Hosted by Andrei Averin · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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Startup Talks is a weekly podcast where two founders break down real startups — what they do, why they matter, and how they're built to win. Each episode covers startups from recent news, with sharp takes on business models, market dynamics, and go-to-market strategy. No fluff, just honest founder-to-founder analysis.
Andrei Averin hosts Startup Talks, a business show with 16 episodes published.
What channels actually work for a solo founder with a zero-euro budget? We rank every free marketing channel as a live tier list - S down to F - arguing each placement instead of reading a checklist. Founder-led content
Quincy had a real idea — tailored-fit women's clothing delivered online — and a real customer problem. So why did it fail? This episode is a full post-mortem: we go through the four failure layers (value proposition risk
We're tackling the question founders ask most: how much equity to give a co-founder. The honest answer is there's no fixed number — equal splits have climbed to about 46% of two-person teams, but equal is only right when
Jibo was a social robot built at MIT, backed by $73 million in venture capital, and designed by one of the world's leading robotics researchers. It still failed — and when the servers shut down, the robot said goodbye to
Two startups and one structural problem. We open with the numbers on Germany's shrinking self-employed population — and why Kleinunternehmer traps, a 30-year AI content compliance agreement, and investors demanding multi
Four fresh funding rounds under the microscope. Symbiotic Security raised $10M to automatically patch vulnerabilities in AI-generated code — their real moat is a security R&D team running an arms race with hackers, not t
This week we roasted three startups, all facing the same underlying problem: they don't own their traffic. Reactiv wants to close the gap between social media inspiration and mobile checkout — smart model, real partnersh
In this special episode, we work through five myths about where B2B founders should be posting — and each one comes with a real story of someone who got it wrong or right. We cover why LinkedIn's organic reach is worse t
Three freshly funded startups, three very different risk profiles. Anvil Robotics raised $5.5M to build AI-powered bimanual arms for industrial manufacturing — impressive demo, thin capital, and what looks more like a da
Most founders describe what their product does — and lose their audience in the first sentence. In this special episode, we break down five aspects of writing messaging that actually makes visitors stop scrolling: featur
This episode we roast three AI startups that recently closed rounds. Axiom Math wants to build a superhuman math reasoning system — great team, no product yet, and we explain why that's a problem. Nexus is an enterprise
This is a special episode on ICP — Ideal Customer Profile — the one thing every founder needs before anything else in lead-gen. We cover why "selling to everyone" is a fear response, not a strategy, and how to move from
In this episode, we roast two European startups and three investment funds — and end up noticing that most of what's being funded right now isn't startups at all. Upwest (Berlin) wants to be the investment operating syst
A special episode dedicated entirely to market research — how it worked before AI, why it was broken, and how LLMs have completely changed the game. We walk through the full six-step market analysis process side by side:
Europe's AI infrastructure race is heating up — N-Scale just raised €2 billion plus a €1.1B credit line, while Isembard pulled in £37.5M for AI-powered factory operating systems targeting aerospace and defense. We also d
This episode is about the gap between a compelling pitch and an actual product. We look at four funded startups: Tower (Berlin), building a last-mile AI platform for data engineers that still looks a lot like an agency;
This week's theme: why the best AI startups win through partnerships, not just vertical focus. We break down four companies — Escape (AI offensive security), Wayve (autonomous driving stack), Plato (sales automation for
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Startup Talks is hosted by Andrei Averin. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 16 episodes.
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