Rising Tide Startups

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 opportunit...

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 Advi...

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 Speedw...

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,...

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, Hilto...

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 boo...

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,...

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 le...

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 the...

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. Use...

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 Peachtr...

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 R...

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 other...

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-cen...

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 man...

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-...

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...

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 a...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Friedman.  David is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur, author, and renowned public speaker. In 2011, he published his first book, Fundamentally Different, which is based on the insights he learned and taught throughout his leadership career, and in 2018 he published his second book, Culture by Design, the definitive “how to” manual for building a...