Mira Wilczek's guest appearances

Mira Wilczek

The VentureFizz Podcast

FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience

Aubrie Pagano

David Chang

Sara Seager

John Burns

Jennifer Smith

Wayne Chang

Dennis Mortensen

Ryan Denehy

Paul English

Jeff Coyle

Bob Davis

Ryan Smith

Rodney Mullen

Melody Koh

Andres Rodriguez

OwlTail

Mira Wilczek is President and CEO of Cogo Labs and Senior Partner at Link Ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors at EverQuote, CareDash, and Hopjump, and the Advisory Board of Vestigo Ventures, as well as being co-director at the Brahe Educational Foundation.Among these many endeavors, she has learned that  being associated with failures is almost as important as being associated with successes because failures hold crucial information about how you will move forward in your life. In this episode she tells us all about how and why one of her startups failed.This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the VISTA association.Watch this and more episodes on Youtube, follow FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience on social media (Facebook - Instagram - LinkedIn), and visit our website: www.fail-sharing.org/Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/mira-wilczek/Music Theme: "Driven To Success" by Scott HolmesFree Music Archive - CC BY NC

Mira Wilczek is President and CEO of Cogo Labs and Senior Partner at Link Ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors at EverQuote, CareDash, and Hopjump, and the Advisory Board of Vestigo Ventures, as well as being co-director at the Brahe Educational Foundation. Among these many endeavors, she has learned that  being associated with failures is almost as important as being associated with successes because failures hold crucial information about how you will move forward in your life. In this episode she tells us all about how and why one of her startups failed. This Episode was recorded at a <a href="https://fail-sharing.org/events/mit-11-18/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FAIL! event </a>organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mitvista/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> VISTA</a> association. Watch this and more episodes on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/FAILSharing/featured" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Youtube</a>, follow FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience on social media (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/FAILsharing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/failsharing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fail-inspiringresilience/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>), and visit our website: <a href="https://www.fail-sharing.org/%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.fail-sharing.org/</a> Full transcript: <a href="https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/mira-wilczek/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/mira-wilczek/</a> Music Theme: "<a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Corporate__Motivational_Music_2/Driven_To_Success_1973" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Driven To Success</a>" by <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Holmes</a><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Free Music Archive </a>- <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY NC</a>

Mira Wilczek | Why startups fail

Welcome to Episode 94 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs &amp; careers in the tech industry.For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Mira Wilczek, President and CEO of Cogo Labs. Mira is also a Senior Partner at Link Ventures which is the firm behind Cogo Labs.Did you know that one of the top incubators in the tech industry is located in Cambridge? It is called Cogo Labs and their track record of success is extraordinary. They have been launching companies for the past 12 years with an 80% success rate, which is unprecedented.Their data-driven approach and capital efficient model, provides the foundation and insights to identify problems to launch successful consumer businesses. A recent success story is EverQuote, which went public last year.Mira is an entrepreneur with a passion for building companies and you should definitely keep an eye on Cogo Labs, as Mira and the team there have some very ambitious goals ahead. By the end of next year, they want to be supporting 30 concurrent companies and yes... they are on track to accomplish this goal.In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of topics, like:-The #1 reason why startups fail.-Mira’s background including a fun story from her days at MIT, plus her experience as an ‘ethical hacker’ at IBM and the company she founded, Red Panda Security.-The secret sauce of Cogo Labs - how they identify opportunities for building companies and why their model has been so successful.-The details in terms of the operations and platform at Cogo Labs, plus some company examples.-The criteria they use to determine when a company is ready to leave the nest.-What the job of a board member is.-Plus, a lot more.Did you know that we have a YouTube channel? We launched one earlier this year and there is a rapidly growing library of content to check out. You’ll find lots of great video snippets from our podcast, plus full interviews from our CEO Briefing and Inside: series. Go to youtube.com/venturefizz to subscribe.Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!

Welcome to Episode 94 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast from the leading authority for jobs &amp; careers in the tech industry. For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Mira Wilczek, President and CEO of Cogo Labs. Mira is also a Senior Partner at Link Ventures which is the firm behind Cogo Labs. Did you know that one of the top incubators in the tech industry is located in Cambridge? It is called Cogo Labs and their track record of success is extraordinary. They have been launching companies for the past 12 years with an 80% success rate, which is unprecedented. Their data-driven approach and capital efficient model, provides the foundation and insights to identify problems to launch successful consumer businesses. A recent success story is EverQuote, which went public last year. Mira is an entrepreneur with a passion for building companies and you should definitely keep an eye on Cogo Labs, as Mira and the team there have some very ambitious goals ahead. By the end of next year, they want to be supporting 30 concurrent companies and yes... they are on track to accomplish this goal. In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of topics, like: -The #1 reason why startups fail. -Mira’s background including a fun story from her days at MIT, plus her experience as an ‘ethical hacker’ at IBM and the company she founded, Red Panda Security. -The secret sauce of Cogo Labs - how they identify opportunities for building companies and why their model has been so successful. -The details in terms of the operations and platform at Cogo Labs, plus some company examples. -The criteria they use to determine when a company is ready to leave the nest. -What the job of a board member is. -Plus, a lot more. Did you know that we have a YouTube channel? We launched one earlier this year and there is a rapidly growing library of content to check out. You’ll find lots of great video snippets from our podcast, plus full interviews from our CEO Briefing and Inside: series. Go to <a href="http://youtube.com/venturefizz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">youtube.com/venturefizz</a> to subscribe. Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!

Episode 94: Mira Wilczek - President and CEO of Cogo Labs