The Llearner.co Show: Recent Episodes
Kevin Horek, Gregg Oldring, Jon Larson
Listen in as groundbreaking leaders discuss what they have learned. Discover the books, podcasts, presentations, courses, research, articles and lessons that shaped their journey. Hosted by: Kevin Horek, Gregg Oldring, & Jon Larson.
Jeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. in Biophysics from the University of California at San Diego and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in mathematics and science education, writing for and speaking to audiences ranging from elementary school children to college faculty. His extensive teaching experience, which spans all levels from preschool through graduate school, includes having founded and run a private science summer school for elementary and middle school children and teaching more than fifty college classes in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and education. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and writing, including the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award.
Dr. Bennett is the lead author of best-selling college textbooks in four distinct subject areas: astronomy, mathematics, statistics, and astrobiology (life in the universe); together, these books have sold more than 1.5 million copies. He has written six critically acclaimed books for general public: On the Cosmic Horizon (Addison Wesley, 2001); Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press, 2008/2011), which was selected by Miami University as their Convocation book for all incoming students to read in 2008/9; Math for Life (Big Kid Science, 2014), which won the Colorado Book Award for general nonfiction; What is Relativity? (Columbia University Press, 2014); On Teaching Science (Big Kid Science, 2014); and A Global Warming Primer (Big Kid Science, 2016).
For children, Dr. Bennett is the creator and author of the award-winning series “Science Adventures with Max the Dog,” which includes Max Goes to the Space Station, Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, and Max Goes to Jupiter; and of the Earth science focused book The Wizard Who Saved the World. These five children’s titles were selected by the Story Time From Space program as the first set of books to be launched to the International Space Station; launched in January 2014, they have been read by astronauts for children around the world. His latest book for children, I, Humanity, was selected for the second Story Time From Space launch, and joined his other books on the International Space Station in December 2015. Because his textbook The Cosmic Perspective was also taken into space (during the 2009 Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope), Dr. Bennett has now had a total of seven books launched into space.
http://www.jeffreybennett.com
http://www.globalwarmingprimer.com
http://www.bigkidscience.com
Since 2016, CALA has been providing fashion brands and retailers with a single all-in-one platform that powers every step of the fashion design and supply chain process, while allowing for cross-team collaboration: ideation, designing, fabric selection, manufacturing, fulfillment, e-commerce enablement, and branding/marketing, can all be managed from inside the digital CALA platform. CALA’s partner network consists of a global supply chain including over 60 factories in 13 countries, with 16 fulfillment centers in four regions. This redundant supply chain network allows for customers to be connected to the manufacturer that best suits their product and quantity needs for seamless production. CALA handles the complex back-end logistics of bringing a collection to market so their customers can focus on what they do best, ideate.
https://ca.la/
Heading all Design development for OneRare, the first Food Metaverse for Web3.
OneRare is creating the first Food Platform on Blockchain for the F&B industry to leverage Blockchain for growing globally. Our Gaming Zone allows players to claim first dibs on Dishes from across the world. Race to collect Ingredients as per Recipes and unlock unique Dish NFTs. Now live on Testnet.
https://www.onerare.io/
With a background in cognitive psychology and computer science, I subsequently learned design thinking at the Hasso Platter d.school at Stanford University and studied its business applications at MIT Sloan School of Management.
I developed my leadership and management knowledge working with and for companies such as Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, and Nokia. My research in human-computer interaction has been used to develop patents for products such as Google Glass, and in the past decade, I have been building, leading, and managing successful teams that created products and services used by millions of people worldwide.
In 2022 I published my last book on Design Management and Leadership.
http://www.andreapicchi.it
Instead of spending money on podcast ads, businesses like Basecamp, eBay, and Code Pen are using branded podcasts to reach their audience.
Our goal? Make Transistor the best way for a business to create a podcast.
Currently, we offer podcast hosting. The user uploads their MP3, adds show notes and artwork, and we generate a podcast episode. This is syndicated via RSS, iTunes, and on their podcast website.
https://transistor.fm
We talk about getting investment: What are preferred shares, common shares, employee option pools, vesting, convertible notes, safes, and a lot more!
As of July 2021, Marcia is currently the Chair of the board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). She also founded and leads the Growing Women's Capital group within the ACA working to get more funding to women-led early stage companies. Prior to her role as chair she was the co-chair of the Marketing and Membership committee.
The ACA is a collective of accredited angel investors, North America's most prolific early-stage investment class. The association is the largest angel professional development organization in the world. ACA provides an insider perspective that can help an investor make smart investment decisions.
https://www.angelcapitalassociation.org
https://www.marciadawood.com
https://www.mindshiftcapital.com
https://www.marciadawood.com/the-angel-next-door-podcast
Field Agent has reimagined B2B retail solutions to help CPG and retail professionals solve common challenges at-retail. Our on-demand marketplace contains a full-suite of fast, simple, cost-effective tools to help companies evaluate in-store conditions, drive sales, understand shoppers, generate ratings and reviews, and more.
An all-in-one retail toolkit, every solution in the Field Agent Marketplace can be launched with just a few clicks, in just a few minutes, for just a few dollars. What retail problem can we help you solve?
https://www.fieldagent.net
At Wyvern, we want a sustainable future for Earth; we're making satellites that will capture the data needed to get there. We’re developing telescopes that compactly fold for launch then unfold in space, meaning we get a bigger telescope in a 100X cheaper-to-launch package, capturing high-quality hyperspectral imagery.
As COO I build out Wyvern's core teams and processes, initiate course corrections to maintain organizational effectiveness, and direct mission-level and commercial aspects of our satellite missions.
http://www.wyvern.space
Dryrun is a SaaS company in the FinTech industry - focused on Cash Flow Management. They have developed the most robust and versatile software solution for companies that need to better manage their cash flow requirements. From Small Business to Large Enterprise Companies - Dryrun is the only solution you need to consider when developing financial cash flow modeling.
Blaine Bertsch is the Co-Founder and CEO at Dryrun, where he oversees the strategic direction and core operations for the company and the software platform. Blaine also leads the application’s design direction, resulting in a beautiful, flexible and actionable customer experience.
Blaine’s mission is to have a lasting positive impact on businesses all over the world by helping them collaborate with their accounting team to manage cash flow and grow.
In 2019, Blaine released his first book, Pandemic Cash Flow, which explores the problems businesses face and offers a collaborative and effective solution to crushing the affliction.
With a Master of Design from the University of Alberta, Blaine has more than 15 years of successful entrepreneurial experience in graphic design, interactive design in the educational and cultural space, and television. Blaine empowers and advises entrepreneurs and mature businesses throughout Alberta and beyond in the online space as well as locally in Edmonton.
https://www.dryrun.com
Foundersuite makes software for raising venture capital and managing investor relations.
Our core product line includes: i) a searchable database of 140k+ investors for building your funnel; ii) a "kanban style" CRM for managing your investor pipeline; iii) pitch deck hosting with view tracking; iv) a bulk email tool for doing personalized investor follow ups; and, v) an Investor Update tool for reporting and relations.
Foundersuite also contains over 80 docs and templates and over 25 deals and discounts on other great products.
Customers include 2,000+ monthly active startups + venture capital firms, investment bankers, funding advisors and fractional CFOs.
https://foundersuite.com/
With 20 years of interactive experience spanning website production all the way to festival winning Virtual Reality, I have been able to build my skillset across multiple verticals. Before joining the largest brands in the world, I spent my days and evenings in web production at junior and mid levels, cutting my teeth in how interactive and social media were beginning to form. From there I made my way to the largest properties in the world - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, LEGO, Avatar, and more, with success at every step of the way.
Upon joining Lucasfilm as a writer/producer for StarWars.com, I fell backwards into marketing and social media as they became the craze. Alongside the talented Lucas Online staff, we brought Star Wars into the digital age on Twitter, Facebook, Wikia, and more in an official capacity. After leading a dozen digital marketing campaigns, I lead the team who built the multiple-award-winning LEGO Star Wars III website, which garnered us almost a dozen awards, from a Webby for Online Game of the Year to Game Marketing awards for both family website and community experience. It was also notably the first official deployment of Star Wars content into the cloud, paving the way for the rest of the company.
Then I made the leap to Pandora, and joined Kathy Franklin and the amazing team at Lightstorm as VP of Digital Franchise. There I was able to shepherd the franchise digitally during the bridge period between films, sign some of the largest game deals ever signed, and ultimately make the move after four years to Starbreeze, where I took over the virtual reality development. After two years and a Tribeca Film Festival win, I quit my day job to be a dad, and soon to start my own production company.
https://consortium9.co
https://welcometonor.com
Through the Startup Life LIVE Show platform I provide Andelicious Advice to help startup founders maximize the joy and minimize the heartaches from their Startup Journey.
Andelicious Advice: core startup business strategies delivered with high enthusiasm, inspiration and joy.
https://andelyons.com/
The Casper Network is the first live proof-of-stake blockchain built off the Casper CBC specification. Casper is designed to accelerate enterprise and developer adoption of blockchain technology today and evolve to meet user needs in the future.
https://casperlabs.io/
Coinos is an open source bitcoin web wallet, point of sale, ecommerce marketplace and exchange platform. Development started in Vancouver in September 2012 as a way to provide local merchants with a convenient way to accept bitcoin payments.
The feature set has grown over the years to accomodate a wide variety of use cases with the goal of making it as easy as possible for anyone to get started using Bitcoin quickly, cheaply, and securely.
Anyone can download the source code and host their own instance of the platform backed by their own bitcoin, liquid or lightning nodes, or reach out and we'll gladly set this up for you.
Once signed in, you can create both custodial and non-custodial wallets within your account. The default custodial wallet allows funds to be deposited on any of the bitcoin, liquid or lightning networks and seamlessly withdrawn over any other network without any conversion process or fee.
Using a non-custodial wallet means keys are generated client-side in your browser so we never have access to the funds. Transactions from these accounts are subject to on-chain transaction fees and Lightning Network payments are not supported but we advise using this account type or a paper wallet for storing larger amounts.
Accounts denominated in USDt and LCAD stablecoins and other Liquid assets are also supported.
Intra-account transfers between custodial wallets of different users on our server are completely free, instant, and unlimited.
https://corporate.coinos.io/
With 20 years of interactive experience spanning website production all the way to festival winning Virtual Reality, I have been able to build my skillset across multiple verticals. Before joining the largest brands in the world, I spent my days and evenings in web production at junior and mid levels, cutting my teeth in how interactive and social media were beginning to form. From there I made my way to the largest properties in the world - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, LEGO, Avatar, and more, with success at every step of the way.
Upon joining Lucasfilm as a writer/producer for StarWars.com, I fell backwards into marketing and social media as they became the craze. Alongside the talented Lucas Online staff, we brought Star Wars into the digital age on Twitter, Facebook, Wikia, and more in an official capacity. After leading a dozen digital marketing campaigns, I lead the team who built the multiple-award-winning LEGO Star Wars III website, which garnered us almost a dozen awards, from a Webby for Online Game of the Year to Game Marketing awards for both family website and community experience. It was also notably the first official deployment of Star Wars content into the cloud, paving the way for the rest of the company.
Then I made the leap to Pandora, and joined Kathy Franklin and the amazing team at Lightstorm as VP of Digital Franchise. There I was able to shepherd the franchise digitally during the bridge period between films, sign some of the largest game deals ever signed, and ultimately make the move after four years to Starbreeze, where I took over the virtual reality development. After two years and a Tribeca Film Festival win, I quit my day job to be a dad, and soon to start my own production company.
https://consortium9.co
I lead the Mobility and Energy Transition practice with a focus on all things EV, Autonomy, and Energy Infrastructure.
Drake Star Partners is a global investment banking firm serving the technology, media and communications sectors (TMC) with offices in New York, London, Paris, Munich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Geneva, and partners offices in Singapore and Dubai. The firm focuses on M&A and corporate finance for its clients worldwide. Drake Star Partners has completed over 400 transactions since 2004, 70% of which are cross-border.
http://www.drakestar.com
LP for early-stage Colorado tech funds & the former SendGrid CEO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfranklin08/
Pale Blue Dot is a €87M seed-stage venture capital firm, investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale Blue Dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stage companies in Europe and the US.
https://www.paleblue.vc/
Next Coast Ventures is a private equity firm headquartered in but not limited to Austin, Texas. Next Coast invest in amazing entrepreneurs who are building disruptive companies in big markets. I co-founded this firm with long time associate and great investor / entrepreneur, Tom Ball. Mr. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs What if the secret to being a successful entrepreneur had nothing to do with your business plan, resources, market size, or strategy? If your success or failure weren’t dependent on how much money you have, where you grew up or the level of education you received? Here’s the truth: the difference between success and failure is right between your ears.
www.nextcoastventures.com www.mikesmerklo.com https://www.mikesmerklo.com/mr-monkey-and-me-book
At Uvaro, we're on a mission to make career transformation and best-in-class training available to everyone!
Uvaro fills the overwhelming unfulfilled demand for sales talent at scale-up companies in North America's emerging technology hubs.
Our innovative sales training programs teach recruits everything they need to know to thrive in B2B sales roles at growing tech companies, from sales methodologies and tactics to using digital sales enablement tools, all underpinned by immersive real-world industry experiences. We believe in the success of our students, which is why payment for our program only begins once our students are employed.
https://uvaro.com
As of July 2021, Marcia is currently the Chair of the board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). She also founded and leads the Growing Women's Capital group within the ACA working to get more funding to women-led early stage companies. Prior to her role as chair she was the co-chair of the Marketing and Membership committee.
The ACA is a collective of accredited angel investors, North America's most prolific early-stage investment class. The association is the largest angel professional development organization in the world. ACA provides an insider perspective that can help an investor make smart investment decisions.
https://www.angelcapitalassociation.org
https://www.marciadawood.com
https://www.mindshiftcapital.com
https://www.marciadawood.com/the-angel-next-door-podcast
Crosschq is pioneering Human Intelligence Hiring™ by harnessing the power of people to help companies better screen, onboard and source the best talent. Crosschq’s technology gathers direct insights from people, for people and transforms those insights into powerfully predictive data that helps ensure a great job match between talent and a company. The company’s cloud-based SaaS solutions were built to ensure a fully transparent candidate experience while minimizing bias and protecting privacy. Founded in 2018, Crosschq is backed by GGV, Bessemer Ventures, Slack, Tiger Global, Rocketship, SAP and other well-known Silicon Valley Investors.
To learn more, visit crosschq.com.
Neeva was created to give you a choice in how you search and experience the internet. We built Neeva to feel like your personal corner of the web, designed specifically for you – always ad-free and private. Our mission is to serve our users, and only our users.
https://neeva.com/