Starting to Know

Over a decade ago he beat a billion-dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that's worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses.

Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar with navigating and growing a business through times like today. Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it.

Since founding his company SEO National in 2007, he writes for Forbes, has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, BuzzFeed, and USA Weekly, and has helped high-profile clients make more in a month than they used to in a year.

Damon's website: https://www.damonburton.com/

SEO National: https://www.seonational.com/

Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Matteo Cassese is a digital marketer, coach, and entrepreneur who provides training and coaching to individuals, established companies, and startups.

His experience spans managing digital marketing for multinational companies (Warner Bros.), teaching at university (Link Campus), and consulting for digital unicorns (Netflix). He's collected the most insightful stories from these experiences as case studies.

DIGITAL PIONEER

He's published a website since 1993 and a blog since 2001. In 2011 he founded La Fabbrica della Realtà, an innovation laboratory focusing on digital marketing, coaching & training, diversity & inclusion.

STORYTELLER

As a storytelling student, Matteo dove deep into the process of story creation, writing, and script-writing. His passion for effective communication led him to create seminars and workshops on digital marketing, productivity, diversity, and presentation skills.

INNOVATOR

Over the years he has nurtured innovative startup projects focusing on entertainment (Filmizer, Trailerflow), education (Educazione Globale), training (Presentation Hero, Open Training), and diversity & inclusion (OUT as YOU).

Relevant links:

Website http://fabbrica.la

Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

McCoy spent 10 years running environmental education nonprofits in The Bahamas, islands that are full of single-use plastic. After her return to the United States, she and her sister co-founded Plaine Products in February 2017 in order to help minimize single-use plastic and reduce waste in bathrooms across the country. Plaine Products offers premium personal care products in uniquely sustainable packaging.

Plaine Products: Plaineproducts

Ishu's website: Ishusingh

Starting to know: startingtoknow.com

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and noted speaker about social, sales, and marketing. He has re-imagined CRM by building Nimble - The Simple CRM for Office 365 & G Suite. Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). He has been recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 10 Social CEOs, Top 10 Social Salespeople In The World and Top 100 Marketing Influencers.

Nimble CRM: Nimble

Ishu's website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Dr. Erika Gray is a UCSF trained pharmacist, educator, national speaker, and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics, a digital platform that takes an individual's genetic test results and offers a virtual toolbox of informative, user-friendly, lifestyle choices and action plans to live the healthiest possible life. With almost 2 decades of experience in the world of functional medicine and a decade of experience in genomics and pharmacy, Dr. Gray is dedicated to helping practitioners and individuals understand the intersection of their unique genetics with the environment, and how they can positively change their health trajectory.

Ishu`s website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Noa Ronen is your out of the box coach. She is also an author, vlogger, disruptor, and coffee lover.

She brings more than 20 years of experience in Change Management, Human Resources, Project Management, and coaching.

She encourages progressive and social business leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire.

Noa's personal relocation experience resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you rather than looking for others' differences to open your mind and heart to see people and situations differently. This is what Noa calls BEyond Leadership where your new way of being inspires and influences others. If you would like to go to BEyond: Leadership check her book: BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess on Amazon.

Noa's website: https://www.noaronencoaching.com/

Starting to know: https://startingtoknow.com/

Ishu's Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Startuprad.io is an English only startup podcast and YouTube blog – internally only called IO. IO was founded in 2014 by Jörn Menninger, as a spin-off of a – now-defunct – German only audio podcast.

Startuprad.io is a premier English source for exclusive coverage of early and later-stage startups and fintech from Germany, with many world premieres and all exclusive content.

Joern is a seasoned management consultant with almost a decade of experience in the financial services industry, currently working as a startup scout.

Our recent conversation regarding Canadian Startups can be found here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/podcast-where-to-set-up-shop-in-canada-audio-only/

My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

With over 20 years of experience in the international event industry, Sandy Hammer is the co-founder and CMO of Allseated, an award-winning event technology platform with the goal to revolutionize and digitize the event planning process. She began her career as a corporate planner for a high-tech company, running events globally. During that time, she amassed a portfolio of corporate conferences, seminars, forums, and brokerage events for customers such as Orange Global, Telefonica, and O2UK.

Allseated website: https://www.allseated.com/

My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Dinesh Agarwal is a research scientist turned entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and as soon as he walked the stage to get his degree, he also started his journey to become an entrepreneur. He is the founder of RecurPost, a social media scheduler with repeating schedules. He has years of experience in the social media industry and has already sold a company in the social media niche. He has grown RecurPost to serve close to 60,000 businesses with the help of an excellent team of about 20 people working with him. Recur Post: https://recurpost.com/ My website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Somdip Dey is a Ph.D. Candidate on On-Device Artificial Intelligence at the University of Essex & CEO of Nosh Technologies, an award-winning food tech company offering AI-powered food management to reduce food waste in the household. In 2012, he invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates. While pursuing his MSc at the University of Manchester in 2014, his parents had a car accident that made him the family's sole breadwinner. Sending money to his family to support them left Somdip with an empty bank account and he was left to collect food waste from dumpsters. This led him to co-found Codeepy, a start-up committed to co-developing the world's first crowd food-sharing platform. It won the 3Scale API Award at the Koding's 2014 Global Hackathon & inspired entrepreneurs to develop similar solutions. He has 10+ years of experience in developing cutting-edge technologies, including contracts with Microsoft & Samsung Electronics. Dey is also a TEDx speaker.

Nosh's website: https://nosh.tech/

My website: https://www.ishusingh.com/