Techapreneur Radio

In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Nader Dabit, a self-taught Software Engineer who tells his story about how he went from selling clothes to an independent tech consultant making $400k a year, and then working as a developer advocate at Amazon. We get into cloud computing and tips for self-education in the field of software engineering.

Follow him on Twitter @dabit3 for great programming memes and high quality content

In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Jackson Fitzgerald, co-founder of Hedge Inc, a mobile application that uses existing rounding up strategies from financial institutions to place bets on fantasy sports. This interview was exciting to me because I am bullish on sports gambling and believe that this application is going to be the platform for college students to get involved in fantasy sports.

If you're interested in fantasy sports, sign up to head when their public beta will be released: https://www.tryhedgesports.com/

Welcome to Techapreneur Radio, the podcast for technology and entrepreneurship. In this episode, we talk to Lydia Zaleski, success lead of a startup company called Cloverly. Cloverly’s mission is to provide tools for businesses and organizations to achieve carbon neutrality by connecting online buyers to local, high-quality renewable energy through their Sustainability-as-a-Service platform.

We dug into how the API company, Cloverly works and the relevance of social entrepreneurship. Since Cloverly is based out of Birmingham Alabama, we talked about how startups are beginning to move away from tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, and Boston to name a few.

Lydia Zaleski is a graduate from Williams College with degrees in Political Science, Economics and a concentration in Leadership Studies. She has been interested in startups for a long time and participated in the Venture for America Fellowship. Upon her completion she joined Cloverly as a full time employee.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-zaleski-68098010b/

https://cloverly.com/

In this episode, I talked with my good friend Kai Cash about embracing ambiguity. Kai is a native of the Bronx, New York and is a phenomenal and hardworking individual who has entrepreneurial DNA running through his veins.

The theme of this episode is about embracing ambiguity. Since many of the interesting problems are ambiguous and not clearly defined, Kai talks about the value of being able to work backwards from an ambiguous problem to a practical solution.

Most recently Kai has graduated with a bachelors of global affairs from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar and is working as a summer associate at BlackStone’s charitable Foundation. Kai also holds a bachelors in economics from Williams College and has mentored young entrepreneurs through the club he helped start, Williams Business Association.

If you are interested in working on solutions to combat climate change, please reach out to Kai Cash on LinkedIn 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaicash/

Welcome back to another episode of Techapreneur Radio, the podcast for technology and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Ric Grefé discusses design thinking as a strategy for product design and rapid ideation to solve epic problems. We’ll dive deep into the details later so if you have no clue what I am talking about you will probably get a lot from this episode.

Ric Grefé has a background in Economics, Business, and Book Design from Dartmouth and Stanford University.

Ric has worked as a public policy analyst, naval intelligence lieutenant, journalist for TIME magazine, consultant in urban and transportation policy, director of the corporation of public broadcasting (PBS), the CEO of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), CEO in the association of public television stations, and led design thinking courses and programming at Wesleyan University and Williams College.

It was truly a pleasure to interview Ric and gain some of his insight.

A primer on design thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking

William Schultz is a serial entrepreneur and media specialist who has a positivity mindset and lifestyle. In this episode William talks about how he "woke up" a few years ago and wanted to level up his life. He was tired of settling for an average 9-5 lifestyle and wanted more. Since then he has led an advertising and media consultancy, invests in real estate, is a board member for several organization and is pursuing other business ventures that he has found through LinkedIn. William was a pleasure to interview and learn from in this episode

Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-schultz-b9577311/

During the summer before his senior year of college (2013), Jason Briggs built a desktop cleaning application to help his mother declutter her desktop and find the files she needed. In 2016, Jason and the team at Meta merged with Diffeo, an AI-powered research assistant. Diffeo’s mission was to create a quality knowledge base of the plentiful information available for some particular research topic. Salesforce acquired Diffeo (Nov. 2019) and is using it to improve information aggregation and management. Today, Jason is a director of product management at Salesforce.

Jason Briggs  graduated from Williams College with degrees in Computer Science and Military History in 2014 and is happy to mentor budding entrepreneurs with new ventures/ideas. Reach him through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briggsai/

Steven Miller is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College. Miller received his B.S. in Math and Physics from Yale and his Ph.D. in Math from Princeton University. Aside from being a passionate lecturer and mathematician, Miller takes on several consulting projects and discusses how he bridges academia and entrepreneurship for his students. Furthermore, Steve highlights several key tactics for entrepreneurs pursuing a new venture.

If you want to learn more about Professor Miller here is his retro website: https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/

Philip Kiely is a software developer and writer for many popular engineering blogs like Smashing Magazine, Dev.To, WonderProxy, Twilio, and FloydHub among others. Kiely discusses the timeline for his first book, Writing for Software Developers, and how he got into technical writing. Kiely discusses how technical writing is a great way to get exposure for entrepreneurial engineers like himself.