On today’s episode, we interview Ron Ben-Zeev, Ron Stocknopf Ben-Zeev is the founder, president, and CEO of World Housing Solution Inc., a company that focuses on building sustainable structures for the United States military.  He shares his journey full of pivots and how a business can do well and do good in the world.  Pay special attention to the three P’s of social enterprises.

Ron Stocknopf Ben-Zeev is the founder, president, and CEO of World Housing Solution Inc., a company that focuses on building sustainable structures for the United States military. Along with Ben-Zeev’s entrepreneurial endeavors, he is also very active in the Central Florida community. He organizes local TEDx events, is an adjunct professor (and served as an entrepreneur in residence) at Rollins College and is the founder of several entrepreneurial groups, such as 1 Million Cups and Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. Before graduating from the Wharton School in 1986, he lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and Europe. Ben-Zeev is fluent in four languages and uses his entrepreneurial skills to grow and build his businesses by building relationships around the world.

Website: https://www.worldhousingsolution.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldHousingSolution/

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-housing-solution-llc/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/WHSolution

On today’s episode, we interview David Brim, the founder of Orlando Entrepreneurs. He shares his thoughts on the Orlando Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and what inspired him to create Orlando Entrepreneurs.

Intro: Hello, this is David Brim, and I’m the founder of Orlando Entrepreneurs. We are the hub for Orlando Entrepreneurship, and our mission is to connect, cultivate, and celebrate our local entrepreneurs. We bring together our local entrepreneurial ecosystem, to positively impact our entrepreneurs, their companies and our local economy. To learn more visit OrlandoEntrepreneurs.org Now, over to Josh Wilson to get forward with our show.

Good day and welcome to Orlando Entrepreneurs. My name is Josh and I’m the host of the show, and I just want to welcome you guys to the show. This show is built by Orlando Entrepreneurs for Orlando Entrepreneurs. Today, this is our intro show. This is where you get to know myself and the founder of Orlando Entrepreneurs, David Brim.

David, you’re the first person on this show. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Glad to be here and excited to participate in this show and help champion Central Florida and Orlando Entrepreneurship.

Awesome. Awesome. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about who you are, so we can get to know how you got started in this as an entrepreneur and then what could people expect from the show. So why don’t you tell a low world, especially the people are favorite people in Orlando, who you are.

Sure. Again, my name is David Brim. I’ve been an entrepreneur in Orlando for about 10 years now. I transferred to UCF (University of Central Florida) from Pittsburgh, and I was very active in their entrepreneurial activities there.  I started a couple companies while I was still in school, including a software company that we grew to about 10,000 users, and were featured on mashable. I boot strapped this and learned a lot through that process We won a bunch of money during business plan competitions in school at UCF, probably about $17,000. After this we had a big challenge raising investment funding for this venture. I got to a point where I threw my hands up and I said, you know what? Instead of trying to seek out investors in this market, who were very focused on investing in real estate (this was around the 2008 time frame. The real estate market had just crashed. A lot of investors were snapping up properties in real estate, and that’s an asset class that they’re very comfortable with. But when it came to investing in startups and tech ventures, it was very foreign to them. They didn’t know how to value it. They didn’t know how to really didn’t have much confidence in the asset class because of his risky at times. ) I decided I would, instead of trying to raise money, I needed designers, developers and marketers. So I went ahead and I started a marketing agency called Brand Advance. I bootstrapped that from the first year after graduating college t

On today’s episode, we interview David Brim.

Orlando Entrepreneurs was founded by David Brim. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, where he majored in marketing, David is the only two-time winner of the school’s Joust Business Plan Competition. Brim has founded numerous businesses in Central Florida across industries such as marketing, technology (SaaS & online directories), real estate, and e- commerce. Some of David’s ventures were accepted and graduated from the UCF Business Incubator Program. His marketing agency Brand Advance, founded in 2009, was bootstrapped to over $2.5M in sales. One of his tech startups, GroupTable, reached 10,000 users before exit. In addition to his passion for advising, consulting and investing in startups, David is an active real estate investor and investment real estate specialist. He blogs at Filled to the Brim and is the author of Land More Customers through Online Marketing, a book that reached # 13 on the Amazon Best Seller list within its category during 2014 and was also utilized in Entrepreneurial Marketing classes at the University of Central Florida. Brim is an entrepreneur mentor at the Blackstone LaunchPad at UCF, and a member of the National Economic Gardening strategic research team and Orlando based GrowFL team, where he has helped over 1,000 second stage company entrepreneurs grow their business. He has helped coach / judge numerous Orlando business competitions and mentors many startups in the area. Through his 10+ years in entrepreneurship within Central Florida, he has leveraged many local entrepreneurial resources and helped others to do the same. Through these experiences he found that there was no central location to help entrepreneurs find the right resources they need at the right time. He created Orlando Entrepreneurs to fill that void as a Network & Resource Center with the mission to connect, cultivate, and celebrate Central Florida entrepreneurs.