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Ahmed Rahim, Numi Tea |Confessions of an Entrepreneur
How do you turn a cup of tea into a multimillion dollar business? Host Sydnie Kohara sits down with Numi Tea Founder and CEO, ...
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Malcolm Lotzof: Trade Shows of the Future
Malcolm Lotzof is the CEO of InXpo, a virtual event provider that is drastically expanding the reach of physical events with their 3D interactive ...
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Steven Weinberg: Protecting Intellectual Property
Steven Weinberg is consistently recognized as one of the top lawyers in America with over 25 years of experience working with some high profile ...
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Dan Ripoll: A Scientific Approach to Investing
Dan Ripoll is a Hedge Fund Manager and Co-Founder of Aeon Capital, an alternative investment management firm that has developed a unique investment strategy ...
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Brian Ring: Business Leaders of Tomorrow
Brian Ring is the program director of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards for Greater Los Angeles, a prestigious program that ...
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Mallika Chopra: The Power of Positive Intent
Mallika Chopra, daughter of Deepak Chopra, is an accomplished author and Founder of Intent.com, an interactive social media wellness network that is bringing like-minded ...
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Stephen Chao: From TV Exec to Entrepreneur
Stephen Chao is the Co-founder and CEO of WonderHowTo.com, where he is taking his experience as a TV Executive and passion for turning over ...
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Matt Miller: Building a Winning Team
Matt Miller is the CTO of Cybercoders, one of the premiere recruiting and job search firms in the U.S. with clients as diverse as ...
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Ryan Scott: Driving Social Change
Ryan Scott is the Founder and CEO of Causecast.org, a social media network that educates and entertains by using original content to inspire people ...
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John Payne: Eliminating Email Chains
John Payne is the Founder and CEO of CircleUp.com, an online communication tool that is streamlining the process of communicating with large groups of ...
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Ophir Tanz: The Future of Content Licensing
Ophir Tanz is the CEO of GumGum.com, a content licensing platform that has devised a new system for the monetization of online content. Having ...
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Kacy Andrews: Building an Industry
Kacy Andrews is the CEO of Bigfoot Entertainment, an entertainment business and a training facility all-in-one. Kacy talks about the excitement and challenges that ...
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Eric Steuer: A License to Share
Eric Steuer is the Creative Director of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that is guiding the creative world toward a more free and balanced ...
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Bruno Uzzan: Augmented Reality Brand Interaction
Bruno Uzzan is the CEO of Total Immersion, an augmented reality software company mixing the real world with some powerful technical wizardry. Bruno shows ...
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Daniel Nackovski: Expanding Global Sales
Daniel Nackovski is the President of Across Systems, a translation software platform with more than 20% of the translation tools market in Europe. Daniel ...
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Mike Schwartz: Keeping Wireless Costs Down
Mike Schwartz is the CEO of WirelessWatchdogs.com, a company helping businesses keep their wireless costs under control. If you are looking for places to ...
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Gregg Wind, CPA: Building Your Business
Gregg Wind, CPA is a partner at Wind Bremer Hockenberg, LLP, and is a noted expert in financial planning and business management. With more ...
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Siobhan Hanna: Targeting International Markets
Siobhan Hanna is representing Localization World, a conference focused on helping companies cross language and cultural barriers when doing business internationally. As domestic markets ...
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Vineet Jain: Eliminating the Costly File Server
Vineet Jain is the CEO of Egnyte, a company helping small businesses ditch the costly file server and the IT management that goes along ...
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Steven Fruchter: Broadcasting Live Video
Steven Fruchter is the CEO of Stickam.com, one of the first and largest websites dedicated to live interactive video streaming. As the world consumes ...
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Restaurateur Lonnie Moore: Luring Celebrity Clientele
Ever wanted to bootstrap a business? In just a few short years, Lonnie Moore and partner Mike Malin have taken The Dolce Group from one small club in Hollywood to dozens of restaurants in nearly as many cities, including Atlanta, D.C., Dallas and Reno. Here, Moore talks about finding investment, customer service and replicating success.
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Suicide Girls: How to Build a Lifestyle Brand
Started in a loft in Portland, Oregon in 2001 with a group of alternative pinup girls, Suicide Girls has grown into a 21st Century lifestyle brand. Founder Missy Suicide has spun success into branded TV shows, movies, magazines, books...even a burlesque show. Now, Suicide Girls.com gets one million unique users every month and its blog is one of the most popular on MySpace. Here, Missy shares the secrets to finding her niche, building the brand, and redefining concepts of beauty across the globe.
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"Never Eat Alone" Author Kieth Ferrazzi: BusinessRelationships
Keith Ferrazzi has been called "one of the world's most connected individuals" by Forbes and Inc. magazines. His book "Never Eat Alone" was a New York Times Bestseller. His company, Ferrazzi Greenlight, teaches relationship building to executives at some of the world's biggest corporations. In this interview, Ferrazzi talks about being invested in other people's success, finding the key people who can help you succeed and understanding your own value.
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Drudge Report’s Andrew Breitbart: Finding a Niche in News
For over a decade, Andrew Breitbart has been changing the face of news and information. For most of that time, he has been Matt Drudge's right hand man, helping post stories daily on Drudge Report, one of the most widely read websites in the world. He's also helped launch The Huffington Post and, more recently, his own Breitbart.com. Here, Breitbart holds forth on the state of news, the place for independent voices in a world of corporate media and the ever-shifting nature of opportunity online.
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Kate Somerville: Managing Growth in the Beauty Business
We should all have Kate Somerville's problems. She opened the doors to her Kate Somerville Skin Health Experts clinic in 2004 and quickly gained a celebrity following that includes Jessica Alba, Annette Bening and Kirsten Dunst. In 2006, she launched her own line of products. Now, she's garnered millions in funding and is receiving offers from big retailers. Here, Sommerville talks about growing her business, time management and fending off the paparazzi.
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Roger Fishman: Reaching Consumers in the Digital World
How do you help the corporation you work for foster new ideas? Quit. Roger Fishman worked some very big jobs at some very big companies before founding The Zizo Group. Now, he helps huge corporations such as Procter & Gamble be more agile and adaptive to consumers' needs in a digital world. Here, Fishman talks about striking out on his own, what he learned from Rupert Murdoch and helping big brands find their way in a world of niches.
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Ahmed Rahim, Numi Tea |Confessions of an Entrepreneur
How do you turn a cup of tea into a multimillion dollar business? Host Sydnie Kohara sits down with Numi Tea Founder and CEO, Ahmed Rahim, as he shares the challenges of stepping into and growing within an already oversaturated tea industry. Rahim also confides how he has learned to be a better leader by listening to and trusting his staff.
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Talent Agent David Unger: Creative Management
Though it's possible you've never whispered David Unger's name in a movie theater, he is responsible for many of the names you've seen on the silver screen. As a Talent Agent at International Creative Management, one of the world's largest literary and talent agencies, Unger takes credit for furthering the careers of the likes of Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke and Vinnie Jones, among others. Though many of Unger's 20 or so talents are known throughout Hollywood as 'bad boys,' Unger defends the rebel label, defining what makes his artists attractive to the public, and how to keep his clients happy.
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Ben Goldhirsh: Good Magazine, Great Business
Can you do good without being boring? Ben Goldhirsh is out to prove you can. He's founded Good magazine and Reason Pictures to celebrate "doing things for the right reasons." That means not only putting out a first-rate publication, but also helping corporate America think differently by creating "good" marketing partnerships with the likes of Polo and Microsoft. In this interview, Goldhirsh shares lessons learned from the company's first year of operation as well as tips for doing "good" business.
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Michael Levine: Gift Wrapping Your Business
Michael Levine has been called "the Michael Jordan of entertainment P.R." And it's not just because he's tall. Over the years, his Levine Communications Office client list has included Nike, Sharp, Pizza Hut and Michael Jackson. Here, Levine outlines the four rules for success when dealing with a crisis, the importance of being honest when creating a message and the difference between presentation and manipulation.
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King.com’s Robert Norton: Getting in the Game
It's not Nintendo and it's not gambling, but every month 80 million games are played in nine languages on King.com. Billed as "the world's largest skill games site," King.com has capitalized on the public's appetite for fun, charging many of its 10 million registered users small fees for competition and customization. Here, King.com vice president of business development Robert Norton talks about creating partnerships with TV brands such as American Idol, launching sister site MyGame.com, and moving toward an advertising model.
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Mallika Chopra: The Power of Positive Intent
Mallika Chopra, daughter of Deepak Chopra, is an accomplished author and Founder of Intent.com, an interactive social media wellness network that is bringing like-minded people together to share content, resources and connections to better their lives. A gifted entrepreneur, Mallika speaks of these difficult economic times as an opportunity for everyone to find or clarify their purpose in life.
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Gibby Miller: Inventing the Social Network
Gibby Miller is the founder of MakeOutClub.com, a site credited with being the web's first social network-- it is an online gathering place for fans of indie and punk music. With over 200 new users signing up every day, Miller discusses how to keep a niche community, as well as the importance of grassroots advertising.
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Jeff Tinsley: Online Reconnecting
Jeff Tinsley is the founder and CEO of Reunion.com, a website that allows its users to reconnect with people from their past. Tinsley talks about the many advantages his site has over other networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and how he is able to generate such enormous traffic.
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Shelby Meade: Multi-Platform Promotions
Shelby Meade is the owner of Fresh and Clean Media, a talent management company that represents multiple verticals. Meade talks about why career diversification is important and how her talent pools compare to each other.
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Matt Miller: Building a Winning Team
Matt Miller is the CTO of Cybercoders, one of the premiere recruiting and job search firms in the U.S. with clients as diverse as Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Nokia, and American Express. With hiring a quality workforce a priority for every entrepreneur, Matt gives us some insight into the rapid growth of his company and how they can help build a winning team.
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Jennifer Gunn: How I Got My Product on Oprah
Some of the best businesses come from simple solutions to everyday problems. That's what drove Jennifer Gunn to create The Cupcake Courier, a handy baked goods travel case that's now sold in Bed, Bath & Beyond, Dillard's and Linens 'N Things. It's even been featured in Oprah's magazine. Along the way she channeled the power of the blogosphere and her network of friends to take the business to the next level. Here, Gunn shares the secrets of her success.
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Unboundary CEO Tod Martin: Branding a Company from Within
While most firms focus on branding themselves to the outside world, for 20 years Atlanta-based Unboundary has helped the likes of Fed Ex, IBM, and Coca-Cola become well understood internally as well as externally, winning awards in the process. Unboundary CEO Tod Martin explains how fostering communication can transform a company's view of itself and also its place in the world.
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Jody Moxham: Psychology in Marketing
Jody Moxham is Chairman of the Board and CEO of PhaseOne Communications, a company that performs analytics on corporate communication for marketing purposes. Moxham explains her unique methods, which focus on a psychological approach to how a person responds to different forms of communication.
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Kent Yu of T3 Micro: Launching a Luxury Product
Kent Yu has built his business helping women save time. His company, T3 Micro, has created a lighter, more powerful hair dryer that cuts 30 minutes in front of the mirror to just 10. As a result, T3 is able to charge $300 for its dryers and they're still a top seller at Sephora. Here Yu talks about closing big distribution deals, converting professional hairstylists to his product, and targeting foreign markets.
