CTStartup Podcast

This episode we are joined by Nick Pontacoloni, co-founder of MyHomeProNetwork. Also on this podcast we have Dave Menard, Mike Kauffman, and Eric Francis. We had fun with this and Nick provides some good insight into entrepreneurship and on taking investment for your startup.

My Home Pro Network is the first relationship marketing platform in real estate. We help real estate brokers strengthen relationships and generate more business by enabling them to create, curate and share their network of local home professionals.

Check out My Home Pro Network on Facebook.com/myhomepronetwork and on their twitter @homepronetworks

This is one of our typical square tables where we have fun and while also diving into various topics. On this episode you have Mike Kauffman, Dave Menard, Eric Francis, and Ojala Naeem. We have to try and keep calm and make sure not to kill Mike.

We learn also learn about Mike's new project he is working on and about a new program called Venture Clash starting in CT. ( Think Gladiators for VC's)

We also address how we have not been as consistent as we should be and what we will be doing in the coming months.

We were back at our old stomping grounds The Happiness Lab in New Haven with Dave Menard, Eric Francis, and sitting in was Onyeka Obiocha of Happy life.

VoiceGlance helps make the interviewing and hiring process more efficient and cheaper. Bill gets into how they make this happen and also we get one some tangents. They were a software company the pivoted to VoiceGlance and made it easier for the person looking for the job to interview.

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In this episode we have a few short interview with some people/companies that stopped by our table.

The first interview is with Bill Ottman from Minds.com which is an encrypted social networking site that rewards their users by getting their content to go viral. The website is an opensource platform and has over 1 million users.

The Second interview is with Nan Price from InnovationHartford.com which is put on by the Hartford Metro Alliance and uses our last podcast interviewee Tim Laubacher 's LaunchEZ platforms.

The last interview is with Ojala Naeem and Christopher Mazziotto from reSET. As you can remember Ojala was took the open chair in our last podcast and Chris is a program manager and works with the accelerator program at reSET.

These were some quick and fun podcasts. We look forward to more of these, clearly sometimes we like to just have fun instead of being so serious.

We are back from the month long hiatus with a fun episode with Tim Laubacher who is the owner of Sound Web Solutions, LLC and who also created LaunchEZ to help 500 startups in Connecticut.

Filling in our James's seat we have Ojala Naeem, Director of Operations at reSET. She may or may not have dropped a quick beat box rap!

During the episode we learn about Tim's background and why he got into building his own business and also some insights into how he sees the Connecticut startup scene. Tim is a mentor in the CT startup ecosystem and is also always coming up with ideas for new businesses. He is a big fan and supporter of creating MVP (minimal viable products) and helping other companies be able to talk the talk when dealing with web and mobile developers.

On this podcast from the CT Innovation Summit we talked with Joseph Anstey the founder of CircleLink Health. The health care industry has been changing over the years and there has been increased emphasis on preventative health.

CircleLink Health, a healthcare technology company, improves health for patients with chronic conditions by engaging them through their mobile phones, and allows their physicians to easily earn Medicare’s new chronic care reimbursement.

One of the reasons why we like doing the CTStartup podcast is because we get to meet people who are creating world changing products. Phoenix Pharmalabs is doing just that with their opioid pain medication that is 10-20x stronger than morphine and also is not addictive.

We talked to CEO Bill Crossman, President and CEO of Phoenix Pharmalabs, and how a personal connection lead him to get into this game changing company. Over the past decade or so opioid addiction has become a huge issues as people who are prescribed opioid pain medication have become addicted to the powerful drugs. This was a podcast that we walked away from just imagining a world where our pain medication helps the pain but doesn't put a person in jeopardy of becoming addicted, and Pheonix Pharmalabs is the company that will make it happen.

The CT Innovation Summit was at the Hartford Convention Center and it was put on by the Connecticut Technology Council. We were recording live and the first interview was with Louis Parks the President and CEO of SecureRF , a company which is focused on securing the internet of things.

As more and more devices and products get connected to the internet there is a big need to have those devices be secure, which is where Secure RF steps in. Their products have a wide range of uses and they are helping to secure things we all use everyday.

Secure RF is based out of Shelton, CT and they are a Connecticut company which is having a big impact on the internet of things.

We met at The Happiness Lab around a square table to catch up on things. We get to hear updates on Mike and his fundraising journey and he gives us his perspective on the Connecticut fundraising scene. We also dive into the normal tangents.

If you will be around Hartford CT tomorrow you should check out the Connecticut Innovation Summit at the Convention Center, check it out HERE. We will be there all day interviewing many of the innovative companies in and around Connecticut.

Last week we had a fun time interviewing Tony Karlowicz co-founder of Back East Brewing Company. As many of you beer drinkers know there are micro breweries popping up everywhere and Back East Brewing has been one who has made a name for itself in Connecticut.

We started off the podcast by tasting their Octoberfest beer, which was delicious, then got into hearing how Tony and his cousin Edward got their start in the brewing industry. There are some gems of wisdom in this episode as Tony explains how to scale the business slowly and not to scale too fast.

Tomorrow October 15th they will be having a book signing for their former head brewers new book " The Comic Book Story of Beer" which is a fun book about the history of beer. They will be signing books from 4-7 at their Tap room at 1296A Blue Hills Avenue, Bloomfield, CT.