Chuck Pettid and Terry Tateossian sit down to discuss the most challenging aspects of equity crowdfunding, startup fundraising, crypto and general start-ups strategy on this episode of the Amplified podcast. Chuck is the CEO of Republic Funding Portal – a leading investment crowdfunding portal based in New York. He is also the co-producer of the international television series Meet the Drapers. He is also the Board member for Ruby and RiderShare.

If you have thought about raising capital through crowdfunding, you cannot miss this episode. Chuck reveals the most successful ways to position yourself for success!

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Susan Ascher and Terry Tateossian discuss common sense leadership, the servant leader style. Susan is the  CEO of The Ascher Group, an award winning national consulting firm, Founder of The Sphere of Excellence in CommunicationTM and Course Connections. Susan Ascher was in the first class of women at Lehigh University and one of the first to graduate from the College of Business. She got into the recruiting business because she loved helping people and wanted mobility, but caught in a career lull, she pivoted to coaching ten years ago and started writing and raising the bar in communications and EQ, in a word, soft skills cultivation. She’s a big change agent and loves transformation. The biggest challenge for workplaces, she says, is getting people to collaborate more effectively and respect each other. Check out this episode for a refreshing take on what the corporate world needs to advance its humanity and work better together.You can connect with her on LinkedIn here.    About our guest:President and CEO of the award-winning national consulting firm The Ascher Group, Founder of the Sphere of Excellence in Communication, and Founder of Course and Culinary Connections, Susuan Ascher has coached individuals and teams for clients, ranging from the Fortune 50 to ranked universities. Author of EQ and IQ raising tools and a sought after media resource, she has been interviewed on Bloomberg, ABC, NBC, CNBC, CNN, News 12 and My9TV, and is a frequent commentator on TV 8 in Vail, Colorado. She has been published in Forbes Magazine, Crain’s New York Business, The Star-Ledger, and NJBIZ.

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Arjun Rai - Entrepreneur, CEO, and Founder of Wrkbench.io, EmojiData.ai, and Woofy Inc.Arjun moved from New Delhi to Chicago at four years old before his family settled around Princeton, New Jersey. His business acumen began quite young while selling flowers at family weddings when he was seven years old. Fast-forward a few years. Following his first weeks of college, Arjun was launching his second start-up and kept going from there. He’s always been in communications, but he ventured away from agency business and into creating products out of the need to run businesses more efficiently in fast changing times. After Wrkbench, Arjun started HelloWoofy, a social media marketing and AI-driven compliance web platform, which has landed some big partners like Google and Microsoft. In this revealing episode, learn the data-driven mindset of a serial entrepreneur and hear the stories about the trials and tribulations along the fruitful yet bumpy road of start-up life. Connect with Arjun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunrai/

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Tim McElreath - Director of Technology, Mobile & Emerging Platforms at Discovery Communications Despite growing up with computer gear around the house, Tim gathered his degree in classic photography before digital was a thing. He landed his first tech job at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then migrated over to jobs in financial services. But it took a major economic collapse to realize he was still fascinated by technology and user experience. He wanted to build things that helped people follow their passions. He eventually joined the Food Network before reaching Discovery, where he leads a team building mobile and conversational applications for some of the most popular real-life entertainment brands: Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Facebook Messenger, and Microsoft Cortana. Learn all about the new wave of multimodal devices in this powerful episode and connect with him on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmcelreath/

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Miko Matsumura - Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Partner & Co-Founder of EvercoinMiko took a winding career road from pure science to Silicon Valley where he caught the start-up bug. After a foray at a large company, he went “from zero to one” and launched a series of start-ups. In 2016, he became interested in crypto and soon started Evercoin, a crypto service based in self-custody and ownership. In the episode, he raises some key questions: if money will poison open source or if open source will liberate money and make it more virtuous, if open source is essentially a bubble that will burst in investors’ faces, and if there’s a benefit to the crypto volatility that points to its rising fame. Hear Miko’s take on the beauty of the Internet, how crypto is the first protocol for storing and transmitting economic value on the Internet, and the future of open source currency.  Connect with Miko here https://miko.com and on LinkedIn

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Way back in 2004, Brett jumped into digital video with the first Internet TV network, ManiaTV! He cut his teeth in sales strategy until he realized that video would soon branch out of YouTube. He and his partner then began brainstorming the different repercussions for brands. They were colossal, so they asked the question, “What if we could build one silo for all?” and thus created a value system where companies could see intelligent data bespoke to each social platform, naming it Sylo. They were challenge-ready when in 2018 a New York Times article highlighted “sophisticated invalid traffic.” Bots, false influencers, and the like—hear Brett explain how brands that sift counterfeit from authentic engagement keep their brand clean and find lasting success.

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A kind of blending film with video games, video interactivity has always been a labor-intensive dream. But as technology advanced, it started to become obvious to Dan that computer vision and machine learning could accelerate the creation process for interactivity. Though while Netflix legitimized the interactive video market with big investments, some advanced companies are still using antiquated processes to create content, which slows down and limits creativity. Thus Dan’s mission—to liberate the video industry from antiquated creative processes. Hear how he cuts the interactive video edge in this engaging episode.

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Shakesha Williams - Writer, Director, Producer & Founder of Harlem Fusion Studios In 2012, Shakesha founded a new media company with an undertow of empathic acceptance of color, size, and nature. She called it Harlem Fusion Studios and, needless to say, it was unconventional. But since its inception, it has been a cultural beacon in Harlem and beyond as an outlet for culture and democratic development. Hear how stories, and being a bold creative in general, can be the best way to change hearts and minds in a time when the habits and systems of oppression are still exercised. In this episode, Shakesha inspires listeners to take charge of their dreams and turn them into elevated crafts that make unique contributions in this revolutionary time.

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Michael Donahue - Marketing Pioneer & Sr Director of the Association of National AdvertisersMichael was always an anomalous worker. Growing up outside of Philadelphia, he moved to NYC to realize his potential. As a young account executive, he was invited to a brainstorming session and presented a simple question that focused advertising on creating a consumer loyalty standard for the field—What is the accepted consumer belief of a product? A keen advocate of merging tech with marketing, Michael pioneered the emotional response to advertising and consumer engagement. Hear him speak with wonderful anecdotes to the transitional phases of advertising throughout the decades and pinpoint what martech needs today.

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