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Off the Record with Aram

Aram Melkoumov

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Made by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Off the Record is about the journey. It’s about fears, doubts, wins, and devastating losses. It’s about how people kept going no matter what to build their businesses, raise cash and hire the team. Here battle-tested CEOs and VCs share how they jumped out of the airplane and tried to assemble it on the way down. I hope you like it. - Aram, CEO @ Crowdlinker.

Recent Episodes

SEP 8, 2022
Koii - The blockchain project built for media - Al Morris, Koii Network
Koii is a new method to design communications infrastructure and build an internet owned by everyone. In this episode, our co-host Sergey Ross and Koii Network co-founder Al Morris speak about Al’s journey going from teaching career to being a founder of
28 MIN
AUG 9, 2022
The Ugly Side of Unintentional Growth with Mark Rickmeier, TXI
Mark Rickmeier, CEO at TXI, and Aram discuss the ugly side of growth. They explore what growth for the sake of growth does to employee and customer retention, why your competitors are worthy rivals that you can teach and learn from, why investing in exper
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Premature Scaling: Why It Kills Startups and How to Avoid It - Ron Benegbi, Uplinq
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What Most People Don’t Tell You About Exiting Your Company - Mark Achler & Mert Hilmi Iseri
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47 MIN
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Transitioning from a Pro Service Company to SaaS one - Jordi Torras, Inbenta
Jordi Torras, Founder & CEO at Inbenta shares his entrepreneurial transition from a service into a product company. Talks about the challenges of starting a software company, how he overcame the limited startup ecosystem in Barcelona and how Inbenta
40 MIN