Startup Competitors

Startup Competitors

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Startup Competitors episodes

  • Elevate Ventures with Jacob Schpok

    In this episode, I talk with Jacob Schpok, executive director of university initiatives for Elevate Ventures. University initiatives is branded under the name Elevate Nexus, rolling out new programs and investment vehicles to grow entrepreneurship and start-up activity across the state, through engaging higher education institutions. Elevate Nexus is broken into a couple of different components: identifying best practices across the state with higher education institutions, figuring out where these institutions currently are with supporting entrepreneurs, and then cross-pollinating these ideas.

    Topics in the episode

    How elevate engages with universities

    How much of Elevate’s investment dollars are directed to the university initiatives

    Details of the seven pitch competitions Elevate is launching across the state

    Qualifications of pre-seed and seed level investment opportunities

    Expectations of a pitch at the competition

    Problems of pitch competitions, and how Elevate Nexus is addressing those

    Importance of having data that your roadmap is based on primary or secondary research

    Contact info

    Elevatenexus.com

    Newsletter for more information

    Email: [email protected]

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  • Lessonly with Max Yoder - Re-Broadcast

    This episode is a rebroadcast of episode 34. In this interview, I talk with Max Yoder of Lessonly, a training software for 2 specific teams: sales teams and customer service teams. They focus on customer-facing teams, which are faced with the constant challenge of maintaining a high bar of quality, while the processes and tools around them are constantly in flux. This means that for these teams, training and re-training is needed month over month.

    Topics in the episode

    Examples of the user experience

    Selling to these specific teams, as opposed to HR

    Where Lessonly is now, compared to how it was originally envisioned

    The “Better Work Method” and how it is reflected in their team

    Removing features from Lessonly

    Evaluating partnerships with other companies

    How to evangelize with customers

    The value of sharing before it’s ready

    Contact information

    Lessonly.com

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/lessonly

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesson.ly/

    Email: [email protected]

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  • Pattern89 with R. J. Talyor
    In this episode, I talk with R.J. Talyor, of Pattern89. This startup is an artificial intelligence, AI, platform for marketers, that acts as a to-do list Instagram, Facebook, and Google ads to the next level. It runs algorithms across the 29,000 dimensions of the client’s data on a daily basis and provides them with a to-do list to help them drive their performance.
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  • The Titanic Effect with Todd Saxton (Series Part 1 of 3)

    Today we are doing something different, and kicking off the first of a three-part series on the Titanic Effect (link: https://www.titaniceffect.com/), which is a new book written by Todd Saxton, Kim Saxton, Michael Cloran, about startups and the journey they go through. In today’s episode, we talk with Todd Saxton, and how the book was created. He said that through decades of experience working with startups, the writers noticed patterns in terms of icebergs startups run into, that end up limiting their potential or sinking them.

    Topics in the episode

    Pros and Cons of “pivoting”, and the effects it has on your value proposition

    Two most common Hidden debts of a startup:

    Integration of strategy

    Imbalance

    Process of naming “Titanic Effect”

    Establishing a trial period with clients to be the most advantageous for your business

    How to motivate and coach people in ways that are helpful

    The curse of “third-sies”

    Using a tiered labor pool as a hiring strategy in a startup

    Contact Info

    www.titaniceffect.com

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanicEffect

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

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  • Quillo with John Dickerson
    In this episode, I talk with John Dickerson, founder and CEO of Quillo, a new mobile communications platform, designed for the human service industry. He explains that Quillo is a platform designed to engage, inspire, and build relationships to solve the problem of high turnover within the disability field. Workers in this industry are out in the field all the time. They don’t have a network of people and coworkers that they’re connected with. They feel like they’re on an island. Quillo resolves this issue.
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  • Olio with Ben Forrest
    In this episode, I talk with Ben Forrest, founder, and CEO of Olio. In the healthcare technology industry, Olio simply is a care collaboration technology that drives to build an ecosystem for our hospital providers to providers within different silos to communicate and collaborate in real time more efficiently. Ben shares the current status of Olio, and that it is a team of 15 people, evenly split between product and sales and marketing.
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  • Passageways with Paroon Chadha
    In this episode, I talk with the Co-Founder and CEO of Passageways, Paroon
    Chadha. Passageways is in the secure enterprise collaboration space, which
    has 2 product lines. One of the products is Ensemble, an employee
    collaboration software that allows employees to engage with each other. The
    other product of Passageways is On Board, a board collaboration software
    that pulls together a paperless and seamless experience for board members
    and executive committees.
    “From board room to the break rooms, collaboration software is where we
    live.
    — Paroon Chadha
    Paroon explains how he and his co-founder started in the credit union
    industry. They received a seed investment from a credit union, and the
    company quickly became one of the fastest growing companies in that space.
    They then transitioned to community banks, and grew to a total of five
    verticals.
    Topics in the episode
    * Transitioning from boot strapping to receiving funding
    * Growing from one market into others that are adjacent
    * How to operate both horizontally and vertically
    * Customization of the products within each vertical
    * Getting key tactical and strategic support from the board
    * Building an international office based on the needs of the market
    * Utilizing the products within your own company
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