School for Startups Radio

Simon T. Bailey – World’s Leading Expert on Brilliance and Author of Resilience@Work: How to Coach Yourself Into a Thriving Future 

AI may become faster and smarter, that’s great, but your soul and your spirit or your differentiator, always and forever.

Simon T. Bailey is the world’s leading expert in Brilliance. Simon has ascended to extraordinary heights, recognized among Success magazine’s Top 25, alongside Brené Brown, Tony R...

Paul Pluschkell – Founder & CEO of StartupOS

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Paul Pluschkell is a proven transformational leader across a range of technologically and financially driven markets. He has been both an innovator and disruptor by combining his vision and product expertise. He is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits including MXNet, IXNet, Spigit, Global Center, and Kandy...

Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, MD, MA – Psychiatry Professor, Researcher at Stanford University and Author of A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference

There is a leadership industrial complex that is selling us the notion that essentially anyone is reasonable raw material for leadership. You just have to sign on the right executive coach or take the right readership course and leadership is for...

Dr. Ilya Strebulaev – Founder of the Venture Capital Initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Author of The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

The venture capital industry was developed in the United States in the 1970s. Prior to the 1970s, The U.S., in terms of its innovation and its ability to create new, large companies, was no different from other developed countries. B...

Sam Sherman – Co-founder of Socium Media

We always write content ourselves. We will definitely use AI for inspiration on what content to write about, but we do the actual generation of that content. Google has caught on. Facebook will soon start marking content that is AI generated.

Sam Sherman is the Co-Founder at Socium Media. Prior to that, they were the Founder and CEO of FWRD Digital from April 2017 to April 2019. Sam has al...

Peter Kingma – Working Capital Leader at EY-Parthenon

Peter Kingma is the Americas Working Capital Leader for EY Parthenon. Working across a variety of sectors such as automotive, aerospace, defense, healthcare, retail and consumer products, he advises business leaders on how to optimize the management of cash. His work has led to well over 25 billion dollars of value creation for his clients. Peter is a regular contributor to lead...

Fred Wilson – Real Estate Sales Coach and Author of Real Estate Attraction: How To Do Business NOW in Real Estate Sales

From tennis professional to luxury travel entrepreneur, Fred ultimately rose to a rare level of success in the real estate business. Through his innovative approach, he has averaged one closed transaction a week for 30 years running. In his new book, Real Estate Attraction™, Fred shares career-shaping strategies a...

Phaedra Boinodiris – IBM Consulting’s Global Leader

Phaedra Boinodiris is IBM Consulting’s global leader for Trustworthy AI. She is a prolific public speaker and author of the book ‘AI for the Rest of Us’. She is on the IBM Academy of Technology’s leadership council, a Fellow of the RSA, and serves on the advisory boards of several academic institutions. She is currently pursuing a PhD in AI and Ethics thanks to the European Union....

Tory Gray – Founder of The Gray Dot Company – SEO Success

We focus on trying to be transparent with our clients because SEO is not for everyone.

Tory Gray is a highly experienced digital marketing consultant and the Founder of The Gray Dot Company. With more than 15 years of experience in SEO and growth strategy, Tory has helped numerous businesses achieve their goals through digital strategy, with a focus on technical and strate...

Jonathan Orpin – Founder of New Energy Works and Pioneer Millworks

We have a multimillion backlog in housing requirements. People need houses. We are behind so, the building industry is in a really good place.

Jonathan Orpin is a lifelong entrepreneur and sustainability advocate and founder of two eco-friendly companies in the design + build and manufacturing industries, New Energy Works & Pioneer Millworks. With over 30 year...

Lilly Tench – Director of the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee Research Park and Author of Good Business: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating a Better World 

My book talks about the intersection of business and social and environmental impact. So, making societal change using business rather than using philanthropy or government.

Lilly Tench is author about the many ways that businesses can do good and turn ...

Elizabeth Miller – CEO of Top Health Source

Elizabeth Miller is the CEO of Top Health Source, home of Calotren. She is wife and mother to a spunky 9 year old girl who loves everything pink.  She used to be a teacher but she has always been into health so when an opportunity to joint Calotren came about, she had to jump on it.  It was a big thing when she was in high school, and now the company is America’s #1 choice for healthy wei...

Jason Roberts – Peak Performance Coach – How 10 of 11 Startups Made $1 Million in Year 1 

Every business uses marketing and promotions to solve a problem that somebody needs help with. In the franchise world, I love the sports space and the junk space. The junk space is not sexy at all, but somebody can get into that business for just over $100,000, and the average unit volume can do $1.2 million.

Jason Roberts is a charismatic N...

Jason Yarusi – $300 Million in Residential Real Estate

You could buy a 10 unit, a 20 unit, or a 300 unit building. It is basically the same steps. It comes down to are you mentally ready for the opportunity to do a bigger project?

Jason Yarusi is a private fund manager of over $300 million dollars in commercial real estate. Since 2017 his company, Yarusi Holdings, has amassed over 3000 apartment and commercial real estate units. ...

Jeremy Lessaris – Founder and CEO of Payment Brokers – Rang Opening Bell on NASDAQ in 2014 

The number one thing for bootstrappers is micro monetization. If you can find the shortest, lowest energy position to get to revenue in a profitable way, that’s the best advice I can give you. Identify little, tiny micro businesses units that you can do.

Jeremy Lessaris is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and former global marketing and co...

Scott Cohen – VP Strategy and Marketing at InboxArmy – Award Winning Email Marketing Veteran 

If you are always ‘on promotion’ or having a sale or only do promotions one week of the month, you train your customers to wait. Customers are much smarter.

Scott Cohen begun life as a copywriter, has worked on both sides of the aisle, and as a brand-side marketer running the email marketing programs at Purple, 1-800 Contacts, and Wester...

Rich Lee – CEO and Co-Founder of New Era ADR

As a startup when you are incredibly capital constrained, even if you go raise a round of capital, all that money you are pouring into a startup, it should be used to go to market. The last thing you want to be spending time and money on is litigation.

Rich Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of New Era ADR. Before starting New Era, Rich was the General Counsel at Civis Analytics, a fast-gro...

Brian J. Esposito – CEO of Diamond Lake Minerals Inc. and Esposito Intellectual Enterprises LLC

Brian J. Esposito is CEO of Diamond Lake Minerals Inc. and Esposito Intellectual Enterprises LLC (EIE). Brian is a serial entrepreneur and business leader who was ranked among the world’s top 10 CEOs for 2020, 2021 and 2022 in The World CEO Rankings Awards’ by Adria Management LLC. Esposito has 20+ years of experience building companies ...

Kyle Kuderewski – Operations Manager at WebStreet – Investing in Online Businesses 

Kyle Kuderewski is the Operations Manager at WebStreet (formerly Empire Flippers Capital), and is a dynamic individual with a wealth of expertise in passive investing, entrepreneurship, alternative investments, and remote work. With a background in engineering management and a master’s degree in project management, Kyle brings a unique perspective t...