Ankur Gopal is a technology entrepreneur based in Louisville Kentucky KY. He founded Interapt, an Innovation-as-a-Service company, and Interapt TechHire, an Opportunity-as-a-Service company that trains, apprentices, and employs underemployed and unemployed people. He is an Endeavor Entrepreneur, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year winner, and an avid tennis player.
“Get strong, valuable and quantifiable mentorship, if you have mentors make sure they’re the right mentors, if you have them, give them a job description, this is what I need, hey I would love for you to mentor me here’s what I need you to do for me and be very thoughtful about what you ask them to do and if they say okay put a timeline on it, here’s what I need you to do, I can do this in 2 months I can do this in 1 month, I can do this in 2 weeks”…[Listen for More]
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Dr. Greg Sommer, PhD is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Sandstone Diagnostics, a Sanfrancisco Bay Area diagnostic and digital health company developing sophisticated connected wellness products that allow consumers to measure, monitor, and improve key health markers at home. Sandstone's Trak® Male Fertility Testing System allows men to measure, track, and improve sperm count at home to boost a couple's chances of conception.
“You need to find your focus and that’s not an easy question to figure out so if you’re going to be an entrepreneur buy in from day one that you’re going to have to focus on something that’s extremely concentrated and narrow and try to do it very well”…[Listen for More]
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Exceptional growth starts at the top, so for the last 20 years Alice Heiman, has been helping sales leaders, business owners, and CEOs drive sales growth. She incorporates the newest research and best practices to help business owners and sales leaders bring about sustainable change that leads to growth.
“Take some time away from your business, some of that time should be to purely relax and do something completely different and enjoy and get 100% away from your business, and take some time away from your business to work on your business to examine what you do and how you do it and who you do it with and question all of that and wonder how can I do this better, both these things will help you be more creative and innovative but you need both, get your mind completely away from your business and clear it so that good thoughts can come in, creativity can come in, innovation can come in and then you need to plan that time you’re going to work on your business, think about your business in ways you haven’t thought about it before, maybe gather a few friends if you don’t have anybody who works for you but gather some people, take the time away from your business to work on your business and figure out how to do what you do better”…[Listen for More]
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Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Budweiser, and Forbes. He's probably seen more quizzes than any other human on earth right now.
“You should work on your company as long as it’s improving the rest of your life, I mentioned those habits that I’ve developed and those are a direct result of having the company that I have and the way that I’ve structured my life is in reaction to having this business and it’s really improved, it’s improved my relationships, it’s improved my health and my fitness and my life overall and my mental state, and if your business is doing that and you’re getting better as a person you should never give up but if you’re business is dragging you down and your health is deteriorating, your relationships are falling apart and you’re just not feeling well, you should take a hard look at whether right now is the right time to be doing this or if you should be doing it at all because I see way too many people forcing themselves into a business when they really shouldn’t be”…[Listen for More]
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Steve Sims is an “ugly” kid from the outskirts of London, who wasn’t born into the world of luxury but certainly holds his place there now. As the founder of Bluefish, one of the top personal concierge services, and an expert marketer within the luxury industry, Steve has been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London’s Sunday Times, South China Morning Post and many more. He has been on TV and has been a speaker at a variety of networks, groups and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard - twice! Want to sing with your favorite rock star, be serenaded by Andre Boceli, walk the red carpet at A List Oscar parties, get married in the Vatican, Dive to the wreck of the Titanic – these are just a few highlights of what Steve provides for his clients. He makes the impossible, possible. An entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word, Steve is well regarded within the luxury world for his innovation and down-to-earth personality. Known for his honesty, integrity and doing things “his way,” Steve creates experiences for his clients that they could never have imagined being possible.
“Calculate your downside before you step forward, it’s very easy to just sit here and go get up and go or you can do it, as we said earlier there’s a lot of people who really can’t get any better than where they are” …[Listen for More]
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