LA Business Podcast

Please welcome Adam Malovani, Founder of World of Sound Productions, providing unforgettable outdoor headphone experiences. Adam is a Serial Entrepreneur with a successful track record of founding, building and selling companies.

Please welcome Anthony Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of Vinovest. Anthony Zhang recently turned 26 but has already successfully built and sold two companies, secured funding from Mark Cuban and Mark Burnett, and received a Thiel fellowship grant. Not only that, but he has worked hard to come back from a devastating accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Anthony is now the founder and CEO...

Please welcome Doug Brown, CEO of Business Success Factors and Sales Revenue Growth Expert. Doug is a nationally recognized business revenue growth expert and former President of Sales and Training at Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins companies, and he helps companies optimize their sales processes and increase their sales by over 850%.

Please welcome Gabe Gottlieb, Co-Founder and CEO of Pathmatics. Pathmatics is a digital ad intelligence platform that tracks and analyzes online ad strategies.

Please welcome Gene Deyev, CEO and Founder of Stobox, a company that provides technological tools and consulting services to streamline all operations with digital assets and tokenized securities. The package of the services they provide serves the ultimate goal to revolutionize the private securities market and drastically simplify the investment process.   

Please welcome Nancy Duitch, CEO & Founder of Sera Labs. Nancy is an entrepreneur, and tell us about Sera Labs       She was able to generate eight figures in revenue and was able to broker the sale of the company to CURE Pharmaceutical.   Most recently she's been able to partner with actress Nicole Kidman and Nicole has become a strategic partner in the company. Together, they just launched a new...

Please welcome  Michelle Lewis , a Visibility and Publicity Expert who helps entrepreneurs skyrocket their visibility, launch their unique show strategy, and start landing press for their brand with Hollywood techniques found in the Visibility Lounge.   "The Queen of Visibility", founder and CEO Michelle is a leading authority on color psychology, brand positioning, and publicity strategy. She's h...

Please welcome Miki Reynolds, Co-founder and Executive Director of Grid110, an LA-based early stage startup accelerator and community development non-profit. She has a unique perspective on what equitable, inclusive paths to entrepreneurship can look like.

Please welcome Gila Kurtz, Co-Founder of Dog is Good. Gila is the #1 international best-selling author and serial entrepreneur who found her deepest passion for working with dogs and their people. She co-founded the award-winning lifestyle brand for dog lovers, Dog is Good.  Along with her husband Jon, Gila took the brand from start-up to multiple seven-figures.  

Please welcome Michele Harrington, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Foria (Fouria) CBD. Michele helped her husband, retired NBA star, Al Harrington launch Viola (cannabis pre-rolls), the largest Black-owned multinational cannabis brand in the world. During the pandemic, she pivoted her career to focus on CBD. She lead the partnership between Viola and Foria to educate more minorities about the be...

Please welcome Sener Korkusuz, CEO and Co-Founder of American 7s Football League (A7FL) - 7-on-7 football without helmets or hard shell pads. There are 28 teams in 4 divisions based in New Jersey, Maryland (Baltimore), Florida (Orlando) and Southern California (San Diego).  Founded in 2014 by CEO Sener Korkusuz and President Ryan DePaul, the league recently added UFC Co-Founder David Isaacs to its...

Please welcome Deborah Haile, CEO of Tiny Global Footprints. Deborah has spent the last several years building a profitable publishing business with her eight-year-old son, Jonah. Deborah and Jonah are bestselling co-authors who love to share their world adventures and educate through travel.

Please welcome Dr. Barbara Paldus, Founder of Codex Beauty. By creating Codex, Barbara has brought biotech to beauty and bringing data driven transparency to the beauty industry. https://codexbeauty.com/

Please welcome Irfan Sadiq, Founder of Blue Gem Hemp. We discuss the how his previous background in IT digital transformation informs the operations of growing his fully integrated CBD company.

Please welcome Olga Bortnikova and Ivan Bortnikov, Co-Founders of YouTravel. Me, an algorithm-powered online marketplace for booking multi-day small group adventure tours organized by travel experts. www.youtravel.me

Please welcome Partha Unnava, CEO and Founder of Lasso Compression. Partha started Lasso Compression with the goal to help improve the way you move. Partha is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient who was invited to the White House to recognize his past innovations in healthcare.

Please welcome Blagica Bottligliero, Co-Founder & Head of Marketing and Partnerships at Bottles Nation. Bottles Nation is one of the first companies offering virtual tastings for wine, craft beer, cocktails and spirits. The co-founder, Michael Bottligliero, is a certified sommelier who has run wine events for over a decade in Chicago and nationwide.

Please welcome Aaron Hsu, Founder and CEO of Blerp. Blerp has grown to over 30,000 creators on Twitch and helped them generate over $500K in donations through their integrations. www.blerp.com

Please welcome Kate Duchene, CEO of RGP, a global human capital firm helping clients match the right professional talent needed to tackle change and transformational initiatives. www.rgp.com

How does this COO's company deliver fresh food in 15 minutes? We talk about logistics of his innovative service and the nature of operating a startup in San Francisco. www.foodrocket.me

Our guest, CEO Mike Ward, talks about technology innovation and adoption by the marketplace and commercial real estate trends and projections for the next 10 years.

Learn how this entrepreneur competes in the marketplace and works on his product becoming relevant through Tik Tok. He also shares how he integrates learnings from Amazon into their e-commerce business.

Discover how this week's guest uses rapid problem solving and gets rid of the fear of failing. Allen Brooks talks about taking the first step in developing great products and services by using what you have at your disposal. www.buildmo.com

Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur in the online legal document filing space. She and her husband started their first business together in 1997, and eight years later it was acquired by Intuit for $20 million. Her current company CorpNet is on the Inc. 5000 list.

Learn how this entrepreneur identified an opportunity in the tech space and built innovative technology for businesses to communicate to the masses through text messaging.