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Rod Swartwood: Human Capital Return On Investment! HCROI Nov 16, 2017

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Most companies look to HR for Compliance and today we take a look at how Human Resources can positively affect profit rather than holding down costs.

Rod Swartwood is the Founder and President of HR Prime, a full-service HR consultancy specializing in the strategic and tactical creation of best-in-class talent management practices and world-beating teams. From HRIS roles with government agencies in the early days of LAN based business computing through his strategic HR leadership roles at startups and Fortune 300 companies. His 26 years of practical HR leadership in a wide variety of verticals, coupled with his degrees in organizational psychology and business give him the unique opportunity to guide both young organizations and established entities to greater productivity and profits.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

Robert Davis: Investor Adoption And What To Do When You Are The Root Of Your Hiring Challenges! Nov 10, 2017

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This is a bit different of an approach to investing where the investor takes a much more active advisory role in the company and is often adopted into the leadership team. Hiring challenge- How to solve your issues when the root of the issues is YOU! Focus not on what you want but what the company needs.

Robert Davis grew up here in HB , started in Aerospace, to a snowboard manufacturing , Thermal Snowboards. Thermal snowboards made products for companies like 5150 & Joyride. The company was acquired in 1995 by RIDE, a publicly traded Company and then obtained by k2. At that point, Robert was the VP of Operations. In 1997 Robert left and started Avid Ink. He effectively built the company from one employee to over 250 and $24 mil in revenue. This all from a 25k loan from his family! He successfully exited the company in 2015.

Today, He is Founder and CEO of both Y7 Collective and his newly acquired company, Communities For Cause, a mobile app that works with local merchants and allows the merchants to give money to specific non profits chosen by the user. He is also Member of Tech Coast Angels, Orange County & OCTANe's Launch Pad Panel.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

Peter Polydor: The Importance Of A Strong Team When Shopping To Investors! Nov 02, 2017

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One of the most critical elements to being funded is the team who are leading the charge. Know your weaknesses and have a plan to fill those gaps! Be honest in your approach and realistic in how your company will grow.

Points covered:

- Importance of a strong team
- Having a Plan & When to Pivot
- Strategy for how and when to engage a recruiter
- Position your team to be attractive to investors

Peter Polydor is the CEO and Founder of ERGO Capital and the startup accelerator Ergo Accel. In 2014, he founded the Eureka Building, a three-acre startup and tech community based in Irvine, California, designed to foster innovation and house entrepreneurs. The site is home to over 30 companies ranging from startup to a large public company. Peter sits on the Boards as well as Advisory Boards of a number of portfolio companies and startups. Further to his work at ERGO, Peter is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, is a Charter Member of the Canadian C100, recipient of the Greek 40 Under 40 award and the Power 30 Under 30 award. He received his BA from Occidental College and his MBA from the University of Oxford, Said Business School.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

Brad Hendricks: Creating An Environment That Fosters Personal Growth And Smashes The Glass Ceiling! Oct 27, 2017

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The results can be astonishing just by giving people the opportunity to learn & develop new skills!

Take Aways:

Maintain “family culture” & Creativity
Daily/weekly engagement, focus on keeping people involved
Promote creation of games through contests. Pitch ideas, if they are not interested, the IP is the employees to develop on their own. Use the company’s resources to build.
Winning with uniqueness: family environment, they play where the big companies can not offer. Ambidextrous, ie: take and engineer & teach rendering, AI, leaders are willing to teach.
Career manager- making sure people are learning what they need/want to learn.

Brad Hendricks is the CEO and a serial entrepreneur/business development specialist who started up Blind Squirrel Entertainment, Inc. in 2010, a AAA game studio that creates original content and provides full game development services to various publishers and developers. Under his leadership, BSE has quickly become the top collaborator for industry leading titles such as Disney Infinity 3.0, Bioshock: Infinite, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Borderlands 2, Sunset Overdrive, and Evolve.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

John Crittenden: What Is The Right Time To Exit Your Startup? Oct 20, 2017

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The trials and tribulations of when a founding member of a team should step away from his company in order to let it grow. When to exit and how to do it in such a way to benefit the company!

John R. Crittenden, is the Founder and CEO of Mondigi. He is an entrepreneur with broad experience across asset management, sales and marketing, consumer financial brands, and digital wealth management platforms. Prior to Mondigi, he was one of the first four employees at Acorns and earliest executives as Director of Institutional Services, one of the first and most successful robo-advisor platforms focused on wealth management.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

A Founder’s Story…. First Hiring Pains And A Unique Culture Developed Around A Baseball Theme with Sean Ferrel Oct 12, 2017

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How does the baseball theme transfer into their interview process.

Strength finding exercises
Provide growth plan in interview
Put gameplan together for each employee
Involve different departments in interview process in a panel interview process.

Sean Ferrel founded Managed Solution in 2002. He recognized the need for consultative IT services for small-to-medium and enterprise clients and with little capital, Sean and his dedicated team grew the company organically to success. Within 3 years, the company was recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies, awarded one of the 40 companies with owners under 40 years old and recognized as the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

Startups! You Must Build A Solid Board Of Advisors. Learn Creative Ways To Recruit Amazing People with Jon Shower Oct 06, 2017

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Jon Shower a multi industry entrepreneur here in Orange County with his most recent venture being in the tech space. Currently, Jon is the founder and CEO of iNK, a new business networking platform geared towards helping people build better networks. They were funded earlier this year and are finishing testing an alpha version while preparing to launch live within the next month.

Following your passion and not being afraid to take risks are two big factors that have led Jon to this point in his journey. A lot of his core values and mindset came from the men in his family as well as his time serving in the United States Marine Corps through the mid 2000's. Jon did two combat tours to Iraq over his 4 years and then decided it was time to move on. Moving to Orange County in 2010, Jon dove into the fitness industry. He started a training company geared towards professional athletes and executive clientele. He created programs for dealing with post surgery rehab, injury prevention and strength and conditioning. After proving successful over the last 7 years, the itch to follow another idea and passion took over. The tech space was uncharted territory in 2016 for Jon but he had an idea and the passion to see it through. "I knew that building the right team around my million weaknesses would be paramount in a completely new territory....and that's what we have done".

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

The Way Your Company Writes It‘s Job Descriptions Can Get You Sued! with Usama Kahf Sep 28, 2017

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While there are many hurdles out there, the biggest legal challenges companies have in hiring today boils down to two main issues: when employees don’t disclose the truth during the hiring process and when employees bring over trade secrets from their previous workplace.

When potential employees don’t tell the truth during their interview process, whether they’re hiding things or holding back crucial information that could pertain to their ability to perform the duties of the role, it can cause major issues and put businesses in sticky legal situations.

Usama Kahf is an attorney at the Irvine office of Fisher Phillips where he practices employment law. Fisher Phillips is a national firm that only represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. Usama’s focus is on litigation prevention and compliance. He has a passion for educating business owners and HR directors on how to minimize legal risk and comply with complicated employment laws.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

Executive Director Of Global Entrepreneurship Institute-Interview with Robert Price Sep 21, 2017

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Robert W. Price enjoys world renown as an expert in the field of entrepreneurial capitalism. He is the Executive Director for the Global Entrepreneurship Institute and has a bio that looks that it could belong to three people!

He is a respected strategist, innovative thought leader, public speaker, creative educator, and prolific author. Robert has written or edited more than a dozen books including, Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success: Powerful Strategies for Building a High-Profit Business, & Entrepreneurship, which is currently in it’s 6th edition (Amazon.com)

Advisor to global entrepreneurs and private equity investors: angel, venture, corporate executives, board members, and chairmen.

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

The Revolving Door Of Employee Attrition with Brian Montes Sep 14, 2017

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Stopping the Revolving Door of Employee Attrition. People leave your company because they are dissatisfied. If you are running a company and driving things too fast, you really need to take a minute to look around you and ask yourself, “are the people around me getting what THEY need from our organization”?

Brian Montes of Strategy & Business Development for KEB joins us to discuss Organizational behaviors that can lead to employee dissatisfaction. Brian oversees the day to day sales and operations of KEB, a Southern California based HR Management & Payroll firm. Since 2014, he has helped hundreds of companies better manage their talent, optimize their business operations, bring an ROI to HR and increase stakeholder value.

Brian can be reached at KEB

Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.

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