Rocco Haro is the Founder of Kickback Space, a 3D video communications company. In this episode, we talk about Rocco going from a software developer to a startup founder including the mistakes he made along the way and the first steps he made after coming up with the initial concept.

Our discussion focuses heavily on the early days of a tech startup, where things are very abstract. The key, from my point of view, is to really refine your idea, talk to potential customers, and get them to buy into your vision early. Think in terms of hours or days, not months or years.

GUEST

• Rocco Haro LinkedIn
• Kickback Space Website

PODCAST

• Safa Mahzari
• Patreon
• Alluxo Website

RESOURCES

• "Super Founders" by Ali Tamaseb

TERMS

• EE = electrical engineering
• IDE = integrated development environment
• Flask = Python micro web framework
• LSTM = long short term memory
• Overfit = when a statistical model is too many parameters tied to a set of data points, making it hard to be useful on any another set of data
• Underfit = when a statistical model has too few parameters and cannot adequately capture the structure of the data
• Ambivert = someone with a balance of introverted and extroverted features
• Tech debt = the cost of rework needed to be done in the future due to shortcuts today
• GPU = graphics processing unit

TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - Episode intro
• 0:52 - Rocco's background
• 4:46 - Being a software developer
• 14:08 - Being a solo founder vs. co-founder
• 23:11 - What is Kickback Space?
• 37:16 - Recruiting a team and focusing efforts
• 56:40 - Wrap up and final thoughts