Open School Of Business Anar Umurzakova

After growing up in Crimea, Dilyara Daminova became a successful entrepreneur in Uzbekistan while still in her early 20s. She got a green card to the U.S., and moved to the DMV area at 26.Dilyara was confident in herself but met big obstacles in the US. Her English was to be improved and she didn’t have a local degree yet, which she got later in 2010. Early on, she struggled to land the most basic of jobs.However, Dilyara found her way into real estate and it was her calling. She was recognized as a NOVA Real Producers Rising Star in early 2020, and her business has continued to grow.Dilyara closed 79 transactions for $33 million in 2020 and 102 transactions for over $47 million in 2021. She is a DMV star and also a girl next door to any immigrant and entrepreneur like myself. I admire her grit and personal qualities like humility, positivity, and readiness to help! We will talk about her team expansion in 2023 and hacks and tips to invest in real estate, doing an effective digital marketing and succeed in selling homes and services! 

Dan Roberge is a results-driven President and CEO of multi-million-dollar international corporation with a key focus on sales, marketing and product development.  His extensive experience in building a company from the ground-up including establishing budgets, marketing image and strategy, business culture, sales processes, support protocols and development of a product tailored to industry needs, makes him a great resource for startups. 

 

As a co-founder of Gnxcor Inc., Dan helped build a facility management software company from the ground-up.  Including conceptualizing the software offering and all its upgrades, creating a company brand, initializing sales and support procedures, hiring staff and creating roles & responsibilities for a productive growing enterprise.  Initially, Dan designed all the marketing efforts including web presence, maximizing SEO, communication automation, customer retention, social marketing and press releases.  He developed requirements for product upgrades and worked directly with development team to manage timelines and budgets.  He also helped build a finance department to create a reliable and accountable financial model for maintaining a profitable balance sheet, cash flow and effective A/R and A/P including the successful multi-year application for SR&ED credits.  Dan learned everything about the business world with hands-on experience including providing daily sales presentations to thousands of potential customers via web or in person with business owners and C-Level executives among others. 



We talked about: how to find your niche, how to outsmart your competition, scaling the company internationally, finding the stakeholders' pain points and addressing them in order to close sales, how to structure and finance the startup.

Dinara Zhumabek is a principal co-founder of a wellness startup, connecting world class personal trainers with people like you and I. She has come up with this idea after solving her own problem of finding a great personal trainer and not go broke, while doing it. She is a private equity professional with transaction and turnaround experiencing in MENA, Central Asia & Turkey and Sub-Sahara Africa. Her professional experience includes - management consulting in top global consulting firms like McKenzie. She studied in the US, Japan and France and has a well rounded view of the world. She shared her experience being a female professional in a heavily male dominated world of private equity and her advice on how to be successful. 

Kanat Bektemirov is a tech entrepreneur, who graduated from University of Arkansas with 4.0 GPA and started his career at Amazon and Google. He has done a couple of his own startups and now works as a CTO for a company, connecting suppliers with big retail, helping CPG brands increase revenue, improve margins, and overall be happier by seamlessly introducing teams to modern digital thinking.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How to get into competitive tech internships

2. How to use "failure" to build a better product

3. How he manages his team to achieve better results at Supplypike

0:40 Could you please share a little story about how you started and what kind of business do you have in your protfolio?

4:21 -4:31

What kind of job was it , when you left the house what was the first thing you did, did you go in New York and pursued your music?

6:54-7:18

How did you evolve to the second business and become eventually profitable, what was your story there ?

12:09 :12-27

What do you think has really chained together in your partnership for celebrity style catering , what else did you compliment in terms of skills to each other ?

15:51-16:07

Tell us more about that how you decide to start cooking , what does it give you today that idea of that you cook for your own company ?

26:14-26:26

As a black entrepreneur what kind of specific challenges you’ve met that was specific for the black community and that nobody else usually faces and how do you deal with them what is your advice for the black entrepreneurial community?

34:12- 34:17

As an entrepreneur are there any books you would recommend to our audience and that you personally love?

With 20 years corporate leadership and 10 years into lifestyle change and rural business. Howard is a highly adaptable executive leader and manager having held a wide range of management roles during my career, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Coach, Project & Programme Management, Strategy and Business Transformation.  Director and Managing Partner of a highly successful diversified rural business (Bowhayes Farm) including a specialist tree nursery (Bowhayes Trees).  Bowhayes Trees - is a well regarded UK grower of native and ornamental trees and hedging. With online, telephone and retail sales of trees and accessories across the UK and EU.  Additionally, within the 'Bowhayes Farm' business Howard have initiated a set of programmes to further the growth and evolution of a diversified rural business including, accommodation, cider production, orchard husbandry, rural business consultancy and performance coaching.

In this episode, you will learn: 

1. Purchasing process of a new business 

2. Managing staff in a farming environment 

3. Working as a team with a spouse 

4. Serving diverse clients and using government programs to grow your business