Listen Up Show with Mitchell Chadrow: Recent Episodes
Mitchell Chadrow: Fintech Entrepreneur, Attorney, and Business Startup Advi
Find out what makes the greatest people great and how to apply those lessons to your family, business and life. Join fintech entrepreneur, attorney Mitchell Chadrow as he shares inspiring stories from startups, leaders and entrepreneurs with excellent business success, and world-class execution and influential people globally.
Visit Him On: http://mitchellchadrow.com
Gary Pudles, (@GaryPudles) is the founder, and CEO of Answernet, was named by Inc. Magazine Inc. 500, as one of the “fastest-growing businesses” in the US. In 2019, AnswerNet which handles tens of millions of calls and Internet contacts for thousands of clients, ranging from Fortune 100 firms to small private practices also has 25 call centers around the country.
For several years, Gary has taught an entrepreneurial class at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also involved in a Startup Camp and the International Startup Festival. Gary has the heart of a teacher, loves speaking about business so listen up to his entrepreneurial stories. Gary has time for several hobbies and interests outside of family and work. How does Gary start most working days, what does he look for in people that he hires and what excites him most about building companies?
Gary shares with us the leadership lessons he learned along the way. We explore how and why Gary started Answernet. What Gary’s parents did that influenced him in business and how this background shaped his positive outlook.
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Success Attitude Go All In Do Whatever It Takes With Robert Brus Show 080
What is the "Go All In" Podcast Movement? Find out just Listen Up to Show 080. I interview Robert Brus, Founder of the Go All In Podcast Movement. Robert tells us his story where he has a can-do attitude of "do whatever it takes"to live your life to its absolute maximum potential.
Robert shares his own inspiring story of from guests that have "Going All In."
The common theme throughout the episode is Robert's strong foundation of commitment to success no matter the cost. Some entrepreneurs face extremely difficult decisions in life and some people make bad decisions, the point is, they "go all in," and I have absolutely no doubt that you'll draw inspiration from this Listen Up Show and the Robert Brus experience. Are You All In?
Check out Robert's movement at: https://www.goallin.com.au/
Joe Elsasser Founder SaaS Covisum
Covisum help advisors and their clients create a shared vision of the future. Their suite of financial planning tools, Social Security Timing, Tax Clarity, and, SmartRisk, financial advisors can take a multidimensional, holistic view of retirement for their clients. The company enhances their software services by offering expert training and awesome support. And the firms community of like-minded advisors enables members to leverage each other’s knowledge and experience to enhance their business practices, expertise, and centers of influence.
Joe created and patented a software program back in 2011 called Social Security Timing.
Joe has helped thousands of financial advisor clients identify optimal Social Security claiming strategies for their clients. He also co-authored the book "Maximize Your Social Security." Joe has been involved in the financial services industry since 2001 as an advisor, a marketer, and a coach. He was also the Director of Advisory Services for Senior Market Sales, Inc. The same company that owns a majority stake in Covisum and purchased Joe's financial planning business, Sequent.
Joe has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, CBS MoneyWatch, Investment News, Morning Star, Reuters, New York Daily News and other respected media outlets.
Why did the software catch on so quickly well pensions have been disappearing over the last decade, markets can be seen as unreliable so social security is even more critical for families to create a lifetime income stream in retirement? Joe lets us know how critical the choices available and how the consequences of those choices can actually derail our retirement. The software compares every possible election strategy available to married couples, single people, divorced people, widows, government employees and even those who have already elected and generates a full report incorporating multiple possible ages of death, cost of living adjustments, including claiming instructions, cash flow report, income gap report, and more.
tags: SaaS, Fintech, software, technology, tax clarity, social security, retirement, financial planning, financial planners, covisum,
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Dan Lok passive income high ticket sales genius is known as the millionaire mentor.Dan, is a best selling author, TEDx opening speaker, marketing and sales genius. Dan Lok is a Chinese-Canadian business tycoon and worldwide educator. Dan leads a international learning system that spans across more than 120+ countries. Dan has literally taught millions of people helping them develop high-income skills, builds your financial confidence and master unlock true financial confidence and master your money destiny. Beyond his success in business, And the host of The Dan Lok Show – a series featuring billionaire tycoons and millionaire entrepreneurs. Today, Mr. Lok continues to be featured in hundreds of media channels and publications every year and is widely seen as one of the top business leaders by millions around the world.
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Unlock It and FU Money - Dan's Two Top Business Books
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Listen Up Show Notes
Base your business pricing not on time but results. Dan loves Bruce Lee and the quote from Bruce Lee. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
- Your pricing should be based on the results you can provide, not by the hours you spend working on the project.
- Do your due diligence and research before deciding to partner up.
- Build the right audience for your business
Josh Scandlen is a Financial Planner and founder of Heritage Wealth Planning a comprehensive financial planning firm located in Georgia. In March of 2018, Josh left USAA after working there for 10 years then worked for a few smaller companies and early this year left being a w-2 employee to start his own financial planning firm and has a successful youtube channel helping people with tax planning, retirement planning, estate planning, and everything finance. He started his financial services career at Vanguard in the late 90's.
Although Josh does not manage money any money he still registered as an investment advisor which is an extra cost and can to some be a regulatory hurdle that others would not want to go through.
With four kids and his wife at home, how was he going to pay the bills to find the extra money while building up his business? In starting a business you must have money to start up a business and he used a distribution in his 401(k) and paid the 10% penalty.
Has always engaged with the public with doing seminars and tried to demystify the financial planning, estate planning experience. He had an epiphany why do seminars in front of 15 locally when he can do youtube videos in front of potentially thousands and now gets a lot of clients directly from doing his youtube channel.
Josh says the top three things the people, couples make is not understanding the tax code. He says that investment management is not financial planning. If married filing jointly just don't plan for today but think about the tax bomb in your retirement plan. He says you will not always be married filing jointly. You must think about Medicare premiums tax on social security vs did I beat the market?
Not having a durable power of attorney it survives incapacity so a big qualified plan your individual plan and spouse no right to it so if your spouse needs access court order vs durability of power of attorney.
Don't focus so much on active investment management use Jack Bogle Vanguard philosophy.
Josh recommends a financial planning tool called Maximize My Social Security founder Laurence Kotlikoff Professor of Economics, Boston University and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc. This resource only costs individuals or families $40 bucks per year.
Trump's executive order on Required Minimum Distributions for all retirement assets. Increase tables for RMD's at 70 1/2 you are forced to take out an amount divided by 27.4. Maybe what should be done is a redo of these tables so instead push them back to 75 as people are living longer and maybe increase what you divide. Deferring taxes is not eliminating taxes so at some point someone is going to pay it merely kicking the can down the road.
Josh has written several books that you should check out:
Financial Entrepreneur Anthony Thomson Bank Founder UK Metro Atom AU 86 400. Anthony Thomson, Founder of three banks two in the UK Metro Bank and Atom Bank and most recently Australia 86 400 Neobank.
Dennis Shields is the founder of YieldStreet, Esquire Bank, and LawCash.
Dennis is also an author, Broadway producer, actor and has appeared on the hit TV show Real House of New York #RHONY
We also talk about Bethenny Frankel, Michael Cohen, living in Trump Tower and meeting President Trump.
Dennis Shields is the Founder of Esquire Bank, LawCash, and YieldStreet where Ron Suber is an Advisory Board member. In addition to business, we talk about other topics like his appearance on the hit reality TV show the Real Housewives of New York (RHONY). We also talk about Bethenny Frankel and how much he respects her, only nice things to say about Michael Cohen, living in Trump Tower and meeting President Trump.
LawCash was started in 2000. LawCash is a leading provider of pre-settlement funding and litigation financing for plaintiffs and offering assistance when you need it most.
He was previously the chairman and founder of HealthShield until its sale in 1999.
Esquire Bank is a commercial bank serving professional service firms, law professionals, small to mid-sized businesses, and individuals.
Dennis is the founder and chairman of Yield Street one of the largest crowdfunding companies in alternative assets in the United States. YieldStreet is a platform designed to provide easy access to institutional quality investments. Investors are connected to accredited investors to asset-based alternative investments with 8-20% target returns. Whereas borrowers help businesses raise affordable capital quickly by streamlining fundraising and connecting them directly to accredited investors.
YieldStreet is changing the way wealth is created, providing access to asset-based investments historically unavailable to most investors. YieldStreet allows you to participate in investment opportunities with low stock market correlation and target yields of 8-20% across litigation finance, real estate, and other alternative asset classes. YieldStreet’s technology platform creates a unique experience for investors at every level and provides valuable diversification and strength to most portfolios. Get started at www.yieldstreet.com.
Dennis is also the Chairman of Esquire Payment Systems. Today litigation business pays out approximately 700 billion per year using an antiquated checking system.
However, in the 21st century using checks to pay clients is not efficient or cost effective. Dennis discusses expanding his distribution of law firms from 42000 to 50000 upon signing two additional deals here in August of 2018. He plans to help law firms use a debit card payment system so that it provides their clients a greater tool which in turn will save money and provider greater access to cheaper funds at lower prices. As he puts it the distribution network is being built one lawyer at a time. This keeps the attorney in contact more with their client.
Dennis an author of several books, A Time to Plant Tears has been nominated for best short story Social Life Magazine. He has written other books: The Urgency of Now, God Went Fishing
Dennis is also a Broadway producer (Indecent) and currently working on a play (Me Too which he said would come out over the next 6-12 months either on or off Broadway.
Dennis was so proud to tell me that he was friends with Brian Koppelman. Dennis told the audience that Brian discovered Tracy Chapman, wrote Rounders and that everyone should watch Billions the show created by Koppelman. He also mentioned that Brian Koppleman was the writer of Rounders and The Girlfriend Experience) which Dennis has appeared.
Ron Suber says, One of the most important questions we will ever ask ourselves is: What are you willing to struggle for?"
I asked Dennis and he responded To Do Good that he was fortunate and in a position to help people. He further stated that he was comfortable where he was in business and that he gets satisfaction in helping others.
Thinking of his children he was quick to say that he also instills this same philosophy in his children. I could feel is genuine down to earth nature shining through as he said this and at that moment I was so thankful and grateful to be interviewing such an awesome entrepreneur and mentor to the younger business professionals in the audience.
On the subject of time management balance and philanthropy: he stated that you should focus a certain amount on your family and friends, a certain amount of time to business and certain amount to giving back and not just writing a check but getting other people involved which he mentioned was doing proper diligence for this year and beyond.
On the best advice he ever received "Bad people make for bad business" I will never forget this!
I love asking my guest whats your favorite quote: Dennis was on a role I didn't even need to ask him he just blurted out James Altucher - “When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
At the end of the show, I asked Dennis what are some takeaways I was blown away when he said, "Thank you I appreciate your giving me all the time, everybody should listen and follow you go to the website listen to your podcast"
Dennis's last takeaway: "try to do a nice thing everyday"
At the end of the interview, Dennis says let me tell you one more funny story - Bethenny reads all her tweets so Dennis decided to set up a twitter account and was having trouble getting it set up with the passwords and Dennis was amazed at how Brian Koppelman saw that he set up a twitter account as Twitter notified Dennis that you now have a follower on twitter it was Brian Koppelman who became his first friend on twitter.
We joke back and forth at the end of the interview and I say well you will have a lot more after this interviewer.
Regtech meets fintech with this startup success in the industry.
Evan Wong is the founder of Checkbox a regtech Australian startup in the fintech industry.
Checkbox is a technology company that is a disruptor in regulation compliance industry that helps professionals and firms in the legal, banking and tax industry’s but the technology can also be used in other industries.
According to Smartcompany Australian Checkbox just received 1.77 M in angel investing from Hong Kong and Singapore after two years of bootstrapping.
Connect with Evan on - > LinkedIn
Australia Radio TV host
Nicole Cooper Banks is an Australian radio-TV host on HitFM 102.3 and HitFM 105.1
Nic hosts her own breakfast radio show on HITFM (Mid-North Coast for) Southern Cross Austereo,
Australian Media Co they own 84 radio stations and 21 commercial TV licenses serving over 7 million Aussie's Australia's largest and most listened to radio network
She is also an actress, does commercials, print ads and is an award-winning presenter (national TV network).
Connect with her on - > LinkedIn
FreshMerge Marketing Software Fresh Finance CEO Teresa Leno. FreshMerge is marketing software for large sales team groups that are managed by various marketing departments to produce industry-specific content. The freshMerge software provides a dynamic newsletter, PDF print copy, and social media posting to LinkedIn and Facebook of each article automatically upon publishing for each of your sales team members branded to them and your company. Software managed by content writers, graphic designers. The company helps with message marketing automation for your sales team. The software is great for any industry that wants to help their sales teams grow their business and connect with their clients! freshMerge is a solution for social selling that benefits all company employees by giving them access to a particular industry content to help those company’s position themselves as experts in their particular industry by sharing content related to a given company.
http://www.freshmerge.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-leno-13b51790/
The Future of Digital Banking with Chris Skinner: Digital banking is changing so fast from finance to bank branches to investment banking, bank accounts, trading, payments, to financial online banking and all of these are covered under fintech. So what is the future of banking? Just ask Chris Skinner, author of Digital Human and ValueWeb. Chris comments on the future of banking back at his blog thefinanser. We talk payments, FinTech, FinServ and Digital Banking as well as neobanks. We also explore Mobile Banking, Mobile Deposit, artificial intelligence better know as A.I., machine learning, transformation to customer service with the latest technology. Chris also does a deep dive into Open Banking Digital banking and the digital customer experience.
Check out Chris Skinner's Blog: thefinanser.com
tags: #digitalbanking, #finance, #banking, #bank, #branches, #investmentbanking, #bankaccount, #trading, #banks, #business, #financenews, #payment, #stocks, #investing, #financial, #onlinebanking, #financemarket, #fintech, #cashless #Lending,
Mandeep Sodhi is the founder and CEO of Sydney Australia Fintech Startup Hashching Online Proptech Home Loan Marketplace.
We talk with Mandeep about how he came up with this practical idea based on a pain point he personally felt in his own personal life and how he has been able to execute on that idea over the last three years.
Check out Hashchings equity crowdfunding going on until June 15, 2018, via https://equitise.com/hashching
The company has built a network of over 600 independent mortgage brokers to pre negotiating special rates with over 60 individual lenders to the back office technology that makes it all work.
We speak to Mandeep about how he built his team which provides excellent support and service!
Mandeep was named one of the coolest 100 people in Australian tech back in 2016 emerging star list in the annual Fintech list by Business Insider AU
In August 2014, he decided to buy his first home. As a loyal bank employee, he reached out for the staff discount. At the time, he would boast to his friends about the special discounts he was entitled to as an employee of the bank. A few days later he found out from his friend that they had secured a better rate from the bank that Mandeep worked for. He asked himself the question how come his friend got a better rate? The bank simply replied, ‘Because your friend used a mortgage broker.’ Their answer made me even more frustrated, so I started to look at the mortgage broker model in greater detail.
From his research, he could see how much value mortgage advisers were providing their customers. Not only were they saving customers more time by taking away the hassle of completing documentation etc. brokers were securing better rates.
launch: August 2015
what: online marketplace connecting borrowers to local mortgage brokers.
Describe: a pure Fintech play
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like: operating an Uber style model where consumers are connected to a mortgage broker who comes direct to their home.
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online mortgage marketplace that shows and compares deals posted by mortgage brokers, rather than the lending institutions themselves. The current pool represents more than
What: Australia's first online marketplace allowing consumers to access home loan deals without having to shop around.
Former banker Sodhi found they had home loans from the same bank but each got a different deal.
Hashching provides a more consumer-friendly and more efficient
mortgage broking market. Their goal is to eliminate friction faced by so many customers that deal with the home loan settlement process
Haschings value proposition: bypass the big banks get a better home loan deal
Distribution Network - how do you sign up 60 lenders, including the big four banks. And over 600 brokers Fairly labor intensive
Model Bank lender officers vs brokers
Backed by VC firms H2 Ventures (January 2015 ), Picus Capital, and Sapien Ventures,
Raising money: The company scored $1 million in funding from Sapien Ventures (Victor Jiang)
Pivot - You joined H2 Ventures in January 2015,
initially, you were going to work with the banks.
- We approached four of the banks who basically said;
We are happy to work with you guys, but our advisers are only available from Monday to Friday during operating hours only. We do not call clients on Saturday and Sunday or nights.
Consumers need the convenience of a broker coming to their house on the weekend. So, we quickly pivoted the model to service mortgage brokers. More than 50 percent of loans are written by mortgage brokers so we had a huge market to target.
Technology Talk
Hasching tools?
Dashboard
Chat
Keeping track of deals
Signing up brokers and consumers on-site proprietary v outside vendors
Paperwork
Team:
hire software developers, product developers, a data scientist and sales and marketing staff
Regulators: educating regulators on what you are doing?
Partnerships:
CGU Insurance - customers who settle on hashching get 25% off their home insurance premium from HashChing if when purchase a CGU policy.
home insurance - which is a compulsory part of the property purchase process. Once for a new 12-month CGU Insurance policy, the settlement must occur within three months of the insurance purchase, customers get an email with a link to buy a CGU policy after their loan is approved Titlexchange partnership -
Legal paperwork - digital conveyancing. - now offering the services of electronic conveyancing marketplace Titlexchange, with the pilot limited to Victoria for now before a general rollout later, the bottleneck in the traditional home purchase process.
Issue: Borrowers are at the mercy of conveyancers, who can sometimes drag the process out unnecessarily and worse – charge more for their own delay.
How does integration into the Hashching platform work
allows users to access fixed-price conveyancing through Titlexchange without having to go offline to provide ID and personal data.
New South Wales Government in Australia (Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business John Barilaro )
Provides you a strategic growth loan of $700,000
focus job creation - help create 46 jobs over the next five years.
NSW to overcome barriers to finance -
about making smart investments
allow good business ideas and businesses to grow
Equity crowdfunding and wanting to stay independent of the banks. Hashching is raising more capital via equity crowdfunding.
-Equitise
HashChing equity crowdfunding offer is live until 15th June 2018 - offer
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now doing an equity crowdfunding on equites platform
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a venture capital fund started to attract cash from Chinese migrant investors who need to make mandatory investments and who themselves tend to be entrepreneurs.
NSW loan helps you hire more staff and secure the resources needed to keep up and scale the business quickly, as well as develop new products,”
More products v focus v more territories
Growth incredible since August of 2015 settled more than 2000 loans and is growing at over 700 percent year-over-year.
NSW exceptionally helpful. process great
firm understanding of the business model.
Dealing NSW jobs loan v was dealing with a VC big difference
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coolest-people-in-australian-tech-2016-10#KQxOrG3jDGq7jhB6.99
Book: Zero to One by Peter Thiel
https://www.hashching.com.au/
Artificial Intelligence Face of Fintech Expert Clara Durodie 2018
Clara Durodie is an A.I. Artificial Intelligence Fintech Business Technology Strategist and Mentor start-ups and businesses. VirtualCash, Inc. owner of faceoffintech.com has named Clara as the #1 Face of Fintech expert in artificial intelligence (2018).
Clara is a serial entrepreneur and most recently established Cognitive Finance Group in 2016 as an advisory and investment firm specialized in applied artificial intelligence in financial services. Prior to this, she served as an executive and Board Director at AvH Group financial services companies in London and Luxembourg.
Prior to commencing her corporate career in financial services, Clara was a serial entrepreneur with business interests in management consulting, education and technology (personal credit rating and barcoding technologies).
Clara's PhD research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and wealth management, and looks at how episodic memory informs how we save and how we invest.
Clara is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) London UK, holds a Certified Diploma in Investment Management (IMA) London, UK and a Masters from the University of Oxford.
Clara has served in leadership roles in European asset and wealth management. Clara serves as Fintech Resident Expert at the University of Oxford and mentors at leading Fintech accelerators in London.
https://www.cognitivefinance.ai/
Evan Gentry Money 360 Commercial Real Estate Lender Show 068 Money360 is a direct lender online marketplace for commercial real estate loans. Money360 enables borrowers to directly access affordable commercial real estate loans through an innovative online lending platform, eliminating the overhead and processing costs associated with traditional banking models. Loans are funded by banks, insurance...
Money360 is transforming commercial real estate finance with its fast, transparent and reliable platform for borrowers and investors. Money360 is a nationwide, tech-enabled direct lender that offers borrowers speed, convenience and reasonable terms on commercial real estate loans from $1 million to $20 million. The company also provides investors direct access to attractive fixed income investments secured with a first-priority lien against income-producing commercial real estate. Money360's investment management company, M360 Advisors, LLC, manages diversified fund vehicles on behalf of investors. Borrowers and lenders (investors) can register at www.money360.com.
Kelly A Brown had a big dream that became a goal to start and found her own bank: First Wisconsin Bank. She sold the bank at the end of 2008 for a premium and started a treasury management firm that manages over $3.5 billion in assets with a network of over 700 financial institutions as partners as the CEO & Managing Partner of American Deposit Management Co. (ADM). Kelly is a born leader and naturally builds relationships because she genuinely is curious about people is real and has emotional intelligence.
ADM was started in 2009 during the worst financial service economic downturn. American Deposit is a treasury management firm that specializes in settlement administration and public fund administration. The idea was expanded upon and created trust to now manage over $3.5 billion in money. The riches are in the niches as Kelly was able to execute on the business idea during a downturn in the market.
With more than $3.5 billion of assets managed and relationships with over 700 financial institutions, under Kelly’s leadership,
We also talk about raising capital for a de novo bank, how to build a network of partners, investors, and customers.
Kelly has relationship expertise in the building sales and sales teams in the financial services industry. It is her ability to relate to others with emotional intelligence and a real and genuine curiosity for people and wanted to help others.
Her emotional intelligence allows her to connect with her team, customers and other centers of influence.
Governor Scott Walker appointed Kelly in January 2014 to the Wisconsin Chiropractic Examining Board. How she met the Governor shows off her friendly dynamic personality as a true winner.
The importance of being trustworthy to establish critical relationships, having the right team with a winning attitude. Importance of picking the right people with different experiences, hire people that I not like you. Next step is the ability to scale the business with the right people. You must raise your hand and say here I am I can do it.
We go deep into several critical stories that helped shaped Kelly in life:
Growing up and her parents influence.
How a bank teller a personal banker changed her life. How one person can make a difference. Great work ethic paid off the debt and do that for others. Building self-confidence. Applied to a bank with no experience, banking can be taught bring to leadership born within four months promoted then emerged in ran branches, finished college nothing I can't do and mentors others about that.
We talk about her dream of starting her own bank.
The ADM company that she runs manages the money for national law suit recovery money for class actions and mass tort money.
Spread deposits between and among various banks to stay within the FDIC limits.
Learned how to get out of debt and deal with her finances.
We heard the story of being a winner of life. Kelly learned about how to deal with her debt and got her finances in order.
IP Marketplace AngelPatents PulseIP Founder Adoram Shemesh. We talk to Adoram about:
How he helps his clients.
Buying, selling and leveraging patents.
Adoram is a member of the Israeli Bar went to school in Israel (IDC Herzliya) and now lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Adoram about the podcast show: “Great Podcast Mitchell Just Listened for the second time"
PatentAngels: IP centric Investment platform
Company mission: empower companies to leverage their IP assets and let investors invest in patent backed ventures which increase their chances of success.
Crowdfunding patents:
Patent Rights for clients
IP Marketplace to leverage your patent
Defending patents
Monetize patents
Working so closely with fortune 500 companies
Buy-side of the business
PulseIP - Patent Acquisition Consultants -
Guiding people through the process.
Defensive and offensive moves changing for startups, entrepreneurs and business owners to execute on their IP strategy.
Working so closely with the largest US corporations and provide them strategic Buy-side Intellectual Property consulting
How to identify, negotiate and close Patent Acquisitions based on these defensive and offensive strategies.
We also talk Sell Side IP – Reviewing, evaluating and analyzing IP portfolios in order to maximize the patent sale and licensing value on behalf of intellectual property owners.
How Adoram works with clients to figure out which strategy is really right for them?
General strategic IP advisory.
Filing a patent application is still a smart decision for inventors
Article: Tel Aviv Israel Patents business tech Technology The U.S. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking but Israel ranks #10
Book Club: Mindset, Predictable, Shoestring
How is intellectual property valued when selling a business?
High Court Could Open Door To Worldwide Patent Damages
Three Main Take-Aways
Grit
How are people going to stay in touch
Vanessa Ronan Pearce is named a top 100 Woman in Fintech. Vanessa is the Founder of Intersekt Fintech Australia Festival. Vanessa handles partnerships and events at Fintech Australia.
We speak with Vanessa about what it takes to become a top 100 Fintech woman and the Worldwide competition to make the list.
Fintech Australia started October of 2016 when Australia had just 100 startups in the Fintech ecosystem. Today in 2018 Australia has over 650 startups in the Fintech space.
Fintech Australia was inspired to startup from the success of the Singapore Fintech Festival.
Spotlight on the big four bank incumbents on their banking practices so they want to know more about fintech and how to incorporate it into their solutions. Also from a regulatory prospective especially seeing how Singapore has handled fintech.
The Finnie Awards and how Intersekt picks the various startups for each winner category.
Startup Round Sponsored by trustsmarter.com
Fintech Australia does a Census with EY so check out the 2017 report.
Building a Fintech Festival and how Vanessa gets sponsors, partners and speakers for the conference.
A presenting partner that started in 2016 was the Victorian Government and has been extremely supportive of the Fintech Australian conference.
Conference Sponsors, Partners in 2016-2017
Acorns
Stripe
Visa
Accenture
Policy Partner: International Law Firm face challenges with their big bank clients who want to finance them and smaller clients who want to disrupt the market. However, these policy partners have become supportive of the fintech ecosystem in Australia and adding value to both types of clients - > Herbert Smith Freehill
An amazing increase for the conference year over year with 85 judges (5 for each of the 23 categories that is widespread across the fintech ecosystem). Over 225 startup entries up from 150 in 2017.
Increase in attendees from 250 to over 1500 people including investments in startups.
Lucy Yueting Liu is Founder of Airwallex and Board Member Fintech Australia
Solve a unique problem, don't replicate a solution already in the market define the audience and that it can be used in other markets or territories
Top fintech areas in Australia:
Payments
Lending
Digital currencies
Wealth Tech
Canva the software company for designing everything from social media graphics and invitations to postcards and. now announced the acquisition of Australian startup Zeetings that help with your presentations. We interviewed Christopher Gimmer Founder of Snappa who is a competitor of Canva.
Company with massive growth is Afterpay.
Fast Pitch Round Sponsored by Chadrow.net
Book Club Guest Recommendation: Mindset
Hero: Her husband, actuary
Quote: Anais Nin: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Wrap Up Round Sponsored by BankSmarter.com
Three Main Takeaways:
Be persistence and don't lose faith.
Think global about where else you can take your product.
Talk to everybody because that person could be your next sponsors or promoter.
Ron Suber, President Prosper, Chairman of Credible.com whose founder is Stephen Dash was the Keynote speaker for the Australia Fintech conference.
tags: Open Data, Blockchain, Digital Currencies, Digital Robo-Advice
Alternative Finance and Payments, AI Artificial intelligence, Digital Identity, Neo Banks, Regtech, Insurtech.
David Feinman Viral Ideas Zombie Run Founder Show 064
David Feinman is the founder and serial entrepreneur of Virtual Ideas a video creator marketing company and sold Zombie Run Phidelphia Racing Concepts LLC the largest national themed fun 5k races.
David combined his passion as a marathon runner and owner of Bucks County Marathon Ventures LLC a startup which was a half marathon in Bucks County Pennsylvania and running the program through Tyler Park.
Lessons Learned:
How did David come up with the largest national Zombie Run themed fun run and how did he apply what he learned to his current company Viral Ideas.
How did David in only 9 months generate 1.4 million in revenue build the Zombie Run into a 16 City tour, attract over 35k participants, handle a staff of 35 people, gets featured in Wired Magazine, USA Today and the New York Times and within one year sell the company for a profit
How did Viral Ideas increase their customers from just 42 to over 120 in only one year?
What is David's secret sauce to gain so many executive pitches and how were they able to get in front of so many executives
We will also speak to David about his experience at Temple University Business Fox school and the Be Your Own Boss Bowl competition ‘BYOBB’
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Charles Henry King was an Entrepreneurs Entrepreneur Founder of Chadron, Nebraska, a prominent Banker, Wyoming's wealthiest businessman and President Gerald R. Fords biological grandfather.
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Recall we just did an entire show on Fannie O’Linn on our last show 062
Charles Henry King was a Prominent Banker that started a Bank C. H. King Company and First National Bank of Shoshoni, Wyoming.
He was a serial entrepreneur at that time of his passing he was Wyoming’s wealthiest businessman.
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CH King - today would be known as a serial entrepreneur
At the age of 31 in 1884 he and his wife, Martha [Alicia (nee) Porter,] moved to Nebraska and settled a sparsely populated
the region is known as Dawes County today we know it as the Panhandle of Nebraska.
Their humble home was nicely settled along the White River in an area that we just talked about the brand new town of Chadron.
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Fannie O'Linn the subject from our last show certainly knew CH as his associates knew him as both helped found the town Chadron
You see CH was a merchant pioneer who began trading with the Indians and became a bigtime merchant
and wool trader he had one of the most successful entrepreneurial enterprises in Nebraska and Wyoming. He was founder and president of the Omaha Wool and Storage Company and founder of banks transportation companies and promoter of various enterprises.
He had come far born in Pennsylvania on March 13, 1853, in Bradford County.
When in Chadron NE he started a general store known as C.H. King's Mercantile.
He was described in his day as being shrewd a true businessman, as a business person why study CH make him one of your own case studies well he was a visionary what today we might say a mover and shaker.
He was a visionary -> he saw what others could not as he anticipated the arrival of the Chicago and North Western
Railroad network into Chadron
and the nearby Wyoming territory.
He was constantly thinking of how he could expand his commercial
enterprises.
He executed on this opportunity by stringing together general stores, lumberyards' banks, wool trading companies, a freight hauling business, and much real estate strategically located
where the railroad access insured the
founding of future towns and cities in addition to Chadron.
By July 25, 1886, Chadron
was much in the infancy as an organized community -> it was at this time that
President Gerald Ford's biological father Leslie Lynch was born to Charles Henry King and his wife Martha in the town of Chadron
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He Works for the North Dakota State University northern plains ethics institute
Even before Wyoming became a state in 1890 CH would become well known as one of the wealthiest men in Wyoming, At one time he amassed a fortune of $20 million in today’s dollars that is considerable but in 1890 it was huge.
By 1900 C.H. King was known as a baron among wool traders and a merchant king in western Nebraska the panhandle
As I stated earlier he was an entrepreneurs entrepreneur he was ambitious and eager to seize new opportunities, by 1905 he was moving his business HQs to Omaha.
Omaha was known as the eastern terminal of the Union Pacific
Railroad, and it also had numerous other roads so it became Omaha's
western terminal.
CH saw Omaha as a city with a great
future. His reputation was both energetic but an honest businessman.
As startups, business owners, and entrepreneurs we focus so much on wanting to raise or borrow money for our businesses. CH found it relatively easy to raise large sums of capital for new profitable ventures.
For example, In 1908, he had a capital fund of $100,000, and the Omaha Wool and Storage Company was founded with
C.H. King as president. His son, Leslie, Sr., also owned stock in the company and was named general manager.
This was considered a big business for that time having a huge warehouse, 1200
feet long by 150 feet high, it was totally covered with a corrugated iron roof, and we know real estate is location location location CH was sure that the Union
Pacific ran a side track up to the Omaha Wool and Storage Co. loading
dock.
By 1909 wool was being
shipped into Omaha from western
Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana,
Idaho, and South Dakota.
Charles Henry was what we call today a serial entrepreneur
he was driven to create more successful commercial companies/firms:
C.H. King Company - > dealt in wholesale food merchandising. He was known in Omaha as a premier businessmen
he entertained big time at Woolworth Mansion a real luxurious home with its ornately decorated ballroom
The C.H. King Company and First National Bank Building, also known as Yellowstone Drug, is one of the oldest buildings in Shoshoni, Wyoming. The building was built for Charles Henry King in 1905–1906. King was a central Wyoming businessman who established a lumber business in the building. King is otherwise notable as the biological grandfather of U.S. president Gerald R. Ford. The First National Bank of Shoshoni was also located in the building
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President Ford's biological parents:
Leslie Lynch King, Sr. and Dorothy Ayer Gardner marry in Harvard,
Illinois. (near Chicago) on September
1912
Their son, president Ford born with the name biological father Leslie King Jr. was born eleven months later in 1913.
However, The marriage of Dorothy and Leslie, Sr. lasted only about five months longer.
On December 19, 1913, Dorothy
obtained a divorce from her husband
on the grounds of "extreme cruelty"
and was given "sole custody" of their
an only child, Leslie, Jr.
While Ford's biological father was granted
visitation rights Leslie, King Sr. was also
ordered by the court to pay alimony
attorney fees; and child support Leslie, Jr. or Ford attained his majority at age
twenty-one game
I will be doing an upcoming show on president Gerald Ford and I will explore several deeper personal questions not covered in this podcast
How did all this impact CH in business -> Tremendously!
I found myself asking - >
Why would such a successful driven gregarious prominent businessman decide to just pick up and leave Omaha at a time when he was at the top of his business game
Was it his personal life this tangled tale of President Gerald Fords biological parents divorce which by the way didn’t merely end with a judicial judgment of divorce alimony and child support payment decree.
Charles Henry King was a maverick in business but his personal issues due to his son the president's biological father had a tremendous impact on his business these family issues caused CH to become sidetracked that story is so powerful - I will explore all of this on an upcoming show about President Gerald Ford.
Fannie O’Linn Chadron Nebraska Dawes County Northwestern Panhandle Founder Attorney Teacher Show 062
Chadron The Northwestern Nebraska Panhandle town founded by Frances Maria Brainard O'Linn
Show 062
I'm Mitchell Chadrow and this is the Listen Up Show Podcast
Fanny was not only the founder of a town she was a noteworthy pioneer for settling the west, a school teacher, a postmaster, the fifth woman admitted to the Bar in Nebraska, a community builder and most of all a hero that should be studied by all in business and life.
-> What are we going to learn today?
-> What Legacy did Fanny Leave and how can her lessons apply to your everyday business and life?
-> Why do an entire podcast on Fanny?
;After doing research on her story I was shocked that even people in the town of Chadron know little about her let alone Nebraskians especially how her story applies to business
I started asking myself why has this most amazing woman somehow been placed on the back seat of history - maybe until now there has been no one to be her voice or maybe she has no relatives or family to tell her story. It really seemed unfair because she should at least be on a short list of notable Nebraska women. Tome, she really seemed to have been unforgotten but I’m changing all that now
I mean we all have heard of William Jennings Bryan the orator and Nebraska politician read and heard stories of the Travelings of Lewis and Clark
Know about The Showmanship of William F. Cody and of course the Notoriety of Charlie Starkweather.
However, it’s not every day that a woman in the In the 1880’s helps start up a
town. builds a community of people in the heartland of America becomes a pioneer settling the west, is the fifth woman to become an attorney in Nebraska and the 11th registered with the US Supreme Court - she was a postmaster, a mid wife, a school teacher, and so much more
She was born back on April 13, 1848 in a small town called Magnolia the county seat of Harrison County Iowa, Fanny graduated at the University State University of Iowa in Iowa City as valedictorian and youngest member of the class' at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. She became a teacher at Magnolia High School and then principal at Buena Vista High School.
When her father moved to Magnolia Iowa it only had a population of 500 however by 1876 Magnolia was removed as the county seat, which left the place with but little else than a small, local trade. Hallowed be the name Magnolia to many a pioneer, who knew the place as Harrison County's best town.
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Women's history is rich in the Panhandle of Northwestern Nebraska but at the forefront of this is another true hero pioneer that must be recognized now and has been uncovered.
For me researching her story has been a journey of discovery, uncovering this amazing woman's story from various sources that has led me to so many other wonderful stories that I will also tell you here on future podcasts.
I am glad O’Linn’s story can be shared with my Listen Up audience and I hope her wonderful story helps motivate inspire and help you in business.
It's like a Wild Buffalo Bill Cody Show on tour but with Fannie, and being able to take you across the country to share all this history that she created in the communities where she lived
Ificould describe her in three words:
adventurous
courageous
dynamic
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Fanny came from a family of doer's and their great work ethic and business acumen most certainly had a positive influence on her
her dad Judge Daniel Egbert Brainard,
was also a pioneer and Fannys role model
both in herfathersdeeds and his actions
Fanny’s dad was Harrison County Iowa judge from 1857 to 1862 and a member of the state board of education for several years, he held the office of county treasurer and recorder from 1856 to 1858, and was agent for the post office department at Washington County Iowa looking after delinquencies. He held this latter position four years with headquarters usually at Iowa City, but most often he was out in the field examining postal matters in Iowa.
Both of Fanny’s brothers were entrepreneurs George and Orville together started their own newspaper publisher business in 1859 called the Magnolia Weekly Republican and then later the Dunlap Reporter after several years the first newspaper business was sold and neither George decided to farm but also carried the mail
Fanny was destined to be involved with the post office yuh see back in
1854 a post office was being set up in her hometown at that time Magnolia and Fanny's dad was involved becoming postmaster a year after the post office was established in 1855. Her brother George also became postmaster in Magnolia and 1862 was subsequently appointed postmaster of the House of Representatives in Iowa. George decided to lease the newspaper to a Judge FORD, instead of selling it outright.
Magnolia’s Chief feature was Schools and churches; aside from being the county seat of Harrison County Iowa which contributed toward the upbuilding of the place.
The early schools were kept in private houses. In 1858 the first school building was provided at that point. It was a poor "shack" of a house, two stories high, designed for agradedschool; it was used for school purposes until 1866.
Again Fanny taughtthere !
However, by 1868 she met and married Dr. Daniel O'Linn. Dr. O'Linn was a Civil War veteran who participated in "Sherman's March to the Sea" and was renowned as a physician and surgeon.
Fanny, her husband and two sons at that time decided to move to Blair County in 1872, where Dr. O'Linn set up business with Dr. S.B. Taylor.
The year before her brother George had the itch to get back into the newspaper business so by 1871 he started his second paper this time called the Dunlap Reporter
It’s no wonder why The family was described in HarrisoncountyIowa as being strong, high-minded and with true characters.
Tragically Fannie's husband died suddenly in 1880, it left Fannie alone with two sons and by that time she also had a daughter. She had to rely on herself so she decided to immediately take that principal position of she promptly took the Blair schools, followed by Tekamah, and took a leadership role in education in Washington County for four years.
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Something fundamental changed in American 1884 the Homestead Act was past
It provided anyone either a brand new start or a chance to own 160 acres their own land
Fanny viewed it as a new opportunity a new chance for a fresh start
she made the decision to move with her children from the place she always knew and loved and continue west toward Nebraska.
Her plan settle her own small frontier settlement and call it O'Linn.
Many twists and turns in this journey and like all business minded entrepreneurs your best plans don’t always go as planned - the question for fanny and you is how to handle these twists and turns when confronted that’s what makes you who you are and calls you toward your destiny
You see the town of O’Linn was not merely being named such because Fanny had an ego although she had every right - she was accomplished and achieve morethenmost woman or men could at the time she moved west to Nebraska to settle O’Linn.
But the name was to honor the memory of her eldest son, who had died shortly after their move to what would eventually be Dawes County Northwestern Nebraska called the panhandle some say Oklahoma
Fanny homesteaded near the junction of the White River and Chadron Creek, then located in Sioux County near Dakota Junction but today it’s Dawes County.
Her humble abode was merely one-room, 14- by 16-foot claim cabin half dugout and half soddy.
She one of a few earliest settlers in Dawes, she noted that summer that "the only houses ... were around Fort Robinson (while) we had only to throw our lines in the White River to have a catfish (and) found 49 varieties ofwild flowers."
As I mentioned earlier when her son Daniel Egbert was accidentally killed, locals began calling the settlement O'Linn in his honor.
I also mentioned because of her father and brothers involvement with the postal system she didn’t wasteanytimeapplying for a post office in September of 1884, and that’s how the name O'Linn stuck.
One of the first shops to open was owned by another settlor Burr Sheldon
It didn’t take longfirothers to quickly follow with a hardware store, bank, druggistandsaloon, some of which operated out of tents before buildings could be erected.
That December 1884 the first Methodist Church service in the county, known as the White River O'Linn Charge, was held in the O'Linn cabin by Rev. Joseph Gray.
Early in 1885, the population of O'Linn was advertised as 500, replete with five saloons and a dozen stores. Thus, when the Elkhorn, Fremont & Missouri Valley Railroad began scouting the area for right of way, Fannie felt certain that O'Linn would be the natural site for a depot and siding.
Unfortunately, her optimism led her to ask for more money than the railroad felt was justified, and instead they bought land some six miles distant at a site they named Bordeaux.
In the summer of 1885, a county seat election for the new Dawes County chose Chadron on a vote of 582 to 3 for O'Linn.
I have to think that the three votes fanny received was her vote her youngest son and her daughter
How was it that this pioneer dynamic accomplished woman didn’t receive one other vote from anyone else
In my research it was partly do to another settlor named Edward E Egan who started the first newspaper in the town surprising it wasn’t Fanny’s brother Orville who would also settle the area as well and the fact that the Railroad probably didn’t like being told by Fanny the more aggressive terms that her Homestead would become the location for the new Railroad stop. More about that on another podcast as I will do an entire story on Edward Egan the person who got the town and Railroad to rally around the name Chadron over O’Linn.
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Chadron is known as the magic city even though Fanny didn’t get her wish to name Chadron O’Linn
She taught us if things to work out you pick up the pieces dust yourself off and keep moving
I became fascinated with Chadron because people would ask me if I knew there was a Chadrow NE and that there is a fire co and sports wear on the Internet called Chadrow - both turned out to be errors on the Internet never corrected but back in a lot of ways I’m glad because if you go back to Chadron.net you can learn more about the Chadrow 4 Chadron project bringing more tourists and people to the area and learn about our country’s founding and the amazing stories of people that come slice at Chadron.net and tell a story that can help inspire motivate you in your life and business
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When the railroad arrived in July of 1885 O'Linn or now Chadron meaning the entire town literally picked up and moved to the new site - one store even kept operating while "being trundled over the prairie." Lowenthal
How many towns are you aware of the history of the US that could or can just pick up and overnight move giving it the name the magical city
Despite the perceived set back of not having her Homestead as the railroad stop or name of the town like a determined person she was with true character and grit
Fannie moved as well too, and not only that she became Chadron's first postmaster.
Later becoming what some say the fifth female attorney in Nebraska. However studying the law under the direction of her father the judge back in Iowa must have provided her great exposure to the law thus some say she might have actually been the 2nd practicing woman attorney in Nebraska
Whatever her ranking, Fannie O'Linn was one of the originators of the Northwest Nebraska Teachers Association, one of the initial promoters of Chadron's library, and again its first postmaster, becoming "one of the most widely known and respected women in the northwest ... present at the first wedding, the first birth and the first funeral in Dawes County."
It doesn’t stop there for those who say I have done all I can in business and life fanny kept going she was the first female insurance broker, was also involved heavily in organizations, such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the women's suffrage movement
Yes O'Linn battled tragedy throughout her life, but she persevered, playing a crucial role in the settlement and development of her communities both in Iowa and Nebraska
I was driven by this story for so many reasons - Just think she loses her husband then her oldest son she is on the western plains of Nebraska single woman in this really harsh tough life of circumstances who despite all of this pushed forward to her own future journey.
To recap in conclusion Here is a list of this amazing woman's accomplishment that only a few ever achieve:
She was admitted to the bar in 1885, was responsible for keeping the land office in Chadron, then started an abstract business, she started the town called O'Linn that eventually became Chadron. She was the first postmistress of the town, and was one of the first female postmistresses."
she even served as a midwife and is believed to have been responsible for helping to birth most of the children born in Dawes County from 1880 through 1910.
Her life was complex, full and varied. She battled with area ranchers and businessmen, was a correspondent for the Omaha Bee, served as president and historian for Dawes County for the Nebraska Historical Association, and was a charter member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Chadron. Her influence even extended into raising the young woman who would grow to fame as Dr. Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a pioneer in women's and educational psychology at Columbia University.
Unfortunately, her youngest son also predeceased her and only her daughter (who had been born in Blair County Iowa) would survive her; her descendants eventually moved away from Dawes County, leaving no one to tell her story or recount her achievements - until now.
By 1890-1891 she is listed asMrsFanny O'Linn attorney at law, notary public, abstracts,
insurance, real estate, and loans.
Her dad moves to Chadron around this time
The last years of Judge BRAINARD's life were spent in Chadron, Nebraska, with his daughter.
He passed away
On Dec 4, 1892 (at the aged 83) but his family buried him back in Magnolia where he spent most of his years at
Magnolia Cemetery
Magnolia, Harrison County, Iowa, USA
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We can all learn something from folks like Fannie. I hope you all Listened Up and found out what is so special and important in really hearing this story
Fanny passed away on July 19, 1926 (at the aged 78)
her Burial spot Blair Cemetery
Blair, Washington County, Nebraska
Her grave marker is prominently displayed to honor the amazing legacy she left for all those who want toListenupto the story she left for everyone!
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Winston Churchill Business Startup Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned Show 061 If I could interview someone Winston Churchill would top on my list and as business owners, startups and those wanting to learn lessons of entrepreneurship you must listen up to today's show 061.
Winston Churchill was a soldier, a historian, a statesman, a knight, a painter, a bricklayer, and every bit a smart-aleck a war leader and one of my hero's
On today’s show learn Why Study Winston Churchill?
What are we going to discuss -
lessons learned - > it is not just what he said with so many awesome quotes but what he did!
So many life lessons:
-> Where you start means little compared to where you finish.
-> Bold action and good fortune can lead to remarkable circumstances.
-> Even great men have bills to worry about.
-> Personality can shine from small things
Winston Churchill taught business owners, startups, entrepreneurs taught everyday business startup entrepreneurial success.
You don’t want to be a Neville Chamberlain in business -
as an entrepreneur, you do not want to be someone who is merely willing to just go along to get along
your business strategy should not be one of appeasement merely planning out of Fear
What did Churchill teach us about one of the most important characteristics you must have as a business owner?
Courage-
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
I always tell my younger daughter she is the voice that others don't have - when it comes to your business you are it's the biggest fan you must promote it and act as a raving fan but when surrounding yourself with a team, outside advisors and customers you also have to be willing to also listen up
Churchill was big on - > Taking action and executing on his plans!
He would put red labels on all his documents with the words “Action this day”
His mantra was - >
I never ‘worry’ about action but only about inaction”
His Management style during World War II!
I often ask what would have happened had Churchill, not Chamberlain was Prime Minister in 1937 but I am so thankful he did in 1940! If not this world would look a lot different then it does today
Communication skills are critical to success :
For example, In addition to Churchill's actions of communicating regularly to his top team of commanders in the field, another critical characteristic for business success and what Churchill was great at was his speedy resolutions he demanded that colleagues and staff all signed up for total commitment and action
We all heard of people that throughout life make things happen and certainly I knew my dad as someone like that but Winston Churchill in a huge way was someone throughout his life that made things happen especially given that this world needed someone just like during the critical time in the history of the World
Churchill was Relentlessly driven and focused
For example, During World War, he had personal challenges yet he demanded personal bravery in the face of not only physical danger but also intense mental battles
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Four key life principles to remember as they apply to you, your family and business and stories about how they also apply to the life of Winston Churchill:
How you start out in business doesn't tell us much versus how you finish -
This relates to Winston - When Churchill was young he not only failed to set the academic world on fire, “I did not do well in examinations. This was especially true of my Entrance Examination to Harrow. I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question. Thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was either relevant or true. I gazed for two whole hours at this sad spectacle: and then merciful ushers collected my piece of foolscap with all the others and carried it up to the Headmaster's table. “
Despite the stumbling start, as Boris Johnson points out, Churchill ran a race few of us could dream of matching: producing more published words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined, winning the Nobel Prize for literature, serving in every great office of state including prime minister (twice), indispensable to victory in two world wars and posthumously has paintings valued at more than a million dollars.
In business, you must take bold steps or actions have some good luck but together it can create some awesome results -
Captured as an obscure newspaper correspondent during the Boer war, Churchill escaped from his South African POW camp, made his way to a rail yard and hid in a box car filled with sacks of coal. Realizing Boer troops would likely search again at the next town, Churchill waited for darkness and jumped into unfamiliar countryside from the moving train. Without food or water, he was soon forced out of hiding. Unbeknownst to Churchill, the closest country house belonged to a British sympathizer and he was greeted with the words, ““Thank God you have come here! It is the only house for twenty miles where you would not have been handed over.” Churchill made it back to British lines, returning to London as a national hero – and poised to begin his political career.
When you are just getting started in business everyone has concerns even the greatest most accomplished and some even worry about how they will actually pay the bills -
Money worries nipped at Churchill’s heels for almost all of his adult life. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was (unfortunately) the younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, who secured his fortune by marrying Jennie Jerome, daughter of Leonard Jerome, an American financier known as “The King of Wall Street” and frequent business partner of J.P. Morgan. Accustomed to an aristocratic life, little inheritance came Winston’s way and what he had was lost in the crash of 1929.
From that point forward Churchill’s sole means of supporting a highly extravagant lifestyle came from writing articles and publishing books. Few of his peers were aware of Churchill’s constant cash flow worries. Even fewer knew he worked prodigiously because – in the words of a close friend, ““if the music stopped, he would be insolvent”.
His salvation came in two forms: a complete lack of “writer’s block” and the discovery of dictation as an alternative to writing out content. Churchill created a factory approach to writing and employed a team of researchers and ghostwriters. He also developed a disguised working routine: after hosting dinner, Churchill would mimic his guests and appear to retire for the night. Instead, he walked to a suite of rooms where his staff worked with him until two or three in the morning. By the time he greeted guests at breakfast the next morning, new material was on its way to the publishers and he was a “man of leisure” again.
Your personality in business can really make all the difference even by focusing on what seems to be all the small stuff and most of it is -
At Churchill’s Chartwell estate, often one of a visitor’s most memorable and charming experiences is the sight of stuffed animals peeking out from the library shelves. Churchill was tremendously annoyed when books could not be found quickly. The solution he devised was to use small stuffed animals as library placeholders. The Chartwell staff professes that the animals seen in the library are legacies from Winston himself.
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When it comes to Churchill books: the top of my list is by Dr. Larry P. Arnn President of Hillsdale College he wrote an amazing book on Churchill called Churchill's Trial Winston Churchill and the salvation of free government - Hillsdale College is also involved with the Churchill Project and I will have a link in the show notes to that wonderful work
Who are your heroes: All different people would say Winston Churchill - On show 005 we mentioned how Susan Matthews MSNBC Hardball Chris Matthews thought of Winston Churchill as his hero he is also one of my heroes. When asked what guest Chris Matthews would have most wanted to have on his Hardball show his answer the British leader. We did a show on the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Fun Fact about Churchill:
President Ford gave the most comprehensive Churchill speech ever. When President Gerald Ford spoke at the commemoration of Churchill's 109th birthday at the English Speaking Union in 1983, he gave what's become known as The Churchill Lecture. So beloved was this speech that many insisted it is printed and distributed as an authoritative biography. This wish was granted, and if interested, book collectors can now find limited editions of the speech printed and signed by President Ford for sale for a couple hundred dollars.
When it comes to quotes Churchill had so many awesome memorable quotes so I list numerous here because you should apply them all to your own business:
On being your own publicist
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
That's why each of you should have your own website, blog and do your own marketing, sales and SEO because we have talked about telling your own story but you must control the message, develop the story and be your number one fan!
Persistence and never given up is so critical in business and life:
“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
keep that in mind when you think things are not going your way in business or that business is not coming in fast enough
You are in business to make a profit otherwise you would run a not for profit business -
“Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.”
each day attempt to sell your products, solutions services
On perseverance
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Don’t allow the occasional failure to discourage you in any way. We all have failed in the past, and we all will fail in the future. So much is certain.
If we cannot avoid a failure we should try to learn as much as we can from it. Draw the essential conclusions out of the things that happened to you and try to give you very best to avoid similar failures the next time.
Difficulties Mastered are Opportunities won.
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
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One month before America joined Britain in World War II to battle hitler in the great battle he said: "The only guide to a man is his conscience;" he said, "the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsettings of our calculations; but with this shield, however, the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor."
What is true bravery well
today so many politicians cling to their office, Winston acted as if he was truly prepared to walk away, to risk what others said and what the talking heads preached and knowing the rejection, which came to him on so many unbearable occasions, but he refused to be someone that he wasn't - > a mantra I always say "to they shelf be true" He didn’t spend a lot of wasted energy and he didn't believe in anger on what his critics thought, didn’t ask what someone else’s definition of "is" was. He wrote his own speeches because no one else but he had the sentiment, the knowledge, the passion to write for himself: Winston Churchill.
The goal of World War II, this great man said, was "to revive the status of man." He wanted to raise up the individual beyond the reach of the evil monsters of this world hitlers and stalins.
"What is the use of living," he asked, "if it is not to strive for nobler causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"
don't forget balance business with family and life.
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Until next time my trusted friends!
Resources
Chadrow.org - balance business, family and life: leaving a legacy
Hillsdale College
President Gerald Ford
Winston Churchill Collection
Online Marketplace Private Loans Insurtech Meets Fintech TODAY'S GUEST
Michael VanErdewyk, ReliaMax Founder and CEO
HEMAR was started in 1986 as a private student loan insurance company. In 1996 Sallie Mae purchased HEMAR but HEMAR could only insure loans originated by Sallie. Mike started a workers compensation insurance company and worker compensation GMA in Sioux Falls, SD. Mike sold both companies in 2006 because he purchased HEMAR from Sallie Mae in 2006. The company went from an insurance company insuring private student loans to an online marketplace platform known as ReliaMax today.
Website lenders: ReliaMax (B2B)
Website consumers: FUTR
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The High cost of student higher education year over year is more than $400 billion and it continues to increase with a fourth of students and their families funding their education from free grants and scholarships and quarter from federal student loans the other 200 billion is from family contributions which typically are funded from credit cards, personal loans retirement assets sometimes coming with penalty withdrawals, home equity loans todays entrepreneur and industry leader saw an idea, saw a great business and took action and we are going to ask him how he began executing on his goals and plans to build a solution to fill the necessary gap for students and families in this education loan niche an asset class called private student loans where fintech and insurtech come together.
What is so special about what today’s guest is doing well he sits in a unique spot where now he actually helps both lenders and students.
RESOURCES
Student Loan Hero
Lending Tree
Credible.com
Goldman Sachs - Marcus
Hemar - Kevin Mulan Co-Founder
Prudential Insurance Company
Sourabh Ahuja ReliaMax Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director, Digital Transformation.
Glu Mobile
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How to benefit from the latest online student loan marketplace technology in the US.
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Family student loan options and education assistance.
Stephen Dash Credible Founder and CEO Student Loan Marketplace
Stephen Dash is 33 years of age, Australian Tech Entrepreneur. At 28 Stephen left Australia for Silicon Valley. Prior to the company, IPO Stephen raised 26 million and another $68 million from the IPO. Now the company is valued at over $306 million and he owns 45%. Truly an amazing story. But the story is just getting started, so many big things are in store for Credible!
Credible’s founding principle is to provide borrowers the level of transparency they deserve. As a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted partners, Credible empowers consumers to take control of their financial futures. Borrowers can fill out one form, then receive and compare numerous personalized offers and choose which best serves their individual needs. Credible is fiercely independent, committed to delivering fair and unbiased solutions in online lending. Credible is based in San Francisco, California.
David Zamarin Detrapel Founder Appears on Shark Tank Show 058 David Zamarin, Founder, Detrapel - Check out his first appearance on the Listenup Show via show 025
David sold two of the Sharks on his non-toxic, superhydrophobic spray that repels stains,
Shark Tank, the entrepreneurship reality show that has helped entrepreneurs: David on episode 916 that aired on January 7, 2018 did well. Like the Listenup Show and the Mitchell Chadrow podcast Shark Tank is a business-themed show and inspires all of us to execute on our business goals
David handled the tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoon Sharks well. The work David has done with Detrapel is an amazing story to listen up to and should motivate and inspire all of you in search of your own business goals. David is being given such an opportunity by The Sharks as he chases the American dream and potentially secures a business deal that could make him the next millionaire.
We talk about several topics: Babson College - Entrepreneurial Studies
The Grommet - Product Launch Platform, Ace Hardware, Jordan's Furniture, IMAX Theatre's , Landmark Theatre's, Joel Schulman, EntrepreneurShares LLC, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Barbara Corcoran
Chris Fralic & Josh Kopelman VC, First Round Capital, B2B, B2C, Retail Strategy, 3M Scotchgard, Product Segmentation, William S. 'Bill' Green, All In Book
Startups Smarter Take Action Execute Your Goals Show 057
Hey There Trusted Friends I'm Mitchell Chadrow
Happy New Year
Let’s Make this Your Best Year Ever!!
That’s what this shows all about
Not just focused on the Why but the How
And we are going to show you how to do just that
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season
If You are new to the Listenup Show where have you been !
We have so many awesome shows in the archives here
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Starting and growing a business is what it’s all about but making sure you balance that with family and life
Have You ever asked the question - why startup a business:
Is it just to make money ?
To create a family legacy ?
You like the idea of working from home?
You have the ability to visit your family in the middle of the day?
Go to your children's school functions?
Having flexibility?
Not having to deal with 10+ hours a week sitting in traffic traveling to and from a job that’s owned by someone else and you are not getting paid to sit in traffic or travel?
The podcast show is like a university on wheels your knowledge and education center for all things business.
This year my main goal is helping you in all things business advice, that’s really our main goal
I am also growing my podcast show and other websites
Bringing you more education so you can build your own business
But today we are not just talking starting and building a business but setting your personal goals
Why create your own goals for you your family and business
We are here to serve you our loyal listeners
I have been an Attorney for over 20 years, have worked for some of the largest banks in the Us and have worked with business owners helping them build wealth for their businesses and personally for them and their family
How can I help you more this year is my mantra !
If you are new to the podcast go to my website - I have a free three page PDF called the startup checklist
It’s free and you can download it right there -> mitchellchadrow.com/checklist
I have worked for others as a fiduciary banker, attorney, tax guy -
2017 was a good year but 2018 is going to be great !
I’m going to be doing more presentations on starting up and growing your business and balancing that with family and life
Bringing you more business education, resources and tools
If you are new to the show our focus is on startups, entrepreneurs, business owners and those thinking about it but still haven’t taken action
Building a balance among business, family and life
To Gain business education and help you with your idea, sales, marketing we use the stories and lessons from other successful leaders, growth companies but those stories only go so far it’s more about you and your story and why you want to Startup and grow that business and there a lot of things that go into that to make it happen
Don’t have limited beliefs think abundance
Think through how your goals effect not only your business but family and life remove your ego
It’s having a goal to focus on, take small steps toward achieving the goal taking action and executing
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Today’s podcast show lessons:
Always take action to truly learn
Don’t just stay where your at, you must explore
Don’t just search and talk you must actually do
Stop talking yourself out of it, stop finding excuses for not writing down, speaking out loud your personal goals and moving toward executing them - taking action
Ask yourself what are your business goals, why do you have those goals and most important how we are going to execute those goals all while balancing those goals with your family and life goals!
what has been the number one reason you haven’t taken action so far what is preventing you from executing on starting up
Ask yourself these questions -
Focus on your primary business goal first - you must be clear why am I doing this ?
Have the right mind set - Be strong and have courage ! is my motto -
Not only say your goals out loud set them down in writing read them it down where you can see it everyday your goals see it write it repeat it
Take small steps baby steps with Have progress not perfection taking action teaches you
Take small moments for providing gratitude to yourself for each step that you are moving forward to achieve small steps of accomplishment
Stop beating yourself up or creating that loop of negativity and feeling sorry for yourself don’t let it prevent you from taking action
Get it done
Fear biggest obstacle
Success has a ripple effect
You will see Growth as change is an evolution especially when you become a better version of you with
No negativity
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My book recommendation: Millionaire Mind by Dr. Thomas Stanley
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Let’s summarize what you learned today:
Step One focus on that one business goal
Startup, get online, make your first sale, create your marketing plan, grow the business, find your team
Step two - get clear and focus on why - why are you doing this - what is your purpose - it might be to balance business, family and life, give a legacy to your family, make a difference to others - whatever it is is probably more than I want to be a millionaire -
Step three - write down your goals, read them and speak them out loud
Step four - Have the right mind be positive stop the negativity and hanging around those that attempt to pull you down - surround yourself with good people who can help you and your goals
Step five - execute we help you here with the how so we are only a call away or email away
You can call 209-878-7820 leave a voice message our team gets back to you within 24 hours, leave your name, #, subject and brief message or email me Mitchell@mitchellchadrow.com I am here to help you and your family and serve - tell me your goals, your why and I will provide the how with continued education, training and advice.
Until next time my Trusted Friends!
Realtyshares Founder Nav Athwal Talks Future Real Estate Investing Show 056 Nav Athwal is a real estate investor and fintech entrepreneur. Nav is the Founder and former CEO of Realtyshares.
Nav has published Articles on Forbes, he has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business.
Realty Shares is an Online marketplace for real estate investing with its 120,000 registered investors, surpassing $500 million in capital deployed with over 1,000 projects in 39 states.
What we talk about:
How does realty shares work?
*How do you make a business more accessible, efficient, and transparent.
*What does it takes to build a leading online marketplace for real estate investing
*How Nav took the old real estate model and actually made it easier, simpler and more accessible to everyone and how you can use the same techniques in your own service industry for your own products and solutions
*We speak about the old models and fee structures and how he implemented the new models and thinking about what you will take away so you can apply these concepts to your side hustles, startups or businesses
*How did Nav first come up with the value proposition for his product service or solution and what you need to be thinking about as you Listenup so you can apply what you will learn here to your own businesses
Resources from the show:
Sam Zell
Avalonbay
Regulation A+
Passive Income
Crowd Funding
Accredited Investor
Cushman & Wakefield
Edward C. Forst
Goldman Sachs
Ron Suber
Prosper
Lending Club
Napier Park Global Capital
SoFi
AirBnB
Tech Crunch Article: Fintech Startups Navigate Legal Gray Areas
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
General Catalyst Boston VC
Menlo Ventures
Union Square Ventures
Equity Residential
IQ, EQ & AQ
Kickstarter
Indiegogo
Zynga
Trulia
Reality Mobile
FundRise
Today's guest: Ron Suber was President of Prosper Marketplace and is a Lending Industry Legend. Ron has been called the “godfather of fintech” by San Francisco Business Times, and the “go-to” guy for fintech innovation.
What you'll learn:
*what does it take to make things happen?
*How do you overcome hurdles and obstacles
*What are the new barriers to entry
*How do you constantly reinvent yourself, stay current in this ever-changing industry called fintech?
and *the Past, present, and future of fintech!!
Resources:
Rewirement.co
LendIt
IQ, EQ, AQ
Lend Academy
Prosper
Lending Club
Bloomberg
Super Normal - Resilience
WebBank
Goldman Sachs
Marcus
Ondeck
JPMorgan
Kabbage
Santander
Avant
Sofi
Friendly Transfer
Docusign
Credible
YieldStreet
Wayne Dyer - Power of Intention and Daily Intention. Set your intention.
. Books
. Hosting
. Graphic Designer
tags: financial services, fintech, technology, p2p lending, online platform
Apps Builder Brady S Acton Appdotly Founder.
Brady is an Inventor, Entrepreneur and Villanova School of Business student.
I spoke with Brady to help my listeners learn to develop an app with little money and experience. For absolutely no charge, Brady who is an experienced developer and entrepreneur and offered to help my Listenup Show the Mitchell Chadrow podcast audience help with their own apps and business.
Some additional things we learn in the episode are on how to create web/mobile apps. Start a technology company. Grow/market an app.
Build an app on a budget.
We also spoke about several resources that include: the Fish Feast App
his non-profit that helps other bootstrapping entrepreneurs: Appdotly Consulting
resources you can find at the Villanova's Center for Entrepreneurship (ICE Institute. He also help with the Orai App and you may recall I interviewed that Founder Danish Dhamani back on show 052.
Brady now works at Deloitte Consulting, he was a semifinalist for PECO "Innovator of the Year" and attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Topics: graphic designer Canva, hosting company Wix, app company Trivia Note Inc., venture capital private equity firm Ben Franklin Technology Partners
magazine and scholarship Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar.
Listenup to the interview via mitchellchadrow.com/show054
Today's guest David Zamarin, Detrapel founder appears on Shark Tank and gets a capital investment from Mark Cuban the billionaire Mavericks owner and Lori Greiner, Queen of QVC in the amount of $200,000 for a 25% investment in the liquid repellent spray company. I first spoke with David on his first appearance about being a serial young entrepreneur.
David sold not one but two of the Sharks on his non-toxic, superhydrophobic spray that repels stains,
Shark Tank, the entrepreneurship reality show that has helped entrepreneurs, saw David on episode 916 of the opening of the show's tenth season. Like the Listenup Show and the Mitchell Chadrow podcast Shark Tank is a business-themed show and inspires all of us to execute on our business goals.
David handled the tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoon Sharks well. The work David has done with Detrapel is an amazing story to listen up to and should motivate and inspire all of you in search of your own business goals. David has been given a great opportunity by The Sharks as he is chasing the American dream and did secure a business deal that now helps him become the next millionaire. What you'll learn is has to network, make the right connections to raise money for your business. How David actually got on ABC TV show Shark Tank and what it took to actually raise the money for your business.
So many resources are discussed on the show:
Babson College - Entrepreneurial Studies
The Grommet - Product Launch Platform
Ace Hardware
Jordan's Furniture
IMAX Theatre's
Landmark Theatre's
Joel Schulman, EntrepreneurShares LLC
Mark Cuban
Lori Greiner
Barbara Corcoran
Chris Fralic, VC, First Round Capital
First Round Capital - Josh Kopelman, VC
B2B
B2C
Retail Strategy
3M Scotchgard
Product Segmentation
Shark Tank - second new episode of ABC's 'Shark Tank,' Sunday, January 7 "Episode 916" - David Zamarin, Founder of Detrapel, a young serial entrepreneur and past Listenup Show guest airing (10:00-11:00 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.
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The Sharks on David's episode are Robert Herjavec, Barbara Corcoran, Mark
Cuban, Lori Greiner and branding guru, Rohan Oza.
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Danish Dhamani founded Orai a language coaching app. The app has been featured in Fast Company, Wired Magazine, and Venture Beat. Danish was born in Pakistan and was raised in Tanzania.
How to speak with confidence and speak more powerfully when on stage, in front of a room, or even in everyday life.
Learn to use on-demand speech and video artificial intelligence to boost sales, close more business from targeted insights on your speech by leveraging the machine learning algorithms which automatically evaluate a pitch on parameters such as content, confidence, clarity, tone, and energy.
How a first-time entrepreneur and college engineer, built an app.
Using both artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) how you can help people solve a problem like public speaking one of the largest fears in the world.
Leveraging and improve your speech and sales with machine learning enterprise software to improve your business sales with on-demand speech and video technology.
Improving your speech and sales with enterprise software
We talk funding raising through various competitions:
• Microsoft U.S. Imagine Cup
what guides you most on this entrepreneurial journey? tags: AI, artificial intelligence, VR, Virtual Reality, app development, public speaking, coaching, YouTube Channel Platform:
The post Emergency Information Systems Product Designer Developer Jared Therrien Show 051 was re-published on listenupshow.com
We are interviewing Jared Therrien on today's Show 051
Jared is the founder of Emergency Information Systems, LLC The company offers decal and hardware products which increase the situational awareness of emergency responders throughout incidents in high-occupancy buildings.
What are we going to learn:
1) How Emergency Information Systems designs, develops and sells their products. 2) The importance of reducing emergency response times by providing missing information during an incident to responding personnel. 3) How to see a problem then ask yourself specific questions that will help your end user solve their issues! 4) How to find your customer Our startup round:
1) Jared - In real estate, we hear that mantra: Location location location but location is not just for real estate apparently it is also the single most important piece of information that emergency response personnel need to know. Tell us about that -
2) how does the company solve this problem?
3) Manufacture process ? THE BEST MATERIALS
4) What is the Wayfinder™ Safety System?
5) Window Appliquies?
Wayfinder™ Window Appliques are a stylish wayfinding option. Vinyl creates a modern look and makes a great addition to any renovation project. We use a reflective film to frost the entire window and then cut large numbers out of the film. This option also increases privacy on ground-floor windows.
Windows are great points of access and egress for school buildings, but without proper markings, they cannot be used effectively during emergency situations. Campus security experts around the country recommend placing decals in classroom windows, indicating which window belongs to each classroom. This helps response crews to gather important information about the incident location and increase situational awareness, speeding egress from windows and operations overall.
Reflective Numeral Decals?
Wayfinder™ Reflective Numeral Decals are highly visible. They are the only inside-glass mount/interior-installation reflective decals on the market. The high-intensity Prismatic film is used to increase visibility and durability, ensuring proper exterior wayfinding for your school for years to come.
Why Wayfinder™ Decals?
Taking into account the principles of Environmental Graphic Design, which blends elements of the interior, architectural, and wayfinding/navigational design, we have optimized our decals to best serve the functional needs of first responders and the aesthetic needs of the school customer. High Visibility Reflective Vinyl Unlike many other existing options, WAYFINDER™ Reflective Numeral Decals and Window Appliques are reflective, ensuring maximum visibility at all times of the day and night, and in all-weather conditions. Our decals are made of a premium-grade retro-reflective vinyl.
We proudly make all decal products out of the highest quality vinyl films and materials available on the market. Durable & Attractive WAYFINDER™ Window Appliques provide a modern look to your school while increasing safety. These beautiful decals often outlast their 10-year rated life, resisting damage and fading caused by constant sunlight exposure. Strong, permanent adhesives prevent peeling and vandalism.
Resources
Funding & Grant Opportunities
Our goal at EIS is to reduce emergency response times and save lives. We know budgets are tight and funding is hard to come by. To make our school security and wayfinding products affordable for everyone, we price our products competitively. Additionally, we have prepared a list of School & Campus Security grants and funding resources to help offset costs. Be sure to check with your local and state governments for grant opportunities.
Federal Resources
Grants.gov Department of Education Department of Homeland Security U.S. Dept. of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Grant Writing Resources Grant Basics and Definitions - U.S. Dept. of Education A simple guide to grant writing (with examples)
FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES
Emergency Service Department Grants State-by-State Resources Pennsylvania - This list is updated as new funding opportunities become available. -
Fast Pitch:
Book recommendation -
What contributes most to your success
app productivity business finance Best business advice you ever received
Who do you use to host your website
Wrap up round:
Three main take aways -
How can people stay in touch -
#: 860-539-9430 email: mail@emergencyinformationsystems.com Site: www.emergencyinformationsystems.com
What is your philosophy on balancing business, family, and life
tags: product design, emergency information systems, product development
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Inspirational + Motivational Show By Jared Therrien
"I started 'listening up' when I heard a few Drexel classmates and professors were interviewed by Mitchell. After listening to their stories, I ended up listening to over 20+ episodes while driving to job sites for my own start-up. Hearing other entrepreneurs' stories and struggles are extremely motivating. The show makes you think critically about your own journey. I have applied the advice learned on this show to my business and will surely continue to listen."
Today on Show 050 we are interviewing Hamilton Perkins
Hamilton Perkins Collection uses recycled plastic bottles to manufacture travel bag canvas and recycled vinyl billboard material for the duffle bag lining.
Hamilton Perkins is the founder and President of Hamilton Perkins Collection, an e-commerce retailer, offering designer travel bags at an affordable price while holding the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
What are we going to learn today: how Hamilton came up with his idea, what problem he was solving and testing the product concept. We are going to talk sales and marketing and find out how he does it! From manufacturing to distribution.
The Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Money Magazine. Now on the Listenup Show!
Prior to starting Hamilton Perkins Collection, he was the winner of the 2016 Virginia Velocity Tour business pitch competition hosted by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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How Hamilton came up with the business idea to solve this problem.
Hamilton Perkins was preparing to travel to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Madrid and Athens with classmates in his executive MBA program when he came across a problem: He couldn’t find the right carry-on bag. They were either too flimsy, too impractical or too mainstream. So he decided to create his own. How to build a successful crowdfunding campaign with kickstarter. Hamilton raised: $14,329 of a $10,000 goal (as of July 14). The campaign began June 30 and ended July 30. The unique bag making manufacturing process and his successful experience in creating an environmentally sustainable product and supply chain. At Hamilton Perkins Collection the travel bags, line of duffel bags and backpacks are actually made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles and lined with vinyl from repurposed billboards. Each bag is different, unique. How Hamilton Perkins got his Collection into the Department stores. How he tested the idea before launching. Perkins began setting up focus groups with family members and friends to get their ideas about what they wanted in a bag. He also searched Twitter for ideas and combed through hundreds of one-star luggage reviews on Amazon.com to get a sense of common customer complaints. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, owns The Washington Post.) “No one is as serious or as truthful about something until they’re mad about a purchase,” Perkins said. “Customer reviews are a world of their own. They contain so much information.” Eventually, a theme emerged in his research: “The main things we kept coming up with were duffel bag and backpack, backpack and duffel bag,” Perkins said. “That, and people wanted something that was unique.” He decided to combine those three things and designed a bag that doubles as both duffel and backpack. (Picture a traditional duffel bag with backpack straps on the bottom. The bag has a three-way zipper so its contents can be accessed from either the top of the bag or its side, and all straps can be zipped away when not in use.) Perkins researched different types of material, too, and teamed up with Thread International, a company that makes fabric using recycled materials, for his first prototype. The fabric on the outside of the bag is made of recycled plastic bottles, while the inside of each bag is created from repurposed vinyl from old billboards. A factory in Oregon makes each bag. “Personally, I think the days of everyone buying the same cookie-cutter product are over,” Perkins said. “People want things that are unique and special.” Perkins has already invested more than $25,000 of his savings into the one-man company and says he was looking for a way to get the word out about his bag. He set a $10,000 goal on Kickstarter and was surprised when the money began rolling in right away. Within a week, he’d met his goal. “You really don’t know what’s going to happen on a site like that,” he said. “This could have done great or it could have bombed.” Luckily for Perkins, it was the former. About halfway through his campaign, he has raised nearly $15,000 from 100 backers. A $95 pledge gets donors a duffel bag, while $295 gets them the company’s convertible backpack.
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Perkins said it will take until December to manufacture his first batch of 1,000 bags for Kickstarter backers. From there, he plans to add four more colors to his line-up and eventually look into creating other products. “There are a lot of interesting things going on with technology and fabrics, so we could look into integrating conductive fabric into our products or making it possible for them to communicate with smartphones and other devices,” he said. “Bags are just a starting point.” Hamilton was an Investment Advisor at Merrill Lynch and, earlier, worked as an Analyst at Bank of America. He has also served in a leadership capacity with various non-profit organizations and has been recognized for his volunteer work and service hours assisting low-income populations. Hamilton is also a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post. has hosted trunk shows at Bloomingdale’s was a financial planner for Merrill Lynch. Lives Norfolk, Va. He is a graduate of Old Dominion University with a degree in Business Administration and he earned his M.B.A. from William and Mary. Huffington Post Turning Trash Into Fashion The Problem In 2014, I thought carefully about my quest to find a unique and socially responsible backpack. It all started when I was having a personal problem while earning my MBA at William and Mary. I was planning to travel on global immersion experiences to Asia and Europe and felt that my options to find a bag that I could be proud to carry were severely limited. Before the vision to turn plastic bottles into bags at Hamilton Perkins Collection, we simply were not satisfied with the selections available in the growing global bag market. We came to the industry from a customer’s point of view and we sought to use this as an advantage. In the beginning, we thought a lot about establishing a for-profit organization that would be driven by social progress. We thought that this could be the catalyst to support the vision for building a better bag. We surveyed friends, family, and prospects to understand the market opportunity and saw a big gap between the ubiquitous bags that sold for less than $100 and the high-end luxury bags that sold for north of $500. Additionally, we were passionate about solving problems and noticed first hand the modern inconvenience of waste in the form of plastic bottles. At the time it just seemed as if the benefits of recycling were not fully addressing concerns in our everyday lives. Moreover, we saw how this affected social and environmental issues and we knew we had to start building our proposition around carrying a bag that looks good and that makes a difference. A key finding from our research was that most bags were one dimensional, not giving the traveler the option to choose the version of the bag that was most suitable for them. We formed our thesis around the pain points that our focus groups were voicing to us and turned to one star Amazon reviews and algorithms for deeper unfiltered data. The Solution We developed the Hamilton Perkins Collection Earthbag, an all-in-one convertible backpack made out of recycled plastic bottles and lined with vinyl from repurposed billboards. The Hamilton Perkins Collection Earthbag features a 3-way zippered compartment that allows easy access to laptops, books, and travel documents. The Value Our bags are the perfect pick if you’re looking for the right blend of style and function. 1. Recycled Plastic Bottles - Hamilton Perkins Collection Earthbags are the world’s first impactful and transparent bags: made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles. 2. Repurposed Billboards - The Hamilton Perkins Collection Earthbags are lined with repurposed billboard vinyl. Each bag’s lining is different, each bag is unique. 3. Design, transparency, and impact - Hamilton Perkins Collection bags reduce waste, cut carbon emissions in the environment, and conserve water. A New Perspective Fast forward to 2016, Hamilton Perkins Collection earned its status as a Certified B Corporation® by offering designer travel bags at an affordable price, while holding the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Starting at $95, we are proud to make exceptional products that make a difference one bag at a time. Design Thinking Design and function are two driving forces behind our product line. Our approach to design has been customer-centric from day one. We take great pride in seeing the world from the customer’s point of view first and then taking it upon ourselves to be the change that we seek. We prototype and ideate dynamically to find what works for the traveler and what doesn’t. We get excited about making something that doesn’t exist and seeing it bring change and make a difference. At the end of the day, it’s about people for us and when they trust us to design the bag that they carry we don’t take the opportunity lightly. Our level of care sets us apart in a market where there are so many options to choose from. Hamilton Perkins Collection was born out of a simple necessity: the need for affordable designer bags that look good, perform well and make a difference. Similar to many travelers in the world we had trouble finding a socially conscious bag that met our basic needs in a practical and responsible way. We researched the industry and found that most options were average quality. The majority of the bag makers maintain low prices with high levels of secrecy around how they can achieve it. Other bags are excellent quality and their cost is way too much for the price. What is available to the modern traveler looking to find purpose in every journey? We founded Hamilton Perkins Collection to be an alternative. We stripped down the traditional walls of the retail world and invited our customers to share their comments and thoughts with us in a way not previously feasible. We interviewed countless travelers to start new authentic relationships and they told us how we could best serve their needs when re-engineering a classic travel bag. Most brands look at philanthropy and giving as an afterthought but we see it as an essential part of running a business today. In collaboration with our workshops and suppliers, we are committed to supporting fair wages and delivering value to less developed nations by sourcing raw materials that divert thousands of plastic bottles, save water, add revenue, and create jobs in parts of the world that need it the most. We track our progress and submit to rigorous third party review to ensure accuracy and accountability. With billions of plastic bottles thrown away each year, the average person still throws away as much as 180 pounds of plastic in the same period of time. It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade. We address these issues by partnering with organizations like Thread, to turn trash into fashion with every bag we sell. When you buy our bags, together we reduce waste levels, cut carbon emissions, conserve water - and create jobs. Final Thoughts Change is a funny thing. We’ve experienced change and its many benefits by carrying the Earthbag in our everyday lives. We have sparked lifestyle adjustments that were not evident until examining a simple travel bag. Although we successfully funded our debut Kickstarter campaign in under a week and were selected a Kickstarter “Project We Love” you can still reserve a Hamilton Perkins Collection Earth Bag until July 29, 2016, and learn more about how our epiphany is changing lives. Follow us on Snapchat: hamiltonperkins
Digital trends For the members of a generation raised on instant gratification, it can be difficult to see the benefits of recycling. After all, how do we really know where those plastic bottles go after we've separated them? Hamilton Perkins has an answer -- they go into designer travel bags that are as sleek as they are safe for the environment. Reaching its Kickstarter goal in under a week, Hamilton Perkins and its 100-percent eco-friendly bags promise luxury at an affordable price, "while holding the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency." Every bag from this green atelier is made from recycled plastic bottles, but that's not where the reusing ends. The lining of all Hamilton Perkins bags is made of repurposed billboards, and while each bag is unique and different (no really, look inside), they all share the same green DNA. Designed to reduce waste levels, cut carbon emissions in the environment, and conserve water, these bags are a purchase you don't have to feel bad about. And because they start at just $95, your wallet probably won't be too offended either. The company's signature Earth bag is branded as an "all-in-one bag that converts into a backpack or duffle bag." With its three-way zippered compartment, you can easily access laptops, books, travel documents, and more. Noting that the average person throws away up to 180 pounds of plastic in a year, Hamilton Perkins looked to turn trash into fashion with each of its products. "In collaboration with our workshops and suppliers, we committed to supporting fair wages and delivering value to less developed nations by sourcing raw materials that divert plastic bottles, save water, add revenue, and create jobs in parts of the world that need it the most," the company says on its Kickstarter page. "We track our progress and submit to rigorous third-party review to ensure accuracy and accountability." So if you're looking for a new bag for your vacation season this summer, Hamilton Perkins just may be your solution. Special thanks to Daniel Zhu, Operations department for team Hamilton Perkins Collection. He told me that the company produces one of the world's first impactful and ethical designer bags made entirely out of recycled plastic bottles and billboard vinyl. The Hamilton Perkins Collection Earth bag reduces waste levels, cuts carbon emissions in the environment, and conserves water. I'm writing on behalf of Hamilton, the company founder, to ask if you would consider having him as a guest on your podcast. He would love the opportunity to discuss the unique bag making process and his successful experience in creating an environmentally sustainable product and supply chain.
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website: hamiltonperkins.com facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HAMILTONPERKINS/ youtube video https://youtu.be/ESwySLVaDEk twitter: https://twitter.com/HamiltonPerkins instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hamiltonperkins/ snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/hamiltonperkins Let us know if you are interested, and we can have a quick phone call. I've included my contact information below. Thank you for your consideration. Email: danielzhu29@gmail.com Phone: (626)-710-7432
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Eric is the co-founder of Javazen, a brand of tea-infused coffee blends that combines the power of coffee with the health benefits of tea.
We talk coffee, caffeine, green tea, zen, caffeinated mindfulness.
Eric talks how he met Arianna Huffington CEO of the Huffington Post.
2016 Cupid’s Cup Entrepreneurship Competition delivering a five-minute pitch for $75,000.announced by Kevin Plank, the Founder, and CEO of Under Armour, guess what he also won the Audience Choice award.
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LISTENUPSHOW Startup Round: Wendy and Eric are not only husband and wife have two children but after careers on Wall Street, Eric as a technologist working for a $10 billion dollar hedge fund and Wendy working as a Bond trader. Their co-founded company is called DIY.Fund providing professional investment management software fintech tool and resources for individual investors. Wendy Garfinkle Nissan and Eric Nissan were both Wall Street Veterans now with DIY.Fund they are ready to show you how easy it is to Do-it-yourself! It's FREE #fintech. The Nissan's were honored via #BZAwards for their @Diyfund investment best #FinTech tools and resources "Level the Playing Field" award! Check them out on the Red Carpet!!. What we learn on today's show: so you help people invest professionally using do-it-yourself tools? how they left Wall Street to Startup, what their differentiator is in the do-it-yourself investment platform niche, how their web platform actually helps the average listener in our audience manage their own portfolio, understand risk, and keep track of their performance; Starter Studio Incubator, 6 easy, simple straightforward Steps: DESIGN A PORTFOLIO, SET INVESTMENT GOALS, MONITOR THE PORTFOLIO, SO WHAT IS RISK ANYWAY, OVERSEE ALL INVESTMENTS, HEY NOW - INVEST LIIKE A PRO!; holistic approach to managing money. Fast Pitch Round: Book recommendation: Wendy: Lean Startup - Eric Reis Eric: A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton economist, App recommendation: Personal Capital Net Worth Calculator Wrap Up Round: How can people stay in contact The website www.diy.fund, without a “com” at the end. The blog at blog.diy.fund Twitter handle is @Diyfund. Email: Wendy@diy.fund Eric@diy.fund Three main take aways 1) Investments: Understand what it means to invest and how things work. 2) Startups:the ability to adapt, think what else can I be doing. 3) Customers: Foucs on what your customers want by constant feedback not what you think they want. YouTube Channel Platform: mitchellchadrow.com/youtubemitchellchadrow.com/youtube048
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Startup Round JD Carlson CEO of Plan Design Consultants their motto and service model: Rockin, Smart, Easy, and Awesome. JD is the host of Retireholi(k)s, Father, Husband, Surfer. Located in San Diego Carlsbad, California. A former professional surfer and now focused entrepreneur. Proud and motivated to take this his family's company to new levels, he lives, breathes and sleeps retirement plans. He is leading PDC's charge of becoming a new kind of TPA that is disrupting the status quo and inventing a better client/advisor experience. JD leads his team of PDCers into their 5th decade as a Third Party Administrator for retirement plans. They embrace a smart, easy process centered on the needs of our clients. As an independent company, client advocacy is a major strength of our firm. We partner with Financial Advisors to offer our mutual clients the very best in options. A strong understanding of fees and services allows PDC to help clients find the perfect fit. PDC is reinventing what it means to be a Third Party Administrator. We challenge the status quo by inventing new ways that improve and modernize the client experience. He writes a retirement plan blog not like many others you might read, it's at www.four01k.com He also hosts a webshow called Retireholi(k)s, they are laid-back videos on 401k retirement plan industry topics. Geared towards Financial Advisors that are used to suffering through boring corporate webinars. JD brings a youthful insight, energy and results to the company. He learned from his father quickly and over time the company went from joint control with his dad to now JD being fully in charge. The Financial Advisors who call upon JD and his wife Tracy and their marketing/consulting team will get everything they need in proposals, competitive analysis and point-of-sale support to do a great job for their clients and prospects. JD is a walking encyclopedia of competitive industry knowledge. Plan Design Consultants, Inc. is now being run by JD now that his father the founder has retired. JD's father started the business back in 1975 and today they have over 24 other seasoned retirement plan professionals. Wrap up Round Retireholi(k)s four01k.com retireholics.com plandesign.com
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Supply Solutions Enterprise Six Sigma Business Success Planning Meredith Reuben Show 046 Start up Round We discussed supply solutions, Six Sigma and Business Success Planning with Meredith Reuben, CEO of EBP Supply. A quick glimpse into the legacy of her family business helps reveal why Meredith’s pull to lead it was so strong. In 1918, her grandparents, Samuel and Sadye Baum, started EBP Supply Solutions as Easter Bag & Paper in Bridgeport, CT. BP Supply Solutions is a leading distribution partner that provides a broad range of cleaning and foodservice supplies and services for businesses that rely on best-in-class insight, products & tools, and demand custom, transparent relationships. The company services organizations in the eastern United States across buildings, institutions (including government and education), healthcare, recreation, and food service markets. Headquartered in Milford, CT, it operates out of three distribution centers (Milford CT, Tewksbury, MA, and Cranbury, NJ) and achieves national distribution in partnership with Network® Distribution Services. EBP is fully-owned and operated by Meredith Reuben, CEO; is classified as a Women’s Business Enterprise; and holds WBENC National Certificate Number 243449. For more information, listenup to the interview. Meredith Reuben left her job as a lawyer to lead the family business, EBP Supply Solutions into its third generation of ownership. During her tenure, EBP Supply has grown from a local distributorship servicing a small area in Connecticut to a regional supply solutions enterprise. Meredith reveals how natural curiosity, undeterred perseverance and focus can help you achieve whatever goals you wish to reach. Meredith was in her late 20s when she walked away from her law career to join the family business. EBP Supply Solutions, which was known as Eastern Bag & Paper at the time. EBP continues to grow by making smart acquisitions like Salem Paper in the Boston area. These continued smarter acquisitions strengthened their ability to service the entire State of Connecticut. As Meredith worked to grow the business, she was also growing her family. She admits that it was a challenging time as she balanced the demands of the business and the needs of her young children and hard working lawyer husband. “As a mother, you are in operational mode when your kids are young,” she said, “It can be stressful. But early on, learned to set an annual priority list. That really helped me to allocate my time between career and family. Sure, I felt the guilt, I was there to drive them to school, and I made it a point to be home for dinner so I could hear about their day and do homework with them. Making that the priority and aligning the rest of my activities around that helped me tremendously.” While she credits having a Supportive spouse, she also started a walking group with other women in the neighborhood. This sisterhood helped offer support as she worked to balance the challenges of career and family. Meredith led her EBP Supply Company a new 166,00 square foot facility in Milford Connecticut just 12 miles north of Bridgeport. This enabled them to consolidate operations into a centralized warehouse. They also have two additional facilities each with 166,000 square feet. Meredith represents the third generation of leadership in the family business and now how son represents the fourth generation. Looking back, she recognizes the many challenges she overcame during that period, including the difficulties of identifying how she wanted to approach her management and leadership style. “Whether or not you are inheriting the company from your mother or father, or succeeding in your position from a strong manager, one of the biggest challenges- particularly, if it is going from male to female- is what kind of persona or style should you assume?” Her father and mother had great names in the industry and quickly learned that she did not have to copy their styles or strengths. What she needed was to be congruent to her own personality and utilize her strengths, and surround herself with people who supplemented areas where she wasn’t strong, contribute all of her efforts in her own unique way. That effort proved to be ambitious- she led the Company through several subsequent acquisitions and along with her team, grew EBP to be a regional distributor which now serves enterprises in all of New England and the Middle Atlantic States, The desire to help people grow and success had helped drive EBP’s strategic plan. Recognizing that an organization can only be its best when driven by a diverse group of stakeholders with different voices and backgrounds, she is working with the leadership of EBP to set goals around diversity, Meredith works to empower women through mentorship programs within EBP, Locally and internationally. She does this through local family business groups, the ISSA Hygieia Network, and through WIN, which is a group within Network Distribution, an international buying and selling organization. She wants to see more women in leadership positions throughout the cleaning industry. She has surrounded herself with a highly capable team of professionals who have brought skill sets to continuously improve the efficiency, productivity, Culture and operations in place. Her son Andrew is currently the Vice President of Marketing,: One of her favorite poems, which she keeps on her desk to inspire her daily, is “if,” written by Rudyard Kipling On the best advice, she’s received: “Understand the objectives and ignore all the noise.” – Jerry Rueben, her father. Meredith on leading: if you’re going to survive and thrive, you need to read, be Curious, and constantly have a learning and open mentality. She surrounds herself with people who share this same quality. It’s whom she hires. Fast Pitch Books Islands of Profit in the Sea of Red Ink by Jonathan Burne Connected - Nicholas Christakis the Surprising Power of our Social Networks Wrap Up
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FRED THIEL - Advisor, Board Member, and Value Creator has offered the listeners of the Listenup Show Startup Entrepreneur Podcast a free 30-minute consultation so book your free resource today! or connect directly with him - website - Thiel Advisors twitter - linkedin - medium - Or click on one of my social links below.. Why take Fred up on his offer that is simple: Fred has spent his career creating and helping others create and grow their businesses. Along the way he has generated hundreds of million of dollars in shareholder value for investors and founders -- Thiel Advisors focuses their efforts on advising private equity and venture capital firms, investors, boards of directors, founders and management teams on trends and innovative avenues and strategies for growth and value creation. Fred is also a frequent speaker and writer/blogger on the topics of business strategy, value creation, digital transformation, innovation as well as the disruptive waves of technology and how they impact all businesses regardless of size or location. Some technologies that he is particularly focused on and that we discussed on the show include IoT (Internet of Things), as well as predictive, collaborative and autonomous systems.
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Nancy May is President and CEO, The BoardBench Companies, LLC (BoardBench.com), Greater New York City Area a woman-owned board governance consulting group focusing on the advanced development and execution of public, private and not-for-profit board organization, company board quality, continuity, board succession and director placement. She is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the World Affairs Council and served on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Connecticut. She also serves on the advisory council of NeuroSonics, Inc. and is listed in Who’s Who of Global Business Leaders and has been a guest lecturer for business and professional organizations, The Conference Board, National Geographic Films and numerous University graduate school programs. BoardBench Competencies and Offerings: - Board of Director succession planning, strategic board recruitment, and placement - Board evaluation and assessment - Board structure and development - Business alliance development and exchange - Director/Candidate advisory services - Governance and director technology assessment 1) What is the one thing that contributes most to your success 2) What is Board Bench Companies BoardBench ® gives companies a cost-efficient solution to manage the intricacies of their board succession needs. BoardBench helps companies plan and build custom teams of potential and qualified successors (benches) to fill board positions. It identifies, qualifies, monitors, and ensures the appropriate fit of these executives to each client company’s strategic needs and operating style. BoardBench supplies these services through yearly (or longer) strategic service plans. This delivers an efficient and highly cost-effective tool to manage a Board’s key continuity risks. 3) - How did you come up with the idea, 4) - who helped you with the launch and execution of her startup 5) tell me about your struggles with starting your own business - 6) who are your customers - your market strategy 7) distribution channel 8) The best business advice you ever received 9) Talk to us more about your personal story how you got started professionally 10) tell us about your past and current experiences with several other groups you are involved and take us through from start to now what you experienced get that startup off the ground - NeuroSonics, Inc. (Advisory Board) - EconimicVentures (Chairman of the Board) - International Women’s Forum - Economic Club of New York - World Affairs Council - American Women’s Economic Development Corporation - The Entrepreneurial Women’s Network - Women in Management 11) what inspired the startup idea: 12) Lessons learned from running for 13) What it takes to Manage and operate 14) the mission and goals behind - 15) and your community involvement - Girl Scout Council of Connecticut (Board of Directors, Executive Committee) - U.S. Small Business Administration: Honor as State of Connecticut's Women’s Business Advocate of the Year - Guest lecturer for business and professional organizations, including - The Conference Board: guest lecturer - National Geographic Films and numerous university graduate school programs Board and senior level executives representing large, mid-cap and private corporations worldwide. 16) resources used books hosting photos graphic design - Invited to meet President Clinton as a Nation’s top business leader 17) team 18) Three main takeaways 19) How can people stay in touch
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David Benzaquen Founder of PlantBased Solutions.
PlantBased Solutions is a Vegan Food Business Strategist, brand management, and marketing agency for plant-based consumer product companies, headquartered in New York.
David started out in the business working for an animal protection non-profit and as a natural products broker but in 2012 founded the plant based business. The company offers a range of services for pre-market startups through to huge global brands, including opportunity assessments, business planning and forecasting, new product development, market research, brand creation and a full range of marketing planning and execution. David has also brought together a large network of angel investors keen to support plant-based businesses. In this show he discusses: • marketing, branding, product development, finance, operations • Push marketing v pull marketing • broker v agency model (scaling), revenue, overhead/expenses, • The pros and cons of working with distribution companies and brokers • Digital marketing, social marketing, in-store samplings or events • Outsourced chief marketing officer - branding, distribution strategy, packaging design, • using employees v outside contractors. And much more Visit the PlantBased Solutions website Brands mentioned in the show roundup: 80000hours.org plant based protein meal options chicken, beef, field marketing, PR, Events, social media - Gardein Ocean Hugger Foods, LLC Parent Company of Tomato Sushi, LLC
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Video Resume Platform Rezzio was founded at the heart of Drexel University's college of entrepreneurship, Close School of Entrepreneurship. The school provides students with the tools and knowledge to help bring their concepts to fruition. Rezzio started in a Drexel University classroom and today has helped Rezzio showcase their personality. Jessica Sarkisian, founder graduated from Drexel University in June of 2015. Jessica knew there was more to getting a job than submitting a simple resume and application. Jessica played Division 1 soccer for four years at Drexel, leaving her resume full of nothing more than soccer accomplishments. Though she worked over forty hours a week dedicating her time to a sport, her resume did not reflect her hard work, devotion, and personality. 80% of people do not believe their paper resume reflects their capabilities or personalities. Referring back to Life Strategies entrepreneurship class at Drexel University, video resumes were a class requirement. Though it was a requirement to create a video many students did not know where to start. How do I make a video resume that shows my personality and lands me the job? Thus, Rezzio was born. Rezzio began as a video resume platform, showing candidates how to create a video resume that best depicts their personality. After a year of research and development, Rezzio has perfected its 3-step process to LAND THE JOB. Enhancing individuals personal profiles (such as LinkedIn) and changing the way people show their personality when applying for jobs. Wrap up round:
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James A McCormick IV is an NFL sports entertainment talent advisor and also a commercial real estate agent for Sperry Van Ness. It is always a good idea to have more than one stream of income coming in. James is not the first real estate professional that we have interviewed. We also spoke with Susan Matthews who handles the residential real estate market
What are some the things do we cover with James in this Listen Up Show. James has deep ties in the commercial real estate market but he also earns from doing sports and entertainment. I asked him about his time as league executive in the NFL national football league and his experience as a director of all player & talent marketing initiatives for the league; time at NFL films along with those struggles at Valley Forge military college. For those who want to take a more passive role in real estate, there is a company called realtyshares that allows you to earn passive income in real estate.
Our guest's stories are what really makes interviewing James so special. He talks to us about his relationship with Troy Vincent the Executive Vice President of Operation for the NFL & the 2003 infamous Eagles NFC Championship year.
So what are his motto's in life and what does he attribute to his success: be prepared, be Ready for the opportunity and always over deliver. He built his own character at an early age from church, music and his family.
He coined a phrase: outwork the work - for all the things that must be done you must be the last person standing. Be your own visionary, knowing where you are going.
Some key things to take away from the show:
1) Look within an introspective;
2) Center yourself to focus;
3) Master the key to executing on your ideas.
He also recalls two great football story's the first is about NFL Films - Steve Sable, his mentor, Player Relations who has dealt with 80 producers, 12 networks: CBS, ESPN, HBO, NFL Network, the science of contacting current and former players, building trust and relationships, owners: Cris Carter & Bobby Taylor,
when Brian Westbrook - returned a punt against the Giants and went on to win their next 9 games that season, Donovan McNab, Duce Staley Playoffs Green Bay Packers 4th and 26th at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, no timeouts with the clock at 1:12 seconds pass to Freddie Mitchell David Akers made a field goal went into overtime Brian Dawkins intercepted a pass by Brett Favre returned it 35 yards set up another field goal for David Akers giving Eagles win 20-17 sent Eagles to third straight NFC Championship Game but they lost to the Carolina Panthers. It will be awesome to speak with him about the Eagles Super Bowl win this year.
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Governance, strategy meets growth, sage advice from Thomas L. Doorley, Chairman, CEO, Cofounder. Tom tells us it’s satisfying to help entrepreneur's across the full cycle of Stage 0 (idea) through to Stage 4 (sustainable enterprise).All young companies have to face the daunting task of “crossing the Valley of Death”, also known in academic circles as “crossing the Chasm”. This is the fact that describes the competitive dynamics in a business sector where lots of small, high-growth, young companies exist and a few much larger, more established companies have scale and scope. The challenge: How to go from young/small (Stage 1-2) to the other side of the Valley (Stage 4) where they have enough process, structure, and scale in place to be ‘sustainable’
In the case of his first startup, Braxton Associates, a strategy consulting firm launched after the Boston Consulting Group defined the consulting space they named”Strategy” and Bain & Co followed suit, we were half a decade late to the game. They grew organically from their Boston base to a second office in London and a joint venture in Tokyo (he knew they had to be global). They grew rapidly to about 100 professionals. His Valley to jump was the challenge to be 10X the size to meet the competition in the battle for major clients. They were approached by the then CEO of Touche Ross (prior to their merger with Deloitte) to become their operational and IT consultancy into the sphere of C-Suite advisors. Two years after they joined the merger with Deloitte was consummated.
Tom has helped successful entrepreneur's like Matthew Marolda who is now Chief Analytics Officer at Legendary Entertainment. He formed and runs Legendary’s Applied Analytics division, which uses data and analytics to drive strategic decisions across all aspects of the company. Prior to Legendary, Matt Marolda founded StratBridge LLC in 1999. StratBridge had two software solutions businesses: “moneyball” player analysis software used by many organizations in the NFL, NBA, European Football and Major League Soccer (sold to XOS Digital in 2012), and dynamic pricing and revenue analysis software used by many professional sports teams (acquired by Legendary in 2014, after Mr. Marolda had joined Legendary). He earned his MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth where he won the Adams Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Matt Marolda graduated from Bowdoin College with Honors, earning majors in economics and mathematics and a minor in art history.
Tom's other clients: Northrop Grumman, Deloitte, and Abeam Consulting (Japan). Most recently the New England Region of Deloitte for Retired Partners honored Tom in their Hall of Fame – this past December 2016. Tom spoke to a group of 2000 employees about a balanced life.
New England Region of Deloitte for Retired Partners Honored Tom in their Hall of Fame - this past December 2016. Spoke to the group of 2000 employees about a balanced life.
Keep in contact with Tom on Twitter, Linkedin & back at his website.
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CandiDate Founder Amber Wanner Show 037 The post Candidate Philly Find a Tech Job and Date Listenup Show 037 Startup Entrepreneuyr Podcast was first published on mitchellchadrow.com Recruiting meets matchmaking. The Candidate Story: CandiDate plays on your wants, needs, desires, goals, and more. Think Maslow Hierarchy of Needs from a candidates primary or physiological needs to ultimately reaching Self-Actualization in life. The company through their owners and board of advisors know the five stages well: 1. Biological and Physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep. 2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom from fear. 3. Love and belongingness needs - friendship, intimacy, trust and acceptance, receiving and giving affection and love. Affiliating, being part of a group (family, friends, work). 4. Esteem needs - achievement, mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, self-respect, respect from others. 5. Self-Actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. CandiDate is taking a holistic approach to the way things are historically done. CandiDate has taken the craft of Recruiting and combined it with the art of Matchmaking. We use the same process and technique that we use to find someone a job, in finding them a date. CandiDate is NOT exclusive to either service, but the idea is to fulfill the aspect of our candidate’s lives that has not been fulfilled yet, whether it is professional (job), personal (date), or both. At the end of the day, our candidates are our main focus and working with the tech community in Philadelphia to attract, maintain, and build Philadelphia to be a place they want to work, play, and start their family. What does this mean? Well, IF you are in the tech space and looking for a job OR you are in the tech space and are looking for a date, OR you are looking for both we are here to help. We are going to be holding fun tech events, and private mixers for our members, and free consultations so you can see exactly what CandiDate can offer you. Amber Wanner Founder & CEO Prior to starting the company, Amber spent 4 years working with the Philly tech community, to find and deliver exceptional tech talent to growing companies. She founded the company on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs with the goal to fulfill not only her candidate's professional goals (jobs) but their personal goals as well (dates). She is passionate about providing her candidates with the best possible opportunities, so they can have a fulfilling career, and also have a fulfilling life outside of work. Find a Tech Job Find a Date Find Both
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You're listening to the listen up show startup entrepreneur podcast show 036
Today we're talking with Robinhood Ventures Executive Director Ellen Weber
She is also Executive Director: Temple University's Fox School of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute
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what are we going to actually talk about today - well we're going to talk:
To our Ellen Weber about:
- how she helps startups startup and the resources her organization provides
- steps she had taken to Build great companies
- what drives her passion to innovate and what are we going to see coming out of this tri state Philadelphia area over the next several years
Ellen How are you this evening - it's great to have you on the show
We have tons to un pack here and I want to cover it all so let's jump right in
Ellen - What's the one thing that contributes most to your success?
You are really active in the Philadelphia startup community:
and you are involved in so many organizations :
What are the reoccurring themes that you experience as an
entrepreneur that you can summarize for the benefit of aspiring entrepreneurs, current startups looking for help and those looking for resources to either startup, grow or take their business to the next level or someone who just wants to get experience as an intern or find a job.
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What is the one best piece of business advice you ever received.
so people can get to know you better
fill in the gaps a tell us more about your personal story -
Tell us a little bit about how this background and ties in to how you are helping people today?
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What do you think are the most common mistakes other startups or entrepreneurs or students interested in business make that delay or prevent their success?
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Can you give us some of the essential understandings entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face?
Q: Your Best business practices
Q: So what things do you delegate to others because your not so good at it
I know
(www.robinhoodventures.com), as a leading angel group in the Philadelphia region helping startups scale and grow -
Since 1999,
Tell us about the process companies go through from initial startup through excite -
Robin Hood Ventures has invested in over 60 early-stage, high-growth startups, en route to building great companies. Our investments generally range from $250,000 to $1 million, and we syndicate with venture capitalists, institutions, and other angels in our network. We are passionate about using our expertise to build great companies. Our members boast a wealth of experience in a range of industries from IT to financial services to healthcare, and they are able to leverage their knowledge and networks to add real value to our companies.
These are some other organizations that you help - Philly Startup Leaders, Philly Tech Meetup, and the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs.
Talk to us about the resources you provide them and what it takes to become a success
So how did you get started in business??
Co-founder several companies
also COO and VisionMine (www.visionmine.com), which provides a specialized Open Innovation portal to large corporations. VisionMine is a subscription service that allows corporate clients collaborative access to early start-up innovations, new technologies, and entrepreneurs that solve business problems.
You have over 25 years of experience creating strong teams and building strong leaders for emerging companies as well as Fortune 500 clients. Can you talk to us about specific names and what you did
Also Managing Director Antiphony Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting firm that specializes in helping companies create sustainable value through innovation.
I was involved in the growth of Investor Force, a provider of technology-based solutions for institutional investment professionals, where I created the company's initial human resources department, facilitated strategic planning, and managed the organizational aspects of the company's mergers and acquisitions.
Shared Medical Systems (12 yrs) where I was responsible for initiatives encompassing organizational development, customer support and corporate communications.
senior consultant for Andersen Consulting.
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Audible an amazon company sponsors our
fast pitch. I also started my own book club with all my recommendations and the recommendations of our guests at mitchellchadrow.com/audible.
Book:
Quote : John Quincy Adams: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader" antiphony.com
App:
Resource under $100
Fun fact:
Temple’s Be Your Own Boss Bowl business plan competition is well on its way this year, and we have a record number of teams that have applied for mentors.
graduated Wharton School with a B.S. in economics.
So What are the key challenges you face
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We all go through adversity what actions did you take to overcome it
Mentors - expectations - participate in weekly calls or in-person meetings - support and guide the teams.
Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures Forum is February 1st. (MADV) assists early-stage technology and innovation-based companies acquire funding and build sustainable businesses. MADV prepares the companies for investment, helps ensure their investment materials are as defensible and compelling as they can be, and provides networking connections plus coaching around critical aspects of entrepreneurship and building a business.
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What are your three main takeaways
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Ellen - How we can keep in contact with you any special links and resources you can provide for the audience so I can place s link in the show notes
Bay McLaughlin has supported technology startups for the last decade. Over half of this time was spent at Apple as a founding team member of their global SMB channel and as the founder of their first Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel. To support startups at Apple, Bay partnered with the world’s best founders, venture capitalists, incubators and accelerators to identify and solve their most pressing strategic issues. The other half of his career has been spent inside of or founding startups, two of which failed, one of which exited successfully. Currently, Bay has equity positions in 19 companies across seven countries, ranging from B2B SaaS platforms to the number one website in surfing technologies to some of the hottest new IoT products.
As COO & Co-Founder of Brinc, Bay brings his operations abilities and startup insight to support all of Brinc’s teams and connects the dots from Asia to Silicon Valley. Bay’s excitement comes from supporting startup’s from all around the world who have never been to China or understood how easy it really is. He took the big step of packing his bags and moving out to HK & Mainland China and believes everyone should do the same who really wants to drive the future of the hardware space.
Aaron is an accomplished fintech entrepreneur with a proven record. He is the founder and CEO of Vestwell. Prior to founding Vestwell, he created FolioDynamix. FolioDynamix was sold for $199 million to Actua who at that time in 2014 had a market value of $600 million ( ACTA).
We covered many important topics: Entrepreneurship, Product Marketing, Software Technology, Marketing, Brand Management, Operational Efficiencies, Strategic Consulting, Financial Services, International Management, Strategy, Financial Services, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Portfolio Management, Management, Business Analysis, Strategic Planning, Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions,
Entrepreneurial Leadership PQ Corporation, Stan Silverman
On today's show 033
What will we discuss on today's show: - Startup sponsored by Hostgator
Stan Silverman is the former president and chief executive officer of PQ Corporation, a family owned global company operating in North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific in two core businesses â chemicals and engineered glass materials. Stan rose through the ranks at PQ over nearly 35 years
He is vice chairman of the board of trustees of Drexel University, and a member of the Drexel Close School of Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. Stan writes a weekly guest column on Effective Leadership for Philadelphia Business Journal.
He is the former chairman of the board of the Drexel University College of Medicine and former chairman of the Soap and Detergent Association. He has served as a guest lecturer on Executive Leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the LeBow College of Business of Drexel University, where he holds the position of executive in residence.
He is a director on the boards of Drummond Scientific where he serves as lead director, Femco Holdings, LLC, Exocor, Inc. and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. He formerly served on the boards of General Chemical Corporation, A. Schulman, Inc., innRoad, Inc., C&D Technologies, Inc., Met-Pro Corporation, and PQ Corporation.
Other key points for discussion: Entrepreneurship, leadership, preferred provider, on leadership the good and poor (Wells Fargo an example of poor leadership).Building a leadership culture where you have high trust and true teamwork
Our last show 032 was with Jeff Nowak of Boost Linguistics for a recap from last year lessons learned from our terrific guests and plans this year for the show as we continue to grow. Go to listenupshow.com
Leaving a legacy: member of The Close School of Entrepreneurship’s Advisory Board - Silverman Donates $2 Million for Close School Dean Professorship -
Annual Drexel startup day - passion - impressed by their stories of journey as entrepreneurs
Change agent: - change is the only constant in life, and you had to be comfortable with change to be successful
Lessons learned in today's show:
Be different, learn to take risks. Have the passion for what you decide to do whether work, career or in business. Build competitive advantage: become preferred provider in your market -
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Best business advice
Bad business advice
Quote mantra
Book
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3 main lessons takeaways
How can people stay in touch
Jeff Kowak is from Boost Linguistics on this Show 032 - Get all the show notes and Jeff's special offer by going to mitchellchadrow.com/show032
Boost Linguistics is building an awesome writing tool text editor designed to create and automatically edit marketing content, provide audience engagement.
Their software helps persuade and analyze your templates to help suggest changes make your writing more appealing to the reader and more impactful by
Improving the way people write marketing material.
Lessons learned in today's show:
Don't just focus on SEO and keywords Focus on the Google Quality Score - SEO is becoming saturated with keywords so they are banking off the quality score pay per click by raising quality score it lowers your pay per click
how to use software to re-writing content provide emotion joy trust on your website to connect with your audience and help in your
rankings using google analytics
Drexel Startup Day and the Close School of Entrepreneurship is not just a startup entrepreneur competition it might be a different way to help entrepreneurs boot strap
Other Resources mentioned in this episode:
Jeff makes an offer the listenup audience should take him up on there were be a link toward the end of the show
and providing a concept marketing class
Baiada (Bi-odd-ah) Institute for Entrepreneurship (Incubator) at Drexel its not just about resources but being with other startup entrepreneurs where everyone may have different goals but it's a community of business minded people seeing that fact others are doing it provides the knowledge and wisdom that you can as well.
If you missed our last show with Nick Delmonico his company is creating wearable technology to manage asthma and on our next show it's our year in wrap up. mitchellchadrow.com/show031
Nick is developing a smart asthma management patent pending technology. He currently is getting a Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare at the Fox School of Business and Management Temple University.
What we will discuss on today’s show:
Nick is developing a smart asthma management patent pending technology. He is currently getting a Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare at the Fox School of Business and Management Temple University.
We talk to Nick about his personal story, background and what he is doing to help people. He also tells us why he got into the business of asthma management.
Our in-depth interview also touched on sales and distribution channels and the strategy for building it out in the future and raising money, pivoting from the initial design, how to commercialization and various go to market strategies.
For Nick, it’s about solving problems not just coming up with a rockstar idea. As a child asthma impacted Nick sending him to the nurse’s office and to the hospital. He dealt with it and played sports actively. We also talked to him about targeting the end user and making key changes on the device from feedback. The first version was going to be a necklace piece of jewelry but he had to pivot and iteract quickly.
He first pitched the idea to solve the problem to help people find out and learn more about asthma at a Jefferson Hospital Health Hackathon sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield. He created a real rough prototype and pitched it to the judges.
With the original prototype he needed to pivot and made changes. His team consists of a biomedical engineer now an MD, neurologist at Jefferson Hospital and lead technologist. A software engineer from the hardware side.
It’s not a diagnostic test like sounds of your lungs for asthma management. Nick did online asthma surveys as well as in person. Determined that a necklace with an adhesive type of device was not going to work but a chest strap idea would work better as it was able to stay clean so the process of iteration and leverage and focusing on what the end user really wanted was key as they came up with rapid prototyping.
So how do they plan on patenting the technology and raise money?
It’s all about leveraging resources – the group first went to the Drexel Law Club who work with entrepreneurial early stage startups but they did not have an FDA focus on technologies. However, Temple University Institute of Entrepreneurial Innovation helped provide a local patent attorney.
Strados Labs won a business competition this past spring and received an in-kind gift for that patent attorney which was provided pro bono to help them with the provisional patent. It was sponsored by Be Your Own Boss Bowl competition.
In additional to working with intellectual law firm Ceaser Rivise Temple University provides Strados Labs with working space. They college creatively packages these resources together in one bucket so that startup entrepreneurs can leverage all the resources. The competition provides three tracks: undergrad, grad, faculty, social tracks.
Strados came in second only for Nick to lose to his professor.
Ellen Weber is the Director of the Temple University Institute for Entrepreneurial Innovation who work with other venture capital firms like Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners , Robinhood, Mid-Atlantic Ventures who work with startups
We discussed the prototype and patent as well as how the company will get the technology to their end users, distributing and selling the technology. They anticipate having the provisional patent filed by the end of this year. Once the provisional patent has been filed with their end claims which give them first file rights if someone else comes up with the concept the first to file has a better claim to the idea. Strados Labs will have 12 months to spend finalizing the software and hardware algorithms –
When dealing with a patent it’s important to note what a company can say and what they keep secret
It comes down to what is proprietary or internal v what they can mention to the public. We know the company is developing a wearable device but they keep the sound capture feature private.
Their goal is to provide extra value in this narrow niche. Focus on those end users to help them manage their asthma, provide advice and feedback from the device,
survey done signs symptoms of an asthma attack of wheezing – sometimes wheezing starts slowly in lungs and you try through your own will to identify those signs and alerting them it’s not a diagnostic but alert something is happening to them alert to phone and message to parent or someone else take inhaler stop exercises breath deeply its an alert monitor track and monitor on back end but focus now is on front end – how they are bringing in people to do research – test it – market service – white papers how asthma needs to be better managed and that 2/3 can be prevented by not medicines but just managing it better – market research targeting asthmatics online forum Reddit American asthma foundation aaii – healthcare, MBA take quick survey for feedback to validate get qualitative information on people’s condition some type of technology to better manage people’s disease work with asthma research in NY how environment effects and how such technology would help doing focus groups up in Harlem pre-testing phase using this technology get feedback early then use it for testing.
We asked about some of the challenging moments the company has faced as a new startup and Nick being a business leader – they are entering a high regulatory, high barrier, high capital intensive business and also managing individuals. Nick working his day job and doing this at night and on weekends also while he was in California during the summer while the doctor neurologist was back in the Philadelphia area. Nick had to find the time and make sure he was communicating effective and quickly needed to find the right people and manage the work stream and also maintain his current job.
What wanted to know what contributes to his success – he said a relationship with his co-founders the neurologist and although Nick is the face of Strados Labs his co-founder makes things smooth when running ideas past him or acting as a sounding board for being a devil’s advocate which balances the good with the bad. Its good to be positive but things are not always rosy so his co-founder is a good balance keeping him well grounded.
Insurance reimbursement of the device for asthma management.
The problem is that once a year people with asthma can be admitted to the ER with cost of $2500 and where it costs $20,000 a device for their solution $150 bucks can reduce risk to go to hospital and reduce those high-risk individuals by 60% less reduce asthma and reduce potential death or going to ER. The plan on having the insurance company reimburse through ins company and promoted by doctor hard time managing we will provide you pluma ware system reimbursed end users, not the person using it but doctors new business development force
Build a relationship with insurance area health technology comp who work with Medicaid and chronic diseases – use reminders to become more engaged with asthma management to leverage their device to partner with health systems improve health understand educate them innovation partnership spoke at hackathon non-hackathon sponsored by BCBS.
Advice for others he gives – to startup overwhelming most common mistakes students or preventing them from starting – coming up with a rockstar idea best idea and they stop if they think it’s not the best – for him ideas change so much focus on problem and improvement upon those issues or problems – he started with wanting to solve the problem now is developing the solution focus on problems v ideas –
Recurring themes resources – help – people here to help – at top-ranked entrepreneurial program Philadelphia meet ups network events talk to them about ideas – Philly startup leaders – new in CC – new tech meetup Philly – leverage through temple Univer entrepreneur network summer studio incubator reach out to those you know in entrepreneurship – intellectual property hardship creating things v creating apps people want to invest in electrons v atoms –
Fully functional is challenge for things apps that is coding but here you have to build it and test it so more difficult to get funding federal grant challenging to get through Kickstarter IndieGoGo developing things medical devices – if he knew about these resources 6 months ago – doesn’t want to fail but will now know them federal funds natural science foundation SBIR funding process dept of engineer institute of health all have funds for small business who want to start businesses
who will help him write the grants trying to leverage innovation partnership through the small business association dev a tech national science foundation and they like your idea resources pre-proposal key components of stuff and how to develop commercialization of it
Voucher stipend to write grant, someone, to help SBIR agency to send to –
Lightning round sponsored by audible.
A book Nick recommends – The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho de Souza – It’s about an individual on his journey to find a treasure. His entire motivation as a shepherd is to be rich but he goes on journey not where you get but how you get there he ends up the same – for him, it’s about the journey what he has learned and get to place he wants to go and help asthma
Three take-aways from show:
Don’t be afraid to ask questions even as a new entrepreneur just talk to people about your idea to many people get caught up it being secreative or having to much concern about signing NDA, your idea will get stronger if you talk more about it; Focus on who you are working with, some people want to work with their friends but be careful who you work with and who you bring onto your team they might have a certain skill set but focus on the person beyond just their skill set and make sure it’s aligned with your vision; Have fun it’s an exciting journey, it’s risky but just be smart.
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Career Advice, Personal Development, Coaching, legacy planning, habits with Steve Bazemore on today’s show 030 where he tells us about his personal story, provides career advice, personal development coaching and tells us a wake-up call story.
It’s all about startups, entrepreneurs, business owners and those with careers who deep down inside really do want to startup
What we discuss on today’s show:
Steve talks to us about his personal story enjoying life, find your calling and his wake up to call in 2012.
He tells us about the process he developed as a how-to guide for individuals working on their own transformations. He calls it 36 Days to an Extraordinary Life.
The reoccurring themes that he experiences as a Coach and someone in a long term career that he summarizes for the benefit of other aspiring side hustle entrepreneurs, career transition-minded or those looking for help and resources to either startup and grow a business or get something going as you call your side hustle.
So what is personal development coaching
What he thinks are the most common mistakes other career minded or people trying to startup on the side interested in business make that delay or prevent their success?
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The essential understandings entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face?
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How to startup. Process and steps to becoming an entrepreneur.
The vision for vFit.
Founders background, the role of team and coming together.
I speak with Savanna Leavitt, Co-Founder, and her other four Co-Founders of vFit an online shopping technology for shoppers. Savanna is a student enrolled in the Biomedical Engineering program at Drexel University with a focus on Biomechanics and Human Performance. She was raised in a very rural area of Maine. Savannah’s mother is entrepreneurial and runs her very own beauty salon with a line of makeup she has branded, Savannah learned a great deal about entrepreneurship and being passionate about what you do from her mom. Savannah has always been intrigued by the sciences and how things worked and she found her interested in a medical degree at a young age, that’s when she discovered biomedical engineering and as they say she was hooked. Since beginning at Drexel, her interest grows in her major. She feels blessed to have been given the opportunity to work with this diverse group of individuals for the development of vFit. The idea is something the group of five co-Founders has dreamt about since they were young, and now the excitement rises as they will bring their idea to the public for use. You should all keep up with their progress of the online shopping design and technology for shoppers like you.
The CMO will be overseeing the marketing, graphics and client relations department. This role guarantees that the application is well advertised, designed as well as aesthetically pleasing and maintains a rock solid reputation for meeting the user’s criteria.
Startup Entrepreneurs, Online Shopping for Shoppers.
vFit: sizing charts, online shopper, guessing the size of clothes across different brands and styles. the best way to decide on an article clothing is to try it on, and let’s be honest trying on clothing can be exhausting and impossible if you’re buying online! has recognized the frustration most people feel when it comes to choosing the right size and style and is trying to change that.
create 3D models of human bodies, technology will use the anthropometric dimensions of the user and create an avatar like a model
The idea is to help resolve a problem:
Use existing photographic technology to create realistic images with legitimate dimensions.
With these images create three-dimensional models of an individual’s body from the accurate photographs taken
Create holographic projectable images with the 3D models.
Long-term beyond 10-week span
Create a better shopping experience
Reduce theft
Save customer time and trouble
The vFit design will use body scanning technology to scan the body of the user and create a 3D model of it along with dimensions. By using this technology the user will be able to project the holographic image into a mirror to display how an article of clothing will appear in one’s body.
With this technology, the process of trying on clothing can be properly simulated to make it more efficient for the online shoppers. With the time spent shopping in stores greatly decreasing, online shopping will be more user-friendly with the technology available to be able to simulate trying clothing on from home. vFit is expected to make the process of finding a clothing size easier as the sizes in stock and best fit for the body dimension projected will be provided. So, if you are tired of non-fitting clothes and constant returns, this is the right solution for you, a stress-free experience!
Visions/vFit
vFit is the revolutionary new application that will change the way people shop forever. Have you ever ordered clothing online and then received it in the mail only to find out it wasn’t what you thought it would be or just didn’t fit in general? Or have you ever been in the store and unsure if you should purchase something because you didn’t know what it would look like paired with something you already owned? Well vFit can do all that for you. Using virtual reality and metrics software this app can tell you exactly what that cute sweater will look like on you, because we are not using avatars, but instead take a video or picture of yourself and that piece of clothing will be displayed so you can see yourself from all angles and have confidence that what you are buying online will look the same when you receive it at home. Not to mention you can browse multiple catalogs and mix and match it with clothing that already exists in your closet. Never be afraid to buy clothes online again with vFit.
Resources relied on by startup entrepreneurs: GoPro, Autodesk,
Holographic Imaging, Adobe, SmartPhone, Anthropometric Measurements
Riddhi Ameser, Co-Founder: freshman computer engineering major at Drexel University from Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Born into a family of computer engineers, from day one technology, innovation, and thinking. One day aspires to be a leader who can manage her employees and effectively communicate from a technical and mechanical standpoint. She is honored to be a part of this team.
CEO is also responsible to oversee the board as well as develop and maintain relationships with business partners. To ensure the business side of the application is prosperous by developing the best strategies to make sure that vShop is able to compete with similar apps on the market and take a hold of the total market share.
Juliana Kocibelli, Co-Founder: born in Germany and raised in Albania, a small and beautiful country in Southeastern Europe. She is currently studying Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University with a concentration in Tissue Engineering. Always been fascinated by science and technology. Since I was very young I wondered how the heart pounds continuously and how the brain can control the body and make it function. With the years passing, the interest for science grew even more, especially when she was first introduced to Biology and Chemistry. That was the point when she started to realize that she loves studying the human body and serving the society by developing technology that would help people live a better life. Being part of a project like vFit she says is very exciting to her because it is a technology that she has always wanted to have access to, so why not create one!
So you should like and support the idea of vFit design as much as they do.
The CFO will be overseeing the finance and legal teams.Must manage the company’s finances to keep the operation afloat as well as searching for new outlets and sources of revenue allowing for future expansion and development of the application.
Joti Saha, Co-Founder: freshman enrolled in the Biomedical Engineering program at Drexel University. She plans to major in Biomechanics and Human Performance. Born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to a small suburb outside of the Philly area at a young age. She is passionate about dance and trained in an Indian classical dance form, called Bharatnatyam, for ten years. Her team fundraised for underprivileged kids in India with their annual charity shows. This experience has brought me closer to my future aspiration of making a difference in the world and helping others. Aside from dance, I became fascinated with math and science during my years in middle school. Around that time, my dad was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and needed a pacemaker implant. The surgery was successful and he gradually recovered. Since then, the marvels of this heroic device forever piqued my interest. With more research, I found a deeper appreciation for the amount of time and effort put into this intricate, yet small device. It was fate when I discovered biomedical engineering. During my time here at Drexel University, I have become more aware of global and household problems. With that being said, I look forward to developing vFit with my team and eager to see where this project will take us. I hope you find our design useful and interesting.
The COO’s role is crucial to the day-to-day operations of the application as well as overseeing the human resources department. The duties of this role include setting up meetings, making sure that things run smoothly among the different departments as well as internal and external deadlines and goals are being met.
Ada Wang, Co-Founder: currently a freshman enrolled in the College of Engineering program at Drexel University with a focus on Mechanical Engineering. She was born in Newburgh, New York and moved to a very suburban area in Lancaster, PA. Growing up she enjoyed watching and playing sports, such as basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and golf. Her parents are co-owners of a Chinese restaurant. Because this was a family business, Ada grew up at a very fast age, mentally. Through the work experience and through the constant hardship that her parents had to suffer, as well as the fact they did not have the option to go to college, she fully devoted myself to take advantage of the opportunity to go to school and to choose a major that I felt fulfilled not only my interest in designing but also to make my parents proud. Through the courses that she has taken at Drexel, Ada slowly begun to find what really made her special and thus given the amazing opportunity to attend college, she also feels truly blessed to have met such an amazing group of women engineers who not only share the same passion as her but as excited to present their design: vFit. So join them on a journey that will change the way you shop today!
The role of the CTO is to work with IT and R&D departments and to make sure that the app is working and giving the user the best experience possible by using the most cutting edge technology. Initially, the CTO will be in charge of the massive data migration that will be taking place between the partnered clothing companies and the application’s platform.
Mission Statement
While some may consider shopping to be one of their favorite hobbies, others dread just the mere thought of being in a department store for more than 5 minutes. Over the years, online shopping has provided some relief to those who hate stepping into the mall; however, it has yet to fully satisfy all of its customers. With over 25% of all items bought online, returned, nearly 80% of that being clothing, it seems as if trying to pick a size on an article of clothing shouldn’t have to be a gamble for your money. With the wide variety in sizing charts among different brands, some with more generous size charts and others less so, it is almost impossible for an online shopper to feel confident guessing the right size across different brands and styles. Not to mention, in-store shopping can take up too much time and energy. But if there was a mobile application that ensures both fit and quality, would you believe it? LAWKS Graphics is proud to introduce vFit, an application designed to accommodate the needs of consumers and the gap within the clothing industry. As of today, there are virtually no applications that allow an individual to see how a piece of clothing would look on them in real time. vFit brings the live shopping experience to you, whether it be in the office, home or public. vFit is the way the next generation will shop. *
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In this episode, you’ll learn from Christopher:
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Web Application Developer
Joshua Davidson, Chop Dawg
So what will we learn today
People use and need Apps to balance their business, family and life Joshua is a Web App Developer, & Founder of Chop Dawg
How does Joshua help Startups, entrepreneurs, business owners?
Joshua founded Chop Dawg in 2009 when he was just 16.
Super Monkey Ball was one of the most popular apps back in 2009 when Chop Dawg started out as a web design firm by 23 the company now provides entrepreneurs who have mostly non-technical backgrounds who need someone with the technicals needed to develop web applications.
They have over 180 startups clients and if I interviewed these clients they would tell me that Joshua is the go-to source for turning their web app ideas into actual products.
How does he do this through a variety of services, like web development, mobile development, user interface design, branding.
Some of our trusted friends in our Listenup audience are non-technical entrepreneurs but they have great ideas that may need crowdsourcing or outsourcing or need to hire a company like Chop Dawg and founders such as yourself
Our listeners want help turning their validated ideas into a reality
Let’s jump right into your personal story so people can get to know Joshua better
Tell us a little bit about your background and how it ties in to how you are helping people today.
He says, in the beginning, you could either label him either the most technical, non-technical person or flipping it around the most non-technical, technical person. His talent was building things that other people care about.
He recommends thinking about issues or problems you are dealing with to think about ideas for a business.
Tell us how you got started in business and what should be done in the first 30 days of business
Our last guest John Richards spoke to us about the importance of failing faster and pivoting early – looking back on your own startup what would you have done the first 30 days to startup better
On sales: Sell to those who want to be sold to. Sell on why my team is the best, educate them
Chop Dawg’s goal is to help entrepreneurs build their product that solves real-life problems, and then help them scale it.
What are the reoccurring themes that you experience as an entrepreneur that you can summarize for the benefit of other aspiring, startups looking for help and resources to either startup, and grow a business or get experience as an intern or find a job.
What do you think are the most common mistakes other startups or entrepreneurs or students interested in business make that delay or prevent their success?
Can you give us some of the essential understandings entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face?
How successful are you? Joshua discusses his revenue, costs, and number of clients. He is even focusing on virtual reality and wearables.
How did you get featured on MSNBC, NBC, Fox, Technically, AOL, Mashable, EliteDaily, Huffington Post, CBS, the Examiner, and the list continues to grow! (And now, Listenup Show!)
You see many startups on the rise in incubators for example, Y Combinator, so when did the light bulb finally go off where you connected all the dots and saw this serious market opportunity to go beyond just doing web design and development for clients.
Was it like clients were just reaching out to you and your team? How did you get the media to cover the company ?
Q: How do you take those idea or concepts and build them for the client – what’s your process? crowd funding through kickstarter or indigo is a quick economical way to validate physical goods and products but how about apps / digital assets
Entrepreneurial education is important yet you decided to drop out of school – after only a short period of time –
Discuss the story of the drummer of Metallica to motivate, inspire.
Josh talks to us about education resources available to the startups entrepreneurs.
What type of revenue were you earning at that time?.
Lightening round is sponsored by
1) Best business advice you would put up on a bill board
2) Next the “audible inspirational book” what one book would you recommend as it relates to business family or life – Joshua names several throughout the podcast: Ben Franklin.
3) App that you use to help you in business, family or life
4) A quote or mantra that you use to inspire and motivate
5) Less than $100 purchase that has impacted your life the most – Joshua recently got a nine week old bull dog.
6) Fun fact about Joshua: Seven time plane jumper and upcoming tattoo to not only motivate but to always stay practical with a purpose.
– – – How did you use social media to build the company ?
—–I hear you have over 699,000 Twitter followers and you following some 200,000 people – thats over the top
—deliver personal responses to each and every one of his loyal “Dawgs.”
7) Worse advice being given to young entrepreneurs today?
8) When you think of the word successful what first name comes to your mind?
9) What one thing Contributes most to your success?
10) What one main process or system in business family or life do you use that has helped you the most?
11) Looking back on all you have done in business family and life are you happy have their been any regrets?
How can you get in contact with Joshua –
Email: joshua@chopdawg.com
Twitter: @dasjoshua
Facebook: @dasjoshua
Linkedin: Joshua Davidson
Chop Dawg Website: http://chopdawg.com
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Lets ListenUp to Joshua as he summarizes his three main points – takeaways that he wants to inspire and motivate us with – Joshua
#1) Persistent
2) Consistent
3) Fortitude
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DetraPel Founder David Zamarin AIRING ON SHARK TANK JANUARY 7TH, 2018.
Shark Tank, the entrepreneurship reality show that has helped entrepreneurs, we can't wait to watch David on the opening of the show's tenth season. Like the Listenup Show and the Mitchell Chadrow podcast Shark Tank is a business-themed show and inspires all of us to execute on our business goals, defining series and inspires a nation to execute on their business goals.
I can't wait to see how David handles the tough, self-made, multi-millionaire and billionaire tycoon Sharks. The work David has done with Detrapel is a great story to listen up to as others continue their search for investments in the businesses and products that consumers are just waiting for David is being given such an opportunity by The Sharks as he chases the American dream and potentially secures a business deal that could make him the next millionaire.
Young serial entrepreneur series. David Zamarin is Founder & CEO of startup Detrapel. David sold his first startup Lick Your Sole when he was 15. As a result of his success Jeremiah Joseph De Leon recommended that I interview David for my Young Serial Entrepreneur startup series.
I then read more about him through different media outlets like Philadelphia Business Journal, CBS Philly, Fox 29 Philly and more. Therefore, I decided to feature him on my Young Serial Entrepreneur startup series. Most noteworthy, was my interview with Scott Pecoriello Founder of Know Snow App and Meterology Optics.
The Detrapel formula protects your fabrics and materials from getting wet and dirty and helps them appear as they did when you first purchased the item. David tells us that the spray is hydrophobic which uses nanotechnology to repel almost anything off of almost every surface from water to mud. The company is once again selling their bottles for retail to consumers. The product is sold to several industrial business clients and although we didn't get into any great detail I'm sure consumers could get wholesale prices if they purchased a large enough quantity. DetraPel is 100% eco-friendly, 100% biodegradable, Water-based, Portable, and in the past provided consumers a 1-year money- back guarantee. It is also Non-flammable, 100% non-toxic, Non-corrosive, UV resistant, Rustproof, and Ice- proof.
Detrapel works well in a stain-free world no more spilling something on your shirt and you can't get the stain out - no more ruined shirts.
Lick Your Sole rapidly grew with establishing several distribution channels and hit a peak in revenue after partnering with the different sports teams of Temple, Penn, Drexel and other Universities in Philadelphia. Zamarin made a risk decision often faced by many entrepreneurs, whether to continue or not. Zamarin eventually decided to sell the company to someone who was interested in taking over.
Lick Your Sole was a professional shoe detailing service that specialized in cleaning, conditioning and repairing every type of footwear in an original way.
David's objective at that time was to deliver quality service while providing customer satisfaction. His business acumen was to combine this service with cleaning technology
The opportunity was in restoring the first fresh look and feel of those out of the box shoes you first purchased.
At 15 he got into a youth entrepreneurship program called Startup Corps. Zamarin was a star student of the Philly Startup Corps program that helps high school students start their own ventures and create something real. At some point he realized that his business was scalable.
-Lessons of a young entrepreneur.
----Programs for high school entrepreneurship.
---The best business advice he has received
--- Philosophy on crowdfunding.
---With so many cleaning and drying products on the market, how has Detrapel broken into the market?
---- How he learned to balance business, fun and a long list of extracurricular activities.
----- The key to working with mentors and a board of advisory group.
crowdfunding
How to balance business, fun and a long list of extracurricular activities. The key to working with mentors and an outside advisory group.
Resources for young entrepreneurs:
Schoolyard Ventures
Motivational Speaker Zephan Moses Blaxberg, Author, Life Re-scripted, Podcast Host, Year of Purpose
Zephan helps small business owners, entrepreneurs or online marketers who need a professional videographer and video editor. His name is Zephan Blaxberg, he is a self-employed videographer and he has worked with some of the top companies in the world including (but not limited to) AAA, Merrell Shoes, The White House, Netflix, Uber and more.
Zephan provides high quality, fast turn around edits and filming so that professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketers can get their message out to your viewers. One of the major benefits that you get to enjoy when you work with him is that his background is in direct response marketing. His experience is that he has worked with Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer (two of the top copywriters and marketers in the world) and now Zephan brings that same unique marketing strategies to help businesses through video!
You probably ask – what is direct response marketing? Direct response marketing is a type of marketing that elicits a specific, measured response resulting from a consumer’s direct response to a marketer. Direct response marketing facilitates the delivery of a call to action and outcome via direct or online interaction for immediate feedback and response. Basically, I make awesome videos that encourage your customers to buy from you.
If you’re looking for a videographer and editor, look no further than ZMBmedia. Whether you need a VSL (Video Sales Letter) for your marketing or a promotional video edited for your business, Zephan can help!
ZMBmedia is a Baltimore based video production company providing online marketing videos a promotional content to high end clients including AAA and Merrill Shoe Company. We have been invited to the White House and the Senate floor to provide photography and video services and produced animations that display at the Philadelphia Eagles Lincoln Financial Field and the Philadelphia Flyers Wells Fargo Center.
Backed by marketing experience from his employment with Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer as the producer of NO B.S. Live TV and videographer for all of the GKIC (formerly known as Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle) events and conferences, I have built a skill set of invaluable high converting marketing tactics that will allow you to see new leads, new clients and more customers. Using my marketing background and my experience as a cinematographer, I provide top-notch services to marketers nationwide including Bill Glazer, Dan Kennedy, Mara Glazer, Michael Lafido, Pat Mussieux, and many more.
ZMBmedia has also provided services including promotional headshot photography, wedding and event photography, WebTV show production and more.
Zephan Moses Blaxberg is also the Author, of Life Re-Scripted (Available On Amazon) on this show 024
He is the Host of The Year of Purpose Podcast (Available on iTunes)
Zephan, tells us What Every Happy Person Has In Common
Why people take risks?
Reasons You Should Re-Write Your Story starting Today
- Zephan says, over the past two and half years he has been travel hacking his way around the country*, couch-surfing in strangers homes and redesigning his story (to build a highly successful business and turning a dream life into a reality).
he also says that travel, exploring new places he says is only one of the ways you can live on purpose…
He works with amazing coaching clients who love what they’re creating in the world.
Zephan started from scratch and made $15,000 in his first six months after quitting his job…and close to $60,000 with a little elbow grease and patience (less than 2 years later)
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He was able to “hack” over 25 FREE flights around the country and still run his business from the road (in fact, he booked just as much work on the road as he would at home)
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Zephan has created a free course:
“Find Your Purpose in 8 Days“
so at the end of the interview, we will tell you how you can Check out Zephan’s course, remember he shows you the right way.
- the next lesson a unique tactic that entrepreneurs use to generate millions in revenue…and he is going to tell us how to use it for your purpose driven life.
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He tells us the juicy, insider-secrets of lifestyle design (he says, there are many …and he promises to share several of them with you in on his podcast), but he needs you to do two things: so you will have to Listen Up today to find out what they are
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A single tool that will change the way you approach life and tough decisions (I’ve
adopted this from Elon Musk and it works wonders for every aspect of your life)
& How you can apply this single tool to your life…
1) What one thing Contributes most to your success
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Personal Story – Tell us a little bit about your background and how it ties in to how you are helping people today.
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Tell us about the mission and vision for your company
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What are the reoccurring themes that you experience as an aspiring entrepreneur that you can summarize for the benefit of other aspiring, startups looking for help and resources to either startup, and grow a business or get experience as an intern or find a job.
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What do you think are the most common mistakes other startups or entrepreneurs or students interested in business make that delay or prevent their success?
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Can you give us some of the essential understandings entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face?
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Where does the drive come from to be successful and to make a difference in this world.
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Tell us about your ACHIEVEMENTS
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Resources for other aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own business – from UD or other things you have used
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When did you discover you were a business leaders/that you wanted to help other members and be resourceful
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tells us about a challenging moment as a business leader / (owner or entrepreneur)
Fast Round –
1) Best business advice that you have received / If you had a billboard and could put anything on it what would it be –
2) Next, the “inspirational book” which is sponsored by mitchellchadrow.com/audible – name a book that has helped you in either business family or life
3) What flaws have turned out to be strengths
4) App that you use to help you in business, family or life
5) A quote or mantra that you use to inspire and motivate
6) Less than $100 purchase that has impacted your life the most –
7) Fun fact:
8) Worse advice being given to young entrepreneurs today –
10) When you think of the word successful what first name comes to your mind
11) What kind of systems do you have in your life
12) Two years from now what are you doing?
How can people get in contact with you:
What we learned today
Write down stuff you always wanted to do for 30 days and circle those items that constantly come up.
Make yourself a resource and become more resourceful.
Develop an awareness and notice and receive those opportunities that present themselves to you.
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Technology Software Application Entrepreneur Jeremiah Joseph De Leon, Founder, Align App What we will discuss on today’s show:
Technology software application entrepreneur Jeremiah Joseph De Leon is CEO and Co-Founder of Align App.
He says, “It’s not about what you can do; it’s about who you know.” but “its who knows you.”
Growing up in foster care and how he calls his mobile app the tinder for entrepreneurs.
· The ability to generate great ideas, making connections to move forward but the importance of executing.
· Creating a product to give to anyone.
The release of their Mobile App this July, 2016 that uses geolocation to match with the exact people you need to make your startup dreams a reality.
· Their goal accelerate innovation globally by connecting entrepreneurs.
· How is the App Easy, Fast and Rewarding
· what it means to find your why.
· We explore Jeremiah’s personal story, the mission of the Align company, lessons he has learned that we all can learn from.
Discuss Success, issues he faces a long with their challenges and how to deal with them – We explore several entertaining points during our lightening round and staying in touch.
Now onto the show
Jeremiah Joseph De Leon – Jeremiah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Align
The full show and all the links can be found at mitchellchadrow.com/show023
1) What one thing Contributes most to your success
2. Personal Story – Tell us a little bit about your background and how it ties in to how you are helping people today.
how does why give purpose and meaning, how why inspires.
how he Inspires people to never give up, no matter
how everyone should make their dreams a reality.
discuss his philosophy of the greatest hope was within myself
he was the only one with the key to my future the whole time.
Life taught him to pivot, adapt to new ideas and perspectives.
he utilized people and resources to attain outcomes that were thought impossible for him
Life has taught him the art of networking. Life has made him who he is today an entrepreneur.
3. Tell us about the mission and vision for Align
- What are the reoccurring themes that you experience as an aspiring entrepreneur that you can summarize for the benefit of other aspiring, startups looking for help and resourcesto either startup, and grow a business or get experience as an intern or find a job.
- What do you think are the most common mistakes other startups or entrepreneurs or students interested in business make that delay or prevent their success?
- Can you give us some of the essential understandings entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face?
- Where does the drive come from to be successful and to make a difference in this world.
- Tell us about your ACHIEVEMENTS
- Resources for other aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own business – from UD or other things you have used
- When did you discover you were a business leaders/that you wanted to help other members and be resourceful
- tells us about a challenging moment as a business leader / (owner or entrepreneur)
- failure that has influenced and shaped you to who you are today
Your biggest failure?
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1) Best business advice that your organization has received at one of your events / If you had a bill board and could put anything on it what would it be –
2) Next the “audible inspirational book” which is sponsored by mitchellchadrow.com/audible – name a book that has helped you in either business family or life
3) What flaws have turned out to be strengths
4) App that you use to help you in business, family or life
5) A quote or mantra that you use to inspire and motivate
6) Less than $100 purchase that has impacted your life the most –
7) Fun fact:
8) Worse advice being given to young entrepreneurs today –
10) When you think of the word successful what first name comes to your mind
11) What kind of systems do you have in your life
12) Two years from now what are you doing?
How can people get in contact with you:
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great ideas, however, I didn’t have the connections to move forward. After watching my ideas come to life through others, I promised myself that I will attend college to create a product to give anyone, anywhere all the connections they need at their fingertips.”
inception of align, released this July, 2016, mobile app will use geolocation to match with the exact people you need to make your startup dreams a reality. The goal of align is to accelerate innovation globally by connecting entrepreneurs.
Skills & Expertise
Public Speaking Fundraising Nonprofits Research
Event Planning Team Leadership Customer Service Higher Education
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Education
Drexel University
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 2015 – 2018
Montgomery County Community College
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, 2012 – 2014
Activities and Societies: President of Student Government /Sports : (Capt.) Montco’s Soccer team National involvement : President of the American Student Association of Community Colleges (ASACC)
What we learned today
Now Lets Listen Up to Jeremiah as he summarizes the three main points that
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Tiffany Canjura, President of the Latino Professionals of America Association She is a young nonprofit leader and student at the University of Delaware. Tiffany Canjura is a young non-profit leader and student at the University of Delaware. She was elected as a leading board member for the Alfred Lerner Student Advisory Board and as the Executive Vice President of Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity while still acting as a Social Media Ambassador, Insomnia Cookies Marketing Representative and as ALPFA President.
The Latino Professionals of America Association helps its members either get internships, jobs or start businesses. The resources the organization provides.
The companies it partners with to get its members interviews. The various events the organization plans to provide their members for success in the business world.
We discuss the other activities Tiffany is involved that help her balance her leadership role. Her day today at the Association and what she does in her role as President. We explore her personal story, the mission of the organization, lessons she has learned that we all can learn from. She discusses success, issues the students face along with their challenges and to deal with them. We explore several entertaining points during our lightning round and staying in touch.
It’s exciting to note that several of the organization's members and the executive board are either thinking of or are in the process of starting their own business.
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The Association also prepares its members for the Business world in a number of ways.
ALPHA helps with the interview process coordinates networking events with companies like EY, Baker Tilly, J.P Morgan Chase, Bloomberg, Deloitte, KPMG.
Honest and raw business advice holds a number of panels with individuals from various companies to share valuable lessons and success secrets. In the midst of at these events, members have required dress either Business Casual or Business Professional Attire.
The Association teaches its members proper etiquette, formality, professionalism, networking skills as well as valuable lessons that prepare them for business life.
Tiffany is in the Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware with a concentration in International Business, Business Management, and Business Administration a minor in Advertising.
Its all about a balance as we focus on not only business but family and life – Tiffany is also extremely involved in her work as a lifeguard, Zumba instructor, social media ambassador, and marketing representative.
She is also actively involved in UDress Magazine, Entrepreneurship club, Women in Business club.
As President of the Association of Latino Professionals for America Tiffany Supervises the organization's Social Media accounts; Organizes Fundraisers and Events; Coordinates and collaborates with other on-campus organizations and helps Sponsors other campus events; Recruits new members; Engages with her staff and members; Organizes weekly club meetings; Posts club updates and notifications; Advertising Association events.
We explore Tiffany's personal story and the mission of her group.
We discuss resources for their members, prospective members or students either looking for internships, their first job or help to start a business.
She reviews the reoccurring themes that are experienced as a young leader that you can summarize for the benefit of other aspiring, leaders or members looking for help and resources to either start up and grow a business or get experience as an intern or find a job?
What do you think are the most common mistakes your members or prospective members or students/(entrepreneurs/or students looking for internships or jobs) make that delay or prevent their success?
We talk about some of the essential understandings members/entrepreneurs/students need to have the proper mindset to deal with the daily challenges they face.
Her drive comes from her family, how she was raised and wanting to give back to her community. She wants to be successful and to make a difference in this world.
She told us about her achievements and the resources for students to start their own business at the University of Delaware campus UD or the various organizations that she is actively involved. Our conversation turns to when she discovered that was a business leader and that she wanted to help others in being a resource. Challenging moments are analyzed to give perspective on what it takes to work toward success. the failure that has influenced and shaped you to who you are today
In the fast pitch round we cover several questions such as:
1) What one thing Contributes most to your success
2) Best business advice that your organization has received at one of your events / If you had a billboard and could put anything on it what would it be – Be Yourself
3) Next, the “audible inspirational book” which is sponsored by mitchellchadrow.com/audible – name a book that has helped you in either business family or life
4) What flaws have turned out to be strengths
5) App that you use to help you in business, family or life
6) A quote or mantra that you use to inspire and motivate
7) Less than $100 purchase that has impacted your life the most – business suit
8) Fun fact:
9) Worse advice being given to young entrepreneurs today –
10) When you think of the word successful what first name comes to your mind
11) What kind of systems do you have in your life
12) Two years from now what are you doing?
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Digital Real Estate Expert Michael Giangiordano, II, Founder & CEO Rental Rater What we will discuss
Digital Real Estate Expert, Michael Giangiordano, II Founder & CEO of Rental Rater born and raised in South Philadelphia
He provides community involvement through the various schools that he has attended and church.
He grew up around his father’s real estate business.
We discuss the mission and vision for Rental Rater and launching the company.
How Michael came up with the idea for Rental Rater and registering the domain name.
What real estate apps or websites are out there which are easy to navigate and use, are universal and simple to operate where all you have to do is just type in where you live and put a review up. Determine the right ingredients to make such a real estate platform successful. The website is not just for landlords, it discusses the property and neighborhood and informs prospective tenants before they rent the place. Tenants want to know what others think like students want to know about their professors or services from Angies List thus the real estate market wants Rental Rater. This will include rental properties – both at the macro and micro level not just row home, duplex not just commercial read review from all of that.
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Ready willing and able to face challenges and be willing to fail and people will push back and you need to be ready to answer them or find the answers.
Talk to other people get their opinions from as many people do research must know what your talking about before you start.
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Young Nonprofit Leaders Sobel & Rojas What we will discuss: Starting a Non-Profit and structuring the organizations. Mission and Purpose of Lazarus Rising. Creating a Volunteer College Network of Students. Challenges faced by the organizations. Building up resumes for start up profit v homeless and at risk individuals for non profits. Power of bootstrapping. Outside Read More ...
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The mobile phone has been transformed into a genius plus scanner with a great application from the Grizzly Labs.
Bruno is an entrepreneur and programmer who loves building simple, easy-to-use products. He received his engineering degree from Supélec and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating, he joined Amazon.com in Seattle where he worked on large-scale projects. He then moved to the Silicon Valley as a lead engineer for 1000memories which was later acquired by Ancestry.com. He is now working full-time on The Grizzly Labs focusing mainly on iOS (@bvirlet, email).
Numerous applications for use as a document scanner. The principle is simple: you take a photo of the document, the application then allows to crop, retreat the image and allows to export or send it in various formats including PDF.
People use these applications for expense reports or urgent shipments are generally chargeable. But it was important for me to interview Bruno Virlet the Founder behind the Genius series of applications.
Genius Scan: A scanner in your pocket. More than 20 million people have decided to trust Genius Scan for iOS to digitize close to a billion documents. It’s fast, simple in terms of ergonomics, it offers rotation, export in image or in PDF and effective in image processing.
Genius Sign: How often have you had to print, sign, date, scan and send back a document? Instead, just open the document to sign with Genius Sign and send it back a few seconds later with a signature.
Genius Fax: Nobody has a fax machine anymore. It’s expensive and you have to maintain a line. Yet there is always an emergency when you have to fax a document. Meet Genius Fax, friendly and easy to use.
Genius Scan is very simple to use. You simply take a photo, and and the app places an orange grid where it thinks the important bits are. You can then drag the boundaries around to crop off unwanted areas or to include areas where Genius Scan didn’t guess right.
From there you can rotate the image, if necessary, then render the scan as color, greyscale or black-and-white. I find that black-and-white works best for the type of documents I scan. This also sharpens up the text and makes it more legible. Overall, the app’s scan quality is very good, but a tradeoff I discovered is that the size of the files it produces are from 50 percent to 100 percent larger than similar scanner apps.
When your adjustments are complete, you can save your document either as a standalone image or—if you’re working with a multiple page document—to an existing document in order to stitch the images together.
If you want, you can upload your documents to a variety of cloud services, including Google Drive, and Expensify. Additionally, you can enable Wi-Fi sharing to copy documents directly from your device to a computer or, of course, you can print or email your scanned documents.
If you’d like to try the app before plopping down your $3, then you can download the free, Genius Scan app. Scanning functions are identical to Genius Scan+, but the free version includes ads and limits your output options.
We have been promised a so-called paperless office and home for many years, but it has never quite happened. Printers, photocopiers, scanners and even fax machines still play a role in many of our working lives, although they feel more 20th century by the day.
But with the right mobile apps, you should be able to eliminate some of that paper and use some of those devices less. Document scanner apps can capture an accurate image of a paper document, save it securely as a PDF, email it and in some cases even recognize the printed text.
The app automatically detects the edge of the paper, then rotates and straightens the image. Adjusting the image quality to make the text easier to read is easily done by changing brightness and contrast with simple sliders. When you are ready to save your document image, you can keep a color version, a grayscale version or a pure black-and-white version. Clicking the Done button creates an archived image file. You can share the image file by email, print it out, store it in cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive or send it to another app like a word processor.
Genius Scan, free on iOS, is very similar. Its interface looks different but it has the same straightforward and businesslike feel that Scanner Pro has. This app has a few extras, like the ability to tag documents with keywords to make it easier to search by type of document, like scanned receipts. It also has Wi-Fi sharing of scanned files, which makes it easy to transfer scans to a PC connected to the same wireless network.
Bruno and his business partner were roommates at the University of Illinois, and they wanted to do a project together, both were into compilers and optimizations and his roommate was also into image processing and so together they said let’s make an app.
The first step take a photo and to be able to detect the frame of the picture. However, the whole photo recognition was complicated. But they were able to create a good frame detection code, the main question was what could they use it for? The aha moment came in 2010, we they both started working on that question, and the fun part is that when Bruno was to fly to Europe for a friend’s wedding he got stuck in Chicago because of the volcano in Iceland. So Bruno bought a MacBook and started working on that question. That’s how it happened.
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LAW DEAN Jay Mootz, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific What we will discuss: Law Dean, Jay Mootz discusses his journey over the last 26 years of his career and becoming dean. The high cost of administration overhead in academia. How the silo effect can trap you in certain frame of reference and the need Read More ...
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Product designer, Chris Lin, Flip Wallet, Founder.
What you will learn from the show:
Chris Lin - He is Not just the Founder but also the product designer of Flip Wallet.
He is a mechanical engineer by education, but an entrepreneur at heart.
Although his time as an undergraduate was spent focusing on getting a degree, he always found time to work on the various prototypes of designs including the flip wallet.
He recently graduated from the University of Delaware and was the winner of a Hen Hatch pitch competition, now he is in the process of launching his first product.
For Chris creating products for his own design firm isn't just a dream but a passion.
We discuss the journey for him becoming an entrepreneur upon graduation to building his startup.
What contributes to his success
What hs been his challenges.
How he found his testers for the flip wallet.
Discussion on his product, could not discuss cost of goods and services but importance of negotiating cost per unit up front negotiate price after tooling not a sticker but your mark logo is in the tool
Outsourcing manufacturing internationally: use Skype for international discussions - find a virtual assistant internationally for better communication - use text so helps with loss of translation. For international mailing use an upfront signed contract with DHL.
Testing product; prototype - patent; Logo design; website development; Advisory Board; attorney and accountant
Minimal design: "Minimal design could be defined as using less to do more. But it’s time we start pushing the envelope, and using more to do more."
Reach application and how to apply your philosophy to your startup and products that you development -
Quotes: Life entrepreneurship "I’m always looking for advice! I’m a little fish in a big pond, as they say." Chris Lin in his blog post says "having your back against the wall never hurts."
Anyone saying don't do this or get a job working for someone else - advisors mentors accountants lawyers parents
For our next interview show Jay Mootz Dean of the McGeorge Law School University of Pacific in Sacramento CA.
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What we learn in this show:
Our guest, Amira Idris, is CEO and Founder of Vibrating Therapeutic Apparel (VTA) that integrates wearable technology with vibration therapy. The patent pending technology is being used to create a line of therapeutic apparels that improve blood/fluid circulation and tissue activity in the body. This patent pending technology is a wearable therapeutic product that uses vibration technology to improve performance, health, and quality of life.
The Vibrosleeve is a device that helps amputees to keep their limbs healthy through massage that increases tissue activity, blood and fluid flow.
Amira tells us that she is a tinkerer at heart who is constantly seeking ways to improve on products that she interacts with daily. She observes her environment to search for unmet needs, and she also enjoys the user-centered research that serves those needs. Her passion is prototyping and designing new devices.
Amira earned a Master’s of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and Design at the University of Delaware (UD), with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering, with minors in Biomechanical Engineering, and Bioelectrical Engineering from UD.
The Story behind VTA:
When VTA CEO Amira Idris was interning at a prosthetic clinic during her undergraduate studies at the University of Delaware, she came into contact with a disheartened amputee that would leave a lasting impact on her.
She saw how depressed he was and came to understand of the 2 million people in the United States living with limb loss, a large percentage also feel the same. Part of the 80% of amputees also experiences a condition known as phantom limb pain (PLP).
Concerned, Idris worked closely with prosthetic clients and discovered that this severe pain can lead to insomnia, difficulty functioning, and a decreased quality of life.
Treatments for phantom limb pain include prescription drugs, massage, and physical therapy, but these methods aren’t always effective. Idris also noticed that there weren’t any solutions designed specifically for amputees to alleviate pain.
Through research, interviews, and support, Vibrating Therapeutic Apparel was founded!
Wear VTA and Pitch Competitions:
Vibrating Therapeutic Apparel wins at the USASBE Student Exposition and Pitch Competition at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia. VTA competed with other schools around the Tri-State Area (NJ, PA, DE). The pitch was a business and entrepreneurship professional conference. They won the $5,000 grand prize, which will be going towards funding the research and continual development of VTA!
VTA is making great progress on product development!
Members of the team are collaborating with amputees to test and develop the vibrating sleeve. CEO Amira Idris and apparel technologist Danielle Dubay-Betters work together to fit and test a product prototype with a volunteer amputee. Idris explains how the sleeve works.
VTA works with clients in the development of the vibrating sleeve and depends on client feedback on the sleeves effectiveness, quality, and overall feel to assist her in making products and achieve the VTA’s goal to build products that meet the needs of their clients.
Resources from this Show:
University of Delaware Horn Program – on Twitter – @UDHornProgram
You can contact Amira on LinkedIn by email business website and personal website.
On our next show 017 I interview Chris Lin inventor of Flip Wallet – now you know Chris as also going to the University of Delaware at the University of Delaware Horn Program and Amira you know him as being a fierce competitor during those pitch presentations – so we are really looking forward to that show 017. The University of Delaware Horn Program is really helping many Young and new entrepreneurs.
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Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, entrepreneurial ventures. Equity crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in the next ten years is going to be the next big thing. I have a friend who is a professional, smart, successful whose son is starting a software company. Guess what, they are going to use it. They are not going to use the big banks or VC's to fund them and they could if they really wanted to. For passive income this same friend has bought a lifestyle franchise / so for his next franchise purchase he is going to sell a share of the franchise store using, that's right, you guess it right, crowdfunding and he may consider crowdsourcing.
So what is Crowdsourcing anyway and why should you Listen Up Trusted Friends to this viable alternative for obtaining those needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a larger group of people online rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.
Now Crowdfunding its the use of small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals to finance your new or next business venture, startup. Crowdfunding makes use of your networked platforms through social media and other websites that get the word out about your new business and attracts investors. So why you ask? Crowdfunding - it increases entrepreneurship by expanding your pool of investors from whom funds can be raised beyond your traditional circle of owners, relatives and empower you to focus beyond the big banks and venture capitalists by using alternative means to expand your reach. Remember your smarter than most.
Kickstarter IndieGoGo just to name a few.
Take small donations for charitable, artistic endeavors or contributions to launch your new or existing business in return for the product being made, service, or some type of a thank-you
So how can all this be done now you may ask - well the JOBS Act - so let me educate you but keep it entertaining - this Act creates a special exemption for crowdfunding so that companies can sell securities by way of crowdfunding. Generally, under the Act, companies are limited to raising $1 million in any 12-month period using crowdfunding and $2 million with audited financials. Companies cannot crowdfund on their own but will have to engage an intermediary that’s registered with the SEC as a broker or funding portal. These intermediaries will be required to vet the company seeking to fund.
Individual investors will be limited in the amount they can invest by way of crowdfunding in any 12-month period to: if your annual income or net worth is less than $100,000 – the greater of $2,000 or 5 percent of annual income or net worth, or if your annual income or net worth is more than $100,000 – 10 percent of annual income or net worth up to a maximum of $100,000. When calculating net worth, you should not count the value of your primary residence or any loans secured by the residence (up to the value of the residence).
Many other new and young entrepreneurs startups, franchises will want to do the same with their products and businesses as well. Maybe our guests or Trusted Friends in the Listen Up Podcast audience.
Just look at all the crowdfunding sites there are so many entrepreneurs that need help. I currently interview startups, young and new entrepreneurs on my podcast. Take my recent interview with Scott Pecorello Show012 and next Friday I am interviewing Amira Idris on Show016. These startups are so interesting to listen to, they have a wonderful outlet right here on the Listen Up Podcast, the Mitchell Chadrow Show and mitchellchadrow.com, to increase their visibility, with all the Free Premium Resources that we provide right here as they get going. All you have to do is subscribe at mitchellchadrow.com
So the take away Listen Up Now the startup news - you to can raise crowdfunding and sourcing from non-accredited investors since 2012. So what, you may ask? This is a really big deal! Don't let someone scare you out of this possible and extremely appealing viable option instead of going directly to the big banks or VC's.
Do you have to know what you are doing? Sure thing! That's why we have this community of Trusted Friends. Education, Trust, not just saying we are authentic but in the actions as well not just the words.
Doesn't matter if you can raise money from accredited investors, big banks or VC's. You can't rely on these entities to help you in the new economy and you must take action to consider other alternative options to raise your own funds. The crowd funding and sourcing way. Sure there can be a lot of noise in the Crowd but your crowd is smarter, right? Maybe. You'll get funded as well - they whisper? No guarantee but there are not many guarantees in life. There's no problem here - you are just trying to stack the deck in your favor.
Naysayers will say beware caution ahead - well dealing with the big banks and VC's but maybe just maybe there are better opportunities to empower yourselves.
So what must you and your non accredited know right off the bat? Yes, its the collective crowdsourcing experience of the group. Well your a new or young entrepreneur so we are all on notice - correct! The non accredited investors are not the big banks or VC's - precisely - why we want them - by our side - I hope that is obvious. The non accredited investors may have collective crowdsourcing sales or distribution experience and have experience in purchasing stocks in companies with great ideas. That's not the point. We are tired of relying on big banks and VC's for our education, training and thought control on what is or is not a good investment . These non accredited investors do love your startup concept, and do envision one in every household, thats the point of our interest in you and your company and our CrowdSourcing and the Group collectively is smarter and may even know more about getting it to the market, how to run the business, or achieve positive cash flow. We know that startups write business plan and the non accredited investors use that to fund it, but our experienced business owner guests and collective non-accredited investors are smarter then you may think, they know cash flow is important as well which at the end of the day provides the business with a viable business not merely a business plan.
Do you really think that the big banks and the VC’s are the only individuals that can drill down and ask the right questions of our startups or are the only people that have the secret sauce to success about just how these products will be brought to market and become sustainable. Well, think again! Our Trusted Friends and the non-accredited investors out there are being educated right here and will know about the importance of the cash flow plan in addition to the business plan of these startups as an essential focus point for success in their investment. We interviewed Damian Salas in Show 014 from the Close School of Entrepreneurship and as these Young Entrepreneurs and new startups need to tell there story they know they have a wonderful platform right here on our show. Our Trusted Friends the Non-Accredited Investor is not as naive we know that sales are an essential part of a good idea of the startup - we have the Crowd and Sourcing here for education, training, and wisdom from past experiences.
While we enjoy focusing on the product we are smart enough through proper crowdsourcing, delegating and listening to these startup management stories of the company. Sure we believe in our guest products and solutions especially when we are given a sample product so that these entrepreneurs can continue to grow, yes we believe that the startup will be able to manufacture and distribute the product in the future. By the way that's why smarter non-accredited investors are investing smaller amounts in many companies which help them diversify their own investment portfolio. We are smarter then you think we believe in the management team and the story of the startup which determines the success or failure of the product.
No, we are not going to oversimplify the sales process to lull us into a false sense of security in the product or startup. There is a lot of information out there online, in the stores and each day we can be overwhelmed by it. Yes, we are consumers but also entrepreneurs and Trusted Friends of a Community where we pride ourselves on educating ourselves, learning from one another right here right now. Yes, we are also producers and have faith that it takes more than just a positive response to the company offering.
We must be realistic of the timing between the product time offering and when it's actually available to the public. You know as a startup that the costs and time of production and distribution can be greater than you anticipate and build that into your plan. It will not deter nor discourage you as this Trusted Friends Community is here for support.
Meanwhile, you now get that publicity right here, providing you and your companies with Free Premium Resources and better access to the market non-accredited investors with the Jobs Act can level the playing field and move on good ideas and have those new ventures and startups move first to market. This can help the startup’s idea get to market so that does not becomes outdated.
The guest startups here don't get a false sense of security after a successful Crowd Funding. You are well grounded and realistic especially when you get constructive feedback news – such as the idea can be much improved with better management, delivery, and achieving a positive cash flow. So launching the business is merely the starting point as well as what kind of money you can raise. It’s all about the startups education and lessons learned which are required for what it takes to get to market and quantifying the actual cost of sales. We are smarter than you think regardless of what is raised for the company.
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ENTREPRENURIAL DEAN Entrepreneur Educator Drexel University Close School of Entrepreneurship Damian Salas Show 014 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: Entrepreneurial Dean, Damian Salas, Entrepreneur, Educator and at Drexel University Charles D. Close School. The first freestanding school of entrepreneurship in the nation to offer degrees. Damian has also taught Strategy and Management at the Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Read More ...
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Digital Marketing Industry Agency SEO, Social, Paid, And Content Foxtail Founder Mike Templeman via http://mitchellchadrow.com/show013
I discuss content marketing, paid advertising, search engine optimization, inbounding marketing, SaaS Marketing Services, Social Media Marketing, and so much more.
Mike is an entrepreneur, writer who enjoys startups, scaling service based businesses and content marketing. He is also the founder of Foxtail Marketing, a digital demand generation firm – with locations in Canada, Australia, London and NYC and other locations. He has regular columns at Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine and others.
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WeatherOptics and Know Snow are both apps developed by Scott Pecoriello Founder of WeatherOptics.net. Scott is disrupting meteorology. You may recall you spoke with another app development company Chop Dawg and their Founder Joshua Davidson.
When Scott was only 16 years old he came up with an amazing idea make an app that would forecast School closings based on the weather of the state he lived Connecticut. Je spent 3 months building it and finally launched in December of 2013 — This was Scott’s My first app. Now more than 4 years later, the Know Snow app has made it to the top of the App Store, ranking most recently at #19 for weather apps.
What started up as a small project that had several setbacks is now as successful as his company's most recently launched app WeatherOptics, which is taking forecasting/data to a whole new level by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to try and carry about similar functions across a multitude of sectors, including Flight Delays, Sports Games, Camp Impacts, Business Sales and more.
Scott recalls that he can remember when being in High School and struggling to reach his first 100 downloads. His philosophy and mantra grit, patience, and passion are what led to this app going viral and becoming that resourceful tool now used by tens of thousands of people.
His quote “Entrepreneurship is all about the long-haul.” He recalls I spamming some 50 news outlets and although only 1 responded back that’s all was needed to have that person agree to write a short post about the app. The domino effect of that one important step allowed Scott’s company to get where he is today.
Keep. Grinding.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Scott is a young, serial entrepreneur the Founder of Weatheroptics.net formerly Wild About Weather, creator of the mobile app Know Snow that is currently in the iTunes store and can be downloaded for free.
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He also started HenHaul LLC while he was a freshman at the University of Delaware in the Entrepreneurial and Innovation program. Check out other national entrepreneurship college programs like the one lead by
Dean Damion Salas at the Close School of Entrepreneurship on the Campus at Drexel University.
Twitter: @scottpecoriello
The quote that really inspires him is by Albert Einstein: "Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid."
In addition to Scott being a Young Serial Entrepreneur David Zamarin also built several businesses before hitting it big on the reality show Shark Tank.
Website: weatheroptics.net
Website: Know Snow App
Delaware University Horn Program
Favorite book is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Our past guests Bonney Harvey and Michael Houlihan recently visited the Napoleon Hill Foundation in San Diego, California to speak with their members about business.
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Alternative fundraising in addition to traditional banks by banking smarter.
Marcus Aurelius authored Meditations he was a philosopher and the last good legendary Roman Emperor before its decline – he ruled from 161 to 180 AD, and developed a reputation for being the ideal wise leader Plato termed the “philosopher king.”
President Bill Clinton has said is one of his favorite books.
Wisdom true value and takeaways that we can apply to our everyday business, family and life starting now.
As far as we know, Aurelius wrote these ideas down for himself and had no intention of having it published. In a way, Meditations offers an inside look at the mind of the man who was both governing the Roman empire and struggling with the same issues that you and I do on a daily basis.
It is so applicable with rich advice on day-to-day stuff. Making it as relevant today as it was almost 2000 years ago.
Think about how powerful this man was – At the time he was alive in fact he was the most powerful man on earth, and he still took the time to sit down each day to write himself notes about restraint, compassion, and humility. What he left unknowingly for all of us today is a guide for living with purpose and the practical application of his true values. It is not merely some intellectual enterprise but a great tool that we can use to become better entrepreneurs, better family members and better people in life.
We are going to look at a series of quotes and lessons from the famous Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius. brilliant life philosophies, interesting insights on difficult questions, and practical strategies for dealing with the challenges that we all face along the path of life.
He had his own life challenges faced with constant fighting, the rebellion of his general Cassius, the deaths of his wife and close friend, and the realization that his son Commodus was destined to be a bad ruler.
He dealt with these hardships by turning to philosophy, specifically the Stoicism of the ancient Greeks and his contemporary Roman philosophers.
Lessons learned practical application so get started from business owners family members and how to live life – are numerous
When he arose in the morning he said, – “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Meditations chronicles both his strengths and weaknesses – It is perhaps one of the earliest diaries known and shows us today the Importance of keeping a diary both in written form and in audio.
On life: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
Entrepreneurship and the ideas and concepts are written thousands of years ago by
(Stoicism) Can Make You A Better Entrepreneur
The philosophical school of Stoicism – it’s an operating system – for teaching you how to thrive in high-stress environments
I have been keeping journals since law school and it helped me by getting my thoughts down
But Instead of a written diary this new concept of an audio diary is interesting and appealing to me – more on that in a later newsletter.
on self confidence “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
On finding blame or fault on others he instructs “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
So if you're still not convinced how these writings are so impactful or why Every Entrepreneur Should Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Check out what he says about thinking toward the future “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
On this same topic, he also said “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
Meditations — consists of just under 200 pages and it consists of his most personal thoughts and life philosophies. Although it might not have many pages, it might take longer to go through because it's so powerful
You just want to start writing things down as you learn so much in this diary
For example, he says that The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Strength from within not without – we call that spirit “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always looks.”
When it comes to business ideas, how to be, and act, personal philosophy on life, advice on being a real with universal practical application
being a man and leader, dealing with difficult angry people, work, and duty. As you read each paragraph you really stop to think about all its implications, pondering his words and motivated to use the priceless advice to live a better, more fulfilled life.
On lowering your expectations dealing with others throughout your day he comments: “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
Next, to the lessons in the Bible, I would say this book or diary provides us so much guidance on how to live, lead and treat others. But Meditations is not a religious book.
You want to improve in business, family, and life then you run to listen to this book. You can pick up the audio for your free one month trial by going to mitchellchadrow.com/audible
As mentioned in this From getting up in the morning to preparing for your legacy, Meditations is the A to Z on living a full life.
On opinions of others -” I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
Why was he the most beloved emperor in the history of the Roman Empire. He ruled for 19 years; and unlike the majority of emperors who came before and after him, Aurelius was deemed and incorruptible leader.
He fought off several threats to the Roman Empire during his reign and believed life’s purpose revolved around service, duty and respecting the nature of the universe.
He had total control over the empire yet never once used that privilege for his personal gain. Despite being the most powerful man in the world, he remained balanced – stern when needed, but always understanding of others, even his enemies.
He could have had the best of wines, food, and companions in the empire during his years as a leader (which is what most emperors did), but he abstained from such temptations. He believed such discipline was required of a leader. He explains how one must deal with temptations in life, and that anything which does not make you a better man must be avoided.
Who really knows but maybe he really didn’t want to be emperor you get the impression that during his leadership he was lonely balancing between what was the right thing to do for the empire and what was right for the nature of the universe.
He wrote in his diary but he didn’t do it because he thought it would ever be published.
This diary was written mostly when the Roman Emperor was at war defending itself.
No one knew about the diary while he was alive it was a secret and only discovered after his passing
What an awesome valuable piece of literature. This amazing work was initially published in Greek, the language in which Aurelius wrote it. Since then it has been published in several languages and is deemed to be one of the best pieces of Stoic literature in history.
So what are the lessons that entrepreneurs can learn from Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’?
On focus – make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time even when hard at work.
So what are the circumstances of Marcus’ life a long with the dismal failure of his son.
Personally there might always be a reason for you not to start , you’ve been planning, thinking but either haven’t or need to take that business to the next level so start doing.
Professionally sometimes you have to do an about face exit what your currently doing and move into a new direction.
On things out of your control – “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
Sure you want to be precise and have a genuine seriousness.
Wants you decide that your all in to start or grow your business, then do it with seriousness. Put all your efforts to it with focus, precision, don’t bandy around. Work toward tasks and goals with care and earnest attention.
Is passion good sure but it’s the nuts and bolts the everyday stuff that is needed to be done cared for as well as about enjoying it loving it.
Some aspects of entrepreneurship you might not enjoy but still, try to love what you do, as much as you can. Maybe you will like 60 percent but that’s reality. You can always delegate as you scale.
“It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.”
On change: “Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
Show your expertise with no pretension.
Quiet confidence and knowledge
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”
He teaches us that you must change your approach based on what you’re facing. Sure it has to be partly based on experience, knowing what approach to take, based on the situation. So you must either get more experience or get more training. Above all else be flexible.
More on happiness: “Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”
See new opportunities in obstacles. Be prepared to change your plans to accommodate new info. Never petrify. Always keep moving.
too much optimism v doubting myself too early, – aim for simple, clear reality.
To many focus on past and future on the present he said: “Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: ‘What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?’ You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own.”
Stoics view a situation with neutrality. They would say an event in itself cannot be good or bad, it’s only an event. But to me you still you’ll have to decide whether you’ll see something as a threat or an opportunity
So how did he stay in control of his emotions based on his beliefs that nature unfolds in a perfect way and that one must accept that they cannot change the past or what other people feel in their hearts.
One key point he writes about is how to recover from massive setbacks.
Here are some of the philosopher king’s timeless lessons on how to be resilient:
Don’t worry about people whose actions don’t affect the common good.
Your energy and time are both limited, so don’t waste them on what inconsequential people are doing, thinking, and saying, when you could be focusing on your own issues.
On Living in the present – Marcus writes
“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see,”
Refrain from imposing your feelings onto reality.
. . . none of these are “bad” (or “good” for that matter), according to Marcus’ philosophy. When you see things as what they really are, you’re able to avoid succumbing to your emotions and accept what has happened.
Turn an obstacle into an opportunity.
Which is a Stoic fundamental, which says that we should use inevitable challenges as a chance to become a stronger person.
Good definition of a Stoic, someone who “transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
Find peace within yourself.
Marcus writes that people try to retreat from their problems and responsibilities by going somewhere like the mountains or the beach, but that travel isn’t necessary to recollect yourself. He advocates a kind of brief meditation, where you withdraw into yourself and quiet your mind.
Don’t resent people for their character.
If someone’s character flaw has caused one of your problems, do not exert energy trying to change that person’s character. Let things go. “You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice,” Marcus says.
You are the only person responsible for your happiness.
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been,” Marcus writes. Furthermore, the only way people can truly harm you is if they change your character.
He is like a kindred spirit.
Goal or task don’t sweep away your thoughts that come into your mind – just observe.
He is so up front and honest it’s like he is saying to us – I am a fellow human being trying to make sense of the trials and tribulations of life. It’s like he is down the earth saying it just so happens I came into this role as “Emperor,” but that seemed to matter little to the turmoil in his brain and the yearning in his heart.
It seems, he was just also trying to figure it all out, just like the rest of us. And if one of the most revered leaders of the civilized world was trying to figure it all out almost 2000 years back in his day, then maybe together our community here collectively is doing alright.
Take aways – don’t hesitate to set a new path or new trail because your thinking your not entirely sure you can pull it off or because you think you lack the skills, know how, connections, money, and certainly the confidence we feel like we need to get started. Thus so many never risk starting. Or we give up when things get rough. Or take too long. Especially if the things we hope to do — start a business, move into a new industry, spearhead a movement we care about, reinvent ourselves, build a new career or life from scratch — is something we’ve never, ever done before.
So what separates those, like Marcus who pursue worthy projects and grow enormous empires, from those that do not?
Surely, they must have all their stuff together and “all figured out” before they even get started?
Here’s a secret: they didn’t.
And here’s another: they still don’t.
In my own story from Attorney, Banker Fiduciary Professional to Entrepreneur or whatever else I happen to be doing at the moment.
Far and away the most powerful moments happen when I, someone who tends to look like a bundle of American confidence — all sorted, all figured out, all found, all put together — admit that inside I need to change or go in a new direction . . questioning whether you are the best you or if you have anything useful to add to a situation?
I am figuring a lot out, but still in several ways, I’m still putting it all together. Still developing. Still growing. Still becoming.
Discovery comes with my own vulnerability, my own humanness, my own reality. A reality that is potentially universal.
I’m still, and possibly will always be, figuring this out.
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Check out show 012 where we interview Young Serial Entrepreneur, Scott Pecoriello.
Barefoot Wine Founders Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan sold their iconic wine brand to E.J. Gallo Winery in 2005.
Startups Smarter Plan Business Estate Legacy Show
Digital assets, family legacy plan, estate plan.
Choice your Business Entity wisely, know how your assets are titled, whether you have probate or non-probate assets whether you need a beneficiary and the importance of keeping your Business Assets from separate from your Personal Assets. Create your legacy family plan start with a Will, POA, Living Will and Trust.
Career Expert Guru Harvey Mackay, Founder Mackay Mitchell Envelope Company IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
Career expert guru, Harvey Mackay, Founder of Mackay Mitchell Envelope Company
MackayMitchell Envelope Company has become one of the nation’s largest envelope manufacturing corporations, now creating five billion envelopes per year in three facilities. We’re in the business of providing timely and economical solutions, and our Sales Representatives and Customer Service staff are highly experienced direct mail professionals. We take pride in taking very good care of our clients.
Founded in 1959, Harvey Mackay purchased a small, existing company with twelve employees and a few folding machines. In the ensuing years, the direct mail business flourished, and in 1993, Scott Mitchell joined the company as President and became Harvey’s business partner and CEO in 2001.
Our main facility and corporate headquarters are in Minneapolis, with additional manufacturing plants in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa and Portland, Oregon. As the fifth largest envelope manufacturer in the country, we have over 440 employees and make up to 25 million envelopes per day.
Who is MackayMitchell Envelope Company?
Harvey Mackay founded our company in 1959 when he purchased an insolvent company with twelve employees and a few ancient folding machines.
Harvey is currently the Chairman of the board, as well as a NY Times best selling author.
Now CEO, Scott Mitchell was hired more than a decade ago by Harvey as President and later invested in the company becoming Harvey’s business partner.
The company now has three manufacturing locations and more than 400 employees making up to 25 million envelopes a day.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey founded Mackay Envelope in 1959.
New York Times #1 bestselling author of Swim With the Sharks
His first two books have been named among the top 15 inspirational books of all time.
His books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 40 languages and distributed in 80 countries
Nationally syndicated columnist
One of America’s most popular and entertaining business speakers
Toastmasters International named him one of the top five speakers in the world.
MackayMitchell Envelope
Scott Mitchell joined Harvey Mackay as President of Mackay Envelope in 1993
In 2000, Scott bought Mackay Envelope from Harvey
Harvey bought a 50% stake in 2007, and together they changed the name to MackayMitchell Envelope to reflect the partnership
Throughout all of these changes, the original mission has endured: To be in business forever.
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Moven Mobile NeoBank Brett King Founder 2018 Show 007
I first interviewed Brett King back in 2016. It is now two years later and Moven a Mobile NeoBank is now raising money to buy a US bank. SBI Group from Japan is providing funding and Moven Enterprises will create a joint venture with SBI Group in Japan.
What is happening to the boundaries of traditional banks, online banks, neobanks and the future of banking in 2019 and beyond. Just Listen Up to Brett King!
Brett King will be back on the show when Moven closes and completes this acquisition of a US bank later this year.
For now, Moven is still a neobank and Moven works with Westpac in New Zealand and Moven's partner in the US CBW Bank which provides customers with FDIC insurance.
In Canada, TD Bank licenses the Moven technology
In addition to being the Founder of Moven Brett king is also a podcast host, best selling author of five books.
His latest book is called Augmented in the Fast Lane and was found on China's President Xi's bookshelf during his 2018 New Years Greeting to his country.
Brett is originally from Australia and we discuss how business meets tech and the future of banking.
He loves being on the speaking circuit and he embraced the future with the startup of the next generation Bank based on the smartphone called Moven. Brett raised $24 million and the bank is headquartered in New York.
Customers can sign up for an account in less than two minutes, sent a card to use but now can just use their phone.
Breaking banks number one Fintech radio show on the planet
Speaks around the world on future of banking speaking in 39 countries back in 2015.
Tech meets business
Australia was his home country.
He started out as a coder, software developer, worked for the publicist group of Motor Media and ran a financial services training company in Dubai.
From Singapore, London to New York.
Metal went to breakfast in la Ken business rockstars movie producers billy Zane entrepreneurs talk about book what’s the
What is the future of banking?
Clearstone Ventures
Move n Bank registered the domain name
The story behind when the light bulb went off for the idea of Moven: banking mobile commerce payments but not a bank, not a telecom not a card company
All three industries into a digital exclusive business model
Combine Passion and ego to Redefine what people think of when the hear bank account
So that in 10 or 15 years from now bank account now is so different then what we had before people will say these are the guys that did it first
Spoke to banks about digital disruption what tech was going to do behavior was changing they would say it’s really hard to do and he would say no it’s not
He said let me show you so motivation was to show them how it could be done but it wasn’t easy but has not been impossible been interesting growth fenomial business to be in and start
Banks are slow success behirial what do people really want to see a balance starting point
Download
Spending meter start up app color to much if on Track
Westpac in New Zealand
Look at meter before balance helps with decision
Real time swipe card get receipt immediately tells you how much dining out u spent and u r already above ur limit so there is s cognitive thing going on these behaviors have an immediate correlation
Smart spending
Fico scores or social media behavior used to score
Physical health discipline financial
Tool doesn’t allow you to commit to something just use app
Partners New Zealand westpac
Cdw Bank fdic
Most customers see us not banks that
TD Bank in Canada livestock
MasterCard tech
Fintech common bond student loans
Payoff credit card consolidation
debt lending club
Talking to Betterment to offer an savings investment option
About your competitors
Strategy of Moven going forward to stay number one in niche digital banking digital money management
Peer to peer lending
Digital wallets
On deck
Where is the future bank account going ?
Tell us about the future of financial behavioral updates or features to the app and capabilities -
In pulse savings emergency credit real time credit facility based on your credit
Access to credit
Access to savings
In p2p credit karma, Lender out of San Francisco Schel orloff gives you a little bit of money but helps you boost your credit score
Mobile bank account side per se simple tried to link up with Bank Corp.com and Betsy Cohen but when Google dropped their card program attached to their wallet them launched a year before Moven
Success I want to make a living from speaking - saw a Scientist speak at conference Dr. Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Thought goal would be speak write books retire at 50
Moven success goal have 50 million people around the world using their app help them manage their money and save money
distributor approach
White label tech it’s a Moven experience Why License their app use tool to save more money with app
Use an app to change behavior
Failure: funding steepest learning curve
Training co in Middle East Dubai 2001 moved there in 2005
4-5 million in revenue by 2008 China Hong Kong Dubai
375000 revenue in 2009 couldntcanticipatr that
Partner professional certificate Atty In US tried to cut them out Legal notices
They re-engineered
Only an equity investing now
If partner with someone business shouldn’t rely on partner and any partnership can end in divorce could you exit without reputation risk to brand
Disruptive Technology
4 key things disruptive AI robotics
Smart vehicles
Smart grids renewable energy
Resourceful allocation smart cities smart govt
Home is smart
Talk to a Simple AI or voice agent amazon echo book flights next generation Siri book flights and it can conduct commerce for you like book restaurants
Now google duplex
Senses that we ingest on our bodies leads us to 4th disruptive health tech changing the way we think of health care and how we manage our health
4th gene edit manage our health
From banking disruptor we have the blockchain
Machine to machine commerce
A self driving car in 10 years time owned by a shared collective group of people maybe owned by a city then it logs onto Uber for three hours a day and drives for the Uber Network as an autonomous vehicle it’s getting paid it has a bank account but bank account is not owned by a human doesn’t have to pay tax
Biggest one for finance is advice (just got Smarter!) totally disrupted by artificial intelligence and technology and If you are an advisor in the financial services space right now robo Advisors vs humans robots will be better at investing then humans - > they will know your investment behavior better than a human relationship manager ever could adjust and adapt quicker so you can put in tolerances they won’t have to remember to call agent to sell this asset class or that it will know if gold drops below 1100 an ounce do this then sell it all automatically managed by a robo advisor
More importantly that advice itself has changed its becoming real time
Operationally to manage a trust no reason why humans would be involved maybe advice still given by humans you plug it in and the capabilities of AI
In past when thought of a Trust or family office you went to a human who knew more about the subject then you did
Information asymmetry
It has been eroding since the internet and now AI is the last piece of that puzzle for humans to stay differentiated
An AI can deal with so much more data and info so that’s the advantage to an ind to analyze and synthesize all that info
For example analyst and advisor key to their success is dealing with all that data and info that now can be done by AI
Prism money
Billguard was acquired by Prosper
Quote: Keep Moven Fast
Book: Neil Stevenson Snow Change - VR change the way we live Syfy.
App: google maps swarm foursquare local knowledge
Hero: Ramaz Naam - ex Microsoft guy, winner of the Philip Kay Dick award, author of Apex.
Best business advice: In approaching a prospect or current customer ask the following question: What are three things or problems that I can help you solve today. One of those three is a solution you can help prospect or customer.
other books by Brett King: Breaking banks, Bank 2.0, Bank 3.0 and he is currently working on Bank 4.0.
30 Tools to Start Up is a show about resources that you can use in business and to align with your family and life goals
As an entrepreneur, our guests remind us that time is our most valuable asset and you need to maximize your efficiency and productivity. And technology can be really helpful in doing that.
So I outlined important resources from web hosting, web development, productivity, email marketing, photos.
What You'll Learn
The tools and resources that you can economically use to help startup a business. The Resources and Tools to Startup, Launch, Build and Grow Your Business, The Resources and Tools to Run Your Household. The Resources and Tools to Live Life Smarter and Easier. How to execute your business plan and goals. The startup checklist
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When it comes to graphic design I used Logomkr, Unsplash and Canva in combination to create wonderful graphic design.
For productivity I am going to interview Bruno Virlet, Founder of Genius Scan who created a mobile app scanner you can use right on your phone.
Effective communication is so important so I use google voice. To record your interviews, meetings, conferences, classes, courses or anything use free conference calling.
When it comes to audio production whether it is the podcast, presentation or meetings or anything that I need for recording I use audacity and auphonic together for a powerful combination.
Also you can use those resources if you decide to use Skype or Google Hangouts.
Marketing and email are critical for your business.
Gramerly helps me with writing my content, spelling, grammar. I also need photos for my blogs, brochures, presentation materials or ebooks so using Pixabay, Unsplash or Canva.
For a news aggregator News, 360 is an awesome solution. I read so many newspapers, articles, magazines and I need something that can gather all those sources together in one place. Also, I am always on the go traveling and need an easy way to consume my books audible is an Amazon company that I use to stay current on business, family and lifestyle issues.We cover cloud storage with Google Drive, an email service to de-clutter your email inbox unroll.me. It is critical to build a list of loyal followers and those who subscribe to your website and email list. I use two powerful plugins to capture all information the first is called Contact Form 7 and it works well with Flamingo. For email marketing use a Google Gmail account and send out information to your fans with the use of Yet Another Mail Merge. Keep track of all those people in your life you care about with Life 360.
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Go and Grow Your Business Help Advice Resources **IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:**
Startups Smarter, Startup podcast host, Go and Grow Business Advice Help Resources.
My guest on today's show is a startup podcast host and he is the Founder of the Go and Grow Podcast, where he speaks with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to learn how they launch and grow products and companies.
Our guest has also launched and grown a few products and companies and he tells us that he really enjoys it. I think that's why we both like discussing business with similar people and learn how they’ve also done it.
Listenup to hear more about what this podcast is all about, why I really enjoyed interviewing our guest, and how he answered each question.
In addition, to Go and Grow our guest is actually working on a few other things:
He is also co-founder of other companies, which is a real-time, location-based message board where you can share and discover the most relevant content about what’s happening around you.
Also the founder and principal of a Business Consulting, a marketing and strategy consulting firm that helps startups and small businesses get off the ground and grow.
He co-organizes Startups Smarter in an area near you and as previously mentioned the former Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for a profession Hockey Sports and Entertainment.
For fun, he is a big fan of other professional sports teams like me enjoys eating good food.
Locally he attended Lehigh University, went to Georgia Tech, and finished it off with an MBA from NYU Stern. I think after all the student loans his done with formal school.
He was born in Queens, grew up in Brooklyn and Old Bridge, NJ, but has also lived in Atlanta, San Francisco, and NYC, but now resides in Washington, D.C.
LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Check out Payment Systems Leader Alex 'Pete' Hart from show 002. Also Lifestyle Guru's Stephen Warley from show003 and our next guest Susan Matthews for show005.
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Lifestyle guru, Stephen Warley, is the entrepreneur, podcast host behind the venture #lifeskillsthatmatter. The power of his website is that he is so willing to share his own lifestyle experiments to show each of us just what is possible. The main theme is having the courage to be yourself, continue developing and telling your personal story and stop ignoring your inner voice. He says start by changing your habits. Your life is the sum of your habits and "You are what you do" People feel stuck and he helps people figure out what's holding them back by asking important questions today! The transition from employee to self employed entrepreneur understand why you want the change, figure out what problem you want to solve, how do you want to work differently.
Success for him being myself 100% of the time because when you’re an employee you cant be in alignment with who you really are - radical to be self employed
For Stephen success and freedom is controlling his time and an example he says is not having to wake up in the morning to an alarm clock. When you go into business you must clearly define the problem you want to solve and figure out how you are going to get paid for it. You go into business to help others solve their problems. On partnerships your partner has to be more than just a friend, they must be aligned with how you work and each must bring their own complimentary strengths to the business.
Entrepreneur's need to be self motivated, create a lot of content and address community issues that need to be solved. You must get clear on your core habits, answer community questions that solve their problems, don’t get caught up in technical issues but focus on habits first then results. Before launching his next podcast he is taking his own advice by starting with a blog and creating content first. He has established the habit of writing 3000 words in the morning then he focuses on the results.
For self employed entrepreneurs its so important to know your personality, values, motivations, what if anything is holding you back, expectations, work needs and what your energy levels look like throughout the day. Start today by telling your story so that when people ask you what you do don’t just tell them what you are doing now tell them what you want to do in the future. You want to change your future change your mindset today!
Listenup to the rest of this amazing story of this lifestyle guru at my website. Furthermore, to Listen Up to our last Show click here Alex 'Pete' Hart and get the show notes and resource links. For my next interview Mike Chan, Podcast Host, Go and Grow.
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Alex W. ‘Pete’ Hart is the Chairman of the Board of Verifone Systems a credit card terminal payment systems company and financial services industry veteran.
With a 50-year distinguished track record of leadership in the financial services industry, Pete has acted as a consultant specializing in emerging payment and distribution systems. His particular focus is e-commerce and its impact on the consumer banking industry. Pete was the former CEO of Advanta Corporation, a diversified financial services company and the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard International. While at MasterCard, he served as Chairman of the Board of Maestro International, the global debit-system, and was a member of the board of directors of Europay International. He was a key member of the Silicon Valley Bancshares Board of Directors starting in 2001 and also became the Chairman of the Board of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Financial Group.
Prior to joining MasterCard, Pete spent 10 years at First Interstate Bancorp, the 17-state multi-bank holding company which is now part of Wells Fargo. While with First Interstate, he became the founding chairman of the board of the CIRRUS System, which is now the world’s largest network of shared automated teller machines. Pete’s distinguished career also includes various positions with the First National Bank of Chicago and BancOhio.
He has served on numerous board of directors such as Lending Club; Fair Isaac Corporation a predictive software company; Global Payments, Inc., a payment services company;eHarmony.com; Mitek a mobile capture deposits company, Actrade Financial Technologies; Sanchez Computer Associates; HNC Software; Retek Inc.; Shopping.com; US Encode; and Sequal Technologies, Inc. He has also been an advisor to many companies including Tempo Payments, NoLie MRI, Cimbal Technologies, Dealtime, Humetix, and Orbiscom.
Hart graduated from Harvard University in 1962. He completed studies at the graduate school of Bank Marketing at the University of Colorado and the graduate program for Data Processing Management at Harvard Business School.
Pete was and has worked as an independent consultant to the financial services industry since 1997. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Advanta Corporation, a public diversified financial services company from 1995 to 1997, where he had previously served as Executive Vice Chairman from 1994 to 1995. Prior to joining Advanta, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard International, a worldwide payment service provider from 1994 to 1998.
I first came into contact with Pete back in 1995 after I had graduated from law school, passed the bar I was looking to become counsel to credit card bank Advanta. he was also captain of the Harvard football team of 1961 so we are talking to a true leader.
Pete says, when it comes to success it is a matter of “being able to do the things I like to do with the people I like doing them with and feeling as if I am being paid acceptable beyond that there is not a whole lot to it“
You can learn more about Pete and what he does on his company website at www.verifone.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.
Happy listening!
Verifone Systems was created back in 1981 by William ‘Bill’ Melton. The Verifone story is extremely inspirational and every business startup and entrepreneur learn from the founder and executives of the company.
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