#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