The Will Glass Show

57. In The Human Side of Software, host William Glass sits down with Stephen Collins, the founder of Double Precision Software. Together they discuss the human side of software and how good software feels like magic. Stephen shares ways that non-technical people can learn the language of software and begin building that app without spending $10s or $100s of thousands of dollars. Lastly, Stephen explains how and why he maintains two budgets simultaneously and budgets down to the penny.

About Stephen Collins:

Stephen Collins is a life-long geek who's passionate about quality software.  He began programming in GW-BASIC at the age of 8 and spent the rest of his life honing his skills.  After his time in the USAF, he began his civilian career developing .NET applications for a series of Fortune 500 companies and multiple startups.

In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and five children, and, when there's time, a bit of gaming.

Email: sgcollins AT outlook.com

GitHub: https://github.com/nibblesnbits

GitHub: https://nibblesnbits.github.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-collins-jax/

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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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56: In Playing Within the Rules, host William Glass sits down with Axel Meierhoefer, the founder of Ideal Wealth Grower. Together they discuss the difference between owning a business and owning a practice. There is an important distinction that Axel learned the hard way. You'll also learn how to vet turnkey real estate providers as an out of state investor and what dependencies you should look for. Perhaps controversially, Axel shares why and how you should utilize all the government rules to your advantage as an investor.

About Axel Meierhoefer:

Axel Meierhoefer is a retired Air Force officer, who started his first company in 2005, focusing on consulting, employee skill development and program management. As a business owner, Axel began thinking about applying profits towards retirement. Research clearly indicated that owning real assets would be the best way and is also the path that the government supports above others. This led Axel to  develop a residential real estate investment portfolio currently worth about $1.5 Million. Now Axel teaches the many lessons he's learned to others through the Ideal Wealth Grower.

Website: https://idealwealthgrower.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/idealwealthgrower/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideal-wealth-grower/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IdealGrower

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idealwealthgrower/

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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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55: In Never a Bad Time to Start a Company, host William Glass sits down with Nick Hughes, the founder and CEO of Founders Live. Together they discuss how to get above the fray as an early-stage entrepreneur and really hone into your mission. Plus Nick shares some of the challenges solo entrepreneurs face and how even non-technical founders can build technology companies.

About Nick:

Nick Hughes is an American entrepreneur with experience in e-commerce, social media, digital payments, & technology startups. He excels at interpersonal leadership, communication, business, & product development.

Nick currently holds the position of CEO and Founder of the global entrepreneur platform Founders Live. In addition to creating Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or biz dev roles if needed. He is also cofounded Callin’it, a fun fan engagement and predictions app for sports fans. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds as well as helping start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATM’s.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnickhughes/

https://www.facebook.com/founderslive/

https://www.founderslive.com/

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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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54: In Built An App, Now What?, host William Glass shares the priorities of a startup preparing to launch their app into public beta. Specifically, there are three priorities that have come into focus: 

1. Growing The Team

2. Increasing Creative Connections

3. Branding and Aligning Your Content Strategy

If you'd like to dive deeper into the content of the episode, you can find the written version of this podcast here.

William Glass's Bio

William Glass is the Co-Founder & CEO of Ostrich & host of the Silicon Alley Podcast. His mission is to improve financial well-being globally. Ostrich’s mobile app addresses financial literacy deficits by creating game-like social community and accountability around money - think saving & investing with friends. In addition, William hosts the Silicon Alley Podcast providing a platform for entrepreneurs from all industries and backgrounds to tell their stories. William owns rental property and was a successful tech sales rep before starting his own business. Prior to sales, William was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship where he taught English in rural Thailand for 14 months. William is originally from Alabama, graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and now resides in New York City.

Email me at [email protected] to tell me what you think of the podcast or to ask questions you'd like answered.

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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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53: In Talking Is Easy, Podcasting is Hard, host William Glass discusses 7 lessons learned from the first year of podcasting, 3 big mistakes, and some fun podcast analytics. This episode marks a full-year since the Silicon Alley Podcast launched its first episode and has been appearing in your podcast feeds every Friday morning since. 

If you'd like to dive deeper into the content of the episode, you can find the written version of this podcast here. 

William Glass's Bio

William Glass is the Co-Founder & CEO of Ostrich & host of the Silicon Alley Podcast. His mission is to improve financial well-being globally. Ostrich’s mobile app addresses financial literacy deficits by creating game-like social community and accountability around money - think saving & investing with friends. In addition, William hosts the Silicon Alley Podcast providing a platform for entrepreneurs from all industries and backgrounds to tell their stories. William owns rental property and was a successful tech sales rep before starting his own business. Prior to sales, William was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship where he taught English in rural Thailand for 14 months. William is originally from Alabama, graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and now resides in New York City.

Email me at [email protected] to tell me what you think of the podcast or to ask questions you'd like answered.

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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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52: In The Fire In Your Belly, host William Glass sits down with Chander Arora, the founder and CEO of Red Eye Louie's.  In today’s episode, we go deep into Chander’s entrepreneurial journey and how he went from driving a forklift in a textile factory to founding an international spirits brand. Chander is wide-open about both his successes and failures. There are some doozies from terrible losses on international shipments to nefarious hackers.

Chander Arora is the Founder & CEO of Red Eye Louie’s a liquor brand with a number of unique spirits in its arsenal. Chander is an international expert in the spirits industry with 20+ years of experience. Chander started the company in 2011 by helping his daughter, Nina Arora, with her college project by creating the company's first product Vodquila (a crafted blend of Vodka and Tequila.) Chander turned his daughter's college assignment into an international spirits business. With his knowledge of chemistry, he is able to create all the formulas and recipes for each blend.

Prior to starting Red Eye Louie’s, Chander came to the US from India while on business where he met the love of his life. As a self-starter and determined to make the American dream a reality he began buying and selling businesses that ranged from laundromats, convenience stores, real estate, and even truck stops.

NOTE: For full transparency, it just so happens that Red Eye Louie’s recently opened up an equity crowdfunding round. I did purchase a small number of shares in Red Eye Louie’s but regardless I’ve been wanting to tell the Red Eye Louie's story for a while now.

Connect with Chander Arora & Red Eye Louie's

Website: https://redeyelouies.com/

Crowdfunding: https://www.startengine.com/red-eye-louies

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vodquila/

Find a Retailer: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/red+eye+louies

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51: A Tale of Two Valleys, host William Glass sits down with Martin Babinec, an industry titan, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and Author. Martin discusses his two contrasting valleys, Silicon Valley & the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. You’ll hear the challenges that Martin overcame at the helm of TriNet leading through the boom and bust of the dot com bubble and how he overcame a failed IPO ultimately leading the company to over $1B in annual revenue before passing the reigns. Martin shares some of the keys to his success and what is necessary to build a strong startup community. His book More Good Jobs outlines the keys to building a tribe and ultimately how to change an entire economic region.

Martin Babinec founded TriNet a Silicon Valley-based company in 1988, serving as CEO for 20 years and continues as a large shareholder and board director. TriNet's cloud-based HR services now cover 17,000+ clients, generates $4+ Billion in annual revenue and is listed on the NYSE under ticker TNET.  Relocating to his hometown of Little Falls, New York, Martin founded and has active roles with UpVentures Capital, StartFast Ventures, and nonprofits Upstate Venture Connect, Entrepreneurs Across Borders, UpMobility Foundation, and the Upstate Jobs Party.  He is a past recipient of the SVBT Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year Award and his book More Good Jobs was published by Lion Crest in October 2020.

Martin has experienced the ups and downs of entrepreneurship overcoming tremendous obstacles and now is on a mission to change the trajectory of an entire region.

Connect with Martin

The Book: MoreGoodJobs.org

Direct Investment in Startups: UpVentures.com

Upstate Venture Connect, non-profit supporting Upstate NY startups: UVC.org

Entrepreneurs Across Borders, international non-profit supporting startups in developing countries: EABorders.org

Upstate Jobs, a PAC building political engagement to increase Upstate NY's talent retention: UpstateJobs.org

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50: In Producing Creativity, host William Glass sits down with Jim Carter, the founder of Legacy West Media. Jim discusses how repetitive physical injuries forced him to change his life’s path away from athletics and embrace his natural creativity. We discuss the power of travel and developing deep connections with a diverse set of people and how those connections not only bring Jim joy but also provide opportunities in his business. After only a few months of founding his business, Jim talks about how he was forced to pivot due to COVID, move across the country twice within a year and get married to his incredible wife Caroline. Jim brings incredible energy to the conversation and is someone I truly admire.

ABOUT JIM CARTER

Jim Carter is the Creative Director & Producer of “City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles” an art exhibit exploring legendary artists portraying the culture of LA. Jim has worked with "A list" artists and filmmakers for over 10 years. Jim grew up on movie sets and comes from a family of academy award-winning artists. He represents 10 world-renowned artists, including his father Rick Carter, who is a 2-time academy award winner for his Art Direction of Avatar and Lincoln. Jim uses his passion for fine art, visual storytelling, world cultures, marketing, sports, and entertainment to create genuine connections between his clients and global audiences.

His firm Legacy West Media specializes in artist representation and media partnerships. The mission is to tell stories through art exhibitions and media partnerships. Being 4th generation Hollywood, LWM takes great pride in representing top talent and connecting the right artist with the right audience. The company's goal is to not only bring profit to their artists but to inspire the communities that view their art.

City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles: https://vimeo.com/467913670

Jim McHugh Artist Video: https://vimeo.com/460820808

Legacy West Media Website: https://legacywmedia.com/

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49: In Empowering the Gift of Giving, host William Glass sits down with Kelly Keurzoneff, founder of Givelist. Kelly discusses the importance of social impact and how we can better support our fellow humans especially in times of need. She discusses the challenges of being a solo-founder (the loneliness) and how to continue to build your business without a co-founder. In addition, Kelly shares the founding story of Givelist and how consumers today care more about the social impact the companies they support have on the world.

WATCH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qeSikTC04b0

There were some differences between mine and Kelly's volume that we’ve adjusted as best we can in post-production. For the best experience, we recommend watching this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qeSikTC04b0.

About Kelly Keurzoneff

Kelly Keurzoneff is the founder of Givelist® and the owner of a marketing consulting business. She grew up in Indiana, went to college in North Carolina, then spent 10 years in Los Angeles learning everything marketing and advertising. In Los Angeles, Kelly worked for media and tech companies, two of which were startups. It was her time at Hulu, though, that was most formative and inspiring, and which she credits for launching her more serious interest in entrepreneurial endeavors.

Connect with Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givelist/

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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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48: Competing When There's Nothing to Lose, host William Glass sits down with Tom Libelt, founder of Smart Brand Marketing. Tom dives into the concept of building an antifragile business that not only survives during uncertain times but thrives. He also gets into the benefits of being lazy and spending more time thinking versus spending all of your time hustling. One example of that approach is him sitting down on the podcast today. In addition, Tom opens up about the power of niches and how finding a small group of motivated customers is one of the best ways to build a business.

The notion of building an antifragile business comes from Nassim Taleb a famous writer who specialized in risk analysis. 

About Tom Libelt 

Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists.

Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. He has helped published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding.

Connect with Tom Libelt & Smart Brand Marketing

Website: https://smartbrandmarketing.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomlibelt

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBMPodcast/

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