Interview With Joseph Fung pt 1

01/20/23 • 22 min

Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, the Career Success platform. An award-winning, five-time technology founder & CEO with multiple successful exits, Joseph is also an expert on HR technology and is a compelling presenter who speaks frequently on the topics of career success, future of work, high-performing cultures, and corporate social responsibility. As a purpose-driven leader, who is recognized for challenging the status-quo, Joseph is driven to help the world’s professionals lead more fulfilling careers.

Recap / Takeaways

How to validate business ideas
What are the long-term trends?
Talk to people with the problems you're trying to solve
Do I understand the problem right?
Here's how I would solve it. Do I understand the solution right?
If I could give it to you right now, what would you pay be more it?
The starting point for your culture is your personality
DEFINE - Definition of the values you want your culture to have
Make the names short and memorable
Potentially create icons or visuals that represent each
SHARE - How to you share culture
Share stories of people exhibiting your values
Build weekly habits around the values (like giving kudos related to your values)
SCALE - How do you scale culture?
Think about how you could hire for a good culture fit without even being in the interview
Develop interview questions around your company values

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Recap / Takeaways

How to validate business ideas
What are the long-term trends?
Talk to people with the problems you're trying to solve
Do I understand the problem right?
Here's how I would solve it. Do I understand the solution right?
If I could give it to you right now, what would you pay be more it?
The starting point for your culture is your personality
DEFINE - Definition of the values you want your culture to have
Make the names short and memorable
Potentially create icons or visuals that represent each
SHARE - How to you share culture
Share stories of people exhibiting your values
Build weekly habits around the values (like giving kudos related to your values)
SCALE - How do you scale culture?
Think about how you could hire for a good culture fit without even being in the interview
Develop interview questions around your company values

If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.

If you have a question or a topic you’d like us to cover don’t forget to record us a quick voice memo and send it to [email protected]

Thanks for listening to The Friday Habit.

Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.

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Erin Sparks is the owner and president of Site Strategics, a company specializing in high-end Web services for small and mid-sized businesses.

Erin is also the creative force behind the EDGE of the Web Radio podcast, which interviews recognized thought leaders in marketing and technology, is broadcast weekly to a worldwide audience

Recap / Takeaways

SEO is all about clearly representing your business to Google and other search engines
Google is trying to understand a thing or an entity, so you just want to help it understand
If a promise from an SEO firm sounds too good to be true, it probably is
Your goal should be to create helpful content for your potential customers
You actually do know about SEO, because you know your own expert subject matter

If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.

If you have a question or a topic you’d like us to cover don’t forget to record us a quick voice memo and send it to [email protected]

Thanks for listening to The Friday Habit.

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Interview With Joseph Fung pt 2

Recap / Takeaways

How to validate business ideas
What are the long-term trends?
Talk to people with the problems you're trying to solve
Do I understand the problem right?
Here's how I would solve it. Do I understand the solution right?
If I could give it to you right now, what would you pay be more it?
The starting point for your culture is your personality
DEFINE - Definition of the values you want your culture to have
Make the names short and memorable
Potentially create icons or visuals that represent each
SHARE - How to you share culture
Share stories of people exhibiting your values
Build weekly habits around the values (like giving kudos related to your values)
SCALE - How do you scale culture?
Think about how you could hire for a good culture fit without even being in the interview
Develop interview questions around your company values