Entrepreneur's Enigma - Discussions about the Ups and Downs of Entrepreneurship

Tissa Richards is a bold, trusted, authentic technology founder, speaker and executive coach. She's navigated the tough worlds of entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and fundraising. Tissa founded, invested in, and run software companies in Silicon Valley, hold over a dozen software patents, and have won awards for her software products. Today, she work with the world’s largest private equity...

No matter your industry… No matter your size… Your buyers have changed. They’ve tasted empowerment…and they’re never going back. That means all that messaging that worked just a few years ago? None of it resonates. That’s where Zach Messler comes in. Zach spent two decades in product marketing for enterprise tech, teaching non-technical sales pros to explain complex software to executive buyers. I...

Prior to starting Synergy Sales Advisory I spent over 20 years with a Fortune 100 company where I designed, implemented, and oversaw a key revenue vertical for the company. Prior to that work I also implemented sales structure and process for other struggling sales teams, each time resulting in record breaking sales and revenue for the companies I worked for. I now work with owners and CEO's who w...

Caroline Kay has spent years in the advertising and marketing space. She's worked for big name agencies in London and done the corporate track. But in her early 30's she realized she was burning out. So she went on holiday to Rome and ended up staying there for good. It's been 5 years now and she's doing the entrepreneurial journey and helping professionals with making the most out of their journe...

Ian Truscott is the CMO of the Spotler Group, an advisor/coach and host of the Rockstar CMO podcast. From teaching himself to code during night shifts as a sysadmin, Ian’s successful career has taken him from product development to being a three-time CMO passionate about taking B2B technology to market. Aside from these leadership positions at marketing software vendors, his broad perspective come...

Dan Bennett is the Founder of Video For Entrepreneurs, a brand that helps entrepreneurs & startups learn to look and sound great on video - through coursework, private community membership, 1:1 work, and the use of his “Solar System Methodology”. He is a long-time video professional and YouTuber. He’s had the privilege to work with fortune 500 companies and some of the top production companies in...

Geoffrey Klein, aka Mr. Purple or the Story Guy, is a Tedx speaker, an adjunct professor and a visual content producer. He helps people and organizations communicate more effectively through the power of story. He currently serves as President & CEO of nine dots, a visual content company that helps businesses share their message through visual communication to connect with their audience. Geoffrey...

Sam Jacobs is the Founder and CEO of Pavilion, the leading professional development and career enablement platform for over 10,000 high-growth revenue executives and CEOs. Sam has been building and running Venture Capital-backed companies in New York City for 20 years including having served in senior revenue leadership positions at GLG, Axial, Livestream, The Muse, and Behavox, before founding Pa...

Julia is an entrepreneur, former CMO, and Editor/Founder of GTM mag. She’s the CEO & Co-Founder of HYPCCCYCL.com. Julia invented the world’s first GTM simulations where top B2B revenue leaders cross-train their skills with VCs. She applied her decade of marketing and entrepreneurship experience to found GTM Mag, a mission-driven GTM publication that elevates innovation in go-to-market strategy for...

Donna Serdula is the founder and president of Vision Board Media, a professional branding company that helps individuals and companies tell their unique story on LinkedIn and beyond. Bringing dynamic brand storytelling to the masses and empowering people to dream big – that’s the ink in her pen. It's her Website LinkedIn-Makeover.com where she and her team help people collide with opportunity and...

Shawn is a serial entrepreneur, having started and managed more than a dozen businesses, up to $100 million in revenue, involving products and services across a wide range of verticals. In the process, he has managed thousands of employees servicing tens of thousands of customers, large and small, from consumers to small to medium-sized businesses and even governmental entities. He has formal educ...

A Smith named Keith as his friends call him is at the cutting edge of agency new business. He has turned his love for podcasting into new business gold. Keith is also the chief bottle washer of the agency new business platform The Advertist (www.theadvertist.com) is shaking up the world of new business and we only work with companies and people committed to growth. The Advertist is the UK's only i...

From the City that birthed flight, funk music, and the classic literature of Paul Laurence Dunbar; T. Adeola is the next classic to hail from Dayton, OH. A “pain in the teacher’s class” turned successful Young Black Professional, T. Adeola transitioned from being a card-carrying member of “The Bad Kids Club” with chronic suspension, truancy and barely graduating High School to graduating Salutator...

Sam joined the military to pay his way through school at the University of Texas, where he studied Finance and Public Policy. He’s worked with and led crack teams on some of the most difficult and sensitive financial and organizational problems facing the nation at places like the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Defense, Treasury Department, Charles Schwab Bank & Trust, Army Futu...

Debra Eckerling is a goal strategist on a mission to change goal culture in and out of the workplace. A speaker, corporate consultant, and workshop leader, she offers personal and professional planning, event strategy, and team-building for executives, entrepreneurs, consultants, and companies. The founder of the D*E*B METHOD® for goal-setting simplified and award-winning author of “Your Goal Guid...

Peter Wight has always wanted to make a difference in the world. But when January 6, 2021 happened, he knew he had to help people organize and make a difference in politics. Out of this came Our Public Assembly. Peter has a MPA from Clark University and is about 1/2 to a Ph. D. in Government Analytics from Johns Hopkins University. With Our Public Assembly, Peter and his team are building product...

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally-recognized author, keynote speaker, futurist, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} — one of the top five marketing blogs of the world. He teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written nine best-selling books. Mark’s new book Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy describes an essential new path to...

Nick Bhavsar, founder of Bhavsar Consulting Group, strives to help your business grow through implementing tried and tested best practices across key marketing disciplines including product marketing, demand generation, marketing operations and brand. Prior to starting his consulting business, Nick was VP of Marketing at Levelset (acquired by Procore), where he helped construction stakeholders get...

Dennis Geelen, is the Founder and Chief Difference Maker at his solo consulting company, Zero In, that he founded in 2018. Through Zero In, Dennis helps companies ‘solve indifference’ by implementing strategies to build a brand customers love and culture where people are passionate to work. Author of the best-selling book ‘The Zero In Formula’, Mr. Geelen has worked with companies in several indus...

Leslie has been in startups and B2B SaaS for over a decade. She was the VP of Member Success and the first executive hire for Pavilion (formerly Revenue Collective), a global membership community focused on go-to-market executives. She built the playbook that created amazing evangelists out of current members and was instrumental in growing the community from 2K - 10K members in just under two yea...

Aaron is the CTO and Cofounder of Scribe (scribehow.com), a platform used by over 250,000 knowledge workers to automatically generate step-by-step guides for business processes. Prior to Scribe, he founded a number of technology companies and sold Onward — an automation SaaS platform — to Google in 2018. Aaron studied neuroscience and psychology at Yale University and built machine learning and st...

Claire Paniccia (she/they) is a content marketing strategist and coach who is on a mission to prove that you can build a successful business even if you do things differently than the "gurus" say, in their work with neurodiverse and spoonie online entrepreneurs at her company Conquer Your Content. With her own ADHD, anxiety, and chronic depression, and a roster of neurodiverse clients, Claire has...

Jonas is an AI entrepreneur who has been world recognized - Among other awards, he is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Under 35 Award for pioneering Technologists and LinkedIn's NextWave Award for rising entrepreneurs. Jonas holds several patents in the domains of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, some of which were issues during his time as a Researcher at Upenn’s GRASP La...

With over 16 years of B2B marketing experience in SaaS, Tony is considered a “full stack marketer” and marketing technologist. He’s built and led teams for many tech startups in various functional areas, including demand generation/growth, product marketing, account-based marketing (ABM), product-led growth (PLG), sales development, and marketing operations / revenue operations. He was formerly th...

Sean Weisbrot is an American entrepreneur, investor, and advisor who lived in Asia for 14 years. After getting a degree in Psychology, he bought a one way ticket to China at the age of 22 where he lived for 10 years. Sean taught himself to be fluent and literate in Mandarin at a business level and started multiple businesses in Asia, including an agency that sold $15M in services in 18 months. In...