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Show notes:
02:14 -- Who is Andri Silberschmidt
03:14 -- How Andri started his career and got into entrepreneurship by starting a Poké Bowl restaurant
05:40 -- Opening a restaurant business without outside capital
06:53 -- How Andri started kaisin. & pitched his idea
10:10 -- Andri’s note taking app
10:34 -- Recommended resources & books for starting a business
11:44 -- Expansion plans of kaisin.
13:26 -- How kaisin. launched and promoted their store with little resources
16:04 -- How Andri balances his time and energy between all the different commitments. Why sleep is so important.
20:12 -- Andri’s involvement with “TeamStartup” to foster entrepreneurship in Switzerland
23:23 -- Challenges of entrepreneurship in Switzerland
28:02 -- Andri’s learnings from his startup experience
31:54 -- Book recommendations
35:11 -- Andri’s best investment
37:29 -- Andri’s “hobby”
39:03 -- Andri’s personal advisory board
41:37 -- Andri’s message to the world - "Respect, Create, Enjoy"
44:24 -- What does courage mean to Andri?

Resources mentioned:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
• Andri’s high productivity habits: 1. Getting enough sleep (7.5h), 2. No alcohol during the week, 3. Working out regularly
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Walker PhD, Matthew
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• TeamStartup
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
• The Constitution of Liberty - F. A. Hayek
• Kaisin.
• FDP
• Grünliberale

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Special Guest: Andri Silberschmidt.

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Show notes:
01:52 -- How and why Daniel got into entrepreneurship
07:50 -- Daniel’s time at MIT and how he got there
09:22 -- Recommendations and reasons for studying abroad
11:02 -- Diamond Heels - Daniel’s first startup
15:30 -- Teralytics and Daniel’s role
17:45 -- What is the right type of funding for your startup & how Venture Capital (VC) is broken
22:30 -- Why Daniel left Teralytics & next steps
24:20 -- Using insights to help out the next generation of startups
26:40 -- How Oakura started - Using blockchain technology to disrupt the traditional VC model
29:19 -- How to decide if you should continue or stop your current project - “Think in different scenarios”
30:20 -- Leveraging Essentialist thinking and the concept of “sunk costs” to help making important life decisions
33:20 -- Tips on hiring and assembling the best team
36:34 - Should you start a company with your friends or not?
40:00 -- What does Oakura mean
41:50 -- What’s the purpose of Oakura and how it could revolutionize the venture industry
49:20 -- How Oakura is tokenizing startup equity
51:18 -- Daniel’s favorite books
53:30 -- Unique hobbies and how to distract your mind from the daily entrepreneurial work
55:48 -- Thought experiments
58:25 -- Advice to your younger self / university students
1:00:00 -- Closing thoughts

Resources mentioned:

• ETH Juniors
• “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” - Walt Disney
• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• The 48 laws of power - Robert Greene * Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

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Special Guest: Daniel Naeff.

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