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Monique Mills, TPM Focus

May 25, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Monique Mills, TPM Focus

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(North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 459)

With deep curiosity and a breadth of experience, Monique Mills, CEO of TPM Focus, is uniquely qualified as a tech startup consultant. She and host John Ray talked about the knowledge and wisdom she offers, and how her firm helps companies with revenue-focused strategies and honest, transparent business advice. Monique also shared how she got into consulting, the pitfalls she sees entrepreneurs get into, those who go back to corporate, dealing with investors, how to work with software developers, and much more.

Monique’s podcast is Unpolished MBA and can be found here.

North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

TPM Focus is an innovation strategy consulting firm providing revenue-focused strategies and tactics that align sales, marketing, technology, and customer success with financial goals for startups and SMBs launching new, innovative products.

Focused Innovation Group, is a family-owned company created to acquire small businesses that are ripe for innovation and digital transformation to increase their efficiencies and profitability.

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**Monique Mills, MBA, PMP®, CEO, Chief Innovation Strategist, TPM Focus**

Monique Mills is a degreed electrical engineer turned serial entrepreneur. Having experience in everything from building software companies to building power plants, she’s worked in multiple industries including water, semiconductor, aviation, construction, and real estate.

She’s founded 5 companies and focuses on business innovation through her consulting and acquisition companies.

Monique currently serves as the CEO of TPM Focus, an innovation strategy consulting firm, and as President of Focused Innovation Group (FIG), a family-owned acquisition company. Monique serves as a Mentor, Advisor, Consultant, and Strategic Partner to several entrepreneurial and innovation organizations such as Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech (ATDC), STEM to Market, Founder Institute, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), National Minority Diversity Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), Winston Starts, and Operation Hope.

She is also an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgia State University. With an electrical engineering degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Georgia Institute of Technology, she is an advocate for the diversification of STEM careers, expanded leadership, and equitable entrepreneurial opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

How starting a company is not necessarily the same as founding a startup.
What advice would you give to someone with a tech startup idea who does not have a tech background?
What advice would you give to those who are trying to create an entrepreneurial environment to drive innovation and growth in their city?
Why did you start Focused Innovation Group this year?
With all this talk about certifications over degrees, especially with the rising costs of tuition, were the degrees necessary for achieving success in my career?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Jonathan Wilson, Taylor English Duma

August 24, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Jonathan Wilson, Taylor English Duma

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Jonathan Wilson, Taylor English Duma (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 275)

Jonathan Wilson of Taylor English Duma joins host John Ray to discuss his wide-ranging work as a business attorney, including how he helps with financings, business sales and transitions, and much more. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Jonathan Wilson, Partner, Taylor English Duma

Jonathan B. Wilson is an experienced business lawyer who enjoys solving complex business and transactional problems for clients. He applies his more than 25 years of experience as an in-house lawyer, business adviser and strategist to help business executives and owners achieve negotiated solutions to technology and financial transactions.

Mr. Wilson is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Business Department and his practice includes corporate securities, corporate finance and governance, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. He represents Fortune 100, middle-market and start-up companies.

Mr. Wilson was the general counsel or chief legal officer of Interland Inc., Web.com Group Inc. and EasyLink Services International Corp., where he advised senior management and the boards of directors on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, NASDAQ compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley matters, corporate governance, governmental affairs, contracts, litigation, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Wilson led Web.com’s legal department through its growth and merger with Website Pros Inc. in September 2007, at various times acting as the corporate secretary and the executive in charge of corporate development.

Mr. Wilson spent the first 10 years of his career in private practice with large Atlanta law firms, including a leading international firm and one of the nation’s most prestigious corporate firms.

Mr. Wilson has represented both large and small companies in outsourcing, patent licensing, software licensing, distribution and strategic alliance agreements.

In 2009, Mr. Wilson founded the Renewable Energy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Public Utility Section, and he chaired that committee, writing and speaking frequently on renewable energy and clean technology development through 2015.

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Questions/Topics Discussed in this Show

Start-ups – What makes them successful and pitfalls to avoid.
Financing your company – What types of financing exist and which are better suited for different business
Crowdfunding – What is it and does it really matter?
Selling your company – How does the process work (and how your attorney can help).
Lawsuits – How to avoid them and why they are almost always a bad idea for both sides!
Lawyers – How a good one can help your business grow (and how to figure out which are the good ones)

North Fulton Business Radio” is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Matt Johnson with Johnson Venture Partners

May 29, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Matt Johnson with Johnson Venture Partners

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Johnson Venture Partners (JVP) is a micro VC fund investing in high-growth startups in the Southeast. The fund seeks long-term capital growth through a diversified portfolio of startup companies with high potential for growth to acquisition, IPO, or other liquidity event. JVP was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, GA.

Matt Johnson is the Managing Partner of Johnson Venture Partners and has been responsible for the daily operations of the fund since its inception. In his role, Matt identifies and analyzes investment opportunities, performs due diligence, assists portfolio company management teams, and administers all investments made by the fund.

He has executed investments in 30+ venture-backed companies throughout 14 years of fund management experience, resulting in 4 successful exits. Matt is an active member of many regional and national venture investor networks including AIM Group, Florida Funders, Keiretsu Forum, and VentureSouth.

He is a popular public speaker on the topics of startup investing, innovation and entrepreneurship, and has served as a mentor and advisor to numerous startups.

Matt earned a BA in Economics from Clemson University and is currently pursuing an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What Johnson Venture Partners does
The state of venture capital
Predictions of Atlanta’s tech and healthcare industries in light of the pandemic
2020 investment trends

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Jim Weber, ITB Partners

September 26, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Jim Weber, ITB Partners

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“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 167: Jim Weber, ITB Partners

On this edition of “North Fulton Business Radio,” Jim Weber, managing partner of ITB Partners joins host John Ray to talk about his consortium of independent management consultants which serves start-ups to midcap companies and beyond. “North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Jim Weber, ITB Partners

Jim Weber is Managing Director of ITB Partners, a consortium of independent management consultants providing high value-added solutions to your problems. ITB Partners helps business managers solve their problems by connecting them with high-quality independent management consultants. ITB’s consultants are experienced leaders, discipline experts, and project managers. Clients are publicly and privately owned mid-caps; private equity groups and their portfolio companies, start-ups, acquisitions, and turnarounds. The firm’s industry expertise ranges from consumer packaged goods and manufacturing to supply/chain, logistics, and the service sector. Additionally, they have depth in consumer services franchising, specifically restaurant, hospitality and retail. The core of the firm’s business is the belief that client success is paramount. This belief ensures that the focus is fixed on delivering a high-quality product. This client-focused approach is simple: Listen to understand the client’s needs analysis to provide insight; foster trust to forge a true business partnership; plan, implement and follow-through; and be accountable for results. ITB has a solid track record of success and long-term relationships with high repeat business. The firm’s referenced client list shows high client satisfaction. In addition, the consortium’s depth and breadth of skills, abilities, and experience includes more than 25 years in multi-industry environments, leadership positions in large multi-national organizations, as well as experience in building and leading successful businesses.

For more information visit itbpartners.com, or email Jim directly.

“North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Jude Rasmus with Properly and Monica McCoy with Monica Motivates

July 9, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jude Rasmus with Properly and Monica McCoy with Monica Motivates

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Jude Rasmus is the Co-Founder & Head of Real Estate of Properly, a venture backed Real Estate Tech company founded in Atlanta. Jude has over 25 years of real estate experience, primarily focused on the stabilization of distressed assets.

Jude holds brokers license in seven states and is responsible for acquisition and disposition of over 20,000 residential assets in Atlanta MSA ($2 billion+ value) and the Southeast. She is a top three volume broker in Wall Street Journal’s “The Thousand” consistently.

Selling a home is the largest transaction most people make in their lives, and Jude has always believed it should be simple and transparent. She Co-Founded Properly because she knows that real estate can be better and more affordable for the average homeowner, and wants to help bring about that change.

Connect with Jude on LinkedIn and follow Properly on Facebook.

Monica McCoy is a highly-sought after global speaker, business strategist, executive coach and consultant. As founder of Monica Motivates, LLC., Monica provides coaching, speaking and consulting services, that helps women transition from being mere spectators, to pursuing their dreams and becoming active participants in having fulfilling, successful personal and professional lives.

A former Acting Global Director of Strategy and Innovation for the McDonald’s Division for The Coca-Cola Company, McCoy left to pursue her own dreams in 2017 after 15 successful years. Recognizing that female start ups only received $1.9 billion of the $85 billion total invested by venture capital firms last year, Monica became committed to closing the gap and helping women founders effectively prepare to access the funding that is available to them.

As a result, she founded Pitch University, a comprehensive and interactive workshop, featuring strategies and tactics shared by current and former executives of major multinational companies. In addition to Pitch University, Monica’s company also holds quarterly Global Supplier Diversity Curriculum events and an annual Global Supplier Diversity Conference, which started in 2018.

An award-winning business owner, McCoy was among 50 global women leaders who received the prestigious Women’s Economic Forum 2017 “Iconic Women Creating a Better World for All’ Award in New Delhi. She has shared her professional expertise at industry and professional groups like Mercedes Benz USA, Cisco, GA Tech, The Coca-Cola Company, etc. McCoy also just released her second book, “Treating Your Brand like a Fortune 100 Company,” at the event. Her first book, “The Best life Lessons Learned From Real People,” was released last year.

Connect with Monica on LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Don Muntner & Noah McNeely from Product QuickStart

November 4, 2017 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Don Muntner & Noah McNeely from Product QuickStart

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Steven Julian, Noah McNeely, Tiffany Krumins, Don Muntner

Don Muntner & Noah McNeely/Product QuickStart

Product QuickStart was created out of a passion to meet the product development, prototyping, and manufacturing needs of entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small companies. In their careers, they’ve met way too many inventors and would-be product entrepreneurs that have been taken advantage of in this industry, so they decided to do something about it. There is no shortage of engineers, marketing people, and “submission companies” that will gladly take your money and get you nowhere. That’s not Product QuickStart. Their goal is to be honest operators, and do everything they can to help clients understand what they are getting into and their odds of success.

THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF SMALL BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital

July 30, 2014 by Mike

On the Money

THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF SMALL BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital

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Phillip Campbell, Joe Moss, Doug Ireland

Successful business owners Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital join Joe Moss to discuss the right way and the wrong way to start and run your very own business.

Doug Ireland/Freeland Painting & Construction

The mission at Freeland Painting & Construction is to bring excellence to their clients through home repairs. Painting, roofing and general renovations are not a unique business, but Freeland Painting & Construction intends to be unique within this industry. They believe that their customer’s fulfillment and happiness is the ultimate goal and the only assignment. They believe that only by serving their customers FIRST can they then serve their employees, suppliers and families.

Phillip Campbell/Homegrown Capital

Homegrown Capital is a private capital firm specializing in residential new construction and renovation loans. Their mission is to provide secured high-yield returns to their investors and supply essential funds to their builders.

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On the Money focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. On the Money also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, On the Money airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.