The DMV (Washington, DC | Maryland | Virginia) Business Show

Sonia Mundra is the President of Chenega Analytic Business Solutions with headquarters in Lorton, Virginia!  She has grown the company from $0 to over $100 Million in sales and backlog, in less than three years!  She is originally from southern Delaware and moved the Washington, DC area to attend Georgetown University and George Washington University and has been here ever since.  She shares her experience working at major consulting and accounting firms such as Accenture and PWC.  She started working at Chenega over 7 years ago and chats about the rapid growth the company and her career have had, and shares how you need to be always improving and helping others.  They have won 2019 and 2020 Best Places to Work Award from the Washington Post, an award based on employees surveys - it is about the people!  Sonia shares how the team is working and communicating with each other during COVID.  We have a great conversation about women being assertive in the workplace and in the executive level, and how important it is to negotiate for yourself.  You cannot miss this episode!

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In this week's episode we have McKeever (Mac) Conwell,II, Founder and Managing Partner at RareBreed Ventures out of Baltimore, Maryland!  He is from Baltimore and played sports growing up but was really good at math and science, played football and was in the robotics team and engineering club.  Mac's entrepreneurial journey started in 2010 when he and two of his best friends decided to start a company.  In 2012 it started to take off, they got into two accelerators and a few years later sold the IP of the technology to a Fortune 100 company.  He immediately founded a second company right after, that ultimately failed and shares what he learned from that experience and the difference between his first and second startup.  You are always learning, you either win or you learn.   It is not easy being an entrepreneur and he mentions how hard it is, it's a long game and it's a hard game to play.  He started the first and only state backed pre-seed fund for women and minorities in the country here in Maryland called Builder Fund at TEDCO.  Mac provides great valuable advice to anyone interested in investing in the venture world today, and shares how he sources his deal flow and that the most important thing to him is creating an outsize impact!

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In this week's episode we have Christopher Schafer, Founder and Proprietor of Christopher Schafer Clothier with locations in Baltimore, Maryland and Los Angeles, CA.  He grew up in Anne Arundel County in Millersville, Maryland!  He has always been into skate boarding and drumming, and still does it even now!  So much so he gave us a tour of his wonderful showroom and event space with a stage, always ready to jam out!  He marries music and high end men's fashion together, and does it from an authentic place from his history being in bands.  He started learning his business skills at 10-11 years of age delivering the Maryland Gazette, that helped shape him.  Christopher shares how an unforeseen trip to London led him into the fashion business, and mentions that if you are having fun with what you're doing it could be contagious!  He mentions how he loves helping other people and being the mentor he always wanted to have.  His clients are just not clients they are more than that, they are friends!  Come and get to know our new friend Christopher!

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In this week's episode we have David Sullivan, Founder and CEO of Till with their headquarter out of Alexandria, Virginia!  It is amazing to hear what Till is doing in helping both the renters and landlords.  David is a local having grown up in the DMV his entire life, living in the McLean and Arlington Northern Virginia area!  Had a passion for travel soccer during childhood, playing all year around.  He was the former COO of American Home, growing it to under 3,000 doors and successfully selling it to the first publicly traded Single Family Rental REIT SilverBay.  He shares why entrepreneurship is a mindset and how having the right team is important and what he does to hire the top 1%!  He mentions why learning is painful and how everything revolves around sales.  David shares great advice and a step by step system of what to do and look out for when starting a new venture.  This is a must listen for every entrepreneur and residential multifamily owner!

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Colin Tarbert is President and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) which serves as the economic development agency for Baltimore City.  He is a local having grown up outside of Baltimore City, in the Parkville and Towson, Maryland area!  As a child he was involved in Scouting and in high school joined a band playing the guitar.  He had a strong interest in building things which led him to studying architecture.  He mentions the different programs and initiatives the BDC has, recently launching Baltimore Together.  Colin shares how during the COVID-19 pandemic they have been able to help and award over 1,000 grants and $13 million dollars to small businesses in Baltimore City!  He goes into depth on how they innovated and worked together with other community organizations to make this happen!  Such an amazing story you need to hear!

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In this week's episode we have Carey Anne Nadeau, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Loop in Washington, DC!  She grew up in the insurance capital of the world Hartford, Connecticut which is interesting because she is now building an inclusive auto insurance company.  At an early age she showed a gift and talent for math, this helped her tremendously in computers and coding in elementary school.  Her undergrad at George Washington University brought her down to the Washington, DC metro area.  Carey Anne mentions how it is okay to try and to fail, it is a process.  She shares what she learned from her first business and how you must break the rules!  You cannot miss how she takes us behind the scenes on how it was when they recently raised a $3.25 million seed round and what they went through, it was quite an experience!

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In this week's episode we have Chris May, CEO and Founder of Quadrant Advisory with their offices in Washington, DC!  He grew up New Orleans, Louisiana and came to the Washington, DC metro area after college and has been here ever since.  Growing up he loved playing baseball and has a great story playing pee wee football with a future NFL player.  He showed his first entrepreneurial tendencies at a young age cutting the neighbors grass.  He has had a rich and diverse career having worked at a hedge fund in NYC, Lockheed Martin in Maryland, and several public policy and consulting firms in Washington, DC in which he became the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of one, and that one later went on to become his first client and the springboard to opening his own company.  Chris shares how important it is to show your clients results and how investing in the company and team at the right time is imperative.  He mentions how you should dig your mine before it is needed and be prepared, this and much more you do not want to miss!

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In this week's episode we have, Andrew A. Altman, Sr. CEO and Founder of Best Buy Waterproofing and Best Buy Design Build with their offices in Columbia, Maryland!  He is a local, he was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Prince George's County in Fort Washington, Maryland.  He also attended the University of Maryland and is a Terp alumni as well!  This episode is big in motivation and sales, you are going to be pumped up!  We go into his childhood and how as a child he was sick with severe asthma that he would always miss 75 days of school throughout the year, he spent many Christmases in the hospital and shares how he overcame it and later in life ran 58 marathons without any training.  As he puts it "it's all between the ears", we determine our own destiny and have to take full responsibility.  Before founding his company he was a senior executive at another firm and shares how he quickly was able to move up within the organization in a short period of time and how you can do it too.  He mentions the importance of spreading the wealth with your employees instead of putting everything in your pocket, if you help people get what they want you will get what you want!  Andrew shares how it is never too late to make a change or go after your dreams, you are never too old.  At the end of the of day it is all about the customer, as he says "happy customer, happy life"!  :)

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In this week's episode we have Kalpesh Raval, Co-Founder and Board of Directors of VitusVet with their offices in Columbia, Maryland!  He was born and grew up in Mumbai, India, and lived in a 100 square foot home with his two siblings and parents.  Yes, that is five people in a 100 square feet.  He had a great and happy childhood living in Mumbai, it is all perspective!  He came to the United States of America in his twenties with around $150 in his wallet.  He mentions how most of his career has been in technology and how he has always been interested in building a business and continuing to level up.  You will learn how VitusVet was born at the University of Maryland business school and how they help the pets, pet owners, and veterinarians.  Kalpesh shares how you can live your life in two ways and goes in depth on how he sees success and what it means to him.  Such an inspirational story you do not want to miss!

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In this week's episode we have Marc Steren, Founding Director of Entrepreneurship at The Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Maryland!  His family is from Argentina and he grew up locally in Rockville, MD.  Marc has founded several companies and exited them, afterwards he decided to spend more time with his family, write books, and teach the valuable lessons of entrepreneurship he has learned to his students.  Some of his students have gone on to ABC’s Shark Tank, Tech Stars of London, Leonsis Prize winners, Georgetown’s Entrepreneur of the year, and other Incubators.  He attended and graduated from Bullis School and came full circle that he later went back to Bullis and started their entrepreneurship program.  He mentions how important it is the empower your team and learn how to delegate if you want to successfully grow your business.  Find out how at a young age he learned that actions have real consequences.  He shares how raising investment capital is not success, real success is serving others!  Learn about the great entrepreneurship program he oversees and how it not only helps its students but also the local business community in Montgomery County, Maryland!

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