they managed to reach the decision to quit their jobs. And I think there’s […]

Fear – How to conquer and let go

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Anda Gansca – Fear – How to conquer fear and let go to achieve your greatest potential. Fear is a very interesting topic. I have written about. I have thought about it. I have fought it. And eventually I realized, I cannot really do much about it. There is no way to really defeat fear […]

Entrepreneurship – Do you have what it takes?

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Anda Gansca – Entrepreneurship – Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur. I’m going to start with the most obvious thing which is Role Models. I come from a family of entrepreneurs, my grandmother actually was the first one to ever start a company in my family and she started an illegal […]

Confidence – How to fearlessly launch a startup

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Anda Gansca – Confidence – How to fearlessly launch a startup, defeat your insecurities & succeed! You know, we all have fears, and demons, and insecurities. And when you are just about to start a company, you really feel like you need to fix them all before you start. And you feel like you need […]

Partnerships – How to find the right fit

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Anda Gansca, Co-Founder of Knotch – How to find the right fit and partner up for success. When I first had the idea for Knotch, I knew that I had to find a co-founder to actually help me build it. An engineer, and so I started going through my Stanford network, meeting with a lot […]