The Entre Podcast

Alexandra Fasulo is a 6-figure copywriter, serial entrepreneur, and business mogul, best known for the CNBC coverage of earning "$150,000 in 6-months on freelancing site Fiverr.com." Having scaled her Fiverr business to over $400,000 per year as a 27-year-old entrepreneur, Alexandra shares her insight and tricks of the trade with followers through TikTok and Instagram as the "Freelance Fairy." She is also the owner of EyePop, a photo trending map app, designed to make influencing easier in 2020. When she's not running her businesses or helping individuals plunge into the world of freelancing, she can be found traversing the globe as a digital nomad and photographer for her family businesses.

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Five entrepreneurs share their experiences in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. They explain the best methods for bootstrapping and fundraising your social impact startup.

Panelist:

Agnes Malatinszky, Chief Operating Officer of CommonLit

Farrukh Lalani, Founder & Creative Director at Daria Day

Rachel Klausner, Founder & CEO of Millie

Patrick Schmitt, Co-founder of FreeWill

Melissa Herman, Founding Partner of Left Tackle Capital

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Bart Macdonald, as managing partner of Bloom Venture Partners, Bart's been operating, investing in and acquiring software companies for more than a decade, and still believes we're in the earliest innings of SaaS.

More about Bloom Venture Partners:

Bloom is an early-stage venture fund, backing remarkable teams on their quest to change the way we work, live + create

We are generalist investors with an affinity for saas, the future of work, fintech + digital health

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Nash Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Undock

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Andrew W. Hannah, MBA – Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Partnership Officer at Othot Inc

Adjunct Professor of Analytics and Entrepreneurship and Executive-In-Residence, University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Andy and Team founded Othot– an AI-driven Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics company that helps organizations predict, understand and change the future. Othot deploys a proprietary machine learning process and leverages state of the art data mining and analytics tools to develop and sustain “Explainable AI” programs for institutions of higher education clients. Andy is also a Senior Advisor and Faculty member of the International Institute of Analytics – the leading research and advisory organization in the field of data analytics.

Since 2014 Andy has been an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Analytics and an Executive-In-Residence at Pitt Business. His primary responsibilities in these roles include developing and delivering curriculum at the intersection of analytics and entrepreneurship, mentoring students that are creating new ventures, fostering an entrepreneurial environment, and developing students into leaders in the development and deployment business analytics strategies and programs. He is also on the advisory board of Pitt’s Master of Science in Quantitative Economics degree program - an intensive program that prepares students to inform economic decision making with sophisticated data analysis. Andy has also been on the Katz Board of Visitors since 2010.

One of Andy’s greatest passions is building teams that win but that also enable the individuals to reach their potential. Leadership, innovation, vision and ethics are the values he instills in his teams and these are the basic ideals of his actions and communications.

He has been a keynote/guest speaker for the National Academy of Sciences, University of Pittsburgh CBA Commencement, Bayer Material Science Innovation Day, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Startup Weekend, Pitt Big Idea Contest (twice) and many others. The topics of his talks include innovation, new venture creation and growth, and international competitiveness. Andy is a regular guest lecturer at Pitt and CMU (where he was an Adjunct Professor of entrepreneurship in the 2000’s).

He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh with a concentration in Marketing and Finance and a B.S. in Accounting from Penn State and in 2003 completed the Carnegie Mellon University Entrepreneurial Management Program. Andy began his professional career at Deloitte and since 1996 has been a C-level executive (including twice as founding CEO) for five entrepreneurial ventures.

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Euan Guttridge, Angel Investor & Founder of Reinforced Ventures

Previously served at Uber ATG (self-driving) as Head of Technical Program Management in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. Prior to that wore various hats at Google and Google [X] for ten years leading initiatives in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Angel Investor for 8 years in over 30 companies. Active advisor & board member.

Active in the Pittsburgh community arranging Xoogler/Googler/Investor events and Autonomy Engineering meetups. Mentor at the Innovation Works - AlphaLab incubator and coach at Carnegie Mellon's VentureBridge and McGinnis entrepreneur competition.

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Four SAAS founders tell their stories and look to the future of SAAS.

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Dennis Cail, Co-founder & CEO of Zirtue

Dennis is a FinTech technology executive, investor, and Navy Veteran with over 20 years of successful entrepreneurial experience along with a distinguished Multi-National Cross-Border M&A track record across leading FinTech, SaaS, business applications, and technology-enabled companies. Dennis led the M&A Delivery Team at PwC where he served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Application Integration. Prior, Dennis was Co-Founder and CEO of Uptown Financial Group where he oversaw the launch and scale of three business applications before successfully exiting. Dennis received a BS in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.

Kate Bradley Chernis, Co-founder & CEO of Lately

Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which uses AI to automatically learn what sales and marketing messaging your customers are most likely to engage with so you can STOP GUESSING. It then builds a writing model, based on this data, to transform long-form content like blogs, podcasts and videos into DROVES of targeted, pre-vetted social posts – in multiple languages.

Matthew Barnett, Founder of Bonjoro

Matt launched Bonjoro as a sales hack for his first agency, where he would send every new lead a personal video to delight and surprise them whilst taking a boat to work. What started as fun over a few beers quickly snowballed into a high growth, funded company, and the team are now spread across 6 countries, headquartered out of Sydney Australia. As a design-led founder, Matts love of building great products is only surpassed by his total commitment to building great business culture. Bonjoros goal is to be the next Zappos, to be the most loved brand in the world.

Shripriya Mahesh, Partner at Spero Ventures

When we founded Spero Ventures in 2018, we thought about what people might want in the future. We kept coming back to the idea that no matter what happens, people will always care about the basics: health and wellness; work and a sense of purpose; and human connection. So that’s what we decided to invest in.

Before starting Spero, I ran Emerging Tech investing at Omidyar Network. I loved the sense of purpose of bringing more opportunity to more people. We decided to spin out of Omidyar Network in order to invest in for-profit companies that shared the same purpose.

Prior to Omidyar Network, I worked with Pierre Omidyar to launch First Look Media. Before that, I worked at eBay, which Pierre founded in 1995. eBay’s mission — to enable economic opportunity around the world — felt like the ultimate purpose for the internet. I led the global product team and later I led US product marketing. Before eBay, I led product at a startup called NextCard.

Jim Hao, Managing Partner of Reformation Partners

Formerly Vice President at FirstMark Capital where he focused on consumer & enterprise investing for four years. Prior to FirstMark, Jim was an investor at Insight Venture Partners. Jim has also served as a deal lead for Princeton Alumni Angels. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University.

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Max Fergus, CEO & Co-founder of LÜM 

Max Fergus is the CEO and Co-founder of LÜM. LÜM was founded from a UW think tank that focused on rapidly expanding industries with antiquated business models. Fergus, along with a team of UW students and alumni, realized that with the advancements in streaming technology, current applications could be used to successfully bring music to the next generation of artists and fans. In January, LÜM became the first-ever platform to allow for direct-to-artist virtual gifting on a western music streaming platform with the Company's digital in-app currency - the Note.

Fergus recently graduated from UW-Madison, receiving a degree in Finance, Investment and Banking with a focus in healthcare. Prior to starting LÜM, Fergus was one of the few students admitted to the UW-Madison school of business as an incoming freshman. Through college, Max worked in Shanghai, China as a financial analyst for a healthcare and life science venture capital firm and for Leerink Partners in San Francisco as an analyst in their investment banking division. With an undeniable passion for entrepreneurship, Fergus decided to forgo his offer starting the healthcare investment banking division for Rothschild & Co in New York after graduation to pursue his dreams in business with LÜM.

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Three founders in the Health & Wellness industry sharing entrepreneurship, industry insights and tips on the Future of Health & Wellness.

Sara Makin, Founder of Makin Wellness

Sara Makin is a two time #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon & the founder of Makin Wellness, Pennsylania’s premier therapy and assessment centers located in Downtown, Pittsburgh & New Kensington. Sara and her highly rated team specialize in evidence based and individualized treatment for people suffering with mental heath , addiction and relationship challenges. Sara has been nominated by the National Academy of Best Selling Authors and spends her days expanding her practices so she can help Makin Wellness clients live more happy and meaningful lives. She loves laughing, meditating, philanthropy and her Vitamix !

David Franklin, Founder & CEO of knowRX

David, a Navy veteran, is a seasoned technologist with more than 22 years of experience. He has participated in two IPOs and delivered more than 10 applications to market. Over the last decade, Franklin has focused on cloud computing and machine learning for health care applications. He has studied at Moody Bible, Penn State, and MIT. Currently, Franklin leads, knowRX, Inc., a Personalized Medication and Individual Health Insights application based in Austin, Texas.

Ross Franklin, Founder & CEO of PureGreen

Ranked as one of the top wellness entrepreneurs of 2019 by Thrive Global, Ross Franklin has over two decades of experience building prestige brands within the health and wellness industry. Mr. Franklin is the Founder and CEO of Pure Green Franchise, one of the fastest growing cold pressed juice and smoothie franchises that is expanding rapidly throughout the United States.

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