Abington Launchbox Podcast Channel: Recent Episodes
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The Abington Launchbox Podcast Channel exists to inspire, equip, and prepare current and future entrepreneurs with resources to guide their journey.
The channel will feature several podcasts that cover a wide range of topics, presentation styles, and spoken languages.
Our conversations, however, will always be centered around passion and practical strategies necessary to build and sustain a business.
This podcast features Tyler Cole. Tyler is a Penn State Abington student, entrepreneur, musician, and band manager. Tyler shares his insights on turning his passion for music into an entrepreneurial activity. The Podcast was recorded in the Amplification Studio at the Penn State Abington LaunchBox and is presented as part of Penn State University’s Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023.This project was financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community & Economic Development.
This podcast features Alex Filkov, a Penn State Abington student, entrepreneur, and aspiring Standup Comic. Alex shares his insights on starting a career as a standup comic and how his experience as an entrepreneur is helping him to learn valuable life and career skills.The Podcast was recorded in the Amplification Studio at the Penn State Abington LaunchBox and is presented as part of Penn State University’s Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023.This project was financed in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community & Economic Development.
In this episode, we feature a startup company with Penn State Abington ties called Antler. Antler started out as a small podcast that reviewed indie games on steam. Over the years their videos and music gained more attention on popular platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. As live streamers they partnered up with multiple charity organizations and live stream teams to raise a combined total of 65 thousand dollars in charity for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Toys for Tots, Covid Relief, and much more.
The team at Antler gathered many skills from their previous experiences that led them to start up a video game development company. Antler currently has one game, Somni, released with over ten more planned for the future.
Guests: Dan Stepanski, PSU Abington (Penn State Abington - 2022), Owner, Art Director, Assistant Programmer and Level Designer for Antler, Shawn Stepanski, PSU Abington (Penn State Abington - 2012), Owner, Marketing Director, Social Media Manager, and Asset Acquisition for Antler, and Roberto de Mendonca, Owner, Music Director, Programmer, and Sound Artist for Antler.
You can learn more about Antler and Somni at: https://antlercrew.weebly.com/
This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 was recorded live on Entre, a social media platform for entrepreneurs.
Topic #1- Standing Out in Class
Topic #2- Books for Entrepreneurs
Topic #3- Campus Event Ideation
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 was recorded live on Entre, a social media platform for entrepreneurs and features special guest Robert Hanna
Topic #1- Cold Outreach
Topic #2- NFTs in Gaming
Topic #3- Does GPA Matter?
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger Featured Guest: Robert Hanna (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YL...)
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 was recorded live on Entre, a social media platform for entrepreneurs.
Topic #1- Delegating Your Time
Topic #2- The Metaverse
Topic #3- Crypto
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 was recorded live on Entre, a social media platform for entrepreneurs.
Topic #1- Driving Engagement in New Organizations
Topic #2- Getting Involved on Campus
Topic #3- Extracurricular Activities to Accelerate Your Career
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode of Entrepreneurship 101 was recorded live on Entre, a social media platform for entrepreneurs.
Topic #1- Customer Questions
Topic #2- Funding a Venture
Topic #3- the Need for Co-founders
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This is a special episode of Entrepreneurship 101 for Penn State University's Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021
Topic #1- Managing Fear of Public Speaking
Topic #2- Making Presentation Stand Out
Topic #3- Networking with Peers
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
Topic #1- Personality Types
Topic #2- Degrees for Entrepreneurs
Topic #3- Dealing with Procrastination
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode features Ryan Solomon from Entre.
Topic #1- Penn State Entrepreneurial Resources
Topic #2- Startup vs Established
Topic #3- Side Hustles
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/ On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode features Ryan Solomon from Entre.
Topic #1- Attracting talent
Topic #2- Evolving social platforms
Topic #3- the Role of No-code
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Guest Ryan Solomon
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
Topic #1- What are the habits of effective entrepreneurs?
Topic #2- Should Everyone fill out The Business Model Canvas before starting a new venture?
Topic #3- Do you need mentors in your Entrepreneurial journey?
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
Topic #1- Thoughts on Remote work?
Topic #2- What does it take to be an effective manager?
Topic #3- Working under pressure.
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger.
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
Topic #1-When to seize an opportunity
Topic #2-How to validate your idea
Topic #3-Creator economy
Produced by Alex Angermeier
Cohosted by Alex Angermeier and Peter Hornberger
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox at https://abington.launchbox.psu.edu/
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the podcast series for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021.
Join Anaveli Encarnacion as she shares how, due to the pandemic, she ventured into social networking to help continue pursuing her passion of creating artisan jewelry.
This event is presented by Penn State Hazleton and Hazleton LaunchBox in partnership with Emprender Latino Pa., Penn State Berks and Penn State Abington.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021 and presented in Spanish.
Montes de Oca created Nath Soap Company in 2019 as a way to bring natural, homemade products to the market in small quantities. She developed the passion for natural body care products while dedicating herself to homeschooling her children. She also has extensive experience in industrial engineering and supply chain.
This event sponsored by Penn State Hazleton and Hazleton LaunchBox and is presented in partnership with the Abington and Berks LaunchBoxes.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021.
Marketing professional Janna Morales brings more than 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship aimed at getting the greatest results from people by motivating and accompanying the undertakings in each of their phases. Morales also has extensive experience in sales, market research and national and international business consulting.
This event is sponsored by Penn State Hazleton and Hazleton LaunchBox and presented in partnership with the Abington LaunchBox and Berks LaunchBox.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021 and presented in Spanish.
At a time when social networks monopolize much of our attention, effective communication becomes a fundamental tool to be able to sell or present our products and services. Rayvelis will share effective communication and branding techniques for ourselves and our businesses.
This event sponsored by Penn State Hazleton and Hazleton LaunchBox and is presented in partnership with the Abington and Berks LaunchBoxes.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021.
Stress comes from many sources. From concerns for the future, to time management, to managing limited resources, the lifestyles of students and entrepreneurs are filled with many of them. During this conversation with Stefani Abreu, Penn State Abington Instructor of Kinesiology, Peter Hornberger, Director of the Abington LaunchBox, and Penn State Abington students, we will discuss ways to build awareness of our stress and the causes. We will provide actionable guidance to assist any student or entrepreneur to develop a strategy to manage stress and increase performance.
This event is sponsored by Abington LaunchBox powered by Penn State.
Part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021 and presented in Spanish.
Ozuna will share the story of her social entrepreneur project Dominican Access. The project is the result of the strategic alliance of leading companies specialized in different fields in the field of universal accessibility and design. With nearly 30 years’ experience, Dominican Access offers the search and implementation of comprehensive solutions that generate competitive advantages in accordance with the reality and new trends in the sector.
This event is sponsored by hosted Penn State Hazleton and Hazleton LaunchBox hosted in partnership with Abington LaunchBox and Berks LaunchBox.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento.
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Berks y Abington.
Join network professional Luis Romano and discover why it is important for businesses to be active on social media in order to be relevant.
Luis will also explain International Organization for Standardization (ISO), standards that are crucial to manufacturing, quality, information security management systems, and other business aspects. Luis has more than 15 years experience supporting and implementing information system solutions with serves, desktops and other hardware.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington y Berks. Este programa se ofrecerá en Español.
This recording was part of Penn State University's Startup Week 2021 and presented in Spanish.
Gain insight on building a business from the ground up with speaker Juan Martinez. Owner of Don Juan Mex Grill, a multi-million dollar business with locations throughout northeastern Pennsylvania, Martinez brings a strong background in project management, talent acquisition, marketing, growth and much more.
This event was recorded live during Penn State's Startup Week on 4/1/2020.
As a business owner, your time is often consumed with building a better products and services. Unfortunately, having the technically superior product or service does not always translate into business success. This workshop uses a Design Thinking framework to look at 3 stories from big business success and translate them into meaningful and actionable direction for small business leaders. Design thinking is a creative problem-solving process that focuses on a user-centered approach to create a solution.
Learn more about the Abington LaunchBox
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington. Este programa se ofrecerá en Español.
How do you create a message in a way that sticks in the mind of your customer? Mario Moreno and his family, operators of Pura Cultura, will explain how. The family's business promotes the Cultura of Mesoamerica through indigenous inspired fashion. Each of the family are either immigrants or the first generation born in the U.S.
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the weekly podcast (Starting in January 2021) for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode features E101 producer and guest Aidan Pulli.
Topics in this episode:
Topic #1-Traits of entrepreneurs
Topic #2-Soft skills vs hard skills for entrepreneurs
Topic #3-Finance and entrepreneurs
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week. The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the weekly podcast (Starting in January 2021) for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode features E101 producer and guest Aidan Pulli.
Topics in this episode:
Topic #1-Personal Growth
Topic #2-Has Covid-19 changed your perception of the feasibility of becoming a successful entrepreneur?
Topic #3-What is the value of college to entrepreneurs?
Networking is a critical function during all stages of personal and professional career development. Circumstances that arose in 2020 certainly created challenges to networking but they may also create opportunities. During this discussion with Michael Wojcik, CEO and Founder of Wojcik Communications, we will discuss how networking in 2020 has changed and how it remains the same. Michael will offer tips and perspectives for students and entrepreneurs to develop your network now and in the future.
This podcast is also available in video format on the Abington LaunchBox YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0-Jd0cmN8
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento.
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington.
Alejandro Acosta Garcia, an experienced consultant in strategic planning, organizational structure and more, will discuss how entrepreneurs can serve as leaders of projects. Alejandro will also share insight on the importance of seeing each start up as the sum of several small projects. In addition to his background in consulting, Alejandro also brings extensive experience as a teacher in project formulation, evaluation, management and business planning for entrepreneurs.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington.
La inventora reconocida a nivel nacional Frances Prado regresa para liderar otro taller en español, este enfocado en llevar negocios en línea.
Prado desglosará el proceso de llevar una empresa en línea explorando cinco factores: preparación, plataforma, contenido, presentación y comercio electrónico.
This workshop was recorded live on September 11, 2020 and is presented in Spanish.
This event was recorded live during Penn State's Startup Week on 3/31/2020.
When managing 21st century businesses, planning for the future is no longer good enough. Companies need to focus on creating the future. During this roundtable discussion with entrepreneurial leaders, we will explore how to demonstrate leadership amid high levels of uncertainty.
About the Speakers:
Michael Wojcik, '02 Wojcik Communications Inc. CEO / Founder Website wojcikcommunicationsinc.com/
Carlos Ojeda, Jr. CoolSpeak CEO / Founder Website https://coolspeak.net/
Carlos Ojeda Jr. has been called one of the most dynamic speakers in America today. A former university administrator, professor and small business development center director, he now focuses his energy on empowering students to succeed by teaching them that their voice is their power.
Combining his entrepreneurial spirit with his passion for changing the lives of youth across the country, he started CoolSpeak: The Youth Engagement Company. CoolSpeak provides youth motivational speakers, programs, and events designed to engage, educate and empower youth. CoolSpeak represents over 12 of the top youth speakers in the country, and has certified and licensed over 50 facilitators and practitioners nationwide. Over a million lives have been inspired to date.
This event is also available as a video on the Abington LaunchBox YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fM0yd3yQTI
Episode 001 of the Abington LaunchBox Launch Trajectories Video Podcast Series features Penn State Abington student and entrepreneur Nino Efendic. Nino is the founder and owner of Aerial Prospex which provides progress reports, inspections, and photogrammetry to the commercial real estate, construction, and engineering industries.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington.
Do you have an idea or an invention and don’t know how to turn it into a product? Come with us and Frances Prado, one of the 0.05% Female Hispanic inventors, who will tell us about her experience in creating and patenting her product “Hanging Secrets.” She will provide us with some of the knowledge she acquired through the creation and development of her product. To patent an invention you need to understand some processes and take the right steps.
In this workshop, Frances explains how to navigate those processes. She will tell us about her experience, generating ideas, creating a prototype, protect your idea, and patenting it. Come and enjoy this workshop and learn how to devise and patent a product from the mouth of an expert.
This webinar was recorded live on 7/31/2020. Note: This webinar is presented in Spanish.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington.
Asegúrese de que su negocio crece no sólo en números sino en influencia. Aprenda a amplificar lo que puede lograr de Hanglet Tejeda, propietario de una firma de consultoría especializada en desarrollo y liderazgo.
Este programa se ofrecerá en Español.
Parte de Serie de Conferencistas de Emprendimiento
Presentado por los LaunchBoxes de Hazleton y Abington.
Do you have a brand or product and want to expand it worldwide? Do you have a brand, product or ideas and want to establish partnership that allow you to grow join us with Miguel caballero to have a conservation about it. Join host Fermin Diaz from the Hazleton LaunchBox as he interviews this month's guest, Miguel Caballero.
About Miguel: Miguel Caballero is a serial entrepreneur with about 18 years experience building tech companies in the infrastructure, edtech and blockchain ecosystems. He co-founded Neomedia Wireless, an engineering firm specialized in wireless infrastructure, which provided consultancy services to the city councils of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza and IT companies like Indra and Orange. Since 2013, he is the founder and CEO of Tutellus.com, an edtech P2P platform in Spanish-speaking countries. More recently, he co-launched Tutellus.io, an innovative, decentralized blockchain-powered edtech platform that tokenizes the education system based on collaborative and incentive-based models.
Most businesses choose to find customers via product development and promotion of those products. More and more however, business is starting to integrate the two. What if, instead promoting a new product, the product was the promotion? This shift in perspective opens up new channels for creating fanatics of our business, rather than just customers.
In this podcast we chat with two recent competitors from the LEGO Masters show that aired on Fox in the spring of 2020, Flynn DeMarco and Richard Board.
For a video version of this podcast, please visit the Abington LaunchBox YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2G3W2F4jeoVjaZMGztAL6w
If you want to engage further with Richard and Flynn, you can find them at:
Follow them on Instagram to check out their work: http://instagram.com/trickybricks
Check their website for updates on our weekly challenges: https://trickybricks.com
Follow them on YouTube for their livestreams: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfXD...
Event partners: Abington LaunchBox, Hazleton LaunchBox, and the Widener University Small Business Development Center
On Entrepreneurship 101 (E101) we cover a few topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, and leadership with students and community members each week.
The catch is, once a topic is introduced a guest only has 101 seconds for their response. Tune in to the weekly podcast (Starting in January 2021) for quick takes on topics related to business and entrepreneurship.
This episode features E101 producer and guest Aidan Pulli.
Topics in this episode:
1. Culture During COVID
2. Leading in a Virtual World
3. Taking Action