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Owen Barrett

On today’s episode we spoke with Owen Barrett, the President and Founder of Rayven, and an entrepreneur dedicated to decarbonizing the planet.

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Leslie Greenwood

In today’s episode we spoke with Leslie Greenwood, Founder & CEO of Chief Evangelist Consulting where she helps founders, start-ups, and community builders bring an Evangelist-led growth strategy into their businesses

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Emily Molstad

In today’s episode we spoke with Emily Molstad, CEO & Co-Founder at Valis Insights, Inc, a software solutions provider for scrap processors.

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Milaena Ferrarese

In today’s episode we spoke with Milaena Ferrarese, CEO/Co-founder at Healthy Kinnect, a Hatchet portfolio company that personalizes accountability for health and wellness

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Holly Diamond

In today’s episode we spoke with Holly Diamond, Founder at Work Onward, about her transition from education to recruiting, and her mission to create the world’s most intuitive career marketplace.

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Angel Ramirez & Hitomi Mizugaki

In today’s episode, we spoke with Hitomi Mizugaki & Angel Ramirez, Co-Founders at Cuemby, about how their experience over the years working together and building a Cloud Native community helped stand up their product.

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Sarah Porter

In today’s episode we talked with Sarah Porter, Co-Founder & CEO at MedDefend, about how her tenure as a salesperson at early stage startups gave her the insights she needed to start her own company.

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Michael Aibel

In today’s episode we talked with Michael Aibel, CEO at Singulairity.io, about how he went from a sport fisherman, to GTM leader, to a first-time founder in a technical space.

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Matias Troccoli

In today’s episode we talked with Matias Troccoli, CEO and Co-founder at Gybe, about his journey as a technical leader and now experiencing the go-to-market side of business as a CEO.

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Vadim Slavin

In today’s episode we talked with Vadim Slavin, Portfolio Advisor at Hatchet Ventures about creating and cultivating relationships with investors and how they think about investing in startups.

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Mark Jacobson

In today’s episode we talked with Mark Jacobson, Founder & CEO at Terrain, about scaling talent in a startup, how to interpet data, and how to make sure the decisions you’re making work for you and your business.

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Conor Lamb

In today’s episode we talked with Conor Lamb, Co-Founder at SkinTheory, about how he built his application and took it to market as a first-time founder.

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Andrew Backs

In today’s episode we spoke with Andrew Backs, Founder at Pilot44, about how first-time founders can focus their innovation efforts and take products to the enterprise space.

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Howard Kim

In today’s episode we spoke with Howard Kim, solo-founder at Mementum, about how his retail product is combining tech to provide their customers with lifelong heirlooms and memories that outlast any model of computer chip.

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Daniel Rau

In today’s episode we talked with Daniel Rau, Co-founder and CEO at Veterati, about how his member-led growth has led to the success of the leading networking and mentorship platform for the military community.

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James Oliver Jr.

In today’s episode we talked with James Oliver, 3X Founder and CEO/Co-Founder at Kabila, about connecting the dots for investors and how helping those around us can better build our network and founder success.

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Ashwini Rao

Ashwini is a cybersecurity expert, former CISO and the co-founder and CEO of Eydle, a fraud intelligence platform that protects brands from scams and phishing. She had MS and PhD in computer science and computer security and 20+ publications and patents in cybersecurity.

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Chris Heard

Chris is a 3X Founder and prior to his entrepreneurship was an experienced sales leader with a background in leading successful SaaS platforms and helping them increase their market share. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Olive an AI Platform helping IT leaders evaluate technology decisions faster in ⅓ of the time helping increase user adoption and speed to market.

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Joshua Fedie

Josh Fedie is the Founder and CEO of SalesReach. Sales & Marketing have always been his passion, but after seeing how sales has changed over his 20 years in the industry he decided to create a better system to help business development representatives create personalized experiences for their prospects. He believes that trust and velocity are closely aligned and that organizations are more successful when marketing and sales teams work together.

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Nate Nasralla

Nate is a 3x Sales Leader, 2-time founder, and sales conversation aficionado who is the Founder of Fluint which is designed to help sales reps stop losing deals when they aren’t in their buyer’s room by creating and selling with champions on the buying team.

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Jonathan Conelias

Jon is a serial C-Suite aficionado with a degree in economics and finance from Bentley University who is the co-founder and CEO at Elevent – a marketplace connecting experience providers and companies to deliver unique, memorable virtual and physical experiences to build trust, and connections and just have fun, they’ve raised $5.1M in funding since their inception in September of 2020 with their most recent seed round of $2.8M happening in Q1 2022.

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Mia Davis

After building her first startup in the sexual wellness space, Mia Davis is now working on her latest venture, Niche — a therapist-driven marketplace that empowers modern clinicians and democratizes mental health. She is a product designer by trade and a serial entrepreneur by heart.

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Stephen Ruff & Todd Busler

Stephen Ruff was a top rep at Samsara and then Heap, where he leveraged data to work smarter and 4x his number. One of his top strategies then became productized as Champify.

Todd Busler was an early sales rep at Square, built the sales team from scratch to 50 reps at Heap.io, and most recently advised early state B2B revenue teams in the Unusual Ventures portfolio.

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Kris Rudeegraap

Kris is a former tenured sales professional turned founder and CEO while also acting as an advisor to several growth-stage companies. His company Sendoso helps companies stand out by giving them new ways to engage with customers throughout the buyer’s journey.

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Michelle Bacharach

Michelle is an advisor and angel investor in primarily female-founded companies, who founded a complex product that helped marquee brands keep their businesses stable during the pandemic. She shares her learnings from being a first-time founder and talks about the importance of founders being well educated in all things early-stage startups.

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Kendrick Trotter

Kendrick shares with us his story from breaking into tech as a former Uber driver, how he climbed the corporate ladder, helped others do the same, and then turned that into a DEI hiring platform with an entire community involved in assisting underrepresented folks to break into tech.

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Fran Bryzski

Fran is a 3x Sales Leader, GTM Advisor, and first-time founder of his company, Hark – a CX channel that allows for brands and their consumers to better communicate for anything post-purchase.

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Dalton Van Hatcher

As a 4X Founder, 4X Sales Leader, Strategic Advisor to multiple startups, and Chairman of Pavilion, Dalton Van Hatcher (Co-Founder at Hatchet Ventures) knows a thing or two about how to help founders reach their potential.

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