Podcast appearances and mentions of stephan smith

Thank you all for supporting us and we're so excited to present this 50th episode of Cup of Justice!!! True Sunlight Co-hosts Mandy Matney, Liz Farrell and everyone's favorite attoryney Eric Bland — discuss Grand Jury leaks in the Stephan Smith case and what they might mean. Also on the show, the U.S. Attorney's Office hits back at Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin's dastardly plan surrounding Alex Murdaugh's assets; and “Where in the world is Cory Fleming?” becomes “What could Cory's mysterious absence mean for law enforcement?” On last week's episode of the True Sunlight Podcast we told you about how Alex Murdaugh's best friend and criminal co-conspirator Cory Fleming seemed to be missing for almost two weeks. Shortly after we published that episode, the Bureau of Prisons updated its online database to show that Cory was imprisoned in Atlanta. Mandy will be starting the book tour soon and plans to be in Charleston for a few events near October 26th. Stay tuned for details.  Lot's to look forward to, but for now… Let's get into it …. Premium Members will get into Taylor Swift's new romance with a player on my hometown team, the Kansas City Chiefs and why people are so scared of powerful women. And our pre-recorded Happy Hour and LIVE chat with Sandy Smith will broadcast this Thursday October 12th at 7pm for Soak Up The Sun Premium Members. Luna Shark Premium Members also get access to searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on lunasharkmedia.com, Discord and YouTube LIVE through Lunashark.supercast.com. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE. Click here for Sandy's announcement of the Stephen Nicholas Smith Scholarship Fund: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6DH1tApmp0 We now offer ad-free listening on Apple Podcasts through a subscription to Luna Shark Plus on the Apple Podcasts App. SUNscribe to our free email list to get alerts on bonus episodes, calls to action, new shows and updates. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3KBMJcP Mandy's new book, Blood on Their Hands arrives November 14th but pre-sales are so important. Go to www.bloodontheirhandsbook.com to learn more. Stay tuned for a big announcement for all Premium Members who purchase a copy soon! Find us on social media: Twitter.com/mandymatney - Twitter.com/elizfarrell - Twitter.com/theericbland https://www.facebook.com/cupofjustice/ YouTube *The views expressed on the Cup of Justice bonus episodes do not constitute legal advice. Listeners desiring legal advice for any particular legal matter are urged to consult an attorney of their choosing who can provide legal advice based upon a full understanding of the facts and circumstances of their claim. The views expressed on the Cup of Justice episodes also do not express the views or opinions of Bland Richter, LLP, or its attorneys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode the crew sits down with Esports Program Director and AYF Southfield Falcons 13U Defensive Line Coach Stephan Smith and discuss the challenges of coaching a highly successful youth football program and the benefits of Esports in our communities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/enlightenedonespodcast/message

Andrea and Tansey cover the mysterious death of Stephan Smith after he was found dead in the middle of a dark Hampton County Road. What part does Stephan's death play in the Murdaugh murders saga? All this and more on Failure to Stop Night Shift. SUBSCRIBE TO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL

I'm beyond Excited to Introduce Meenta, our Newest Sponsors of Diversity and Down the Podcast. I get to have a one on one Conversation with Stephan Smith, the CTO and a co-founder of Meenta. He shares about how Meenta, through Curesology allows donors to maximize the Impact per dollar donated for researchers to get the funds and tools they need to discover cures and treatments and SO MUCH MORE!!!https://www.meenta.io/

Sal' Investment Syndicate: Click Here Meenta is the platform for sharing the use of high-end scientific equipment. Its founders, Gabor Bethlendy and Stephan Smith, are using resources they have built to help companies test employees for COVID.  You can learn more about Meenta in the following interviews: Here is my interview of Gabor Bethlendy: https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ep-65/gabor-bethlendy-meenta Here is my interview of Stephan Smith: https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ep-90-stephan-smith-meenta 

Invest with Boston's Top Angels: Sal's Syndicates “Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counter-intuitive, but it is reality.” What if scientists could plan and run experiments much faster? Meenta’s software platform is making the use of high-end research equipment far more efficient. Co-Founder & CTO Stephan Smith is excited by the massive opportunity his startup is addressing. Highlights include: Sal Daher’s Intro Stephan Smith’s Bio “Half the time they sit idle and half the time if someone owns one of these instruments, there's still a long wait to get on them. They're not simple devices, but they are crucial for research.” “Used to take 3 months for you to book time on one of these high-end sequencing machines and have all the reagents and everything else lined up and the right people and so forth, and now you're doing it within 2 weeks, 12 days.” Biggest Obstacle: Convincing People That They Don’t Have to Do Things the Old, Slow Way The Unique Challenges of a Multi-Sided Marketplace “…we let our users make a decision based on whether they care about speed, or quality, or price.” How the Co-Founders, Stephan & Gabor, Came Together “…we were 10 minutes into him telling me about the problem and I think the top of my head blew off. I was like, this is what I've been waiting for. This is a massive market.” “We allow them [universities] to make their core labs more efficient by having more samples throw flow through these machines. These machines are able to run actually more efficiently.” “Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counterintuitive, but it is reality.” When it Costs $15,000 per Run, You’re Not Going to Run Your Sequencer Half Full. It Pays to Get Others on the Machine to Share the Cost. Sal Daher Talks About Portfolio Company FineTune Learning The Burning Question for All Angel Investors: How Am I Going to Make Money on This Company? Academic Study on Meenta’s Approach to Two-Sided Markets “The bigger problem that I see is how do you provide value for both sides of the marketplace so you don't have a churn retention issue.” How Meenta Keeps Clients from Going Direct and Cutting them Out of the Business “…we assumed the $2,000 order size. Our order sizes are dramatically bigger.” “Our clear North Star is $1.6 million worth of gross revenue per month by December of 2020. That's our goal.” Meenta Is Hiring Geneticists, Field Application Scientists – Screen for High Emotional Intelligence Finding Your Calling Sharing Your Wisdom - Techstars We Are All Fans of Clem Cazalot of Techstars Boston “I would say your podcast helped people learn fast.”  

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Link to Our Investment Syndicates Two of Boston’s most active angels, Marlene Boyaner of Golden Seeds and Doug Bates of Walnut Venture, talk to Sal Daher about angel investing, fundraising, building a startup and various other topics. The panel takes challenging questions from an audience of startup founders. Highlights include: Marlene Boyaner bio. Doug Bates bio How Marlene went from intrapreneuring at CIBC & Capital One to angel investing. Golden Seeds is on the organized end of the spectrum among angel groups; Marlene likes the way it operates. Entrepreneurship was a natural for Doug Bates due to several examples of in his family. Founded a successful business with the woman to whom he was married at the time. Put his wife’s idea through a thorough MBA-type scrutiny and became convinced it would work. Golden Seeds seeks to ensure that women get their share of startup funding and invest in businesses where they can see the possibility of an exit. They are generalists, no industry focus. When Golden Seeds started women got only 3% of startup funding, now women get 27% of such funding. Women now start 50% of all businesses so it seems that Golden Seeds has room to grow. Startup Parade: Fortified Bike from which was spun off Save My Sales. Doug admires founder Tivan Amour who has been interviewed on the Angel Invest Podcast (Link to Tivan Amour's Podcast). Sal is also an investor. Fortified Bike was a theft-proof bike business which proved to be a hard ride. While trying to get the bike business up the hill, Tivan built a highly effective texting tool that drove sales very powerfully. That’s the business that became Save My Sales. Tivan demonstrated integrity in the way he migrated to Save My Sales by giving investors in Fortified Bike stakes in the new company. Startup Parade: Clean Fiber has a prosaic business but an extremely sound one. The team is impressively high-performing in building out a new production process for producing insulation with recycled materials. Doug likes the boring but lucrative niche they occupy. Startup Parade: Marlene Boyaner brought up Day Zero which has technology to determine at the outset of treatment what is the best antibiotic to use on an infection. Currently, patients with severe infections are started on broad spectrum antibiotics until the result of cultures allows the determination of the ideal treatment. Startup Parade: Marlene Boyaner also mentioned Acivilate helps people involved with the justice system get better results in terms of lower recidivism. Although this is not an industry Marlene would have anticipated investing in, the ability of the team was so compelling that Golden Seeds has backed Acivilate. Startup Parade: Sal GainLife which has been building software to help disability insurers get better outcomes with workers who are out of work due to an injury. Founder Sean Eldridge and his team have gotten impressive traction with insurers. Here is Sean’s interview on this podcast, an episode called “Transforming Lives”: Interview with Sean Eldridge Startup Parade: Meenta founded by Gabor Bethlendy and Stephan Smith is building Stripe for science, a workflow platform to make the notoriously inefficient process of scientific experimentation more efficient. Gabor was also on the podcast, here’s the interview with him: Interview with Gabor Bethlendy of Meenta Doug Bates believes that angel investing requires a high level of understanding of the industry in which the startup is being built. Powerball vs. Moneyball; Doug is a moneyball investor, i.e. he likes to take small, highly-analyzed bets that are likely to pay off consistently. Marlene talked about Golden Seeds’ focus on portfolio companies having defensible businesses, i.e. businesses that cannot be easily copied by competitors. Golden Seeds also needs validation from pilot programs or repeat sales. Golden Seeds looks for teams that are coachable and resilient. They liked big markets. Each big Golden Seeds chapter sees three pitches per month. Office Hours is a great way to connect with Golden Seeds if you don’t have connections. Sal asks for your review on iTunes to help the Angel Invest Boston podcast found by listeners. Doug and Marlene tell us the best ways founders can connect with angel investors. Sal on the proper way to use LinkedIn to connect with angel investors. Hint: it does not involve sending mass emails to people you don’t know. Resources for founders raising money; start with The Capital Network, a non-profit dedicated to supporting founders. Marlene says keep pitch decks crisp and to the point. Less is more. Doug says pitch decks should address greed or fear. Don’t go into the weeds. Marlene adds that they have to explain how the product works in layman’s terms. Sal recalls Joe Caruso urging founders to make sure angels listening to their pitches understand what the company does. Here’s Sal’s interview with Joes Caruso, the CEO Whisperer: Interview with Super Angel Joe Caruso Doug: the most important subtext of due diligence is that it’s all about evaluating the founding team. Doug: the golden mean between dogmatism and lack of conviction. Founders should understand that Golden Seeds has a process; no on-the-spot answers. Doug urges frequent communications with investors. Monthly is good. Sal urges founders to occupy investor mindshare with monthly reports. Audience Questions: Jake Kayser of YourAgora asks questions about how angels invest directly or through entities. Paul Livingston, Ph.D. of EdTech Advisory Group ask questions about how investors view educational tech companies. Caleb, a senior at Babson, had a question about how to engage angels. Davin, a Babson student asks for advice on having an entrepreneurial career.

Neil covers his top 10 antipatterns for Scrum roles in Dynamics 365 projects.  An antipattern looks like a good idea to a situation you were facing but wasn’t the best option when you look back on it. Antipatterns are traps that we want to help others avoid.  Here are Neil's top ten antipatterns for Scrum roles:  Uncommitted product owner. If your senior project stakeholder is too senior, they usually won’t have the availability required to be a committed product owner. Find someone in the next level of the organisation and backfill their job so they can be a full-time product owner for your Dynamics 365 project.  Committee of product owners. This antipattern often occurs when we’re implementing Microsoft Business Applications across several divisions. Don’t settle for a committee of product owners from the different divisions. Find one single product owner they can all trust. Otherwise you’ll get pulled in lots of directions.  Overdriving product owner. Often product owners with a background in sales leadership use motivation techniques, such as setting stretch targets, that often don’t work with developers. Use their enthusiasm, vision and communications skills, but watch out for them becoming a backlog troll.  Learn-as-you-go product owner. Most product owners in a Dynamics 365 project have never been a product owner before might never have worked on a project before. For the sake of your team, your users and your organisation you deserve product owner training, to read widely about product ownership and to work closely with your scrum master for coaching on the product owner responsibilities.  Part-time scrum master. World-class sports teams don’t expect one of the players to coach the team. Great scrum masters might be able to coach two, possibly even three teams, but it’s a full-time role that shouldn’t be handed to one of your developers.  Combined product owner and scrum master. The goals of the product owner and scrum master can occasional come into conflict. If the product owner wants to push the team hard to meet a release deadline but the scrum master wants to preserve a sustainable pace. Keep the roles separate to balance that natural tension and avoid a conflict of interest.  Scrum monster. Every scrum master is familiar with the rules in the Scrum guide. And they’re familiar with agile software development technical practices. Great scrum masters know when to bend the rules, and how to make the most of situations when your team can’t follow the rules.  Rookie scrum master. It can be hard for a lot of project managers to transition into the scrum master role. It requires a mindset sift into an agile way of thinking, and Neil recommends that project managers spend a year working in a scrum team before trying to coach the team as a scrum master.  Sharing developers between projects. Sharing a developer between projects can appear to maximise their productivity, but it can drag down the throughput of the teams relying on that developer. If you can’t dedicate a developer to your Dynamics 365 project, then make mutually agreed commitments about when they will be available so that you can determine your capacity for sprint planning.  Learn to code. This one is for Stephan Smith who wrote a contentious article on LinkedIn, “Three forbidden words: I don’t code”. Everyone in the scrum team should be prepared to help the team do whatever it takes to meet the sprint goal every sprint. Sometimes it’s a task within your specialty, sometimes it’s something new. But there’s an antipattern that hopes that an amateur programmer to develop mission critical code. Be adaptable. Expand your skills. But software development is an engineering discipline and not everyone should be copy/pasting scripts from Stackoverflow into your Microsoft business application. 

In today's episode (brought to you by KingswaySoft), Joel Lindstrom and Stephan Smith tackle learning: what you should be learning, how you should do it, and where to start. Topics discussed in this episode: Learning new technologies and skills Deciding what to learn The demise of the DLP and CustomerSource Where do you start Don't just learn, do Give yourself a deadline Learn by teaching others Are MOOCs effective The side hustle Links: Mark Smith's blog listing new OpenEDX courses https://www.nz365guy.com/microsoft-dynamics-365-power-platform-training-and-exams-2019/ Microsoft Learn Business Applications content https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/browse/?products=dynamics%2Cpower-platform&resource_type=learning%20path

Invest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels: Our Syndicates Science is broken. Vast increases in people and money applied to scientific inquiry have failed to raise the rate of discovery. Among the reasons for this is that the workflow of labs is firmly stuck in the 1990s. Repeat founder Gabor Bethlendy is tackling this huge problem by creating Meenta.io, a platform to allow researchers to plan and execute their experiments via an online interface. Gabor is tenacious and energetic. He’s recruited to his effort co-founder Stephan Smith who is also very impressive and complements Gabor’s scientific background with a sophisticated understanding of the online universe. They’ve signed up their first big paying customer and have had a great stint at Techstars which has refined their go to market approach. Some highlight from the interview: Gabor Bethlendy bio. Parabase Genomics, his first startup, allowed parent of sick newborns to screen for hundreds of common genetic abnormalities that can be treated. How Gabor recruited Stephan Smith as his co-founder. 18 months in, Meenta has signed up hundreds of leading organizations with high-end equipment available for use. Creating a map of all the high-end scientific equipment in the world. Allows much easier access to this huge but highly fragmented market. Multi-million-dollar equipment sitting idle for lack of a proper connection to users. 48 percent of equipment is idle at any given time. Patrick Collison. Founder of Stripe, worried that the rate of scientific break throughs has remained constant despite the massive in crease in the number of scientists. Points to inefficiency. There’s room for improvement; we’re doing a lot of science but not making much progress. Comparison of Stripe to what Meenta is doing. Meenta takes a fee from each transaction. The challenge is to bring in users. Supply is plentiful. Pushed during Techstars to sign up supply. Decided that the first market to address is small biotech firms. Founders, go to Meenta.io and check it out before buying equipment. Case study with Albert Einstein; got it done 10X faster with much less post-doc time. Please leave a review or even a just a reting. Gabor thanks Clem Cazalot for convincing Meenta to apply. Applied the night of the deadline. With a bottle of bourbon by his side! Clem instilled the “give first” ethos. Techstars is like a micro MBA. Stellar mentors. Great story of how Gabor connected with Stephan Smith. Intend to grow user base by encompassing greater and greater portions of the lab workflow. CROs have “high-touch” onboarding. Meenta circumvents all that. Comparison to what’s happened in advertising technology; brands wanted to outsource the optimization of their campaigns to a human, now they demand a self-serve online platform. Maybe the same will happen with Meenta. Advice from Gabor’s experience: don’t ever try to build your company alone, it’s a fatal mistake. Angels have to like you as a person; you shouldn’t work so hard that you become unlikable. Gabor’s decision to become an entrepreneur was inspired by the sacrifice of his immigrant parents. He emigrated here from Hungary at eight years of age and saw how much his parents gave up to make a new life in America. Jay Batson was always “kicking” (Jay kicks while advising

In this episode, we have Dr. Stephan Smith. Dr. Smith practiced in California for over 30 years running a very successful multiple-associate practice there. He then went on to join Gibson management, with Chuck Gibson, where he subsequently coached and mentored hundreds of chiropractors over his distinguished career. He also has a unique story as he has had chronic back problems his whole life, including multiple back surgeries. He shares some special insights into practice, practice growth, and associates. He also shared his experience selling his practice and what life is like being retired. One of the most insightful episodes I have done to date...I learned a ton! Check out Dr Smith here!

This episode is brought to you by KingswaySoft. As your Dynamics 365 environment grows, performance can be a challenge. Stephen Smith has worked on multiple very large Dynamics deployments, and in this episode, he talks about concurrent user and process issues that can arise in very large deployments and how to avoid them. Topics discussed in this episode: Social media strategy LinkedIn posts vs articles Should consultants code? Dynamics 365 performance Performance challenges for large vs. small environments The common ancestor concurrency issue Speed of development vs. scalability The time Stephan brought D365 Online async service down This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the  CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this interview I sit down with entrepreneur, designer, angel investor, and president of Fresh Games. Fresh games is a Columbus based publisher and developer of mobile games.    Resources mentioned in this interview   How To Win Friends and Influence People   The Law Of Success Book   The School Of Greatness Book and Podcast   The Tim Ferriss Podcast   Rich Roll Podcast   Questions I ask in this episode:   How Do You Define Success?   Greatest piece of advice you've ever been given?   What are some words of wisdom for new entrepreneurs?   What two books have dramatically influenced you?   You can also follow Entreneato on Twitter and Instagram, thanks for listening!   Instagram: Entreneato Twitter: @Entreneato