​This episode is packed with resources and growth tactics you can immediately apply to your startup. Nix Eneigo (@nixeneigo) is the growth guy at Sprout.ph and we cover a LOT in this conversation.

Sprout.ph
The Ditigal Marketing class he teaches - http://www.imadigitalmarketer.com/
https://nixeniego.com/
How Sprout.ph got from 3m to 20m in annual revenue
How they do lead gen using inbound marketing and SEO
How they use events for lead generation
What he tells the startups he advices
Google Keyword Planner - https://adwords.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/
Just write good content for people
Jason Acidre - http://kaiserthesage.com/
Moz.com
Growthhackers.com
How he uses Facebook groups for marketing - https://nixeniego.com/3-effortless-social-media-growth-hacks-for-startups-in-the-philippines-20a74b0e97da
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook - Book by Gary Vaynerchuk
You can start with PhP45 a day in Facebook ads - https://nixeniego.com/3-effortless-social-media-growth-hacks-for-startups-in-the-philippines-20a74b0e97da
How to be super active in social media
Buffer.com
https://www.quuu.co/ - automates posting in social media
Mix automation with organic
Zapier.com
Hootsuite.com
IFTTT.com
Reusing content
https://beacon.by/ - turn blog posts into PDF
Hubspot
Using Webinars in the Philippines
Boostrapper's Hubspot: 
  * Kahlil: Web form + Zapier + Mailchimp or Get Drip
  * Nix: Sumome.com + Mailer Lite
How to design a drip email series: basic copywriting.
  * Neil Patel
  * https://kopywritingkourse.com/
  * https://reallygoodemails.com
  * Best marketer of this generation - Gary Vaynerchuk
  * CMO of AirBnB, Jonathan Mildenhall
  * Storytelling is crucial
How to market podcasts
John Lee Dumas
Pat Flynn
Notify your facebook group members using the app (only the app)
Using Linkedin app to connect to lots of people
How to use podcasts for marketing your company - make people famous

​Vince Loremia is our guest in this episode. Vince is one of the founders of Kallfly, a cloud-based call center software and a market place for agents and companies. He talks about how they started their company and their experience in joining a Singapore-based startup accelerator. We go into how they acquire customers, retain them and get referrals. He shares tips on hiring and training people. He talks about his framework of taking action first and his productivity practices. At the second half of the interview, Vince shares why he chose to be an entrepreneur, how he perseveres despite its hardships, and his advice for young entrepreneurs. 

Here are my notes:
1. Current call center software requires lots of hardware. Kallfly is ideal for SMEs and startups since it is cloud-based.
2. Bootstrapped at the beginning, using revenue from customers. Then they joined JFDI, a Singapore-based startup accelerator.
3. Impact of the accelerator: change of business model (added a marketplace of call center agents). Mentoring both on tech and biz. Got customers from co-incubatees and startup conferences.
4. Take action. Don't get paralyzed by thinking. The action itself will clarify the way forward.
5. Productivity: wake up early, exercise, meditate/pray, get through email early
6. A visit to Silicon Valley opened his eyes to startup entrepreneurship
7. How to handle the stress of startups: pause, don't stop
8. Many young entrepreneurs know how to build things but forget that entrepreneurship is about money

Mr. Charlie Liu is our guest in this recording. He is the CEO of Matimco, the country's most extensive lumber company. He shares lessons from more than 50 years of company history.
This was recorded in a get-together in Sugbu Study Center and his audience were young men in college. The recording is noisier than usual, and some of the audience questions during the Q&A section might be too faint to hear.

The content will more than make up for all of these. Mr. Liu gives his seven principles for success in entrepreneurship. He shares the inspiring story of his father, who came to Cebu with only the clothes on his back and his sleeping mat. He talks about growing up in a business family and raising children to be entrepreneurs. He shares the biggest challenges they faced and the future of the wood business. Plus many other valuable lessons.

I hope you learn as much as we did in this conversation with Mr. Charlie Liu.
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Show notes:
1. Context: Companies they own
2. Start of the family business: the Matimco Story
3. First generation struggles, Charlie's first job
4. Leaving Matimco, starting in Real Estate
5. Becoming CEO of Matimco
6. Branding wood
7. Big challenge to opportunity: logging ban
8. The benefit of using wood
9. You have to have passion
10. You got to believe in yourself
11. Dealing with doubts and self-doubts
12. Getting used to making mistakes
13. Work hard
14. Profit with dignity
15. Be values-driven
16. The story of Charlie's father
17. Survival of the fittest: the most adaptable
18. You have to learn to learn, unlearn, relearn
19. The father as a Japanese prisoner, then jeepney driver for the Americans
20. Move to Cebu and the start of the father's business
21. How to raise the 3rd generation who have it easy?
22. Suggestion for young people who want to become entrepreneurs: regular self-assessment
23. More key lessons from the father
24. What's next? A 12-story all-wood building!
25. Wood farming
26. How do you learn? You have to have an eye for talent, so you have time to learn. Travel.
27. Your biggest tool as a corporate leader: communication
28. What to do with stagnant real estate?
29. The businesses of Penshoppe and Oakridge
30. How do you define success?

​Seito Heroguchi and Motoki Ueda are our guest in this episode. They talk about the following:

1. How two Japanese guys ended up in Cebu
2. The businesses of BPO, software dev, and coworking space
3. Journey from software development to business
4. The work of a project manager
5. Working with Filipinos, as Japanese
6. The importance of Action vs Planning
7. The importance of Planning before Action    

Ravi Agrawal is our guest in this episode of the 3rd World startup podcast. Ravi is co-founder at EngageSPARK. Ravi talks about how Networking got him customers and mentions in the press. He also talks about the Kano model of Innovation, Raising money versus bootstrapping, and using Yoga and hiking to manage startup stress.

I hope you learn as much as I did in this conversation with Ravi Agrawal.

​Ravi talks about the following:
1. Ravi's several companies and exits in the US, volunteer work in Africa, and the creation of EngageSPARK
2. How he ended up in Cebu, Philippines
3. Networking as a key skill for founders
4. How to get featured by the press
5. Most important things on doing product development
6. The Kano model of innovation
7. Building a team in PH vs building a team in US
8. Think of sales and marketing at the get go
9. Raising money vs bootstrapping
10. Yoga and hiking to manage startup stress
11. Mindfulness

Matt Morrison is our guest in this episode of the 3rd World Startup podcast. Matt shares his journey from being a digital nomad to founding A Space. He also talks about structured mayhem in hiring and getting new customers, the patterns he sees in entrepreneurs, and the commonalities between artists and entrepreneurs, among other topics. I hope you learn as much as I did in this conversation with Matt Morrison.
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Matt talks about:
1. His journey from digital nomad to founding A Space
2. Evolution of workspaces: from industrial work to creative work
3. Growth and its challenges
4. How he hires and onboards new hires
5. Patterns he sees in entrepreneurs he has met in A Space
6. How to think of difficulties
7. Art and entrepreneurship
8. What motivates him

Carlo Florendo is our guest in this episode of the 3rd World startup podcast. Carlo is the founder of Alpha Opensource, a company that does software development and algorithmic trading.

Carlo talks about his journey to entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, tips on hiring, books on entrepreneurship, common misconceptions of first time founders and many more.

​I hope you learn as much as I did in this conversation with Carlo Florendo.

Show notes:
1. How he started out
2. How to legally and ethically reduce taxes
3. What is Artificial Intelligence, how they are using it for trading
4. Hiring tips
5. His evolution to entrepreneurship
6. Recommended books: Bo Sanchez, Entreprenuer magazine
7. How to get team mates to correct him
8. Why he continues to learn new programming languages
9. Why and how he does music
10. How he chooses what businesses to pursue
11. Misconceptions of young entrepreneurs

​Gian de la Rama is our guest in this episode of the 3rd World startup podcast. Gian is a co-founder at Innovantage. 

Podcast editing by podcastengineers.com

Gian talks about the following:
1. His #1 role as an entrepreneur
2. How he manages people
3. Experience of letting go of people
4. Explanation of Nudge, their product
5. What advice he gives to young entrepreneurs
6. Transition from corporate world to entrepreneurship
7. Biggest lessons he learned from working in the corporate world
8. Work first or go straight to running a startup?
9. What he would have changed in his first few years
10. How to choose what startup to work in
11. How they acquire customers
12. What they do for customer success
13. Analytics platforms they use
14. How they hire people
15. Their onboarding process
16. How they manage their sales funnel
17. How they manage their software development
18. Software you use for business processes, project management (Jira), version control (bitbucket), Jenkins
19. Productivity tips
20. #1 book he recommends: First break all the rules
21. Why do you do this?
22. How he manages emotions from failures
23. The hardest thing he had to face
24. Advice for first time entrepreneurs

In this episode the 3rd World Startup Podcast, Kahlil, Kenn and Carlo discuss the differences between corporate and entrepreneurial life.
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Not only will you hear about transitioning from working in a giant corporation to a small startup, but you will get a clearer sense of the backgrounds of our podcast hosts as they talk about their experiences in a corporate job and what influenced them to start a business.

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http://fourhourworkweek.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680011
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/etl
https://steveblank.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/0989200507