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Karly Pavlinac – CEO of WAAM – Creating Access to World’s Best Celebrity Trainers for $19 / month

Imagine getting to work out with trainers that train some of the most well-known athletes and performers in the world from the comfort of your own home for $19 a month.  Karly Pavlinac is building a platform called WAAM that allows everyday people to subscribe to workouts conducted by the world’s best celebrity trainers.  She...

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Don Shin – CEO of CrossComm on The Most Common Pitfalls Startups Experience When Building an App or Platform

Don Shin is the CEO of CrossComm, an app development studio applying some of the most cutting edge technologies to the business problems of its’ customers. In this episode we discuss augmented reality, virtual reality, AI, Bitcoin and market opportunities these technologies open up.  Additionally, Don describes the most common pitfalls that startups experience when...

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Ep 9: Eli Sheets, Founder of IdeaBlock – Using Blockchain to Protect Intellectual Property Rights

“Any four of the big pieces of intellectual property that you can get traditionally — patents, trademarks … copyrights and trade secrets — the common thread that runs through all four of those is time. If you’re first at any of those four, eventually you’re going to win against third parties. If you beat them,...

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Ep 8 – Joe Colopy, Co-founder and CEO of Bronto sold for $200M in 2015

Back in early 2000’s, Joe Colopy left his job to build a software product – without funding and without even a firm idea of what to build. The first attempt was not going well and the clock was ticking. But then with his wife 3 months pregnant, and his back against the wall, he focused...

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Ep 7 – Mark Johnson – Founder of Hotel Chatter, Jaunted and Vegas Chatter which were sold to CondeNast

Today I talk to Mark Johnson, is an entreprenuer, and an investor and a creator.   Back in the early 2000s, Mark started writing reviews for hotels. When he saw it start to gain traffic, he started to think this might be something he would do.  Over the course of 10 years Mark turned that idea...

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Ep 6: James Avery – CEO of Adzerk, ad serving platform earning +$5M a year

In this episode, I talk to James Avery founder and CEO of Adzerk about how he turned a small ad network doing 1 thousand dollars a month in revenue into an ad platform doing over 5 million a year. Adzerk’s platform helps other companies use apis to build ad servers.  James talks about the different...

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Ep 5: Allison Wood – CEO of LCMS+

In this episode, I interview Allison Wood, the CEO of LCMS Plus, an enterprise software solution that helps medical schools streamline accreditation reporting and gain greater insight into medical programs.  Spun-out from Duke, LCMS Plus is software that tracks everything surrounding the education components of medical school, which includes keeping track of student schedules, grades...

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Ep 4: David Hadden – Co-CEO of Pro-ficiency

David Hadden is the co-CEO of Pro-ficiency, a maker of simulation learning technology for the healthcare industry. Using Pro-ficiency’s technology, doctors, patients and clinical trial investigators can face real life scenarios and make decisions in a consequence free environment to improve their performance and create better outcomes.  In this episode, David talks about how he...

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