MO - Business Interviews with Entrepreneurs, CEO's, Founders, Funding Sources, and Policy Makers

Oct19

“Most businesses are not equipped to handle failure. They are not prepared to address the impact of failure on the organization prior to launching these innovations, and are, therefore, ill-prepared when it does happen – impacting everyone involved.”

Matt Hunt

Stanford & Griggs, LLC.

CEO and Founder

http://www.MattHunt.co

Matt Hunt is a professional speaker, blogger, consultant and founder of Stanford and Griggs, LLC. With over 20 years of business and technology experience he has a demonstrated excellence in business strategy, innovation, and leadership development with large companies, small companies and non-profit organizations.

Matt has worked for Morgan Stanley and Best Buy throughout most of his career. During his time in corporate America, he saw that failure has recently become a favorite buzzword in the popular press and business journals. However, it is still a tainted word in most American businesses that are driven by continued career growth, quarterly profitability and shareholder returns. Executives rarely get promoted based on their long list of failures and employees who risk becoming intrapreneurs are often discouraged from telling their stories and frequently end up leaving the organization where that wisdom becomes lost forever. This missed opportunity to learn from our failures became the spark Matt needed to fuel his drive to move innovation forward. Now, Matt Hunt is ready to share this wisdom and innovation strategies with your organization to fuel innovation and catalog failure as a learning tool to drive organizational enhancement.

Oct18

“Starting a business is the most fun, challenging, frustrating, maddening, exciting, and rewarding experience I’ve had in my 20+ year professional career.”

Kelly Kerns

ABPathfinder, LLC

COO/Chief Architect (co-founder)

http://www.ABPathfinder.com

Kelly Kerns is co-founder, COO and Chief Architect of ABPathfinder. Kelly’s unique combination of technical skills and understanding of healthcare provided him the vision to create ABPathfinder’s solution. Kelly also serves as CIO of GreenTree Technology Partners providing software and technical consulting to the biosciences industry.

ABPathfinder helps kids with Autism gain skills faster by making their therapists more efficient and effective. Therapists use ABPathfinder as a comprehensive technology solution for streamlining intervention planning and data management to improve individualized patient outcomes, increasing control and consistency over therapy delivery, reducing staff training time and allowing therapists to focus on their practice. In the end, more kids will get the help they need to participate in society.

MO: How has your background and experience influenced the development of ABPathfinder?

Oct18

“Growing up, my deepest passion was to build my own game company. With the rise of mobile devices, my passion is now possible to pursue.”

Chris Luck

Appiteks

Founder and CEO

http://www.Appiteks.com

Chris Luck is the CEO and Founder of Appiteks, a company that produces iPhone apps. Appiteks launched its first game in October 2012, Boomie vs. Pirates. Chris has had a passion for games since he was a little kid and is excited to have the ability to continue the dream of building games and placing them into the hands of millions of people all over the world.

Oct18

“Giving back to those most in need is where my heart lies.”

Dee Dee Ricks

The Ricks Consulting Group

Founder

http://www.RicksCG.com

The Ricks Consulting Group serves and advises hedge funds, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on talent acquisition that helps maximize portfolio optimization.

Dee Dee Ricks has focused exclusively on identifying new business opportunities and recruiting senior level talent to build strategies within the hedge fund industry, conducting searches for various positions across a variety of investment strategies.

MO: What inspired you to launch The Ricks Consulting Group instead of working for an established firm? What separates you from the competition?

Oct18

“I realized that there were no public relations agencies focusing on the mom market. And so, Child’s Play was born. We reach moms wherever they are and whatever they are doing.”

Stephanie Azzarone

Child's Play Communications

Founder & President

http://www.ChildsPlayPR.com

Stephanie Azzarone is founder and president of Child’s Play Communications, the first agency to specialize exclusively in connecting companies with the influential mom market.

Stephanie is the recipient of the Bulldog Reporter 2010 Social Media Innovator of the Year Gold Award as well as the Silver Anvil, the most prestigious award in the public relations business. She is a highly sought after speaker and has delivered presentations on marketing to moms at major conferences across the nation, including BlogHer, Kid Power, SheCon, PR University, Digital Kids Conference, the IIR Youth Marketing Mega Event, BlogHer Business, PlayCon, Marketing To Moms and Marketing to Digital Moms.

Child’s Play Communications is the leading agency specializing exclusively in public relations, social media and word of mouth communications for products and services targeted to moms. With more than 20 years of expertise in this market, Child’s Play offers exciting services to help clients reach moms effectively, through traditional media, online and – increasingly – in person.

MO: What inspired you to create an agency that focuses on products and services targeted to moms?

Oct18

Dealer Agreements 101: The seller’s and the retailer’s perspectives

Paul Schroeder

Hirsch, Closson, McMillan & Schroeder

Shareholder

http://www.HCMSLegal.com

Written by MO.com Subject Matter Resource Paul Schroeder

What terms should I put in my dealer agreement with retailers? As a retailer, how can I avoid getting sued by my vendor?

If you sell goods to retailers which are then sold to the retailers’ customers, you need a good dealer agreement. The dealer agreement is a contract that defines your relationship with your customers. It sets forth what you will do for them, what they will do for you, how to terminate the relationship and the potential consequences of breaching the contract. An ideal dealer agreement makes your product the featured one in the retailer’s location, requires prompt payment and can be enforced in the courts of your home county.

Oct17

“If a $50 billion company keeps a dossier on your company and staff, you know you must have them worried about the potential impact of your technology.”

A.J. Loiacono

Truveris

Co-Founder

http://www.Truveris.com

A.J. Loiacono serves as the EVP of Sales and Marketing. Prior to co-founding Truveris, A.J. was an SVP and Partner with SMS, a software development firm specializing in software-as-a-service (SaaS). He also served as the President of Victrix LLC, an information technology company providing support and implementation services for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Truveris is a health information technology company delivering pharmacy data validation, analytics and pricing solutions to clients such as consulting firms, unions, self-insured corporations, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health plans. Through a SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform, Truveris adjudicates prescription claims and provides clients with valuable insights on drug spend.

MO: How did you come up with the idea for Truveris? Was it a concept you considered developing for a long time or did you have a moment of realization?

Oct16

” The most common issues small businesses face are the failure to protect themselves legally through proper documentation.”

Senen Garcia, Esq.

SG Law Group

Founder

http://www.SGarciaLaw.com

Senen Garcia, Esq. is an experienced attorney based in Miami, Florida. SG Law Group, where Mr. Garcia is a Senior Partner, represents clients in corporate; real estate; estate planning; and property claims matters.

He has been involved in the legal community by his membership in the Cuban American Bar Association and Treasurer of the Miami Alumni Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, Law Fraternity. He is also a past member of the American Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute.

MO: What initially attracted you to the field of law?

Oct16

“We make products that encourage bringing people together and sharing their time together over a wonderfully cooked, home meal.”

Scott Miller

PaperChef

Managing Partner

http://www.PaperChef.com

PaperChef is a Toronto-based company founded in 2010 as a subsidiary of Culinary Papers and McNairn Packaging, a family business that has been making paper products for the food industry since 1882. The company is committed to bringing “The Art of Cooking with Parchment” to North America and the globe. The PaperChef line of products includes parchment rolls, parchment cooking bags and parchment baking cups.

MO: Can you talk about some of your products and the advantages of using culinary parchment?

Oct16

“If I’m going to do something, I’m going to give it 100% no matter if it’s on the practice range, golf course or running a non-profit organization. I will never give up and will always strive for perfection.”

Jenny Gleason

The Angela Stanford Foundation

Executive Director

http://www.AngelaStanfordFoundation.org

Jenny Gleason always remembers being outside as a kid and getting into every sport possible. It wasn’t until Jenny was 15 years old that she picked up a golf club for the first time. After her and a close friend decided to start the golf team at Clearwater High School, Jenny knew she found her passion. Jenny continued to play throughout her college years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and credits her parents and coaches as the individuals most influencing to her career. Jenny turned pro after college in 2003 and is now a member of the LPGA and three-time winner on the Symetra Tour. When she’s not golfing, Jenny enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, being outdoors and playing all sports.

The Angela Stanford Foundation supports Texas children and young adults by providing college scholarships for students whose families have been affected by cancer and through partnerships with Lena Pope Home Inc. and First Tee of Fort Worth.

MO: What influenced your fateful decision to pick up a golf club? Did you feel an instant connection to the sport or did it initially just start out as a fun hobby?

Oct15

“When I landed Disney as my first client, I knew my business model was viable.”

Beverly Nation

Hollywood Branding LLC

President

http://www.HollywoodBranding.com/

In September 2001, Hollywood Branding became the first company to create a national movie theater platform for brands. This platform simplified the planning of movie theater promotions on a regional, state-wide, or national scale. Their proprietary database of every movie theater in the U.S. contains over 7,000 individual movie theaters and over 400 movie theater circuits.

Gus: Can you expand on how Hollywood Branding created a new business model that streamlined the process of planning and executing regional and national movie theater promotions for brands?

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“Most businesses are not equipped to handle failure. They are not prepared to address the impact of failure on the organization prior to launching these innovations, and are, therefore, ill-prepared when it does happen – impacting everyone involved.”

“Growing up, my deepest passion was to build my own game company. With the rise of mobile devices, my passion is now possible to pursue.”

“Giving back to those most in need is where my heart lies.”

Dealer Agreements 101: The seller’s and the retailer’s perspectives

“If a $50 billion company keeps a dossier on your company and staff, you know you must have them worried about the potential impact of your technology.”

” The most common issues small businesses face are the failure to protect themselves legally through proper documentation.”

“We make products that encourage bringing people together and sharing their time together over a wonderfully cooked, home meal.”

“If I’m going to do something, I’m going to give it 100% no matter if it’s on the practice range, golf course or running a non-profit organization. I will never give up and will always strive for perfection.”

“When I landed Disney as my first client, I knew my business model was viable.”

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