The road less taken, Robert Frost, The Never Ending startup, Dr Jon Drane

Welcome to The Never Ending Startup Podcast JDNEST Ep 9– Startup Journey and Stories. A special Interview by Dr Jon with Tania Papasotiriou who is co-founder of BEEMO, the first peer-to-peer decentralised protocol (app) in Australia, that redefines car sharing and empowers vehicle owners to unlock the potential of their unused vehicles. Dr Jon focuses on key themes of the story so far,  journey, inspiration and the future. Clean Tech Solutions. Built to last.

This JDNEST Episode’s Central Question:

Will your startup survive planetary change and societal forces?

Our planet is warming and never has innovation been a more vital future.

Our global nations and their societies show a polarisation between old cultures and modern imperatives.

Wars, famine, pestilence, disease and discrimination are ever present and seem timeless.

A startup is a tiny boat in the ocean of all of this.

Perhaps we should navigate our startup journey  with this in mind?

Dr Jonathan Drane , July 2024

The Never Ending Startup Podcast: Lessons for Modern Startup Journey & Stories of Longevity

The podcast  shares Dr Jon’s insightful entrepreneurial journey, history and inspirations.

It includes interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from The University of Newcastle’s I2N Innovation Hub about their journey and inspirations.

It also covers the state of Australia’s innovation ecology and lessons for new startups.

The podcast and book build a social and entrepreneurial framework for startup journey and  longevity.

In this episode we concentrate on the theme of startup journey and story, the inspirations and the future.

This episode covers: An interview with Tania Papasotiriou, Co-founder of BEEMO Car Share

We are proud to announce our special interview with Tania Papasotiriou who is co-founder of BEEMO, the first peer-to-peer decentralised protocol (app) that redefines car sharing and empowers vehicle owners to unlock the potential of their unused vehicles.

Car owners share their vehicles when not in use, and community members who need transportation can easily find and use cars nearby.

Tania has created BEEMO as an accelerator startup as part of the University of Newcastle’s Integrated  Innovation Network or I2N.

Tania Papasotiriou

https://www.linkedin.com/in/papasotiriou/

I2N is an innovation hub which helps startups to develop their exciting new  ideas into valuable commercial and social offerings.

Tania’s favourite song for the entrepreneurial journey:

What is  The Never Ending Startup Podcast About?

The Never Ending Startup is the story of award winning researcher, writer, innovator, historian  and entrepreneur Dr Jonathan Drane and his journey through the world of  high rise construction, property development and then into  start up ventures, the genesis of which he discovered only recently, had its inception over half a century earlier.

Dr Jon’s Startup Journey and who inspired him

His first start up called Optimum Search was established in 1993 and still stands today with a deep quarter century history of entrepreneurial achievement and ‘catalyst research’ with some failure along the way, the latter being a central part of the DNA of its success.

The story starts in the midst of his post war 1950s upbringing as a hot housed adolescent who was introduced by his father to a strange mixture of  ‘chemistry sets’ , explorer Jacques Cousteau, physicist Professor Julius Sumner Miller and Australia’s Professor Harry Messel with the latter’s famous blue science book being in nearly every high school class room.

How History of Innovation guided Dr Jon’s startup journey and stories

In this way the story also  provides a lived ‘side history’ of Australia’s post war innovation path, its ‘lucky country’ label, and  its  subsequent ‘brain drain’ then independence and research initiatives from CSIRO to a modern innovation ecosystem.

Taking Dr Jon’s Lessons to the Modern Startup: Interviews with startups from UON I2N

Spurred by his attendance at innovation hubs and start up groups in the COVID era in  2022 and at the age of 67  Jonathan saw quite clearly what history can only reveal; that for the true start up, innovation is never ending and should not be seen as a single life defining achievement (whether good or bad) or a grab for wealth and celebrity.

The podcast includes interviews with modern startups including an exciting line up of interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from the University of Newcastle’s Innovation Hub called I2N.

The accelerator startups cover important areas of our social, economic and environmental futures and they are used as themes for the interview related episodes.

Below are linked in posts of support for the podcast by startups he interviewed from  I2N University of Newcastle Innovation Hub:

Where is The Never Ending Startup Being Released on Social Media

Both the book and the podcast of The Never Ending Startup will be released on Linked In and our FB Business Page;

Here is our FB Business Page:

. Startup journey & storiesThe Never Ending Startup Podcast by Dr Jon Drane.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558719231082

Here is our Linked In Profile:

Linked in profile Jon Drane. The Never Ending Startup Podcast and book. Startup journey and stories.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-drane-6761a717/

Startup Journey and Importance

The never ending start up is a journey through life, innovation and one’s innate desire to create, that should never be quelled, ridiculed or sidelined due to the apparent ‘apparition’ of failure.

Taking the reader through his journey and the central inspirations that guided his life, Jonathan builds a social and entrepreneurial framework for what he calls ‘the circular start up’, the type that never ends and keeps giving no matter what obstacles occur.

The never ending startup…

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The Never Ending Startup: Startup Journey and Stories of Longevity. The podcast shares Dr Jon’s insightful entrepreneurial journey, history and inspirations. It includes interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from The University of Newcastle’s I2N Innovation Hub about their journey and inspirations. It also covers the state of Australia’s innovation ecology and lessons for new startups. The podcast and book build a social and entrepreneurial framework for startup journey and longevity.

 

By Dr Jon Drane

Dr Jonathan Drane is a recognised writer, researcher, advisor and teacher in city and property development processes. He is an expert witness in complex construction and property development issues. Jonathan is also the editor of The City Whisperer which explores our growing cities and the results and malaise of growth. http://www.jondrane.net/

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