The Entrepreneur Ethos

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Now on to my guest today, Bharat Kanodia, a professional appraiser who has a great YouTube Channel called What’s It Worth? In this episode, he’ll demystify the appraisal process. 

Bharat graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, but opted to go into the world of finance, where he learned about appraising. He has spent his career building expertise in appraising businesses, portfolios, real estate, and more. He also hosts a YouTube series where he gives insight into how business owners can assess and improve the value of their business.

In our conversation, Bharat provides invaluable insight into how valuations are made, especially from a venture capitalist perspective. He jokes that he’s one of the few people in the world getting paid to give his opinion, but he also follows a process and asks some key questions when doing his work. One key takeaway is what venture capitalists are really looking for when they value a business, and why not all investors are going to come up with the same number. 

Now let’s get better together.

Understanding how a business (or anything else) is valued is key to attracting investors or buyers. 

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Hey everyone. Thanks for listening and getting better with me. I’m always impressed as to how much great feedback I get from both the guests and listeners. So, please keep it up. I appreciate all of it.

Also, I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes. 

Now on to my guest today, Sedale Turbovsky, CEO and founder of several start-ups, including Open Grants, which we’ll be talking about today. 

Sedale dropped out of college to become a river guide. Finding he had a lot of downtime, he learned how to write code and build websites to make money. Soon he was working for big businesses, which led him to the startup world. His first business was a collaboration with someone who was also travelling the world and who recognized Sedale as someone he could work with. Currently Sedale heads Open Grants, a site dedicated to providing more transparency and ease in the grant-funding process. 

Many of you might know that finding and applying for government grants and bidding on projects can be a frustrating, complex process. Open Grants is trying make this process easier and more transparent by providing a centralized platform to bring together potential grantors and grantees. In this conversation, Sedale and I talk about how entrepreneurs can start navigating the maze of governmental bureaucracy and, eventually, help change it. 

Now let’s get better together.

For info and resources on advocacy toward entrepreneur-friendly legislation:

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes. 

Now on to my guest today, Kuda Biza, cofounder of Nunbelievable.

Kuda’s story is like something you would see in a movie. Growing up in a lower-middle-class home in Zimbabwe, he soon realized he was better off than a lot of other kids whose parents couldn’t even afford to send them to school. At the age of ten he vowed to some day help those kids. Despite friends and family who told him that his dream of going to college in America was unrealistic, Kuda found a way to not only access what he needed to take the SATs and apply to colleges; he also earned a scholarship to an American college, passing on an offer for a free ride from a university in Zimbabwe. 

In college Kuda started a business selling T-shirts and used the profits to help fund kids’ education in developing countries. While his original dream was to be a pilot, he opted to take a job as a business innovator with a Fortune 500 company. There he learned how to build and scale a business. When a former colleague was thinking about starting a business that would give back to help feed the hungry, he immediately thought of Kuda. That business became Nunbelievable,which sells cookies and donates part of the profits to food banks. True to his spirit, when his partners wanted to hunker down and wait out the pandemic, Kuda recognized that they were needed more than ever, and in the last year, the business has grown exponentially. His goal now is to fund 10 million meals over the next three years. 

Now let’s get better together.

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes.

Also, thanks for listening and supporting the show. It means a lot to me that you’d spend your time trying to be a better entrepreneur.

Now on to my guest today, James Mulvany, founder and CEO of MatchMaker.fm, Podcast.co and Radio.co.

If you’ve been listening awhile, you probably know I connect with a lot of my guests through Matchmaker.fm, an easy-to-use platform that helps podcasters find guests and guests find podcasts. In just a year, MatchMaker has already grown to over 22,000 users. 

Like many businesses, Matchmaker.fm grew out of a passion. In this case, James’ passion was radio and he intended to pursue a career in it. He eventually realized the odds were low that he’d ever be a successful DJ, so to make money he started an online business, first in design and then offering streaming services. By the time James graduated from university, he already had a growing business, which evolved into Radio.co. Since then, he’s added Podcast.co and Matchmaker.fm to his successful ventures. 

James and I talked a lot about what it takes to be a podcaster and we offer a lot of suggestions for anyone who might want to try to be a guest on a podcast, so if you are even thinking about starting a podcast or being a guest on one, you won’t want to miss this one.

Now let’s get better together.

For anyone who wants to give podcasting a try:

Being a guest on a podcast is a great way to get the word out about your product or service, but keep in mind:

Check out James’ YouTube channel for more tips on starting a podcast and being a guest. 

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes.

Also, thank you so much for listening to the show. I really appreciate it.

Now on to my guest today, Johnny Crowder, singer for the band Prison and founder and CEO of Cope Notes. 

Johnny is not your typical CEO. He was recently featured in Forbes with his shirt off displaying all his tattoos. He’s also the singer of the metal rock band Prison. Cope Notes grew out of Johnny’s own struggles with abuse and mental health conditions as well as being a mental health peer mentor and advocate. He wanted to create something that would help kids like him that hang out at metal shows. He was surprised when his creation, a text messaging program to help people rewire their brains, worked for all kinds of people. He’s proof that you don’t have to be a “techie” to have a tech start-up. 

Johnny shares how being a musician has helped him not only better understand what the kids in his own community needs, but how it’s helped him connect with the people who have helped his company succeed. Ultimately his goal is to bring the discussion of mental health out from the dark and to encourage people to take a more preventative approach to being mentally healthy.

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes. 

Now on to my guest today, Phil Michaels, CEO of Tembo and a business and life coach. Forbes has listed him as one of the top 30 social entrepreneurs under 30. 

Before he’d even heard the word, Phil was an entrepreneur. He began his career selling lemonade on the soccer fields out of his sister’s puppet playhouse. He moved on to selling Pokemon cards, taking football bets in high school, and promoting nightclubs as a college student. He loved the hustle, yet he never considered being his own boss. He pursued a pre-med program, intending to become an ophthalmologist. Then he read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and his life changed completely. 

Phil went on to co-found a company that built one of the first fitness apps, going on Shark Tank to promote his idea. He’s now CEO of Tembo Educational Group, a company that helps parents all over the world educate their kids using text messaging. Most recently, he’s started a coaching business for high achievers and CEOs.

In this podcast, Phil shares thoughts on the importance of fostering creativity in kids, how to tap into their motivation, the keys to building good daily habits for success, and the important questions everyone needs to ask themselves. 

Now let’s get better together.

Michaels says the three most important questions one can ask yourself are:

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes. 

Now on to my guest for today, Katie Stoddart, business and performance coach.

As a student Katie showed promise in math and physics, so going into engineering seemed like the right choice. But while she liked the work, Katie felt it wasn’t quite the right fit for her and that she needed to be working more with people. 

After some searching, she landed on coaching and knew right away it was for her. As an “all or nothing” type of person, Katie gave up her job four months into coach training to launch her own coaching business. 

Katie works with solopreneurs and entrepreneurs committed to growing their business and looking to increase their productivity as well as find more balance in their lives. Coaching gives her the opportunity to apply what she knows about analysis and discipline while also allowing her to be creative and work with people, elements she misses as a scientist. Like many entrepreneurs, Katie has coped with moments of low self-confidence, and she shares some strategies for how to keep going despite what the voices in your head might be saying. 

Now let’s get better together.

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Hey everyone. I wanted to quickly let you know about the release of the audio version of my book, The Entrepreneur Ethos, narrated by David A. Conatser. If you want to support the show, you can buy it wherever audiobooks are sold. Links are also in the show notes. 

Now on to my guest for today, Peep Laja, an internet marketing expert and founder of CXL and Wynter. 

Peep started out as an entrepreneur when he took a remote work opportunity and moved to Panama to learn Spanish. When he found himself without a job, he started offering his services in internet marketing. 

In 2011, he started CXL marketing, which now offers e-learning in marketing and last year he founded Wynter to provide messaging testing and optimization. 

Like many successful entrepreneurs, Peep saw a need and aimed to fill that need. In working on marketing for CXL, he searched for a service that provided insight into marketing copy in order to improve conversion rates. Not finding any that offered what he was looking for, he decided to start a business that filled that need. 

Wynter pays people to participate in panel testing of marketing copy for both B2C and B2B businesses, providing invaluable feedback to companies looking to improve their messaging. He envisions building Wynter out to providing other services that will help businesses improve and automate their marketing.

Full Disclosure: I’m on the Wynter platform as a tester and I have paid for landing page feedback as well. Let’s just say I’m a big fan!

Now let’s get better together.

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Now on to my guest for today, Cody Simmons, CEO at DermaSensor, a health technology company in Miami focused on helping support clinical decisions around skin cancer.

DISCLAIMER: The DermaSensor device is currently CE Marked and is also registered and available for sale in Australia and in New Zealand, It is investigational and not currently approved or available for sale in the U.S.

Cody comes from a family dedicated to helping others, and he sees his work with DermaSensor as helping people in a big way. After studying bioengineering and business at Brown, he did graduate work at Stanford, and followed his interests in science and business by working for various companies and cultivating his leadership skills at a large, established company. 

His role at DermaSensor is to oversee bringing a product to market that will help primary care providers detect skin cancer. This, Cody explains, will save thousands of lives, as currently many people with skin cancer are either misdiagnosed or do not follow up with a specialist. 

By making the detection of possible cancer easier and more accessible, DermaSensor is poised to help more people find out earlier whether they have cancer, making a huge difference in mortality and quality of life for many skin cancer patients. 

As CEO of a medical device company, Cody has a lot resting on his shoulders, from overseeing product development to pursuing funding opportunities. He says that his experiences as a competitive tennis player, in addition to his motivation to help people, has taught him to pick yourself back up and keep going when things get rough.  

Now let’s get better together.

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