Podcasts about monk development

In this episode, I have the one and only Kerry Wise. We’ve been married for over a decade and have 3 wonderful children. Not only that, she’s also my primary advisor, confidant, strategist, and great filter. We talk about some of the challenges we’ve been through in our journey as a married couple during our early years and how we triumphed over it. You’ll hear snapshots of our lives, and her perspective on those challenges, and how she supported me throughout my entrepreneurial journey. Snow notes: [03:59] Kerry being the breadwinner of the family in our early years [07:35] Our reality in the early years of our marriage [10:01] From working at a church to Monk Development in Kerry’s perspective [15:40] Launching ThinkDigital and “The Basement Years” [25:50] Spouse is the closest voice to the Holy Spirit [30:08] From paying debts to ThinkDigital’s growth [35:07] Kerry’s advice for entrepreneurs to get their spouses on board Subscribe To The Podcast Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Stitcher,

Meet James Martin, founder and CEO of Rally Corp., a messaging platform that engages customers by shortening the feedback loop. James, a former Texas police officer, entered the tech world after he drew the short stick to reset computers in his department. His sergeant suggested he get a degree in technology, which eventually led him to business analysis in the public safety industry. James eventually joined Tyler Technologies and helped take it from 30 employees to a public company. James moved to San Diego to start Monk Development in 2007 and built it with Etienne de Bruin for eight years until selling it in 2015. He then took a year off, only to start Rally Corp. shortly after. In the episode, you’ll learn how Brant Cooper and Jeremiah Gardner, authors of The Lean Brand, inspired him to name his new company.   Some of James’ favorite San Diego haunts:   Favorite tacos: The Taco Stand and Taco Surf Favorite brewery: Council Brewery in Kearny Mesa Favorite coffees: James Coffee Favorite Business book How To Wow   You can find James and Rally Corp. online and on Twitter RallyCorp.com & @RallyCorp @MrJamesMartin   James is giving away five copies of The Lean Brand to the first five people who text ‘nealbloom’ to 24365. Get at it!   And thank you to our sponsor Cox Business for their support of the tech community. Applications are open until August 31st for the QuickPitchSD.com competition with Tech Coast Angels San Diego, San Diego Venture Group, and Cox Business for $75,000 in cash prize for the winning entrepreneur. Apply here TODAY is the last day!

Meet America’s newest citizen, Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs, the organization that helps CTOs grow as world class leaders!   Etienne and his wife, both South Africans, moved to San Diego from Germany in 2000. He was weighing Boston vs. San Diego and cnn.com/weather told him to make the move to sunshine. Luckily he choose the San Diego biotech scene which survived the 2000 dot com bombs whereas the Boston opportunity died immediately. Etienne takes us through the difference of doing business and working in tech in South Africa vs the U.S. South Africa does have a strong software developer culture and South African business leaders have a strong presence in building big American companies, like Elon Musk. In 2005, he co-founded Monk Development in San Diego and grew the software company all the way up until 2014 when they successfully sold the business. In 2009, he started to lift his head and say, “what’s everyone else working on?” and put energy into creating a community for software developers which has begun to connect the entire ecosystem from new developer to experienced CTO of the largest tech companies. When Etienne began to notice his two co-founders grow professionally from success within mentor groups, he realized there wasn’t something for the technical leaders of a company. He began creating communities that put the spotlight on the CTO and had a San Diego emphasis. This birthed the 7CTOs organization, a peer mentor group helping top technical leaders of companies create bonds and mentorship through consistent group meetings. While focusing on building strong leaders at the top, Etienne’s main goal is uniting the the technical community as a whole and invite them to engage with the 7CTO community, including Developer Mentor Hours, CTO/CEO Advisory Hours, and the upcoming TechArt Series with a Night with Blockchain on May 30th, as well as other community resources.   Favorite Taco Spot: El Zarape on Park Blvd.   Follow Etienne on Twitter @Etdebruin & @7ctos     Thanks to our sponsor Cox Business for their support of the San Diego tech community. Come out to their May 10th celebration of our tech leaders, including CTOs, by visiting http://www.toptechexecs.com/

Drew Goodmanson started Monk Development as a custom website development shop and evolved it into a product enabling churches to establish an online presence. With more than 300,000 churches in the United States, Goodmanson’s company took off and he grew it to more than $3 million in recurring revenue per year, leveraging the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model

Who's visiting your website and what are they doing while they're there? If you don't know the answer to that question you're missing out on key criteria that can help you make decisions about every other area of your online communications (and offline for that matter). When you establish firm goals for what you want a webpage to accomplish and can measure those goals against analytic data, you have the information necessary to determine what you need to change about your website strategy. Also, discover the missing element that connects your church to Instagram.