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Stock Investing Info from Earnings Hub w/ Hamid Shojaee – Part 2   AZ TRT S05 EP24 (239) 6-16-2024    What We Learned This Week: Earnings Hub is a platform where you can find all the information on a company, when their earnings are coming out, & quarterly calls Earnings info for Public Co's is often hard to find, and the income for stocks is crucial to the price Hamid is a long term investor like Buffet, more of buy and hold of good stocks, only owns 8 stocks Concentration Builds Wealth – Diversification Preserves it. Looking for companies that can grow 10x over the next few years, and this is hard with massive companies worth $ trillions like Apple or Microsoft   Guests: Hamid Shojaee https://aztechbeat.com/   Hamid talks all thing AZ tech, Startups and what the world of an Angel Investor really looks like. His 2 decades + of experience is laid out, from starting and running software companies, plus exited the industry to now an Angel Investor mentoring the next generation of Startups. Hamid (Founder of Axosoft and Pure Chat) has always had a passion in helping Arizona's up-and-coming tech talent. Since 2010, Hamid has been involved with various AZ tech initiatives, including bringing tech founder and CEOs together, investing in startups and helping push the #YesPHX community forward. Axosoft – software tools for software development PureChat – live chat software for websites Hamid is a 20 year + software veteran who's built four different multi-million dollar SaaS products in the last twenty years. He recently sold two software companies, Axosoft and Pure Chat, and has been advising and investing in Arizona-based startups for nearly a decade. He recently announced he'll be investing $10 million in promising Arizona tech startups. Hamid is also host of the AZ Tech Podcast, where he interviews Arizona's most successful founders, investors and doers.       https://savvytrader.com/ What is Savvy Trader? Create Create a virtual portfolio of your stocks and crypto. Buy or sell your investments at any time to keep your portfolio up to date. Share Share your portfolio for free, or set a price, for your followers to get access to your portfolio and notified about your trades. Notify Notify your subscribers when you make a trade. Savvy Trader will send a text or email to everyone subscribed to your portfolio.   Savvy Trader is on a mission to make investment information more accessible. Learning about stocks and crypto can be intimidating and overwhelming with incredibly high levels of noise and very little signal. Savvy Trader helps solve this problem in two ways: Create and trade stocks and crypto in a safe virtual portfolio environment. The Savvy Trader virtual portfolios work a lot like a real brokerage account, except the trades are not real, allowing users to experiment and learn. Portfolio Creators can also share their virtual portfolios. A great way to learn about stocks and crypto is to see the virtual portfolios of others, see the actual performance of those portfolios as if they were real, and learn about the reasons behind the creators decisions for buying or selling each holding. So go ahead, create a virtual portfolio and share it with the world. Speaking of, I have a Savvy Trader virtual portfolio myself. Truth be told, I wanted to create Savvy Trader for myself as an easy way for me to consolidate my holdings in multiple accounts into a single virtual portfolio that represents my actual investments, and I wanted an easy way to share my portfolio details with friends and family. You can subscribe to my portfolio below - it's free!     Notes:   Savvy trader a website created by Hamid for portfolio sharing. You can see what stocks other people are buying. You can also create custom portfolio as well as build an audience. They pay creators $25 a month.   Under the Savvy Trader brand, they created Earnings Hub, which gives the quarterly earnings reports of Companies and their stocks. You can get a summary of the quarterly calls, analyst expectations, analyst analysis, the actual earnings, and the calendar on when the earnings come out.   Hamid is a long-term investor who looks for growth, earnings, and earnings validation. The old mantra of, trust but verify. He is definitely a fundamental investor like Buffet, who looks at the numbers of the company. Also believes in companies who make investments in R&D. Looking for great companies with a growing Market Cap.     Part 2   Another company Hamid likes is called Rocket Lab. Stock is $4 and they have a Market Cap of $2 billion vs a competitor like SpaceX valued at $180 billion. Just like SpaceX, Rocket Lab will be putting satellites into orbit.   Over speculation on a stock, and making a problem more than it is, can hurt a stock price. This can create opportunities, if it's a good company, can withstand the short term problems. Investors need to see through those problems, and see how serious it is. What will be the short term cost to the company.   You want to buy good companies, at a great price. Stocks in 2022 at a great price, lots of opportunities. In 2024, stock price is high. It's now just a good price even though the company still good.   A good investor can take advantage of short term volatility. An example of this. is Tesla. That has both benefited, and then sometimes been hurt by volatility. The story behind Tesla sometimes is a growth story based around EV cars, and the mystique of its CEO Elon Musk.   On the downside, when he does some controversy on Twitter, it can hurt the stock. 2023 into 2024, Tesla is facing some issues with slowing growth. Hamid believes that the story of Tesla is actually helping to prop up the stock.   Elon Musk has diversified through the years, not only is their Tesla, now owns Twitter, he owns SpaceX, and has moved into NeuroLink.   Savvy trader, you can share your portfolio. Anyone who joins can see her needs portfolio. Once you make a change on a stock, it is shared in real time.       Part 2 -  OT   When do you sell? Try to sell high, when stocks are at prices of euphoria and take some profits. Take money off the table.   For example, Hamid has been trimming Netflix stock holdings as the price has gone up. He's also trimmed some of his Meta-Facebook stock, as it had grown to 30% of his portfolio. He is even trimming Robin Hood, even though he thinks the stock has more potential to run up.   Hamid monitors about 20 stocks, and then will buy one or two.   He's a big fan of Rocket Lab, which is in competition with SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink providing satellite internet. This is all about putting satellites into space. Curious to see if Amazon Jeff Bezos space company, Blue Origin will be in the mix later.   One book Hamid likes is Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christiansen, that discusses the problem of disruption from smaller companies. Culture of successful Company typically is it married to their current business model and technology. Rarely do innovators innovate a second time. They become a prisoner of their current business and cannot see what the next stage is going to be.   For example - Kodak originally had the digital camera, but was stuck in their current business model, and did not become a leader in that technology.   Have to see what's going to be the next phase of some big tech companies like Google or Amazon, what do they have on the radar? Amazon seems to be moving into AWS and AI. Google with Bard is also moving into AI to get a better search engine.   It's a lot harder for a $1 trillion company like Microsoft to have massive growth. Hamid is looking for stocks that are worth multi billions versus hundreds of billions. The stocks then have the potential for 5 or 10X growth.   A division of SpaceX is Starlink. They are giving satellite Internet feeds to rural areas.   This is a disruptive technology versus companies like AMT American Tower and the cell tower business or traditional fiber optic Internet. They are launching 20 satellites per week and growing the business.         MB Host on Disruption – Show HERE       Reference Show: Create Your Investing Profile & Share It on Savvy Trader w/ Hamid Shojaee BRT S03 EP58 (157) 11-20-2022   What We Learned This Week Savvy Trader allows you to share your portfolio Investing Track Record - see how people actually invest & their results Why Software is Such a Good Business Model, Build 1x, sell multiple X VCs want to see Traction in Startups Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC) & Long term Value of a Custer (LTV) are critical in scaling a startup long term, how much does it cost to get a customer, and how long do you keep them    Full Show: HERE     Hamid of AZ Tech Beat on Technology, Software, Startups & Angel Investing in Arizona - BRT S02 EP 37 (84) 9-12-21                    5 Things We Learned This Week... Difference of Angel Investing vs Venture Capital Working With & Advising a Startup Valuations of Tech Co's vs Standard Business Why Software is Such a Good Business Model Importance of Teams in Software Co's   Guests: Hamid Shojaee AZ Tech Beat https://aztechbeat.com/   Full Show: HERE   Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science   Best of Tech: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=best+of+tech     Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement     ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT     Thanks for Listening. Please Subscribe to the BRT Podcast.     AZ Tech Roundtable 2.0 with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, Top Executives, Founders, and Investors come to share insights about the future of business.  AZ TRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, & how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Startups, Founders, Funds & Venture Capital, Business, Entrepreneurship, Biotech, Blockchain / Crypto, Executive Comp, Investing, Stocks, Real Estate + Alternative Investments, and more…    AZ TRT Podcast Home Page: http://aztrtshow.com/ ‘Best Of' AZ TRT Podcast: Click Here Podcast on Google: Click Here Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/azpodcast/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. All information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes. Nothing said on this program should be considered advice or recommendations in: business, legal, real estate, crypto, tax accounting, investment, etc. Always seek the advice of a professional in all business ventures, including but not limited to: investments, tax, loans, legal, accounting, real estate, crypto, contracts, sales, marketing, other business arrangements, etc.

Stock Investing Info from Earnings Hub w/ Hamid Shojaee   AZ TRT S05 EP23 (238) 6-9-2024    What We Learned This Week: Earnings Hub is a platform where you can find all the information on a company, when their earnings are coming out, & quarterly calls Earnings info for Public Co's is often hard to find, and the income for stocks is crucial to the price Hamid is a long term investor like Buffet, more of buy and hold of good stocks, only owns 8 stocks Concentration Builds Wealth – Diversification Preserves it. Looking for companies that can grow 10x over the next few years, and this is hard with massive companies worth $ trillions like Apple or Microsoft   Guests: Hamid Shojaee  https://aztechbeat.com/   Hamid talks all thing AZ tech, Startups and what the world of an Angel Investor really looks like. His 2 decades + of experience is laid out, from starting and running software companies, plus exited the industry to now an Angel Investor mentoring the next generation of Startups. Hamid (Founder of Axosoft and Pure Chat) has always had a passion in helping Arizona's up-and-coming tech talent. Since 2010, Hamid has been involved with various AZ tech initiatives, including bringing tech founder and CEOs together, investing in startups and helping push the #YesPHX community forward. Axosoft – software tools for software development PureChat – live chat software for websites Hamid is a 20 year + software veteran who's built four different multi-million dollar SaaS products in the last twenty years. He recently sold two software companies, Axosoft and Pure Chat, and has been advising and investing in Arizona-based startups for nearly a decade. He recently announced he'll be investing $10 million in promising Arizona tech startups. Hamid is also host of the AZ Tech Podcast, where he interviews Arizona's most successful founders, investors and doers.     https://savvytrader.com/ What is Savvy Trader? Create Create a virtual portfolio of your stocks and crypto. Buy or sell your investments at any time to keep your portfolio up to date. Share Share your portfolio for free, or set a price, for your followers to get access to your portfolio and notified about your trades. Notify Notify your subscribers when you make a trade. Savvy Trader will send a text or email to everyone subscribed to your portfolio.   Savvy Trader is on a mission to make investment information more accessible. Learning about stocks and crypto can be intimidating and overwhelming with incredibly high levels of noise and very little signal. Savvy Trader helps solve this problem in two ways: Create and trade stocks and crypto in a safe virtual portfolio environment. The Savvy Trader virtual portfolios work a lot like a real brokerage account, except the trades are not real, allowing users to experiment and learn. Portfolio Creators can also share their virtual portfolios. A great way to learn about stocks and crypto is to see the virtual portfolios of others, see the actual performance of those portfolios as if they were real, and learn about the reasons behind the creators decisions for buying or selling each holding. So go ahead, create a virtual portfolio and share it with the world. Speaking of, I have a Savvy Trader virtual portfolio myself. Truth be told, I wanted to create Savvy Trader for myself as an easy way for me to consolidate my holdings in multiple accounts into a single virtual portfolio that represents my actual investments, and I wanted an easy way to share my portfolio details with friends and family. You can subscribe to my portfolio below - it's free!     Notes: Savvy trader a website created by Hamid for portfolio sharing. You can see what stocks other people are buying. You can also create custom portfolio as well as build an audience. They pay creators $25 a month. Under the Savvy Trader brand, they created Earnings Hub, which gives the quarterly earnings reports of Companies and their stocks. You can get a summary of the quarterly calls, analyst expectations, analyst analysis, the actual earnings, and the calendar on when the earnings come out. Hamid is a long-term investor who looks for growth, earnings, and earnings validation. The old mantra of, trust but verify. He is definitely a fundamental investor like Buffet, who looks at the numbers of the company. Also believes in companies who make investments in R&D. Looking for great companies with a growing Market Cap.     Part 1 Seg 1 Public companies release earnings on a quarterly basis. Then the CEO has to conduct a call with analyst where they answer questions. This is the only public information available. It's a chance each quarter to see what's really going on with the company. Earnings information is tough to find, and you have to search for it in multiple places.  They created Earnings Hub where the information is all in one place. Can see the calendar of who's reporting earnings and when. You also have access to past quarterly calls and a summary of the call. This way you can see the information the public companies are required to file on earnings in the status of the company. Hamid is also an angel investor where you invest in startups Founders. Private investor with no guarantees. The way they typically operate, is they push out financial and sales  updates monthly or quarterly. Most startups fail, so Hamid understands anyone he invests in, could lose the money. He is basically a hands off investor. Earnings Hub is set up where traffic on the site will spike when big companies like a Tesla or Amazon are reporting. They also just launched a feature where you can listen to the earnings call live as well as do live chat with other members. Cost for Earnings Hub is $100 a year. Right now they have an intro offer where it's just $1 - one dollar.     Seg 2 They created a joke feature with Earnings Hub logo. Currently the A in the logo is a pyramid. When a stock is down, the logo will change to a

This week I had the opportunity to invest with friend and serial entrepreneur Hamid Shojaee. Hamid has been the founder of several companies and products including Axosoft, NetTime Solutions, and Get Krackin. You can watch/listen to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. On this episode of the Capital Stack Podcast hosted by venture capitalist David Paul - Hamid Shoajee, serial entrepreneur, author, investor, and founder of Savvy Trader, an Arizona-based investment portfolio-sharing software company, gets on the microphone. David and Hamid engage in conversation about how to get started in investing, how to balance and maintain your investments, learnings from investing mistakes, and projections on the economy's future. Hamid discusses his own valuable investing tactics and investments.What You Will Discover(2:12) - Hamid's story with his previous companies(4:20) - Info on Hamid's company, Savvy Trader(8:18) - What is trading vs. investing?(12:10) - Learnings and the importance of patience in investing(17:48) - Previous and current stock market trends(30:41) - Bias in trading(36:42) - Trends in the aerospace market(40:25) - View on the US Healthcare Landscape(52:43) - Outlook and projections on the economy

The Founders – How Tech Impacts All Areas of Business from Clean Energy to Smartwatches, E Bikes, Data & Investing - BRT Best of Tech 2022 Part 2 BRT S03 EP61 (162) 12-25-2022  Clips from Previous BRT Tech Shows in 2022 Part 2   Things We Learned This Week PayPal Mafia– alumni created or involved many other co's – Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir, Yelp, Yammer, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube & more Delfast E Bikes – smart bike, connects to E Bike, range of 220 miles on 1 charge, & speed of 50 mph, can drive on all different terrain  Clean Energy - many AZ Tech Co's working on zero emission plan Agile + Intelligence = Agilence, bringing great data analysis to companies Savvy Trader allows you to share your portfolio GoX Labs & ‘Pre-care' – preventive care can save lives, prevent injuries + save $ billions Array Technologies is a global leader advancing the future of clean energy. With over 30 years of innovations that have powered the solar industry       Notes: Clips from Previous BRT Tech Shows in the 2nd Half of 2022     Clip from 8/7/2022 - w/ Jimmy Soni on the start of PayPal and their battle w/ EBAY From Seg. 3 - FULL SHOW: HERE       Guest: Jimmy Soni, Author https://jimmysoni.com/ https://twitter.com/jimmyasoni   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysoni/ My books are passion projects. My topics come because I look for a book to buy on the subject and can't find one. I know it's supposed to be fancier than that, or that there must be some grand theory of my work, but there isn't one. That said, my readers seem to enjoy what I've written, so maybe it's fine? I am inspired by my literary heroes, including Robert Caro, Laura Hillenbrand, Candice Millard, Daniel James Brown, and Barbara Tuchman, among many others. They are all rigorous researchers—but reading their books doesn't feel like doing homework. That's what I'm going for, and hopefully I hit the mark a few times. The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley A definitive, deeply reported look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and others whose stories have never before been told. They defined the modern world. This experience defined them.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia     Clip from 9/18/2022 – w/ Daniel Tonkopiy, CEO, Delfast Bikes     Replay Seg. 4 – on VC Funding and competition FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Daniel Tonkopiy, CEO, Founder, Chairman Delfast Bikes https://us.delfastbikes.com/ Daniel Tonkopiy is founder and chief executive officer of Delfast, Inc. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of successful business experience. His previous entrepreneurial endeavors include best.ua, a Ukrainian business reviews service; X-Rift, an augmented reality mobile game; and Million Dollar Startup, a Kyiv-based startup school. In 2014, Daniel set out to transform the future of transportation and combat climate change with Delfast's innovative E-bikes. He has since grown the company into a disruptive global e-bike leader that holds a Guinness World Record for greatest distance (228 miles) traveled on a single charge. In addition to Delfast, Daniel also serves as a business and entrepreneurial mentor for MiniBoss School, Startup Ukraine, and the Central Asia FLEX business program. He is an author, a former radio host, and is a dynamic and sought-after speaker inspiring entrepreneurs and sustainability enthusiasts globally at more than 50 conferences to date. Daniel holds a Bachelor's degree in International Economic Relations from Kazakh Economic University.   Delfast Bikes ECO-FRIENDLY - No air emissions and subsequently ― negative impact on environment. SIGNIFICANT RANGE - In-house developed Battery Management System allows to travel up to 370 km on a single charge. RELATIVELY CHEAP - We help to save your money for expensive fuel and insurance. LESS STRESS, MORE FREE TIME - Delfast bike is the best choice to avoid annoying traffic jams. CONVENIENCE - You can easily switch on bicycle mode and do sports when you want; and use e-bike mode when you are tired.     Clip from 10/30/2022 – w/ Steve Zylstra, President / CEO AZ Tech Council Replay Seg. 4 – on Clean Energy and tech FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Steve Zylstra, President / CEO AZ Tech Council https://www.aztechcouncil.org/ https://www.aztechcouncil.org/kfnx_july2021/   Steve Zylstra of AZ Tech Council joins BRT to talk all things technology in the Valley. The Arizona Technology Council is one of the largest technology-driven trade associations in North America, with over 850 members and growing, the only organization specifically serving technology companies statewide. They protect innovators and truly believe that technology moves all of us forward; and are dedicated to the future of Arizona.   Steve Zylstra advocates for AZ tech, as well as his recurring writing about the industry. Steve, and the Council are a major source for updates on technology, business growth, and what legislation is being drafted.       Clip from 11/13/2022 – w/ Russ Hawkins, CEO Agilence   Replay Seg. 3 – on how CEOs run companies & use the data FULL SHOW: HERE   Guest: Russ Hawkins, CEO Agilence https://www.agilenceinc.com/ Agilence is the leader in data analytics and reporting in the retail, restaurant, grocery, convenience, and pharmacy industries. We develop intelligent data analytics and reporting technology that enables organizations to easily connect the dots within their stores or restaurants by automatically collecting and summarizing data to identify anomalies and trends that can improve operations, measure enterprise-wide performance, and boost profits. Agilence provides users with a complete view of their business, empowering them to make informed decisions faster and improving efficiency across the enterprise.   Bio: Russ Hawkins is the President and CEO of the leading data technology company, Agilence. Russ has spent over 35-years in the technology industry, helping established organizations and small start-ups reach their full potential by driving change from the "inside." Russ is responsible for developing the overall strategy and leading the growth of SAAS Analytics & Reporting company Agilence, which helps retailers, grocers, and restaurants improve their operational effectiveness and uncover preventable losses using the data already in their hands. Before Agilence, he transformed two early-stage technology companies into successful businesses by leading go-to-market strategies focused on product development, re-brands, and customer profile analysis resulting in exponential growth and success.     Clip from 11/20/2022 – w/ Hamid Shojaee Savvy Trader    Replay Seg. 2 – on sharing your trading playbook FULL SHOW: HERE   Guests: Hamid Shojaee AZ Tech Beat https://aztechbeat.com/ https://azdisruptors.com/ https://www.azcowork.com/          Hamid talks all thing AZ tech, Startups and what the world of an Angel Investor really looks like. His 2 decades + of experience is laid out, from starting and running software companies, plus exited the industry to now an Angel Investor mentoring the next generation of Startups. Hamid (Founder of Axosoft and Pure Chat) has always had a passion in helping Arizona's up-and-coming tech talent. Since 2010, Hamid has been involved with various AZ tech initiatives, including bringing tech founder and CEOs together, investing in startups and helping push the #YesPHX community forward. Axosoft – software tools for software development PureChat – live chat software for websites https://savvytrader.com/ What is Savvy Trader? Create Create a virtual portfolio of your stocks and crypto. Buy or sell your investments at any time to keep your portfolio up to date. Share Share your portfolio for free, or set a price, for your followers to get access to your portfolio and notified about your trades. Notify Notify your subscribers when you make a trade. Savvy Trader will send a text or email to everyone subscribed to your portfolio.   Savvy Trader is on a mission to make investment information more accessible. Learning about stocks and crypto can be intimidating and overwhelming with incredibly high levels of noise and very little signal.       Clip from 12/4/2022 – w/ Joseph Hitt, PhD & Co-Founder of GoX Labs  Replay Seg. 3 – on who pays the bill in workplace injuries FULL SHOW: HERE   Guests: Joseph Hitt, PhD & Co-Founder of GoX Labs  https://www.goxlabs.com/ https://www.fitt-sci.net/   https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-hitt-ph-d-70933752 https://www.fitt-sci.net/copy-of-bio-page-bruce-floersheim   Dr. Joe Hitt served 25+ years on Active Duty in the US Army, culminating his career as a DARPA program manager. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus in robotics. He started and managed the largest government funded wearable robotics R&D program - Warrior Web. He formulated the strategy for Squad-X, a current DARPA program designed to link human, autonomous and semi autonomous ‘members' of a small unit together in a seamless fashion for tactical operations. He is also a co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer for GoX Labs (www.goxlabs.com ) GoX Labs: Protect your team from the top three workplace injuries using Boost's AI and machine learning.       Clip from 12/18/2022 – w/ Erica Brinker of Array Technologies     Replay Seg. 3 – on Solar and Clean Energy FULL SHOW: HERE   What is the Future of Solar Energy w/ Erica Brinker of Array Technologies - BRT S03 EP62 (161) 12-18-2022   https://arraytechinc.com/ Who We Are Array Technologies is a global leader advancing the future of clean energy. With over 30 years of innovations that have powered the solar industry, Array is uniquely positioned to deliver renewable energy solutions for customers seeking clean energy adoption in markets around the globe. While our strength lies in building the world's most reliable and efficient utility-scale solar trackers, our expertise, capabilities, and resources position us to extend into additional renewable energy solutions. As pioneers, innovators, and visionaries, we are committed to generating energy with integrity for a sustainable world.   https://arraytechinc.com/executive-team/ https://arraytechinc.com/team-member/erica-brinker/ erica.brinker@arraytechinc.com   Erica Brinker Chief Commercial Officer A technology and data-driven executive with over 20 years of diverse marketing, brand management, corporate communications and business development experience, Brinker joins Array from Honeywell International, where she served most recently as CMO, Vice President Marketing & Sales Excellence. Brinker also led business development for the Services, Software and Connectivity business of Honeywell Aerospace. Prior to joining Honeywell in 2011, Brinker held various leadership roles within software, technology, industrial, healthcare, aerospace, retail and hospitality companies with brands including Polo Ralph Lauren, Tiffany & Company and Kate Spade. Brinker earned a Bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and earned her MBA in International Business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.           Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science   Best of Tech: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=best+of+tech     Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement     ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT     Thanks for Listening. Please Subscribe to the BRT Podcast.      Business Roundtable with Matt Battaglia The show where Entrepreneurs, High Level Executives, Business Owners, and Investors come to share insight and ideas about the future of business. BRT 2.0 looks at the new trends in business, and how classic industries are evolving.  Common Topics Discussed: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing, Stocks, Cannabis, Tech, Blockchain / Crypto, Real Estate, Legal, Sales, Charity, and more…  BRT Podcast Home Page: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/ ‘Best Of' BRT Podcast: Click Here BRT Podcast on Google: Click Here BRT Podcast on Spotify: Click Here                    More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/podcast-brt-home/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/   Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. All information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes. Nothing said on this program should be considered advice or recommendations in: business, legal, real estate, crypto, tax accounting, investment, etc. Always seek the advice of a professional in all business ventures, including but not limited to: investments, tax, loans, legal, accounting, real estate, crypto, contracts, sales, marketing, other business arrangements, etc.

Create Your Investing Profile & Share It on Savvy Trader w/ Hamid Shojaee BRT S03 EP58 (157) 11-20-2022   What We Learned This Week Savvy Trader allows you to share your portfolio Investing Track Record - see how people actually invest & their results Why Software is Such a Good Business Model, Build 1x, sell multiple X VCs want to see Traction in Startups Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC) & Long term Value of a Custer (LTV) are critical in scaling a startup long term, how much does it cost to get a customer, and how long do you keep them        Guests: Hamid Shojaee AZ Tech Beat https://aztechbeat.com/ https://azdisruptors.com/ https://www.azcowork.com/          Hamid talks all thing AZ tech, Startups and what the world of an Angel Investor really looks like. His 2 decades + of experience is laid out, from starting and running software companies, plus exited the industry to now an Angel Investor mentoring the next generation of Startups. Hamid (Founder of Axosoft and Pure Chat) has always had a passion in helping Arizona's up-and-coming tech talent. Since 2010, Hamid has been involved with various AZ tech initiatives, including bringing tech founder and CEOs together, investing in startups and helping push the #YesPHX community forward. Axosoft – software tools for software development PureChat – live chat software for websites Hamid is a 20 year + software veteran who's built four different multi-million dollar SaaS products in the last twenty years. He recently sold two software companies, Axosoft and Pure Chat, and has been advising and investing in Arizona-based startups for nearly a decade. He recently announced he'll be investing $10 million in promising Arizona tech startups. Hamid is also host of the AZ Tech Podcast, where he interviews Arizona's most successful founders, investors and doers. AZ Disruptors is founded by Hamid Shojaee (@hamids) and Lawdan Shojaee (@lawdan) as a vehicle to invest in for-profit companies that want to make the world a better place, with a geographical focus on Arizona's tech ecosystem. Working with startups and investing (20 companies). The criteria listed on the website for a Startup to be considered for investment. AZ CoWork was founded by Hamid and Lawdan Shojaee as a way to support and foster the next generation of fast-growing tech companies in Arizona. They designed the 12,000 square-foot space, which conveniently sits directly below Axosoft and PureChat, to cater specifically towards tech startups through hosting various local startup groups and events, providing mentorship opportunities, and cultivating a community of like-minded founders.  AZ Tech Beat is Arizona's online news source for everything related to technology and science. We aim to highlight the efforts of the talented Arizonans trying to make a positive impact in the world. We also produce AZ Tech Podcast (https://aztechbeat.com/category/podcast/), a weekly show featuring conversations with some of Arizona's most interesting founders, investors, scientists and other doers. Covers the AZ Startup community, the struggles and people involved. Find the podcast library here, watch the interviews on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast app. AZ Tech Beat is founded by Hamid Shojaee and financially supported by the Shojaee Foundation. Stories are written and reported by Adrienne St. Clair (@agestclair) and Abby Sharpe (@byabbysharpe).     https://savvytrader.com/ What is Savvy Trader? Create Create a virtual portfolio of your stocks and crypto. Buy or sell your investments at any time to keep your portfolio up to date. Share Share your portfolio for free, or set a price, for your followers to get access to your portfolio and notified about your trades. Notify Notify your subscribers when you make a trade. Savvy Trader will send a text or email to everyone subscribed to your portfolio.   Savvy Trader is on a mission to make investment information more accessible. Learning about stocks and crypto can be intimidating and overwhelming with incredibly high levels of noise and very little signal. Savvy Trader helps solve this problem in two ways: Create and trade stocks and crypto in a safe virtual portfolio environment. The Savvy Trader virtual portfolios work a lot like a real brokerage account, except the trades are not real, allowing users to experiment and learn. Portfolio Creators can also share their virtual portfolios. A great way to learn about stocks and crypto is to see the virtual portfolios of others, see the actual performance of those portfolios as if they were real, and learn about the reasons behind the creators decisions for buying or selling each holding. So go ahead, create a virtual portfolio and share it with the world. Speaking of, I have a Savvy Trader virtual portfolio myself. Truth be told, I wanted to create Savvy Trader for myself as an easy way for me to consolidate my holdings in multiple accounts into a single virtual portfolio that represents my actual investments, and I wanted an easy way to share my portfolio details with friends and family. You can subscribe to my portfolio below - it's free!   Notes:   Seg 1 Hamid has a long history in tech, 20+ years and software. Sold his company in 2020. Software is a great and unique business model. You can build the software utility one time and then sell it many times. Build 1x, sell it many x The cost is with the software development team, and heavy costs upfront. There is very little traditional capEx long term, as you do not need to build multiple physical products. It does not matter if you have one customer, 10,000 customers, or 1,000,000+ customers, all costs the same. It is a high margin business with lower expenses, and now you can manage it and host it in the cloud. The classic Marc Andreessen quote software will eat in the world There is a high bar on user experience which is why you need the best software engineers and they cost a lot of money. With those engineers you can build a great product and scale to millions of users. You will always have the cost of the team on going with maintenance & upgrades needed to the software. Software is a never done story, you're always in development. With some small start ups the founder may be the developer and now you're just talking the cost of their time and the opportunity cost. Venture capitalist want to see traction in a start up, they want the graph to go up into the right. VC are looking for the ability to scale and have a product that can play in a big market. VC is looking for the type of market to 10x their invested money, get an ROI to make it worth their time. VC makes many bets because most of them fail, and they need their few successes to be large. VC looking for that start up that can become a unicorn, as guy Kawasaki said it is unique and valuable. Question does the market or the product come first? Hamid built Savvy Trader to solve a problem. He had looked for a solution and could not find it.   Seg 2 Savvy Trader - what is your performance? Track your portfolio online Internet of investing w s Wild West, No idea what peoples track record is Get ideas or virtual portfolio to learn, can use portfolio to teach people with case study Skin in the game - where people put $ Follow investors online, know if full of crap or not, not cherry picking winners, and post with survivor bias. Hamid portfolio is down in 2022 and you can see it Long time investor in the Buffett mode Investment style - buy cos you know and understand Good valuation, market cap not ridiculous What is the revenue? Any profit? Strong financials vs market cap Investing is 10% identifying cos to buy and 90% wait, as can't impact outcome Could be years before know if investing choice was right Pandemic valuations during 2020 were way too high. Case study of looking at investment potential. Apple is a $2 trillion company so there is diminished potential to have a 10x return as it would then need to become a $20 trillion company. When a company is so large it is hard to move the needle. The entire stock market valuation is $46 trillion. Netflix is $128 billion company so 10 X is Plausible through user growth, ad revenue, and raising rates. Micro cap stocks are smaller companies with higher risk but the potential to 10x. You want to look for stocks with the potential of growth, that not have not achieve success yet.   Seg 3 Hamid owns Tesla, Netflix, FB, Uber How to think about diversification, Hamid makes 2 to 3 bigger bats in the past when is risk tolerance was higher, now it is lower so he makes 4 to 5 bets. If you have too much diversification, your returns will be subdued. Facebook stock as a case study, over the short term the market over reacts and is very emotional. the.com boom and bust of 2000 or the 2008 housing market crash, or current 2022 and people are sour on tech stocks. Netflix stock was $600 in late 2021 and drop two as low as 170 in the summer of 2022. Financially Netflix lost 1 million users or a half a percent of their 200 million user base. Contrast that the stock lost 70% of its value. It has rebounded back up to 310. Market over reacts on the highs and lows stocks are over bought of times and then oversold. Facebook was at 380 in late 2021, and now is at 100 in the fall of 2022. Seems like Facebook is at a discount? Did the market overreact or did Mark Zuckerberg become an idiot overnight? Same people bought Facebook at $300 plus and then sold it at 150. Stock analyst give buy ratings to stocks when they're at their high and sell ratings when they're at that low. Analyst seem to follow momentum. Some selling in the market creates more selling. This has to do with momentum and fund managers who have to dump losers, boat with high speed traders selling.   Seg 4 Tesla stock has seen a bomb in the last few years. Turns out the retail investor was right for a stock analyst who would recommend Tesla to be sold. Tesla has 70% of the EV market. SpaceX is building reusable rockets, a feet that even NASA could not do. Obviously Musk knows something. Facebook has 2 billion users daily and is still making billions and add revenue. When you're investing in the start up world anymore diversification versus public markets has 80% of startups fail. You need the one or two that succeed to vastly make up for the money invested in all start ups. Hamid advises founders on a limited basis. Common piece of advice is that they're going to need a long runway, and it will be difficult to raise money in the current environment. He believes there will be less start ups being created with huge money behind them in 2023. More start ups will fail in 2023. Cost of money / debt is higher. On the positive side there may be less competition for start ups. hamid personally saw some unreal valuations over the last year. One example is he was offered to invest in a company that claim their own valuation was at $1 billion when they only had $17 million in sales. Early stage start ups are not expected to have a valuation, sales or profitability. Later on though your valuation goes hand-in-hand with revenue. Expected valuations are 3x to 7x of revenues. FTX downfall was through exuberance. At one point they were rumored to be buying more Robin Hood as well as other crypto companies. Their exchange always seemed a little shady, like a black box with no info on financials, no one knew what was behind the veil. It's a common red flag if a company is churning through cash too quickly. Uber was the company at one point that had serious churn in the beginning, but now seems to be a better investment. They are profitable and seem to be sustainable. Uber customers will stay just like Netflix they're likely not to cancel. The cost of the customer acquisition plus the lifetime value of the customer is very solid. Uber valuation is 62 billion with limited profitability right now. Oddly enough it's a lower market cap than it was five years ago when I wasn't profitable at all. value investors get frustrated with tech valuations being so wide-eyed. Uber will continue to grow, as now it has three revenue sources. It makes money from the rides, the eats, and the freight division. The eats plus freight division is a little over half their income and actually more income for us the rides. Per Elon Mosk Robo taxis will be available in the next five years which will make rideshare is bigger. This may not happen in five years but likely in the future. Uber CEO Dara K ran Expedia prior to Uber so obviously you know something about running a big company. Uber followed the same story as Google did 20 years ago when they needed to hire an adult in the room, professional manager. This mirrors when Google hired Eric Schmidt.         Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science   ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT   Thanks for Listening. 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In This Episode, You Will Learn: Hamid's journey from creating a product as a side hustle, to scaling and selling multiple companies. That you don't always have to be “right” in business to grow.   Resources + Links:   Follow Hamid on Twitter @hamids https://twitter.com/hamids   Follow Hamid on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamidshojaee/   Check out this book mentioned in the episode: Good to Great by Jim Collins https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 Connect with Sharon on Instagram | @sharonbondurant_ig LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonbondurant/   Find more resources on our website  https://www.the-finders.com/ www.how-to-pivot.com   Show Notes We're back with self proclaimed “software guy”, startup investor, Founder and CEO of Savvy Trader, Hamid Shojaee! We initially connected through my recruitment agency and now I'm excited to share our conversation as Hamid shares his story from side hustle to scaling and exiting multiple companies! Hamid shares some leadership tips from making decisions fast, and why most of the time you aren't going to be right, in fact you don't need to be right all the time as you scale! Hamid also shares a huge pivot when he had to convince his team to switch focusing and investing in a product that was making millions in revenue, to a new product that was making zero. Tune in for some amazing tips on acting fast, and staying sharp in your craft, always ready to pivot!   01:15 Meet self proclaimed “software guy” Hamid Shojaee. 03:30 How many employees did you have at Axosoft? 06:20 Ups and downs over the years as you scale a business. 09:15 Revenue doesn't equal profitability. 13:00 Navigate shifting the focus from one product that was making multi millions in revenue to a new product that was making zero. 16:00 How have you evolved and helped your development team keep up with new technology? 18:15 After selling two companies, what makes you want to do it all again? 19:40 The top two things to focus on when starting a new company or creating a new product. 21:40 How important is it to make decisions quickly? 23:30 Are there traits you've had to become good at in business that you didn't naturally have? 28:15 What mentors and books have impacted you on your journey? 33:15 How can we connect with you?

Hamid Shojaee is a technical founder and serial entrepreneur who created several software companies and dozens of products in the last 25 years. He sold his two software companies in 2021—Axosoft and Pure Chat—and now is an active investor and has a new startup to keep him busy. Axosoft was popular project management and bug-tracking software for developers that he bootstrapped to launch in 2002. It grew profitably for years until it met stiff competition despite active efforts to grow. Dozens of product experiments finally produced a hit, the popular software GitKraken. In this episode, Hamid shares some hard lessons learned: How he and his team experimented to test new product ideas and don't invest until they prove real user traction (DAUs) The challenges of raising money from investors who want faster revenue traction too early in the product-led growth cycle The challenges of not being the dominant leader in your market in the long-run Selling one business to a strategic buyer without help: selling the other business to a financial buyer using M&A investment bankers The modest changes in his life after selling two companies for life-changing wealth in 2021 Why he's starting and building another software company Check out all our episodes and articles at https://practicalfounders.com.

For over a decade, Tania's been successfully sneaking creativity into Fortune 500 companies, leading tech companies, TED Talks, arts organizations, universities, marketing conventions and innovation summits to teach people and companies the skill of generating creative breakthroughs. She even helped create the internationally viral women's empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress for software company Axosoft. As a consultant, she teaches businesses the creative principles, tools and strategies necessary to connect people to purpose, purpose to action, and action to truth. We are lucky to have her on the Lifesaving Gratitude podcast and we know you're going to love her!Links: Tania's website: https://taniakatan.com/Buy Creative Trespassing: https://taniakatan.com/book/#pre-order#itwasneveradresscampaign: https://itwasneveradress.org/The Museum of Walking: http://www.museumofwalking.org/aboutNatalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Bones-Freeing-Writer/dp/1590302613Bunny's website: https://bunnyterry.com/Buy Lifesaving Gratitude: https://www.amazon.com/Lifesaving-Gratitude-Helped-Stage-Cancers-ebook/dp/B08SPY2GXXOriginal Music by: Kene Terry

Busy week for Arizona tech news. eVisit and Nextiva raise big. Axosoft makes an acquisition and a few other announcements too.Plus we talk about national tech news from Apple, SpaceX, VW and more.

Hamid Shojaee is an entrepreneur and investor. He moved to Arizona from Iran when he was 10 years old, and has called Arizona his home ever since. Since he was 12 years old, Hamid was passionate about programming and wanted to one day be an entrepreneur like his parents. He absolutely achieved that goal and has started several successful businesses throughout his career. “By the end of high school, I knew I was going to do something in software for myself one day. So, I kept dabbling and putting out software products and putting them on the internet for free.”In college, Hamid started his first software business with his roommate. After 5 years, he left his business to go work at Microsoft for a couple years. It was during those years that Hamid worked nights and weekends developing software for project management, which eventually turned into Axosoft. Axosoft is an organization that develops software to help companies with project management needs. In 2014, he left his position at Axosoft to become the CEO of Pure Chat, a company he had started during his time there. Hamid recently sold both Axosoft and Pure Chat last year in 2020. Since having two large exits last year, he and his wife decided they wanted to invest 10 million dollars into Arizona startups. What inspired you to invest 10 million into Arizona tech startups?“When we decided to invest, I wanted to focus on making Arizona that much better, because Arizona has given so much to me.”What is one thing you learned from your first software company that you applied to starting Axosoft? “The one major mistake we made in our first company was that we tried to do 4 or 5 different things right off the bat, and that was a huge mistake. Coming off of that, focus was a big lesson I had learned… As an entrepreneur, it's hard not to pursue your ideas because you don't just have one idea. You have lots of them.” What is the “30 days off” philosophy?At Axosoft, “once a year, we would take 30 days off and do other things. We made that part of our system. Every year, we would take a month and dedicate it to all of us working on other products that have nothing to do with our business… Those side projects ended up creating two other products that they themselves became million dollar companies.”Advice on starting a business:“One of the discussions that I had recently was how important it is to accept that 90% of what you're doing is probably a mistake. That is okay, because that 10% that works ends up making up for the 90% that doesn't work.”Additional Links:Follow him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamidshojaee/Learn more about AZ Disruptors https://azdisruptors.com/Listen to Hamid's AZ Tech Podcast https://aztechbeat.com/podcast/

Tania Katan shares her wit and wisdom about how to use creativity to challenge with playfulness our rigid organizational cultures.  She works with large and small companies, helping them find new alignment around their daily contradictions through “small c” creative work, facing everyday practical problems with imagination.  She shares the tales of #itwasneveradress (re-seeing the ladies' room logo into a cape) and challenging the community to arm wrestle for art at the Scottsdale Museum of Art.  She speaks and challenges how we connect virtually in her keynotes and works with organizational leaders through her “Creative Trespassing” classes and new membership organization. Guest: Tania Katan, CEO, Creative Trespassing Tania is a transformational speaker, innovation coach, and co-creator of the globally viral women's empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress. Her unique way of formulating ideas led to the groundbreaking bestselling book, “Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life” (Penguin Random House, February 2019). For over a decade, Tania has been successfully sneaking creativity into Fortune 500 companies, leading tech companies, arts organizations, marketing conventions, and innovation summits to teach people and companies the skill of generating creative breakthroughs. Some of the organizations and major conferences impacted by her work include CiscoLive!, Expedia, Amazon, Google, Humana, Etsy, TED, World Domination Summit, Uber, and Comedy Central Stage. Katan's status-quo-busting work has also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, HuffPost, Time, BuzzFeed, CNN, Adweek, Mashable, Forbes, ReadWrite and Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, among others. If you long to leap from fear to freedom and just need a map… Here You Are: https://taniakatan.com/courses/ (https://taniakatan.com/courses/) URL: Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life - https://taniakatan.com/courses/ (https://taniakatan.com/courses/) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taniakatan/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/taniakatan/) Twitter: @taniakatan Instagram: @TheUnrealTaniaKatan  Inspirational Newsletter (get a FREE chapter of Creative Trespassing when you sign up): https://tania-katan.mykajabi.com/opt-in-833df3d3-9390-46dd-a091-36f10efacca0 (https://tania-katan.mykajabi.com/opt-in-833df3d3-9390-46dd-a091-36f10efacca0) Website: http://taniakatan.com/ (taniakatan.com) “Creative Trespassing” Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566682/creative-trespassing-by-tania-katan/9780525573401/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566682/creative-trespassing-by-tania-katan/9780525573401/) Interesting Mentions: Sonya Renee Taylor - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ (https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com)  Patricia Stokes, “Creativity from Constraints in the Performing Arts” - https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Constraints-Performing-Patricia-Stokes/dp/0692611991/ (https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Constraints-Performing-Patricia-Stokes/dp/0692611991/) Axosoft - https://www.axosoft.com #Itwasneveradress - https://itwasneveradress.org Byron Katie - https://thework.com/ (https://thework.com) Pema Chödrön - https://pemachodronfoundation.org/ (https://pemachodronfoundation.org) Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk - http://www.seaox.com/thich.html Arm wrestling for art at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - https://frontdoorsmedia.com/arm-wrestling-for-art (https://frontdoorsmedia.com/arm-wrestling-for-art)  Your Host: Gigi Johnson, EdD I run transformative programs, speak/moderate, invest, advise, and produce multimedia on creativity and technology.  I taught for 22 years at UCLA, where I ran the Center for Music Innovation and the podcast "Innovating Music," built four industry-connecting programs, and taught undergraduates, MBAs, and executives about disruption in creative...

Rob and Jason are joined by Tyler Ang-Wanek to discuss leveraging C++ in an ElectronJS app like GitKraken. Tyler Ang-Wanek has been developing software professionally for the past 3.5 years. He works as a senior developer at Axosoft, on the GitKraken team. His work primarily shifts among developing native node modules for use in GitKraken, architectural work for code and APIs around GitKraken, and developing new features for GitKraken. He is the creator of the node module Node Sentinel File Watcher (NSFW), a native file watcher written for GitKraken that has made its way into Atom and VSCode. One of his major accomplishments includes taking leadership of the open source native node module NodeGit. After much hard work on the NodeGit repo and within the community, Tyler joined the leadership group for LibGit2. News Expressive C++ Template Metaprogramming Bring your C++ Code to the Web Voting results for Meeting C++ 2019 Tyler Ang-Wanek @twwanek Links GitKraken Axosoft GitKraken v6.0: The Fastest GitKraken Ever! Sponsors Backtrace Announcing Visual Studio Extension - Integrated Crash Reporting in 5 Minutes Hosts @robwirving @lefticus  

Edward talks with Hamid Shojaee about GitKraken, the popular Git client. They discuss GitKraken's origins as a "30 day project", developer productivity, and building developer tools that are easy to use and likeable. Hamid is the founder of Axosoft, the company behind GitKraken, the popular cross-platform Git client. His background is in software development, but he has also founded 3 software companies and is behind several successful SaaS products, including Axosoft, GitKraken and Pure Chat. Show Notes GitKraken is the popular cross-platform Git client from Axosoft. Twitter: @GitKraken YouTube: gitkraken Facebook: GitKraken GitKraken is built on Electron and React Teamprise was the predecessor to Microsoft Team Explorer Everywhere and how Edward and Martin ended up working at Microsoft. Version Control by Example is Eric Sink's excellent book on version control, which is available as a proper book and digitally. (Pro-tip: get the book.) The Night Before GitMas, a holiday video from the GitKraken team. (And if you missed last year's video, it was The Twelve Days of GitMas.) GitKraken Glo, it's what's next from the GitKraken team.

‘Phoenix Business Person of the Year’ Lawdan Shojaee talks about her obsessive approach to transparency and honesty at her company, Axosoft.

In an effort to break down barriers and shift perceptions of women in technology—and all spaces—Axosoft used their tech superhero powers of collaboration, cross-functionality, and agility to offer up a radically reimagined women's bathroom symbol. This new symbol has started an international conversation that is picking up STEAM! Since the campaign launched just one month ago, it has generated over 18 million impressions, received attention from every major media outlet, and is funding a scholarship at Arizona State University for a need-based student entering a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) field. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/business-of-software/message

Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Pure Chat Inc has founded 3 software companies and has a ton of experience to impart. After 20 years in technology and having built 3 companies, he's learned a lot about building great products that solve a real need in the marketplace. He has bootstrapped Axosoft and built it into a multi-million dollar business and most recently he launched and raised money for Pure Chat. His philosophy is that If you don't start a project with a “hell ya!” then just don't do it at all.

Segment 1:Dr. Pamela Dennis has helped some of the world's top leaders successfully lead their organizations—like Jeff Immelt, at GE and Eric Schmidt at Google. She speaks to international and national organizations on leadership and change, with the emphasis on leading transitions. Segment 2: Hamid Shojaee is addicted to the high of making products that people love to use. Along the way, he's made a couple of companies including Axosoft and Pure Chat and has helped Arizona's tech scene create its voice with AZTechBeat.com.Segment 3: David Arison is part of the senior executive team of an established multi-generational family. David's position centers on representing his family's shared legacy and values, which stem from the vision of Doing Good. Segment 4: Steve Cohen is Vice President and General Counsel at James H. Cohen and Sons, Inc. They are a dealer in rare coins, currency and antique arms and armor, operating on Royal Street in New Orleans' French Quarter since 1898. Segment 5: Dr. Carla Hightower is a physician and the founder of Living Health Works, a health coaching service. Dr. Hightower teaches individuals to use plant-based nutrition to prevent and reverse chronic diseases. She writes a blog on the subject of “food as medicine” at livinghealthworks.com Sponsored by Sage, Nextiva, and Pure Chat. 

Hamid is addicted to the high of making products that people love to use. Sometimes, the users even pay for them, which is how he funds his enormously high cost of body-hair removal. Along the way, he’s made a couple of companies including Axosoft and Pure Chat and has helped Arizona’s tech scene create its voice with AZTechBeat.com. He’s passionate not only about achieving financial success in business but also success in health and wellness as an owner and also for his employees.   Secret -- timesaving technique Hamid tries to focus on one task at a time -- don’t get caught up in the daily complexities that tie business owners down. ONWARD! Daily habit that contributes to success Coffee! Hamid drinks three cups a day to refuel his energy reserve -- it’s a great decision-making partner. Could have ruined your business -- but now -- an invaluable learning experience Hamid learned through experimentation -- and Hamid tells the whole story here. Most critical skill you think business owners need to master to be successful “Business owners should learn to make the best decision for their company by first determining the correct path.” Most influential lesson learned from a mentor “Entrepreneurs have to understand the more is better attitude is a complex and dangerous strategy.”     Final Round -- “Breaking Down the Recipe for Success”   What systems would you go back and put into place sooner? I would have gone back and implemented a system to help our team gain market share through sustainable resourcing. What one strategy or “recipe” would compound into big wins for business owners? Business owners need to think outside of their wheelhouse of expertise and continually evaluate consumer sentiments. How to exceed expectations and add the most value? An individual who looks at work as a personal craft -- it’s viewed as a major contribution to the universe. What strategy would you recommend new business owners focus on to best ensure success? Self-doubt can be conquered Simplify your business -- less is more How best to connect with Hamid: http://www.hamidshojaee.com/   You can also find us here: ------ OnwardNation.com ------

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall. Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Axosoft, cohosts a group of Phoenix-area startup founders (Jason was on Skype video – everyone else was in the room […]

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall. Hamid Shojaee, CEO of Axosoft, cohosts a group of Phoenix-area startup founders (Jason was on Skype video – everyone else was in the room […]

In this video we cover some of the things you would want to be doing in a sprint planning session. For Sprint Planning meetings, you would want to have your Product Owner and the Scrum team talk about the items that would be included in the upcoming sprint, setting up acceptance criteria, estimating items, and moving items into an upcoming sprint

Learn about creating custom fields to store any kind of information you need in your OnTime database. Designing templates to view and edit items, and create workflows to determine what process items go through in order to be completed.

This video covers the options for 'Edit using Workflow Template' and 'Edit using Project Template'. The default edit behavior is to use 'Edit Using Workflow Template which will launch the field template designated for the particular workflow step. The 'Edit using Project Template, will allow you to use the same template when editing items, regardless of the items current workflow step. This 'Edit using Project Template' option is tied to the standard 'edit' privilege in Security Roles.

In this video we cover managing your OnTime Users and Customers. From adding users and customer contacts, setting defaults for new users, and what kind of access each would have when logging into OnTime or to your OnTime Customer Portal.

This is the first video in a 4 part series for an in depth look at OnTime. In This video, we cover some common features of OnTime including adding projects, sending emails, adding attachments, editing items, working in the planning board, and organizing items in your OnTime Database

In this video we cover using the 'Organize' pane, applying filters, searches, grouping, and finding items using keyboard shortcuts. We also cover saving views so that using one click you can revert back to a familiar view with any filters, or settings automatically configured.

This podcast covers using OnTime for Scrum Development. We discuss creating different priority levels, using multi-edit and the planning board to prioritize items and plan for sprints. For more information on Scrum in OnTime or to sign up for our free scrum class go to axosoft.com/training

In this podcast we discuss filtering in OnTime using the Organize pane, Quick Filters, and Managing Filters. OnTime has a powerful filtering feature that allows for multiple conditions, grouping, and using SQL filter strings

This podcast covers adding alerts to projects using the 'change field value' alerts and how to monitor specific fields. In this video we also discuss requirements for alerts including the email queue and alerts service.

This podcast covers configuring OnTime to send emails, connect with your SMTP server, and how to configure Notifications for projects using the 'Wiki' tab.

This podcast covers configuring OnTime to send emails, connect with your SMTP server, and how to configure Notifications for projects using the 'Wiki' tab.

This Podcast covers adding email accounts in OnTime that can connect using POP3 or IMAP, to create new items in OnTime, or update existing items in your database. Your account should be able to pull in emails automatically if you are an OnTime Now hosted customer, but if you host your own database, you would need to make sure to install the OnTime services to allow automatic upload of emails.

This video show how to quickly get started using OnTime with creating projects, adding items, working in the planning board, and adding users. Go to Axosoft.com today to sign up for a free 30 day, 10 user hosted trial, and see why OnTime is the choice of thousands of Dev Teams. Contact sales@axosoft.com or give us a call at 800-653-0024 for any questions.

This video show how to quickly get started using OnTime with creating projects, adding items, working in the planning board, and adding users. Go to Axosoft.com today to sign up for a free 30 day, 10 user hosted trial, and see why OnTime is the choice of thousands of Dev Teams. Contact sales@axosoft.com or give us a call at 800-653-0024 for any questions.

This Podcast covers adding email accounts in OnTime that can connect using POP3 or IMAP, to create new items in OnTime, or update existing items in your database. Your account should be able to pull in emails automatically if you are an OnTime Now hosted customer, but if you host your own database, you would need to make sure to install the OnTime services to allow automatic upload of emails.

This Podcast covers the Global Settings Locator which is a great tool that helps you quickly find out what projects are using certain workflows and field templates. It also helps you track down any of your notification rules or your alerts that are set up for your users or customers. From the Global Settings Locator you can even edit projects to use different workflows or field templates or delete or modify alerts without needing to back out or leave the global settings locator

This week in Fear the Bug, we cover the different sections of reports, and how to add sections in the C# script to point to different sections, as well as set and find control names for controls in the designer. We use as an example printing HTML to a rich text box, grabbing information from a built-in report, and copying and pasting script, and updating section and control names for the new report.

This podcast covers the all new main grid included with OnTime v11. The grid allows you to quickly group items by right clicking on the column header as well as offering up to 3 levels of sorting. Clicking on the column header or sort option in the header bar will quickly reverse the sort order from ascending to descending. You can also limit the number of items displayed by clicking the number in the lower right corner.

This podcast covers formatting if Date fields using the OnTime Report Designer. Also covered is accessing datetime fields using script and using standard C# functions.

This podcast covers how to access certain custom fields in reports in OnTime. The built in Stored Procedures for Defects, Features, Tasks, Incidents, and User Dashboard reports include all of the custom fields along with the Item, and the fields stored along with the Customer and Customer Contact for items. Also in the video is a quick way to print out a report which will give you the names of all of the Custom fields in the database for quick reference when creating reports

This Podcast covers the different features and benefits of Comments Fields within OnTime. Comments are fields that allow you to store large amounts of plain text along with items. They have built in security features where users or customers would be able to delete their own comments, but you could also give the rights to users to delete other users comments to work as moderators.

In this episode, we discuss the differences and common usage of the Workflow and the Status field. Workflow is a very powerful feature of OnTime that allows you to establish your processes set in place for each project, item type, and set up security and different available fields, whereas Status is fairly basic field that allows you to get a quick description of where an item is in the development process.

In this podcast, we cover advanced topics with copying and moving, like copying data included in custom fields as well as copying information in large text fields across item types. Any data that is stored in one of the large text fields that are unique to one item type, like replication procedures, will be concatenated into the Notes field when copied or moved to an item type without the field.

This Podcast covers duplicating items and copying and moving items to a different item type. Copying will create a different item type while creating a link back to the original item in the related items tab, and moving items will delete the original item from the database and create a new item. If you would want to make sure that all of the original information is maintained in the database, you could copy the item and then close or archive the original as opposed to moving the item.

The OnTime Eclipse Plugin brings your developers access to your OnTime database right into their Eclipse IDE. Because Eclipse is cross platform, it is a great solution for your developers regardless if they use Windows, Mac, or a Linux environment. This video covers setting up the plugin, and connecting to your OnTime Database, which is very simple for OnTime Now hosted customers as all that is needed is the link to your OnTime Website, and covers a few additional hints for connecting to your database if it is installed on your local environment.

The OnTime Eclipse Plugin brings your developers access to your OnTime database right into their Eclipse IDE. Because Eclipse is cross platform, it is a great solution for your developers regardless if they use Windows, Mac, or a Linux environment. This video covers setting up the plugin, and connecting to your OnTime Database, which is very simple for OnTime Now hosted customers as all that is needed is the link to your OnTime Website, and covers a few additional hints for connecting to your database if it is installed on your local environment.

OnTime supports VS 2005, 2008, and 2010 and allows you to view, add, and edit all of the items in your OnTime database all from a dockable window within Visual Studio. The Visual Studio Plug-in connects to your OnTime database in the same manner as the OnTime Windows client, supports source control management, and respects all security and workflow configurations.

This video discusses saving images along with items in OnTime, including pasting images directly from the clipboard. We also discuss adding images to large text fields and sending images in the body of email messages.

Incidents in OnTime have a special field for Escalation Level to use for Help Desk or Customer Support. Escalation levels are similar to other fields except they can be set to have different options on a per project basis, and they can be made so that they can only be promoted to the next level as opposed to skipping levels.

Incidents in OnTime have a special field for Escalation Level to use for Help Desk or Customer Support. Escalation levels are similar to other fields except they can be set to have different options on a per project basis, and they can be made so that they can only be promoted to the next level as opposed to skipping levels.