Benjamin is like many founders who personally experienced a problem, made a plan, sought out to solve it, and got an investor to back him along his journey. Tune into this episode to hear Benjamin's story, and the story of http://HaulerMoving.com
A Techstars Alumni, Claudia Recchi shares her entrepreneurial journey of how she became a founder, what passion drove her to create Edsights and the future of her startup. Tune in and check out https://www.edsights.io/
As someone who interviews thousands of companies per year, Abby Lyall knows her stuff. But she shares a few of her favorite industries, investments and a treasure trove of knowledge about Quake Capital on this episode. Check out https://www.quakecapital.com/
Data isn't a buzzword anymore, it's a fact of business. Making 'gut-based' or 'intuition' decisions is on it's way out, and all employees are now held to data and statistical expectations. We're in the prove-it world, and Promotable is here to help us get the skills from top professionals in the industry to learn to be data-driven. Check out Promotable.io
Do you know how many parties get paid when property is sold? Do you know how difficult it is to calculate such payments? Turner Levison, founder of https://commissiontrac.com/ sure does. Listen in to learn all about his business, how it got started and where he's going.
Top Startup Incubator Captial Innovators' Judy Sindecuse shares her journey to becoming an investor after creating several companies of her own and talks about her favorite aspects of being an investor. Check out https://www.capitalinnovators.com/ to learn more.
Coaching & Mentorship can give you the edge and access to someone else's knowledge and experience in how to solve problems, surmount challenges, and so much more. But Coaching is a highly personal and non-scalable profession, or at least it was until https://kai.coach/ came to the rescue. A Techstars Alumni, Jonathan Smith CEO & Founder of Kai.Coach tells us about his journey to becoming a founder and how he built KaiCoach.
Millions of Americans battle and fight to understand their Medicare & Medicaid access and coverages every year. But as Jo Schneier explains, the difficulty falls upon Americans that are 65+ and have a very low success rate. Learn more about Jo's startup: https://trusty.care/ Shout Out: Jo and MinnoTank were connected through an amazing network called https://startout.org/ StartOut is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating great business leaders by fostering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer entrepreneurs.
Travel vs Adventure: What's the difference? Some would argue mystery, excitement, and experience. What if you could capture that into a technology company by trusting someone else to plan the perfect vacation for you, and only learn where you are going two days in advance? Interested? Listen to Sean Ellerbrock share his dreams about https://www.flynimbus.com/
Some entrepreneurs are made, and others are born. Ravi worked through corporate systems to realize, with the help of an incubator/accelerator, that he can go build a better way to solve massive problems with Strayos. After the podcast, check out https://www.strayos.com/
When you pitch a venture firm, the last thing you expect is for them to pitch you a job. But that is what happened to Chris, who now works with tech startups across the United Kingdom. Find more at https://forwardpartners.com/
Whether it's co-founding the Tokenist, Tim's work at Baird Capital or his private equity expertise at Protective Technologies Capital, Tim has a lot of valuable opinions on how to go about startup investing. Listen in now!
In heart of Berlin Germany, Nick is a solo founder building a superior data management platform. Listen in to his podcast, then check out Quidtree.com
Knowledge management, especially in industrial facilities, is a huge market opportunity with a quickly aging workforce. Check out HowFactory.com to learn more about Trace and his startup!
World traveler, executive, but Lynn experienced a problem we all have when she moved to a new city: loneliness and lack-of-network. So she founded Pivt to solve that problem. Listen in, and check out http://pivtapp.com/
The Gig economy is alive and kicking, and HireJoe is leading the way to help property managers oversee hundreds of properties. Check out more at Hirejoe.com
When investors hunt for quality founders, often they look for folks like Keagan. Previously Keagan was an insurance agent, and when he experienced the friction in his own industry, went out and found the smartest people he knew to build BriteBee. Listen to Keagan's unique take on growth of a marketplace tech startup, and learn more about his tech startup at https://www.britebee.com/
From farmer to Forbes 30 under 30, Matthew's company SwineTech is solving a problem that most MinnoTankers don't even know exist. (Hint: 🐷) Listen to Matthew share why he is excited to work on SwineTech every day, why he decided NOT to be a doctor and his best piece of advice for tech founders out there. Find out more at https://swinetechnologies.com/
Sarah Hill is a recovering reporter who is making an impact on one of the most dangerous threats to productivity, happiness and life as we know it today; STRESS! Not only does Sarah share her wisdom with the MinnoTank Podcast but she also shares her secret to hire top talent that have passion for your industry. (HINT: "Tech Playdates") Check out more about Healium at https://www.tryhealium.com/
When you think tech startup hub, you may not currently think of Lincoln Nebraska, but after this podcast, you may change your mind. Listen to this episode to learn about LaunchLNK's $25,000 nondilutive grant to move your tech startup to Lincoln for a year, and the amazing connections Lincoln has to offer. Find out more at LaunchLNK.com