Outsell for Startups

I had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Thiede, co-founder and CEO of Zapnito. Before this interview, I’d been lucky enough to have some great lunches, dinners, and coffees with Charles and have always walked away with a pocketful of good advice and insight. We were finally able to get him on the show, and I’m really happy with the result. Zapnito is a SaaS community platform built to showcase expertise. Today, companies are using it to create branded expert networks that promote thought leadership, increase revenue, and build engagement and trust with their audiences. Charles and I dive into several different rabbit holes, including his journey to founding Zapnito and ultimately making the leap to full-time, the benefits of bootstrapping, being mindful of burnout as an executive, and the power of community and how Zapnito is playing in the space. I had a great time speaking with Charles, and I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.

On February 7th at our annual Outsell DataMoney conference in New York, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jason Cohen, Founder & CEO at Analytical Flavor Systems, Lluis Faus, Co-founder & CEO at vLex, and Vipul Nakum, Chief Product Office at OAG. The topic of discussion: How these three companies have successfully used AI, the tips and tricks for thinking about AI integrations, and criteria for companies to consider in regards to building or buying their own AI tools, and more. I greatly enjoyed my time with these three and wish we had more than 30 minutes to dive into details. None the less, there are some great nuggets of information in this podcast. Enjoy!

My first post of 2019! I'm really excited to kick off another year of interviewing founders, analysts, chief product officers, so on and so forth, with the goal of having you take something away from each one of these pieces and conversations. Today, I'm excited to share the conversation I had with Michael Dziekan, VP & Practice Leader here at Outsell, about the Outsell DataMoney Conference for 2019. Michael is a seasoned technology and data market analyst and a global strategy business advisor who specializes in commercializing the evolving data economy, big data and analytics, IoT, cloud services, and artificial intelligence / cognitive computing in commercial markets. He has extensive large enterprise and tech experience, including at the IBM Software Group and IBM Watson & IoT-Platform (including The Weather Company). Michael has helped shape and inform future strategies, establish functional and industry insight, architect value chain ecosystem advances, and develop differentiated client value. I asked Michael to share what we can expect this year from the DataMoney conference. Why should folks be excited about this third annual event? What will attendees take away? This conversation turned out to be far more than a simple infomercial for an event. Rather, it turned into a summary of everything Michael is seeing in the data, information, and analytics economy and why this event was positioned a specific way as a result. I had a great time diving into this with Michael and I hope that you will join both of us in New York on February 7th!

Courtney Morris is a co-founder of ARTiFACTS, the first researcher-specific platform built on blockchain technology. He is a seasoned executive with deep product development, marketing, and strategy experience in SaaS and information businesses in education, STM publishing, and healthcare. Courtney is a recovering ski bum and an instrument-rated pilot. ARTiFACTS is expanding the world's research knowledge by making it easy, safe and beneficial for researchers to share all their work, thereby building their reputations in real time and accelerating the velocity of research. Through its user-friendly collaboration and attribution platform, purpose-built for academic and scientific research, researchers can establish immutable provenance for their work, securely share and manage IP rights, and receive and provide attribution for any research output at any time. By linking all research outputs and enabling attribution throughout the research process, ARTiFACTS provides an unprecedented view into the science being conducted today together with the fact base supporting its claims.