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