Tim McFarland and Ed Nicholson from Elevate Performance join the podcast to discuss how they help bring out the best in leaders, and how good leaders can bring out the best of an organization. Elevate Performance is a consulting firm in Fayetteville, AR that assists leaders with personal coaching, peer advisory forums, and business advisory services. They help them with their greatest opportunities and biggest challenges.
A great quote from this episode: “Everything counts because everything communicates”
Find out more about Elevate Performance: https://www.elevateperformance.us/
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Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Famous local artist Kenneth Siemens joins us to talk about his incredible story. Learn how Kenneth went from working an 8-to-5 corporate job to starting his own design business, Kerplunk Creative.
Kerplunk Creative, LLC is a nimble agency specializing in bringing entertainment and excitement to product and retail. He now has art all over the state of Arkansas and works with some of the biggest companies helping to create the future!
Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast. Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as well as follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @startup_junkie
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Welcome to the Startup Junkie Social! This is a round table chat with a few of the Startup Junkies. We’ll discuss important events happening around the world and in our own community related to entrepreneurship, and any other interesting topics that may arise.
We have some exciting upcoming Startup Junkie events! Find the link to them below.
Learn more about the Natural State Angel Association event here
Learn more about the NWA Venture Mashup here
Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast. Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as well as follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @startup_junkie
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
chris@startupjunkieconsulting.com
haley@communityventurefoundation.org
If you like engineering, then you're going to love this one! This week we welcome Matt & Jim from Ozark IC. We discuss their work with semiconductors, and how the future is powered by engineering. Their company has received grants from NASA, so they know what they're talking about.
Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast. Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as well as follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @startup_junkie
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
The future of everything! Listen as Jeff & Michael discuss a wide range of entrepreneurial topics, including accelerators, posers vs. players, and Jeff’s “revolutionary” idea for beer currency.
Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast. Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as well as follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @startup_junkie
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
We were honored to welcome Cindi Marsiglio and Latriece Watkins to the show - representing the company that knows scale better than any other: Walmart. We visited during their Open Call event which Cindi emceed and was kicked off with speeches from Asa Hutchinson (Arkansas Gov.), Doug McMillion (CEO) and other Walmart leadership. The audience was 500 different US product manufacturers looking to get on-shelf of the world's largest retailer.
Cindi is the VP of US Manufacturing, and is overseeing the deployment of Walmart's commitment to allocate $250B in U.S. Manufacturing, and Latriece is the SVP of Merchandising Consumables and OTC - which means her team is helping educate and on-board these 500 potential new Walmart vendors. The future is still bright for US manufacturers!
Find out more about the open call event here:
http://news.walmart.com/events/walmarts-2017-open-call-event
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Gan Nunnally is an incredible businessman who runs George Nunnally Chevrolet in Bentonville, Arkansas. He won Dealer of the Year in Arkansas for 2017. Right now, he's up for TIME Dealer of the Year. He joins us to chat about running a successful family-owned business and treating customers right. He is also a part of the "Fireball Run" series on Amazon! You don't want to miss hearing out on how Gan "drives success" every day.
Check out his dealership's website: http://www.bentonvillechevrolet.com/
Fireball Run: http://www.fireballrun.com/
Hosts:
Jon Cadieux
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Nancy Gray, Ph.D., is the head of BioVentures, the technology licensing office and business incubator for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). You don’t want to miss out hearing Nancy tell us about her incredible career. She has worked all over the country in countless roles in the both the entrepreneurial and pharmaceutical fields. She is currently helping oversee the Health Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Conway!
Learn more about Bootcamp: http://www.arconductor.org/conductor-calendar/bootcamp
BioVentures: http://bioventures.uams.edu/
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
The Startup Junkie podcast comes to you from Conway, AR this week! Dr. Jeff Standridge drops by to tell us about the new Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. This amazing new camp teaches students the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and gives them the opportunity to formulate new health science ventures. Dr. Jeff Standridge is the team leader of The Conductor, a public-private partnership with UCA and Startup Junkie Consulting driving innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development in Central Arkansas. A great quote from this episode is: “Seemingly small actions consistently applied over time yield massive results”
Check out the Conductor: http://www.arconductor.org/ and follow them @AR_Conductor
For more information about the Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, visit www.arconductor.org/conductor-calendar/bootcamp/
Hosts:
Jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Casey Kinsey joins us from Lofty Labs, a value added tech consultancy that thrives at the intersection of Web Development and Data Analytics. Casey shares some of his entrepreneurial journey, including the tipping point was when he realized he'd never work for someone else again, accidentally growing Lofty Labs to something larger than himself, and advice for startups who need to hire outside tech help.
Find out more here: http://hirelofty.com/ and say hello @loftylabs
Hosts:
Jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Kirsten Blowers and Anna Morrison join us to share their experiences about starting and growing a business in Northwest Arkansas. Kirsten started Riffraff seven years ago, starting with only $100 and growing a business now worth over a million dollars. Kirsten was recently named to Forbes 30 under 30 for retail entrepreneurship and Riffraff has nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram. Anna Morrison started Campus Concierge four years ago and employs over 100 tutors in Fayetteville. She was recognized by Arkansas Business as a 20 in their 20s for 2015.
Both of these ladies are total rock stars and fun fact, Anna was one of Kirsten’s first employees at the original Riffraff store!
Get in touch! Follow Kirsten Blowers (@kirstenblowers). Help her get past the 30k mark! Also, go buy some clothes at shopriffraff.com
Check out what Campus Concierge is doing at @docollegebetter on Instagram. Find out more at docollegebetter.com
Hosts:
Jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
The NWA Venture MashUp is held around Northwest Arkansas to bring the entrepreneurial community together and celebrate a local success story. We had the opportunity to learn from Kenny Tomlin, who has been a technology leader, startup founder, investor and more over his career.
Most notably in our local startup scene, Kenny started Rockfish Digital which grew (without ever raising capital) to be acquired by WPP in 2011.
Kenny is now leading WPP ventures, and working with YouEarnedIt, an employee engagement platform, as well as SubVRsive, a Virtual Reality company.
Learn more about Kenny here:
https://rockfishdigital.com/kenny-tomlin/
Raj Suresh joins us to talk about growing his comedy career, his work in opening and booking the Grove Comedy Club in Bentonville, AR, and shares his entrepreneurial path that started while attending grade school in India.
Pardon any background noise in this episode. We were recording in Bike Rack Brewing Co. on the first night of pouring beer in their new location in the Bentonville 8th Street Market.
Find out more about Raj @rajdoescomedy and www.rajdoescomedy.com
Hosts:
jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com
This episode is going to be a little different than our normal format. By way of a connection at Walmart we were introduced to Andrew Berkowitz who runs the Global Startup Movement. He’s interviewed entrepreneurs, investors, and support organizations like Startup Junkie all over the globe – Seriously – Africa, Australia, Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and many more. In this episode, Andrew plays the host this episode, and Jeff and Michael share their take of the history and future of Arkansas’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. If you’d like to learn more, you can find Andrew at thegsm.co – enjoy!
Jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com
Michael@startupjunkieconsulting.com