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SweatWorks celebrated its 12th year this week and I could not think of a better way to kick it off than with our new partnership with EGYM. Our two organizations have shared similar beginnings and visions: 💡 We both incubated our idea during our time in business school. 📲 We both looked at the digitization of the world driven by the growth of the iPhone and mobile computing but seeing little done to bring the technology to fitness. 🏋️♂️ Our visions were aligned from the start: to leverage technology to help make fitness and wellness more accessible.  We went through different pathways: EGYM being equipment and platform focused; while SweatWorks was building bespoke solutions driven by the consumer experience. 🚀 We both started in the same decade: 2010 / EGYM, 2012 / SweatWorks Most of the talk around EGYM has been around their new AI, Genius, and their recent $200M raise.  What most people don’t know is that EGYM had very humble beginnings - something that most entrepreneurs can resonate with. In 2010 Philipp founded EGYM along with his co-founder Florian Sauter.  They built the first prototype themselves and drove around Germany looking for investors.  With only one prototype - they sold eight machines to their first gym client! We are excited about what our combined organizations can achieve together.  In addition to integrations with commercial devices and platforms, our initial partnership is focused around brining our bespoke capabilities and integrations to the consumer experience to EGYM’s digital platform. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this together.  We are grateful for our partnership. Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer Florian Sauter John Ford Marco 😎 Melas Christopher Clawson Dana Milkie Nick Saridakis Tiffany Sirikulvadhana Brenote Sands, MBA, PMP, LSSGB, CSM, PMI-ACP Csaba Huszar Jeffrey Cooper #partnership #egym #SweatWorks #innovaiton #digital #fitness #wellness #healthcare #fittech 

In classic CoffeeSpace fashion, we invite you to an event to be remembered. Since launching our mobile app a couple of months ago, Carin Gan and I have received a fair bit of inbounds from people wanting to know more about what we’re building. In addition to the one-on-ones, we thought it might be a good idea to host a live event to pitch our vision and share our plans :) Coupled with the hundreds of users we already have in SF and the wider Bay Area as well as the recent launch of our community round, this would also be the perfect opportunity to bring everyone together. This is an invite-only event as we want to ensure those who are interested in investing are prioritized. So if you are an investor, an angel, or curious about investing, join us! We’re backed by exited founders, YC-backed founders, and angel investors from Google, Meta, Quantum Black, and more. Since launching the app 12 weeks ago, we have passed 2,600 signups, 2,750 matches, and 50,000 swipes on our platform. To RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gJc8ansz #rooftoppitch #startups #pitchnight #CoffeeSpace #exploringideas #cofoundermatching

E180 That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin Kindly supported by MentorsWork - the fully government-funded mentoring programme, designed to fuel the growth of your business - no matter the sector or size - mentorswork.ie John Tuohy of OOHPod has raised a further €5.4 million to expand his parcel locker business across Ireland and the UK. His solution can help you get around those troublesome #brexit taxes. And all legal. The BIG news is that OohPod has landed Philip Reynolds as chair. Philip is former boss at C&D Foods (ABP Group), a business he sold to Larry Goodman so expect really big things. And his 'hire in a heartbeat' is Rafał Brzoska. Niamh Donnelly is co-founder of robotics company Akara Robotics. She's been working on her robot 'Violet' for the last three years, proving how effective 'Violet' is in cleaning medical facility rooms. The business is not about cutting out manual cleaners, but helping to turn around hospital beds much, much more quickly. They've already landed their first sale. Two robots are heading to NHS facilities in the coming weeks and then it's on to the vast US market, and maybe even an IPO. But first they need twenty hospitals to work with them. They have Enterprise Ireland backing and angel funding from Growing Capital. They're funding again, but not telling TeamGBS how much the round is...at the moment. Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Liam Casey, CEO, PCH International. If you know a hospital that could use Violet, tell them about it and REPOST the podcast to others. Margaret O'Donnell Greta Dunne Jay Burton Kerri Sheeran Stephen Burdock Thomas Kelly Fiona Matthews Brian Donaldson Niall O'Neill Jason Bradshaw FCA Ian Lawlor Conor Lyden Feargall Kenny Digital Irish Pat McCann Mary McKenna Rita Martin Richard Watson Tanner O'Connell Brian Caulfield Geraldine O'Neill Laura White Barbara Nolan Conor McEnroy Barbara Nolan Patrick Lawless Amy Forde Graham Peter Shannon https://lnkd.in/e2Urrf7v

Team SoundWheel is touching down at TechBBQ this week, and we are super excited to once again deep dive into this inferno of talented and powerful people gathered from all over the ecosystem 💥 Last year we had a blast, a royal visitor and tons of great network opening up. Since then we’ve: ▪️Raised our initial pre-seed with Antler ▪️Softlaunched full version in the UK ▪️Had remarkable research conducted, validating the impact of what we do. We are frontrunners in that Health-by-music-movement that is all ready sweeping through the digital health sector. The need for new tools and ways of attending to our mental/physical health is urgent. Social prescription is actually happening. And it’s about damn time to merge cutting edge technology, with holistic and human centric practices with a proven impact over millennia. The power of music being one of them. We wanna change the world from within through music. Investor/stakeholder/entrepreneur with a soft spot for: Consumer faced digital health/Human impact/Creative industries? Let’s schedule a meeting or come see us at the Beyond Beta Booth on Wednesday. Can’t wait to meet you 🎧💥💫 SoundWheel

A couple of days late (have you noticed?), but here it is: EP 109 of HTM with a sniffly Fabian powering through a fascinating conversation on all things brand building 🔥🎧 This episode brings us Rockwell Shah, the CEO, and N.B. Patil the Co-Founder & CTO of Ozlo Sleep, an innovation startup in the sleep technology space. All three of Ozlo’s Co-Founders are former Bose veterans and they acquired and licensed assets from Bose to resurrect the discontinued but beloved Sleepbuds. This episode is a fascinating conversation about building a new brand on existing IP, the fragile tension between what customers say they want and what they actually need, building a brand not on a singular product but a grander vision, how most consumer startups fail because they are not telling the right story, and how branding, in the end, is all about alignment – a simple but deep thought that we are exploring further together today. Listen wherever you enjoy HTM, and please rate and review the show if you have not done so yet 💯 ↠ Apple — https://loom.ly/tso4sMc ↠ Spotify — https://loom.ly/h86TcOE ↠ FINIEN — https://loom.ly/MVUzcsQ ↠ Simplecast — https://loom.ly/CoLijbU #rockwellshah #nbpatil #ozlo #sleepbuds #consumertech #sleeptech #brandstrategy #branding #brandnaming #brandmarketing #fabiangeyrhalter

In less than 8 years, Sanjit Biswas scaled Samsara from 0 to over $1B ARR. In our latest conversation, Sanjit shares all the lessons he’s learned about running a hyper growth organization, including all the changes he’s made since growing and selling his first company Meraki to Cisco for $1.2B and going on to scale Samsara to a public business with $20B. A great episode for anyone who wants to continuously reinvent themselves within a rapidly changing workplace. The 70-20-10 Rule Samsara uses a simple framework to balance doubling down on things that are already working and going after new opportunities that will build the future. Here’s how Samsara allocates capital and time… 70% toward making the core products and platform better 20% toward key upgrades in the immediate horizon - projects you’re pretty confident will work and make a big difference for your customers 10% toward ambitious, long-term bets Many of the moonshot ideas may fail, but the goal is to plant many seeds so some eventually graduate into the 20% bucket and deliver durable value for decades to come. How to build a company to endure In addition to dedicating 10% of their efforts to speculative, long-term projects, Samsara adopts several strategies for sustained growth. Unlike with Meraki, Sanjit hasn't pinpointed a single dominant competitor foreshadowing any potential acquisition of Samsara, and the market is large enough to build and build and build. With no defined end-goal, the team considers more long-term ramifications of their decisions, whether it’s related to technology, hiring, or shaping company culture. This mindset has led to a more deliberate approach to major decisions, complete with lots of experiments before committing to something. Rehiring yourself every year When you’re in a rapid growth environment, it’s important to keep hitting refresh on what is most important. Once a year, Sanjit does a 360 degree review on himself and asks himself “what does the company need most from me next?” He also does an audit of his time allocation by color coding his calendar (now automated). It’s easy to get whisked away and over/under allocate your time to certain tasks, so having a record of your plan vs what you’re actually up to can help course correct any misallocation. More stories from Meraki and Samsara in the full episode: https://lnkd.in/ekhxcYGZ

The work culture speaks in our team's behaviour and action. #signagesolutions #signagetimes #transparencyfirst how do you measure a good work culture??

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