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Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission Podcast

Evergreen Podcastswww.valueinspiration.com
Welcome to the Tech Entrepreneur on a Mission podcast. My name is Ton Dobbe. I am the founder of Value Inspiration and the author of ‘The Remarkable Effect’. I envision a world where every B2B SaaS business succeeds because they're creating software their customers would miss if were gone 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆:  Research consistently shows 90% of all startups fail. That's bad.  What's worse however is that +75% of SaaS Scaleups fail - companies that are supposed to have product-market-fit. Far too few Scaleups create the traction they aspire for and fail for the wrong reasons I believe this should stop - and hence I started my business and this podcast The goal I have with this podcast is two-fold: to inspire new forms of value creation by sharing compelling ideas and stories about the potential we can unlock when technology and people blend in the right way. Share experiences from tech entrepreneurs like you about what it requires to create a remarkable software business and how to overcome the roadblocks to do so.

Episodes

Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential

This podcast interview focuses on the power of curiosity in innovation and my guest is Dr. Diane Hamilton, author of ‘Cracking the Curiosity Code’ She has contagious passion for improving interpersonal communication. In addition to being a nationally syndicated radio host, award-winning speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Hamilton is a thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, and motivation. To help improve relationships in the ...

Apr 01, 201938 minSeason 2Ep. 60

Product Innovation: How AI can help Marketers generate more leads with higher quality and less effort

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform the impact Marketers can make by generating more leads, of higher quality, with less effort. My guest is Yonatan Snir, Co-founder and CEO of CliClap, an AI Powered autonomous lead generation and qualification solution He is an expert in data driven marketing with over 16 years of experience, helping organizations utilize technologies to improve business performance. In 2016, he founded CliClap together with Arie...

Mar 25, 201933 minSeason 2Ep. 59

How AI is positively influencing the science of buying and the art of selling

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform how the enterprise does business. My guest is Heidi Messer, Chairman and Co-founder of Collective[i] Heidi has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the digital economy since the commercialization of the Internet. She is the Co-founder and CEO of World Evolved, a platform for global investment and expansion. She is one of the founding members of the Zokei Network, a global network devoted to encourage inno...

Mar 18, 201942 minSeason 2Ep. 58

Becoming a top league performer by intelligently augmenting Financial Operations

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the Procure-to-Pay space. My guest is David Griffiths, CEO of FISCAL Technologies, a leading provider of forensic solutions that empower procure-to-pay (P2P) teams across the globe to protect organizational spend. David has 20 years’ experience in growing technology organizations and has spent the last 15 years working with hundreds of Accounts Payable teams to help protect their corporate spend by preventing fraud and reducing risk. Prior ...

Mar 11, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 57

Product Innovation: How AI solves both Data Privacy and Customer Experience challenges in real-time

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around marketing automation that has the power to transform the way can turn customers into buyers by using the power of content personalization, and my guest is Jon Shalowitz, CEO of LiftIgniter Jon brings a wealth of experience in building innovative, fast-growth companies. He was CEO at XDN where he transitioned the company​ ​into a category leader for application delivery services and led the company to a​ ​successful acquisition by Fortin...

Mar 04, 201939 minSeason 2Ep. 56

Product Innovation: How AI can help sales teams beat their numbers every month, quarter, year

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the sales execution space that has the power to help companies gain 99% accuracy in their sales cycles, hence achieve big leaps in productivity, and my guest is Dr. Cindy Gordon, Co-founder and CEO of SalesChoice, an AI SaaS Predictive and Prescriptive Guiding Selling Company. Cincy is an expert in SaaS, AI, business innovation, early-stage software commercialization & sales /marketing practices. She has held senior leadership and partnersh...

Feb 25, 201945 minSeason 2Ep. 55

Product Innovation: How the combo of AI and a Sales rep can increase sales productivity by +80%

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the sales & marketing space that has the power to increase sales productivity by over 80%, and my guest is Ilan Kasan, Co-founder and CEO of Exceed.ai. Ilan has built an 18-year career in general management and product management for leading global technology companies including, Cisco, WebEx, Comeet and others. During this time, he’s proven to be a successful product leader with a track record in product, user experience, sales, marketing ...

Feb 19, 201934 minSeason 2Ep. 54

How AI can help any organization hire top- rather than mediocre performers

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform how we hire and manage talent going forward, and my guest is Caitlin MacGregor Caitlin is the CEO and Co-founder of Plum. After being President/Director of two startups, Caitlin founded Plum in order to transform talent processes to prepare business owners, like herself, for the future of work. Shortly after that Plum was awarded 2015 Gold Stevie International Business Award for best new product or service of th...

Feb 11, 201946 minSeason 2Ep. 53

How Human-Machine Combos can be Used to Avert Financial Tornado's

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the financial market place that has the power to transform the way we know it in two ways: 1) Avoid disruptive shifts in financial market mood by predicting subtle changes in perception bias 2) increase shareholder value and impact by offering a new framework of decision-making such that early insights into market dislocations and even market crashes can be timely converted into new and persistent high-impact alpha opportunity centres My gu...

Feb 04, 201959 minSeason 2Ep. 52

How to create triple digit ROI by applying AI and Machine Learning to our most common challenges.

This podcast interview focuses on product strategy principles that, if applied, have the power to deliver transformative innovation with triple digit ROI. My guest is Richard Boyd, CEO at Tanjo.AI Over the last twenty-six years Richard has led or helped create some of the most innovative game technology companies in the industry. He has served as a game technology consultant for a wide variety of industries including energy, healthcare, education and motion pictures. At Aerospace giant Lockheed ...

Jan 28, 201944 minSeason 2Ep. 51

How Human-Centric AI can help CPAs find 15x more fraud, irregularities and misconduct

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to 10x the impact financial auditors can make, and my guest is Robin Grosset, CTO at MindBridge Ai. Robin has a track record as an entrepreneur having worked in and founded successful software startups. This resulted in him joining IBM in 2008 through the acquisition of Cognos, where he was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer. He has over 20 years commercial experience in the field of Business Analytics. He was formerly the...

Jan 21, 201934 minSeason 2Ep. 50

How AI helps increase win-rates by 54% by providing market intelligence

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around competitive and market intelligence, and my guest is Jonah Lopin, Co-founder and CEO of Crayon, a market intelligence software company based in Boston. Jonah started his career as a strategy & operations Consultant at Deloitte where he led projects for Fortune 500 clients in the Manufacturing, Consumer Business and Healthcare industries. After that he worked at eBay and UNICEF. In 2007 he joined Hubspot as the 6th employee, and served a...

Jan 14, 201930 minSeason 2Ep. 49

Product innovation: How AI transforms highly ineffective advertising into highly relevant engagement

This podcast interview focuses on the product innovation that has the power to transform the advertising industry and the way marketers can make a remarkable impact, and my guest is Peyman Nilforoush. Peyman is the CEO and CoFounder of inPowered, which is the AI-driven content amplification platform of choice for the world’s largest brands. inPowered has been named the 2018 OMMA awards finalist for Artificial Intelligence and Native Advertising, the best content amplification platform by Digiday...

Jan 08, 201945 minSeason 2Ep. 48

Reengineering Humanity

This podcast interview focuses on the impact of product innovation on our society and in particular our changing role in that society, and my guest is Brett Frischmann, author of the book Reengineering Humanity, which was recently selected by The Guardian as one of the Best Books of 2018. Brett is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, at Villanova University. In this role, he promotes cross-campus research, programming, and collaboration; fosters high-vi...

Jan 02, 201956 minSeason 2Ep. 47

Product innovation: How Human/AI combos creates disruptive competitive advantage in Real Estate Sales

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to dramatically increase the productivity of sales people, and my guest is Mike Schneider, CEO and co-founder of First, a data science company that helps real estate agents win more business by focusing their time on the right relationships across their network. Prior to starting First, Mike worked with a private equity firm working on pipeline deals and doing financial and market due diligence. It’s from working in this space that got Mike fa...

Dec 17, 201837 minSeason 1Ep. 46

Product innovation: How the combo of AI and Human experts is the solution to fight financial crime

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to solve the challenge of financial crime, and my guest is Vishal Marria, CEO of Quantexa Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. He served as Executive Director at EY, he led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology s...

Dec 10, 201833 minSeason 1Ep. 45

Future of work: Humanity Works – Merging technologies and people for the workforce of the future

This podcast interview focuses on the future of work and the increasingly important role AI plays in our business life. My guest is Alexandra Levit, Author of the book Humanity Works – Merging technology and people for the workforce of the future. Alexandra is an American writer, consultant, speaker, workplace expert and futurist. She has written six career advice books and was formerly a nationally syndicated career columnist for the Wall Street Journal. In the last several years, she has condu...

Dec 03, 201835 minSeason 1Ep. 44

Product Innovation: How AI empowers new generations of business minds with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform the education sector and my guest is Federico Frattini. Federico is a Full Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Honorary Researcher at the Lancaster University Management School (UK). His research area is innovation and technology management. On these topics, he has written more than 200 books and papers published in conference proceedi...

Nov 26, 201835 minSeason 1Ep. 43

Product innovation: How amplifying the intelligence of groups with AI is the formula to create breakthrough improvements

The theme of this podcast is product innovation, and in particular how the combination of AI and people can create value beyond the sum of its components. My guest on this week’ podcast is Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous.AI Louis is a technologist, prolific inventor, entrepreneur, and writer. He attended Stanford University, where he earned his bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees. His doctoral work focused on robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality, and human-computer interaction, and res...

Nov 19, 201844 minSeason 1Ep. 42

Product Innovation: How AI helps grow the employability of Students

In this podcast I’ll focus on product innovation in the Higher Education space and my guest is Ray Blackwood, Vice President of Product Management at Campus Management Corp Ray is a futurist who is passionate about technology, business intelligence and leadership. He’s in particular passionate about solving problems in higher education through technology. As he puts it on his LinkedIn profile: “I invent solutions that run colleges”. Ray received his undergraduate degrees from the University of A...

Nov 13, 201838 minSeason 1Ep. 41

Product innovation: How AI transforms the recruitment process in a win-win for everybody

The focus on this weeks’ podcast is product innovation in the area of recruitment, and my guest is Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai – a company that has the idea and potential to transform the way we’ll look at recruitment forever. Eightfold has recently been designated by Gartner as a cool vendor for human capital management in Talent Acquisition. This is what happens if you build your company around a strong vision – remarkable things will happen. Ashutosh understands this like no one else. ...

Nov 05, 201835 minSeason 1Ep. 40

Product Strategy: Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines

This focus of this weeks´ podcast is product strategy, and in particular what we can do to not only make jobs more productive, but also more enjoyable. I discuss this with my guest Olaf Groth. He’s is a professor, adviser and executive for the evolving global innovation economy with 20 years of experience in corporations, consulting firms and academia. He has helped build new ventures and change management initiatives for employers and clients in energy, technology, telecommunications, aerospace...

Oct 30, 201833 minSeason 1Ep. 39

Product Innovation: How AI can impact the wellbeing of every one of us

The guest on this weeks podcast is Dr. Levanon, Chief Science Officer at Beyond Verbal, and we discuss the product innovation that´s going on in the area of voice recognition. Dr. Levanon has multiple degrees in Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research from the Hebrew University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. This multi-disciplinary background is the fuel behind various breakthroughs in the field of Emotions Analytics. At Beyond Verbal he’s responsible for the...

Oct 22, 201842 minSeason 1Ep. 38

Product Innovation: How AI can be used to augment engineers to solve a $1 Trillion infrastructure problem

This podcast is focused on product innovation in the water infrastructure sector, and my guest this week is Doug Hatler, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Fracta. Beyond sales and marketing Doug brings many years of experience as a management consultant, environmental regulatory specialist, and as a civil/environmental engineer. He is a published industry expert and featured speaker on the Environment, Sustainability, Compliance and Risk. He earned a Bacherlor’s Degree in Environmental Scie...

Oct 15, 201846 minSeason 1Ep. 37

Product Strategy: How AI can help our productivity quadruple by transforming counterproductive habits

This podcast is about product strategy and my guest on the podcast is Nadia Muller, Founder and CEO or iThrive, a personal coach on your smartphone that helps you to transform counterproductive habits on order to thrive. It’s a common fact healthy and happy employees are generally more productive, but many people still experience stress and burnout issues. This is what iThrive is designed to transform, and doing so it promises to increase productivity at work with 400% This triggered me, hence I...

Oct 08, 201835 minSeason 1Ep. 36

How Marketeers can deliver remarkable impact through Product Innovation with AI

How Marketeers can deliver remarkable impact through Product Innovation with AI An interview with Dan Mallin, co-founder and CEO of Equals3 This interview focuses on the product innovation opportunity for the marketing community, and my guest on the podcast is Dan Mallin, co-founder and CEO of Equals3. For nearly 20 years, he has established a solid track record in creating, growing and transforming businesses, ranging from technology services, sales, marketing and business development. Dan has ...

Oct 02, 201835 minSeason 1Ep. 35

Product Innovation: How to create the most valuable, addictive technology for every person

The focus of this podcast is product innovation and my guest is Rob Bromage, CEO of IntelliHR. Rob is the founder and CEO of intelliHR – an Australian HR technology business developing and marketing a next-generation people management Platform which is stocklisted on the ASX index. Before he became the CEO of IntelliHR he ran APRG - a Human Capital Management Consulting organization. He also founded Resource Partners – an investment organisation for the incubation and development of Intellectual...

Sep 24, 201848 minSeason 1Ep. 34

What’s required to solve the world’s biggest problems through technology

My guest on this weeks podcast is Danny Saksenberg, Co-founder / CEO Emerge He started his career as an actuary at Deloitte and then started to immerse himself into the world of machine learning and AI. He was part of the team at Jemstep.com to build one of the first and leading robo-advisors for the Financial Services industry. In 2012 he founded Emerge together with Laurence Rau. Emerge helps companies to make money from operations by making them super-efficient and improving customer experien...

Sep 16, 201848 minSeason 1Ep. 33

How Intelligence augmentation helps Sales professionals to build relationships and grow sales

My guest on the podcast is Paul Teshima, CEO and Co-founder of Nudge.AI He is the CEO and Co-founder of Nudge.ai, a relationship intelligence platform that augments sales professionals around the world to access new accounts, analyze deal risk, and measure account health. He is a successful technology executive who has run Services, Customer Success, Account Management, Support and Product Management teams. Earlier in his career, Paul was part of Eloqua’s executive team, and helped lead the comp...

Sep 10, 201829 minSeason 1Ep. 32

The value we can unlock when we combine mixed reality, AI and Blockchain

My guest on the podcast is Toby Allen, founder of Jobs in XR. He’s a hololens producer at Microsoft, the founder, and CEO of TACON, a technology management consultancy and the founder of Jobs in XR, the first and only jobs portal for all digital realities. I got in touch with Toby via a comment on one of my earlier podcasts with Dr. Terence Tse. Being an innovative product expert that brings ideas to life using of Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality – he teased us with the potential of bringin...

Sep 03, 201839 minSeason 1Ep. 31
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