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Special Edition: Shark Attack Pitch Week

October 10, 2013 by rhondachale

High Velocity Radio

Special Edition: Shark Attack Pitch Week

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Larry White/The Ritz Group

Larry White is president and CEO of the Atlanta-basedÂ Ritz GroupÂ networking organization which hostsÂ live â€œShark Attackâ€ events.

Candace Mitchell and Jess Watson/Techturized, Inc.Â

Candace Mitchell is a computer scientist from Atlanta, GA. She is on a mission to share her gifts with the world through science and technology. Her interest in cosmetology began in her early teens, then transformed into a passion for computing. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Computer Science. After a year in Corporate America, she decided to follow her dreams of becoming an entrepreneur and started the company Techturized, Inc. with 3 phenomenal co-founders. Her vision is to revolutionize the world in a tremendous way by empowering women through the lens of hair & beauty.

Jess Watson is a computer scientist from New York City. Coming from humble beginnings as a first generation Jamaican, her family instilled the importance of hard work, dedication, and that anything is possible. She attended Georgia Tech where she started her entrepreneurial journey and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science.

Vince Coyner/BrandScanned

Vince Coyner is a serial entrepreneur and has been working with startups for over a decade in areas a varied as finance education, prepaid gasoline, golf products and local marketing. Today he is here discussing BrandScanned, a tool that makes it easy for consumers to participate in marketerâ€™s loyalty programs and various contests.

Adam Houtman/Vault Stem CellÂ

Adam Houtman has over 10 years of experience owning and operating businesses in medical leads, sales, and multi-channel marketing fields. He grew his previous startups from $0 to $10 Million in revenues while managing 30 call centers in three countries. He purchased a diabetic mail order supply company and grew that business by 7,000% starting from servicing 40 patients to over 3,000. Today, Adam is the founder and CEO of Vault, which represents a revolutionary way to collect and store you or your family’s own adult stem cells. Originally from London, England, Adam is an Oxford graduate, husband and father of two boys.

Steve Bachman/CollectorDASH

Steve is Vice President and COO of CollectorDASH. CollectorDASH provides a community-based ecommerce platform that disrupts the status quo of Ebay and a myriad of fragmented solutions by enabling the community of collectors to buy, sell, manage, value and share their collectibles easier and more affordably. By engaging the collector and forming a lifetime relationship centered on their hobby, CollectorDASH is uniquely able to partner with sellers and manufacturers to deliver more revenue and more loyal customer relationships.

Steve has thirty yearsâ€™ experience in sales, marketing, operations, and corporate management in the technology industry with startup and fast growth technology products and service companies. Experience includes a successful track record with self-funded and venture capital funded businesses, with multiple successes in creating shareholder value through profitable company growth and sale of businesses to McAfee, NetIQ, Computer Associates, and others.

Corey Moore/Pro Networker

Kimberly Smith/Omega Learning

Eric Holtzclaw with Laddering Works, Doug Isenberg with The GigaLaw Firm, Larry White with The Ritz Group and Desiree Scales with Bella Web Design

August 5, 2013 by rhondachale

High Velocity Radio

Eric Holtzclaw with Laddering Works, Doug Isenberg with The GigaLaw Firm, Larry White with The Ritz Group and Desiree Scales with Bella Web Design

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Eric Holtzclaw /Laddering WorksÂ

Eric V. Holtzclaw is founder and CEO of Laddering Works, a marketing and product strategy firm. He advises clients on the development of customer-centric products, services, marketing messages, and experiences. Eric has spent more than 20 years founding multiple start-up companies, including one of the first profitable Internet enterprises. Eric speaks regularly on evidence-based customer research, consumer trends, leadership, and entrepreneurship. His column Lean Forward appears weekly on Inc.com, he is a frequent contributor to CMO.com, the WSJ and Forbes. His book Laddering: Unlocking the Potential of Consumer Behavior was recently released by Wiley Publishing.

Doug Isenberg/The GigaLaw FirmÂ

Doug Isenberg, an attorney in Atlanta, has been called â€œan international authority on Internet lawâ€ by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He began practicing Internet law in 1996, about the same time that legal issues started becoming commonplace online. In 2000, he launched a website about Internet legal issues called GigaLaw.com; in 2002, Random House published his book, â€œThe GigaLaw Guide to Internet Lawâ€; and in 2005 he started his own legal practice at The GigaLaw Firm, where he helps clients of all sizes protect themselves and their brands online. Doug has taught Internet law at Georgia State University College of Law and speaks frequently about the topic. He spends a significant portion of his time on domain name issues, helping clients acquire domain names and fight cybersquatters. He also serves as a domain panelist for four international dispute providers, including the UNâ€™s World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.

Larry White/The Ritz Group

Larry White is president and CEO of the Atlanta-based Ritz Group networking organization which hostsÂ live â€œShark Attackâ€ events.

Desiree Scales/Bella Web DesignÂ YouTube: www.youtube.com/bellawebdesign

Â Desiree Scales has been a featured online marketing and web design expert for USAToday.com, CBS News in Atlanta, 11Alive, NBC Nightly News.

She founded Bella Web Design in 1998 following a successful career as a flight attendant for United Air Lines and an analyst for Delta Airlines. Since the companyâ€™s launch, Desiree created a track record of success and profitability for Bella Web, which has helped over 1,000 companies build and maintain a strong online presence with services such as compelling web design, web hosting, ecommerce, automated marketing, SEO, email marketing, and social media coaching. Desiree is also an Infusionsoft Certified Consultant (ICC).

Bella Web Designâ€™s success is a direct result of Desireeâ€™s expertise and experience, which has evolved into a passion to educate both businesses and organizations on how to use Internet technology to spur success. She has been a featured speaker at companies, conferences, and seminars across the country. She also provides classes on blogging, web design, branding, Internet marketing, Web 3.0 strategies and social media, and offers personal social media coaching to business owners who want to apply â€œan online buzzâ€ to their customer relationships and bottom line. She has over 55,000 followers online.

Host Dana Barrett is joined by Peter Ashley & Larry White to Discuss Crowd Funding

September 18, 2012 by showbizatlanta

Good Morning Atlanta

Host Dana Barrett is joined by Peter Ashley & Larry White to Discuss Crowd Funding

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Filling in for Elizabeth Gordon, who is consulting in Singapore, Peter Ashley joins regular show co-host Dana Barrett for a review of the business headlines and a lively discussion about crowd funding with The Ritz Group CEO Larry White.

The three dish about internet radio via the TuneIn App for Androids and iPhones, puzzle over deck chair hogs on Carnival Cruises, and come up with hottest new business idea this side of Legoland.

Then they get serious and talk about crowd funding… what it is, who it works for, and how it works in concert with more traditional funding methods. Larry shares how a start-up that has proven they have an interesting concept by raising money through crowd funding is going to be that much more attractive to an angel investor, or venture capital group that they may meet through an organization like The Ritz Group.

Tune in for the best business chat in the Southeast!

Larry White with The Ritz Group, Dale Sizemore with FLIPSFilm, and Christian Kotscher with MetroTech Net

September 6, 2012 by rhondachale

Atlanta Business Radio

Larry White with The Ritz Group, Dale Sizemore with FLIPSFilm, and Christian Kotscher with MetroTech Net

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Larry White/The Ritz Group

Larry White, President and CEO of The Ritz Group, tells his background story: “My father was a WW-II veteran who was a 1950 entrepreneur starting his own appliance store growing it to be one of the largest in the state. Part of the Greatest Generation – he worked non-stop. His vision was that I NOT follow in the family business….get a degree and work for a major corporation. I did that..working for Firestone Tire and Rubber, Served as an officer in the Army, IBM, Amdahl and Equifax.

My wife also worked for Majors in Retail (Neimans) and when we moved to Atlanta she couldn’t get a job and opened her own store. She was the first Entrepreneur in our family. She was the founder of Bonnie White women’s specialty stores in Park Place, Perimeter, Lenox Square, Phipps Plaza and 87 West Paces road. I was the bedroom CFO gainfully employed before turning my entrepreneurial hobby into a business. I launched multiple companies – some successful…some not and in each case found myself torn between running my company, running out of funds and then trying the impossible task of raising funds while my companies went to H___ in a hand basket.

Not sure I mastered the drill, but eventually I fell in love with both the Entrepreneurial business aspects and the fund raising. Now I am attacking the problem from the Fund Raising side.”

Dale Sizemore/FLIPSFilm

Dale Sizemore with Information System Integrators, Inc. (FLIPSFilm) has had a long career in high technology, selling and deploying “first to market” applications and projects. The common denominator has been “getting information from multiple places and in the form they need into the hands of people so they can make timely, important business decisions”. Dale discovered his 30+ years in high technology sales, marketing and executive leadership was about to open the door for a new chapter in his life.

After his last employer was acquired, Dale took the entrepreneurial route and had his “AHA” moment December 8, 2010 while reading an article about how challenging it was for communities to facilitate filming and TV production in their communities. After a deep dive into the issue, Dale said “I can fix this problem” and FLIPSFilm was born.

Christian Kotscher/MetroTech Net, Inc.

Christian Kotscher with MetroTech Net started his career as an assistant financial controller in Frankfurt Germany after graduating from the University of Iowa with a double major in Finance and International Business. After three years in Europe and another in Florida, he and his wife Micki settled in the Atlanta metro in 1995 where they are raising their three girls. During a stint at MetLife, Christian moved into the IT field when he developed an accounting application for large financial systems. After that he joined GE Capital ITS, where he focused on custom application development and project management.

Christian’s first company was an IT development practice that he sold to Romac International/ kforce Consulting. In 2001 Christian joined IBM where he held national and international positions in mobile and wireless computing. It was there that he developed his passion for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Industry (ITS). Christian left IBM in 2007 to develop a video sensor system that would provide real time traffic information for use across many ITS areas. They have deployed their video analytics in California at 100 intersections and are working in other regions on emerging deployments. MetroTech is looking forward to providing you better traffic information for your daily commute and to give you more quality time for the important things in life.