Experienced Voices

Want to boost your company's sales? Consumer financing could be the key.

In this episode of Experienced Voices, our “How To” segment features Eric Daugherty of Monterey Financial Services, who breaks down the fundamentals of consumer financing for small business owners.

From understanding how payment plans influence customer decisions to setting up programs that drive growth, Eric shares practical insights on how businesses can ...

George Gebhart, CEO and founder of Voltu Motor, is a trailblazer in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, leveraging nearly two decades of expertise in engineering, innovation, and leadership to redefine sustainable transportation. 

A bio-engineer by training, George began his career conducting research in robotics and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) which led to his passion for electrification and technology-driven solutions​. With o...

Entrepreneur twin brothers Nikita and Iliya Bridan forged their automotive careers based on their youthful passion for cars which began in Ukraine. Nikita shares how the brothers have lived their ultimate dream, founding an automotive startup that will introduce in 2026 its HF-11 limited production car priced at over $1 million.

The HF-11 is being honed to be the ultimate street-legal vehicle. Only 25 limited edition cars will be av...

Innovative technologies present great opportunities. Michael Brown, CEO of Skyline Robotics, shares how AI automation technology was developed to tackle skyscraper window cleaning. Our discussion weaves through the complexity of the technology, the market analysis that identified potential clients’ pain points, the importance of understanding the industry’s existing labor structure, and more. 

As a seasoned growth strategist and hav...

Automotive and aerospace designer Tim Huntzinger turned entrepreneur takes you on his journey of co-founding an EV startup called XOTO. The company recently introduced a 3-wheel on-road electric “scooter” built to have greater stability to avoid skids and front wheel drive for enhanced control and maneuverability. 

Hear how he gathered his team, went from concept to prototype to production---protected his IP, and learned the ropes t...

When an entrepreneur takes the road less traveled, it is literally true for Colin Godby, co-founder of Dust Moto, an innovative startup launching a high-performance electric dirt bike. Colin’s entrepreneur journey began as a young power sport enthusiast which led him to be an off-road co-driver in international competitive events including the Baja1000 and the TransSyberian Rally.  

Colin shares how he used his mechanical engineerin...

Josh Brown is an entrepreneur, inventor, founder, and CEO of Dropshot, a smart scoring platform designed to enhance Pickleball scorekeeping– the fastest-growing sport in America. Josh applied his 14 years of software engineering experience to address a pain point of passionate pickleball players like himself---how to keep score that easily eliminates on-court confusion and scoring squabbles.

In our discussion, Josh shares how he mov...

Kasey Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of Helpr, a global technology company transforming corporate caregiving benefits, shares how their company scaled its services using digital technology to achieve great success. Helpr now serves Fortune 500 companies such as Clorox and Snap through its enterprise platform and is in 45 countries. Hear how Kasey and her partner saw the opportunity offered by digital technology to grow their model and...

Broc TenHouten, Co-founder and CEO of Intrinsic Power, Inc., is a leading authority on the challenges of distributed energy and a technical leader and manager of electric vehicle technology commercialization. Hear how his startup identified and solved major pain points impacting consumer use of EVs, while addressing capacity challenges facing our country’s electrical grid.  Broc offers great insight about the future of electric veh...

Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic exemplify national challenges requiring a new approach to achieve the most effective technological solutions. 

NobleReach Foundation’s CEO Arun Gupta is taking on those challenges, heading a nonprofit startup with half a billion dollars in endowment. Founded as a spinoff of LMI, NobleReach offers a new and ambitious model to drive American innovation through the collaboration of academia, and...

Serial entrepreneur Byron Bennett began his entrepreneurial journey in high school, never expecting that one day he would lead a venture called Zergratran to build in Columbia an alternative to the Panama Canal. He shares the challenges he is facing which include raising funds for a venture of significant scale. His stories of earlier ventures illuminate the unique path of an entrepreneur while offering insight helpful to aspiring ...

Trevor Laudate heads the award-winning startup Ecodrive, a B2B climate tech platform connecting companies to measurable sustainability projects such as tree planting and harvesting plastic from the ocean. Customers find these environmental and social activities appealing which companies see as strengthening loyalty and yielding other desired customer outcomes.

Trevor shares how they developed their model, formed their lead...

CEO Stacey Yudin has experienced the full arc of digital technology, leading NEP Services' Union and Non-profit clients from legacy processes and structure to specialized digital technology platforms. Stacey shares how NEP learned about their customers' pain points and established collaborative working relationships---that is ongoing with new technology such as AI. Stacey also delves into the excitement of building an inn...

Patricia Lizarraga is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hypatia Capital Management.  Leveraging her 30+ years of experience on Wall Street, she and her co-founder launched in 2023 an ETF comprised solely of female-led publicly traded companies, WCEO.  

Hear how she navigated the launch of this unique financial model that highlights the performance of women executives and increases their prominence within the institutiona...

Daniel Daoura, founder and CTO of Pebblebee, is a serial entrepreneur and visionary leader in the trackables industry. Daniel began his career at Boeing, where he spent over 10 years in lead engineering roles developing global software and hardware systems for military asset-tracking communication systems. Leveraging this experience, Daniel ventured into the finder space, creating Pebblebee to help people track what matters most to...

First-time entrepreneurs often have great business ideas that provoke their passion to start a business.  Our guests, Stacy Pena and Brian Engleman, are Fund Managers for the San Diego Angel Conference and they will share their experience as to how angel investors view founding entrepreneurs and the business ideas they pitch for funding.  Don't miss this chance to gain insight into how to best position your startup to gain the...

Join author Mark Atkeson on his 30-plus year journey of living and working in China, an eyewitness to China's great transformation into a superpower.  As both an entrepreneur and investor, Mark shares his firsthand experiences in a country that lifted 800 million people out of poverty over that period, spurred in large part by innovating Chinese entrepreneurs. In his book "Risky Business in Rising China" Mark offers ...

Not many college students can claim that their startup won $100,000 at a pitch competition held at the San Diego Angel Conference and then also gained seed funding.  Student athlete Dominyck Bullard, now student entrepreneur, accomplished both soon after launching his digital media startup Athletiverse. His company manages the digital assets of colleges, universities, and collectives, supporting student-athletes and athletic depart...