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    The AI revolution, and using AI to improve PRODUCTIVITY for content review and education

    The AI revolution, and using AI to improve PRODUCTIVITY for content review and education

    Is AI really taking over the world!? What work will the Humans do?
    In this podcast, Dave Erickson, and his honorable co-host Botond Seres; are going to get programmed on AI with Jimar Garcia, Practice Director at Genus Technologies.
    Jimar has worked in the intelligent automation space for over 20 years, helping companies improve profitability while maintaining compliance.
    Genus Technologies is a highly collaborative systems integrator, solution provider and software reseller that maximizes IBM, Kofax, Nuxeo and proprietary software offerings for intelligent document automation, content services and process transformation.
    Timeline Summary:00:03 - Podcast Intro.01:43 - AI, machine learning, and its applications.03:56 - How much of AI is really Machine Learning?09:57 - AI, programming, and the future of work.12:51 - The impact of AI on software development.16:12 - Data organization and AI.20:41 - The importance of data sets.26:05 - Data privacy, and legal questions related to AI29:30 - On premise vs. cloud data storage/access34:22 - Work productivity, and the future of work with AI.39:12 - Balancing remote work and office time for productivity and human connection.42:42 - AI's impact on education and business.51:33 - The role of education in how we will choose our careers53:49 - What is the future of AI?55:03 - Outro
    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here:
    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/
    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/
    GUEST: Jimar Garcia = https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimargarcia/
    Genus Technologies = https://www.genustechnologies.com/
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    • 56 min
    How building and maintaining larger personal networks can create $MILLION dollar businesses

    How building and maintaining larger personal networks can create $MILLION dollar businesses

    What is the key to building a $MILLION business? Building and maintaining larger personal networks, but how do you do that in today’s busy world?
    In this podcast, Dave Erickson and co-host Botond Seres are going to go on an adventure with Mike Brcic - CEO of Wayfinders.
    Mike founded and built Sacred Rides, the world’s #1 mountain bike adventure company, and in 2019 sold it. Since then, he started Wayfinders, and has spent most of his time developing incredible and impactful events, writing articles for his new blog series for entrepreneurs, and working on a new talk about the science of connection and belonging.
    Today we are going on an adventure with him to discover how to build and grow a personal business network that is beneficial to everyone. How to use technology to schedule and maintain connections and how connections with people really strengthen a business.
    Summary Timeline:00:03 - Building and maintaining valuable personal networks for business growth. 02:02 - Starting a business based on a passion for mountain biking. 05:06 - Entrepreneurship, connection, and personal growth. 10:06 - Creating unique adventure retreats for entrepreneurs.15:33 - Prioritizing relationships for personal and professional growth. 21:22 - Networking strategies for introverts and connecting with peers.25:42 - The benefits of giving and connecting with others. 30:19 - The value of asking for help and receiving it as a gift.35:22 - Building relationships and maintaining connections. 39:39 - Maintaining business connections using technology and personal touches. 43:32 - Building and maintaining connections.50:03 - Networking strategies and the future of relationships.55:13 - What is the future of networking?58:20 - Outro
    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here:
    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/
    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/
    GUEST: Mike Brcic = https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebrcic/
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    ADDITIONAL GUEST INFO:
    Mike Brcic BIO:One of my main goals in life (besides striving to be the best husband and dad I can be) is to use business to make positive change in the world. I do this through my company Wayfinders and through my courses, workshops and consulting for impact-driven entrepreneurs.
    Since selling my previous company, Sacred Rides, in Feb. 2019, I have been spending most of my time developing incredible and impactful events with Wayfinders, writing articles for my new [ALIGNED] blog series for entrepreneurs,  and working on a new talk about the science of connection and belonging. 
    I'm blessed to have worked with hundreds of amazing entrepreneurs working on amazing businesses, and continue to learn about social enterprise every day. 
    BRIEF CVRan the world’s #1 mountain bike adventure company Sacred Rides for 22 years (sold in Feb. 2019)Board chair (and co-founder) of Bikes Without BordersFounder and Chief Explorer at Wayfinders (since May 2017)Former Dean of Social Enterprise at the Centre for Social InnovationFormer Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Toronto Public LibrarySpeaker, Adventure Travel & Trade Association and AdventureEDU
    How to build and grow a personal business network that is beneficial to everyone? Use of technology to schedule and maintain connections? How can connections with people really strengthen a business?

    • 59 min
    What is A/B testing and how you can use it to grow your MARKETING and SALES conversions.

    What is A/B testing and how you can use it to grow your MARKETING and SALES conversions.

    Making the wrong decision can cost you $Thousands, but can A/B Testing make you $Millions?
    In this ScreamingBox podcast, hosts Botond Seres and Dave Erickson, are going to see if A is better than B by talking with Nils Koppelmann - founder of 3Tech
    A key to successful marketing and sales initiatives is to use an iterative approach and testing everything you do to find out what will get the best results. An A/B testing strategy is one of the best ways to find out what really works.
    Our guest Nils Koppelmann has a background in software engineering and design, and studied Computer Science in Berlin. He focuses on helping mission-driven companies grow online and enables them to make better decisions.
    In this Podcast, we are going to test the limits of A/B testing and find out if it can help your business grow!
    Summary Timeline:00:03 - A/B testing for business growth. 06:30 - A/B testing and its importance in verifying assumptions.12:54 - Segmenting website traffic for A/B testing.17:32 - A/B testing and segmentation in web development. 23:05 - A/B testing and user research for landing page optimization. 27:59 - CRO strategies and redesigning websites. 35:23 - A/B testing for business growth and customer needs. 39:37 - A/B testing for websites and emails. 46:10 - A/B testing and optimizing website performance. 53:26 - A/B testing and conversion rate optimization. 56:26 - The future of A/B testing.58:04 - Outro
    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here:
    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/
    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/
    GUEST: Nils Koppelmann = https://www.linkedin.com/in/nils-koppelmann/ 
    Please like this podcast, and subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to get our latest videos @ScreamingBoxCom
    Short bioFor the last 8+ years, Nils has been working with businesses of all sizes in helping them grow. In the beginnings, he focused primarily on web design and development and later transitioned into the data-driven growth approach that now builds the basis for his work with 3tech GmbH. While continuously working on personal and client projects, he also studied Computer Science in Berlin. He started his professional career as a freelancer before finishing high school and two years later, in 2017, founded 3tech. He focuses on helping mission-driven e-commerce companies grow and enables them to make better decisions. His work evolves around conversion optimization and experimentation.

    • 59 min
    Start-up funding options and making a compelling funding pitch.

    Start-up funding options and making a compelling funding pitch.

    Trying to get your business start-up funded? Is all you are hearing from investors is crickets? How can you get an Angel Investor to fund your start-up? What can you do to ensure that you can get the start-up capital you need to make your business come alive!

    In this podcast, Dave Erickson, co-host Botond Seres are going to find the money by talking with DC Palter - founder of PitchingAngels.com

    DC is an angel investor, startup mentor, and a published author and novelist. He has invested directly in about 37 companies over 10 years, and 100 other invested companies as part of two angel investor groups: Tech Coast Angels and Chemical Angel Network.  

    He started his career as an energy engineer; and energy sustainability remains his passion, even though most of his working career and 2 successful businesses he built were actually in the computer networking industry. 

    In this Podcast, we are going to discuss Angel Funding and how you can make a fundable business model and a winning funding presentation. 

    We will also discuss what are the different types of funding options, what investors are looking for when investing in a company, and what are the best investment terms for various investment deals.

    Summary Timeline:
    00:04 - Angel funding and creating a fundable business model.
    02:07 - Entrepreneurship, funding, and career path.
    05:17 - Government grants for sustainable energy startups. 
    10:30 - Startup pitches and business models.
    14:13 - Startup funding and investment strategies.
    19:22 - Venture capital, business growth, and investment strategies.
    24:50 - Angel investors and industry insiders in startup funding.
    27:79 - Investing in startups and evaluating business pitches.
    33:00 - Building and protecting businesses with intellectual property.
    36:15 - Patents, IP, and funding pitches.
    42:58 - Investing in startups with a focus on chemistry and materials. 
    48:15 - Startup investment terms and valuation.
    51:39 - Startup funding and investing in Silicon Valley.
    54:02 - The future of funding.
    59:37 - Authorship and New Book
    1:00:41 - Outro

    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here: 

    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/ 

    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/ 

    GUEST: DC Palter = https://www.linkedin.com/in/dc-palter/

    More Guest Info = https://pitchingangels.com/

    Please like this podcast, and subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to get our latest videos @ScreamingBoxCom

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Can AI transform markets & create real business growth across all global markets?

    Can AI transform markets & create real business growth across all global markets?

    Is Artificial Intelligence (or AI) going to take over the World! Are Humans becoming redundant? What will AI do to financial marketplaces? How will you be able to use AI to dominate global markets?
    For this podcast, Dave Erickson and Botond Seres are going to try to peer into the looking glass to our future with AI, by talking with Noah Healy - CEO of Coordisk.
    Early in Noah’s career, he used computational mathematics and software development capabilities to develop automations that boosted internal productivity, drove client efficiencies and improved regulatory compliance.
    Most recently he founded Coordisc and developed Coordinated Discovery Markets (also known as CDM), a technology product that has the potential to completely reorder the global financial system.
    CDM establishes a better exchange market for commodities by conducting all trades at market-clearing prices with radically improved price discovery, lower total cost of transactions and the elimination of hedging needs.
    Today, we are going to delve into AI and the future of marketplaces, and try to figure out if AI can help us make a better world… that will hopefully still include Humans in it.
    Chapter Index:00:03 - AI's impact on global marketplaces with industry expert Noah Healy.02:54 - What are Coordinated Discovery Markets (CDM)?06:44 - A new market mechanism to pre-negotiate prices.09:03 - What will it take to implement CDM's?10:12 - Difference between futures market and CDM?15:05 - Using AI to predict market prices.20:29 - Market manipulation and price discovery in a decentralized         marketplace.24:30 - How will markets self-correct?27:08 - AI's potential dangers and benefits.30:20 - AI's impact on communication and financial markets.40:09 - AI, signal, noise, and their impact on society.47:21 - AI decision-making and strategic situations.51:08 - The prisoner's dilemma and CDM AI54:52 - Outro
    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here:
    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/
    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/
    GUEST: Noah Healy = https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-healy/
    Noah has launched a podcast with Marty Weiner, former Reddit CTO and founding engineer at Pintrest. It is called "The 4th Age - The AI Revolution" on Spotify = https://open.spotify.com/show/6vrhhaa8vkb7Ddaw7ZsrNu
    To catch up with all our Podcasts, please go to = https://podcast.screamingbox.com/ 
    Additional Info - From Noah’s Bio:
    When I look at the common thread that runs through all of my professional experiences, it is clear that I love to combine mathematics with technology to produce game-changing solutions. My inspiration came from my formal education, work experience and the breakthrough innovations developed by Alan Turing (and Frege and Church before him). Turing imagined machines with amazing computational power and ultimately brought them to life. His innovations tipped the scales of WWII and set the stage for the information revolution – of which I am an active part.
    Early in my career, I used computational mathematics and software development capabilities to develop automations that boosted internal productivity, drove client efficiencies and improved regulatory compliance. Most recently I founded Coordisc and developed CDM, a technology product that has the potential to completely reorder the global financial system. CDM establishes a better exchange market for commodities by conducting all trades at market-clearing prices with radically improved price discovery, lower total cost of transactions and the elimination hedging needs. Only a fraction of current tradeflow can get this product off the ground and prove its power. From there, CDM can be scaled rapidly.
    It is not lost on me that I have an enormous responsibility to produce algorithmic technology products that drive results, but also protect ethics and morality. One does not need to look beyond recent financial crises or the

    • 55 min
    What is Geofencing, and how can you use Geofenced Advertising to explode your business growth?

    What is Geofencing, and how can you use Geofenced Advertising to explode your business growth?

    What Is Geofencing and Geofenced Advertising & Marketing, and how you can use it to explode your business growth!
    Did you know that Geofencing can actually help your business grow? In this podcast we are going to find out about one of the newest advertising and marketing technologies - Geofencing.
    Dave Erickson and Botond Seres are going to try to figure out what side of the geofence they are on, by talking with Jeff Swartz - CEO of Ethic Advertising.
    Jeff Swartz has almost two decades of experience in advertising and entrepreneurship. He is founder of Ethic Advertising Agency, an agency that specializes in hyper-targeted digital advertising and creative services.
    He is also the author of the e-book “9 Reasons Advertising Doesn't Work.”  Recently, Jeff and his team have released the first and only self-serve geofence advertising platform built for small businesses called Qujam.
    In this podcast, we dig deep into the nuts and bolts of Geofencing and Geofence advertising. In addition, we discuss Jeff's new Geofencing platform that helps SMB’s start and run Geofencing advertising campaigns on their own:.
    00:03 - Introduction.02:00 - What is Geofencing? 04:49 - How does Geofencing work? 09:20 - Example of Geofencing application12:19 - Targeting details of geofence advertising. 14:02 - Bidding system for ads. 19:45 - Turning off Geofencing.25:27 - How to use Geofencing in e-commerce. 29:21 - Using geofence to identify conversion fence users. 34:24 - What is Qujam and how does the platform work and who is it intended for?39:38 - Advertising on Qujam. 41:29 - Artificial Intelligence and Geofencing. 46:43 - Setting up a geo-fencing platform. 53:05 - The importance of Geofencing and geofence set-up. 54:26 - Ad creative and conversion.57:40 - The importance of having a search-based strategy. 59:13 - What is the future of Geofencing?1:00:20 - How do people access Qujam?1:01:49 - Outro
    If you have questions for our Podcast Hosts or Guest, you can reach them here:
    Dave Erickson = https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveerickson1/
    Botond Seres = https://www.linkedin.com/in/botondseres/
    GUEST: Jeff Swartz = https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreymswartz/
    Qujam = https://qujam.com
    To catch up with all our Podcasts, please go to = https://podcast.screamingbox.com/ 
    Additional Info:Jeff Swartz has almost two decades of experience in advertising and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and CEO of Ethic Advertising Agency which specializes in hyper-targeted  digital advertising and creative services. Jeff and Ethic Advertising have been recognized by the Telly Awards, Top 100 Magazine and the Hermes Creative Awards. He is also the author of the e-book “9 Reasons Advertising Doesn't Work.”  Recently, Jeff and his team have released the first and only self-serve geofence advertising platform built for small businesses called Qujam. 
    Geofence advertising uses GPS data (and Wi-fi data if available as a second data check) to identify devices that have been at a specific location during a specific period of time. We then serve OTT, CTV, banner/display, and/or video pre-roll advertisements to the device in the geofence and other devices connected to the originally captured device.
    In other words, Qujam will allow you to serve digital ads to people who were physically at a hyper-specific location like your competitor's store, a service area/neighborhood, your own store location(s), people within walking distance to you, your customer's place of work, and more.

    • 1 hr 2 min

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