Talk is cheap, whereas traction is hard evidence that you’re on the right path. It shows the world your startup is all about consistently growing and acquiring new customers. Our guest, Alex Batdorf is a 3X entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Get Sh!t Done, the superpower scaling sidekick supporting women entrepreneurs in gaining traction to build scalable companies on their own terms. To help women founders secure more than 4% of annual business revenues, Alex created the Superpower Scali...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 6 min
The job search journey can be isolating and frustrating. What if the job search could be “tailor-made” for you, your skillset, your ambitions, your aspirations? Our guest, Elissa Unton, is the founder and CEO of ArcVida, the “Stitch Fix for Careers” platform providing personalized, technology-enabled career guidance, with full support, to U.S. professionals who are actively seeking their optimal career move. ArcVida personalizes and guides your job search experience to your specific needs, by fi...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Founders – do you have too many plates spinning in the air? Are you running out of hours in the day and days in the week? Our guest, Joy Valerie, founder of Build with Joy, is sharing her favorites tips, tools and resources to help you build systems and automate your business to create more time and make more money – woo hoo! Joy Valerie is a Guatemalan-American Entrepreneur from New York, with a deep expertise in digital strategy, content creation, and online monetization. She’s led the expansi...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Why did an MD leave medicine for an EdTech company... that pivoted into a “World of Workplace” virtual platform to help companies and teammates connect, build culture, form communities, and get work done? Our guest, Vishal (Vish) Punwani, reveals all in this dynamic startup life interview! Vish is the CEO and co-founder of Sophya, the Harvard Innovation Labs alumnus that powers the leading virtual world (“surreal estate”) used by Fortune 50 companies and startups alike for work, social, communit...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Are you hearing crickets with your marketing campaigns? Your brand messaging is one of the best tools to entice people to interact with you. Whether it’s a Facebook ad, a product description, or a CTA, you have a million opportunities to use good copy to make a connection. But so many brands let these opportunities go to waste, making brand messaging mistakes—both big and small—that either turn people off or fail to make an impact. Plateau to GROW B2B customer-focused marketing maven Vicki O’Nei...
Apr 05, 2021•59 min
Would you like to launch and grow a passionate and engaged online community? Or perhaps you’ve started a community and you’d like to create more interaction and involvement with your members… but it feels like you’re herding cats. Anna Pereira, founder of The Wellness Universe, shares her 6 years of insights and advice on how to build a vibrant, engaged community! Inspired by a vision in 2013 to create an epic space to serve the world, Anna built The Wellness Universe – a global community and pl...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Wondering how to navigate the startup world as a woman of color? This interview began by sharing a startup story about a mother-daughter team who created a revolutionary new tool for hair... and evolved into a candid conversation around the challenges women of color (and people of color) face when launching a business. Saraa Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of THEBRAIDRELEASER, a new tool that keeps your hair from breaking when you take down your braids. Unlike a pointy rat tooth comb, this beaut...
Mar 13, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Do you have a big hairy audacious idea you’re trying to bring to the world? Our guest, Tia Lyles-Willams, has a crystal clear mission and vision for her startup – and a highly detailed road map she’s using to turn her Big Hairy Audacious Idea into reality! Tia is the founder of LucasPye BIO, whose mission is to lower the costs for biotherapeutic drugs, reduce time to market, and provide high-quality employment opportunities for underserved communities. Her startup vision includes a 60,000 s.f. c...
Mar 10, 2021•55 min
Is it time to raise money for your startup? Investors write checks when the idea they hear is compelling, when they are persuaded that the team of founders can realize its vision, and that the opportunity described is real and sufficiently large. Our guest Christie Pitts… a General Partner of Backstage Capital, an early-stage investor at Backstage Capital and co-founder of Backstage Studio… walks you through the decision process for raising money for your startup and the steps you need to take t...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Are you worried you’re not prepared to pitch to investors - that your pitch deck is wrong and won't be memorable? 😬 To succeed with your startup, you must persuade investors, advisors, customers, and other potential partners to join you on your journey. It can be intimidating to stand in front of a room and share your vision, your hard work, your startup. Our guest, Debi Kleiman, is here to ease your fears and increase your opportunity to win money, mentors and more for your new business! She’s...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Nick Hinrichsen and Chris Coleman met at Stanford Business School and in 2013 started a venture backed company called Carlypso. Working on building the 'Amazon for used cars', the two founders went through YCombinator in 2014, raised $10M venture capital by 2015 and successfully sold the business to Carvana in 2017. Like true entrepreneurs, Chris and Nick are now working on their next venture called http://withclutch.com . They discovered that auto loan rates are all over the map and so they bui...
Jul 28, 2020•38 min
"Your business will get better when you get better." ~ Mandela SH Dixon, Founder and CEO, FounderGym Get ready for some high impact inspiration and aspiration from our guest, Mandela SH Dixon! She's the phenomenal Founder & CEO of FounderGym, the first and leading online program to train underrepresented founders how to raise money and build sustainable and profitable businesses. In less than 3 years FounderGym has helped founders from 22 countries raise over $43 million! A former public sch...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Are you frustrated with traditional pathways to capitalize your startup? Our guest, Aja Atwood, is an entrepreneur, team-leader, and cannabis advocate with over 15 years of experience in the engineering industry. She is a mechanical engineer by education and graduated cum laude from Northeastern University. She cut her teeth professionally as an engineering consultant and specialist, working in natural catastrophe risk engineering, and by 2011 started her first entrepreneurial business. Through ...
Jul 18, 2020•35 min
"A few years ago I left my corporate job and launched Innovation Bazaar, a boutique consulting innovation firm based in New York City, advising global clients in overcoming challenges of innovation and transformation, through leveraging design thinking and data driven capabilities." As a highly energetic strategy and innovation leader, our guest, Maryam Daryabegi, has spent her life propelling change and creating purposeful impact. She gained her experience from living in ten cities, across four...
Jun 28, 2020•28 min
Since 2013 our guest, Joel Young, has been working as a solo entrepreneur. He used his skills in the fields of animation and video production to start his own business, JumpStart Video. In just a few short years it grew from a side job in the corner of his bedroom to a thriving business that now generates 5 figures a month, and he did all this through good ol' fashion hustle and online gig platforms like Fiverr.com. He’s currently an award-winning SUPER SELLER on Fiverr, and now spends his time ...
Jun 15, 2020•43 min
Podcasting is a powerful business tool for a new business and can help you win the war on attention. Not only because it provides multiple uses for content marketing, but it helps build relationships with your customers, it increases brand awareness, and it helps establish authority in your industry. Our guest, James Mulvany, is a successful entrepreneur who, over the past 10 years, has built multiple internet companies, a real estate portfolio, and he’s an angel investor. James is currently the...
May 23, 2020•40 min
How does a new business build meaningful customer relationships? Our guests, Andy Jacques and Reaz Hoque, have been building their successful, long-lasting co-founder relationship for over 10 years. Along the way, they learned hard earned strategies to creating successful, long-lasting relationships with customers, too! They're co-founders of SYNERGY Consulting, a fully integrated product development and consulting firm with staff and clients in Boston, San Francisco, NYC, London, and Dubai. The...
May 15, 2020•42 min
Relationships matter – more than money, more than status, more than material things. ~ Arlan Hamilton, It’s About Damn Time Founders have characteristics that are not based on gender or race – they are extreme problem solvers with the ability to withstand high levels of uncertainty. They have tenacity, grit, resilience, and a high AQ! Adaptability Quotient. They follow their North Star, and they love the process. One does not need a degree or pedigree to be a funder, but when you’re underreprese...
May 09, 2020•34 min
Our guest Matt Zinman is a personal success trainer whose experiences as an entrepreneur, athlete, single parent, caretaker, consultant and nonprofit founder, all of which led him to be a difference-maker. Matt is CEO of The Internship Institute which he established in 2007 to bridge the gap between education, active duty and employment by “Making Experience Matter.” His earned insights about self-discovery, relationships, mindfulness and life enrichment led Matt to write Z-isms: Insights to Liv...
Apr 27, 2020•35 min
"It's about the jockey, not the horse." Our guest, Chenoa Farnsworth has more than 15 years experience in business strategy and private equity investing. She’s the Managing Director of the Hawaii Angels, Hawaii’s only angel capital investment network, and she’s the Managing Partner of Blue Startups, a venture accelerator in Honolulu providing investment, mentorship, and work space to high growth technology startups. Chenoa shares her insights on scaling a startup and the criteria she uses to inv...
Apr 20, 2020•38 min
Ok Founders, time to put on your smarty pants hats and sharpen your pencils because our guest, Troy Wendt, is going to raise your founder game exponentially! Troy has been a growth consultant since 2010, and is passionate about predictive modeling that drives revenue growth. His work includes business modeling, metrics, pricing strategy, process development, dataset design, and cross-functional revenue growth optimization. Prior to founding Bell Rock Consulting, Troy led product management, sale...
Apr 13, 2020•52 min
A problem shared is a problem halved. Our Guest, David Greer, is an entrepreneurial coach, professional speaker and author of Wind In Your Sails: Vital Strategies That Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Growth. One of David’s core skill sets is helping folks build resiliency, especially during extremely difficult situations like the one we’re in now with COVID19. He's also a sailor and understands how to weather challenging storms! He was the first employee of Robelle Solutions Technology where he ...
Apr 06, 2020•52 min
In 2018, our guest, Tara Williams tried to find a weighted blanket her six-month-old son could safely wear to help soothe him and extend his one hour sleep windows. Shocked there was nothing available for this age group, she decided to create her own blanket, and the idea for Dreamland Baby was born. In 2019, Tara launched a successful Kickstarter, and a few months later launched an e-commerce store. Prior to Dreamland Baby, Tara spent 10+ years in the medical device industry in business develop...
Mar 30, 2020•41 min
"You have to be able to weather the startup storms, and nothing's going to do that for you unless you have the passion for the solution that you're providing... and a passion for what you're working on." Our guest, Andrew Lee Miller, also known as Andrew Startups, has spent over 15-years growing early-stage startups including 5 years in Dubai and 5 years in San Francisco. Since his third exit as Head of Marketing, he’s launched and grown tech projects in over 15 countries, driving traction for o...
Mar 23, 2020•41 min
Our guest, Ben Jen, is a serial entrepreneur and investor who is actively involved in the Boston & New York City communities, and has been involved in numerous startups in the capacity of a co-founder, founder, executive, strategist, investor, and mentor. He is also a mentor and adviser for youth entrepreneurship startups and individuals, and he serves on the Board of Directors of several Boston-area nonprofit organizations. Ben shares terrific advice on what you DON'T want to do when pitchi...
Mar 16, 2020•33 min
"We teach you what school is NOT teaching you to become future ready." Founders - get ready for a delicious ride with our guest, live streaming host and EduPreneur Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang! Dr. Ai is the founder of Classroom Without Walls, an independent and progressive school to help young adults become future ready. As an Adobe Education Leader, Dr. Ai is passionate about incorporating social media and creative technologies to enhance student learning and to acquire skills that help them become re...
Mar 08, 2020•37 min
"Make sure you solve a real problem and you have a real solution." Heini Zachariessen is the founder and CEO of Vivino , the world's largest online wine marketplace, powered by a community of millions of wine drinkers who use the Vivino app to scan and rate more than 2 million wines every single day. During his tenure, Vivino has grown into a community of 42 million users, raised $66 million in funding and rolled out a worldwide wine marketplace. Let’s take a moment to check out these stats: The...
Feb 29, 2020•31 min
"Raising money is hard. And one of the most important things investors look for is passion. That passion has to come from you as the entrepreneur. Nobody can raise capital for you except for you. You are the best at selling your own equity." Our guest, Jason Frishman is the founder and CEO of Netcapital, an equity crowdfunding platform enabling friends, family, and customers to invest in startups without being an accredited investor. Jason founded Netcapital to reduce the systemic inefficiencies...
Feb 22, 2020•47 min
"Anyone launching a business should already have their dream team: their attorney, their accountant, their business insurance provider, and their banker." Sankeetha Selvarajah is the Principal Shareholder and Managing Attorney of Selvarajah Law P.C., a Boston law firm focusing on general business law and mergers & acquisitions. She is also the Founder of Bizto.Co, a business educational platform designed to assist small businesses and startup founders with short and long-term strategic plann...
Feb 15, 2020•39 min
"We're a family business. We have three kids - a teenager, middle schooler and a kindergartner - we're all involved, and we're all learning." Our guest, Dawn Cordeiro, is the Co-Owner of Holyoke Hummus Company, a cafe, an award-winning food truck and a catering company based in Western Massachusetts serving falafel, hummus and other Middle Eastern treats. Dawn is also the Founder of DMC Consulting where she helps small businesses run successful crowdfunding campaigns and digital marketing strate...
Feb 09, 2020•38 min
