The Hatchcast

On this week's episode of the Hathcast, Aaryn Richard and Brandon Weaver sit down with MSUEA (Entrepreneurship Association) Co-Presidents, Mateo Marchan and Brandon Weaver, VIM Magazine PR Director, Aubrey Haase and Marketing Director Alaina Warburton, as well as MSUWE (Women in Entrepreneurship) Vice President Sasha Coleman. Join the conversation as they talk on the conception of their organizations, how they are able to accomplish so much and their innovative plans for the future! 

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Kavita is an entrepreneur, digital health maven, patient health advocate, investor and speaker with a mission to connect people to targeted health innovations, enabling them to lead healthier lives. She is the co-founder and CEO of Match Health, a digital health platform that brings greater awareness and accessibility to transformative health innovations. Match Health has developed and maintains a vast video library that reviews various medical conditions and different innovations that have been developed to treat them.

Prior to starting Match Health, Kavita served as a Marketing Director for two medical device startups, Biomerix Corporation and FoxHollow Technologies. In these roles, Kavita drove the introduction of health innovations targeting tissue repair and peripheral arterial disease.

Kavita also has significant experience, working as a consultant to both startups as well as larger organizations providing strategy and go-to-market expertise introducing novel medical device technologies to the market in the fields of cardiovascular health, orthopedics, general surgery, and women’s health.

Kavita grew up in Rochester Hills, MI and graduated from Michigan State University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management (Eli Broad College of Business) and earned her MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross School of Business) in 2004. Kavita lives in the Boston area with her husband Omari and their twin boys.

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Anurag is an experienced global technology and management consultant with a talent for finding innovative solutions to complex business problems and building and growing businesses. He has extensive experience working with and for companies that range in size from the Global 500 to pre-investment startups. Anurag is a Charter Member and former President of TIE Austin, former CEO Chair for the Austin chapter of Vistage, an exclusive community of 14,500 global business leaders, where he guides and mentors a business group of 10+ CEOs. As a trained Chair, Anurag is dedicated to helping businesses uncover unique opportunities, maximize profits and influence others.

As a serial entrepreneur, Anurag has previously raised $14M in Venture funding at Mediaprise where he was Founder and CEO. Most recently, Anurag Co-founded iTexico, a leader in Nearshore software services. Within nine years, he has grown iTexico into a multi-million dollar company employing over 300 individuals and maintaining over 200 clients in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Anurag holds an MBA from Michigan State University’s Broad School of Business, MS in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

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Join Aaryn, Gabe, and Brandon as they sit down with serial entrepreneur, writer, and founder/CEO of his own podcast and company, NotBoringBusiness, Jeremy Redman to discuss everything from advanced marketing techniques, growing a business and what comes next after you have succeeded in the field. Although this interview is a bit on the edgier and 'raw' side, we enjoyed the conversation and hope you do as well!

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On this Hatchcast Extra, Mike Miller comes back to MSU's campus to be part of this season of Innovate State.

A native of Williamston, Michigan, Mike Miller is a lifelong Spartan. After graduating from MSU with degrees in physics and philosophy, his undergraduate research at the Cyclotron opened the door for a PhD in Particle Physics from Yale and faculty positions at MIT and UW. Along the way he developed a taste for capitalism, co-founding the Y Combinator-backed company, Cloudant, which helped create the noSQL and Database-aaS market before being acquired by IBM in 2014. 

Through a strange twist of fate, Miller then co-founded Silicon Valley’s most active seed-stage venture capital firm with Joe Montana and Michael Ma. Since 2015 the partners have invested in over 250 companies with a combined valuation of nearly $10B, putting them at the epicenter of the Bay Area’s tech scene. Outside of work, Mike is the proud father of two sets of young twins with his wife Laura, and they enjoy hiking, sailing, skiing and climbing from their Pacific NW home base.

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Hosts Aaryn & Gabe sit down with Josh Cooper, Founder & CEO of the ridesharing and micro-mobility advertising company SKOOP, as well as Wesley Ma, Founder of HealthOpX, to discuss what it's like to be a student at Michigan State University while simultaneously creating and running a company. Listen in as we discuss past ventures, keys to personal success, what the future of ESL (English as a Second Language) patient/doctor relationships are becoming, and how ridesharing is (possibly) evolving to become a free resource—all on this week's episode of the Hatchcast!

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On this Hatchcast Extra, Sheela Sethuraman comes back to MSU's campus to be part of this season of Innovate State.

Sethuraman has more than 20 years of experience in building and implementing educational technology solutions in K–12 classrooms. At CueThink, Sheela and her team have successfully taken the vision of a peer platform for math problem solving and built and deployed a scalable application to foster critical thinking and cultivate collaboration. 

As Founder and CEO, Sheela has been instrumental in securing $3M from the National Science Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, MassVentures, and angel investors. She has been successful in fostering partnerships with leading Math groups and selling to school districts across the country. Prior to CueThink, Sheela was Project Director at Pearson Education, focusing on technologically innovative assessment items based on Common Core State Standards. Before that, Sheela was Director of Technology at CAST, where she spearheaded numerous technical products including CAST eReader and Thinking Reader. She has been a member of various consortiums such as Web Access Initiative (WAI), National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Open eBook Forum. Sheela has also been a podcaster for the Stanford Business School's Center for Social Innovation.

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A photographer, an arts promoter, and a serial-creative-&-entrepreneur walk into the studio for candid conversations about creatives, makers, maker spaces, and the role of the arts in creating thriving communities.

Featured Guests: Jerry Norris, co-founder of the radically inclusive maker space, The Fledge; Ariniko D. O'Meara, photographer and author of A City Saunter Story & The City Saunter Project; and Mike Marriott, Owner/Director of Opportunity Arts.

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