WE: STARTUP HACKS

Wendy Ellin spent years in radio, before launching her Workplace Productivity Consultancy and writing her well timed NY Times Best Seller, “Working From Home, How’s That Working For You?,” pre-Covid. As her book details, Wendy has hundreds of work from home hacks to drive, productivity, performance and peace of mind. She shares those and her own secret hacks that have guided the success of her growing business and kept her sane, and happy working from home.  

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Stephanie Lee is the founder of SelfMade, a beauty brand for consumers committed to well-being. With products such as True Grit Resilience Scrub to combat scalp and Secure Attachment Serum to lower cortisol, the company is a great blend of high-grade beauty products and mental health booster given its well-being mindset and positive intention mission. Stephanie’s secret founder hacks include energy management and mental health techniques to fuel her productivity. 

Actress, entrepreneur and presentation coach to Fortune 500 companies, Allison McGuire successfully blends her many career tracks to fuel her current passion which is coaching professionals and founders on how to apply acting skills and methods to elevate the business pitch and drive the close. Founder of the McGuire Method, her biggest hacks are utilizing the power of manifestation, a prosperity mindset and working smarter, not harder. 

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Lori Sussle Bonanni is a serial entrepreneur, and founder of Elssus, LLC, a multi-disciplined communications consulting firm. Lori’s passion is to build and grow a company’s reputation in order to increase its brand awareness, business results and credibility. With a distinguished corporate marketing career that spanned Verizon, Universal and other major companies, Lori has developed her own mix of startup marketing hacks to further her own business that leverages key resources and time management strategies.

 #hacks #marketing #startups #entrepreneurship #brandbuilding

Margot Shapiro is a Managing Director at Spiral Sun Ventures, a venture firm located in Southern California, which invests in early-stage CPG companies, such as in the food, beverage and personal care sectors, that promote a healthier lifestyle. Margot’s other passion and primary hack is mentoring college students. Her internship program at Spiral Sun Ventures has given students valuable experience with portfolio companies and provided great resources for the company.

#startuphacks #internships #startups #entrepreneurship #mentoring #venturecapital

Rachel Soper Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Rootine and has over 10 years of experience at the intersection of health and technology. Rachel’s commitment to health and nutrition has driven her career and passion for optimizing human performance. Balancing motherhood, and work during the pandemic was challenging, but it inspired Rachel to perfect her own special hacks to insure she remained productive, competitive and on her game during her successful launch. 

#hacks #nutrition #startups #entrepreneurship #smarthealth

Shang Saavedra is a personal finance entrepreneur and influencer who successfully reached financial independence at the age of 31 by being strategically frugal, investing wisely and diversifying her revenue streams. She accomplished this by relying on several life and professional hacks from mastering a success mindset, to capsule wardrobes, recipe-free eating, and mastering side hustle revenue streams and much more. 

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Tawnya Falkner is the Founder & Proprietor of Le Grand Courtâge & Très Chic Rosé. Tawnya’s successful wine business supplied restaurants all over the US. Although the closing of many restaurants, severely impacted Tawnya’s bottom-line, she was able to lean into critical bootstrapping strategies to survive and thrive during Covid. She has learned a great deal about the art of pivoting and power of agility, but her key hack during downtimes was trusting her Founder DNA. 

#winehacks #covidbusinessimpact #winemaking

Serial entrepreneur, Jennifer Mercer, founded two software companies. She successfully exited one and is currently bootstrapping another. She is an operationally focused CEO who strongly believes in the importance of establishing processes early on to insure smooth operations, and optimized efficiencies. Her key startup hacks are management and operations focused. She believes it’s critical to build early on efficient systems and deep teams to drive growth and scale.

Serial entrepreneur Dana Loberg has had a variety of startup experiences building and scaling companies. Her most recent venture is an AR company, which just released LEO AR, an AR mobile application. Dana has mastered a key bootstrapping funding hack—being an active fearless Accelerator participant. A strategic founder, Dana knows how to leverage the best of the startup ecosystem without falling prey to its many funding pitfalls. A hack strategy that few have mastered.