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  It is funny how a person can be in our circle of influence and yet we have not met. Kind of like two planes that fly over and past one another is the analogy. I knew Christa Santos before I met her through StarterStudio (previously Canvs) a startup accelerator program. She was in charge of marketing for the organization. I actually got to meet her several years later.  In this episode, I learned even more about her. We talked about the future of the marketing industry and then moved to how Elon Musk is working on a product called neurolink that is a brain-chip implant startup to help individuals that suffered paralysis. Wondering what her mentoring advice was,  “Teach someone how to do your job, you want to create your successors. We have to give back, that makes your community better.” Subscribe, download, and leave us a comment on your favorite podcast streaming channel or visit Employers 4 Change YouTube channel and watch our show there. Hashtags: #iHeartRadio #ApplePodcasts #GooglePlay #Spotify #Stitcher #Podbean #YouTube #Employers4Change #E4C #internships #radio #podcast #innovation #employers #smallbusiness #business #FutureOfWork #ValenciaCollegeRadio 

In this episode of Time Hacks, join host Jacques as he interviews Gregg Pollack, a successful entrepreneur turned psychology enthusiast and professional cuddlist.Gregg founded several companies, helping to launch the startup community in Orlando and leading into his journey into psychology. Code School which was acquired by Pluralsight for $36 million, Envy which builds web applications, and Starter Studio which is Orlando's first tech business accelerator.Gregg shares his story of personal growth and self-discovery, from building companies to delving into the world of psychology and unlearning societal conditioning.Throughout the conversation, Gregg emphasizes the importance of attending workshops and therapy sessions to facilitate personal growth. Gregg also shares his insights on healing childhood trauma, understanding the brain's mechanisms, and building loving relationships by acknowledging and expressing emotions authentically.

I have known Jack Henkel for about 5 years when he was visited StarterStudio (an accelerator) and was working with UCF I-Corps and .  He works with the Florida High Tech Corridor's Cenfluence Program as a Sr. Cluster Manager.  Jack is the definition of a #servantleader, he is one of those individuals that is behind the scenes and I am so glad to share his interview with our listeners. Tune in to hear the five words that he shares that will give you insight to who he is and his thoughts about what the future of work and innovation will look like. Hint, flying cars was one of our topics. The Intern Whisperer Podcast is brought to you by Employers 4 Change - Increasing diversity through #Skills based #DiversityEquityInclusion #recruitment and #management for #interns and #employers. Sign up to be an #Employer4Change that invests in their #intern talent and employees. Want a break? Play Intern Pursuit Game on Steam. Thank you to our sponsor Cat 5 Studios.  

On Today's Podcast This week I sit down with Krista Inochovsky. Krista Inochovsky has been challenging entrepreneurs and professionals for years to expand their vision of life, love and success. Krista is the founder of Expand Your Life, a certified Life Coach and trained Mastermind Facilitator who helps people develop the skills they need to improve themselves and the world by unlocking their potential and pursuing greatness. Opening your eyes to the power of perspective, Krista engages people to explore how they think, feel and perceive their life experiences. Using mindset, meditation and even yoga as tools, Krista guides people to be powerful creators. You may know Krista from her very visible role at JVology as the Director of Member Success & Coach. Krista has done hundreds of one-on-one strategy coaching sessions and hosted hundreds of interviews on video showcasing entrepreneurs. Krista is an alumnus of the University of Central Florida, Athena NextGen and has presented at Starter Studio, UCF Incubator, Microsoft, Blackstone Entrepreneur's Launchpad at UCF, is a contributor for Wisdom Times, FOX 35 News, JVology Show, has been featured on countless podcasts, summits, and is a professional show host and Master of Ceremonies for corporate events. She has trained in multiple modalities by top thought-leaders in personal development, mindfulness, and wellness for decades.   How to Connect with Krista kristasky@gmail.com www.facebook.com/groups/expandyourlife1 www.instagram.com/krista_expandyourlife   Get Krista's Gift Below

Join Isabella and Elizabeth as they chat with Bob Reed, the founder of StarterStudio. Bob shares his educational background, his marketing, and emerging technology and AI that could effect marketing and branding.

Entrepreneur and local podcaster Bryan Orr joins us to discuss Starter Studio.    

Today I interviewed Anessa Santos, Attorney at IntelliLaw about her recent article: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6603447509547307008/?msgConversationId=6570391040740638720&msgOverlay=true The U.S. House of Representatives have proposed approximately 22 bills referencing blockchain and virtual currencies during this 2019-2020 fiscal year. Some even call for the preemption of conflicting state laws. While we can't know which of them will pass, we do know for sure that eventually Congress WILL get around to passing something, and it may impact your blockchain business. We went through many of the proposed bills and discussed their merits. Attorney Anessa Allen Santos specializes in providing legal representation to technology companies worldwide on matters of blockchain and fintech, corporate transactions, intellectual property, and securities. A former adjunct law professor, Anessa is a frequent guest lecturer for the Florida Bar Association, and at select Universities, conferences and seminars on emerging technology issues. Voted among Orlando's Legal Elite, Anessa mentors Orlando's technology accelerator, “Starter Studio”. She is a Director on the Board of the Florida Blockchain Business Association , and is an active member of the Computer Law and Technology Committee, the Blockchain and Digital Currency Taskforce and the Technology Law Committee of the Florida Bar Association. Anessa has formally studied Blockchain Strategies and FinTech at the University of Oxford where she is an alumna of Saïd Business School. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Dayton and a Bachelor’s in International Diplomacy from Wright State University. Anessa can be reached directly at anessa@intellilaw.io

2019 Cade Prize runner-ups Joe Sleppy and Isaiah Oladeji have invented a wire-shaped supercapacitor. Unlike batteries, capacitors are not used to store energy, but to deliver it quickly and in dense amounts. Using wires instead of plates or boxes greatly reduces the space needed on things like circuit boards. Isaiah, raised in Nigeria, said he was “a very bad student.” His parents received no schooling at all, but Isaiah eventually got a PhD in the U.S. Joe progressively lost his hearing by third grade and had to get cochlear impacts to hear again. At age 16, he won a $10,000 business plan competition and started his own company. TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:39 According to philosophers, we’re all hungry for power. That may be debatable, but what’s not in question, is it the machines we build are hungry for power of the ACDC variety. I’m your host Richard Miles. My guests today are Joe Sleppy, and Isaiah Oladeji of CapaciTech, which has a wire-shaped supercapacitor. Joe and Isaiah welcome to Radio Cade. Joe Sleppy: 0:58 Thanks for having us. Richard Miles: 0:59 I’m deficient in actually many things, but probably a more so in anything to do with electricity. So the first thing let’s start out, walk me through and our listeners, what is a capacitor and what is a supercapacitor. Isaiah Oladeji: 1:10 Capacitors and supercapacitors actually doing the same things, storing energy. You can store energy in them fast and you can get those energy out faster. So supercapacitor probably has a more storing capacity than the actual capacitor. Richard Miles: 1:27 Got it. Isaiah Oladeji: 1:27 And that’s the simple difference between the capacitor and the supercapacitor. At the end of the day, they store less energy compared to standard battery . Richard Miles: 1:36 Got it. Okay. And capacitors have been around in one form or another for a while . I mean the ability to store energy, right? Isaiah Oladeji: 1:43 Yes. Joe Sleppy: 1:43 Right. Well, the one thing I want to point out the difference between s uper apacitors and a normal capacitor is in a normal capacitor. You have two electric plates, there’s an electric field between them. And that’s what storing the energy wi th t h e s upercapacitor. You add an energy storage material between those electric plates to further enhance that energy storage ability. So it’s not a battery, st ores, less energy than a battery, but it can deliver that energy really, really quickly, which means it has a high power density, which is what makes it the difference between a capacitor, a su percapacitor a nd a battery. Richard Miles: 2:10 Okay. So what you have is a wire shaped supercapacitor and again, for listeners who are not familiar with, at all with any of this, what is the current standard configuration of capacitors and why is a wire supercapacitor such a big deal? Joe Sleppy: 2:23 The standard configuration for capacitors is you typically have two parallel plates. Richard Miles: 2:27 Got it. Joe Sleppy: 2:28 And what they’ll do is they’ll wrap those parallel plates to make what looks like a little soda can, or they will compact it into a little box and these little soda cans and these little boxes all always get installed on circuit boards. A lot of times actually a third of the circuit board will have nothing but capacitors installed on it. So a lot of space on a circuit boards being wasted by these capacitors. And what we noticed is a lot of times the capacitors are connected to the input or the output of the circuit board. What we’re doing is we’re manufacturing, a wire shaped capacitor. So instead of it being soda can, it’s a long and skinny and flexible wire. And we’re going to take this wire and embedded inside the wires that are going into the circuit instead of on the circuit board itself. Richard Miles: 3:10 In a way you’re talking about a size or a space savings right? Isaiah Oladeji: 3:13 So even if you decide to put them on the circuit board, you have a lot of free space at the end of the day, which means that you can either shrink your circuit board or you add more functionality. Richard Miles: 3:26 I’m tempted to tell our listeners to go to the nearest desktop, take off the back and then look at the circuit board. But then I’m afraid Radio Cade gets sued by all these people who couldn’t put their computers back together. But I think I get the concept. So Isaiah, you touched upon this a little bit in terms of space savings. And then Joe , you talk about power, but why is this such a big deal? Where do you see this going in terms of potential applications? Obviously the computer industry would be using this, but are there other things beyond computers in which a wire shaped supercapacitor , it’s going to make a big difference? Joe Sleppy: 3:56 So the deal here is that traditional capacitors all have to be installed on a circuit board. And as I’ve mentioned to you before, that is going to take up a lot of space on set circuit board. Maybe a third of the circuit board will be taken up by all these capacitors. And so with our innovation here, putting the capacitor in a different form factor, having the capacitor shaped as a wire, we can now install our capacitor inside DC power cords, connecting to circuits rather than on the circuit itself. Now there’s a lot of applications in that system. Okay. Might be for solar power systems. It might be for electric vehicles. It could be for wind turbines, everything has wires connecting it in one way or another. The bigger idea here is instead of being able to install more and more capacitors, and s upercapacitors on a circuit board, which makes the circuit itself far larger, far more expensive, we can offset those capacitors in the connecting infrastructure o f the connecting wiring, which then keeps the circuit small, keeps the infrastructure small a nd l imited while you’re also getting the advantages of having more capacitance in the system, which typically will improve the performance as well. Isaiah Oladeji: 4:54 In short, it means that if you have an off-grid solar powered house, our capacitor could be part of that system. It could be part of an electric car. It could be part of a drone wherever you have a battery, as a matter of fact, where you want to extend the life of the battery, these capacitors can readily go into it and extend the life of the battery. Richard Miles: 5:18 Whenever a battery is involved, particularly a large battery or large power requirements . Seems to me, that is the value proposition of your company. Let’s talk a little bit about that. And I know you’re still very early stage and you’re still doing a lot of your due diligence on the technology itself, but in terms of potential markets, you listed at least three that I heard solar power, electric vehicles and things like drones. Is there an obvious advantage in picking one of those three? Where would you go first where you think t hat this would make a bigger difference as opposed to the other ones? Joe Sleppy: 5:51 Right, so I will say that as a capacitor there’s hundreds of applications, every electronic circuit has a capacitor or capacitance in one way or another. That h as actually been a challenge for the company as an entrepreneurship company t o decide which one do we want to do first? Now it’s not just about which one is the coolest. It’s not just about which one does the entrepreneur like myself and Dr. Oladeji here. It’s not just about what we want to do. I think that we would both love to g o put this into an electric vehicle and start working with Tesla today. But the feasibility of that is not so great. So what we’ve done is we’ve spent about a year or t wo years and a lot of customer discovery trying to figure out what value our technology can really add. And our first focus is going to be on the solar power market. And specifically within that solar power market is residential solar power homes. We’re going to be able to do two things for them. One, if they have a battery, we can connect our cable capacitor into the DC power cords to ma ke that battery last l onge r and have better performance. That’s going to save the homeowner money because they don’t have to replace that battery every five years, seven years, whatever it is, the second thing that we can do for solar power systems, as we can connect our cable- based capac itor again, inside the DC power cords, you don’t need any other ugly boxes hanging off your roof. You don’t need to make your garage cluttered, none of that, but we can connect our cable based capac itors into the DC power cords, connecting everything together, and we’ll be able to compliment the solar panels to have more power. The way that we do that has actually nothing to do with the power itself. But when you have a shadow, for example, go over your panels, there’s been a sha r p drop in the power output. Our capacitor will m ake sure that that drop is filled in so that the power going to the home is as constant as possible. Having constant power, at lea st a hig h e r efficiencies to the inverter. And it means that t he m aximum power point tracking devices will have a higher efficiency and be able to get more power out of the panels. Richard Miles: 7:36 So you’re in this really interesting inflection point, I guess, the development of your idea and that the energy market is one of those markets. It’s like, it’s g ot a l ot o f big players. There’s a lot at stake and I’m sure you’re probably getting a lot of advice. Free advice, wanted advice, unwanted advice. I forgot to mention. I forget every single time dimension, t he, you are actually finalists in the 2019 C ade Prize. So congratulations to that reason. We have you on the show this morning, you are already doing well and you’ve already done well in other pitch competitions, but you’re now moving beyond that. Like how do we develop this idea? Tell me what the next year looks like. What are your near term milestones in terms of developing the commercialization of this idea? Joe Sleppy: 8:15 The thing I’d say is I started getting very, very focused and very, very specific about what we were doing over the last six months or so. And what I did specifically, as I started going to a customer and saying, I have this product, what do you need to see to buy it from me? Tell me exactly what specification you want. Tell me exactly what certifications I need. Tell me exactly what kind of fill in the blank you need to see in order to actually fulfill an order. I noticed that as a startup, a lot of people want to watch you and customers that watch you don’t necessarily buy from you. And that doesn’t help the company that much. It just makes it sound like a theoretical potential sale in the future. And so I started going to our customers in the solar industry and saying, I have solution. We think it’ll do that. What do you need to see? And that laid out our most immediate milestones, which are, we need to scale our manufacturing right now. Dr. Oladeji is making them by hand in his lab. It’s not very scalable in that sense. And so we just recently invested in some equipment to scale o ur manufacturing line up to 50 units a week. So that’s a big deal so that we can actually on a regular basis, put out samples, put out p roduct fulfill orders. The second thing that they’ve all told us is you need to have this be certified under a UL listing, which is kind of like FDA approval. But for electronic components, those two things have become the very clear milestones that if you do those two things, we will be able to fulfill orders and generate revenue. And so that’s what the media focus is. Richard Miles: 9:38 So most young companies, one of the things they really need the most is money, right? Because as you d escribe going into a manufacturing process, even an initial manufacturing run doing the other things y ou’ve described, somebody’s got to do them and turns out a lot of people don’t work for free, right? So you’ve already pitched this idea. I know in competitions, but tell me what it’s like sitting in front of a potential investor. And w hat’s some of the feedback you get and what kind of experiences that like, d o you come out of there walking on a cloud or is it kind of terrifying? Joe Sleppy: 10:08 Use to be terrified when I was 19 and asking for money for the first time? And I realized now that I was terrified about it because I was totally not ready to be raising money, but the good thing out of that, as I started getting a little bit of insight, talking to investors and learning how they thought, and I actually didn’t ask for money for the first year and a half, two years, the company was alive. I was in pitch competitions. I was awarded a grant. I was in different programs. I was in different accelerators, but when it came to talking to investors, for example, the Florida angel nexus i n Orlando, I would go and I ‘d never specifically asked for money. I would just pitch what I’m doing and listen to their feedback so that I could actually understand where they thought all the flaws were so that I could address them. One of the biggest flaws I needed to address was the initial pitch was w e’re a capacitor and we c ould be used in everything. And that didn’t go over very well. Right? I had to pick something and that kind of spurred on more focused, more specific customer discovery so that we can put together a more clarified business plan and a business case from there. I went out and I did the same exact thing over again. And I started realizing t here w as this sense of, okay, sounds good. Why should I believe you? And from there I realized that we really needed to get those customers to start writing letters saying, we’re willing to do this, but you need to do A and B t here’s a mentor of mine named Dr. Pape. He works at the University of Central Florida, part of the UCF Blackstone Launch Pad Program. And what he kept telling me i s Joe, what are your value generating milestones? And he is a former investor. And what he would always say is I would look at what money the company is raising. And I would look at what things they want to accomplish with that money. And my question to myself was always does accomplishing those milestones add value to the company? If the answer is yes. Okay. I can consider it. If the answer is yes, significant value, t hen I’d really consider it. And so that I was able to go get a letter of support from a customer saying, Joe, you need t hem, you owe this thing and you need a s caled manufacturing facility. Great. Now that I have those two milestones, I could go ask for money to accomplish them. And now I had letters of support saying, do those two things, and we can fulfill potentially millions of dollars worth of orders. Richard Miles: 12:09 Right? Cause it’s not just two things that you picked at random, like, Oh, these are nice to have t hey’re measures of value added. Joe Sleppy: 12:16 Value generating milestones. That’s Dr. Pape’s favorite term. Richard Miles: 12:19 I say, obviously you all are confident in the technical merits of the idea. Is this the sort of thing that you’re going to continue to make iterations, not just on the manufacturing end, but are there things you want to do to it to improve it, that you’re going to iterate your way to a better wire supercapacitor say in a year or five years from now? Isaiah Oladeji: 12:35 Yes, certainly because right now the operating voltage of ourselves now is around 1.6 volt . The desire is to raise it to maybe three volts, maybe even more than that. So as we are trying to market this in the other research that we’ll be doing in the background is trying to raise the voltage, the operation voltage of the cell. Richard Miles: 12:56 So what you have now is sort of like an iPhone, but one day you can have an iPhone four and five and six. Joe Sleppy: 13:01 You know, one thing I’d add to that is the specifications that we have right now. They’re good enough for our customers. If we make them better, the customers are only more excited, right? Right. On the 1.6 v olts cell, we connect multiple cells together in series or in parallel to meet different specifications. But if we were able to raise the voltage rating or increase the temperature rating or increase the capacitance of the cell, of course, we’re going to continue improving that product. But if we’re able to do that, it allows us to deliver the same value at a lower price, which potentially opens up the market more. So we’re going to continue iterating. We’re going to continue increasing the voltage rating most likely by using a different types of materials inside. And that w ill accomplish different specifications that open up new markets, potentially DOD markets, potentially automotive markets. But right now we’re staying very, very focused on residential solar power. And if we increase those specifications, we can only sell to those customers even better and open up new markets in the process. Richard Miles: 13:53 And increasing the voltage ratings. Is that a function of just time and effort, or is more research involved? Do you have a clear path on how to do that? Isaiah Oladeji: 14:01 Surely that part doesn’t actually involve too much research in the sense that what dictates the operational voltage of a capacitor most of the time is the electrolyte that you’re using inside , which means that by simply changing the electrolyte, it changes everything. It just is simple thing that we need to do that, that doesn’t even involve research that much, just okay . Finding an electrode that could be more compatible with our electrodes . Joe Sleppy: 14:25 Dr. Oladeji is awesome. And I like him because together we tend to avoid a friend of mine actually just said this word, an Edisonian approach to the way that we’re dealing with this. We’re not just trying different materials and seeing what might happen. We’re not rubbing sticks together and hoping for the best. He does have a list of very specific materials that we’re targeting, that we know that you add this material and it will increase the voltage rating. So it’s a matter of having Dr. Oladeji have the time to do that because right now he’s manufacturing these cells by hand. So once we implement that manufacturing process, his time is freed up to go improve the products that we’re manufacturing. Richard Miles: 14:58 But the only downside to that is then you don’t have a great quote like Thomas Edison’s, I found 10,000 ways to fail, right ? Your post will say, well, we found three ways to fail. Joe Sleppy: 15:05 We found three ways to fail, but I would tell my investors, we found a faster path to revenue. Richard Miles: 15:10 Okay. So behind every invention, there’s an advantage behind every business plan. There’s an entrepreneur let’s hear about sort of your personal stories of how you arrived, where you are today. And I’m not so much interested in the last year or two, but let’s go further back t han that. A nd let’s start with you Isaiah. Sort of, how did you end up here? What were you like as a kid? Were you a great student in school? Did you have great mentors and teachers tell us a little bit about t hat. Isaiah Oladeji: 15:31 I was actually a very, very bad student somehow. And my father especially has been so hard of me at that time, because I was really about saying , I just go to school for the sake of going to school. Okay. I have , I mean, I go to school. I hardly pay any attention to what the teacher was saying in the class. Richard Miles: 15:53 So that you weren’t thinking about capacitor? Isaiah Oladeji: 15:56 No , no, no, no, no, no. So I did not start to get my beer in until probably I was in elementary in the U.S. that would be around grade five. Richard Miles: 16:06 Wow. And where were you raised? Isaiah Oladeji: 16:07 I was raised in Nigeria. Richard Miles: 16:09 And when did you, or when did your family move to the United States? Isaiah Oladeji: 16:11 It was not until I finished my master’s degree in Nigeria teaching the university because I was best man in my class when I was completing my master’s degree. So the university decided to retain me and turned me into an assistant professor or assistant lecturer. So, and the requirement to stay in the university was me , you for me to get a PhD. So actually I got the Fulbright scholarship to come to U.S. To come and do my PhD. And my interest at that time was to be in solar cells to develop solar cells . So I came to do my PhD to get my specialization in solar cell. Richard Miles: 16:46 Now, Nigeria, did that have a British school system or what is sort of that? Isaiah Oladeji: 16:51 Well, the system is British, but a corrupted British system by the American system. Richard Miles: 16:59 The reason I asked that is that we lived in Barbados for a few years. And our son, when he was young, went to a British system school there. And the one thing I remember is that unlike American schools, the teachers give the parents unvarnished feedback about their child. They don’t sugar coat a thing. So they will say your child. And f rom an American perspective your shocked, like what do you mean? And I d on’t k now. They tell you how it is sometimes a little bit too much. Anyway. So t hat’s interesting t his, any of this run in the family Isaiah? Did, w here your parents in business, were they in science at all? Isaiah Oladeji: 17:31 No, actually my mom never went to school. My dad did grade one or grade two and then stopped going to school. Yeah. So basically my parents did not go to school, but my dad has a big drive to have all these kids educated. Richard Miles: 17:46 Are you the only of your siblings that became an academic? Isaiah Oladeji: 17:49 Well, actually I have three of my siblings that have PhD too. And I’ll do, none of us are in academia. Richard Miles: 17:57 I think your dad needs to write a parenting book, Joe, let’s turn to you. Where are you from? What were you like as a kid? Were you always an entrepreneur or did you have an entrepreneurial bent? Joe Sleppy: 18:05 I was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. I was born in 1996, so I got to grow up living and watching the greatest parts of the Yankees in modern history. So that was great, but my childhood was a little different than other people’s in the sense that I was actually a deaf kid. And so I progressively lost my hearing from age two, three. And by the time I was in kindergarten, my right ear was all pretty much shot. And so second grade I got cochlear implants installed and that was really exciting because now I potentially could h ear, but second grade didn’t really go. I was h omeschooled during that time, third grade I went, but I wasn’t hearing very well. So I would leave every third day to get basically physical therapy for how to talk and how to hear and around the time I was in fifth grade, I was back. My math was okay a nd things were all right, but I couldn’t really spell i t b ecause I couldn’t hear so not a fantastic elementary school student, but when I got to middle school a nd I got to high school, i t seemed like every year I started to progress and be closer to the top of my class. When I was in high school, I had awesome opportunity to be taught by fantastic teachers. My English teacher had a PhD, all my math teachers and physics teachers all had a m aster’s degree. That was really exciting because I actually learned from people who loved what they were doing rather than just teaching it. And so I did AP calculus and I did AP physics and I took classes and it was all great. But to be honest, I did not care about school because it was really boring to me when I was 16, in fact, I got so bored that I j ust s tarted to start my first business. And I competed in this competition put on by the Pinellas Education Foundation where the winner would get $10,000. So I won the $10,000 and they approached me and they said, so, J oe, what college do you want us to send this to? And I was like, you told me I could use this money for my business. And they were like, you could also use it for college. I’ll get Bright Futures. I’m not worried about college. I want it for my business. And so they gave me $10,000. I used it to start Slepp Solutions, which was a hands-free fitness equipment for amputees sold a few products here and there and made a couple of thousand dollars in reoccurring revenue. It was pretty great, but come freshman year in college, t here’s not very much money. And so I knew when I came into college, I really had three options. One was to get a PhD. One was to go work for somebody. And one was to start another business that could potentially scale and generate revenue to support a lifestyle. So on the working for som ebody fr ont that wasn’t going to happen. I worked for Publix for a couple of ye ars and working for Publix was really great. But I do remember this one moment where I sold $500 of groceries and made $2.50. I was just on the wrong side of the register. And then I was looking at my dad and my dad worked 35 years to get towards the top of his company. And I didn’t really feel like waiting 35 years to get to the top of the company. And I was imagining it like a chain. And I kept saying the fastest way to the top of the chain is to just start your own chain. Great reincarnate. All the entrepreneurial spirit I had when I was 16. And I started a bu s iness beca use I w anted to help people and cau s e I w as bored with school honestly. And so in college I realized, wanted to either get a PhD or start a business. I started doing that by getting involved in undergraduate research. The lab I did undergraduate research in is the lab that invented our technology here, the cabl e bas e d cap acitor while I was still in high school. And the professor said, Hey, I would really love to see this be a real thing one day, but I don’t have the entrepreneurial skill set to d o that. I hear you started a business when you were 16. What can we do? And that pretty much set off the story for capacity tech. We joined the ICorps Program. We joined the local level, the national level. I got involved with Firespring Fund and Starter Studio. I got involved with venture scale -up and the catalyst program. I got involved with UCF Blackstone Launchpad. I won the UCF Joust. I mean, I got every entrepreneur resource I could find in Orlando and I used it and I used it hard. And so that’s really what ended up spear ing off CapaciTech, becau se I al so realized that I go t my name on a few academic papers and that was great. And I actually used them on my resume and I was proud of them, but I didn’t have the same fulfillment that I got when I was starting my business. And I generated revenue and I created wealth and I helped spur on jobs. And now with CapaciTech, we’re doing all of th at same exact thing while I’m also getting to be involved with really cool technology, potentially completely world chan g ing tech nology. And that’ s real ly excites me and it really gets me going. And that’s why I do this becau se I lo ve it. Richard Miles: 22:03 And those are both really great stories. Before I forget Joe, one thing we always advise is go back and tell that teacher what an inspiration they were to you. Teachers love hearing that if you haven’t done it already highly advise it. Joe Sleppy: 22:13 I won’t say any specific details, but one of my high school teachers actually invested in CapaciTech. I absolutely am grateful. My high school was a special type of high school, r ight. It was called a fundamental system. So they did things a little differently, but the academic success was very, very high on their list of priorities. And that distilled into me. And when I got to college, I felt like my first year of college was just another year of high school because my high school was so intense with the way that they were teaching us in terms of calculus and physics. A nd when I got to the college version there was some new things introduced, but the underlying structure was already there b ecause I had such great passionate teachers in high s chool. Richard Miles: 22:48 So this is a part of the show where we offer the guests the opportunity to dispense wisdom to other entrepreneurs, other inventors. I’m sure you’ve already been asked probably for advice from other companies are getting started because they’ve seen you and in the work that you’ve done. So Isaiah, let’s start with you, as you’re trying to move a great idea out of the laboratory into the marketplace, one a re t he sort of things that you would avoid if you had to do it over. And what are some of the things that you think have been instrumental to your success so far, if you were giving advice to say someone a few years behind you in terms of their development. Isaiah Oladeji: 23:16 Well, if I have to use my own experience, I realized that so the experience that I had in the big companies that I worked for in the past, I probably contributed a lot to the success we are currently having in capacity. So if I have to do it again, I’ll probably prefer to do it that way. That is how I’ve experienced work with bigger company to get those essential experience that could come really, really handy because this is not my first company. I started several companies in the past and most of their field after I left working for places like Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies, Surpass Semiconductor in Singapore, Richard Miles: 23:55 Not insignificant companies. Isaiah Oladeji: 23:57 Corporation, the United Kingdom. So I worked for all of these big companies. And then after that I started my own company and then my technology got bought up by other companies and I was a big part of the company, but anyway it feel , and then somebody referred me to Joe and that was towards the end of 2017. And then we finally got together at the beginning of 2018. And I can say that the experience that I had in all those previous company that are actually coming together to help propel this company. Richard Miles: 24:29 So in a nutshell, worked for a bunch of big companies until you get just smart enough to start your own. Isaiah Oladeji: 24:33 Exactly. Richard Miles: 24:34 Joe, how about you? You’re a pretty young guy, but it sounds like you’ve already had a lifetime of experience here. What sort of lessons would you impart to others who are looking to do the same thing or something similar? Joe Sleppy: 24:42 I guess I have a few quick thoughts. I mean, one of them would be look at who you’re spending t he most of your time with n o, that when I was in high school, I was not just spending time with other students. I was spending a lot of time with this guy named K urt Long. K urt long, founded a company called F airWarning and they basically do cybersecurity for hospitals. W ell, Kurt long is who funded the $ 10,000 grant t hat started my business. So we would meet regularly maybe once a month and he would impart his wisdom into me. And that aged me up pretty quickly. And I remember this actually funny story after the fact, but I’m 18 and I go into his office and I’m like, Kurt, I made my first sale and he gave me a bottle of champagne. I’m like Kurt, I’m 18. He’s like, give it to your mom, this is so great. And so develop a relationship with somebody like Kurt, get involved in programs and just start doing something. So that was one thing surround yourself with people that are really champagne, you might get a free bottle of champagne. But then the other thing I would say is don’t be scared and just do it. My friends when I was 16, 17, 18, and they all had great ideas. Why didn’t any of them do it? Remember that program that I won in high school, I was the only kid in my class that submitted an application. There was something like 60 applications to this program and they were taking the top 10. So yo u h a d p retty good odds compared to like getting an SBI grant or getting a scholarship lik e yo u . Y ea h, p retty good odds. I had friends that were bullish enough to say all me n to ap ply to Harvard, but weren’t bullish enough to try and get an extra $10,000 grant. So what I always try to point out to people is, H ey, if you’re 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, you can start something and fail. And you’re right where everybody else is. So just try to do something. And I can tell you, there’s a g u y on Jeopardy named James right now. And he publicly said, the reason he’s doing so well on je opardy is because he takes all the bigger risks in the beginning of the game, bec ause he has time to recover. College high school. That is the beginning of the game. Go take some risks, go try to start something crazy. Surround yourself with people like for me, Richard Fox, Mike Pape, Cameron For d, K urt long. These guys will mature your brain to act a little bit further beyond your years. And then they also might connect you to people like Isaiah who hel ped yo u actually execute on your vision. Right? Don’t just be scared to do it because you’re just putting yourself closer and closer to having to take a job. Because now you have a mortgage. Now you have a car payment. Now you have whatever, if yo u’re 16 and it fails, you’re still a kid. Richard Miles: 26:53 No morgage, no champagne either. But yeah , these are both great stories and you’re obviously a great team. And uh , I think you’ll do well, but I want to wish you the best of luck. Thank you for coming on Radio Cade. Again, congratulations for making it the final stage of the Cade Prize and look forward to having you on the show again. Isaiah Oladeji: 27:09 Thank you very much. Richard Miles: 27:10 I’m Richard Miles. Outro: 27:12 Radio Cade would like to thank the following people for their help and support Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating and vendor interviews . Bob McPeak of Heartwood Soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing and production of the podcast and music theme, Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song featuring violinist Jacob Lawson and special thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

How can you craft a talk, deliver dynamically, and book a spot on the TED stage? If you have a purpose in your business and stories to share with the world, this is the episode for you as we sit down with TEDx Orlando’s co-organizer Thomas Waterman! Psychology, Leadership, Vision, Purpose-Driven, TED Talks… …these are a few of the keywords from the notes I took during the conversation with today’s guest who is similar to me in that he loves interacting with people, studying psychology, and finding ways to help the audience he serves.  A few podcast episode highlights: – Hello from San Diego Startup Week (at the San Diego Convention Center) – P.S.T. Method (my method for helping new authors go from “no idea and overwhelm” to “awesome, detailed outline) – Johanna Walker on Episode 180 – more advice about speaking on stage! – How to win an election (the psychology of winning!) – Why is for-profit business actually able to help more people than nonprofits, when done right and with purpose? – The differences between TED and TEDx – There are over 3500 cities running TEDx events! – How does someone become one of the speakers on stage for TED? (Insider advice! And it may surprise you!) – TEDx Orlando’s main website: http://orlandotedx.org – What matters to TED (headquarters)…so you can get featured on their main website! (Which can lead to millions of views on your video and change your life!) – How TEDx organizers help speakers to make sure their talk resonates – Tips for someone to speak well on stage – TEDx talks are usually about 8 to 18 minutes (and Thomas shares how/why) – How to Use a Paper Towel TED Talk by Joe Smith – Why an alligator was on stage in Orlando! – Does Thomas recommend “applying to tons of speaking events” or take another approach (to get speaking opportunities)? – Davide Di Giorgio teamed up to bring you More Speaking Gigs (here)   Our Guest Thomas Waterman believes in showing people what makes them special and empowering them to use their powers, so they can make the world a better place. This belief led Thomas on his own growth journey, where he leaned in to face his fear and misalignment in life. This meaningful self-reflection inspired him to quit his job and immediately pursue his purpose. The entrepreneurial route became his path to find meaningful work and fulfillment in daily life. He chose a direction and aligned everything in his life with it. This alignment inspired him to co-found Purpose Pioneers. Thomas makes his yearly presence on the TEDx stage as a co-organizer for TEDxOrlando. He’s a Board Member of the 15 Lightyears Foundation, Industry Fellow & Entrepreneurial Coach for the Blackstone Launchpad at the University of Central Florida, the largest university in the country, Mentor for the Horizons Scholars Program, and an Alumni of Starter Studio, Orlando’s leading tech business accelerator, where he founded his first venture, BackStory.   Great Quotes “Build unique, individual, meaningful relationships.” – Thomas Waterman “Get out of that state of judgment…I’m right, you’re wrong…get in the field of openmindedness and curiosity.” – Thomas Waterman “80% of what we do is helping people overcome unconscious blocks…20% is the tactics.” – Thomas Waterman “Getting on the stage does add value.” – Thomas Waterman “[Speaking at TED] does add value for anyone who wants to build their brand.” – Thomas Waterman “We have in-depth coaching calls and two in-person practices [for TEDx speakers].” – Thomas Waterman “It’s helping people get clarity about the message that matters most to them.” – Thomas Waterman “If you do stumble or start feeling anxious…pause. Take a deep breath. People want you to succeed.” – Thomas Waterman “People care less about what you’re saying and more about how and why you say it.” – Thomas Waterman “It’s about taking some kind of action and seeing if it serves you.” – Thomas Waterman Take Action Now! Amazon Bestselling Book Workshop + Resources [free] Bestselling Book Accelerator Speaker’s Secret Gig List   Read More Back at the podcast's full shownotes for this Copy That Pops episode!.

Join us for a discussion with Samantha Segal, she is a UCF Graduate and tells her experience with internships at Starter Studio, her degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, and more! 

Join us tonight for our conversation with Claudia Helm and much more! She is from England, speaks about her experience interning at Starter Studio, her experience at Valencia College, and more, let's have a listen! 

Join us as we talk with Shay Porter, a previous intern with an Intern Pursuit employer, StarterStudio and Hospitality and Tourism student at Valencia West Campus.

Join us for our conversation with Adriana Flores, a Hospitality intern with StarterStudio, and an Event Management intern with Pivot Business Consulting.

Join us as we talk with Andi Earle, an intern at StarterStudio, one of our employer customers. Andi is a Hospitality and Tourism Management student at Valencia College. 

Join us as we talk with Brandon Rosado, who is the owner of Virtuoso, a graduate of StarterStudio, and also an employer that has worked with Intern Pursuit interns. Also with us is Mike Torres, an electronic pop punk music artist.

Join us as we talk with Dayle Moore who is the Program Director of Operations at Starter Studio. On tonight's show we will hear from Dayle about internships, innovation, entrepreneurship, and great leaders.

Join us as we talk with Sergio Varela, a student from Valencia College, and an international student from Venezuela. He interned with StarterStudio and Intern Pursuit. 

Covering everything from Rails for Zombies to Code School to Vue Mastery, we talk with one of the original online tutorial creators, Gregg Pollack, and how he decided to invest in the Vue.js community and a new front-end open source project. Gregg also throws in a number of great suggestions for folks that have thought about creating their own tutorials and why CTOs might choose Vue JS among the frameworks out there.

What up world?!  Even though we just experienced some technical internet difficulties, I was still able to upload this episode before heading to Clearwater for tha weekend (thanks work hotspot)!  For this episode we pop out to StarterStudio located in downtown Orlando, where artist East Docht was holding her first solo art show!  It was … Continue reading "STH Show #201 – Trap2Go @ StarterStudio with East Docht & Christopher Majocha"

Alexandria believes in creating purposeful communities where people feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to create real human connection. Alexandria’s why led her to become an advocate for incorporating the human element back into modern business practices. Her leadership and teaching on these principles has earned her recognition by top leaders within Central Florida. She is the co-founder of Purpose Pioneers, a purpose-first company that empowers organizations to help their employees find meaning in their work and customers find meaning in their purchases. Alexandria’s background is in communication, executive coaching, and community engagement. She specializes in leadership development, methodology & framework design, and purpose alignment. Alexandria has coached for the University of Central Florida, the largest college in the nation, in a variety of their departments including the College of Business Administration, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Rosen College of Hospitality Management. She is a 2016 BizVenture Competition winner and 2017 BizVenture Coach for the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation. She is a graduate of Starter Studio, Orlando’s leading tech accelerator, where she founded her first venture, community engagement company, myLoop. Mission: She hopes to help businesses find meaning and fulfillment in everything they do in real time, instead of waiting for fulfillment through the paychecks they collect or special events that may occur. She also hopes to lead people towards a purpose-first mindset to help both their employees and their customers find meaning. Mistake: Alexandria wishes she had focused on listening to people around her so she could supply them with this awesome service in a way that they could have easily digested sooner. Recommended:Quote: "When you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." -Ralph EmersonBook: The Purpose EconomyEat With: (Dead) Steve Jobs (Alive) Simon Sinek and Tony Robbins Contact: FacebookPurposePioneers.comAlexandria@purposepioners.com Legacy: She hopes to have a voice, not only for the world but also for her generation, telling everyone that unlocking your potential and living a purposeful life the way you want to live it is 100% possible.

Get your Super-Simple Investing Guide here: https://debtfreeguys.lpages.co/super-simple-investing-guide/ DIY.FUND and Newbie Ivestors Talking Wall Street feels intimidating, but Wendy and Eric Nissan of DIY.FUND, who have both worked on Wall Street, help us help you get started with investing. Who is DIY.FUND? We befriended Wendy and Eric Nissan at FinCon in San Diego in 2016. Both Wendy and Eric had careers on Wall Street where they learned the ins and outs of that world. The Nissans came on Queer Money to break investing down into simple terms to help you start investing. Someday you may be a DIY.FUND client. For now, download our Super-Simple Investing Guide here and listen to this Queer Money to learn everything you need to start investing today. Who are Wendy & Eric Nissan? After moving to Florida from New York, Wendy started asking questions about the management of their own portfolio, and Eric started writing programs to answer her questions. Eventually, they thought, ‘Everyone should have these tools!’ and they designed DIY.FUND, an online portfolio management system that gives individual investors access to the same management tools the pros use. Wendy and Eric’s fintech startup was accepted to Starter Studio, Orlando’s premiere tech accelerator. Since then, they've won tons of awards. DIY.FUND will be fully functional in the next two months. Today the Nissans share their philosophy about online investing tools and offer their advice for newbie investors. They explain how advisors’ commissions affect returns over time and the advantages of using DIY.FUND as an alternative. Ultimately, most financial advisors use software to make decisions about your portfolio. What if you had access to those same tools? What if you could invest in the stock market with confidence—without giving up a huge chunk of your returns to a broker? Get additional resources here: https://debtfreeguys.com/diy-fund-helps-newbies-invest-like-pros/

On today’s episode, I talk to Suneera Madhani, the founder and CEO of Fattmerchant. I met Suneera when she was going through Starter Studio, a tech accelerator in Orlando, FL, and when her team was preparing for incredible growth, she asked for my help to align her team. My purpose in life is to help teams increase their cohesion and effectiveness, ultimately driving organizational performance, and a lot of that involves growing individual self-awareness to create more self-accountable team members who then communicate and collaborate more effectively. AND, there is also the critical element of aligning your team on the core elements of your organization. Why do you exist, what do you do (and what do you NOT do), what is your vision of the future, how do we align decisions to maximize the likelihood we get there (AKA strategy), and how do we treat each other along the way (AKA culture). I use the framework from Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything to create a playbook for executive teams. In my interview with Suneera, we discuss everything from self-awareness to recover from defensiveness to finding your true purpose as an organization to how a viral article in Fast Company broke Fattmerchant, but ultimately prepared them to align strategically in preparation for scalability and 10x growth. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to grow a company, or a leader who wants to create a kick ass culture, you don’t want to miss this conversation. 

Chad is joined by Code School & Envy Labs founder Gregg Pollack to discuss optimal work environments and building a company to support Open Source Projects. Gregg on Giant Robots Starter Studio Brené Brown The Human Element Code Pop Upcase Sell Your By-Products Dive into Neovim on Upcase Gregg's Blog Gregg on Twitter Panel Discussion: The Developer’s Path Become a Sponsor of Giant Robots!

Our starters are really starting to kick into high gear but before they get too far they get a chance to meet and greet their potential one on one mentors and coaches as well as the subject matter mentors who will be helping them along the way. Starter Studio founder Gregg Pollack is really big on the importance of mentorship and making sure that the team is encouraging coachability as an important merit that leads to startup success. The starter and mentors all got together and got a chance to meet one another in both a social environment as well as a speed dating, hot seat format designed to allow the founders to meet everyone. As is often the case with this format being concise is important, otherwise, you will find you are being moved on before you finish. The elevator pitch and value proposition training is gonna come in really handy here. You like Starter Studio & the Accelerator Podcast - right? It’s cool to see these guys and gals get what might be considered an Ivy League startup education. It’s not easy. It’s a serious investment on their part - but it’s also a major investment on the part of the mentors, teachers, and coaches. As you’ve heard, these Starters were selected because they showed the right stuff in Episode 1 and are receiving a full ride scholarship through Starter Studio. You’re also getting a full ride scholarship as a listener. So, how did we pull this off? Well, Bryan Orr and Josh Elledge of http://upendPR.com are thrilled to produce this audio show for you and all we ask for in terms of tuition on your part is simply your warm feelings toward the following corporate partners. Major thank you to The University of Central Florida who does a LOT of work in terms of supporting the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. UCF is the #2 largest university in the United States in terms of student population and in the top 15 in the category of “Most Innovative”. UCF is a great partner in education, technical resources, workforce development and grant support along with other noble missions locally - such as helping make Starter Studio happen with the support of the Office of Research and UCF Innovation Corps The other Platinum Partner this season that’s helping make this all work is the audit, tax, and business advisory firm, Withum that specializes in helping tech startups. They are the go-to firm for all things tax, accounting and business consulting. Another partner we want to thank is the law firm, Akerman. Other Sponsors: Envy Labs Code School Corridor Legal Our Team: Gregg Pollack, Founder Donna Mackenzie, Executive Director Melissa Wasserman, Director of Programming and Operations #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #StarterStudio #Angel #Business #Orlando #UCF

If this is the first time you are listening to Accelerator we would strongly suggest that you go back and listen starting at the beginning so you can get to know the story and cast of characters. Today's podcast covers day two of the starter studio boot camp and after a lot of work on their customer value propositions, the founders really started to get the value of their product down to a science. You like Starter Studio & the Accelerator Podcast - right? It’s cool to see these guys and gals get what might be considered an Ivy League startup education. It’s not easy. It’s a serious investment on their part - but it’s also a major investment on the part of the mentors, teachers, and coaches. As you’ve heard, these Starters were selected because they showed the right stuff in Episode 1 and are receiving a full ride scholarship through Starter Studio. You’re also getting a full ride scholarship as a listener. So, how did we pull this off? Well, Bryan Orr and Josh Elledge of http://upendPR.com are thrilled to produce this audio show for you and all we ask for in terms of tuition on your part is simply your warm feelings toward the following corporate partners. Major thank you to The University of Central Florida who does a LOT of work in terms of supporting the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. UCF is the #2 largest university in the United States in terms of student population and in the top 15 in the category of “Most Innovative”. UCF is a great partner in education, technical resources, workforce development and grant support along with other noble missions locally - such as helping make Starter Studio happen with the support of the Office of Research and UCF Innovation Corps The other Platinum Partner this season that’s helping make this all work is the audit, tax, and business advisory firm, Withum that specializes in helping tech startups. They are the go-to firm for all things tax, accounting and business consulting. Another partner we want to thank is the law firm, Akerman. Other Sponsors: Envy Labs Code School Corridor Legal Our Team: Gregg Pollack, Founder Donna Mackenzie, Executive Director Melissa Wasserman, Director of Programming and Operations #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #StarterStudio #Angel #Business #Orlando #UCF

In this episode of Accelerator: At Starter Studio in Orlando, Florida we jump straight from the getting settled to a two day boot camp that will set the tone for the remainder of the program. There’s going to be over 14 hours of content covered over these next two days and we’re going to our best to distill it down and hit the high points. Specifically, we’ll be hearing as the starters get laser focused on their business model, the problems their products solve and - how to validate their assumptions with their customers. You like Starter Studio & the Accelerator Podcast - right? It’s cool to see these guys and gals get what might be considered an Ivy League startup education. It’s not easy. It’s a serious investment on their part - but it’s also a major investment on the part of the mentors, teachers, and coaches. As you’ve heard, these Starters were selected because they showed the right stuff in Episode 1 and are receiving a full ride scholarship through Starter Studio. You’re also getting a full ride scholarship as a listener. So, how did we pull this off? Well, Bryan Orr and Josh Elledge of http://upendPR.com are thrilled to produce this audio show for you and all we ask for in terms of tuition on your part is simply your warm feelings toward the following corporate partners. Major thank you to The University of Central Florida who does a LOT of work in terms of supporting the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. UCF is the #2 largest university in the United States in terms of student population and in the top 15 in the category of “Most Innovative”. UCF is a great partner in education, technical resources, workforce development and grant support along with other noble missions locally - such as helping make Starter Studio happen with the support of the Office of Research and UCF Innovation Corps The other Platinum Partner this season that’s helping make this all work is the audit, tax, and business advisory firm, Withum that specializes in helping tech startups. They are the go-to firm for all things tax, accounting and business consulting. Another partner we want to thank is the law firm, Akerman. Other Sponsors: Envy Labs Code School Corridor Legal Our Team: Gregg Pollack, Founder Donna Mackenzie, Executive Director Melissa Wasserman, Director of Programming and Operations #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #StarterStudio #Angel #Business #Orlando #UCF

Episode 2 – Moving Day In Episode 2 we’re joining our Starters on the very first day at Starter Studio, when they will share their pitches with one another. Starter Studio’s Director of Programming and Operations, Melissa Wasserman, coaches them on the building blocks of a good pitch: introduce yourself, clearly identify your product, what it does, as well as who it’s for and clearly define your business model and why the listener should care. A question in everyone’s mind is “How do you plan to make money?” otherwise known as, “monetization strategy” in startup jargon. We'll cover this topic. You like Starter Studio & the Accelerator Podcast - right? It’s cool to see these guys and gals get what might be considered an Ivy League startup education. It’s not easy. It’s a serious investment on their part - but it’s also a major investment on the part of the mentors, teachers, and coaches. As you’ve heard, these Starters were selected because they showed the right stuff in Episode 1 and are receiving a full ride scholarship through Starter Studio. You’re also getting a full ride scholarship as a listener. So, how did we pull this off? Well, Bryan Orr and Josh Elledge of http://upendPR.com are thrilled to produce this audio show for you and all we ask for in terms of tuition on your part is simply your warm feelings toward the following corporate partners. Major thank you to The University of Central Florida who does a LOT of work in terms of supporting the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. UCF is the #2 largest university in the United States in terms of student population and in the top 15 in the category of “Most Innovative”. UCF is a great partner in education, technical resources, workforce development and grant support along with other noble missions locally - such as helping make Starter Studio happen with the support of the Office of Research and UCF Innovation Corps The other Platinum Partner this season that’s helping make this all work is the audit, tax, and business advisory firm, Withum that specializes in helping tech startups. They are the go-to firm for all things tax, accounting and business consulting. Another partner we want to thank is the law firm, Akerman. Other Sponsors: Envy Labs Code School Corridor Legal Our Team: Gregg Pollack, Founder Donna Mackenzie, Executive Director Melissa Wasserman, Director of Programming and Operations #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #StarterStudio #Angel #Business #Orlando #UCF

In this episode, Josh Elledge & Bryan Orr will share the story of the final Starter Studio interviews and you’ll meet the startups and learn the eight are that are accepted! What does it take to get accepted into an accelerator program like Starter Studio? Our panel will shine the spotlight and get to know lots of startups applying for this season’s Starter Studio. Among those you’ll meet are: - Ricky Alphonse and his wearable company Advancing Technology - Arielle Cohen with her social music platform Zuke - Ron Ben-Zeev and David Pankros and the multi location connection engine SQYGL - Chris Gilhooley and Cole Brickley of MoversAtlas - Thomas Waterman with his social giving application BackStory - Jolene Taracatac and her fashion app Style Squad - Bryan Holmes with the unique mouse product Mouse Melon - And finally Mark Baratelli and BigBoxOf You’ll learn who the panel responded to by saying, “They should quit while they know everything.” and “Not just no… but Hell no.” MORE: http://www.StarterStudio.com A special thanks to our platinum sponsors: The University of Central Florida and Withum - audit tax advisory firm. #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #StarterStudio #Angel #Business #Orlando #UCF

In this Pilot episode we introduce Starter Studio, a technology startup accelerator based in downtown Orlando Florida. We talk to some of the leadership team as well as some of the mentors about what an accelerator is and what this new batch of founders can expect. This podcast takes a look at the idea of a "lifestyle business" and takes as well as the concept of lean business. You will meet Gregg Pollack, Melissa Wasserman, Donna Mackenzie, Richard Licursi, Michael Judith and Ron Cook. Buckle in and get ready to accelerate (obligatory acceleration metaphor) #Tech #Startup #Incubator #Accelerator #Starter Studio #Angel #Business #Orlando#UCF

Check out Angular Remote Conf!   02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction Twitter GitHub Envy Labs @envylabs Code School @codeschool   Starter Studio 05:19 - Code School Rails for Zombies Try Ruby 06:49 - Course Content Code School Angular.js Courses Breaking the Ice with Regular Expressions The Fundamentals of Design 09:42 - Plots & Storylines 11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight 14:09 - Structuring Courses Frontend vs Backend Building Blocks of Express.js Real-Time Web with Node.js   Security & Sandboxing abecedary Mocha 18:21 - JavaScript.com Try jQuery Contributing to JavaScript.com Let Us Know Try JavaScript Resources 22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges abecedary Chai 30:31 - The Future of Online Learning Thinkful Bloc.io AirPair HackHands Smarterer 34:01 - Teaching Best Practices Picks Mr. Robot (Gregg) #ILookLikeAnEngineer (Aimee) Why we Need WebAssembly An Interview with Brendan Eich (Aimee) Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (AJ) Periscope (Chuck)

Check out Angular Remote Conf!   02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction Twitter GitHub Envy Labs @envylabs Code School @codeschool   Starter Studio 05:19 - Code School Rails for Zombies Try Ruby 06:49 - Course Content Code School Angular.js Courses Breaking the Ice with Regular Expressions The Fundamentals of Design 09:42 - Plots & Storylines 11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight 14:09 - Structuring Courses Frontend vs Backend Building Blocks of Express.js Real-Time Web with Node.js   Security & Sandboxing abecedary Mocha 18:21 - JavaScript.com Try jQuery Contributing to JavaScript.com Let Us Know Try JavaScript Resources 22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges abecedary Chai 30:31 - The Future of Online Learning Thinkful Bloc.io AirPair HackHands Smarterer 34:01 - Teaching Best Practices Picks Mr. Robot (Gregg) #ILookLikeAnEngineer (Aimee) Why we Need WebAssembly An Interview with Brendan Eich (Aimee) Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (AJ) Periscope (Chuck)

Check out Angular Remote Conf!   02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction Twitter GitHub Envy Labs @envylabs Code School @codeschool   Starter Studio 05:19 - Code School Rails for Zombies Try Ruby 06:49 - Course Content Code School Angular.js Courses Breaking the Ice with Regular Expressions The Fundamentals of Design 09:42 - Plots & Storylines 11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight 14:09 - Structuring Courses Frontend vs Backend Building Blocks of Express.js Real-Time Web with Node.js   Security & Sandboxing abecedary Mocha 18:21 - JavaScript.com Try jQuery Contributing to JavaScript.com Let Us Know Try JavaScript Resources 22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges abecedary Chai 30:31 - The Future of Online Learning Thinkful Bloc.io AirPair HackHands Smarterer 34:01 - Teaching Best Practices Picks Mr. Robot (Gregg) #ILookLikeAnEngineer (Aimee) Why we Need WebAssembly An Interview with Brendan Eich (Aimee) Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (AJ) Periscope (Chuck)