Sup-X Radio

Our guest this episode is Emery Ellinger, founder and CEO of Aberdeen Advisors, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and one of the leading M&A firms in the Southeast. Emery talks about properly preparing for a business sale and the pitfalls he too often sees sellers make.

We talk with marketing expert and entrepreneur Rachel Braun Scherl about her new book: Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women’s Sexual Health and Wellness. The book draws on Scherl’s numerous experiences taking women’s sexual health and wellness products to market and further draws on interviews with other female entrepreneurs in this space as well. Always lively, Scherl’s combination of wit, directness and skill make for a fun and interesting episode.

Three years ago, Kevin Horek thought he might start a podcast, but he had a deep fear of public speaking. He now reaches over 8 million people a month via his podcast, radio and TV shows. Kevin talks about taking the leap and how he feels that anyone can do what he has. He’s as interesting as he is humble.

Angel Capital Association Board Member and Mindshift Capital general partner, Marcia Dawood, joins us to talk about raising capital, better angel investing, and the need for increased gender lens investments and what she’s doing about that in this episode of SUP-X Radio. Marcia is passionate about venture investing and investing in female entrepreneurs and she has lots to share on both subjects. Marcia will also chair the SUP-X #women4women forum, the largest gathering of angel groups, seed series funds and VC funds in the US in 2018 at SUP-X: The StartUp Expo on July 26th.

Chad Folkening is a very interesting guy. The entrepreneur bug hit Chad at age 14 in Indiana and eventually its tug pulled him out of college to pursue various real estate and other ventures. Attuned to technological and market change, Chad saw parallels to real estate but unlimited opportunities in the internet and jumped into domain brokerage in its early days, ultimately building one of the world’s largest portfolios, which he eventually merged into what is now Bidtellect. Along the way he has built numerous other digital businesses while also owning several historic buildings, an HGTV featured 26,000 square foot “extreme home” and a growing art collection, yet he’s otherwise a really normal, humble, midwestern guy…except that he conceptualizes digital businesses usually way in advance of others and he has the guts to pursue them, extremely successfully. Chad is currently very focused on Contrib.com, VNOC.com, Entrepreneurs.org, cryptocurrency, the blockchain and crowdsourcing and we learn more about all of those in this episode of SUP-X Radio.

Aaron Itzkowitz, Founder and CEO, and Scott Crumpler, Head of Marketing and Business Intelligence Strategist, pitch Jinglz to us in our inaugural episode of “The Pitch on SUP-X Radio”. Jinglz is a mobile ad tech solutions company that has developed technology using the sensors in mobile devices to verify when a user is actually looking at the ads they’re shown on screen. No other digital ad network offers this guarantee. Their mobile ad platform utilizes this “Verified Views” technology and will be launching by the end of Q1 2018 with their own PlayJinglz mobile app as the first to be available for distribution. Jinglz is currently raising funds via Title III Regulation Crowdfunding Campaign on StartEngine.com. You can learn more about their raise at https://www.startengine.com/jinglz.

Serial entrepreneur Kevin Hutchinson joins us in this episode and talks with us about his latest venture, MyTaskIt, a work coordination app and platform. Kevin shares lessons from his prior career in the digital health space and we also pick his brain about a variety of subjects. Interestingly, the conversation somewhat unintentionally focused a lot on some key HR concepts that are critical for a startup to succeed: Smart hiring practices, hiring for cultural fit, successfully managing a distributed workforce, smart compensation and successful team building.

In this episode we talk with author, marketer, entrepreneur, educator, community advocate and leader, Felecia Hatcher, about her two most recent endeavors, Code Fever and Blacktech Week. Felecia Hatcher is on a mission to rid our communities of innovation deserts by working with community leaders and government officials to create inclusive and diverse startup ecosystems and Code Fever and Black Tech Week are the two main vehicles through which she is accomplishing that.

Elements of a Good Pitch Deck: Uri Yudewitz, Founder and CEO of DeckSmarter, joins us in a lively discussion about the elements of a good pitch deck and avoiding some common mistakes with investor communications.

In this episode we talk with Global Director of Babson’s WIN Lab, Heatherjean MacNeil, about Babson’s acclaimed women founder-focused accelerator, WIN Lab. We also talk about how startups should assess accelerators in general and Heatherjean busts some myths about women founders.