School for Startups Radio

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On 60 AmFm stations around the US, the show argues that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur when they forget creativity, risk, and passion! Join host Jim Beach, bestselling McGraw-Hill Author for his SBA award winning nationally syndicated radio show. Copy an idea, execute it better, start with less than $5,000 and reserve passion for family & religion.

Episodes

July 8, 2024 - CEO of Leadsales CRM for WhatsApp Roby Peñacastro and Trade School Entrepreneur Donald Booth

Roberto “Roby” Peñacastro – CEO and Founder of Leadsales Roberto “Roby” Peñacastro, CEO and founder of Leadsales, is a passionate entrepreneur from Querétaro, México, with several years of experience driving national and multinational businesses. He is considered the go-to source when it comes to leadership and problem-solving, no matter what the challenges are. In 2019, while working at Google, he managed to identify an opportunity: conversational commerce by managing key accounts. These experi...

Jul 08, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

July 3, 2024 - Marketing Superpowers Jon Davids and Lead Boldly Hugh Blane

Jon Davids – Founder of Influicity and Author of Marketing Superpowers: Build a brand so good that getting customers feels like magic Jon Davids made $300K in college by figuring out one thing. How to hijack demand on the internet. And that skill changed my life. Let me rewind and tell you how it happened. 2004: I built an online magazine and monetized through digital ads. I ran it while in college and sold to a large publisher in 2009. 2011: I stumbled on the world of YouTube influencers and fi...

Jul 03, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

July 1, 2024 - 50 Startups! Risk Based Angel Paulo Andrez and Powerful Phrases Karin Hurt & David Dye

Paulo Andrez – Founder and Investor in 50 Companies and Author of Zero Risk Startup: The Ultimate Entrepreneur’s Guide to Mitigating Risks When Starting or Growing a Business Paulo Andrez is author of the Amazon Bestselling book Zero Risk Startup: The Ultimate Entrepreneur’s Guide to Mitigating Risks When Starting or Growing a Business, is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at age 18. He’s an experienced angel investor and venture capitalist who has personally founded and inves...

Jul 01, 2024•56 min•Ep 2421•Transcript available on Metacast

June 28, 2024 - Crash Course Angel Story Ricardo Jimenez and Scaling Altruism Donald Summers

Ricardo Jimenez – Founder, Angel investor and Author of Crash Course: A Founder’s Journey to Saving Your Startup and Sanity Ricardo Jimenez is a Spanish-born author, entrepreneur, and active angel investor. Since 2014, he has invested in over fifty tech projects, including the Ethereum token launch. In recent years, he backed up the first electric aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion in France, a gold mine in Paraguay, and a financial solution for Gen Z in the Middle East. Back in 2013, Ric...

Jun 28, 2024•54 min•Ep 2420•Transcript available on Metacast

June 26, 2024 - AI Tech for Upskilling Ruban Phukan and Listening Expert Michael Reddington

Ruban Phukan – Co-Founder and CEO of GoodGist Inc Ruban Phukan has over two decades of pioneering work in AI, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Search, Visualization, and Conversational User Interfaces. He is driven by a quest for problem-solution-fit in the enterprise and consumer world, believing deeply in the importance of understanding hard problems thoroughly to devise fitting solutions, regardless of their complexity. Currently as the co-founder and CEO of GoodGist Inc, a Generative...

Jun 26, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

June 24, 2024 - New Kitchen Appliance Christina Bellman and WSJ Cartoonist Contact Marketing Stu Heinecke

Christina Bellman – Founder and CEO of Levo Oil Christina Bellman’s journey is one of remarkable transformation and entrepreneurial spirit. A corporate dropout with no prior engineering background, in 2016 Chrissy defied the odds by turning a random idea into the revolutionary LĒVO, the world’s first oil infuser with multiple use cases. Breaking new ground in the kitchen appliance industry, LĒVO created a brand new category, much like air fryers did, offering consumers a unique and innovative wa...

Jun 24, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

June 21, 2024 - CIA to CEO Rupal Patel and (Religious) Executive Search William Vanderbloemen

Rupal Patel – Founder of Entreprenora and Author of From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better, and Being Bolder My job at the CIA was in many ways even cooler then people would imagine it to be. It’s an incredible place full of some really smart people doing really groundbreaking work. No one fit a mold. Rupal Patel’s high-octane career has taken her from military briefing rooms in jungles and war zones to corporate boardrooms and international stages. Duri...

Jun 21, 2024•54 min•Ep 2417•Transcript available on Metacast

June 19, 2024 - Möve Marketing Kaitlyn Merola and Xero SMB Accounting Ben Richmond

Kaitlyn Merola – CEO and Founder of Möve Marketing Möve serves B2B tech startups first and foremost. Is our ICP, that is who we go after, that is who we serve and that has always been the backbone, staying within startups. All of our employees are fully remote. Some of the people on my team I have yet to meet in person. Kaitlyn Merola is the CEO and Founder of Möve Marketing. She is a renowned marketing leader and expert in demand generation, customer experience optimization, and revenue growth ...

Jun 19, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

June 17, 2024 - Student AI Shayan Khanlarbeik and Connecting Potential Pam August

Shayan Khanlarbeik – Co-Founder of Mindgrasp – AI for Students The most common use of the Mindgrasp platform is students using it as a tutor, helping them understand a lecture. It can create analogies for you and explain things to you. One user asked the platform to explain a lecture as if it was from SpongeBob. It was incredible. Or you can generate reports based on Zoom meetings. Shayan Khanlarbeik, born and raised in Maryland, stayed close to his roots and pursued the pre-dental track at the ...

Jun 17, 2024•56 min•Ep 2415•Transcript available on Metacast

June 14, 2024 - Eating Her Baconator Alexandra Watkins and E&Y Winner Larry Gaynor

Alexandra Watkins – Famous Brand Name Creator – Named the Baconator for Wendy’s and Author of Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick I named the Wendy’s Baconator. It is so famous that it has its own Wikipedia page, it was recently an answer on Jeopardy and it was an answer in a New York Times crossword puzzle. Alexandra Watkins is the leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. If you have ever eaten a Wendy’s Baconator, you have literally eaten her words....

Jun 14, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast

June 12, 2024 - Genomics Entrepreneur Stan Rose and Data Driven Entrepreneur Nikki Blacksmith

Dr. Stan Rose – Founder of Rose Ventures and Author of Can’t Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs, by nature, need to be very driven, optimistic and persistent. They also have to be very adaptable, and they have to develop certain skills which will enable them to respond when a challenge comes up that they would never have expected in a world that is very complex. You should assume there’s lots out there you don’t understand. Dr. Stan Rose is an MIT biologist turned l...

Jun 12, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast