It being summer and all, we thought it appropriate to talk about summer and startups. As a matter of fact, today’s guest, Ramine Darabiha, an active entrepreneur, founder & CEO of MySites, is the head coach for a student formed entrepreneurship summer bootcamp, called Summer of Startups. Sharing many of our values, we are glad to be supporting this program, that aims to empower and encourage aspiring entrepreneurs and affect a change in culture, regarding entrepreneurial aspirations.
Ramine and I talked about the program, the teams, challenges and opportunities and so on. At the end of the discussion, it was apparent how invested the mentor gets in each and every team.
Check out the ten teams in the Summer of Startups program
Listen to the episode in the player below or on iTunes.
Some quotes from the episode:
- “If we can spend some of the government money, not necessarily super helpful in the past, to create new startups..”
- “.. you have three chief everything officers..”
- “.. in the beginning, you know, we criticize their baby..”
- “..learning to listen and learning to fail is something that they need to do very, very early..”
- “..failure is necessary, it is a necessary part of learning..”
- “..does it mean that people don’t like to work or that they like to play Pacman? I think it’s mostly that people like to play Pacman.”
