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The Platform episode 493 features a mix by Roc, from Las Vegas! Originally from Milwaukee, he's now been a Vegas resident for 3 years where you can hear him playing out at places like Blue Martini, Chayo, Virgil's Commonwealth, Chica, Spritz, Therapy, Zai, Skyfall Lounge and hopefully more in 2024! Check him out on his socials below and hit him up if you're ever out in Vegas! Follow @ThePlatformMix to watch or listen to new podcast episodes every Wednesday where I sit down with guests from the music, nightlife, sports and entertainment industries. Subscribe to my Patreon to download my top tracks of the week, see the set lists from every mix and more. Now turn those speakers up and let's get into it with Roc's latest right here, on The Platform! Patreon: http://patreon.com/djdexmke Roc: https://www.instagram.com/djroc13

Michael Londgren is a hyper-growth CMO with an impressive resume that includes Apple, Adobe, Blue Martini, Adobe, Docusign, Nasdaq, and Seismic. Most recently, he became the CMO at Responsive, formerly RFPIO. Micheal explains his reasoning to drive this big rebrand. A company name needs to be memorable and encompass their value proposition. The rebrand went much deeper than a name change, he also recognized a need to align the sales team. Change can be scary, so careful planning and execution were key. 0:00 Intro1:36 Episode starts5:12 Michael's background6:50 Proposing a rebrand10:45 Timing, vision, alignment13:35 Listen to sales team16:10 Choosing “Responsive”19:35 Internal to external activation24:10 Roadblocks and goals of rebrand30:33 OutroCheck out The State of the B2B Podcast Listener report: Exclusively on The Juice Sign up for Modern Day Marketer (the newsletter)Follow Michael: LinkedIn | Responsive Follow The Juice:| Website | Blog | Twitter | LinkedInFollow Brett:| Twitter | LinkedIn

Welcome to this Big Commerce episode of talk commerce. And I have Brent Bellm here, the CEO of Big Commerce. Brent, why don't you introduce yourself? Tell us your day-to-day role and maybe one of your passions in life. Great.So I'm CEO of Big Commerce. I took over for the founders about seven years ago.Big Commerce is a software as a service e-commerce platform where basically the software. Brands and retailers use to create beautiful, successful fast-growing e-commerce stores. We serve them all around the world. We're big, of course, in north America, but also Australia, New Zealand across EMEA, and very proudly have recently launched in Mexico with further expansion plans in south America.We power brands of all sizes. Brand new companies and startups who get going for $30 a month, all the way up to some of the world's very largest companies. For example, Proctor and gamble runs a vast majority of its brands on sites all over the world. I'm dead commerce, SC Johnson, Unilever other customers of ours, just to pick one category.We recently launched Ted Baker, a leading men's apparel and lifestyle brand. And we're one of the biggest software as a service. Platforms in the world. We IPO code two years ago and now trade as a public company on the NASDAQ. That's great.So we're at ShopTalk today. And you had a big announcement yesterday.Multi-store front. Why don't you tell us a little bit about a multi-store front for Big Commerce and what that looks like?Yes, multi-store front is the biggest and most complex product release in our history and arguably one of the most complex and biggest product releases of any e-commerce platform in history.What multi-store does is it lets any account or customer of ours, launch additional stores for additional brands,  additional customer segments and or additional geographies. All from a single account. These stores can have the same or different themes and designs, catalog, checkout experiences, integrations.The value of it though, is it's a scalable way for companies to expand how and where they sell, leveraging all the efficiencies of a single account. What is so powerful about this is that traditionally one could only get multi-store functionality from the most expensive large enterprise platforms, Magento enterprise, Salesforce, SAP, and what made it really complex to launch is our platform was originally designed for one account, one store.You could have multiple stores, but they each had to have their own account, their own infrastructure. You're basically duplicating all your effort to build multiple. Every component of our platform had to become, multi-store aware. Catalog had to know which store it's referencing, checkout, which store it's referencing tax.Every single component themes URLs had to be rewritten to understand which store am I talking about storefront for a given owner. And that rewrite took us three years. All while on a multi-tenant SaaS platform, meaning without disrupting the 60,000 roughly stores that are running every day, their stores keep running.And then at the end of this path, they suddenly have the ability to add more stores without  anything breaking on the stores that they had. Historically, that's really hard to do. Remember when Magento went from Magento one to Magento two, it was a rewrite. And a component of that was trying to significantly improve their multi-store front capabilities.They had the benefit of being on-premise software. They could just throw away Magento one, rewrite it as Magento two and say, Hey customers, if you want this set of improved capabilities, you have to migrate. It's a total migration. You throw away your Magento one. And now you start over on Magento two.You can't do that with multitenant. Software as a service multi-tenant means everybody's running on a single platform. And when you make changes, they have to not break the stores of everybody running. You can't tell them to version or upgrade or migrate. You have to fix it all while the train is running.And that is what we have done. So we're immensely proud of it. It truly makes us a full featured complete platform for even the world's largest enterprises. And it's a very big differentiator, for example, from Shopify who cannot do this.I want to back up just a little bit and just talk a little bit of a more more about SaaS as well and how much savings clients can realize in their SaaS offering virtues versus the on-prem.You did mention that the having to upgrade and some of those breaking things. The upgrade path in a on-prem version, you do have to shut down and start up and spend money on doing that. Where are the savings then met from Big Commerce for the client when they're on just the SaaS platform,when you're on SaaS a large portion of your software hosting and everything is included in.You don't have to pay separately for hosting. You don't have to have an army of software engineers to maintain your code. You don't have to worry about security and bug fixing. It's all included. That starts for as little as $30 a month, and believe it or not on Big Commerce, if you go start a store for $30 a month, you're running on the exact same platform that Proctor and gamble is and all of our largest and some of the biggest companies in the world they're running on the exact same.We're maintaining hosting, constantly improving performance speed each and every day. Our agency partners who are familiar with on-premise software in particular Magento often tell us that total cost of ownership of Big Commerce versus on-premise software can be anywhere from a 50% lower to 80% lower, depending on the nature of the customer.And the complexity of their site. So it's a dramatic saving. I've always believed that this was the best solution for most companies who are, if you're a retailer or a brand, you're usually not a technology company and don't have world-class software engineers and it professionals, I believe in this for 22 years.In fact, in the nineties, I was a retail consultant first, starting with retail stores, physical stores, and then going to. Internet stores. And when I cut the cord on consulting and said, I'm going to now bet my career on a single concept. What is the concept? I most believe in the world of e-commerce at the end of 99, I joined a company called escalate, which was one of the first SaaS e-commerce platforms back in the day.I remember there being three or so others, I could name Yahoo stores. Volusion, Blue Martini. We were number four. There might've been a few others around the world. They didn't even call it SaaS back then they called it ASP. But at the time, this is like 1999, 2000 companies were spending five to $10 million to cobble together the software and the infrastructure and the hosting for their stores.And Escalate came along and said, we'll do that for you, but only charge you 6% of your sales. But that scales and you don't have all the upfront costs. Incredible idea before it's time. That company didn't end up surviving and succeeding Yahoo stores and Volusion did, but they never really were able to modernize their tech stack as technology moved faster than they did.But today I came back into Big Commerce and into this industry in 2015 with a total conviction that in the year 2015, it's fundamentally broken if on-premise software, no matter how good. And I knew how good Magento was because I partnered with them when I was at PayPal. My boss ended up buying them into eBay.I was part of that evaluation in 2010. So I saw Magento taking off. I had all the respect in the world for what a great platform it was, but it was on-premise software. It burdened companies with having to license their software, then customize it, maintain it, secure it, host it. And most companies can't do that.They certainly don't like the versioning and the upgrading. And I said it is high time that a SaaS platform was really the solution for the world's complex businesses. We'd already grown to number two in the world for serving small business. Shopify was number one, they had a five-year headstart on us.And in the 2015, I said we're not going to catch them. We can't overcome their five-year headstart. They've already IPO. We have not. So we're going to do something they're not doing and nobody else is doing something that's new to the world. We're going to create what we call open SaaS. We're going to take a SaaS platform and open up every component and turn it into little microservices, catalog and checkout tax service, everything with our own API layer and SDK, so that the world's complex businesses.Can customize can modify can't extend when they don't like our native functionality use partner functionality. We're going to try to make SaaS as open and comparable to open source and on-premise as possible. And so that is our mission. It's been that for seven years bringing enterprise level openness and enterprise level functionality to a SaaS plan. So that the world's businesses can really optimize for whatever complexity or uniqueness they have, that's our vision for what Big Commerce is doing differently than any other company. It's religion for me. I think it's what a big portion of the world's companies need when they embark on the best path of e-commerce.I liked the concept open SaaS, maybe talk about some differentiators, especially around the checkout and the payment section, Big Commerce does offer a lot of savings as well in that area. And maybe against some of the competitors, what are they doing in checkout and what can't you do?Yeah. On some of the other platforms,when I came into Big Commerce Shopify was already offering Shopify payments and more or less shoving it down the throats of their merchants. If you're a small business, you can either use Shopify payments, their proprietary solution. Or if you want to use someone else, you better hope they're integrated because that's up to Shopify.And if you do, they surcharge you an extra 2% of all your sales. Now I come from a payments background too. I was doing internet payment gateways in the nineties. I was eight years at PayPal. I helped. Express checkout and build their whole merchant services business around PayPal Europe. For four years, I ran global product at PayPal.I know payments. And one of the things I know best is that there is no such thing as one size fits all in payments. The needs of a business in Mexico , I was there last week, are completely different when it comes to payments and the needs of one in the United States or Canada and a solution built by Shopify a white labeled solution for north America.Sorry. United States and Canada is not going to work in Mexico. Let alone pick any other country around the world. It's not going to work in B2B, but even for plain Jane credit card processing, there's real differentiation between a strike between a Braintree between CyberSource and Authorize.net.Chase go to Europe, Adyen checkout.com. All of these companies do something different and special. It's not one size fits all. And so rather than in the pursuit of trying to take as much money from our customers as we can, which, what happened if we had a proprietary payment solution, our strategy is the opposite.We go to each of these phenomenal payments players, and we say, let's partner, let's get you the single best integration into Big Commerce that you have with any platform in the world. So that if ever a business goes to you and says, Hey, we like your payments. Which platform can we best take advantage of it on, we want that to be Big Commerce.I believe that statement is true for PayPal and Braintree for Stripe, for Chase, for Adyen, you go on down the list. We give customers choice and we don't surcharge them if they don't use our own proprietary product, because we don't have a proprietary product. We believe the specialists in payments are far better.And especially with their diversity of. Then we would be, and that Shopify is by the way, if you want to know how you benefit from this, it's very straightforward. Just go to pricing on Shopify and compare that to pricing on Big Commerce. And you will see that you save a lot of money at all at the exact same size of merchant at every tier, you're saving a substantial amount of money using our payments players because our payments players compete against.Whereas Shopify says use us, or, and we'll charge you more at every level. And if you don't like it, we'll surcharge you 2% to use somebody else. Now let's go to checkout. So if Shopify is making let's call it 2.9% off a small business. When they process the payments if they don't use Shopify, they want to charge them the 2% surcharge.That means they have to control the checkout to. How much GMV, how much in sales of businesses getting so they can charge them that 2%. That is a core piece of the rationale around why at Shopify third-party checkouts are disallowed. You have to use Shopify checkout. They used to have third-party checkouts built by Bold, built by Bolt different companies, D versus T fast.Or merchant-specific ones and they said, no, we don't allow those any longer because we need to know every single piece of data, every single sale. Cause we're going to charge you 2% if you're not processing the payments through us. Okay. That's how they make money. And they're really good at making money.We, on the other hand, believe in our concept of open, which is that we do our best to make the best built-in checkout that way. But if you need to modify that checkout, you can do that. You can download the actual source code. I don't think this is possible. Any other SaaS platform you can download the source code that powers every single pixel in the Big Commerce checkout, modify it, re-upload it.Now you've got a custom checkout running on Big Commerce that you've modified that this still maintains PCI compliance. That's pretty cool. You can also use a third-party checkout. We support proudly Bold and Bolt. And Fast and anybody else who creates a custom checkout, we support checkouts that are different other countries around the world.You can have your own proprietary checkout. You can have a checkout modified for B2B and all the various B2B payment methods. We support that type of openness because businesses are complex businesses need to optimize for their geography and their customer and their use cases. And what we specialize in.Is instead of a one size fits all playbook, open SaaS, flexibility, the power to let a complex business optimize for its complexity. 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This show was especially fun for me because I got to talk with Mark Wish, editor of Coolest American Stories 2022, an anthology that includes my story, "Blue Martini," along with stories I loved by two other writers in the book, Mary Taugher and David Ebenbach.More than 125 of Mark Wish's short stories have appeared in print venues such as Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize 2000. His three novels, published by two small presses and Putnam, have been praised by the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.Mary Taugher's short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine, Santa Monica Review, Epiphany, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Redivider. She has worked as a journalist in Ohio and Southern California, and as a writer and editor for public relations, political consulting, and fundraising agencies. She lives in San Francisco, where she is working on a collection of short stories. David Ebenbach is the author of nine books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his recent novel How to Mars. He lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches at the Center for Jewish Civilization and promotes student centered teaching through the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. More at davidebenbach.com. More about show host B. DeMarco-Barrett at www.penonfire.com.Learn more about COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022 at www.coolestamericanstories.com The anthology is considering stories for the 2023 edition.Download audio. (Recorded: Feb 11, 2022)Music and sound editing by Travis Barrett

If you go to Mercato for a night out here's what your night needs to look like. Quick tip - dress up a little cuter to Mercato and wear heels if that's your thing. You'll end up with great pictures. Men, there is a dress code in most bars/clubs so make sure you wear closed toed shoes. Start at the Pub for some drinks and casual mingling and dancing. Then walk down towards the action and stop for some appetizers and another drink at Burntwood Tavern. Once you have a nice buzz and some food in your tummy, you'll make your way over to Blue Martini for a great martini and live music. Once you start feeling fun, head over to Cavo for some louder music, shots, and an interesting group of people.Once you're having a great time, head over to Burn by Rocky Patel for another round, classic cigars, and a more relaxed vibe. End your night at Rocco's Tacos, you will not be disappointed. Happy hour at Rocco's is from 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. 

On episode 137 of the Atlantic City and Casino Biz podcast, Kyle and Craig look back at a tragic gas blast and a Miss America mystery. We also celebrate our... Read more »

The Episode in 60 Seconds What happens when your industry is turned on its head? In Symphony's case, they moved from quarterly plans to weekly ones and infused their mission and values into everything they do. On this episode of Studio CMO, we discuss with Andrew Hoerner: The role culture plays in marketing and branding The not-so-easy pivot from in-person events to digital When marketing and product development overlap How to create refined and laser focused content How to attract the biggest clients in your industry Our Guest Andrew Hoerner is the Executive Vice President for Global Marketing for Symphony, considered one of the top 50 fintech firms by Forbes. Their solution allows banks and financial markets to send messages, share files, automate trade flows, and meet in real time. Andrew has been leading marketing teams or overall marketing functions throughout his career including companies like Blue Martini, PayOne, Securify, McAfee, and Soltra. He also spent five years leading marketing for the largest cybersecurity trade organization, FS-ISAC. Show Notes Symphony hosts more than 530,000 users on their collaborative platform and has seen 300+% growth during COVID. Fast Fail is a part of their iterative culture. Culture If you share a sense of mission as a team, that drives a lot of behavior that you can't even always document or articulate. — Andrew Hoerner These times are just almost sheer chaos in some ways, right? It's really easy just to go to the lowest common denominator, get the basic job done, do business as usual, and make creativity the first thing to go. I've tried to give my team the mental headspace to be creative because creativity is critical to marketing. — Andrew Hoerner Check out Symphony's end-to-end, secure, encrypted meetings platform for the financial sector. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vD1t9x-K2XY   Live Events We put all the best practices from a live event into a digital event. Plus we sought out an event producer. — Andrew Hoerner Build in layers of redundancy Build an engine to run the necessary digital production Be aware of how your guest's schedules and calendar maintenance have changed It's still about telling an amazing story Keep it human (leave time for guests to "take the elevator") We also talk about digital events in this episode of Studio CMO:   Why are fax machines still in use? Symphony is hosting a series of hackathons in 2020. Andrew discusses how he is exploring the OODA Loop methodology throughout his teams. Check out this helpful guide.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has power to make field engineers far more productive, and give the companies they work for new ways to retain and grow their competitive edge. My guest is Sam Waicberg, Co-founder and CEO CareAr.Sam Waicberg is an entrepreneurial business leader passionate about building brands that scale. His expertise: driving and inspiring high performing teams, game changing solutions, positioning strategies, innovative partnerships, ecosystems, and communities that create network effects and growth.Throughout his career he’s held senior roles in sales at Oracle, Blue Martini, Aspect Software, Ascendent Systems, Envox, Fluency Voice Technology, Genband, and Vidyo. He’s recognized for strategic out-of-the-box approaches for developing and executing corporate and go-to-market plans, thought leadership, and creating long-term meaningful relationships.In December or 2018 he co-founded CareAR, an Augmented Reality platform for smart services. Their mission: Making expertise accessible anywhere and instantly. This triggered me, and hence I invited Sam to my podcast. We explore the challenges faced in the field services market and how technology can help transform productivity, quality of work, and overall profitability. Beyond that we dig into a much larger problem that the services industry is facing as a whole: the rapidly decreasing workforce, and what challenges that gives entrepreneurs to retain tribal knowledge and their competitive edge.Here are some of his quotes:Innovation is something that constantly drives us. We think about the art of what's possible all the time. And we don't think too much about limitations and barriers.We saw a gap in the market and the other is a is something that evolvedThe simplest issue was applying what we see in telehealth when we see a long-distance learning to field service, getting a remote expert to assist the field tech on site to do a visual consult to solve the problem while they're out there.The big problem permeated as we started getting in there and talking to more C level people.70% of their organization's most valuable assets, employees, are leaving over the next 5 to 10 years. All the knowledge goes out the door with that.So, the C-levels really are thinking, this is what keeps them up at night, about ‘What can I do to retain this tribal knowledge? What can I do to transfer this knowledge to other new individuals coming into the organizations in a way where I can accelerate the pace of that and retain my competitive edge?’During this interview, you will learn four things:How you can drive transformative value by bridging the gap between consumer applications and the enterprise workflowThat instead of constantly worrying about the catching up you have to do, focus your roadmap on the question: “How do you want to be the favourite?”That the opportunity to create unique value is often hidden in developing an eye for rapidly developing issues that can become a catalyst for transformationHow to take friction for adoption out by not only focusing on the user experience, but also on the business model See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Ferrell is the writer, director, and star of the feature films LAURA GETS A CAT and TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE, both independently produced by the team of Devin Sanchez, Chris Prine, and himself.His short films/web series include: STOOP SALE, HARD TIMES, HOT WATER, and BEFORE THE STORM.He has written numerous plays, mostly produced off-off-Broadway, including JERSEY SHORE HOUSE, THE BLUE MARTINI, SPRING AND JAKE, LIFE IS SHORT, and HOW BABIES ARE MADE.His play for high school actors, DELAYED EXPOSITION is available through Eldridge Publishing here.Michael studied acting at The Barrow Group in New York City, improv comedy at i.O. in Chicago, and he has a BFA in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.He also loves soccer and wine.You can watch Laura Gets A Cat here: https://www.amazon.com/Laura-Gets-Cat-Dana-Brooke/dp/B07DP8GR1HAWARDSJURY AWARD FOR SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING - STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVALINDIE SPIRIT AWARD - NAPLES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALBEST FEATURE - RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALBEST ACTRESS, DANA BROOKE - RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MICHAEL FERRELL - DTLA FILM FESTIVALBEST ROMANTIC COMEDY - MANHATTAN FILM FESTIVALBEST FEATURE - WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVALOFFICIAL SELECTION2017 CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL2017 STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL2017 TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL2017 CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL2017 NAPLES INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST2017 OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL2017 DTLA FILM FESTIVAL2017 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST2017 RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL2017 INDIEBELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL2017 MANHATTAN FILM FESTIVAL2017 LONE STAR FILM FESTIVAL2017 PORTLAND FILM FESTIVAL2017 WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVALMichael Ferrellhttps://vimeo.com/15000558If you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=trueDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/Twittertwitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Michael Ferrell is the writer, director, and star of the feature films LAURA GETS A CAT and TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE, both independently produced by the team of Devin Sanchez, Chris Prine, and himself. His short films/web series include: STOOP SALE, HARD TIMES, HOT WATER, and BEFORE THE STORM. He has written numerous plays, mostly produced off-off-Broadway, including JERSEY SHORE HOUSE, THE BLUE MARTINI, SPRING AND JAKE, LIFE IS SHORT, and HOW BABIES ARE MADE. His play for high school actors, DELAYED EXPOSITION is available through Eldridge Publishing here. Michael studied acting at The Barrow Group in New York City, improv comedy at i.O. in Chicago, and he has a BFA in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also loves soccer and wine. You can watch Laura Gets A Cat here: https://www.amazon.com/Laura-Gets-Cat-Dana-Brooke/dp/B07DP8GR1H AWARDS JURY AWARD FOR SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING - STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL INDIE SPIRIT AWARD - NAPLES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BEST FEATURE - RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BEST ACTRESS, DANA BROOKE - RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MICHAEL FERRELL - DTLA FILM FESTIVAL BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY - MANHATTAN FILM FESTIVAL BEST FEATURE - WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2017 CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2017 STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL 2017 TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL 2017 CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL 2017 NAPLES INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST 2017 OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 DTLA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST 2017 RENO TAHOE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 INDIEBELGRADE FILM FESTIVAL 2017 MANHATTAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017 LONE STAR FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PORTLAND FILM FESTIVAL 2017 WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Michael Ferrell https://vimeo.com/15000558 If you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.com Also, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=true Damien Swaby Social Media Links: Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/ Twitter twitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Episode One: We're bringing you our first story of the podcast! We tell the story of the amazing nurses and the miracles that occurred in Charity Hospital during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Louisiana. If you think you know the story of Katrina and New Orleans, think again. 

Ronny Kohavi is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and the General Manager for Microsoft's Analysis and Experimentation team at Microsoft's Applications and Services Group. He joined Microsoft in 2005 and founded the Experimentation Platform team in 2006. He was previously the director of data mining and personalization at Amazon.com, and the Vice President of Business Intelligence at Blue Martini Software. Ronny received Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine Learning library in C++ used in MineSet and at Blue Martini Software.Support the show (https://www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org/assoc_subscribe.asp?utm_source=buzzfeed)

Reid Cunningham dropped by Venture Club to talk about his new band Funkyard who will be debuting at The Blue Martini on June 15, 2019. Doors open at 9pm.

Moving to Las Vegas from New York in 1987, Kevon Tyrre began his love of music at the age of 15. At 17, he confirmed his talent by signing up for high school choir and ended up enrolled in the choir for Clark County for that year (1993). After college, Kevon Tyrre began competing in singing competitions, however, sensing something was missing for him to move forward in his career, he went on a 3 year sabbatical to find himself, leading him to sing in church choirs and work with other musicians from other fields. This proved a positive force for him, by sharpening his skills in singing, songwriting and overall confidence in himself and his talent.Revitalized, he returned to Las Vegas with a new determination. Since his return, he has performed alongside Phil Flowers in Aliante Hotel Casino, Orleans Hotel Casino and Silverton Hotel Casino and as a frontman, he performed in Hennessys, Cheyenne Saloon, First Friday, Gordon Bierch, Orleans Hotel Casino, Lady Silva, The Venetian/Palazzo, The Silver Nugget Casino, Rhythm Kitchen, the Artisan Hotel; Riverside Resort (Laughlin,NV), Treasure Island Resort Casino, Colorado Belle Resort Casino(Laughlin,NV), Town Square Las Vegas, South Point Resort and Spa, Paris Las Vegas Resort/Casino, The Linq Hotel/Casino, O'Sheas Casino inside the Linq, The Foundation Room, Blue Martini, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, The Gossy Room inside Caesar's Palace, Fiesta Rancho, Fiesta Henderson, The Railhead inside Boulder Station,The Hilton at Lake Las Vegas, Craig Ranch Recreational Park, Fantasy Springs Resort (Indio,CA), opened for the Spazmatics Las Vegas, Excalibur Hotel Casino, Fremont Street Experience, Indigo by Drai's inside Ballys Las Vegas, Tropicana Laughlin, Golden Nugget Las Vegas, Backstage Bar and Billiards, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Wayne Newton's Casa De Shenandoah, The Park Vegas & House of Blues in Mandalay Bay Resort Casino .As a writer, he has written or co-wrote lyrics with Las Vegas Hip Hop artist/producer Jay Lovett (THE JAY LOVETT LP http://jaylovett.bandcamp.com/album/the-jay-lovett-lp), Las Vegas/Cali Producer DJ Torch, German MC BADCASE (http://soundcloud.com/badcase4real), Las Vegas hip hop duo Astro Blunt (http://www.astroblunt.com) and for acts local, national & international. Partook in a online singing competition (keepsingin.com) and interviewed by KCEP Power 88, JLLN Radio , KLAV Radio, Red Panda Radio, WCOBM Internet Radio, RnR Radio, WBKE MEDIA, Vegas Live with Ninon, That's So Vegas, Right On Que Radio Show and Blog Talk Radio.Now garnering airplay on The Mr. R show (http://www.rnr-radio.com) ,Ace Of Jacks show (http://www.aceofjacks.com), Skycast Radio, Revolution Radio (http://www.revolutionradio2.com) iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Rhapsody, Microsoft Groove, Deezer, Apple Music, Amazon.com, TIDAL, Soho Radio via TuneIn (http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-SoHo-s283588/) distributed by MATTRIX MIXTAPE , KUNV 91.5 FM Sunday mornings 7a-9a on PAMELA'S PLACE & Jango Radio, receiving 5 nominations and one award (America's Rising Star) from 2015 Black Las Vegas Music Awards and 3 nominations in 2016 as well as his song "Superfly" entered in the International Songwriting Competition (http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/) and opened for the Al B. Sure Secret Garden Festival on Memorial Day Weekend 2016 with Eagle One All Stars & mentoring in the HOB Music Forward Foundation , Kevon Tyrre is the embodiment of not letting anything hold you back.PatreonSupport BES Vlog and Podcast on @patreon. #OnPatreon https://patreon.com/BESPodcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare2Become a client click herehttp://bluestocking.solutions/questionnaire/Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BESvlog/Twitter: @besvlog Instagram: @besvlogSnapchat: besvlogLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bluestockingsolutionsSkype: https://join.skype.com/invite/MfOdNMZcySrc

Vivek co-founded Movable Ink in 2010 and has led the company through rapid growth to a leading market position with 200+ employees serving 500 of the most innovative consumer brands. Through his leadership, Movable Ink is helping digital marketers embrace a visual world with intelligent creative that adapts at the moment of engagement. Prior to co-founding Movable Ink, Vivek headed Eastern North America and EMEA sales for Engine Yard. Earlier in his career, he held senior engineering roles at Blue Martini and Cisco Systems. Vivek graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Not For Human Consumption: Your drunken weekly update on all the things! Movies, games, life, and everything in between! If you're new to the show, WELCOME! We celebrate this 40th episode milestone HARD, so buckle up. Allan and Dave are given the names "Slow Rogan" and "Hung Jamie" respectively. Dave has to give a sincere apology for his drunken behavior last week, even though it was mild in comparison to anything Allan has done in the past.  We talk about how bad Maddox lost both in the past and during the week. We used his voting system for the Super Podcast Champion Edition Turbo competition, but someone used bots to 'enhance' the votes. Either Maddox locked the polls or the bots broke it. While this is going on, Dick Masterson took back the iTunes feed Maddox was using and added a special message to the newest episode of The Best Debate In The Universe. As for the competition, the results are in! We recorded this episode before anyone knew who won. Allan went on episode 116 of The Dick Show to discuss the results. Maybe we're on http://cunt.media now, check it out!  How much more of a life are vegans going to have in comparison to use meat eaters? Dead animal is delicious. Matt tricks a vegan co-worker into eating a meat-filled burrito. Allan is pretty clueless when it comes to soy products, but Dave seems to be pretty OK with that worthless sustenance.  There's tons of murder in video games, but hardly any sex. Even when there is a hint of banging it's super mild. Dave seems to remember a scene in 'GTA: Vice City' that featured a decent scene, but the jury is out on this still. Dylan's on his Meriod this week. The Blue Martini nightclub in Vegas is apparently the place to be on a Thursday night. He witnesses real-time #MeToo-ing that turns into making out. Finally, we get some "Shiver Me Tinders" that's a rollercoaster of a time.  Allan and Dylan record a bonus episode and they talk a bunch of shit about Dave. He'll never hear what we said because he's subscribe to our Patreon.  Almost all of us are now deep into Street Fighter V. Matt coaches Allan and Dylan while spectating. Hang out with us if you're on Playstation 4! Also, The Death of Superman, Matt's waifu and the anime series he endorses.  "Hey, Look at This!" is action packed this week! Featuring a child demanding money, a VHS tape that teaches women how to defend themselves against rapists, biting the dick off terrorists,a guy explaining why women should seek men with long hair, and brake checking a girl dancing while she dances next to a slow moving car.  For "What Makes Dave Mad This Week?" we've got a Vegan tasting his out cum to see what it tastes like and The Social Justice Warrior Song.  At last, Allan answers to The Garlic Challenge. Many episodes ago, Allan ate two raw garlic cloves on the show. Charlie, a listener of the show and FB Group member, ate twelve cloves on a Facebook Live and challenged Allan to eat more than him. Can he eat thirteen cloves without dying? Finally, some excellent voicemails. Boners! We close out this week's show with a track from Grey Joy called "If There's a Heaven, I'll Surely Be Burning"  Visit us at www.NFHCPodcast.com for everything Not For Human Consumption. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon! Leave us a voicemail anytime at 480-788-7330 Check out the NFHC Store! http://www.nfhcpodcast.com/store/ Grey Joy https://ohgreyjoy.bandcamp.com/ The CUNT Network http://cunt.media The Dick Show http://www.TheDickShow.com

In this episode, I sit with Anthony & Suzann Conti and talk about their foundation called the "Purple Society" and how they are changing the lives of families who are dealing with childhood cancer. They are holding a "Little Black Dress" party on Saturday to help raise money for the mission.  

Nightlife Entrepreneurs Podcast episode 14, Up and coming female promoter. In this episode Ico and Julio go back to the Blue Martini in Brickell to interview Kat Rivas. Kat talks about her experience as a new promoter, hitting her goals and the difficulties there might be at the beginning of your promoting career. Julio brings the outline to his beginners online course as a cheat sheet, let's see if her concerns are answered in there.

Do you have a Birthday in October, we are able to make it an unforgettable event. Also, a very cost effective one. We got the OK from the infamous Blue Martini in Brickell to celebrate the birthdays of any Miami Comedy Member in a very special way. How special? Well imagine if you can see a PROFESSIONAL stand up comedy show, without paying for tickets.  The talent we bring during our monthly Ladies Night Comedy Jam are exclusive appearances at the Blue Martini. On top of the show, we can also have you and your guests seated at the VIP area. AND, you also get a COMPLIMENTARY bottle of Tito's Vodka. On the house. Imagine your the surprise of your friends being treated with VIP service all for FREE! All you have to do is arrive with a group of 10 people. RSVP here: brickellcomedy.com Also, be sure to subscribe to our podcast to get the latest on MiamiComedy.com http://apple.co/2b4I6cB

Live on our Miami Comedy Instagram page we feature the Miami Comedy Podcast to talk to our followers directly. On this episode, we show our viewers/listeners the behind the scenes promo videos being released to the members. We discuss the Redbar Comedy Night and our upcoming Ladies Night Comedy Jam at Blue Martini. All Shows are free, simply place your RSVP's here: https://brickellcomedy.com Be sure to subscribe to our Itunes podcast here: http://apple.co/2b4I6cB  

Recorded on Instagram LIVE! Revealing the top 5 Miami Memes of last week AND Revealing the line up to our next show at the Blue Martini in Brickell! RSVP to our shows here: brickellcomedy.com SUBSCRIBE to our podcast: http://apple.co/2b4I6cB

Announcing the Launch of Broward Comedy, Ladies Night Comedy Show at Blue Martini, and more! SUBSCRIBE - http://apple.co/2b4I6cB

Beverage Underground Radio pours it on and connects the Beverage Industry. Listen LIVE every Thursday Night on ’770 ESPN’ Radio in Southwest Florida or online at www.770ESPN.com Shows are posted at 10 PM every Thursday here… and we are heard ‘worldwide’ at www.BlogtalkRadio.com Gary Monterosso, is an award-winning beer critic who has won three national awards for writing excellence and also hosts the popular videocast, “Still Crazy After All These Beers.”Gary is our special guest on this edition of Beverage Underground Radio ‘After Dark’ and he and host Larry ‘Smokey’ Genta talk craft beer and the growing interest in artisan brewing. The Aperol Party is announced as is the return of one of the area’s top Thursday Night Party spots, we close the rumors and the case on the Blue Martini and take you All Around the Underground as we ‘Pour it on…and Connect the Industry”.Read more »

Beverage Underground Radio pours it on and connects the Beverage Industry. Listen LIVE every Thursday Night on ’770 ESPN’ Radio in Southwest Florida or online at www.770ESPN.com Shows are posted at 10 PM every Thursday here… and we are heard ‘worldwide’ at www.BlogtalkRadio.com Gary Monterosso, is an award-winning beer critic who has won three national awards for writing excellence and also hosts the popular videocast, “Still Crazy After All These Beers.”Gary is our special guest on this edition of Beverage Underground Radio ‘After Dark’ and he and host Larry ‘Smokey’ Genta talk craft beer and the growing interest in artisan brewing. The Aperol Party is announced as is the return of one of the area’s top Thursday Night Party spots, we close the rumors and the case on the Blue Martini and take you All Around the Underground as we ‘Pour it on…and Connect the Industry”.Read more »