Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Michael Marra.  Michael is the founder of Entre.

"Entre is a social network for entrepreneurs and the future of work. We have created the hub for a new economy to connect, learn, and build. With our app, we combine the industries of social networking, e-learning, and business software to give entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers of all types one place to start and grow their businesses and personal lives.

We are open-sourcing Entrepreneurship with a holistic approach that gives everyone the support and community they need to strive for greatness with self-care and wellness at the core of what we do for a new economy to connect, learn, and build. With our app, we combine the industries of social networking, e-learning, and business software to give entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers of all types one place to start and grow their businesses and personal lives.

Our platform is designed to promote economic opportunity for our users by enabling you and millions of other entrepreneurs, freelancers, and investors to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships.

Our mission is simple, build the largest network of entrepreneurs."

Learn more at joinentre.com

Our special guest on the podcast today is Elliott Holland.  Elliott, founder of Guardian Due Diligence is a business buying expert.  He has a Harvard MBA, spent 10 years buying companies for himself and others, and now prevents his clients from losing millions buying bad businesses. He’s the guy to hire to guard your money.

Learn more at guardianduediligence.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Molly Trotter Gomez.  Molly began her professional career telling stories live on television as a news anchor and reporter. It wasn’t long before she was giving her all, day-in and day-out and realized that her heart wasn’t in it. She began looking for stories that would have a much bigger impact.

She packed up her car from Spokane, Washington and moved to Orange County, California.  With $2,000 in her bank account and supporting loved ones in the area, she was able to get by and pursue her dream of entrepreneurship.  Now she is living life abundantly helping entrepreneurs pursue their dreams. She is creating a bigger impact than she could have ever imagined through digital marketing and speaking on stages every month about building a credible and profitable brand WHILE sharing her authentic self!

Molly believes you too can have it all - success, financial freedom, family, time, health, happiness, and MORE.

Learn more at mollytrotter.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is JP, Clement, the newly-appointed CEO of Boomtime Marketing.  JP, with 30-years of experience under his belt, can help your audience in areas of marketing, digital strategy, and product management. JP, CEO of boomtime, has founded three digital marketing agencies and has worked with numerous companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Johnson & Johnson and National Geographic.

Learn more at boomtime.com

Our very special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Olivai Molesworth, founder of Bromleigh Capital.  After working in operational and strategy roles for several years in the eCommerce start-up space, at 22, Olivia founded Bromleigh Capital - Australia's first ethical debt financing company for small Australian businesses. Olivia is currently studying her Master of Business Administration at the University of Oxford.

Learn more at - Bromleigh.com.au

Our special guest today is very well known to so many of our listeners, the founder of Invest Diva herself, Kiana Danial.

Kiana Danial, CEO of Invest Diva is an award-winning, internationally recognized personal investing and wealth management expert. Having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Fox Business, CNNi, Forbes, TheStreet, Nasdaq, Cheddar, 77 WABC Radio and 710 WOR Radio, Kiana is a highly sought-after commentator, professional speaker and executive coach who delivers inspirational workshops and seminars to corporations, universities and entrepreneurial groups. Kiana has reported on the financial markets directly from the floor of NYSE and NASDAQ, and was named the Personal Investment Expert of the Year in 2018 and the Investment Coach of the Year in 2019 by the Investment Fund Awards. An accomplished author, Kiana's books include 'Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex', published by McGraw-Hill in 2003, and 'Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies', published by Wiley in 2019. Invest Diva's mission is to empower and educate women to take control of their financial future by investing in the online financial markets.

Kiana's CryptocurrencyBook - Amazon

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Stephanie Roulic.  Stephanie is the founder of Startup Boston, an organization on a mission to connect, celebrate, and educate the startup ecosystem. Their flagship event is Startup Boston Week, where they bring together 3500 attendees in September for a 5-day conference. The organization also organizes events and other initiatives throughout the year to support the startup community. Prior to creating Startup Boston, Stephanie co-founded nDash, a content community platform, where she ran customer success and community.

Learn more at  - startupbos.org

Our very special guest today is Jordan Levy, founder of Capsource.io.  Jordan is a serial education technology entrepreneur. He has started two EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His method is to integrate real companies into the education process through hands-on collaborations that expose learners to new circumstances with real stakeholders, challenges, and outcomes. His company CapSource makes building and scaling industry-integrated project-based experiential learning programs easy. Through a combination of software and services, CapSource helps educators match with companies and design projects based on narrow academic requirements. Jordan started his first company, Real Time Cases, while an undergraduate at Lehigh University studying Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Jordan is passionate about cooking, hiking, traveling, sailing, tennis, public speaking, photography, mixology, and coaching/connecting fellow entrepreneurs.

Learn more at capsource.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Tricia Dunlap, founder of Dunlap Law PLC.  In 2007, she was a high school teacher and single-mom raising two kids. She decided to finally pursue my dream and get my law degree at the University of Richmond. After three difficult years and countless late nights, Tricia finished her Juris Doctorate and passed the Bar in Washington DC and Virginia. After a few years working with other firms, she decided to start my own law firm focused on helping small business owners. During the pandemic, she created dozens of videos, blog posts, and guides for free to small business owners who were struggling to keep up with regulations. As she continues to focus on helping small business owners, she also focuses on building her business and encouraging women to accomplish their dreams and do the impossible.

Learn more at dunlaplawplc.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Domenic Rinaldi, CEO of Sun Acquisitions and Founder of K2Adviser.  A little story about Domenic: 17 years ago, he was in transition and deciding what to do next. He decided that business ownership was in his heart. So, he went out in the market to buy a business AND bought Sun Acquisitions a firm that specializes in helping entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses.  After helping thousands of entrepreneurs over 17 years, he consistently sees how people fail to properly prepare for their business acquisition which results in missed Returns and increased Risks. To help entrepreneurs address these blindspots, he founded K2Adviser which is focused on helping entrepreneurs be fully prepared for their acquisitions. Now, he is considered an industry-recognized expert who frequently shares his knowledge from the stage, in print and over the airwaves –including as host of the popular M&A Unplugged podcast.

Learn more at k2adviser.com and sunacquisitions.com

Great resources - k2adviser.com/resources/