Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Derek Andersen, Founder & CEO of Startup Grind. Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind's values of giving, helping others, and making friends have spread across the world. Since 2012, Startup Grind has hosted 3,000 events for more than 150,000 entrepreneurs. In 2009 Derek founded Vaporware Labs, incubating many products including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. His entrepreneurial career consists of mostly spectacular failures with occasional successes. Previously, he worked at Electronic Arts on games like Burnout Paradise, Mirror's Edge, Sims 3, and The Godfather. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three children. This is the audio recording from the live event on 11/14/2016. https://www.startupgrind.com https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Mark Shary, an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. Mark is a founder and investor in several high-growth, technology-based companies, including: Updox, a rapidly adopted practice communications and CRM SaaS platform for physician offices; InfoMotion Sports, a pioneer and market leader in creating virtual competitions and sophisticated skills analysis for ball sports; and hc1.com, the market-leading CRM/Business Intelligence SaaS platform for laboratories. Mark is also a director for several other technology companies, including MBA Focus, InnerApps, and Vantage Point Logistics. He is a Co-founder of SafeWhite, a natural teeth whitening product company. He also serves on the board of Huntington Mutual Funds and Huntington Strategy Shares. Mark was the founder of HUBLink, which became the global leader in hospital systems connectivity and is now the healthcare integration division of Infor. HUBLink and a competitor merged to form Healthcare.com, a NASDAQ-listed company, where he served as a director, CFO, and SVP of Product Planning, managing profitable growth to over $60 million prior to being acquired. This is the audio recording from the live event on 10/10/2016. https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus/ http://www.awh.net/ https://www.rev1ventures.com/

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Yasmine Lacaillade, Partner at Drive Capital. Yasmine (pronounced "Yaz-MEEN Lack-uh-Lade") helps Drive Capital's portfolio companies acquire their first or next customers and build out their corporate relationships. Prior to joining Drive, Yasmine was with TPG-Axon in London, where she was in charge of developing new and existing client relationships. Her experience includes marketing and investor relations work at multiple alternative investment firms. Born and raised in Belgium and France, she speaks four languages and makes a mean waffle. Yasmine graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Political Science. This is the audio recording from the live event on 9/12/2016. https://www.drivecapital.com https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

ProductCamp Columbus is a monthly event to discuss the challenges and approaches of building great products. We have product people from Columbus area companies discuss how they think about and approach product personally and at their companies. In this episode we feature Derrek Seif, Senior VP of Product Strategy at irth Solutions. irth Solutions is the leading provider of cloud-based software engineered to maximize business growth by optimizing the performance of people, the work they do and the assets and equipment they use. Their software dramatically increases revenue opportunities, decreases costs, and reduces risk. For decades, their solutions have helped hundreds of customers execute the work that is most important to their success. irth Solutions is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. This is the audio recording from the live event on 8/26/2016. http://www.irthsolutions.com http://www.productcampcolumbus.com http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Stuart Crane, entrepreneur/investor and co-founder of CPR+. In 1993, Stuart Crane co-founded Definitive Homecare Solutions (aka CPR+), growing it to become the leading software vendor to the Specialty Pharmacy market, a $100+ billion industry providing high-tech medications to patients in the home. DHS/CPR+ was acquired by Mediware Information Systems in July 2013. This is the audio recording from the live event on 8/8/2016. https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus/ http://www.awh.net/ https://www.rev1ventures.com/

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Jonny Price, Founder of Kiva U.S. Founded in 2005, Kiva has now funded over 2 million entrepreneurs around the world with $850 million of microloans. These loans have been crowdfunded by 1.5 million individual lenders, and paid back with a 97% repayment rate. After starting his career in the London office of Oliver Wyman, Jonny took a break from strategy consulting to volunteer at Kiva in 2009. After falling in love with Kiva's mission (and his wife Ali, who worked at Kiva at the time!), he returned to Kiva full-time in 2011, to co-found the Kiva Zip pilot program. The program focuses on supporting financially excluded entrepreneurs here in the United States with 0% interest loans and the social capital engendered by Kiva's crowdlending model. Jonny's vision for the Kiva U.S. program is to reimagine a financial system based on people, not profit. He studied History at the University of Cambridge. This is the audio recording from the live event on 7/21/2016. https://www.kiva.org http://us.kiva.org/columbus https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

ProductCamp Columbus is a monthly event to discuss the challenges and approaches of building great products. We have product people from Columbus area companies discuss how they think about and approach product personally and at their companies. In this episode we have the product team at Klarna. Rachel Ferst - Senior Product Manager Melissa Thobe - Product Manager Jeff Negrelli - Senior UX Designer Founded in Stockholm in 2005, Klarna is one of Europe's fastest growing companies, and offers safe and easy-to-use payment solutions to e-stores. At the core of Klarna's services is the concept of after delivery payment, which lets buyers receive ordered goods before any payment is due. At the same time, Klarna assumes the credit and fraud risk so that retailers can rest assured they will receive their money. Klarna Group has more than 1,400 employees and is active on 18 markets. They serve 45 million consumers and work with 65,000 merchants, attracting major international clients such as Spotify, Disney, Samsung, Wish and ASOS. Their goal is to become the world's favorite way to buy. Klarna Inc. is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in San Francisco and New York City. They have built an all-star international team hailing from the world's best companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Zynga, Experian, Palantir, imo.im, PayPal and AmericanExpress. This is the audio recording from the live event on 7/7/2016. https://www.klarna.com/us http://www.productcampcolumbus.com http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Sean Ramsey of Updox. Sean has over 20 years of experience leading tech start-ups, software companies, and IT consultancies. He has expertise in business development, sales, product management, and landing enterprise deals to establish his companies as leaders in their industries. Sean is currently President of Updox, a fast growing healthcare technology company focused on patient engagement and physician connectivity solutions. Updox serves over 10,000 physicians caring for 40 million patients throughout the US. This is the audio recording from the live event on 6/13/2016. https://www.updox.com https://www.startupgrind.com/columbus http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com

ProductCamp Columbus is a monthly event to discuss the challenges and approaches of building great products. We have product people from Columbus area companies discuss how they think about and approach product personally and at their companies. In this episode we feature Joel Crockett, VP of Development at CrossChx. In 2012, CrossChx created the first universal patient ID in healthcare. A unique and global way to accurately verify a person's identity in any hospital, clinic, or doctor's office. This was the first step towards building the internet of healthcare and creating a future where each person owns their information. Today, they have created more than 50 million unique patient IDs for healthcare and laid the foundation to bring modern technology and innovations to every care provider. This is the audio recording from the live event on 6/2/2016. http://crosschx.com http://www.productcampcolumbus.com http://www.awh.net https://www.rev1ventures.com