#27 Vivien Dollinger, CEO of ObjectBox | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann

In this episode we welcome a female founder in the tech space,
Vivien Dollinger who co-founded ObjectBox, a database management
provider for developers. Vivien's entrepreneurial journey started
as a side project that became a high-growh potential company and
was along the very few of #Techstars cohorts. Some of the
questions we cover: When is the right moment to turn side project
to launch? How to get traction in the tech community at start?
Why is a tech co-founder important despite the fast growing world
of no/low code tools for early product development? If you are
about to turn your idea and make it real, this episode is
definitely worth to listen!


linkedin.com/in/janbrinckmann
linkedin.com/in/vivien-dollinger
https://objectbox.io


00:00 Intro


00:55 Does research qualify one for entrepreneurship?


02:53 Vivien's journey to the startup space


07:50 Financing and building a successful team


08:55 Vivien's pitch for ObjectBox


10:05 The need for having great technical people in-house


13:05 Obtaining traction and the long way to getting first
sustainable revenues while keeping the motivation high


17:45 Finding and selecting a first investor through Techstars


19:55 What it takes to grow adoption and foster growth with an
open source product


25:55 How to develop a great developer community


28:45 Vivien's advice to her younger self - the right balace
between focusing on the venture and other parts of life


31:19 Quick fire round: Favourite management concept - underdog
software tool - dream job if not heading a tech company


35:01 Outro