Summary

Don Finley gets to use his skills every day to help startups take new and emerging technologies and turn them into viable, sellable products.  He is also a co-founder and advisor to many startups. 

He is the founder of FINdustries, a leading product development agency with a focus on the tech and financial sectors.  And his expertise in fusing science, art, and technology has helped propel his agency to the forefront of the industry. 

Bolstered by a global network of 60+ partners and 16,000 developers, FINdustries has helped clients generate over $1 billion in annual revenue. 

 

We talk about:

 

• Strategic product development that focuses on bridging the gap between technical and business acumen in the market
• The limitations in translating scientific research into marketable products
• The importance of understanding how products fit into people’s lives
• Use cases for AI in startups, its accuracy and limitations and whether it will result in the stagnation of human learning
• Examples of AI as a collaborative tool
• The challenges of managing long product development cycles
• Navigating the challenges of project-based businesses
• Entrepreneurship as self-development and redefining work-life balance
• Advice for startups

There are a lot of invaluable insights into the evolving challenges and opportunities in entrepreneurship in this episode, especially for those looking to scale their project-based businesses.  I invite you to listen in.

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Trudy Rankin is the host of the Online Business Launchpad Podcast, Director of West Island Digital and the founder of the Online Business Lift-Off program.

 

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The transcript for this episode can be found here.

 

Resources 

LinkedIn Profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfinley/ 

Company Website:  FINdustries

Email:  [email protected]

Today's Guests

 

Don Finley

Don Finley gets to use his skills every day to help startups take new and emerging technology and turn them into viable, sellable products.  He is also a co-founder and advisor to many startups. 

 He is the founder of FINdustries, a leading product development agency with a focus on the tech and financial sectors.  And his expertise in fusing science, art, and technology has helped propel his agency to the forefront of the industry. 

 Bolstered by a global network of 60+ partners and 16,000 developers, FINdustries has helped clients generate over $1 billion in annual revenue.