The Accelerator with Michael Conniff

Kurt Hallead is the co-founder and president of Legacy League. This company has carved out a niche in the NFT space. They enable college athletes to monetize their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) by creating, marketing, promoting, and trading NFTs.

Kurt has a wealth of experience with 30 years spent working in a number of global investment firms. He has always had a passion for sports and saw an opportunity in Sports. This made him step away from Wall Street and that is how he founded Legacy League which incorporates business, technology, and sports.

The technology enables college athletes to make money from their sport while still playing their sport.

Scott Levy is the founder of SNL consulting. People need help. We all need help. This is especially true for business owners and start-up founders who because of the nature of their work, wear many hats. Family, friends, and the people that they work with can’t necessarily offer the support business founders need. This is where coaching comes in. Tune in to listen to how Scott Levy accelerates business through coaching. He has a lot of experience, he is highly communicative, and is a certified business coach.

Jim Friedrich CEO is the CEO of Native Traits Corporation. The company uses proprietary technology that screens ancestral strains of corn as a natural source of genes to improve commercial varieties. The seeds are screened for drought tolerance and the ability to tolerate extreme temperatures. The company has successfully passed the proof of concept stage and is already seeing tremendous outcomes.

In this episode, he simplifies the concept of blockchain, tokens, smart contracts, and everything crypto.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Brickken which is a tokenizing solution. The company offers tools to help tokenize the world. The company’s mission statement is to help asset owners around the world raise decentralized funding utilizing blockchain-based technology, giving individuals and businesses the chance to generate passive revenue. Brickken is providing the tools needed to tokenize the world.

Robert Tame is the CEO of Noktos. The company offers a solution that is revolutionizing the way companies pay for travel. What sets them apart is they give corporates the ability to control their travel costs and the ability to have a one-stop shop for all accommodation needs.

Robert is a serial entrepreneur who has experienced both success and failure on the business front. He shares some of the lessons that he has learned in his entrepreneurial journey.

Nathan Beckord CEO Foundersuite. This is a SAAS platform that has a collection of tools for startups seeking capital. They have built products from every part of the startup journey. It is the “Ultimate Funding Stack” The team has plans to add more features to the platform in order to make startups more discoverable.

Nathan’s whole career has been focused on helping startups raise capital. He started off in investment banking. This path led him to start Foundersuite. He made a product out of the process of raising capital. In addition to the software, the company offers additional support outside the software to help the founders succeed, for example, pitch deck reviews, weekly webinars, and the Foundersuite podcast.

Hayden Hughes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Alpha Impact, social trading built for the 80% of people who aren’t yet in crypto. He is originally from Canada but is based in Singapore.

Alpha Impact is a copy-trading social media platform designed to connect followers with professional traders. Users can connect their investment account to Alpha Impact to copy top traders in our community, get the latest market news from traders, and learn crypto investing from influential traders, masterclasses, and beginner guides. Traders can earn another stream of income from sharing trades, trading knowledge, and building industry reputation.

Torkel Falkenberg graduated with Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet close to 30 years ago. After getting his Ph.D., he discovered that he was more geared to global health. He has dedicated his time and effort since 1995 to help low and middle-income countries with healthcare reforms. Through this work, he started working with the World Health Organisation. He is one of the authors of global strategy for traditional medicine for the World Health Organisation.

He is also on the advisory board for UNIPLAT. This is a platform specifically designed to help researchers and entrepreneurs worldwide get more exposure and connect with others who want to contribute to the improvement of global research and humanitarian project.

He discusses how much Uniplat aligns with his lifelong passion for global health among other great initiatives. To learn more about Uniplat, go to https://www.uniplat.social

Jonathan Moore is a tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who has lived in Korea since 2006- He is originally from Texas. He randomly decided to go to South Korea right after college off a spinning globe and he has lived there ever since. Jonathan started off as an English teacher. Later on, met his future co-founder and they started a company called Be Native. This is when he discovered his purpose was in the startup scene. He has been a part of a couple of Startups in Korea. He derives a lot of joy from accelerating startups. He is driven to share his experience and learnings as an entrepreneur to help upcoming entrepreneurs.

Jonathan has been privileged to work with many startups with amazing inventions and solutions. One such company is called Business Canvas and he describes the company as Google Docs on steroids. This is just one of many great startups he works with.