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Building the Future has quickly become one of the fastest rising nationally syndicated programs. With a focus on interviewing startups, entrepreneurs, investors, CEOs, and more, the show showcases individuals who are realizing their dreams and helping to make our world a better place through technology and innovation.
Las Olas Venture Capital is a new Florida-based early stage fund that invests in startups in a variety of industries. Our mission is to find outstanding entrepreneurs in non-obvious places and maximize their impact by connecting them to networks of capital, talent, and customers in well-established startup ecosystems. We invest in extraordinary people who are building the future. This means technology that can redefine existing industries and create new ones. We call these people superheroes and transformers. They typically have asymmetrical insight into a particular industry and the superpowers for building products that create ascending user networks, which as a result drive transformational value. http://www.lasolasvc.com https://twitter.com/lasolasvc https://www.linkedin.com/company/las-olas-venture-capital?trk=top_nav_home
Rachel Braun Scherl is a proven expert in business-building for female health companies. Through SPARK Solutions for Growth, Rachel has driven innovation and created revenue growth for leading pharma, beauty and consumer health companies, including Allergan, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer, Merck, and Church & Dwight. Her brand experience includes Advil, Aveeno, Botox, Carefree, Centrum, Chapstick, Coppertone, Johnson’s Baby, Listerine, Neutrogena, ob, Splenda, Stayfree, Trojan, Tylenol and Zestra. As part of "Rachel Talks" keynote speaker series, Rachel has presented to global audiences on Business-Building, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Women in Business. Rachel has spoken at prestigious venues, including Johnson & Johnson, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, Pennsylvania Conference for Women, The Fuqua School at Duke University, Barnard College Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, Fairleigh Dickinson Silberman College of Business and Montclair State University Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship. Career Highlights: *Rachel has built a client base including some of the world’s leading organizations as Principal at SPARK; *As Co-Founder of Semprae Laboratories, Rachel led the growth of the company leading to its sale to Innovus Pharmaceuticals Inc. *Recipient of Best 50 Women in Business by NJBiz , SmartCEO’s BRAVA Award and JWI’s 10 Women to Watch. Rachel has been featured for her work in Women’s Health and Leadership on ABC News, CBS, msnbc, AdAge, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lifetime, Oprah Radio, FOX News, WPIX, Inc., & Forbes. She has a regular column at Huffington Post and writes for Inc. Rachel is a Board member of illumai & Advisory Board Member at Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, The Fuqua School of Business. Rachel is open to LinkedIn requests from Marketing Directors & Meeting Planners of Women in Business & Healthcare Conferences. http://sparksolutionsforgrowth.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/spark-solutions-for-growth https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spark-Solutions-for-Growth/537880806311488 https://twitter.com/sparkbizgrowth
Brian OliverSmith brings the Voice of Experience, Inspiration, Performance, and Leadership to every project. With more than 30-years developing global companies, high performing teams, and a wealth of international cross-industry relationships, BOS Performance leads you, your team, your company to performing at top levels, consistently, achieving and surpassing your goals. http://bosperformance.com https://www.facebook.com/BOS-Performance-294747384229668 https://twitter.com/BOS_performance
Golden Seeds is a network of angel investors dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Golden Seeds has more than 250 accredited investors, with locations in New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, and Dallas. Members invest directly or through a managed fund in sectors that include consumer products, technology, software and life sciences. Members also participate in screening and supporting these new businesses with their expertise and experience. Our culture at Golden Seeds is based on four core values: • Trust: We operate with transparency and respect confidentiality of information entrusted to us. • Innovation: We expect innovation and creativity to drive value for the future. • Collaboration: We enjoy collaboration with our investors, advisors, co-investors, entrepreneurs, clients and strategic partners, as our collective intelligence exceeds and improves on our individual efforts. • Respect: We admire autonomy and respect individual rights, including the right to find work/life balance on one’s own terms. http://www.goldenseeds.com https://twitter.com/GoldenSeeds https://www.facebook.com/goldenseeds
I headed up data science monetization at Foursquare and have worked as a data scientist and quant at Andressen Horowitz, Google, and JPMorgan. I founded The Data Incubator, a data science education company based in NYC, DC, and SF with both corporate training as well as recruiting services. For data science corporate training, we offer customized, in-house corporate training solutions in data and analytics. For data science hiring, we run a free 8 week fellowship training PhDs to become data scientists. The fellowship selects 2% of its 2000+ quarterly applicants and is free for fellows. Hiring companies only pay a recruiting fee only if they successfully hire. You can read about us on Harvard Business Review, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, or The Next Web, or read about our alumni at LinkedIn, Capital One, Palantir, Amazon or the NYTimes. https://www.thedataincubator.com https://twitter.com/thedatainc https://www.facebook.com/dataincubator
Alphalab Gear is a hardware and robotic startup accelerator that provides physical product companies with investment, mentorship and connections. http://www.alphalabgear.org The AlphaLab Gear National Hardware Cup application is open to early-stage startups that create at least one physical product. 6 teams will be selected in each city to give a 4-minute pitch to judging teams made up of local VCs and Hardware CEOs. http://alphalabgear.org/hardwarecup
Bryan is ZURB’s original mid-westerner, growing up in Minnesota and finally trekking to California when he was accepted into Stanford University. Not only did Bryan make it out of Stanford with a degree in product design, but the university eventually asked him back to teach in the Product Design Department. Besides teaching at Stanford for 10 years, Bryan worked as a toy designer in the early days of his career, designing toys for Skyline Toys, which IDEO eventually bought out. After leaving the playful world of toy design, Bryan started 3 businesses, including ZURB in 1998. Over the past 13 years, Bryan’s advised more than 250 start-ups on how to build better products quickly and has created over two billion dollars in market capitalization. When He Isn’t Plotting World Domination Bryan is a bundle of unbridled energy, who can burst into song, dance, or a wild exclamations at any given moment. He is energy incarnate with a passion for his family and photography. Outside of the office, he’s spending time with his wife and their three kids, all of whom have inherited his insanely high energy level. http://zurb.com https://twitter.com/ZURB https://www.facebook.com/ZURB https://www.youtube.com/user/zurb http://foundation.zurb.com
Why The Health Not?™ wants affordable and preventative health care for all Americans, and hopefully the world. Our Health Oriented Pairing Engine (H.O.P.E.) matches individuals with professionals, services, and educational materials in a proprietary, HIPAA-compliant, ecosystem from your smart device. Specific input from users and providers creates tailored wellness solutions for personal lifestyle management spanning 6 Pillars of Wellness with real-time collaboration and gamification for maximum engagement and positive outcomes. http://whythehealthnot.com https://twitter.com/whythehealthnot https://www.facebook.com/whythehealthnot4life
We talk about his successes, dive deeper on why he shut down a recent startup & a lot more. Builds businesses and people. Loves learning. -- Co-founded and built TAT 2002-2010 -- Acquired by Blackberry and ran M&A EMEA 2010-2012 -- Co-founded Brisk 2012-2016 -- Angel invested in >50 companies. Email: hampus dot jakobsson at gmail dot com. Just email me and I will respond. twitter.com/hajak www.hajak.se
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