Rising Tide Startups

Jaime Jay is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Founded in 2016. Bottleneck is an outsourcing agency that helps businesses identify, hire, and cultivate their workforce through a carefully designed systematic approach to growth. A veteran US Army paratrooper who received the Army Achievement Medal for Meritorious Service, Jay’s additional business experience includes a twelve-year career in corporate America and advanced education in Business Administration and Management at Florida Institute of Technology. Jaime likes networking with big-picture thinkers and proudly proclaims he is unemployable. In his spare time, he enjoys playing hockey, riding his Harley-Davidson, camping, boating, playing guitar, shooting guns, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Sara and their dog, Nikita. Learn more at bottleneck.online Visit our Sponsor: Podbrandmedia.com - Creating lead generating, branded podcasts for companies that are affordable and effective.

In a shorter, exciting encore episode of Rising Tide Startups podcast episode, we chat with international business expert Peter Selby. The specific topics we discuss are: how to lead well in a downturn, the clarity of whether or not you are leading a company or a family, and much more in this packed episode. Since 2008, Peter has been the CEO and Founder of Business Drivers, Ltd. He is also an Author, Speaker and Trusted Advisor to companies across the Asia Pacific Region and Europe. Their business services are delivered with international experience in best practice business optimisation, which in turn delivers a sustainable competitive advantage to organisations of all sizes. Peter is also the designer of unique IP, that works within an organisation's key business drivers, to unlock deeply hidden opportunity in all phases of the business cycle. Learn more at bizdrivers.biz Visit our Sponsor: Podbrandmedia.com - Creating lead generating, branded podcasts for companies that are affordable and effective.

Gregory Vetter is the CEO of Tessemae’s, flavor-forward, organic fresh food company, considered to be a lead innovator and disruptor in the clean food movement. Gregory, the oldest of the Vetter brothers, had the idea to launch Tessemae’s based on the belief in his mother’s wildly popular homemade dressing recipe and how it had the potential to create an entirely new clean food category. After winning over a local Whole Foods buyer and selling just under 700 bottles in one week, Gregory, his two brothers, Matt and Brian, and his family grew the business to become the #1 organic salad dressing brand in the refrigerated space. Gregory and his family paved the way for clean manufacturing on a mass scale by inventing the only gum-free dressing bottling process. That manufacturing process led to the invention of the “fresh condiment” category, the first Whole30 approved bottled dressings and condiments, and then continued pioneering of innovation across the grocery store with the creation of the first shelf-stable creamy dressings free of gums and additives with the “Tessemae’s Pantry” line. Gregory, who values the importance of family and the concept of a wholesome family dinner, spoke at a TED Talk entitled “The Dinner Habit – The Recipe For Change” and is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 Mid-Atlantic Award. Prior to launching Tessemae’s with his family 10 years ago, Gregory worked at FosterThomas, and holds a degree from Washington College in Business Management. He was also a professional lacrosse player, and is a father of four living in Annapolis, Maryland. Website - https://www.tessemaes.com/ Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Zeb Anderson is a coder, developer and attorney based in Minneapolis, and the Co-Founder/CEO at LegalQ - an innovative new app offering users easy access to legal professionals on demand. Zeb started his profession as web developer having worked on eComm, industrial part configuration, custom web applications, and mobile websites. He has handled massive development efforts on projects of financial forecasting data, performance and load testing software, LoadRunner scripts, and RUP6 Oracle patching, as well as marketing, business development, technical, and legal roles. Zeb has a background in Political Science and Law, and LegalQ became the synthesis of his experience in the legal as well as technological sectors. As Co-Founder and CEO, Zeb ensures that face-to-face legal consultation is accessible to anyone through LegalQ, reducing the common hurdles of cost and wait faced by many individuals in need of legal assistance. He is a successful entrepreneur, ready to talk to your audience about the journey of growing a start-up, the importance of LegalTech innovations, and the ways people can gain clarity and find legal solutions to their problems using a simple app. Learn more at legalq.io Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Moonie Zhu is a native Chinese entrepreneur who has been living in Germany since 2006. She is specialized in consumer goods and retail industry with 10 years of professional experience in large German corporations (Beiersdorf, Henkel and Tchibo) before she co-founded eTOC GmbH. She is an expert in Marketing, Brand Building, Strategy Development and E-commerce. She has managed many brands including growing brands in a mature market Germany and building up brands in a new market China. She provides many success track-records of introducing and localizing global brands in China through e-commerce. eTOC comes from e-commerce to China. eTOC helps international brands sell and grow in China through e-commerce and digital marketing. The teams are based both in Germany and China and work in English, German and Chinese. “We are close to you and know how you work, and we are close to the market and know how the Chinese work”. As a specialized consulting company only focusing on China e-commerce and digital marketing, eTOC has already helped over 150 international companies to entry into China through e-commerce or grow and optimize their China e-commerce business. Learn more at - ECommercetoChina.com Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Danae Shell is the co-founder and CEO of Valla, the legal platform for employees. Danae is a developer-turned marketer and a Tennessean who has worked in Scotland's startup scene for over 17 years. She has extensive scale-up experience, joining as an early employee in Scottish startups FreeAgent and Care Sourcer and helping to build and scale their marketing teams. Danae is passionate about building inclusive, kind companies that support high-performing teams. Learn more at Valla.uk Book Recommendations from Danae: "Blue Ocean Strategy" and "Obviously Awesome," both available on Amazon.com Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Mickie Kennedy founded eReleases 23+ years ago to help small businesses, authors, and startups increase their visibility and credibility through press release marketing. He lives in the Baltimore area. Learn more at - https://EReleases.com Mickie's Free Masterclass - https://www.ereleases.com/plan/ Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

We & Goliath, a full-service virtual event company that specializes in achieving optimal results for global enterprises and SMBs, even when their clients feel they’re facing giant challenges. Hence their slogan: We’ve got your slingshot. Unlike most event companies, they’ve been digital-first since way before the pandemic. Their co-founders, Michelle and Daniel each have over 20 years experience in event production, design and digital marketing. Michelle is a successful entrepreneur, digital strategist, and creative director, specializing in building companies and campaigns with an emphasis on sustainability and community-building. Daniel has designed virtual events, websites, and marketing campaigns supported by lead-nurturing automation and conversion rate optimization since 1999. He’s led and trained agency and nonprofit teams as well as workshop facilitators. Learn more at https://weandgoliath.com Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Rupal Patel's high-octane career has taken her from jungles and war zones to corporate boardrooms and international stages. After a thrilling career at the CIA, she earned her MBA from London Business School and started her first award-winning business over ten years ago. Called a ‘Power Woman’ by Harper's Bazaar Magazine, Rupal is a sought-after international speaker and business consultant who has spoken in front of thousands. As a sitting CEO, author, executive advisor, coach and mentor, Rupal helps founders, leaders, and next generation change-makers remake the rules of success and become unstoppable. Rupal's Book - "CIA to CEO" - amazon Rupal's websites - rupalypatel.com entreprenora.co.uk Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Brian Dyer is an owner and operator of multiple multi-million- dollar award-winning businesses and a full-time dad to three wild and beautiful children. He strives to help people bring out the absolute best in themselves while silencing their too-loud inner voices that squander their potential. He believes every person can devour dissatisfaction and exceed the limits of their current capacity. When not leading his tribe, optimizing bottlenecks, and taking relentless action to grow his various companies, Brian can be found making eggs and oatmeal for his kids in his Utah home. Learn more about Brian at - https://www.dyerwork.com/ Brian's book - https://www.amazon.com/Business-Beast-Unleash-Instincts-Silence-ebook/dp/B09WJVV11R/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2C848461T6OXP&keywords=brian+dyer+book&qid=1653959043&sprefix=brian+dyer+book%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-3 Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Itamar is the CEO of Umbrella Micro Enterprises Inc, a platform powering thousands of small marketing agencies and people who want to build a marketing agency. Before Umbrella, Itamar was the founder and CEO of Appforma, an automated marketing platform for small businesses that was acquired by Algomizer (ALGO]. Appforma was the 1st Facebook Innovation Competition Award Winner. In addition to working with thousands of entrepreneurs for years and helping them build their marketing businesses, he’s also working and investing in Tech-Startups such as Stops.com and MeshEconomy. Itamar is the founding host of the Marketing Umbrella Podcast that interviews the world's leading marketers about ways to grow a marketing business. As a family and businessman, Itamar loves to share his knowledge and advice about Marketing, Tech, B2B SaaS, Gig-Economy landscape, and everything in between. Learn more about Itamar at - https://www.umbrellaus.com/ Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Prabhjot Singh is a serial entrepreneur who has started multiple for-profit, social enterprise, and non-profit ventures. He serves as President and CEO of Pyze, the most recent company he founded to enable the world’s largest enterprises to improve business operations through AI-driven Process Intelligence and Analytics. He has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and product management. He previously co-founded Pixatel Systems, a social enterprise that utilizes mobile computing to deploy apps and e-Learning solutions to millions of users. Prabhjot is an active participant in community and philanthropic affairs. He was the Founding Chairman of the Sikh Coalition, the nation’s largest Sikh Civil Rights organization. Prabhjot is also a founder of Saanjh, a non-profit that runs leadership programs for children and young adults. He currently volunteers on the Boards of the Sikh Coalition, Saanjh, and the MBSK Family Foundation. Learn more at - https://www.pyze.com Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://Podbrandmedia.com - proud sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Kenny Gray is the founder of Grayt Media. Kenny and his team are passionate about helping businesses find their one-of-a-kind message. He is here today to provide some insights on how to create unique, creative strategies that produce effective results to help scale revenues, boost brand awareness, and enhance the user experience while getting the highest ROI. Kenny’s ability to be able to utilize Facebook (and other social media channels) has been proven to scale eCommerce businesses and Shopify stores alike. Kenny's website: https://www.graytmedia.com/ Your company needs its own podcast, and we can host and produce it for you: https://podbrandmedia.com

Rising Tide Startups has always been about telling the story of founders globally. And this week we have an expert in that specific space, telling your business story. Jerome DeRoy joined Narativ in 2007 after the founders, Murray Nossel PhD and Paul Browde MD, handed him a shoebox full of notes and said, “we think there’s a company in here.” Jerome had recently left a position at BNP Paribas, Hong Kong, and came to New York to pursue a career in filmmaking. He jumped at the challenge—and so began Jerome's story with Narativ. At Narativ, today Jerome helps companies leverage the power of story-telling by teaching them how to find, craft and tell stories that resonate through a repeatable and scalable method. He leads Narativ's listening and storytelling training programs, one-on-one coaching, and virtual work-shops for sales, team building, leadership development and onboarding. For over a decade, Jerome has worked closely with clients as diverse as CIGNA, Warby Parker, Twitter, and hundreds of startups to craft business-relevant personal stories for sales, leadership, and team building. He regularly lectures at Parsons New School of Design in New York City on The Art of Storytelling. Learn more at Narativ.com Your company or brand needs its own podcast. Let us help - PodBrandMedia.com - sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

From a balcony on a busy street in Israel comes our Rising Tide guest this week, Jeremy Parker. Jeremy graduated from Boston University in 2007, majoring in film production. When he was a Junior in college his feature-length documentary won the Audience Award at the 2006 Vail Film Festival. Jeremy started a creative Promotional Product Division under MV Sport and started a company with his brother David and Jesse Itzler, Co-Founder of Marquis Jet, investor and partner in Zico Coconut Water, and owner of Atlanta Hawks. Their e-commerce platform that distributes unique promotion codes through social media influencers’ Facebook and Twitter posts was acquired by a publicly-traded company. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swag.com. Swag.com is the best place for companies to buy high-quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep. He works with 1,000s of companies including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and Tik Tok. Jeremy was also named to Crain's NY 40 under 40 (Class of 2020). Learn more at Swag.com Get your own branded podcast at PodBrandMedia.com - sponsor of Rising Tide Startups Podcast

Another great guest this week on the Rising Tide Startups Podcast... Karl Maier, CEO and Founder of Abunden.com. Karl is an entrepreneur and founder who has spent 30 years growing lower middle-market companies. Karl began working as a manager or consultant to companies ranging from startups to 100 people. He has been part of the leadership team in five established companies that have at least doubled sales in two years. Leveraging his background as a business analyst, Karl co-founded three software companies. This experience has expanded his sales and marketing background as well as his management, operations and finance experience Karl also had a strong background in a range of financial areas including debt and equity financing, Mergers & Acquisitions (transactions up to $40 million), business valuations, accounting and turnarounds. Learn more at Abunden.com Rising Tide Startups Podcast Sponsor - Your company or brand needs its own podcast. We can help at PodBrandMedia.com

On this episode of Rising Tide Startups we chat with Josh Gilbert, CEO and Founder of Sustglobal.com. An entrepreneur and thought-leader in geospatial analytics and climate tech, Josh Gilbert is Co-Founder and CEO at Sust Global. He has spoken on these topics at events such as COP26 in Glasgow, and has helped Fortune 500 companies, NGOs and the UK Government to integrate cutting edge climate technologies. His previous experience includes his role as Environment and Resources Lead at Cleantech Group, go-to-market consulting at Orbital Insight, where he helped launch the market-leading Orbital Go product. Josh's website - sustglobal.com/ Rising Tide Startups Podcast Sponsor - Your company or brand needs its own podcast. We can help at PodBrandMedia.com

This week's special guest is Jeremiah Lowin. Jeremiah is the Founder and CEO of Prefect, which is a workflow management system that helps to eliminate data flow problems for companies’ data teams. They provide a new dataflow automation platform that reduces engineering time by automating pipelines and workflows of any complexity. Prefect combines the convenience of the cloud with the security of on-prem to meet the needs of companies looking to deploy quickly, monitor, and manage their workflows. Jeremiah graduated from Harvard University with both a Bachelors in Economics and a Masters in Statistics. Learn more at Prefect.io Rising Tide Startups is sponsored by PodbrandMedia.com

Our special guest this week on the pod is Donna Serdula. Donna pioneered the concept of LinkedIn profile optimization, realizing early on that the LinkedIn profile was so much more than just an online resume. The LinkedIn profile is a fantastic branding opportunity. A job change in 2006 led her back to LinkedIn as Donna looked for tools to help her build a sales territory. It was during this time she had her LinkedIn epiphany and forged her LinkedIn 4 point methodology. By integrating LinkedIn into her sales process, she found tremendous success. In 2009, she walked away from her successful sales career and founded Vision Board Media and LinkedIn-Makeover.com. Donna and her team of over 40 writers have helped thousands of executives, entrepreneurs, sales stars, business leaders, and professionals from around the world create professionally branded LinkedIn profiles. She is the author of the book “LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies”, published by Wiley. Donna has been featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Time’s Money Section, Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, LA Times, NBC, SiriusXM Radio’s The Focus Group, and many other news outlets. Learn more at Linkedin-makeover.com Rising Tide Startups is sponsored by PodBrandMedia.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Andy Cabasso. Andy is a startup founder, speaker, lawyer, former Guinness World Record holder, and occasional wedding officiant. He is the co-founder of Postaga, an all-in-one platform for link building and email outreach. Prior to Postaga, he started, grew, and then successfully sold a digital marketing agency for 7 figures. Before building his agency, he practiced law. Learn more at postaga.com - use discount code "Podcast50" when you sign up Podcast sponsored by Podbrandmedia.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Josh Fonger. Josh is a consultant, coach, and speaker who is recognized as the leading authority in Business Performance Architecture. With his unique ability of developing and implementing systematic solutions to complex business problems, Josh has personally consulted or coached over 600 business owners from more than 100 industries, from small startup businesses to large $500M enterprises. Due to his phenomenal success rate, and a mountain of client testimonials, he has quickly become one of the most in-demand small business consultants in North America. Josh and his family currently live and work in Kauai. Learn more at wtsenterprises.com Free Book Summary - Link Podcast Sponsored by Podbrandmedia.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Rob Loughan. Rob is the CEO of Ferret and chairman of Flawless Photonics. He previously co-founded Octane Software and served as its senior vice president before he started as the CEO of Conductiv Software. He also co-founded Sagus Capital Partners. Rob also holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from the State University of New York. Company website - Ferret.ai Podcast Sponsor - PodBrand Media

Our special guest this week is Stuart Leo, another great guest from Down Under. Stuart is the founder and CEO of Waymaker.io - an intelligent business management platform that helps leaders build a better business in 30 days. Stuart is a thought leader in strategy, systems, and leader leadership development. As the founder of Waymaker.io he has led the creation of Waymaker's Leadership Curve - a revolutionary way of building clarity, alignment and remarkable results in any organisation. Stuart's website - waymaker.io Rising Tide is sponsored by PodBrand Media

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is James Giancotti. James is the CEO and Co-founder of Oddup, an early-stage startup ecosystem rating system. James began his career in investment banking and research roles at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. After nearly a decade of researching companies’ financials to determine their value and assessing investment risks and opportunities, he saw firsthand the challenges that most institutional investors constantly confronted. The biggest obstacle was a lack of reliable, collated analyst insights that overcome subjectivity, so he created Oddup to address this problem by giving investors more transparency and objective insights to make the most informed investment decision. James holds both a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Intelligence and a Bachelor of Law in Intellectual Property from La Trobe University in Australia. James' Website - Oddup.com Rising Tide Startups is sponsored by Podbrand Media

Our special guest this week on the pod is Simon Serverino. Simon helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how to be able to run their company more efficiently which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints® Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints® Coaches which has offers a customized strategy to help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. He is also a Forbes Business Council Member, a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine, and a member of Duke Corporate Education. Free Tools on Simon's website - Strategy Sprint Tools Podcast sponsor - PodBrand Media

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Frances Simowitz. Frances is the President and CEO of WEVE Acceleration. She is an expert in launching in the NYC startup scene and is currently the CEO and Managing Director of WEVE. Previous to WEVE, she has 10 years of experience in the startup ecosystem and helped establish and grow operations in multiple cities such as Boston, Chicago, DC and New York for startups like Sittercity, Startup Institute and now WEVE. She has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and has established one of the largest entrepreneurial communities in NYC through HackerNest. She also serves on the advisory board of Tech Day. Her Website - weveacceleration.com Sponsored by - Podbrandmedia.com

We have a very special guest on the pod this week, Aaron Walker. Aaron, "Big A" Walker is actually a repeat guest, which is rare on Rising Tide. Aaron has founded more than a dozen companies over the past 41 years. He attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts. Aaron spent a decade meeting weekly with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and five other amazing entrepreneurs. He is the Founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind that now hosts 20 groups with national and international members. Aaron is the Author of View From The Top, a must-read to fully understand how to live a life of success and significance. He is the Creator of The Mastermind Playbook - an incredible resource for starting, running and scaling masterminds. Aaron lives in Nashville Tennessee with his wife Robin of 40 years, he has two incredible daughters and five beautiful grandchildren. Aaron's website - Viewfromthetop.com Tune in and Listen to Aaron every Tues at noon CST, for free - TuesdayNoon.live Sponsored by - Podbrandmedia.com

Our special guest this week on the Tide is Luca Zambello. Luca is the co-founder and CEO of Jurny, a hospitality tech company pioneering the next generation of tech-first, on-demand accommodations. A born entrepreneur, Luca launched one of the first professionally operated Airbnb vacation rental companies in 2012, quickly earning the Superhost status that he still holds today. Following that success, he realized there was a need for a more streamlined, on-demand hospitality experience for both guests and operators. Partnering with David Phillips in 2017, he co-founded Jurny and has led the company to triple-digit growth. Today, the company powers the operations and modern guest experiences for some of the world’s most exceptional independent hotel brands, vacation and short-term rental (STR) properties. As an expert within the hospitality industry, Luca has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Entrepreneur and other major industry publications. His mission continues to be modernizing hospitality and creating solutions that cater to the heightened expectations of today's traveler. Luca's website - Jurny.com Sponsored by PodBrand Media - podbrandmedia.com

We have a truly unique guest on the podcast this week who brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the show. Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, Maria has been selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. She has written for publications such as Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art. In 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS". Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE and more. She’s the author of “How Creativity Rules The World” (HarperCollins March 15, 2022). Learn more at mariabrito.com Sponsored by Podbrandmedia.com

It's early 2022 but the guest list is already heating up! Scott Danner is the CEO of Freedom Street Partners, a practice that supports financial advisors in their next career step and helps them explore all available paths to secure a fulfilling future. After fifteen years practicing on an employee platform, Scott founded Freedom Street and took it from $0 to $2 billion in assets under management in just five years. Scott is the co-founder of the Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival and enjoys traveling the country with his wife to watch their two sons play soccer. Scott lives for learning and he thrives on relationships. Connections are crucial and he is willing to talk about anything! Scott loves to explore in a conversation by being an adventurous conversationalist all while learning from each other. He has a passion to change the world, making it a better place with the mentality of being better together. 1+1 can equal 10x’s with the right 1’s. Scott's website - scottdanner.com Scott's book - Amazon link

We have another great guest to get Season 6 off to a great start. Our guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Raman Sehgal, founder of several niche companies including ramarketing, a multimillion-dollar international agency that helps companies get noticed in the global life science space. As an entrepreneur, Raman embarked on a business journey that ultimately spanned the Atlantic—from a spare room in the Northeast of England to the bustling streets of Boston, Massachusetts, where he lives today with his wife and three sons. As an author, keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, Forbes Agency Council member, and guest university lecturer, Raman shares his knowledge, mistakes, and learnings in an honest manner that will hopefully help others' journey. One of his favorite mottos is "sharing is caring, right?", which is reflected in the impact that his work has on other businesses and individuals alike. Raman's website - ramansehgal.com

What a great way to launch Season 6 of Rising Tide Startups, with special guest Josh Dittrich, founder of Branded Seller. Josh Dittrich (pronounced "D-trick") is a visionary entrepreneur, seller, investor, advisor, husband and father of five. Most recently he built and sold two eCommerce businesses for 8 figures and was recently featured in a Business Insider article about how he did it. This has inspired him to write the book "Aggregator Navigator - The Ultimate Guide to Maximizing the Exit of Your Amazon Brand" to demystify the selling process of selling to an aggregator. He is also the founder of BrandedSeller.com helping Amazon Sellers strategize and maximize their exit. BrandedSeller.com also provides stunning low cost video and listing content. Learn more at Brandedseller.com Rising Tide Startups is sponsored by PodbrandMedia.com - The Best Place on the Planet to launch your own branded podcast for your company or brand!

You need to take the next five minutes to end 2021 strong! Drawing from the rich well of 228 episodes over the past five seasons, host Kevin Prewett recaps the best business quotes and startup advice he received from the best guests on Rising Tide Startups. Listen and take notes. These tips are pure gold! If you would like to be a guest or know someone who fits the bill of a business CEO or Founder, please utilize our Guest Request Form. Sponsored and produced by PodBrand Media

As we near the end of 2021, while celebrating Christmas today, we want to introduce you to a really special guest, Veronica Romney. Veronica works with online entrepreneurs struggling to get their teams dialed in. She is an Integrator personality to a T, and she loves managing people. She’s also been in the online marketing world since 2008, most recently working behind-the-scenes as a speaker, trainer, Director, and Chief of Staff for brands such as Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Pete Vargas, and BossBabe. Simply put, Veronica’s unique superpowers and professional background will help you actually take a vacation – not another workcation. Learn more at veronicaromney.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Neel Parekh, founder of maidthis.com. Five years ago Neel had an idea: local businesses don't need to be managed locally! He turned this idea into reality with MaidThis® & MaidThis® Franchise, which helps homeowners and short-term rental hosts (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) with their cleanings. They’ve generated millions in revenue while having a fully remote team, and Neel is now on a mission to help others achieve the same.

Our special guest this week is once again in that incredibly important field right now, cyber-security, Brian Fritton, CEO of Havoc Shield. Brian has built products and led engineering, design, and IT teams at companies with credentials such as Fortune’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies, the Inc. 5000 List, and Entrepreneur’s 100 Most Brilliant Companies. He’s been the “guy in the hot seat” — responsible for defending a small business from cyberattacks — as a FinTech CTO at Patch of Land and the VP of Engineering for a critical political campaign and enterprise data science software maker. Brian brings the founder’s perspective to cybersecurity in an increasingly complicated and risk-filled environment. Brian is originally from the woods of northwest Michigan and got his bachelor’s degree in e-business from DePaul University, where he spent more time experimenting with different businesses than going to class. He moved back to Chicago to start Havoc Shield after building his previous LA-based startup into a crowdfunding machine, having originated over a billion dollars in real estate loans and a successful exit. He’s married, has too many pets, and lives in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago. Learn more at - Havoc Shield

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jared Hummel, President of Parqa Digital Marketing. Jared is an experienced business leader with a history of building start-up organizations into streamlined, revenue-generating companies. As the President of Parqa, he leads with a strong financial background and is motivated by enhancing growth and finding solutions to complex operating and execution-based challenges. He enjoys working with company leaders to integrate digital strategies into overall business decisions – with an emphasis on nurturing clients and candidates through automation – to drive revenue.

We jump back into the world of online security with our next guest on Rising Tide Startups, Matt Spitz. Matt Spitz is the Head of Engineering at Vanta, helping companies practice better security and keep their customers' data safe. Prior to Vanta, Matt has built and scaled diverse engineering teams through significant growth, cofounded and led Dropbox's NYC office, started a company, and played technical leadership roles in both product and infrastructure engineering. Learn more at - https://www.vanta.com

We have a very special guest with us today... and if you watch close on youtube you may also see a cameo appearance of a little one! Franziska Iseli's personal mission is to make a positive impact through entrepreneurship. She's also the co-founder of BasicBananas.com, Oceanlovers.com, TheDataPeople.com.au and TheBusinessHood.com. Basic Bananas is known for their amazing marketing mentoring programs to support small business owners. Over the last eleven years they've worked with thousands of businesses from all around the world. If you've detected a 'small' accent - that's because she's a Swaussie (Swiss born Australian). People refer to her as a bit of a rebel and super down-to-earth. She loves combining my creative and strategic abilities to grow and lead businesses. In 2013 Franziska was awarded the NSW Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognising her innovation, creativity and philanthropic involvement. She's a big believer in using business as a force for good and has had the pleasure to facilitate workshops at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC to address UN's Sustainable Development Goals through entrepreneurship. One of her big passions lies in ocean conservation and through OceanLovers.com, she's built a global community to help save our oceans. She's the author of three bestselling books (Perception, Bananas About Marketing and The Courage Map) with a fourth one coming out soon. She is also crazy about adventures and in her spare time loves surfing, riding a motorbike around the world, playing music, learning new things and sharing experiences with loved ones. To find out more, please visit FranziskaIseli.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Jeremy Ryan Slate. Jeremy is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. He was named the #1 Podcast to Listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts. Jeremy's Website - Commandyourbrand.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Luke Van Der Veer. Luke started a corporate career at General Electric and now he’s considered one of the leading experts of "Rank & Rent SEO", having one of his websites competing against Walmart and ranks #4 in the entire US. He has generated leads in 73 different niches and 48 states and is now enjoying a flexible lifestyle without alarm clocks, bosses or vacation requests. Learn more at - digitalrealestatecoaching

Once again we have a great guest joining us for another episode of Rising Tide Startups Podcast, Jon Dykstra. Jon is the founder of Fatstacksblog.com which profiles how he built up a large online publishing company comprised of several large niche websites. Learn more at fatstacksblog.com

Our special guest this week on the podcast is Niro Knox. Niro lives in London and is a musician, traveler, mystic and Marketer with an IT and Tech Edge and Experience. Learn more at blade-marketing.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Eleanor Haglund. Eleanor is the Founder and CEO of Aspire 360 – a network for entrepreneurs that provides peer-to-peer community groups to help accelerate their learning whilst they’re growing their own business. Aspire360 has also been featured in Forbes, Ambitious Entrepreneur, among other publications. Eleanor was an inaugural member of the Innovation Scholars Program in Project Olympus, and won awards in several start-up competitions like the Columbia Venture Challenge, and Hack-a- Startup. Eleanor is also a Columbia University (MBA) alum! Learn more at - aspire360.io

Once again, we have the privilege of hosting another great guest, Devin Miller, founder of Miller IP Law. He loves startups and runs his own patent and trademark law firm to help startups and small businesses. Devin also founded his first startup while earning his Law & MBA degrees. Since then, he has founded several 7 & 8 figure startups and enjoyed every minute of it. Learn more at - milleripl.com Book a free strategy session with Devin - strategysession.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Latha Karthigaa. Latha is the founder of Brandupwise Marketing and has been a 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 and a 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿 for the past 4 years. She helps Businesses to generate 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 on Digital Platforms. Learn more at brandupwise.com

Our very special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Arjun Rai, rounder of hellowoofy.com. Arjun is a New York City based entrepreneur originally from West Windsor, New Jersey (aka Princeton Junction). Since high school, he has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, he launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. After interning at a PR and ad agency in the summer of 2012, Arjun quickly saw the need for yet another startup within the tech space and raised a seed investment round to build it out. That startup became Wrkbench.io which was a virtual collaboration space designed for creative and visual people (we liked to say we make visual conversations). After spending a few years and learning the ins and outs of running a venture backed startup, he set out to modernize another industry related to his former passion of social media. The startup would be known as HelloWoofy.com which is a social media management platform driven by artificial intelligence to help small to medium sized businesses with digital marketing. Arjun currently lives in New York City. He went to the NYIT School of Management (majoring in Small Business and Entrepreneurship). He also holds several notable awards and has been previously or is currently a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society. Professionally, Arjun has also been a member of The One Club, The Art Directors Club, The Advertising Club of NY, Social Media Marketing Society, IVY Connect Club etc. Featured on: Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Inc Magazine, MarTech Today, Search Engine Land, NASDAQ, Small Business Trends and more. Learn more at - hellowoofy.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Austin McCulloh. After managing just under half a million dollars a few years ago as a 21-year-old financial advisor & running an online hiring agency that taught English to over 700 Chinese children, Austin decided to start his own consulting firm, Austin McCulloh Advising. In late 2020, he pivoted the business model to include a 3-Step Financial Advisor Accelerator that now helps financial advisors grow their book of business & increase their income. Financial advising, to date, has been more of an art form than an exact science, and Austin's on a mission to make financial advising success more systematic. Whether it's helping clients take their income from $300/month to $5,000/month, secure a contract with a Fortune 1,000 company, or being a key advisor from launch to a 7-figure exit for a high growth SaaS startup, Austin McCulloh understands business growth. Austin's website - http://www.austinmcculloh.com/ Email Austin - [email protected] LinkedIn Messaging Freebie - https://www.mccullohadvising.com/linkedin-dm-framework

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Anthony Blatner. Anthony is the founder of Speedwork Social, a top LinkedIn Advertising agency. As a previous tech founder and ex-IBMer, he has seen a lot of companies have explosive growth with good technology and good marketing, while others (even though they had a great product or service) fail without effective marketing. In 2016, he started Speedwork to help those companies unlock their B2B marketing potential. By blending his experience in marketing and software, Anthony is able to help businesses reach high-level decision makers at scale using LinkedIn Ads and technology. It's safe to say that Anthony is one of the top LinkedIn ads experts in the industry, having managed millions in ad spend and generating over 100,000 new sales opportunities. Learn more at - http://speedworksocial.com/

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Seth Mendelsohn. Seth is the founder and CEO of Denterica; a dental marketing company focused on search engine optimization (SEO) to help dentists gain more new patients. After spending over 15 years in healthcare IT, he became director of operations for his wife’s dental practice. It was there that he found his passion for dental marketing, and in particular SEO. He was so successful at SEO that he started doing marketing for other dental practices and eventually started a marketing agency so he could help other dentists gain more patients. Learn more at - denterica.com