Emerging Accents

In this episode I interview @Reza Shirazi, Reza is a Senior Product Manager at AffiniPay and a Community Builder & Blogger with Austin VOP. Which he launched in 2017 to interview product leders and share thair insights to build a stronger product and tech community in Austin

Craig Montuori (@craig_montuori) is the cofounder and executive director of the Global EIR Coalition. A former Caltech rocket engineer, he decided that fixing problems for startups through the political process was more fun and a bigger set of problems to solve.

In this episode I interview Casey Smith, International Program Manager at the City ofAustin Economic Development Department. She works within the Global Business Expansion Division and focuses on supporting local Austin businesses to expand into new markets and welcome international businesses to Austin. She creates other avenues for engaging with the international business community through a collaboration between fivelocal chambers of commerce called #ATXBound.

Cam (@cahouser) is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at 3 Day Startup and professor at the University of Texas. In this episode he shares his story and insights. He has helped thousands of students in more than 30 countries across the world creating startups and build valuable relationships with mentors and other startup founders.

Maia (@maiadonohue) is a Senior Program Manager with 3 Day Startup, where he has curated workshops and lectures on software development, startup fundraising, customer acquisition costs and more. He brings connections to a global network of entrepreneurs, investors and accelerators throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Africa. He is a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at the University of Texas. Maia is also the Founder and Director of the Global Roundup conference, an entrepreneurship conference that sells out annually and brings in early-stage entrepreneurs from around the world.

Kevin Koym (@kkoym) is the founder of Tech Ranch. He spends most of his time helping early stage tech entrepreneurs accelerate their ventures to success and has the goal to change the world through impact innovation.

Launching a podcast, creating great content and growing your audience with Moby (@notthatmoby ), host of The Fire Show Podcast (@fireshowpodcast)

Over the past 20 years, Ken Dunn (@Ken_dunn) has started four major businesses in four separate industries; Property Management, Mortgage and Finance, Direct Sales and Publishing. In each business, the companies were disruptive and extremely successful, resulting in over 750 million in revenue. Ken has always created teams to support the growth of the businesses and then led the teams by generating leads and prospecting. He has traveled to countries on every continent and trained people in a dozen industries on prospecting and selling. His previous two books 'The Most Important Minute' and 'Being The Change' have sold over 300,000 copies. Ken has been featured in several books including: 'The Greatest Networkers In The World' and 'Best, Worst, First'. In direct selling, he is known as one of the greatest prospectors in history. Ken has published dozens of articles on business and marketing strategies, sales and prospecting for Entrepenuer.com, CEOMagazine.com and many others.

Raphaël Colantonio is a French-born video game designer, and was the founder and 18-year president of Arkane Studios. He has served as creative director on several of Arkane's titles, including co-creator with Harvey Smith for the Dishonored series. In this episode Raphael talks about his passions and how he defines success.

George Koutitas, founder of Gridmates and professor at Texas State University, talks about his experience launching a startup in the US as foreign-born entrepreneur