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.

Links in the episode:

1. Javi Lorenzana (LinkedIn profile)

2. Up Next (Website)

3. Up Next (Instagram)

4. Up Next (Twitter)

Show notes in the episode:

1. 2:01 Javi Lorenzana and Up Next

2. 3:19 What's your Hustle?

3. 6:14 What's like growing up?

4. 7:53 Xavier School Influence on Javi

5. 11:59 Building your Own Self

6. 13:12 College Life in Toronto

7. 16:20 Javi's Working Theory

8. 18:05 Early Work Experience

9. 22:00 PDAX Journey

10. 25:06 Expectations & Lessons working in a Company

11. 27:35 Ron's Lessons learned doing Hustleshare

12. 32:05 Up Next's Advocacy

13. 34:58 Professional Learning

14. 42:43 Incubation Period of Up Next

15. 47:18 Right Feedback of Doing This

16. 50:49 From Bootstrapping and Hyperlocalizing

17. 54:50 Defining your Total Addressable Market

18. 56:26 Optimizing for Growth Instead of Margin

19. 58:22 Big Decisions to Made it Here Now

20. 1:02:40 Near-Future Plans

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