Rising Tide Startups

Our special encore guest on Rising Tide is Kenny Kline. Kenny is a serial niche media entrepreneur and currently the President of BarBend.com

Website - barbend.com

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Kirk is a certified ITIL expert and Six Sigma Green Belt. He has worked on a variety of ITSM based transformation programs for more than 20 public and private organisations over the past 15 years, including Utilities, Telecommunications, Banking & Finance, Government & Public Sector, Real Estate & Transportation industries. He builds internal client teams & capabilities partners with external service providers and mobilises Service Management Specialist experts to deliver successful outcomes for his clients. He is regularly called on by senior leaders and executives to provide ITSM strategy and guidance on complex projects across Asia Pacific.

Service Management Specialists is a boutique IT Service Management consulting practice. We work to overcome IT challenges and business complexities by applying our IT service management domain expertise, collaborative strategic consulting work style to form a simple, clear and effective approach. We help our clients navigate on their own improvement journey - with a high emphasis on knowledge sharing and close guidance.

Kirk's Business Website -  servicemanagementspecialists.com

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AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. He's managed over $150M in spend on the platform, they're official LinkedIn partners, he's host of the LinkedIn Ads Show podcast, and has managed 5 of the world’s top 10 LinkedIn Ads accounts. He's a ginger & triathlete. He lives in Utah, has 4 adorable kids, and his company car is a wicked-fast gokart.

AJ's website - b2linked.com

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Ryan Buick is the Co-Founder of Canvas, a Sequoia-backed startup that is reimagining the traditional office suite for a data-driven world.

Before Canvas, Ryan was one of the first Product Managers at Flexport. At Flexport, Ryan met his co-founders and saw how difficult it was for business teams to get the data they needed without knowing SQL or having to rely on technical teams for help. Frustrated with the current state of data tools, Ryan and his team started Canvas and aim to change the way millions of businesses use data to make decisions.

Learn more at https://canvasapp.com/

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Melissa Kwan is the Cofounder and CEO of eWebinar, an automated webinar solution that combines pre-recorded video with real-time interactions and live chat to deliver an engaging experience for attendees. Melissa and her team believe that by automating the repetitive and tedious task of giving the same sales demos, onboarding, and training over and over, they free people up to focus their time on something else they value more.

Learn more at EWebinar.com

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Mark Podolsky is the owner of Frontier Properties, a land investment company. Mark (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States.  Since 2001 Mark has completed over 6,000 raw land deals with an average return on investment of over 300% on cash purchases and over 1000% on land deals that he financed.

Mark is the host of one of the top-rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled The Art of Passive Income Model.  Get set to hear how much simpler investing in raw land is than traditional real estate.

Learn more at TheLandGeek.com

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Our special guest this week is Sean Castrina.  Sean is an Entrepreneur, Bestselling author, Host of The 10 Minute Entrepreneur Podcast and founder of The Weekend MBA.

Learn more at seancastrina.com

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Nathan Hirsch is a lifelong entrepreneur and currently the CEO of EcomBalance and Outsource School. Nathan is best known for co-founding FreeUp.net in 2015 with an initial $5,000 investment, scaling it to $12 million in yearly revenue, and having it acquired in 2019. Today, he leads EcomBalance, an online bookkeeping service for eCommerce and digital businesses, and Outsource School, a membership teaching business owners how to hire effectively online. Nathan has appeared on 400+ podcasts, is a social media personality. Him and his wife live in Denver, Colorado with his two dogs where they are foster parents.

Learn more at - Ecombalance.com

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Meryl Johnston is a XERO accounting expert and the Co-Founder of Bean Ninjas.  Meryl launched Bean Ninjas in 2015 with $1000 and a dream of changing the global bookkeeping game. It has since grown from Meryl’s kitchen table into the multi-national, award-winning business it is today.

Learn more at beanninjas.com

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Jaime Jay is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Founded in 2016.

Bottleneck is an outsourcing agency that helps businesses identify, hire, and cultivate their workforce through a carefully designed systematic approach to growth. A veteran US Army paratrooper who received the Army Achievement Medal for Meritorious Service, Jay’s additional business experience includes a twelve-year career in corporate America and advanced education in Business Administration and Management at Florida Institute of Technology.

Jaime likes networking with big-picture thinkers and proudly proclaims he is unemployable. In his spare time, he enjoys playing hockey, riding his Harley-Davidson, camping, boating, playing guitar, shooting guns, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Sara and their dog, Nikita.

Learn more at bottleneck.online

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