Rising Tide Startups

Our special encore guest on Rising Tide is Kenny Kline. Kenny is a serial niche media entrepreneur and currently the President of BarBend.com Website - barbend.com Make sure and visit our Sponsor:  Podbrandmedia.com - Creating lead generating, branded podcasts for companies that are affordable and effective.

Kirk is a certified ITIL expert and Six Sigma Green Belt. He has worked on a variety of ITSM based transformation programs for more than 20 public and private organisations over the past 15 years, including Utilities, Telecommunications, Banking & Finance, Government & Public Sector, Real Estate & Transportation industries. He builds internal client teams & capabilities partners with external serv...

AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. He's managed over $150M in spend on the platform, they're official LinkedIn partners, he's host of the LinkedIn Ads Show podcast, and has managed 5 of the world’s top 10 LinkedIn Ads accounts. He's a ginger & triathlete. He lives in Utah, has 4 adorable kids, and his company car is a wicked-fast g...

Ryan Buick is the Co-Founder of Canvas, a Sequoia-backed startup that is reimagining the traditional office suite for a data-driven world. Before Canvas, Ryan was one of the first Product Managers at Flexport. At Flexport, Ryan met his co-founders and saw how difficult it was for business teams to get the data they needed without knowing SQL or having to rely on technical teams for help. Frustrate...

Melissa Kwan is the Cofounder and CEO of eWebinar, an automated webinar solution that combines pre-recorded video with real-time interactions and live chat to deliver an engaging experience for attendees. Melissa and her team believe that by automating the repetitive and tedious task of giving the same sales demos, onboarding, and training over and over, they free people up to focus their time on...

Mark Podolsky is the owner of Frontier Properties, a land investment company. Mark (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States.  Since 2001 Mark has completed over 6,000 raw land deals with an average return on investment of over 300% on cash purchases and over 1000% on land deals th...

Our special guest this week is Sean Castrina.  Sean is an Entrepreneur, Bestselling author, Host of The 10 Minute Entrepreneur Podcast and founder of The Weekend MBA. Learn more at seancastrina.com Make sure and visit our Sponsor:  Podbrandmedia.com - Creating lead generating, branded podcasts for companies that are affordable and effective.

Nathan Hirsch is a lifelong entrepreneur and currently the CEO of EcomBalance and Outsource School. Nathan is best known for co-founding FreeUp.net in 2015 with an initial $5,000 investment, scaling it to $12 million in yearly revenue, and having it acquired in 2019. Today, he leads EcomBalance, an online bookkeeping service for eCommerce and digital businesses, and Outsource School, a membership...

Meryl Johnston is a XERO accounting expert and the Co-Founder of Bean Ninjas.  Meryl launched Bean Ninjas in 2015 with $1000 and a dream of changing the global bookkeeping game. It has since grown from Meryl’s kitchen table into the multi-national, award-winning business it is today. Learn more at beanninjas.com Visit our Sponsor:  Podbrandmedia.com - Creating lead generating, branded podcasts for...

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 includ...

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...

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 win...

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...

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...

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 buildi...

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.c...

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 i...

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 h...

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. Whe...

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 wor...

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 managemen...

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...

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, H...

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 broth...

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 dou...