The Price

Imagine getting to work out with trainers that train some of the most well-known athletes and performers in the world from the comfort of your own home for $19 a month. My guest today - Karly Pavlinac - is building a platform called WAAM that allows everyday people to subscribe to workouts conducted by the world’s best celebrity trainers. She has a growing list of users asking fo

Don Shin is the CEO of CrossComm, an app development studio applying some of the most cutting edge technologies to the business problems of its' customers. In this episode we discuss augmented reality, virtual reality, AI, Bitcoin and market opportunities these technologies open up. Additionally, Don describes the most common pitfalls that startups experience when building out an a

“Any four of the big pieces of intellectual property that you can get traditionally -- patents, trademarks ... copyrights and trade secrets -- the common thread that runs through all four of those is time. If you're first at any of those four, eventually you're going to win against third parties. If you beat them, right? If you're the first one to think of the idea or the firs

Back in early 2000’s, Joe Colopy left his job to build a software product - without funding or without even a firm idea of what to build. The first attempts was not going anywhere and the clock was ticking. But then with his wife three months pregnant, and his back against the wall, he stripped down his product and focused in on something one of his customers said was useful. Th

Today I talk to Mark Johnson, is an entrepreneur, and an investor and a creator. Back in the early 2000s, Mark started writing reviews for hotels. When he saw it start to gain traffic, he started to think this might be something he would do. Over the course of 10 years Mark turned that idea into a business with over 40 content creators. Run out of the attic of his house, Mark boot

In this episode, I talk to James Avery founder and CEO of Adzerk about how he turned a small ad network doing 1 thousand dollars a month in revenue into an ad platform doing over 5 million a year. Adzerk's platform helps other companies use apis to build ad servers. James talks about the different ways he priced the product and how unexpected invitation to stick around in a meeting

In this episode, I interview Allison Wood, the CEO of LCMS Plus, an enterprise software solution that helps medical schools streamline accreditation reporting and gain greater insight into medical programs. Spun-out from Duke, LCMS Plus is software that tracks everything surrounding the education components of medical school, which includes keeping track of student schedules, grade

David Hadden is the co-CEO of Pro-ficiency, a maker of simulation learning technology for the healthcare industry. Using Pro-ficiency’s technology, doctors, patients and clinical trial investigators can face real life scenarios and make decisions in a consequence free environment to improve their performance and create better outcomes. In this episode, David talks about how he ca

Founded in 2015 by Clarence Bethea, Upsie is an insurance technology company changing the way device warranties are purchased, managed and serviced. In this episode, Clarence tells the story of how he learned about his opportunity in the marketplace, how he got the first version of his product made, and what it was like to raise money via TechStars. Clarence also explains the thing

Nathan Clendenin is the Founder of StoryDriven, an 8-time Emmy Award winning video marketing firm that specializes in telling human centric stories. In this episode, Nathan tells how he develops stories for his customers, what a "brand journalist" is, how StoryDriven comes up with their core values, and what it was like to get an Emmy. We also talk about what kind of stories he wan