The Mark Haney Podcast

Liz Connolly, co-founder of Trifecta Nutrition, celebrates the recent close of their series B $20M raise and shares her recipe for success: continuous learning + hard work.  It wasn’t always easy, and success wasn’t pre-determined, she reveals. However, a strong relationship with co-founder (and brother) Greg Connolly along with their combined determination and growth mindset saw them through the ups and downs of building a local startup into thriving national business.  At the end of his conversation with Liz, Mark brings on new startup founder, Jessica Vidales, to pick Liz’s brain on everything from productivity hacks to marketing advice for her new company, Making Memories Box.  Listen in as Liz shares some of her lessons learned to help another local founder succeed.

World renowned performance painter and creative arts entrepreneur, David Garibaldi dazzles audiences with his Rhythm and Hue shows during which he produces pop portraits to music in a matter of minutes.  In this episode, Mark and David dive into a dynamic discussion infused with passion and purpose that covers topics from their shared love of Sacramento to the first painting David sold to the incredible community impact he has made by leveraging his talents to raise over $6M for charities. 

If you are interested in learning more about David, check out any of the links at the link below:
https://linktr.ee/garibaldiarts
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If this episode inspires you to be part of the movement, and you believe, like me, that entrepreneurs are the answer to our future, message me so we can join forces to support building truly great companies in our region. 
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Mark Haney is a serial entrepreneur that has experience growing companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He is currently the CEO and founder of HaneyBiz 
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Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarkhaney​ 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/themarkhaney 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markehaney​ 
Website: http://haneybiz.com​ 
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/themarkhaney
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This video includes the personal knowledge, experiences, and opinions about Angel Investing by seasoned angel investors.  This content is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal, tax, investment, or financial advice.  Nothing in this video constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, or endorsement.

At 29, Michael Nelson started his first company. The dotcom bubble set him back, but he learned from the experience and started another company, TLC Tech. Now a 7-figure success, TLC Tech is thriving for one reason, according to Michael. He developed goals, reviewed them regularly, and built in accountability. Michael used his goal-achieving system to take his company and his life to new highs. Lucky for us, he has written a book and coaches on Goals that Matter, to help others apply the tools he used. In this episode, Mark and Michael dive into the transformative power of goals supported by a habit of reviewing them with an accountability partner and they relate some of their insightful and inspiring personal stories of challenge and success. 

In this episode, Chip Maxson, General Manager of the Sacramento River Cats, and Mark offer a behind the scenes look at the business of managing a minor league sports team and venue – during a pandemic. They discuss the resourceful ways that the River Cats executives and staff pivoted to use their assets to serve the community. They also dive into the critical tone-setting role of leadership, how leaders impact culture, and how culture is a necessary foundation for building a successful team and business. Through this discussion, you’ll get to know a little more about the incredible people behind this local community gem and you’ll definitely be #SacramentoProud.

Kate Cordell, the founder of Opeeka, has been working in the mental illness and research space her entire career. Her quest to create a better and more unified model for mental health care fueled by her passion for data, statistics, and artificial intelligence led her to create Opeeka’s Person-Centered Intelligence Solution. 
 
P-CIS is a transformative software solution that instantly and seamlessly combines multiple sources of an individual’s assessment data from across systems of care (social welfare, justice, schools, behavioral health) to provide high fidelity insight into what interventions are working. 
 
Listen in as Mark talks with Kate and her co-founder Ken Knecht about their journey and their vision for the future of care with Opeeka leading the way.

“The day I took my first dollar. I was 100% in, and I promised myself that I would never stop until this was successful based on the money that was taken. So, when I think about success in business, the only time you fail is when you quit.”

-- Neville Boston, Founder of Reviver

Whether you are a founder, an investor or…a car owner, you’ll want to tune into this segment! Mark talks with Neville Boston, Founder of Reviver and one of the company’s investors, Steve Kircher, about building this disruptive tech company in Granite Bay, CA.

Reviver’s signature products, the RPlate and RPlate Pro are the first digital license plates with legal approval in all 50 states and now selling in CA and AZ.  From seriously streamlining DMV registration to providing personalization and security features, they are transforming the way that consumers and corporates monitor and manage their vehicles.

Founders listen in as Neville shares his approach to designing this product by talking to potential customers FIRST.  Investors, hear Steve’s thoughts on the opportunities and risks of investing in a founder with a vision and the staying power to address a highly regulated multi-billion dollar market.  Finally, car drivers – check out the website – these plates are cool!! 

In this episode, Mark has a fascinating discussion with the dynamic and talented Ross Haley about entrepreneurship in the Cannabis space.  Ross shares a little about his journey that includes growing up in a Northern California community of cannabis growers, to an early job selling Kirby vacuums, to tremendous success via the sale of his company, General Hydroponics, to Scott’s Miracle Gro (SMG) for $130M in 2015.     Ross is now CEO of Lbs. Distribution, a B2B company focused on the cannabis supply chain.  Along with the typical challenges of company building such as hiring the right people and optimizing operations, Ross talks about the obstacles he continues to overcome in an industry that is still considered illegal by the Federal government.  There are a lot of business and life lessons to be learned from Ross in this episode including key takeaways to “stay in the game” and “never give up.” 

 Nobody builds a truly great company alone.
 
This “Markism” has been the driving force behind the work at HaneyBiz over the last many years and is now serving as the guiding light for a new venture called the Growth Factory that Mark and the team are launching.  The Growth Factory is a nonprofit startup accelerator and an accompanying early-stage venture fund with a mission to build an entrepreneurial engine that scales high-growth companies and catalyzes innovation in the Greater Sacramento region.  

In this episode, Mark is joined by his cofounders, Rick Spencer and Monique Brown.  They share how the Growth Factory is being designed to accelerate 100 local founders with world-class potential over the next 4 years and why now is the time to make this happen in Sacramento.  If you are an investor, successful executive or entrepreneur, civic leader, citizen, a customer of, or advocate for local startups,  listen in to learn more about how you can get involved!

Scott Drummond, President, and Founder of Party Center Software has a winning mindset, a successful track record, a passion for entrepreneurship, and a desire to pay it forward.
 
 His entrepreneurial career effectively started with the launch of a web design firm in 1998 (pre-Google) when he was just 1 year out of high school! In 2005, Drummond and his wife purchased a small indoor children’s play center called Bounceopolis, Inc. in El Dorado Hills and later they expanded and moved it to a new location in Folsom. Through operating Bounceopolis he realized that there was no viable online event booking and management tool for the Family Entertainment Center (FEC) industry. This led to the creation of Party Center Software, an online point-of-sale and event management software for the FEC industry. Drummond sold Party Center Software in 2019 to a PE firm Aquiline Capital Partners LLC and continues to run the company as the President and Founder.

 Mark and Scott cover a lot of ground in this engaging conversation as they explore how early life lessons can shape the willingness to take risks, the courage to commit to winning (and learn from losing), and the heart to mentor the next entrepreneur in line.

 Mark talks about founding, failing, funding and exiting companies with the amazing Sacramento entrepreneur, Sonny Mayugba, whose new adventure as VP of Growth at Swimply has him on the company building journey once again. Swimply is the world’s first marketplace for homeowners to rent out their underutilized pools to local swimmers. Prior to Swimply, Sonny spent a year in venture capital, first as a Managing Director at Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH and next as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Spero Ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Sonny first got hooked on startups by launching Heckler, a print/digital magazine that he scaled and sold to Times Mirror when he was 25. After that, Sonny went on to start multiple companies, among them Requested, a mobile app for restaurants & bars. Requested eventually merged with restaurant delivery app Waitr, where Sonny was the founding CMO. In charge of customer acquisition, brand identity, and revenue stewardship, Sonny helped grow Waitr Holdings to $800M annual revenue, expanded into 700 cities, and rang the Nasdaq Opening Bell when the company went public as Waitr Holdings (Nasdaq:WTRH) in 2018. 

If you would like to learn more about Simply or Sonny please check out the links below: 
https://swimply.com/ 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonnymayugba 

If this episode inspires you to be part of the movement, and you believe, like me, that entrepreneurs are the answer to our future, message me so we can join forces to support building truly great companies in our region. 
- 
Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCom_​... 
- 
Mark Haney is a serial entrepreneur that has experience growing companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He is currently the CEO and founder of HaneyBiz 
- 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarkhaney​ 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/themarkhaney 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markehaney​ 
Website: http://haneybiz.com​ 
Audio Boom: https://audioboom.com/channels/5005273​ 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/themarkhaney 
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This video includes the personal knowledge, experiences, and opinions about Angel Investing by seasoned angel investors. This content is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Nothing in this video constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, or endorsement.