Startup State Network: Recent Episodes
Innovate Mississippi
Startup State from Innovate Mississippi is a podcast exploring the journey of up-and-coming entrepreneurs and start up companies from across Mississippi. Hosted by successful entrepreneur Gary Watts, Startup State delves into the areas of technology, communications, health care, and disruptive products that have sprung from the minds - and hard work - of some of Mississippi's most innovative people. From Innovate Mississippi, Startup State encourages you to start something great!
In this episode of Startup State, host Laura Johns fills in for Gary Watts of Fuse.Cloud, to talk with Lobaki, Inc. founder Vince Jordan, about his journey to forming Mississippi’s first ever virtual reality content creation lab providing customized VR experiences for industrial training, education, healthcare and more. Vince talks about his entrepreneurial path, pivots, and challenges along the way; plus the future of virtual reality. This story will meet you in another dimension.
lobaki.com | innovate.ms
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In this episode of Startup State, host Gary Watts talks with Rocketing Systems co-founder, Shelby Baldwin, about the success of their product Buzzbassador, an e-commerce platform that automates the onboarding of brand ambassadors and influencers. Shelby explains how the idea emerged as a result of growing pains from another successful startup, a retail shopping site, and walks us through how she and her co-founders pivoted to create a broad-scale solution.
buzzbassador.app | innovate.ms
In this episode of Startup State, host Gary Watts talks with Charlie Helms, founder and CEO of WSN Live, a turnkey streaming solution for schools and churches that allows clients to generate their own revenue. Tune in to hear Charlie’s story about how WSN Live evolved from a fundraising tool for schools to sell website advertisements to local businesses into a full-blown streaming network.
wsn.live | innovate.ms
Let's Start Something Great.
n this episode of Startup State, host Gary Watts talks with Conor Ferguson, founder and CEO of WISPr Systems, a startup founded while he was an electrical engineering student at Mississippi State University. Conor tells his story about how he utilized drone technology to create a unique solution to a common problem for wireless internet service providers, testing to find the optimal location. Tune in to hear Conor’s journey from idea to startup success.
wisprsystems.com | innovate.ms
Let's Start Something Great.
In this episode of Startup State, host Gary Watts talks with Bilal Qizilbash, founder and CEO of health sciences company Easy Kale. Bilal discusses the journey that led him from laboratory research to, to a patented health food product, to founding the Mississippi-based startup Easy Kale. Its quite the story.
easykale.com | innovate.ms
Let's Start Something Great.
Host: Gary Watts Show Sponsor: fuse.cloud Producer: Mike Woodard Executive Producer: Beau York Studio: Podastery (www.podasterystudios.com)
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Host: Gary Watts Show Sponsor: fuse.cloud Producer: Mike Woodard Executive Producer: Beau York Studio: Podastery (www.podasterystudios.com)
Lean More: www.innovate.ms Special Thanks This Season To: Glo (www.innovate.ms/glo-cubes-what-la…es-in-starkvegas/) Maxbit (www.innovate.ms/maxbit-manufactur…-quality-product/) Momentum Dryer (www.innovate.ms/momentum-dryer-hair-care/) CampusKnott (www.innovate.ms/campusknot-overni…rs-in-the-making/) Myra Mirrors (www.innovate.ms/mbj-profiles-myra-mirrors/)
Host: Gary Watts Show Sponsor: fuse.cloud Producer: Mike Woodard Executive Producer: Beau York Studio: Podastery (www.podasterystudios.com)
Lean More: www.innovate.ms Special Thanks This Season To: Glo (www.innovate.ms/glo-cubes-what-la…es-in-starkvegas/) Maxbit (www.innovate.ms/maxbit-manufactur…-quality-product/) Momentum Dryer (www.innovate.ms/momentum-dryer-hair-care/) CampusKnott (www.innovate.ms/campusknot-overni…rs-in-the-making/) Myra Mirrors (www.innovate.ms/mbj-profiles-myra-mirrors/)
Host: Gary Watts Show Sponsor: fuse.cloud Producer: Mike Woodard Executive Producer: Beau York Studio: Podastery (www.podasterystudios.com)
Lean More: www.innovate.ms Special Thanks This Season To: Glo (www.innovate.ms/glo-cubes-what-la…es-in-starkvegas/) Maxbit (www.innovate.ms/maxbit-manufactur…-quality-product/) Momentum Dryer (www.innovate.ms/momentum-dryer-hair-care/) CampusKnott (www.innovate.ms/campusknot-overni…rs-in-the-making/) Myra Mirrors (www.innovate.ms/mbj-profiles-myra-mirrors/)
The Satchel Podcast Player enables listeners to discover podcasts created for and around their local community as well as support the shows through a customizable ‘call to action’ button. Both the iPhone and Android beta are currently available for download at SatchelPlayer.com
Though he was born in Charlotte and raised in Tuscaloosa, William Ault grew up spending many a fall weekend enjoying the unique experience of college football fandom in Oxford Mississippi thanks to his Mother’s desire to stay connected with her Jackson and Tupelo roots through tailgating at the SEC powerhouse. It’s was the game days in the Grove that would eventually beckon William to the University of Mississippi where his entrepreneurial spirit would thrive and grow into his new startup: Curtsy, an app that lets women rent dresses to each other.
Brad McMullan is an Emmy Award Winning Journalist turned Award Winning CEO. Over the last decade, McMullan has helped build a struggling start up into an award-winning, multi-million dollar mobile technology giant, with more than a thousand clients around the world.
David Clark is the founder and CEO of Cattlog a startup that makes buying and selling cows as easy as the click of a button. But before he was seeking to disrupt the cattle industry, in the summer of 2005, David J. Clark began his first career in the U.S. Military. From an early age, he wanted to own his own business but lacked the clear direction on what steps to take. For David, that’s what the military was able to provide.
Keith Jasper is the founder and CEO of VSporto, the first team specific radio network. What this means is that through vSporto, you can find 24-hour team specific radio channels. And when you look at Keith’s origin story, it makes total sense that he would be the one to create such a product and company. As you will hear, he’s a huge buffalo bills fan, like a really really big buffalo bills fan. But beyond that, he also had a background in satellite radio, From 2004 to 2009, Keith was sent out to find niche focused radio programs to fill Sirius's 200+ channels. How niche? Well, one of his heavy hitters was a program all about scuba diving… and that’s not all.