iSmart Podcast

Ryan Estes Co-Founder of Kitcaster, Host of the talk launch podcast, Father, Husband, Kitcaster has had a 40% growth month over month since September 2019, and he is a Purple belt Jujitsu and Yellow cord in Calooweda, and a #1 of Fan of Arctric Greyling

Ryan helps busy entrepreneurs book top podcast interviews.

Hire kitcaster to manage your podcast appearances. Get on-demand podcast placements scheduled for you by professionals, for a flat monthly rate.

We’ve been expecting you.

All growing businesses run into the same fundamental marketing problems. Automated bots, fake news, rampant amateurism. The good news? kitcaster™ solves them. Podcasts cut through the gobbledygook and make fundamentally authentic connections.

Podcasts make business better.

Where are you in your entrepreneur journey? Validation? Launch? Traction? Scale? Wherever you are, podcasts will take you further. We ain’t talking about small talk, we’re talking about the good stuff – real, actionable communication.

You’re always in control.

We book you on top podcasts that speak directly to your ideal audience. These are your peeps – this is your influence. Podcasts are good for business and good for people.

On a mission to help sales people to increase their leads through social with the help of social media influencers in every industry. The tech that powers influencers to monetize their followers.

Passionate about tech and giving back. Early days at a talent marketplace based out of NYC, and through our own hacks, we exited two years later for $113M. Now building Walzay, a platform focused on STEM talent and trusted companies all over the world. #futureofwork

Walzay is reimagining the entire hiring process. We take users from sourcing the top tech talent around the world all the way to the job offer.

Qualified companies can compete for global tech talent to build the strongest teams for growing their products and businesses as we usher in a new era of innovation.

Focus currently is full-time experienced remote tech talent.

Phil Black is the creator of PrepWell Academy - an innovative approach to preparing high school students (and their parents) for the rigors of the college admissions process. His unique program is delivered online and focuses on the early preparation of students (freshman and sophomore year) interested in attending highly-selective colleges (e.g. Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, etc.), military service academies (e.g. Naval Academy, West Point, etc.), and those seeking athletic or ROTC scholarships. Visit our website to enroll your child in one of our custom programs (Pathway, Ivy, Military, Athlete).

Over the past three decades Phil built a record of unique accomplishments including: DI collegiate athlete, Navy SEAL Officer, Goldman Sachs Investment Banker, bootstrap entrepreneur, 2X Shark Tank contestant, Performance Coach at Johnson and Johnson, firefighter, husband and father of four sons. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Goals: To become the country’s leading early preparation program for high school students seeking to optimize their path to college.

Specialties: Helping high school students gain admission to highly-selective colleges and military programs. Deep expertise in college athletic recruiting, military service academy process, securing congressional nominations, ROTC scholarships.

Jon brings the unique blend of building, managing and motivating world-class teams, combined with a track record of operational discipline across all aspects of an organization. He is a technology go-to-market executive who builds the talent and the strategies that lead companies to accelerated growth.

He has managed zero to multimillion-dollar growth numerous times; built and led teams in sales, marketing, systems engineering, and client services; directed and supported product launches; raised venture and debt financing, and built strategies for field operations and market expansions across the globe in the SaaS, Cloud and Talent industries. In his current role as Founder and CEO of Ursus, a leading Staffing and Cloud Services company, he has led triple-digit growth since founding the company providing services to leading companies including Adobe, Tesla, Symantec, Kaiser, Uber, Facebook and eBay among others.

Jon was a three-time All-American and two-time national rugby champion at U.C. Berkeley, where he graduated with a BA in Psychology. He is an excellent presenter and public speaker and for the past twenty years has been a working member of the Screen Actors Guild, appearing in numerous national TV advertisements.

Olin Hyde CEO / Founder Lead Crunch he has had 2 exits and 5 other ventures, He has been nominated,

for entpreneur of the year 3 times, Global AI Challenge Winner, Ranked #35 on The INC 5000

Venture-backed serial entrepreneur passionate about growing companies, building teams, and solving hard problems:

2x exits

5x honor role graduate from the school of hard knocks

4x EandY Entrepreneur of the Year regional semifinalist

Winner: Nvidia and GigOM Global A.I. Challenge

Finalist: University of California Global Corp. Venturing and Innovation

Now leading LeadCrunch, a global AI B2B marketing company. Our technology delivers more intelligent and accurate demand for B2B enterprises.

Our AI makes sense of the complex, incomplete, and often inaccurate data about millions of companies to enable unprecedented capabilities to target and engage the ideal audiences for B2B marketers.

LeadCrunch grew revenues by 7,248% between 2017 and 2019 to win the following awards from Inc Magazine in August 2020.

Anacode reduces AWS S3 storage costs for faster storage, via massively parallel lossless compression. The ONLY storage service on AWS using lossless compression to make YOUR storage reads 2x faster for 35% lower monthly price per TB. Available on AWS via monthly subscription.

Founded Samplify Systems, a venture-backed high-speed compression start-up. Named on 50+ granted Samplify patents. Developed the real-time compression technology, wrote compress/decompress software in C, managed the development of the FPGA hardware prototype, raised a $300k seed round from Charles River Ventures, and attracted a world-class engineering, sales, and marketing team to bring the Samplify vision to market. Raised $23M from Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, IDT, and Schlumberger. Visited 50+ customers in US, Europe, and Asia, selling benefits of real-time compression for medical imaging (CT, ultrasound, MRI), seismic (wireline, RTM), wireless (CPRI, LTE, remote radio heads, WiMax), and data conveter (A/D, D/A) applications. Active in recruiting and hiring talented staff of 18+ employees. Quarterly Technical Advisory Board (Stanford, Xilinx, and Graychip/TI members).

Ray McKenzie Founder and CEO at StartingPoint

Founder of StartingPoint Technologies. We develop solutions for service-based companies focused on service management, client engagement, efficient workflow, and team collaboration. Please visit www.startingpoint.ai

Founder of Red Beach Advisors. A technology management consulting group providing services in the private and public sector. Executive consultant specializing in strategy, digital transformation, operational excellence and performance management, and driving efficiency in all areas of business. Tenured track record optimizing performance and driving transformation and growth across diverse business areas. Lean Six Sigma certified. Certified ScrumMaster. ITIL v3 Certified.

Wildfire provides a unique software platform which monetizes social messaging. NLP, AI and other technologies detect product references and purchase intent within all forms of digital communication, and drive commerce for thousands of participating e-commerce merchants. Investors include Mucker Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Moonshots Capital and BAM.

Glazier Advisors provides strategic consulting and advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses in the technology, e-commerce and digital media sectors. We help clients define strategy and positioning, secure investors and strategic partners, accelerate growth, scale operations and accomplish mergers and acquisitions.

Deepak Anchala is on a mission to make buying and selling of enterprise software easier. Our software helps sellers understand who is most likely to buy their product today, and buyers understand which product best fits their need.

Helped with product and market strategy, worked with engineering to build and ship products, brought the first customers on board and later helped with customer success and retention.

Handled the US PandL for the firm. Manage a team of account execs. Responsible for Sales Operations, Sales Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Account Management, Sales Development and Marketing strategy.