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87: In 5 Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail, Henry Daas (Twitter: @daasknowledge), serial entrepreneur, joins host William Glass to discuss the pitfalls small business owners must avoid. Henry shares how to live a well-rounded life and manage both business and pleasure. You'll learn:

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About Henry Daas:

Henry Daas started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing and financing computers to large corporations. Since then Henry founded a succession of firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, Henry has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other business owners and founders.

In addition, in 2019, Henry self-published a 432-page book on everything you need to know about how to grow and manage your money.g

In his infinite leisure, he writes screenplays (for fun), plays golf, travels (when not on lockdown), and plays Settlers of Catan with his three boys.

Learn more about Henry Daas: https://henrydaas.com/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrydaas/

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86: In Building a Remote First Company, Kirk Marple (Twitter: @KirkMarple), founder of Unstruk Data, joins host William Glass to discuss how to he has built a company with a remote workforce and the power of unstructured data in your business. Whether your team is fully remote or hybrid Kirk shares some of the keys to building a strong remote culture and how Unstruk Data raised money through Zoom. You'll learn:

William is a big fan of remote work where possible having utilized the approach to build Ostrich and tap into talent spread across geographies.

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About Kirk Marple:

Kirk Marple is a customer-focused technology leader with over 25 years of experience.

He is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data, a new company that is building the industry’s leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. Unstruk Data has raised $3.5m in seed funding and will fully launch in July ‘21.

Former Microsoft, General Motors, and STATS leader - Kirk has extensive expertise in architecting and managing teams developing APIs and scalable services, leveraging on-premise and cloud infrastructure, generating significant cost savings, and supporting revenue growth for startups through Fortune 25 companies. He holds multiple patents and industry awards and has truly established himself as an industry trailblazer.

Learn more about Kirk Marple: https://www.unstruk.com & https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkmarple

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85: In No Code, No Problem, Mike Williams, founder of BuildLab, joins host William Glass to discuss how to use no code & low code software development tools. Whether you are building a product from the ground up, testing an idea, or automating current business processes, no code and low code tools offer a fast and cheap way to build. You'll learn:

William is a big fan of no code low code tools having used them to build the first version of Ostrich and prove out the concept before spending 10s of thousands of development on the product. 

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About the Guest:

Mike Williams is the Founder of BuildLab, a digital development and automation studio. Mike has founded two event ticketing companies, MJ Seats and SharpSeat. MJ Seats was listed in the Inc. 5000list of fastest-growing US companies in 2017 and 2018, finding itself in the top 1000 both years.

His success with MJ Seats was due in part to automating processes and developing custom technology that created a competitive edge in an otherwise commoditized industry. Upon realizing the powerful leverage that technology can provide a growing business, he became focused on his latest company, BuildLab, a company dedicated to delivering automation, application, and web development services with or without code. 

After graduating from James Madison University with a degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems, Mike landed a solid job but always felt the urge to have more skin in the game. He founded his first company with two college friends.

Currently, at BuildLab, Mike uses tools like Integromat, Zapier, Airtable, HubSpot, Firebase, and many more to help automate and scale companies. His clients range from local businesses to billion dollar companies.

Mike is a productivity snob and is constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency for both internal and client processes. He considers time the ultimate resource.

Learn more about Mike Williams: https://buildlab.co

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84: In Understanding How Insurance Works for small businesses & the self employed, Eric Geier, founder of Puresurance, joins host William Glass to discuss insurance and business. You'll learn:

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About the Guest:

Eric Geier is the CEO of Puresurance, advising business owners and entrepreneurs on the implementation of life insurance as a retirement vehicle and custom-designed health coverage solutions. With over 25 years of experience on Wall Street, Eric is a financial professional with a lifelong goal of helping people with their personal finances and retirement plans.

Learn more about Eric Geier: https://puresurance.com/

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83: In From Bourbon to Finance How to Find a Financial Advisor You Can Trust, James Vermillion, founder of Vermillion Private Wealth, joins host William Glass to discuss what to look for in a financial advisor. You'll learn:

James has built multiple businesses including a real estate flipping business, bespoke candle company, and his own financial advisory practice. This episode is jam-packed with value. In addition, I had the pleasure of sitting down on James's podcast called Bulls, Bears and Bourbon. Check it out wherever you listen to Silicon Alley.

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About the Guest:

James is the Founder of Vermillion Private Wealth and Wixology Candle Company. His curiosity about entrepreneurship led him to start his first company while serving as an officer in the US Air Force. Since then, James has continued to grow as an entrepreneur. As the owner of Vermillion Private Wealth, James serves as a fee-only financial advisor and investment management, overseeing investment portfolios that focus on innovative and disruptive technologies. With Wixology, James works alongside his co-founders to continue to grow the brand, emphasizing sustainability.

Learn more about James Vermillion: https://vermillionprivatewealth.com/

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82: In How to Successfully Crowdfund & The Keys to Building a Marketplace, Ed Vincent, founder of festivalPass, joins host William Glass to discuss the keys to raising money from your customers and creating loyal fans. You'll learn:

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About the Guest:

Entrepreneur with over 25 years business, technology and management experience including 6 years banking and valuation experience. Founded an e-commerce business in 1999 which was sold to a competitor in 2001. Repeat Founder including SimplyEngage, myProducer, & Predict Ventures. Currently Founder & CEO of festivalPass.

Learn more about Ed Vincent and festivalPass: https://www.festivalpass.com/

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81: In How to Start a Podcast with $100, Sarah St John A.K.A. the Frugalpreneur, joins host William Glass to discuss the keys to starting a podcast and building a lucrative side hustle. You'll learn:

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About the Guest:

Sarah St John is an entrepreneur, podcaster, online course creator, and author. She has created several startups throughout her entrepreneurial career of over a decade. She currently owns a podcast production agency called PodSeam. She is also the podcast host of “Frugalpreneur: Building a Business on a Bootstrapped Budget” which aims to show people how to launch and manage an online business on a budget.

Learn more about The Frugalpreneur, Sarah St John: https://www.thesarahstjohn.com/

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80. In 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask & How to Make Data Driven Decisions, Amos Schwartzfarb & Trevor Boehm, Co-Authors of Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability in Your Business, joins host William Glass to discuss scaling your startup. You'll learn:

This episode is jam-packed with value and will have you understanding how to make data driven decisions to grow your business.

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About the Guests:

Amos Schwartzfarb is the Managing Director of Techstars Austin and author of the best-selling books for startup sales, Sell More Faster - The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups and LEVERS – The Framework For Building Repeatability Into Your Business.  Amos began his career as an entrepreneur in the mid 90’s in the Bay Area at Shoreline Mountain Products and HotJobs.com. In 2004 after moving to Los Angeles, Amos founded Work.com which was eventually merged with Business.com where he was VP of Sales. Business.com sold in 2008 and in 2009 Amos moved to Austin and founded mySpoonful with Stacy Horne. mySpoonful was sold in 2012 and Amos joined Blacklocus shortly after. A year later Blacklocus was sold to Homedepot. In his spare time, Amos loves to hang out with his family, mountain bike and play in the mountains.

Trevor Boehm was a writer before finding his way into building companies. A serial founder, he has also invested in more than forty startups, many of those through Techstars’ first Impact accelerator and as Managing Director of Alexa Next Stage, a program run with the Amazon Alexa Fund. He is currently at the venture fund Saturn Five.

Learn more about Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability in Your Business: https://leversbook.com

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79. In What is Fintech and Understanding the Fintech Landscape, Tristan Pelloux, the Founder of The Fintech Review, joins host William Glass to fintech. You'll learn what Fintech is and the evolution of the fintech industry. Tristan shares from his own experience and research what makes a successful Fintech partnership and how traditional financial services companies should work with startups. Lastly, we discuss Tristan's personal affinity towards Fintech and how Tristan handles his own finances.

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Ostrich is a personal finance app that uses the power of positive social accountability to help you define, set, & achieve your financial goals.

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About the Guest:

Tristan Pelloux has founded and runs a couple of ventures: he is the Chief Pencil Officer at Fintech Review, online media on the Fintech industry, and the Director of Strategwhy, an independent management consulting firm.

Tristan is truly passionate about innovation in financial services, after over 5 years in Corporate Strategy at Virgin Money in London.

Learn more about the Fintech Review at https://fintechreview.net/

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78: In the Entrepreneur's Relationship to Risk, Will D'Arrigo, the Founder of Zublease, joins host William Glass to discuss risk in business. You'll learn how to weigh, manage, and deal with risk as an early-stage startup founder. The insight that you can fall down and no one will notice. We also talk about how skateboarding as a kid translated into how Will approach's risk today. 

Top quotes:

“As a startup, if you fall down, no one is even going to see you. Get back up and keep going.”

“Go talk to your users. Then build something.”

"You can launch 100 times and people won't even know."

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About the Guest:

Growing up, Will D'Arrigo lived in an entrepreneurial household. His parents were both entrepreneurs

Learn more about Zublease at https://zublease.com/

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