Rising Tide Startups

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

Another great Rising Tide Startups podcast convo with another great guest - Ravi Patel, Co-Founder of SINA Hospitality. Ravi is responsible for hotel management, hotel project management, asset management, hotel development, contract negotiations and construction at SINA Hospitality. In this role, he is responsible for all of SINA Hospitality’s properties, which include the Intercontinental, Hilton, Choice, and Marriott brands. Ravi also serves on the prestigious Fairfield Inn Franchise Advisory Council for Marriott. Ravi is based out of our Richmond, VA Headquarters. Learn more at sinahospitality.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Joe Valley, of Quiet Light Brokerage. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, author, advisor, and partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the leading online-focused M&A firms in the world. He has built, bought, and sold over a half dozen companies of his own, and has helped thousands of online entrepreneurs achieve their goals. His most recent book, The EXITpreneur's Playbook is the first mergers and acquisitions book focused solely on online businesses. The book helps online entrepreneurs understand the real value of their business and reverse engineer a path to an eventual maximum value exit. Gino Wickman, author of Traction and Founder of EOS call it "A must-read for online entrepreneurs" Learn more at exitpreneur.io and centurica.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Ryan Obernesser. Ryan is the CEO of O.B. Training Inc., Gym Profits LLC, and creator of the Take Back Your Life 6 Week Challenge program. Over the last decade, Ryan and his wife Christina, have built O.B. Training into a specialty training facility that transforms the minds, body’s and lives of every adult that walks through their doors. In that time, O.B. Training has grown into a profit machine. Churning out multiple 6-figures in profits each year despite being located in Utica, NY - a city Forbes named the third-worst place for small business and careers in the U.S. in 2015. Learn more at: ryanob.com gymprofittakeoff.com obtraining.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Chris Godsall. Chris is the President of iVirtual and former CEO and Founder of Triton Logging. Learn more at iVirtual.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Bill Woolsey, founder of FiveTwo. With decades of experience in starting and leading ministries, churches and networks, Bill now invests his life in men and women who want to reach people for Jesus in new, creative ways. After serving congregations in the Midwest, he and his family planted CrossPoint Community Church in Houston, a congregation that led his denomination (LCMS) in baptisms for much of the 2000s. In 2009 he led the launch of FiveTwo, a network that helps men and women grow their God-given dreams into ministries and businesses that last. Bill authored “Seven Steps to Start” a practical how-to start book written from a front-row seat of over 30 years of outreach experience. He and his wife of 34 years, Julie, have 3 children: Timothy, and his wife, Caitlyn; Abigail, her husband Nick and son, Ezra; and Samuel. Website - fivetwo.com Course - startnewcourse.com

We are excited to have a BOGO deal on the podcast today, with husband and wife team, Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner, founders of Tandem Consulting. They are a Midwestern husband & wife duo, running their companies, teaching mindset from their book ‘So You Want to Start A Side Hustle’, having meaningful conversations on their podcast Tandem Talks, traveling the world doing keynotes & growing their non-profit Tandem Giving, focusing on advocacy adoption for older children without families. They are a team. Their genesis began when a world-traveling, preschool teaching feminist met an admittedly analytical commercial banker. It was a beautiful collision of empath meets analyst. They realized that if they wanted to create an exceptional life, with choices and autonomy, they had to go out of bounds on the mainstream “go to school and get a good job” adage. Since they were not hardcore enough to quit their jobs and attempt to gut out a startup, they instead jumped into the world of moderate entrepreneurship, meaning they started their first wave of side hustles. Based on their vision they merged strengths/ personalities & entered the entrepreneurial jungle—together. Learn more at - tandemconsulting.co https://linktr.ee/tandemconsulting http://tandemconsulting.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriebohlig/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-clickner/ https://www.instagram.com/tandem.consulting/

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Wachs. David is a serial entrepreneur, David's latest venture, Handwrytten, is bringing back the lost art of letter writing through scalable, robot-based solutions that write your notes in pen. Developed as a platform, Handwrytten lets you send notes from your CRM system, such as Salesforce, the web site, apps, or through custom integration. Used by major meal boxes, eCommerce giants, nonprofits and professionals, Handwrytten is changing the way brands and people connect. Learn more at Handwrytten.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Bryan Clayton. Bryan is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit. Business Website - https://www.yourgreenpal.com/ Links: http://linkedin.com/in/bryan-clayton https://twitter.com/bryanmclayton https://instagram.com/bryanmclayton https://app.box.com/s/78xhkbustiwpd7cqnkyza0jknmpocq7k

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Karthy Chandra. Karthy is the founder of Goalden Hour, a tech startup building a goal-driven productivity tool that empowers people to prioritize and plan for the truly important things. She has worked in product management & tech, and specializes in customer validation testing. She's passionate about education reform and sits on the board of Rooted School, a nonprofit laying the groundwork to close the wealth and skills gap for students in underserved communities. In her free time, she likes to bike, hike, dance, and travel. Learn more at goaldenhour.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Paul Chambers, subscription box expert and founder of Subta.com. For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space. An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspect of a subscription-focused business and exactly how they succeed… and fail. Learn more at subta.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Jonathan Baktari, M.D. When Dr. Baktari was arguably at the peak of his medical career, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Learn more at baktarimd.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mads Friis. Mads is the founder of the Growth Island is a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries, covering more than 70 episodes with global experts. One of his biggest passions is building health-related impact ventures and during the past years, he has co-built 3 successful startups with KRING. With his background in management consulting experience from Deloitte and his own experience from startups, Mads started actively training startups and worked with +150 global teams. Playing sports at a high level and discovering many studies on personal growth and performance led Mads into a continuous research journey. He found that many resources focus 80% on the problems and only 20% on the solutions. Now he is on the mission to flip this statistic around to help more people. Learn more at growthisland.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Abby Sims, founder of Idestini.com . Abby Sims lives in Arkansas. Her business, Idestini, builds affordable, custom software platforms for small to medium businesses. She's been a full-stack software developer since 2000, and launched her business in 2014. Learn more at idestini.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Emily Chang, CEO McCann Worldgroup, China. Emily previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks, China, and the Chief Commercial Officer for InterContinental Hotels group, Greater China. Earlier in her career, she led Retail Marketing for Apple in Asia-Pacific and began her career with eleven years at Procter & Gamble. She is an action-oriented visionary known for cross-cultural team engagement, innovative brand building, and authentic people leadership. Emily has spoken at select conferences and events, including Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit, C2 in Montréal, and has delivered three TEDx talks. With her husband of twenty years, twelve-year-old daughter, rescue mutt named Holly Berry, and pygmy hedgehog named Scarlett Jellybean, she has shared her spare room with sixteen young people, five dogs, one turtle, one guinea pig, and 129 snails. To learn more about Emily, please visit www.social-legacy.com. Get Emily's Book - "The Spare Room" - Amazon

Our special guest today is Victoria Bennion. Victoria is the founder of the Victoria Bennion Podcast Booking Agency where she works with top entrepreneurs, coaches and authors to build their brands and grow their businesses through leveraging podcast interviews. Learn more at victoriabennion.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Angie Brown. Angie is a proud Portlander with an MBA who co-founded Bavard AI with her brother a year ago. Learn more at bavard.ai

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Gordian Braun, founder of OneTool.co. Gordi is a bilingual, analytical, and highly creative leader experienced in entrepreneurship & innovation. He possesses a strong passion for product marketing, performance marketing, product management & development, and business development. Learn more at onetool.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Steven Cardinale. Business has always fascinated Steven. Having to make decisions under uncertainty with limited data has peaked his curiosity. Being involved in entrepreneurial ventures, startups, large Fortune 500 product development teams and C-Suite strategy sessions has given Steven the perspective to combine different thought processes to move ideas forward. Studying Economics at UCLA to earning an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, to working with some of the largest organizations around, such as Eli Lily, Janus Funds, IBM, PwC, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, to founding, operating, and successfully navigating the M&A exit process for his own SaaS company has given Steven insights from every angle of the success & innovation spectrum. Learn more at synapticalchemy.com Steven's book link - Amazon

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Benny Nachman, founder of jassby.com. Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues. Learn more at jassby.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Matt Gillis. Matt is the CEO of Clean.io, a service designed to fight back against malvertising and loss of ecommerce revenue. Matt has 20+ years of mobile, media, and technology expertise with a history of building and operating companies from startup to scaled global market leader delivering $1B+ in annual revenues. He possesses a strong ability to create relationships, lead people and construct high performing teams regardless of geographic location through tremendous change with a track record of exceptional results. Having walked a few miles over the last 20 years as a publisher and a tools/solutions provider in the media and content ecosystem, he has often been a regular speaker at industry events around the world including Mobile World Congress, Advertising Week, MobileBeat, Digital East, and more. Learn more at clean.io