WatchPitch Podcast: For Start-Ups & Investors

Trey Scott
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The WatchPitch Podcast for start-ups and investors is the inside track to best practices, insights and candid conversations from successful entrepreneurs and investors. We talk about what investors are looking for in a pitch, what entrepreneurs need to avoid and what they need to turn the volume up on when meeting with investors. The show is about empowering decision-making and creating huge efficiencies in deal flow by the way we communicate.

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  1. SEASON 5 OPENER, EPISODE 51 with Trinity Wiles & Blake Urmos - #NASHTECH

    EPISODE 51

    SEASON 5 OPENER, EPISODE 51 with Trinity Wiles & Blake Urmos - #NASHTECH

    I was in Nashville, Tennessee last week to open Season 5 of your WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel show with our Season focus on post-COVID strategies for Start-ups and Investors. Trinity Wiles from Where and Share - a retail, brick and mortar installed tech for enhancing the in-person and online, social media experience with retail and Blake Urmos from Low Voltage Nation - a network of training, mentoring and standards initiatives for hard-wired installation practices, who met with me at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center - #NashTech - where we talked about the thaw in COVID restrictions and that impact on start-ups, investors and their respective businesses. A great listen and launch to our new season to help you learn from and re-launch your business in yet another, "new normal !"

    25 min
  2. SEASON 5, EPISODE 52 with Dennis Diefenbach & The QA Company.mp3

    EPISODE 52

    SEASON 5, EPISODE 52 with Dennis Diefenbach & The QA Company.mp3

    So... welcome back to Season 5 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel program with a special focus on the “thaw from the impacts of COVID on entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors. For Episode 2 and 3, for Season 5, we are going to Europe, across the pond as they say, to visit with two Founders who competed and were finsihers at this Year’s Virtual, Knowledge Graph Conference. Their companies depend on knowledge graphs for their business solutions, just like when you say, “Hey Siri” what’s the weather in London like today, or “Alexa, play me some jazz,” knowledge graphs are being accessed to give you those results. AI or artificial intelligence is increasingly harder to avoid when building relevant business opportunities for the future. The winner of the Knowledge Graph Conference Pitch Competition, Dennis Diefenbach, Founder the QA Company joins us from Paris to share how his company is engaging the European Commission as his anchor client to connect its citizens and its complex work of meeting the needs of its members to solve global challenges. An inspired conversation you are sure to learn from...let’s get started!

    31 min
  3. SEASON 5, EPISODE 53 with Sabrina Viitasaari & Nusa Sentara

    EPISODE 53

    SEASON 5, EPISODE 53 with Sabrina Viitasaari & Nusa Sentara

    And...welcome back to Season 5 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel program with a special focus on the “thaw from the impacts of COVID on entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors. For our Episodes 2 and 3, for Season 5, we are in Europe, across the pond as they say, to visit with two Founders who competed and were finsihers at this Year’s Virtual, Knowledge Graph Conference. Their companies depend on knowledge graphs for their business solutions, just like when you say, “Hey Siri” what’s the weather in London like today, or “Alexa, play me some jazz,” knowledge graphs are being accessed to give you those results. AI or artificial intelligence is increasingly harder to avoid when building relevant business opportunities for the future. The runner-up at the Knowledge Graph Conference Pitch Competition, Sabrina Viitasaari, Co-Founder the Nusa Sentara, joins us from southern Portugal but based out of Lisbon to share how her company is using AI and knowledge graphs to help solve one of the biggest issues of our time - our waste... and moving solutions and connecting those solutions, globally, to local best practices. An important and future defining effort for our entire planet...this is an inspired conversation that takes us to Finland, British Columbia, Belize, Indonesia with lots to learn and discover together ...let’s get started!

    54 min
  4. Season 5, Episode # 54 with Angie Flynn-McIver and "Before You Say Anything"

    EPISODE 54

    Season 5, Episode # 54 with Angie Flynn-McIver and "Before You Say Anything"

    Welcome back to Season 5 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel program with our special season focus on the “thaw” from the impacts of COVID on entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors. And in this episode # 54 we are doing a deep dive with Pitching during this time when we might indeed, start to find ourselves back-in person with a group of people Angie Flynn -McIver is one of our pitch coaches and during COVID she decided to put the time to good use and write a book that cracks the code on everything you do...BEFORE you say anything. Gold nuggets in here that you can use right away and I am confident there is lots to learn for those of you embarking on presenting anything with conviction and ease in front of a group of people.   This conversation with Angie was so helpful ! Love how intention is at the core of our connecting with ease, and clarity no matter who the audience is. Angie’s Consulting Company, IGNITECSP.com is full of talent and coaches who can help you and your team members deliver successful presentations and pitches with ease. Her eBook, look for it beginning on Oct. 6th and visit the website for more information about the book release for, Before You Say Anything We are indeed, on a threshold, a re-start and new beginning, looking forward against a challenging past...but a future with new opportunities to embrace. Thanks for joining me, Trey Scott, and our guest, Angie Flynn McIver for  Season 5, Episode # 4 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel.

    44 min
  5. SEASON 5, EPISODE #55 with Jon O'Connor & Amy Cincione O'Connor: Cannabis and the Hospitality Industry

    EPISODE 55

    SEASON 5, EPISODE #55 with Jon O'Connor & Amy Cincione O'Connor: Cannabis and the Hospitality Industry

    And...welcome to our Season 5 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel program with our special focus on the “thaw” from the impacts of COVID on entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors. For this Episode, our 5th this season, we are going west, to the Northern California coast of redwood forests and the world famous, “Emerald Triangle,” of Humboldt County. Husband and wife team Jon O’Connor & Amy Cirincione O’Connor launched a boutique hotel in the thick of COVID. And their other businesses, also squarely in the hospitality industry, have embraced the legalization of cannabis with both style and thoughtful considerations. Few entrepreneurs have forged this convergence of hospitality and cannabis as well, and as consciously, as Jon & Amy along with their nearly 60-employees.  COVID and all of the many regulations in California was riddled with speed bumps for the hospitality industry. And for many states here in the US, Cannabis is still in a nascent stage of main stream acceptance and legalization.  This is a new growth sector for entrepreneurs and we learn first hand, as parents and as shared leadership in their journey that these two have crafted with a deep commitment to communication and style along with a dedication to consumer-focused growth and scaling. Lots to learn and discover together ...let’s get started! This conversation with Jon & Amy was so revelatory and helpful ! Super warm to be invited to their home, surrounded by redwoods and that, crackling living room fire. So as cannabis becomes increasingly normalized we will see this sector expand. Jon and Amy are proof-positive that this can be consciously done, with some grit and determination to work with regulatory groups and local rules, that are constantly adjusting to both...COVID, at the moment, and to the acceptance of cannabis as legal. I want to encourage you to visit their Indiegogo campaign page - listed as the:  Scotia Lodge Swim Club for a crowdfund campaign raise for a year-round, outdoor community pool project. Great video and sweet perks! We are indeed, on a threshold, a re-start and new beginning, looking forward against a challenging past...but a future with new opportunities to embrace. Thanks for joining me, Trey Scott, and our guests, Jon O’Connor & Amy Cirincione O’Connor for  Season 5, Episode # 5 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel.

    53 min
  6. SEASON 5, EPISODE #56 with Founder & Owner, Andrew Lachlan of the SAUNA HOUSE

    EPISODE 56

    SEASON 5, EPISODE #56 with Founder & Owner, Andrew Lachlan of the SAUNA HOUSE

    For this Episode, our 6th this season, we are going to the Sauna House. Now you might be pausing right now, thinking huh, a Sauna House? You mean where you sweat, it’s hot, you take a cold plunge and get back in, and sweat some more? Yep, The Sauna House. Founder and Owner Andrew Locklin, after many entrepreneurial businesses, including a helicopter rental operation - you’ll hear more about that in a moment - turned to the ancient and time-tested tradition and experience of the sauna…and is now enterprising that for a national launch in 2022. He started the business the year before COVID and as you can imagine, had to shut it down, during COVID, but also with a loyal team, figured out a way to re-open and is turning a profit with scaling plans and momentum that is taking him nationwide This is a new lifestyle and healing direction for Americans who are admittedly, a bit behind on what Europeans know full well, about the benefits of sauna. Andrew gets personal with his own discoveries as a business owner, his journey and some sage advice for navigating the passion that is at the origin story of every start-up entrepreneur and business owner.  This episode with Andrew covered so much turf and territory that many of us as entrepreneurs and business owners face. What’s particularly valuable here is a commitment to culture, from the inside-out. As a Founder and Owner, we have to inform our organization, our business operations and our passion around what we value most in order to be successful and rooted in the vision and mission of our passion to operate a business. For Andrew, people, planet and profit are at the center but I am also going to add one more element we discovered togethet in this podcast - a personal commitment to well-being. Without that, it’s clear that suffering is going to be part of the equation of our business experience. And most certainly, with a business focused on well-being, there is a daily reminder of that commitment. We are indeed, on a threshold, a re-start and new beginning, looking forward against a challenging past...but a future with new opportunities to embrace. Thanks for joining me, Trey Scott, and our guest, Andrew Locklin for  Season 5, Episode # 6 of the WatchPitch Podcast and You Tube Channel program.

    44 min
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The WatchPitch Podcast for start-ups and investors is the inside track to best practices, insights and candid conversations from successful entrepreneurs and investors. We talk about what investors are looking for in a pitch, what entrepreneurs need to avoid and what they need to turn the volume up on when meeting with investors. The show is about empowering decision-making and creating huge efficiencies in deal flow by the way we communicate.

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