Welcome to the Kauffman Fellows podcast, produced in partnership with Mighty Capital. This season, we feature select Kauffman Fellows as hosts of mini-series, interviewing some of the world’s top leaders in capital formation, all from a place of authenticity and vulnerability. What makes the Kauffman Fellows Podcast unique? We challenge our guests to hang up the superhero cape and get real about the sacrifices, failures, and inflection points that each individual goes through to become the b ...
Chris Picconi hosts the Classic 4x4 Podcast with fellow classic four-wheel drive Jeep, Land Rover, Toyota, International Harvester, Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge enthusiasts. Weekly interviews with 4WD enthusiasts, collectors and restorers discussing their background, experiences, projects and collections.
Entrepreneurship is all about pursuing constant growth. Success won't come your way if you get stuck in one place and don't continuously seek the next big thing. What are the most effective strategies for moving to the next level? Which are the best practices for hitting bigger goals? Discover all that and more right here on Power Your Profits Podcast. If you are an established entrepreneur with a steady revenue flow, this show is your guide to getting to greater heights. Gather the most pra ...
US immigration laws are one of the biggest challenges for startups trying to enter the US market. This podcast is about US immigration issues for startup founders and international entrepreneurs. US-based startups/employers struggle to hire talented minds who often need work visas. International entrepreneurs and founders need to navigate the US immigration maze to understand how to enter the US market legally. Tahmina Watson, author of the book The Startup Visa (2nd edition) and a Business ...
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Rise And Thrive To Create The Life That You Love With Jennifer Kauffman
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Many who struggle with trauma are being held back from creating the life they love. To rise and thrive from trauma, you need connect with someone who has life-changing information and healing methods and can enlighten you on a path to transform your lives. In this episode, Jennifer Kauffman, Director and Producer of There's Got to be More to Life, …
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Financial Planning: Building A Wealth Strategy For Entrepreneurs With Hannah Chapman
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Most entrepreneurs have problems with money because they aren't open enough with their financial planners. Financial planning is very important as an entrepreneur, especially if you want to make a dent in the world. Trust your financial advisors because they know what is best for you and your business. If you're struggling with taxes or generating …
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2022 4x4 Market Review with Classic.com and Fourbie Exchange
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2022 was a pinnacle year for classic cars and trucks, marking one of the largest transaction volumes in history with a major shift in where those transactions are taking place! Classic.com and Fourbie Exchange are at the forefront of the market providing transparent market data and a specialized truck and 4x4 marketplace. Classic.com was founded in…
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Josh Human - Working Class Trucks & Modern Timber
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Josh Human launched Working Class Trucks to preserve the heritage and pay homage to the reason manufacturers started building trucks, to work! Josh and Working Class Trucks are dedicated to the noble and powerful fuel chugging steeds that are driven to work each day to bring home the bacon. Josh's love for working trucks was instilled early when he…
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Your Mindset Creates Your Life With Krista Mashore
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Did you know that 85% of what you're thinking every day is negative? And it is your mindset and thoughts that create your actions, which create your life. If you think a recession is going to kill your business, you're not going to take risks because that is your mindset. You need to shift your way of thinking if you want to succeed. Join Susie Car…
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Josh Card - Survivor Jeeps: AMC Jeep Historian
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As a dedicated professional First Responder and classic Jeep historian, Josh Card is always following his passion to serve his communities. Whether saving lives from fire or keeping factory correct AMC Jeep era history alive, Josh's altruistic lifestyle deserves the utmost appreciation. Josh launched Survivor Jeeps with the mission to preserve hist…
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Chris Lott - Lotts of Vintage: Bullnose Bronco Aficionado
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Being an 80s kid means much more for Chris Lott than just being a geriatric millennial. Chris embraced car and truck culture early and developed a love for what some credit as the greatest Ford truck years, 1980 - 1986, the bullnose era. Chris and his father spend copious amounts of time together hunting, restoring and curating an epic collection o…
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Strategy Sprints: Scaling Your Business In 90 Days With Simon Severino
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If you want to scale your business quickly, you need to identify your bottleneck ASAP. You need to create daily, weekly, and monthly habits just for that one bottleneck until it is solved. Start working on your highest income-producing activities to scale. Be an agile company by setting up modules that you can plug and play into your projects. This…
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Paul Potratz - Helderburg: Investment Quality Land Rover Builder
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Paul Potratz spent the majority of his career building a successful media and advertising agency before following his passion to build the finest Land Rover Defenders known to many and founding Helderburg. Helderburg was born from the passion of hobbies and interest of making a Land Rover Defender a modern daily driver and grew into a Bespoke Progr…
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Seth Hensler - Red Eye Garage: Building Wild Willys Jeeps
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Seth Hensler embarked on a mission many years ago to save old vehicles from the junkyard one day at a time. He is successfully accomplishing that mission through a couple of Willys Jeeps, a crew cab dually GMC square body and several other interesting modes of transportation. His days as a teacher are long gone and his life is now dedicated to his …
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Work With Passion: Increasing Profitability With Holly Chantal
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Building a brand is as challenging as growing one. Sometimes, even harder. We explore every way to take the business to the next level and be more profitable. What if there is a way for you to increase your revenue by 3x in 90 days? Listen in and learn as Holly Chantal talks about how you can do just that and more! She shares insights on how follow…
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Eric Tessmer - Bare Knuckle Binder: IH Collector & Legendary Musician
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When Eric Tessmer isn't on the road touring with his band, he is planning epic trips to buy and tinkering on early International Harvester light and medium duty trucks. As a Wisconsin native, growing up in the International Harvester homeland, Tessmer developed his love affair with music and classic trucks through a kind of familial osmosis. Both h…
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Josh Kauffman - The "Check All the Boxes" Collector
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Josh Kauffman grew up in New Jersey but made his way to Nashville via Florida. Through his travels, he has amassed a classic 4x4 collection that "checks all the boxes". From International Harvester Scouts, Land Rover Series, Toyota FJs and Jeep CJs and FCs, Josh's diverse collection has a little of everything and a cool story to go with each one. H…
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Building Your Brand: Branding Yourself To The Right People With Jeremy Ryan Slate
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Building your brand is all about how you position yourself in the minds of your audience. You have to build that up by being the brand that they can know, like, and trust. This is where public relations come in and team building, which are all important aspects of building your brand. Join Susie Carder as she talks to the founder of the Create Your…
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Dan Hayes - Binder Boneyard: Preeminent IH Restorer & Builder
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Dan Hayes, Founder of the Binder Boneyard, is a preeminent International Harvester light truck restorer, builder, historian and collector. The Binder Boneyard is a full-service restoration, sheet metal repair, and modification shop focussing on vintage International Harvester products, as well as the manufacturing home base for the Harvester Hardwa…
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Jared Friends - Merritt Motors: Dry Ice Expert & Boutique Collector
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Jared Friends, Founder of Merritt Motors Co., is an expert at the forefront of dry ice cleaning and preservation. He also restores and collects classic Chevy and Ford trucks with a Harvester or Porsche thrown in here and there for good measure. Merritt Motors Co. in Kannapolis, NC specializes in utilizing the latest minimally invasive dry ice clean…
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Pursuing Your Wealth Strategy With Dr. Kim R. Grimes
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Wealth is your birthright. So, how do you take ownership of what’s already yours? Here to share her story is Dr. Kim R. Grimes. Kim is a dynamic speaker, an influential leader, a certified life coach, an accomplished author, and the host of You are YOU, Unapologetically. She joins host Susie Carder to give insight on how you can own your greatness …
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Chris Piscitelli - Jeep, Dodge & SRT Design Manager
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Iconic automotive designer and artist, Chris Piscitelli, turned his childhood dream into a successful career as a Jeep, Dodge and SRT Design Manager. He developed a passion for cars and drawing very early on and pursued this passion at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied industrial design. Upon graduating he immediately moved to the…
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Paolo d'Ammassa - Global Jeep FSJ Collector
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Building a global Jeep collection that spans bi-coastal locations in the United States and locations in Northern Italy, Paolo d'Ammassa has curated one of the finest Jeep collections in the world! Dovetailing off of Eric Rothenhaus' interview where Chris and Eric discuss their common friend and "Jeep Nut", Paolo. On this episode, Chris and Paolo di…
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Cultivating Resilient Leadership With Adam Markel
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The market is an ever-evolving world, and it has never been more unpredictable with the COVID-19 pandemic. Without innovative and resilient leadership, rapid and unforeseen changes may be too hot for you to handle. Susie Carder chats with Adam Markel to discuss how to hone a business mindset that can embrace change, face different levels of uncerta…
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Grayson McGill - Chill Eclectic Collector
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Grayson McGill is equal parts eclectic vehicle collector, antique picker and semi-pro surfer. His most amazing quality is just being a chill guy with a great vibe that loves life and traveling the country meeting interesting people, sharing unique experiences and unearthing all things old. The experiences he had growing up on the beach in Myrtle Be…
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Charlie Pitcher - Metal by Charlie: Classic Dodge Restorer & Fabricator
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At only 28 years old and with a shop founded 5 years ago, Charlie Pitcher has gained prominence as the premier classic Dodge truck restorer, fabricator and collector. Starting with a passion that turned into a profession, Charlie and his team at Metal by Charlie build bespoke classic Dodge trucks that maintain their original character while incorpo…
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Eric Rothenhaus - Curated Classic 4x4 Collector
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Eric Rothenhaus' career as a designer and passionate collector intersects to yield a collection of impeccably designed Jeeps with unique livery. Presently designing products and fashion for Kayne West and formerly for Swiss Army and Jansport, Eric utilizes his "creative eye" to acquire, design, restore and build an epic Jeep collection. Growing up …
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Nancy Juetten On Transforming Boring Bios, Wealth-Building, And Being Brilliant Podcast Guests
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If you're looking to position yourself ahead, then you need to be at the top of your game. And while there are many experts in your own field, how can you separate yourself from the pack? Our guest for today's episode, Nancy Juetten, has the solution: say goodbye to boring bios! Nancy sits down with Susie Carder to share her book, Bye-Bye Boring Bi…
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Power Up Your Sales Follow-Up With Debbie Hoffman
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Entrepreneurship is difficult, especially if you don't speed up your follow-up. Sales in the entrepreneurial world are very different from wall street—the pushy style of selling no longer works. You actually have to build connections and relationships with your clients. You have to be heart-centered so that you can get those follow-ups and those re…
Women over 50 are drawn to entrepreneurship by the desire for greater flexibility, independence, and control in their work lives. Nan McKay is currently President of the Board of Directors of Nan McKay and Associates, a corporation she founded in 1980, which now has ten offices across the country. She is also the founder of Nan McKay Connects LLC, …
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Automating Your Business With Michelle Nedelec
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How would things be easier if you had a system that consistently delivered prospects to your door every single day? Michelle Nedelec is an executive coach and runs the creative side of her Done For You services helping entrepreneurs set up and maintain their digital marketing through her company, Awareness Strategies. Stop living inside of the box.…
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Proven Effective Podcast Strategies With Doug Sandler
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Are you just starting out and are looking for ways to market your business? This is definitely the podcast for you! In this episode of Power Your Profits Podcast, nationally recognized speaker, writer, and founder of TurnKey Podcast Productions, Doug Sandler share creative and proven effective strategies for building your podcast so you can get you…
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How To Achieve A Limitless Mindset With JV Crum III
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Having a limitless mindset allows you to live a limitless life. Susie Carder introduces JV Crum III, the world’s #1 Authority on Limitless Mindset. JV talks about how you deserve to be rich. You’re born to create millions. The number one way to make more money? Charge higher prices. But to do so, you have to believe that you deserve it. Building we…
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On Purpose: Towards The Life We Have Dreamed Of With Tanya Dalton
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Have you been living your life trying to achieve one goal after another? Does it feel unending, like you are just constantly running without a destination? Today's guest helps you realign your goals to know where you are headed. Susie Carder is joined by best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert Tanya Dalton. Bring…
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Get Seen And Heard: How To Leverage Your Talent With Debbi Dachinger
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Having talent is not enough to thrive in this world. We also have to know how to leverage that talent and make people know, like, and trust us. Only then can we monetize and further use our talents to help and inspire others. In this episode, Susie Carder is joined by her media visibility coach, Debbi Dachinger, to help us, especially budding autho…
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Your Wealth Strategy: Invest In Your Business With Kevin Kauffman
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When you have a business, don't be afraid to invest in it. Spend money on your system and your people. You may lose money at the start, but you'll earn more later down the road. That is what realtor an believes in. He invested in his business, and now he is enjoying the fruits of his labor. Kevin is the Co-Founder of Group 46:10 Network and the rea…
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From Government To Entrepreneurship: The Power Of Personal Development And Collaboration With Justin Recla
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Collaboration is all about coming together for one specific purpose. This is what the world is lacking right now with all this division. Collaboration is also the key to success in running your business. You have to find the right people to work with, and for Justin Recla, it was his family. Justin and his family are considered the first family of …
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Yvonne Silver On Building The Confidence To Take Your Business To The Next Level
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Are you lacking the confidence to bring your business to the next level? Today’s guest might be the help you’re looking for. Yvonne E.L. Silver is the Founder of Women & Wisdom Media – a Confidence Catalyst teaching ambitious female entrepreneurs how to flourish in business and have unshakable confidence to move up from solopreneur to CEO. In this …
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Susan Epstein On Highly Profitable Practices For Work And Culture
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What can you start doing to better your business? Susan Epstein is the founder of Highly Profitable Practice, where she and her team provide coaching and mentoring services to seasoned women professionals who want to scale their coaching business. In this episode, she joins host Susie Carder to share some of her tips and advice on creating highly p…
From foster care to the NFL to a successful entrepreneur, Anthony Trucks has accomplished things that most people would never think possible. In this episode, Anthony joins us to share the different shifts he had to go through and how he found purpose through the lessons he learned along the way. Tune in as he shares his journey and get insights on…
Are you looking to change careers, take on a new venture, or just want to hit that reset button? Get valuable insights as The Simple Planning Specialist, Laura Posey of Simple Success Plans, shares tips on simplifying things and setting up your roadmap to success. Tune in and learn how planning not only get you to the best place you can be but it m…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Harry Gruner, JMI Equity Founder and Managing GP on Advice for Building a Long-Term Firm
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Continuing his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with JMI Equity Founder and Managing GP, Harry Gruner, to discuss his advice for building a firm for the long-term. Harry Gruner is the Managing Partner at JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading s…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Chuck Newhall, Greenspring Associates Venture Capitalist on Building a 100-Year Firm
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Continuing his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with Greenspring Associates Venture Capitalist, Chuck Newhall, to discuss the lessons learned building a 100-year firm. Chuck Newhall is a Chairman Emeritus at Greenspring Associates, a leading global venture capital inves…
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How To Effectively Offer Online Courses With Ruzuku’s Abe Crystal
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Have you ever tried studying and learning a course online? How effective is online learning? In this episode, Abe Crystal, co-founder and CEO of Ruzuku, provides tips and techniques he learned throughout his career on creating and offering an effective course for your clients. Abe’s Ruzuku is an easy-to-use online course platform for entrepreneurs,…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Phil Wickham, Sozo Ventures Managing Director on Building an Enduring VC Culture
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Continuing his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with Sozo Ventures Managing Director, Phil Wickham, to discuss what makes a winning VC culture. Phil Wickham is the Managing Director at Sozo Ventures, which invests in category leaders in advanced data technologies, eComm…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Susan Mason, Aligned Partners Co-Founder & Managing Partner on the Evolution of Venture Capital
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Continuing his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with Aligned Partners Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Susan Mason, to discuss how venture capital has evolved during her career. Susan Mason is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Aligned Partners, which invests in highl…
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Transforming Your Business With A Book With Mario Fachini
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In this day and age, a book under your name has become the best business card. It ups your credibility factor in front of other people. So how can you go about creating the best business card you can own and leverage it to transform your business? Susie Carder interviews Mario Fachini, the Founder and CEO of IWDNow Marketing & Publishing, one of th…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Brent Belzberg, TorQuest Partners Sr. Managing Partner on Building a Long-Term Investing Team
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Continuing his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with TorQuest Partners Sr. Managing Partner, Brent Belzberg, to discuss how he’s developed and grown his investment team. Brent Belzberg is the Senior Managing Partner at TorQuest Partners, a Canadian-based manager of priv…
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Venture Capital Legacy: Mike Maples, Floodgate Co-Founder and Partner on Investing in Lean Startups
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To kick off his series on building an enduring investment firm, Mistral Venture Partners Founding Partner, Code Cubitt, sat down with Floodgate Co-Founder and Partner, Mike Maples, to discuss his transition from entrepreneur to investor and how he got his start investing in lean startups. Mike Maples is the Co-Founder and Partner at Floodgate, whic…
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The Profitable Online Challenges Formula: Making A Bigger Impact With Alina Vincent
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Are you sure you know everything you need to learn about your business? Are you executing the right strategies for growth and success? If you’re struggling to have paying clients and don’t know what you need to do to attract them, you have to stay tuned in this episode. Susie Carder talks with Alina Vincent about the profitable online challenges fo…
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Learning Your Business Value: A Discussion With Adam Chatterley
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One of the most difficult things for a business is to learn their value and price their products or services accordingly. So how does one learn and develop their business value? We learn about this and more in this episode as Susie Carder discusses business with the founder of Beauty Business Secrets, Adam Chatterley. Susie and Adam give their insi…
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Venture in the Middle: John Tough, Energize Ventures Managing Partner On Investing in Industrials in the Midwest
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This series of interviews by Maggie Kenefake, Venture Partner with Royal Street Ventures, focuses on investing in the Midwest. In this episode, Maggie talks with John Tough, Managing Partner at Energize Ventures in Chicago, on his company’s focus on digital transformation of energy and industrial markets and focus on emerging tech and capital-inten…
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Venture in the Middle: Ginger Rothrock, Senior Director at HG Ventures on achieving greater impact through VC
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This series of interviews by Maggie Kenefake, Venture Partner with Royal Street Ventures, focuses on investing in the Midwest. In this episode, Maggie talks with Ginger Rothrock, Senior Director at HG Ventures, a VC firm based in Indianapolis with the resources of 100 year-old multi-billion dollar industrial, Heritage Group Companies, behind it. Gi…
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Understanding Your Organization’s Business Model For Success With Doria Cordova
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Entrepreneurs craft their respective business models for success and sustainability. If you lack this model, you limit your business growth and potential. There are many things to consider, but one thing is for sure, without a model, you will not work your way towards your goals. In this episode, Susie Carder sits down for a conversation with Doria…