Episode 13

Turning Ideas Into Startups, the Enemy Of Innovation, and Why Bear Markets are Prime For Disruption with Albert Liang (Ep. 13)

Albert Liang began his startup consultancy in Shanghai at the tail end of web2 when true innovation was difficult and competitors were on every corner, evolving to become the longest running startup pre-accelerator across the board. However, despite this success, feeling that strict policies governing tech in China had made innovation a challenge, Albert went looking for a new environment conducive to the work he does best. For many innovators in his situation, web3 would be a natural choice, but Albert and his team first had to overcome strong resistance to joining the crypto space. With a little encouragement from friends already in the space, he recalibrated his beginner's mind to run the first Web3 Startup Lab cohort in 2022 with amazing success.

I sat down with Albert to talk about his work helping people build the best versions of themselves, his insights around mindset and creating new thought patterns, the huge areas of growth he sees for the web3 space in these early days, and why bear markets are actually prime for innovation and disruption in business.

Meet Our Guest

Founder, Investor, and Coach.

Albert dedicates his time to enabling the transformation of aspiring entrepreneurs to become effective startup founders to build meaningful and sustainable startups.

He is the Co-Founder of iGenesiis Group and Web3 Startup Lab, and which have successfully empowered 22 cohorts of entrepreneurs, making him one of the global leaders for pre-accelerators.

Entrepreneurs experience transformation quickly due to an immersive program of hands-on startup tasks designed to build your startup while forming new habits and mindset needed to succeed!

He spends his free time exploring NFT, Defi, and Metaverse projects. Albert is originally from San Francisco / Silicon Valley.

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What We Unraveled

* Albert’s background in helping people turning their ideas into startups, and how it evolved into his his founding of Web3 Startup Lab, the Stacks pre-accelerator

* Albert’s knack for seeing the talent in people and helping them become the best version of themselves

* What made Albert come around to crypto after being very resistant for a long time

* The immense value in having someone you can trust who already knows about crypto to ask questions about

* The three factors that define success for Albert

* Why Albert believes the key to solving problems is changing habits and thought patterns

* The pitfalls of thinking too much, and how focusing on one user can be beneficial

* Finding the balance between intuition and being pragmatic when starting a new venture

* Why Albert and his team were afraid to start working with a pre-accelerator cohort focused on web3 and crypto, but now are geared to encourage people to enter the space

* The advantages of joining the web3 and crypto space now in the very early days

* The key areas of growth Albert sees in crypto including non-custodial solutions and NFTs

* What Albert believes is the enemy of innovation

* The insights Albert garnered from joining the space just before the bear market hit, and why he says that historically bear markets and recessions are the best times to start new businesses

* Why Stacks enables products to be more efficiently built on Bitcoin

* The cut off dates to apply for the next Web3 Startup Lab pre-accelorator

* Why growth comes with the responsibility of recalibrating yourself consistently

Unravel Further

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