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Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Karen Rands with Kugarand Capital Holdings and Steve Schilling with Convergent Media

November 27, 2017 by angishields

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Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Karen Rands with Kugarand Capital Holdings and Steve Schilling with Convergent Media

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The Emerging Enterprise Series is brought to you by AppZoro and hosted by Sam Agarwal and Marianna Velozo

Karen Rands with Kugarand Capital Holdings, LLC is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and a nationally recognized expert on attracting angel investors AND making angel investments. She has been described as a Venture Catalyst, a Compassionate Capitalist, Economist, Investor, and Entrepreneur. She is the Leader and Advocate for the Compassionate Capitalist Movement. She brings over 15 years experience in working with entrepreneurs and investors, with over 2000 investors participating her investor education, and over 5000 have attended her events seeking to meet with entrepreneurs that have compelling investment opportunities. Furthermore, over 1000 entrepreneurs have benefited from Karen’s teaching and coaching, many of them applying that knowledge to their business strategy, and capital raise activities. Her clients have raised over $60 Million (est) combined and created hundreds of jobs, according to what we have been able to track. Karen believes entrepreneurism is the greatest source for wealth creation. According to Karen: “You don’t have to be a successful entrepreneur to create generational wealth if you can learn how to invest in those companies that have the potential to be the next big thing”.

Connect with Karen on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Steve Schilling with Convergent Media has been leading startups, turnarounds and high-growth businesses in highly competitive markets for 25+ years. He has been working in “the cloud” since the mid 90’s and creating “managed services” offerings even longer. The press and industry analyst have recognized him as an industry visionary, strategist and disruptor. He has twice put companies into Gartner’s Leadership and/or Visionary Magic Quadrant. He is an M&A veteran including twelve successful transactions and broad based experience in all aspects of M&A strategy, deal making and integration.

Specialties: Venture backed startups, turnarounds, high-growth technology, Software as a Service (SaaS/CaaS), Cloud Services, Product Development, Software Architecture, Telecommunication, Sales Effectiveness, M&A and perhaps most importantly – creating a culture of accountability!

Connect with Steve on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Sam Agarwal is an Innovative Applications Developer. Sam is the founder and CEO of AppZoro Technologies, Inc. – an experienced team of full-stack mobile app developers and web designers. He holds a BS in Computer Science and is working on his Master’s at Georgia Tech. Sam is an Advisor of Mobile App Technology for the Atlanta Tech Village, one of the U.S. leading co-working space entities located in Atlanta, Georgia.

From concept to market-ready digital product, AppZoro is your single-source for everything from complex programming and database development to payment integrations and front-end design. With AppZoro’s in-house team of Agile Coders and Inventive Designers, you’ll get consistent high-quality work at a startup-friendly price.

Sam is also an experienced businessman. In addition to the work he does with AppZoro, he is Vice President of Sara Hospitality – an international, family-owned furniture manufacturer based in India, serving the US hospitality industry. He has been materially involved since he was 18 and is responsible for procurement, marketing, sales, customer service and finance for the business. In this role, he has learned the key elements of “grind” to build a successful startup.

Through Atlanta Tech Village, and as a private consultant, Sam helps business owners develop sound digital strategies that leverage both current and emerging technologies to increase revenues, streamline productivity, attract investors, and nurture customer relationships.

Learn more about Sam and AppZoro on their website, and follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

Pensacola Business Radio: Guests- Next Exit History and Mistory Podcast

November 27, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Guests- Next Exit History and Mistory Podcast

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Ashley Roberts General Manager

www.nextexithistory.com

Jocelyn Evans, Host-Mistory

– Next Exit History is a product of Three21 Innovations that started at the University of West Florida and has since become a privately held company. We still have a relationship with UWF through special projects and the Innovation Institute.

– The App content covers the US and some sites in other countries. Content has been created by UWF affiliates through projects and our Partners, such at the Historic Pensacola Village, the Swan Valley Historical Society and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

– We see Next Exit History as a bridge for demographics as well as a way to provide for accessibility.

– Mistory is about true crimes (mainly unsolved historical murder mysteries) that occurred in our region. The first whole season is about crimes in Pensacola. Mistory is a collaborative effort involving faculty and students across multiple disciplines for every stage of the research and production process.

– The purpose of Mistory is not only to provide engaging listening entertainment for our audience but also to make public history come alive by rooting it in a site-specific familiar context.

– The first season covers Hank Killam who was implicated in the Kennedy assassination by conspiracy theorists, couples murdered in the 1920s and 1930s while “parking” in remote Pensacola spots, and the legendary Whitmire Ghoul.

– Mistory podcast is committed to pushing the boundaries of storytelling and technology. We experiment with different storytelling approaches on the show, with strategic circulation of archival documents on social media, and with beacon technology in the field to geolocate sites of interest. Each story is different, and we aim to make each one the best it can possibly be.

– Mistory is truly the result of a collaborative effort across wings of the UWF institutional family. It is supported through the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, the Innovation Institute, the Historic Trust, and Next Exit History. We appreciate the support of these partners and the enthusiastic support of our listeners.

http://mistorypodcast.com/

Wilson Tomala and Brad Grimes with Paul Davis of North Atlanta

November 27, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Wilson Tomala and Brad Grimes with Paul Davis of North Atlanta

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Wilson Tomala with Paul Davis of North Atlanta moved to Atlanta from New York in 1998. He studied engineering at Stony Brook University of New York where he received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He proceeded to attend NYU where he received his masters in Management Technology. With a passion for sales, marketing and engineering he later joined the team at Heatcraft as the Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning. With encouragement and support from his closest friends and family he decided to go into business for himself and joined the Paul Davis team by purchasing a franchise location in North Atlanta. He began this journey nearly 15 years ago and has enjoyed all of the new challenges that being a business owner have brought him. He is passionate about his business and has instilled his values into the company. The main company values consist of delivering what you promise, respect the individual, have pride in what you do and continuous improvement.

Brad Grimes was born and raised in Atlanta. He studied sales, marketing and business at Kennesaw State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Since then he has run his own entertainment business, worked in property management coordinating repairs for homeowners and to continue with his passion of helping people joined the Paul Davis team in 2016 where he has been the head of Business Development and Emergency Recovery for the past two years.

Connect with Paul Davis of North Atlanta on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Mike Michalowicz with Profit First

November 21, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Mike Michalowicz with Profit First

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By his 35th birthday MIKE MICHALOWICZ (pronounced mi-‘kal-o-wits) had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor…and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the “Profit First Formula”, a way for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward. Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.”

Connect with Mike on Twitter.

Mitch Leff with Leff and Associates and J. Michael Moore with Goizuieta Business School

November 21, 2017 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Mitch Leff with Leff and Associates and J. Michael Moore with Goizuieta Business School

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Leff & Associates’ President Mitch Leff is a 30-year Atlanta public relations veteran, recognized as one of the strongest and most effective PR specialists in Atlanta. His expertise spans just about every category, including education, non-profits, business to business, entertainment, consumer products and healthcare.

He started his own agency in 2003 after spending many years working for large public relations agencies, including Cohn & Wolfe, Edelman and GCI Group.

In additional to national work, Mitch is the top choice for companies looking to market themselves in Atlanta and across Georgia. He also operates two online services to help businesses with their public relations.

Leff’s Atlanta Media (www.leffsatlantamedia.com), the only database of Atlanta media
Mitch’s Media Match (www.mitchsmediamatch.com), an online service that connects Atlanta reporters with local sources.
He also offers Mitch’s Media Musings, a regular blog that covers Atlanta’s media community.

Follow Leff & Associates on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

J. Michael Moore is Senior Manager of Communications at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

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Arnold Huffman with Digital Yalo, Julie McGhee Howard with NowackHoward and Chad Finnegan with Impact Cryotherapy

November 21, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Arnold Huffman with Digital Yalo, Julie McGhee Howard with NowackHoward and Chad Finnegan with Impact Cryotherapy

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Arnold Huffman learned at an early age from his tool salesman father, the value of responsive, customer-driven service and attention to detail. It’s these values that he tirelessly applies to Digital Yalo’s strategic direction. With over 20 years experience delivering complex consulting services and world-class digital marketing solutions, Arnold prides himself on client satisfaction and value creation. Away from the office, you’ll find him at a live music venue, on the basketball court, or enjoying time with his wife and three children. Follow Digital Yalo on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Julie McGhee Howard has had the pleasure of representing condominium and homeowner associations for most of her legal career. After law school, Julie completed a judicial clerkship and practiced general civil litigation before joining Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, PC, in 1996. Julie was a shareholder and the managing partner of the community association practice at WNCW. After working together for 20 years, in October 2016, Julie and her law partner George Nowack founded NowackHoward, LLC, Community Association Attorneys.

Julie has extensive experience advising community associations through every-day issues, document amendments, contract review and negotiation, covenant enforcement, Fair Housing Act claims, insurance defense, collections, and bankruptcy cases. Julie also regularly assists Boards of Directors with parliamentary procedure for annual and special meetings and enjoys keeping Boards up-to-date on community association law hot topics and trends. Since 1998, Julie has been a licensed instructor for the Georgia Real Estate Commission, teaching the Community Association Managers’ Pre-License Course and continuing education courses to Georgia’s community association managers throughout each year.

An active member of the Community Associations Institute since 1997, Julie has served CAI at every level. CAI, based in Washington, DC, has over 33,500 members and chapters throughout the country, and is the nation’s leading advocate for community associations. Julie is a past president, treasurer and secretary of the Georgia Chapter of CAI and served on the Chapter’s Board of Directors for six years from 2002-2007. Julie has served the Chapter through multiple committees and special projects and has been a featured speaker many times for CAI-Georgia homeowner programs. In 2003, Julie received CAI-Georgia’s Rita Kennedy Award, the highest honor given by the Chapter. Follow NowackHoward on LinkedIn.

Chad Finnegan lives, breathes, and believes in cryotherapy. New biohacking concepts and consumer devices fuel his passion in this space. With more than 10 years of experience in management and development, Chad has developed a deep and multi-functional expertise that enables him to mine markets for new opportunities. Chad joined Impact Cryotherapy to legitimize the modern cryotherapy market and fuel the momentum of whole body wellness. He is a graduate of Mississippi State University. Follow Impact Cryotherapy on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Biz Radio U Featuring Myles Berrio with Myles Berrio Photography

November 20, 2017 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Biz Radio U Featuring Myles Berrio with Myles Berrio Photography

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Myles Berrio was not always a photographer. From his efforts to supplement outsourcing the photography part of his marketing consulting company, photography quickly became a clear path of where his heart really lived.

Myles Berrio is now a full-time wedding and commercial photographer who’s not only invested in his craft, but in people as well. Working with companies like UberEATS as a freelancer, to destination weddings in the Dominican, the sky is the limit to where Myles would like to grow and experience life as a photographer. You’ll most likely see him smiling, hashtagging #veganlife, and engaging with his audience all over social media and in person.

Connect with Myles on his commercial and wedding photography websites, and follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

Marketing SuperHeroes Series Featuring Francis Brero with MadKudu

November 17, 2017 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Marketing SuperHeroes Series Featuring Francis Brero with MadKudu

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Francis Brero is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officier of MadKudu, a predictive analytics platform built for B2B SaaS. As a college math major, he has always strived to leverage his passion for numbers to drive growth. For the past decade, Francis has helped marketing teams increase sales by using customer data. His years of experience led him to advise marketing strategies at companies like Shazam, Shopify and Segment.

Connect with Francis on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Pensacola Business Radio: Gallery Night Episode with Guests Fish.In.The.South.- Swag, Bagged and Tagged!

November 17, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Gallery Night Episode with Guests Fish.In.The.South.- Swag, Bagged and Tagged!

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The word South is not a bad word. I was raised here my entire life, starting in Tallahassee and now residing in Panama City. The word South is a culture, not one of a negative nature but one of the exact opposite. I was taught respect, to say yes sir and no mam. To help an elderly person take their groceries to their car. To hold open that door, to always have ladies go first. To show a woman respect. I was taught to turn the other cheek. To have family dinners every night and talk about our day. To support one another and one’s community. To be a better man. This mentality is not just in the South. It is a mentality that is world wide, but I learned it here in the South. The man above in the picture is a close family friend. A man we call uncle in my family. He is a retired fire captain from Detroit. There is rarely a man as good as him. Here is a man who served his community for many years, never asked for anything, and only looked for a way to make it better one day at a time. His wife was telling me a story one day, a story that truly speaks to the Southern way of life. She couldn’t find him one day, had been calling him and wondering where he was. He was bagging groceries and helping the elderly take them to their car. He didn’t work at the grocery store, he didn’t do it for money. He did it because it was the act of a good man. Because he is a good man. Something you don’t see anymore. Something that we have long forgotten. Something that we need to bring back. The word South is not a negative word. We just have to show the world what it really means. Fishing has brought me back to that mentality. To the right mentality. Help someone, do something right, do something to make someone understand that good people do exist. When you buy a shirt, or a hat, or anything else, wear it with pride. Wear it with respect and be that better person. Show the world that the word South, is something to be proud of. Something everyone should have a little bit of in them.