Ep 171 - The Hustle Behind Up Next
Javi Lorenzana of Up Next joins us in this episode to share how they want to up-skill Southeast Asian professionals for the digital age. Javi will share how early he got into the startup ecosystem by being a dev and interning early in startups amassing 7 years of experience at a young age of 21. He will also share how he decided to create Up Next to help prepare professionals with new skills that they need to be productive in the digital age. He will also share how they got into Iterative and how they got early traction from bootstrapping and how they got formidable instructors to teach in their startups as they scaled.
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Show notes in the episode:
2:01 Javi Lorenzana and Up Next
3:19 What's your Hustle?
6:14 What's like growing up?
7:53 Xavier School Influence on Javi
11:59 Building your Own Self
13:12 College Life in Toronto
16:20 Javi's Working Theory
18:05 Early Work Experience
22:00 PDAX Journey
25:06 Expectations & Lessons working in a Company
27:35 Ron's Lessons learned doing Hustleshare
32:05 Up Next's Advocacy
34:58 Professional Learning
42:43 Incubation Period of Up Next
47:18 Right Feedback of Doing This
50:49 From Bootstrapping and Hyperlocalizing
54:50 Defining your Total Addressable Market
56:26 Optimizing for Growth Instead of Margin
58:22 Big Decisions to Made it Here Now
1:02:40 Near-Future Plans
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