Fast Frontiers

Fast Frontiers

By Tim SchigelBusinessEntrepreneurshipInvesting
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Fast Frontiers episodes

  • S2 Ep 1. Wendy Lea: CEO, Board Director, Strategic Advisor
    Today's conversation is with friend, Wendy Lea, digital innovation strategist, ecosystem development guru, and currently the CEO of Energize Colorado. Wendy has a lot of learnings to share with us and unique experiences. These were formed by her intention and direction in life to be independent, self-reliant, and self-directed. Wendy shares her great stories of lessons she's learned working for, as she calls them, "Big CO's" and small businesses that experienced big growth, which led her to ultimately become startup CEO and eventually successful angel investor.
    38 min
  • S1 Ep 15. Scott Dorsey: High Alpha
    In this episode, we’re bringing you my conversation with Scott Dorsey, Co-founder and managing partner at High Alpha, a venture studio in Indianapolis, and Former CEO and co-founder of ExactTarget which was acquired by Salesforce in 2013 for over $2.5B
    42 min
  • 15 - Scott Dorsey
    In this episode, we’re bringing you my conversation with Scott Dorsey, Co-founder and managing partner at High Alpha, a venture studio in Indianapolis, and Former CEO and co-founder of ExactTarget which was acquired by Salesforce in 2013 for over $2.5B
    42 min
  • S1 Ep 13. Yuval Brisker: Mezu

    In this episode we cover:

    • Yuval’s interesting path to his technology career
    • Starting TOA Technologies in Cleveland, OH 
    • What he’s working on now. First Mezu and now, Alviere

    Resources & People Mentioned

    • TOA Technologies acquired by Oracle in 2014
    • Irad Carmi
    • Jonathan Murray and Mike Stubler at Draper Triangle in Pittsburgh
    • Mezu

    Connect with Yuval

    • Connect with Yuval on LinkedIn
    • Alviere Website

    Connect with Tim 

    • Follow Refinery Ventures on Twitter: @RefineryVC
    • Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
    • Follow Refinery Ventures on LinkedIn

    Subscribe to Fast Frontiers

    40 min
  • S1 Ep 12. Chris Rizik: Renaissance Venture Capital

    In this episode we cover:

    • Building Renaissance and the great programming with UnDemo Day and HotList as ways to expose top VCs to the startup talent in the midwest
    • The Fund of Funds model and how every MSA could benefit, including the impact they can have on a city/state/region


    Resources & People Mentioned

    • Rick Snyder and Avalon Investments
    • SoulTracks
    • Exits: TomoTherapy and Esperion
    • Business Leaders for Michigan
    • UnDemo Day
    • HotList
    • Cintrifuse
    • HX Fund in Houston
    • Duo Security
    • Larry Page graduated from the University of Michigan and started Google
    • Venture Funds: NEA, Revolution Ventures, Arboretum Ventures, Plymouth Ventures, RPM Ventures, Beringea Ventures, eLab Ventures, Material Impact Fund
    • Bloomscape
    • Dan Gilbert
    • NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) recent Chair of Board of Directors, Jan Garfinkle
    • TechTown, Wayne State University accelerator program
    • Orbion, spin up company from Michigan Technological University


    Connect with Chris

    • Connect with Chris on LinkedIn
    • Renaissance Venture Capital Fund Website


     

    Connect with Tim

    • Follow Refinery Ventures on Twitter: @RefineryVC
    • Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
    • Follow Refinery Ventures on LinkedIn

    Subscribe to Fast Frontiers

    46 min
  • S1 Ep 11. Joe Marks: Carnegie Mellon University

    In this episode we’re bringing you my conversation with Joe Marks, Executive Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Healthcare at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh 

    In this episode we cover:

    • Growing up in Ireland and his path to coming to the US/Harvard for college
    • His work in applied computing and research labs in multiple industries
    • Joe’s work at CMU - at the intersection of big companies, university and government research to produce fast moving startups that can get venture investment 

    Resources & People Mentioned

    • Olympic event of Hammer Throwing
    • Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) where the ARPANET was built that became the internet
    • DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency)
    • Ray Tomlinson, put the @ sign in email addresses
    • The Battle of 73 Easting
    • Bob Johansen, author of Leaders Make the Future
    • Digital Equipment Corporation
    • Mitsubishi Electric
    • Disney Research
    • Center is funded by
      • UPMC, integrated healthcare provider and insurer in Pennsylvania
      • Amazon Web Services
      • Roche
    • Carl Kingsford co-founder of Ocean Genomics
    • Gordon Moore Foundation
    • The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

    Connect with Joe

    • Connect with Joe on LinkedIn
    • Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University Website

    Connect with Tim 

    • Follow Refinery Ventures on Twitter: @RefineryVC
    • Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
    • Follow Refinery Ventures on LinkedIn

    Subscribe to Fast Frontiers

    37 min
  • S1 Ep 10. Chad Summe: Quotient Technology

    In this episode we cover:

    • Chad’s experience working at Quotient - a Silicon Valley based company with their largest office in Cincinnati
    • Supply Chain or “Supply Way” in the Cincinnati area - Chad’s work on the board of CVG airport and the potential that we can capitalize on in the area around supply chain, logistics and advanced manufacturing

    Resources & People Mentioned

    • Acquisition of Ahalogy
    • Quotient won Best Places to Work award in 2017
    • Board of Northern Kentucky International Airport
    • Amazon’s Prime Air hub and DHL’s Americas hub
    • Pete Blackshaw at Cintrifuse
    • Local Universities: Miami, NKU and University of Cincinnati
    • REDI and Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce

     

    Connect with Chad

    • Connect with Chad on LinkedIn
    • Quotient Technologies Website

     

    Connect with Tim 

    • Follow Refinery Ventures on Twitter: @RefineryVC
    • Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
    • Follow Refinery Ventures on LinkedIn

    Subscribe to Fast Frontiers

    26 min
  • S1 Ep 9. Vic Gatto: Jumpstart Foundry

    In this episode we’re bringing you my conversation with Vic Gatto, CEO and Founder of Jumpstart in Nashville, TN. 

    In this episode we cover:

    • Vic and Tim’s parallel experiences of putting in the time and learning the venture business
    • Starting Jumpstart in Nashville, capitalizing on the healthcare hub and the advantage of being in middle America
    • Working together with his partner, Marcus Whitney to bring their different backgrounds and perspectives to the table and tackle systemic racism in the startup world

    Resources & People Mentioned

    • Massey Burch and Blue Chip Venture Company
    • Vic’s partner at Jumpstart, Marcus Whitney
    • Andreessen Horowitz
    • ScriptDrop, prescription delivery

    Connect with Vic

    • Connect with Vic on LinkedIn
    • Jumpstart Foundry Website

    Connect with Tim 

    • Follow Refinery Ventures on Twitter: @RefineryVC
    • Connect with Tim on LinkedIn
    • Follow Refinery Ventures on LinkedIn

    Subscribe to Fast Frontiers

    45 min

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An exploration of how innovation frontiers are emerging in surprising places.