Video Game Entrepreneur – Beau Button – Ep 126 Beau Button President and CTO of Atlas Reality - Linkedin - Has a very interesting story and spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3D printing. Beau has a background in computer hardware and software. Atlas Reality builds video games as a consultancy and builds their own games. We talked about the process of building location-based games. Beau says “It’s a nightmare building these games”. It’s refreshing to hear someone real...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Liquid Instruments- Daniel Shaddock – Ep 125 Daniel Shaddock is the CEO and Founder of Liquid Instruments (LI) . LI makes high precision scientific equipment. They take the complexity of the physical world and push it into the digital world using software and high powered computers. Some of their devices are used by NASA on the space shuttle. They are measuring changes along the lines of a nanometer over the distance of a mile in space. Even though they have some very high-tech tools, they are a...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 125
Launch Cart Ecommerce Platform – Greg Writer – Ep 124 Greg is the CEO of Launch Cart, an ecommerce platform. He got his start by working as an investor. He invested in inventors and startups. Greg is an inventor. One of his early inventions was a kid’s safe browser in the 1990’s. We go into details about how to raise money for your startup. For example, Greg went and befriended the mayor of the city to get the connections he needed. You need to get an attractive offer and show the risk reducers ...
Dec 15, 2022•2 hr 31 min
Wealth Advisement for Engineers – Bill Keen – Ep 123 Bill Keen has a passion for helping others achieve their retirement dreams and founded Keen Wealth Advisors with this goal in mind. Bill specializes in advising those within the engineering community on issues related to ESOP plans, compensation, taxes and benefits planning. We talked about the differences in taxes and financial planning between employees and entrepreneurs. We talked about how much you should be saving for retirement and more....
Dec 06, 2022•46 min
Ava Naeini is the Founder and Data Architect of Pulse Operations, which is an intelligent engine that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems. Many software engineers must constantly manually monitor their systems to see if there is a pattern developing that could lead to issues. Ava’s tool allows engineers to work on bigger issues while the system is monitored automatically. We talk about all th...
Oct 16, 2022•25 min
Engineering Career Coach – Jeff Perry – Ep 121 Jeff is a leadership/career coach for engineers and tech professionals and the founder of More than Engineering. He is also a host on the engineering career coach podcast. He helps engineers by working with them on their mindset. Number one tip: to be intentional in what you are trying to become, whether an employee or entrepreneur. Contact info: https://www.engineeringcareeraccelerator.com/engineeringentrepreneur https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffcpe...
Aug 23, 2022•32 min
ThingLogix Company – Rob Rastovich - Ep 120 Rob Rastovich is the CTO of ThingLogix , a company that provides a low-code platform built on AWS, Google, and Azure to accelerate innovation and system development by a factor of 50 or more. We talk about examples of how his company provides value. The refrigerator example of how the software monitors the temperature of a refrigerator explains it well. Robs top tips: Business models that could not exist without technology. Amazon could not have existe...
Jul 30, 2022•27 min
Life Science Inventions and Patent Law– Kevin Buckley and Neil Thompson – Ep 119 Kevin Buckley is the founders of Torrey Pines Law Group and Neil Thompson is a patent agent with the firm. The firm focuses on life science inventions that often have an AI component. We discuss the differences between patent agents and patent attorneys. We also discuss the typical costs of getting a product patented. We also discussed the steps involved in getting a patent. If you are a new inventor, this is one ep...
Jun 30, 2022•37 min
Youngest Person to Fly a Rocket to Space – Jordan Noone – Ep 118 Jordan Noone is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Embedded Ventures. He has had a lifelong interest in aerospace, including designing and building spaceflight hardware at age 18 while at the University of Southern California. He is also the first student and youngest individual in the world to get Federal Aviation Administration clearance to fly a rocket to space (150 km altitude) while leading USC’s Rocket Propulsion Lab. He a...
May 31, 2022•38 min
Draft.Dev – Karl Hughes – Ep 117 Karl Hughes studied mechanical engineering in college but in his last year got into coding. His first job was building a blog for his college campus. From that, he worked in programming and managing writers. During the pandemic, he started his business, Draft.dev . His company writes technical posts for software companies. Blog posts are important for SEO but most companies don’t specialize in writing blog articles, So there is where Draft.dev comes in. We talked...
May 17, 2022•18 min
Making a More Efficient Hot Water Heater – Tiago Bandeira – Ep 116 Tiago Bandeira is the founder of Klugit Company. His first product is an electric hot water heater. The problem is that a regular hot water heater does a constant on off cycle due to heat loss. This cycling wastes a lot of energy. We talk about how he started this company while working at Bosch, which is ironically a company I used to work for. Bosch sponsored this project and didn’t take any equity. A very strange thing to hear ...
Apr 24, 2022•21 min
Fulcrum, a SAAS ERP, MRP and MES Platform – Sunny Han – Ep 115 Sunny is the CEO and Founder of Fulcrum . We talked mostly about ERP systems (which stands for enterprise resource planning). Most companies these days have ERP systems but many of them are not good. For example, many are not connected to the internet and therefore you would need to be at the factory to have access to the data. One of the advantages of his company is his software will work for many different types of manufacturers. A...
Mar 22, 2022•21 min
DPX Orion Underwater Tablet – Ali Keskin – Ep 114 Ali Keskin is the Business Manager of the company, Innovasub. Innovasub is an underwater innovative technology firm founded by the ‘Design with Divers’ perception 15 years ago. They have a new product called DPX Orion that just finished a Kickstarter Campaign. The DPX Orion is a water tight tablet case for scuba divers that has many applications like 3D mapping program, dive computer app, visual sensus apps, messaging to other divers, and more. N...
Mar 09, 2022•21 min
TangoTeams Software Development – Alex Murrey– Ep 113 Alex is the Head of North American Operations for TangoTeams, a startup that’s redefining the software development outsourcing industry. His career started at a law firm where he helped the firm implement their own software for tracking cases. Later he worked for a digital agency. At TangoTeams, they spend a lot of time upfront to truly understand the clients’ needs so that the right product is built. A big problem as a service provider (like...
Jan 30, 2022•28 min
Artificial Intelligence – Peter Voss – Ep 112 Joining us today is Peter Voss, a pioneer in AI who coined the term ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ and the CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai. For the past 15 years, Voss and his team at Aigo have been perfecting an industry disruptive, highly intelligent, and hyper-personalized Chatbot, with a brain, for large enterprise customers. Peter started as an electronics engineer. He quit that and didn’t even finish high school. He taught himself program...
Dec 27, 2021•27 min
Sheet Metal Expert - Andrea Dallan - Ep 111 Andrea Dallan is an engineer, an entrepreneur and CEO of Dallan Spa , an Italian family business that has been producing systems for the processing of thin sheet metal since 1978. They have 160 employees that include engineers, technicians and operations. He is the author of the books “ The Revolution of Efficiency ” (2020) and “Think Thin”. Most mechanical engineers like myself are familiar with sheet metal and how it is processed. However, if you are...
Nov 11, 2021•20 min
CEO of The North Face Company - Hap Klopp - Ep 110 Hap Klopp spent 20 years as CEO and President of The North Face . In that time, he turned two small retail stores into one of the most recognized and well-respected outdoor gear companies in the world. He also authored 2 books (and my uncle Brian Tarcy wrote the books). 1. Conquering the North Face 2. Almost We discussed his background and how he started the company. One thing that he wanted different about his company was that he wanted to wome...
Oct 20, 2021•31 min
Outer Space Logistics – Luca Rossettini- Ep 109 Luca Rossettini is the CEO and Co-founder of D-Orbit , Expert at the Space Advisory Group of the European Commission. He is an Aerospace Engineer with a Ph.D. in advanced space propulsion, awarded with honors by Politecnico di Milano. Early in life, his goal was to be an astronaut, but he was not selected. So, he pivoted and started his company. His company runs logistics for satellite operators. Think of a telecom company that needs a satellite pu...
Oct 02, 2021•19 min
Create a business that can thrive without you – John Warrillow - Ep 108 John Warrillow is the Founder of The Value Builder System, a simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide. John is an expert on how to guide business owners to structure their business so that is sellable. John has built and sold 4 companies. He has written 3 books on the topic. When you want to sell your business, the key is to make sure your business is not dependent on you....
Sep 22, 2021•17 min
Blockchain-powered Gold - Nick Prouten - Ep 107 Nick is a veteran in public speaking and a team leader able to pitch projects, ideas and concepts. A firm believer that diversity is strength. Nicholas has worked in a wide array of industries ranging from cyber security, gaming, real estate, entertainment, tech and blockchain. We first discuss the basics of crypto and blockchain. Then we talked about how investing gold and silver is a good idea to diversify your investing risk. Number one tip: “If...
Aug 26, 2021•24 min
Raise Capital for Your Invention – Tim Cooley – Ep 106 Tim is the author of the #1 trending book on raising capital, The Pitch Deck Book: How To Present Your Business And Secure Investors . He is the Executive Director for Park City Angels and a Partner at ViaCap . He has worked with 100s of early-stage companies in marketing, sales, product development, and fundraising. The companies he has worked with have raised more than $200M in Seed and Series A funding. We discuss how you can create an MV...
Jul 16, 2021•24 min
Online Learning, Evertus.com – Raunak Dutta and John Myers – Ep 104 John and Raunak teamed up to create a new online learning platform called Evertus.com. John held a career in Logistics for over 4 years, for two of those years he was a mentor and teacher guiding people through budgeting and being more proficient in their careers. Raunak learned most of his professional skills from a learning platform called Lynda.com which is now called LinkedIn Learning. Because of each of their background, th...
Jul 05, 2021•24 min
Software Product Developer - Ryan Frederick – Ep 105 Ryan is a founder and product person at heart. He has had the privilege of being part of starting and growing several software and service companies over the years. Currently, he leads an elite team of 70 product designers and data problem solvers at his company AWH. We go into details of how you should go about developing a product and finding the customer needs. We both give real life examples of products we have developed and how we went ab...
Jun 25, 2021•32 min
Save Money with Solar Panels - Stephan Scherer- Ep 103 Stephan Scherer was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. He attended the Technical University of Vienna (also took part in Duke University’s exchange program), then started work as an engineer in Siberia’s oil fields. He founded CraftStrom in 2017 after first, private work on mobile solar systems, while working as an energy infrastructure consultant. We talk in depth on the technology of solar panels. Solar panels can pay for it itself quickl...
May 15, 2021•28 min
Nextime App, Send Messages by Scheduling them into the future - Emanuel Martín Haurigot - Ep 102 Emanuel Haurigot is an Argentinean entrepreneur who has been working in Europe for the past 14 years in technology companies, such as SAP, Veeam Software and Oracle. He has now created his own company: Nextime! the app that will change how we communicate with the future! Nextime will send messages, pictures, audio, video into the future from the next minute up to 75 years. Nextime also plays a big pa...
May 08, 2021•21 min
Career Gig: Hire Talented Contractors - Greg Kihlstrom - Ep 101 Greg is a best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is currently Co-Founder at CareerGig, after selling his digital experience agency, Carousel30, in 2017. Carousel30 was his marketing agency and he learned quite a bit about hiring freelancers. We talked briefly about the sale of Carousel30 and then moved into his current venture: CareerGig. CareerGig is set out to build a network of the best freelancers. It benefits compan...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Celebration Show 100 Episodes – Ep 100 – Scott Tarcy Well, we did it. We hit 100 episodes. In light of that, I thought I would review some of my favorite topics and mentions some projects I have done recently. 1. Episode 2, Rick Daley and licensing Don’t have to make actual product but a prototype helps a ton Can also use CAD renderings Can make a lot of money from licensing 2. Episodes 14 with Andrew Bougie and 53 with Matt Holling about 3d scanning Scanning is a great way to reverse engineer c...
Apr 21, 2021•8 min
The Average Joe Tech Startup Founder – Shawn Livermore – Ep 99 Big episode this week! Last one before reaching triple digits. I’ll put together a special episode for 100. Shawn Livermore is a tech startup founder, entrepreneur, and technology consultant for over 20 years. He the author of the best-selling amazon book “The Average Joe”. He didn’t go the traditional path many think of when they think of tech founder. He taught himself while working full time and became Microsoft certified. He then...
Mar 24, 2021•34 min
Invention: Making your Phone Battery Last Longer - Nick Kshatri – Ep 98 Most people nowadays know that phone batteries seem to lose their ability to hold charge over time. There are multiple reasons for this, but one of the big reasons is that when you charge your phone, a lot of heat is generated. Nick and his team solved this by creating a product that works as follows: When you plug it in, it will charge for some time, but then it will take a break from charging, to allow the battery to cool ...
Feb 16, 2021•23 min
Robotic Industrial Process Automation – Vicki Knott – Ep97 Vicki is a Chemical Engineer and the CEO and Co-founder of Crux OCM which is a software start-up automating control room operations for major oil and gas assets. Vicki started her career by commissioning control systems in the field and found out that controls systems require an operator to go through thousands of button pushes and 3 hours of work to start up a pipeline, for example. She knew there would be a way to automate this process...
Jan 24, 2021•16 min
