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55 investments, one entrepreneurial life! With Andy Goldstein | Serial Entrepreneur & Investor (#60)
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In the 60th episode of Finance | Data | People, I speak with Andy Goldstein, Serial Entrepreneur & Investor.
Andy Goldstein returned to Germany intending to close his company. Instead, he discovered around €850,000 in debt. He stayed, restructured the business, and spent the following years repaying everyone. It is one of several defining chapters in an entrepreneurial journey spanning more than 40 years – from building and selling software companies to supporting around 2,000 startups and developing a more systematic approach to venture investing.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- how Andy started his first software company in Europe at the age of 22 without speaking German – and why returning to close it became one of the defining chapters of his career
- how he restructured a business carrying around €850,000 in debt and ultimately repaid everyone
- how he built MediaGold GmbH, expanded across Europe and sold the company to the publicly listed French software company Avanquest
- how the LMU Entrepreneurship Center and German Entrepreneurship developed into today’s Start2 Group, supporting around 2,000 startups, including FlixBus, Trade Republic and AUTO1
- why more than 50 angel investments convinced Andy that instinct alone is not enough – and how he now evaluates transformative potential, market size, entry value and possible exit outcomes -what Andy is building with his son Remy at Venture University and how practical investment experience can help create more systematic investors
Furthermore: We discuss Andy’s work at Deloitte Digital Ventures, the challenges of collaboration between corporations and startups, his partnership with his son Remy at Venture University and why more than four decades of entrepreneurship have made him more systematic without making him less curious.
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