Creating the Next Silicon Valley in Tampa Bay with Lakshmi Shenoy

On paper, Lakshmi’s resume will blow you away. With an undergrad from UChicago and an MBA from Havard Business School, she has worked with major companies as a business management consultant. She then went on to work with startups in Chicago at the largest startup incubator, 1871. Lakshmi moved to Tampa Bay in 2018 to start Embarc Collective where she is the CEO and is helping to create a space and program to help startups thrive in Tampa Bay.

In this episode, we discuss:

  1. How Lakshmi got into the startup world
  2. How to talk with your audience to solve their problems and build businesses for them
  3. How storytelling is used to successfully obtain funding
  4. What Lakshmi is doing to put Tampa Bay on the map
  5. How a physical space can create a hub to build an audience and community in Tampa Bay and beyond

The link to the show notes is here: https://www.gattozzicollective.com/podcast-episodes/lakshmi-shenoy

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Welcome to How to Market Your DTC Brand. We interview founders and marketers in the DTC space to learn about how they have grown their brands and current best practices in marketing. If you want to get tactical advice on how to grow your brand, this is the show to listen to. This show is created by Goodo Studios!