Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Rob Loughan.  Rob is the CEO of Ferret and chairman of Flawless Photonics. He previously co-founded Octane Software and served as its senior vice president before he started as the CEO of Conductiv Software. He also co-founded Sagus Capital Partners.   Rob also holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from the State University of New York.

Company website - Ferret.ai

Podcast Sponsor - PodBrand Media

Our special guest this week is Stuart Leo, another great guest from Down Under.  Stuart is the founder and CEO of Waymaker.io - an intelligent business management platform that helps leaders build a better business in 30 days. Stuart is a thought leader in strategy, systems, and leader leadership development. As the founder of Waymaker.io he has led the creation of Waymaker's Leadership Curve - a revolutionary way of building clarity, alignment and remarkable results in any organisation.

Stuart's website - waymaker.io

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Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is James Giancotti.  James is the CEO and Co-founder of Oddup, an early-stage startup ecosystem rating system. James began his career in investment banking and research roles at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. After nearly a decade of researching companies’ financials to determine their value and assessing investment risks and opportunities, he saw firsthand the challenges that most institutional investors constantly confronted. The biggest obstacle was a lack of reliable, collated analyst insights that overcome subjectivity, so he created Oddup to address this problem by giving investors more transparency and objective insights to make the most informed investment decision. James holds both a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Intelligence and a Bachelor of Law in Intellectual Property from La Trobe University in Australia.

James' Website - Oddup.com

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Our special guest this week on the pod is Simon Serverino.  Simon helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how to be able to run their company more efficiently which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints® Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints® Coaches which has offers a customized strategy to help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. He is also a Forbes Business Council Member, a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine, and a member of Duke Corporate Education.

Free Tools on Simon's website - Strategy Sprint Tools

Podcast sponsor - PodBrand Media

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Frances Simowitz.  Frances is the President and CEO of WEVE Acceleration. She is an expert in launching in the NYC startup scene and is currently the CEO and Managing Director of WEVE. Previous to WEVE, she has 10 years of experience in the startup ecosystem and helped establish and grow operations in multiple cities such as Boston, Chicago, DC and New York for startups like Sittercity, Startup Institute and now WEVE. She has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and has established one of the largest entrepreneurial communities in NYC through HackerNest. She also serves on the advisory board of Tech Day.

Her Website - weveacceleration.com

Sponsored by - Podbrandmedia.com

We have a very special guest on the pod this week, Aaron Walker.  Aaron, "Big A" Walker is actually a repeat guest, which is rare on Rising Tide.  Aaron has founded more than a dozen companies over the past 41 years. He attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts. Aaron spent a decade meeting weekly with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and five other amazing entrepreneurs. He is the Founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind that now hosts 20 groups with national and international members. Aaron is the Author of View From The Top, a must-read to fully understand how to live a life of success and significance. He is the Creator of The Mastermind Playbook - an incredible resource for starting, running and scaling masterminds. Aaron lives in Nashville Tennessee with his wife Robin of 40 years, he has two incredible daughters and five beautiful grandchildren.

Aaron's website - Viewfromthetop.com

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Our special guest this week on the Tide is Luca Zambello.  Luca is the co-founder and CEO of Jurny, a hospitality tech company pioneering the next generation of tech-first, on-demand accommodations. A born entrepreneur, Luca launched one of the first professionally operated Airbnb vacation rental companies in 2012, quickly earning the Superhost status that he still holds today. Following that success, he realized there was a need for a more streamlined, on-demand hospitality experience for both guests and operators.

Partnering with David Phillips in 2017, he co-founded Jurny and has led the company to triple-digit growth. Today, the company powers the operations and modern guest experiences for some of the world’s most exceptional independent hotel brands, vacation and short-term rental (STR) properties. As an expert within the hospitality industry, Luca has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Entrepreneur and other major industry publications. His mission continues to be modernizing hospitality and creating solutions that cater to the heightened expectations of today's traveler.

Luca's website - Jurny.com

Sponsored by PodBrand Media - podbrandmedia.com

We have a truly unique guest on the podcast this week who brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the show.   Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, Maria has been selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world.

She has written for publications such as Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art.

In 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS".

Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE and more.

She’s the author of “How Creativity Rules The World” (HarperCollins March 15, 2022).

Learn more at mariabrito.com

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It's early 2022 but the guest list is already heating up!

Scott Danner is the CEO of Freedom Street Partners, a practice that supports financial advisors in their next career step and helps them explore all available paths to secure a fulfilling future. After fifteen years practicing on an employee platform, Scott founded Freedom Street and took it from $0 to $2 billion in assets under management in just five years. Scott is the co-founder of the Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival and enjoys traveling the country with his wife to watch their two sons play soccer.

Scott lives for learning and he thrives on relationships. Connections are crucial and he is willing to talk about anything! Scott loves to explore in a conversation by being an adventurous conversationalist all while learning from each other. He has a passion to change the world, making it a better place with the mentality of being better together.

1+1 can equal 10x’s with the right 1’s.

Scott's website - scottdanner.com

Scott's book - Amazon link

We have another great guest to get Season 6 off to a great start.  Our guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Raman Sehgal, founder of several niche companies including ramarketing, a multimillion-dollar international agency that helps companies get noticed in the global life science space.

As an entrepreneur, Raman embarked on a business journey that ultimately spanned the Atlantic—from a spare room in the Northeast of England to the bustling streets of Boston, Massachusetts, where he lives today with his wife and three sons. As an author, keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, Forbes Agency Council member, and guest university lecturer, Raman shares his knowledge, mistakes, and learnings in an honest manner that will hopefully help others' journey. One of his favorite mottos is "sharing is caring, right?", which is reflected in the impact that his work has on other businesses and individuals alike.

Raman's website - ramansehgal.com