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Episode 36
Season 3
Build, Buy, or Invest with Elani Buchan of MDR Lab
Elani is a leader in building high-growth startups through streamlined operations. After earning her master's from King's College, London, and serving more than two years at the Peace Corp. Elani spent almost a decade helping emerging tech companies develop, optimize and scale their operations marketing, and people processes. Elani is now the venture program manager at MDR Lab.
Topics
- What is MDR Lab (1:55)
- Three different arms of MDR lab (2:33)
- Build vs buy - which gives you the biggest return on your investment (3:54)
- How does MDR decide which companies to have in the accelerator? (5:12)
- How the Launch program works (8:13)
- What is MDR Lab's strategy when it comes to investment (13:50)
- The MDR Lab Venture Studio (16:05)
- The long term strategy for MDR Lab (16:38)
- Emerging tech (19:56)
- How Elani keeps up with what's going on (23:38)
- Building a community around MDR Lab (25:30)
Full transcript of the episode can be found at FringeLegal.com
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