The Silicon Valley Podcast

090 Money, Sports and Tech with Chis Kane

Chris is passionate about startups, sports, FinTech (specifically payments), and financial literacy. He believes that you can get anywhere you want in this world as long as you work your butt off and never stop learning."Everything around you, that you call life, was made up by people that are no smarter than you. You can influence it, you can change it." - Steve Jobshttps://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw?t=12
 
We talk about
What is Fintech and what role does Financial Literacy play in the sports world?
What is the Step-by-Step Payment process system?
How can startups collaborate with one another to succeed?
 
Connect with Chris
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-j-kane/
Website  https://chekspend.com
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089 Entrepreneurism to Infinity and Beyond with Captain Steve Hoffman

Steve Hoffman, or Captain Hoff as he’s called in Silicon Valley, is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators. He’s also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books. These include “Make Elephants Fly” (published by Hachette), “Surviving a Startup” (published by HarperCollins), and "The Five Forces" (published by BenBella).
 
 
On today Show we Talk about:
What are possible repercussions of taking friends and family money?
When do patents matter?
How do you know the commitment level of your co-founder, are they 100% in?
When is it time to quit your startup?
 
 
Connect with Steve
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/
Founder Space https://www.foundersspace.com/
Book  Surviving a Startup  Amazon.com: Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top (9781400223190): Hoffman, Steven S.: Books
 
 
 
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088 Breaking down Mergers, Aquisition's, raising Growth Capital and more with Mark Wilser

Mark Wilser
As Co-Founder of Global Capital Markets, Mark Wilser is a 25 year veteran investment banker with a proven track record of maximizing shareholder value through M&A and Corporate Finance transactions.Specialties: Sell-side M&A (involving both strategic buyers and private equity), growth capital (debt and equity), and management buyouts.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
 
What is the process for an M&A deal, what are all the steps that are involved?
What are some red flags in deals in a deal?
How do bankers get paid? What is a normal fee structure?
 
 
Connect with Mark
Website  https://www.globalcapitalmarkets.com/
Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwilser/
Email mw@globalcapitalmarkets.com
Phone (949) 252-4600 x 225
 
 
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087 The Dark side and Bright side of Tech with Vanessa Russell

Vanessa Russells Bio
Love Never Fails is committed to the restoration, education and protection of young people who are at risk of or currently being sexually exploited in California. Since inception they have educated thousands on this issue, trained over 100 Mentors for Positive Change”, launched an elementary, middle and high school abuse prevention program and located over 100 missing and exploited women and children and provided young people with sustainable jobs in IT, real estate, banking, health care etc They are a state certified CyberSecurity Pre-apprenticeship program, Cisco Networking academy, CalJOBs trainer and Department of Rehab vendor.
 
On today Show we Talk about:
What are the responsibilities of the app stores to sensor or block apps targeting children?
How is cryptocurrency playing a part in Human trafficking?
Can technology be used to help find missing children?
 
 
Connect with Vanessa
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarussell10/
Website
https://www.loveneverfailsus.com/
 
 
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086 Building a Global Startup Community with Nick Hughes

Nick Started Founders Live in Seattle, WA in 2016.
In addition to creating the global entrepreneur network Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or biz dev roles if needed. Previously he founded the mobile payment startup Seconds as well as helping start Coinme, a company built around expanding bitcoin and digital transactions into the physical realm via Bitcoin ATM’s. As a sought-after adviser, entrepreneurial speaker and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path.
 
 
On today Show we Talk about:
 
Why does your events do 99 second pitches?
Will accelerators still have a place post Covid?
What are the needs of starts based where they are located geographically?
Where are the gaps in the existing startup community infrastructure?
 
 
 
Connect with Nick
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnickhughes/
 
Websites
Founders Live https://www.founderslive.com/
 
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085 Super Bowl Winning Mindset For Business Success with Chukky Okobi

Chukky Okobi earned a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers against the Seattle Seahawks. He has also been a member of the Arizona Cardinals and Houston Texans. Chukky currently is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). With his brand, Basic Instructions, he helps executives, athletes and others to access the resources within themselves to achieve the life experience they desire.
 
We Talk About
How important is mindset in terms of success when playing in the Superbowl and as a founder of a company?
Where do startup founders, have the biggest problems?
How to reprogram your mind for success...How to have a Super Bowl winning mindset?
 
Connect with Chukky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chukkybasics/
https://www.basicinstructions.com/
 
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084 Neuroscience in Business and Tech with Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriadis

Dr. Nikolaos Dimitriadis (MBA, PhD) has been applying neuroscience in business and education for over fifteen years. He is an award-winning communications professional, educator and consultant. He is the author of the books “Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain Adaptive Leadership Approach” (now in its 2nd edition) and “Advanced Marketing Management: Principles, Skills, and Tools
 
On today Show we Talk about:
How is Artificial Intelligence impacting marketing?
Why don’t people like to talk to or trust CMO’s and what is a NeuroMarketer?
How can we train our brains to act?
What have been the major milestones in the field of neuroscience?
 
 
Connect with Dr. Nikolaso
 
Websites
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaosdimitriadis/
Email ndimitriadis75@gmail.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nikos.dimitriadis.3150
 
Books  Neuroscience for Leaders
Advance Marketing Management
 
 
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083 Mental Wellness of Startup Founders.

Waikit Lau has founded 2 machine learning-based companies that were acquired and he helped take one public. He has been on both VC and founding/operating side. 
 
Tim Alison is an entrepreneur who has started and scaled four businesses. At the age of 31 Tim walked away from one of the highest paying sales jobs in the country, moved to a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia Canada, and started an educational software company. The naysayers laughed. They stopped laughing when his sales topped $10 million.
 
Rich Razgaitis has been passionate about building brands and teams. Since 2002, he has served in CEO/president-level roles in several venture capital backed start-ups, privately held turnaround and growth companies, and he brings insight from those experiences to his work today at FloWater.
Raz was the CEO of several consumer-tech companies, including DealOn, an e-commerce company that developed the Web’s first deal-commerce exchange, and another, MyTownPerks, which built the first PCI-complaint, cloud-based loyalty program for B2B. (Both companies were subsequently acquired.)
 
 Steve Hoffman. Steve, or Captain Hoff as he’s called in Silicon Valley, is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading incubators and accelerators. He’s also an angel investor, limited partner at August Capital, serial entrepreneur, and author of Make Elephants Fly, the award-winning book on radical innovation.
Always innovating on his life, Captain Hoff has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.
Hoffman was the Founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, Board of Governors of the New Media Council, and founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group.

082 Tech and the Future on The Silicon Valley Podcast

What does the future hold for technology?  What is happening today that we should know about for tomorrow?  We take highlights from past interviews with Shmuel Silverman, Jonathan Trent, Peter Fiekowsky, and Tim Bigwood and share them in this weeks episodes
 
Shmuel Silverman.
Shmuel is an inventor with over 145 patents & provisional publications and success with co-founding and selling two companies. He bring years of leadership experience in Telecommunications, Internet technologies, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence and have led technology teams of researchers, developers, and marketers at two global icons, where he helped develop a proven process to identify, nurture and develop unique Intellectual Property focused on protecting the business first and enabling technology second. He is a trusted advisor to attorneys, M & A specialists, and entrepreneurial CEOs around the world.
 
Jonathan Trent.
His 20-year stint at NASA as a Senior Research Scientist has included research in marine science, microbiology and cell biology, medicine, nanotechnology, engineering, and environmental sciences. After doing 7 TED talks about his career in science, he is now leaving NASA to form his own startup which will pivot from the offshore system to an onshore design that he is calling UpCycle Systems. It will be the only patented technology that accepts wet waste as is, without initial treatment, and then converts it to renewable assets, clean water, steam, electricity, gas and minerals.
 
Tim Bigwood,
Is the acting CEO of Noregon Systems. Noregon is a company that are the experts at acquiring, analyzing, and interpreting vehicle data. Their products include in-shop diagnostic and repair tools and real-time fleet asset-management solutions that give assistance in capturing and transforming your own vehicle data into actionable information.
 
Peter Fiekowsky
Peter is an MIT-trained physicist and entrepreneur who is committed to leaving behind a world he is proud of. Peter’s passion for that goal drives his leadership in multiple climate initiatives, including volunteering for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and founding the Climate Restoration Alliance (CRA). He is also founder and president of Automated Visual Inspection (AVI) LLC and a board member of Zynergy Capital Inc. He holds 27 patents.

081 Best of Startup Advice on The Silicon Valley Podcast

Jenny Huang has 20 years of experience as a strategic marketing consultant, a brand marketer and communicator in the hardware, software, mobile app, and telecommunications industries, serving start ups and progressive companies. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Intuit and British Telecom, where she launched and managed regional co-branded programs with PC OEM partners, their retailers and resellers; invigorated new user acquisition to drive growth, and established regional brand presence.
 
Mark Brinkerhoff is the president of Fusion Design which is a full-service product development company located in Silicon Valley. Founded in 1990, they have worked with a variety of clients from small companies to fortune 100 corporations with engineering services.
Mark’s specialties include: Product Development Consulting, Turnkey Solutions, Industrial Design, Mechanical Packaging and Mechanism Design, Finite Element Analysis, Thermal Analysis 
 
Brett Sharenow
Trusted advisor on raising capital from VCs, PE, and Angel investors, for start-up, growth, pivot, and exit. Since 1995 he has helped companies raise more than $750 million and have facilitated exits valued at more than $6 billion.
Some of Brett’s client companies:
Venture and Private Equity Backed• Verio (acq. by NTT) • Viator (acq. by Trip Advisor) • Dial Page/Dial Call (acq. by Nextel)• Switch Lighting • Vistard • VirtualLan • Ethernetworks • GroWiseBeWell Academy• Puronyx • Skylights • Husk Power Systems • Yonder
 
 Scott Orns runs Operations at Kruze Consulting, a fast-growing Startup CFO Consulting firm that works with over 160 startup clients. Kruze is based in San Francisco with clients in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and New York. In addition to his Operations responsibilities, Scott runs the Venture Debt Consulting practice at Kruze.