Priscilla McKinney has been innovating and leveraging efficiencies throughout her career. She has mastered the art of Startup Hacking by understanding the power of open-source resources and how to leverage them for your own business purpose. As well as how to use them to build your own services on top of them and save precious time and money while scaling.
Founder of “We are oHHo,” an organic CBD products company committed to curating all-natural CBD from the best organic, sustainable farms in the U.S. Products include oils, tinctures, and now gourmet gummies and teas. With her startup, Nicola applied her corporate experience and marketing acumen to the nascent CBD business world and found growth hacking was the key to her success.
Rebecca Warfield has been breaking norms for years and has the gift of vision in music and startup land. As an entrepreneur, she has taken years of management experience managing music stars like Julian Lennon and Steven Tyler to guide startups to stardom and create her own ventures. Her hacks are not to be missed.
Tanya Vucetic is a Data Scientist and the co-founder of Blockforms, a health care insurance startup. No stranger to a successful corporate career that took a left turn when an exciting opportunity presented itself, Tanya threw herself into the turbulent startup waters with two co-founders while holding down her full-time job. She learned the importance of time management and collaboration as her key hacks on the high stake’s entrepreneurial river.
Alexia Hefti’s blockchain interests started at Deloitte but quickly took off and fueled her entrepreneurial spirit. Founder of eGovern, Alexia bootstrapped her startup from day one and learned the art of cross time zone startup hacks to drive e-government business and innovative blockchain application deals from Hong Kong to Dubai to Canada, all while juggling her family and new baby.
Andrea Guendelman, a Harvard and MIT graduate, is a leading force in creating platforms for minority professionals in the tech industry. Founder of BeVisible (the first career social media platform for Latinx) and Wallbreaker, a thought leader on Latinx career building. Andrea’s startup hacks have been well-honed by her working in a variety of industries around the world.
While Joanna Bloor’s senior corporate experience at companies like Pandora, Open Table, and Ticket Master sharpened her skills in management, revenue generation, tech, and e-commerce, it was her “adventure” as a potential thought leader—helping clients uncover and give language to their unique, personal “value proposition”—that allowed her to develop an arsenal of startup hacks that fueled her business.
Kristi Kaylor is known for her innovative marketing strategies in the celebrity and influencer world, having worked with top talent such as Jennifer Aniston. She has made it her business to help many celebrities develop, launch, and market their own startups and has used that experience to develop her secret sauce of startup and marketing hacks that get companies off the ground, in the press, and of course, in the black!
Entrepreneur Liz Heller is no stranger to the hustle, both on the corporate and startup side. Liz’s trailblazing career in music, media, consumer products, films, and TOMS has afforded her ample opportunities to hone her growth hacking and startup hacking skills, including her favorite time-saving software favorites, time-management tricks, and self-care tune-ups, and of course, the secret sauce. Tune-in, to learn from the best.
Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO of Pipeline, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity. Please tune in to listen, as Katica shares a variety of sophisticated and smart production, content, and work-related hacks that she developed over the years, which saved her time, money and gave her a competitive edge as she built her successful AI business and her pre-eminent thought leadership in gender econo...
Fernanda Dobal is a Brazilian born ed-tech entrepreneur focused on helping women during menopause make educational and wholistic choices during this important stage in a woman’s life. A firm believer in bringing different fields of design together as a tool and methodology, Fernanda shares how she bootstrapped her tech during the prototype phase to save time and money.
Ada Chen’s young journey took many turns from investment banking to Silicon Valley as a marketing executive at several tech startups. Reassessing her career, Ada realized many small business owners had no idea how to market their services and products in the new digital age. Hence, the Cultivate Method was born. While bootstrapping, she discovered Google is the best cost-saving resource. “Google the word “free” in front of any service that you need to buy, and you just extended runway.
Jasmine Foroutan knows the inside track. She worked for hand in hand with Angel investors for several years and saw first-hand what drove them to respond positively to a pitch deck and startup. Jasmine launched Pitch Genius to leverage that knowledge and now helps founders craft those killer decks and their stories! Learn how she bootstrapped and then scaled her business to meet the needs of some of the hottest founders in Silicon Beach and Valley.
In this episode, Erin Halper shares her journey from private equity to consulting and launching her now consulting accelerator to help others scale their consultancies. Erin discovered that many consultants lacked the tools and resources to scale their businesses and services. A strong believer in leveraging your strengths and investing in areas where you are weakest, Erin’s honest assessment of herself fueled her successful launch strategy.
Sam is the CEO/Co-Founder of Well Traveled, the first members-only social platform for travelers. Before starting Well-Traveled, Sam built her career in consumer tech and marketing. Her previous roles include leadership positions at Pandora, Snap, and most recently, Dollar Shave Club. Sam's been featured in multiple podcasts and covered in various publications such as AdWeek and Business Insider. She was also featured in Travel Massive's Top 100 Inspiring Women Travel Founders for 2020. Samantha...
Ronda Fraley is the Founder & Sommelier at The Wine Party Co, making organic, boutique wines accessible and learning about wine approachable. She is shaking things up with a virtual wine class for beginners, personalized recommendations, and thoughtfully curated selections of organic wines from small producers worldwide.
Dr. Janét Aizenstros is the Chairwoman and CEO of Ahava Group Global (AGG) — a women-led modern media parent company that serves Fortune and multinational media companies in fifteen locations globally. This year, she reached a new height in her career when she scaled Ahava Group Global to nine figures. She is an internationally recognized leader and is the creator of the first impact fund in Canada led by an Afro-Canadian woman who focuses on creating social impact through technology.
Fernanda Carapinha, the founder of WE Global Studios, shares her journey as an entrepreneur and professional that led her to find the first global innovation studio and 360 startup platform for female founders worldwide. She shares her persona hacks and secret strategies that have aided her along her serial entrepreneurship path: team building, networking, and the power of collaboration to accelerate growth.
