BFE Thought Partner Group

Experienced Dr. Harish Pant is serial entrepreneur, a CEO of Maxilators, Trikaya Cosmos, and Dassel Group. He helps startups build their strategies, increase their addressable market opportunities, and accelerate revenue growth.
Today Dr.Harish talks about his amazing business and life story, a deconstructive and a constructive process he uses, and shares ideas he has on the future of blockchain. The key thing for him is asking simple questions and putting a white sheet of paper in front of his clients to cut out the noise. Harish explained what is the secret of successful startups and who is going to be successful in the future decades. Harish brings spirituality but also a tension into his work. His life’s goal is communication and connection with millions of people and transforming people’s lives.

Passionate Dror Tamir is a serial food and nutrition entrepreneur and the co-founder & CEO of Hargol FoodTech and Plate My Meal. He is revolutionizing food tech with a “biblical” protein; grasshoppers. Dror has won 21 international innovation competitions with his ideas, and he provides a new and unique perspective on farming, veganism, and the importance of insects in general. Dror’s farm feeds their grasshoppers with fresh grass that they do not treat with any pesticides or fertilizers, which they use to create products that are a great source of nutrients. Dror explains that the solution to the global protein challenge we are facing is in the amazing grasshoppers and how they could help sustainably feed the planet. This conversation changed our perspective on so many things, especially sustainability.

Diane Prince is a business coach, serial entrepreneur, and strategic sales leader. She has been successfully building businesses since the 1990s and she now helps founders, startups, and entrepreneurs build success in their own businesses. Diane shares her experience in building a multimillion dollar business in just six years, and the concepts she thinks are important in building a successful business. With seven exits under her belt, Diane has had many successes, but says her failures taught her valuable lessons. She shares her feelings towards bootstrapping and revenue, and why she believes in the old fashioned approach to building a business. Listen to hear why Diane thinks that entrepreneurship is deeply personal and a way of life.

Josh Chodniewicz is the founder and CEO of Fundify, Inc. He has decades of experience in venture capital, and he explains that money is moving into equity crowdfunding at a breakneck pace with the evolution of laws and technology. Josh shares some excellent advice about investing and startups. Josh’s love for his work is evident. He says that by developing technological solutions for capital raising and capital investing, everyday Americans can increase their net worth by investing in startups. We discover Josh's favorite F word and hear his thoughts about exits.

Welcome to BFE.
Where we actually talk about things that matter. The things that matter most to startups and VC. We are going to ask some tough questions, VCs and founders, we really want to get to the bottom of the real issues that surround things like money, financing, startups, all that fun stuff wrapped in one. So if you want to know how people get big F-ing exits, this is the place to be. Jessica will be here with every episode, talking to the leaders, the movers, the shakers, the hustlers, the grinders, the change-makers, and she's gonna find all the secrets that get to big f-ing exits. Feel free to put in your favorite F word in the middle.