Banking efficiency may not seem a matter of great importance to many, but when Jeremy Almond’s family lost their house in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, he understood how inferior financial infrastructure can have devastating consequences. That’s in part why he formed PayStand, a company that aims to bring the ease of modern consumer transactions to the business world.

In this edition of UpTech Report, Jeremy talks with me about the challenges of implementing blockchain technology to financial behemoths, and some of the lessons he learned from early failures.

The healthcare industry in America can often seem a chaotic tangle of archaic systems. But according to Michael Levy, the founder of Bluedoor, a healthcare growth agency, the problem isn’t merely a matter of technology—it’s culture, talent, and opportunity.

That’s why Michael started the Digital Health Institute for Transformation, a nonprofit education and research institute, where he’s helping develop a universal digital healthcare infrastructure. In part one of our conversation, Michael tells us about his efforts to build a public health utility grid, and why he believes the healthcare industry approaches their mission the wrong way

In part one of our conversation with Michael Levy, he discussed his nonprofit organization, the Digital Health Institute for Transformation and its efforts to build a public health utility grid. In this second part of our conversation, Michael Levy makes an impassioned case on the keys to starting a movement, which he says begins with discovering your deepest motivations and developing a clarity of purpose.

In part one of our conversation with Michael Levy, he discussed his nonprofit organization, the Digital Health Institute for Transformation and its efforts to build a public health utility grid. In this second part of our conversation, Michael Levy makes an impassioned case on the keys to starting a movement, which he says begins with discovering your deepest motivations and developing a clarity of purpose.

In part one of our conversation with Kate Chernis from Lately, she told us about her unlikely journey from rock DJ to startup CEO.   

In the second part of our conversation, Kate talks about the essential connection between body, mind, and business, and she tells us about her efforts to bring human emotion into sales.

As a rock DJ, Kate Chernis suffered through an oppressive work environment until she finally realized she needed to set out on her own. She read two chapters of a book on startups and a week later had fifty thousand dollars of venture capital. This journey eventually led her to cofound Lately, a tech company that automates and centralizes core marketing tasks.

In part one of this edition of UpTech Report, Kate tells us her unique story, the challenges of marketing, and how embracing your quirks can be the best business practice.

In part one of our conversation with Jim Johnson from Mobile Solutions, he talked about starting a small company on a family loan and taking it from six employees to a hundred.

In part two of our conversation, he tells us how you may not want to be the smartest person in the room, and he offers some key advice on how to grow your company.

Using their own money and a family loan, Jim Johnson and his wife Kim started a company and took it from six employees to a hundred.

Mobile Solutions is now a thriving tech company, repeatedly winning awards for growth, leadership, and customer satisfaction.

In part one of this episode of UpTech Report, I talk to Jim who tells us about realizing the opportunities to address mobile management on an enterprise level, and balancing the needs of human interactions and automated systems

In our last edition of Uptech Report, we spoke with Gaurav Bhattacharya, the CEO of InvolveSoft, who told us about the remarkable journey that brought him from humble origins to the CEO of a startup.

In Part II of our conversation, Gaurav tells us more about overcoming the obstacles of starting a U.S. company as an immigrant, the goals he establishes for success, and his view that coders will be the next blue collar workforce.

Mobile workforces are becoming a fixture of the modern economy, offering companies and employees great flexibility and cost-saving benefits—but it can create a fractured and disconnected workplace culture.

Gaurav Bhattacharya felt this way when he worked at a large tech company in New York—so he left and founded InvolveSoft, which offers companies an “Instagram-like” platform to bring workers together.

On this edition of UpTech Report, we talk with Gaurav about the journey that brought him from selling pencils door to door, to founding a startup straight out of high school, and finally to his current position as the CEO of InvolveSoft, where he hopes to build his company into more than just a workplace, but a thriving community.

In the 21st century, businesses across the globe, from developing nations to industrialized Western countries, have come to depend on fast access to capital—but the infrastructure is often still mired in the clunky bank models of the past.

Our guest on this edition of UpTech Report, Dmitry Voronenko, sought to change that with his company, TurnKey Lender. Dmitry discusses planning around the complexities of international politics, and how he broke conventional wisdom by quickly expanding into several global markets.