Innovator Tribe: Outside The Bubble

CrownMob is a marketplace platform that connects consumers with hair creatives, manufacturers and hair products of the ethnic hair industry The platform also allows creatives to brand their talents to a mass majority of consumers they would normally not have contact with. CrownMob has several features that enable users to make hair care decisions with unparalleled technology. The feedback tool allows users to read reviews from previous customer of the subscriber to make a more informative decision and keep control over buying power. The booking tool allows users to book a stylist/barber with the click of a button for connivence. The gallery tool allows users to view first hand the level of talent the stylist barber has. We look to brand creativity and expertise to create an environment of using CrownMob subscribers to increase their book of business.   Invest in CROWNMOB. Learn more in CROWNMOB'S crowdfunding campaign! https://wunderfund.co/projects/crownmob/

CrownMob is a marketplace platform that connects consumers with hair creatives, manufacturers and hair products of the ethnic hair industry The platform also allows creatives to brand their talents to a mass majority of consumers they would normally not have contact with. CrownMob has several features that enable users to make hair care decisions with unparalleled technology. The feedback tool allows users to read reviews from previous customer of the subscriber to make a more informative decision and keep control over buying power. The booking tool allows users to book a stylist/barber with the click of a button for connivence. The gallery tool allows users to view first hand the level of talent the stylist barber has. We look to brand creativity and expertise to create an environment of using CrownMob subscribers to increase their book of business.   Invest in CROWNMOB. Learn more in CROWNMOB'S crowdfunding campaign! https://wunderfund.co/projects/crownmob/

CrownMob is a marketplace platform that connects consumers with hair creatives, manufacturers and hair products of the ethnic hair industryThe platform also allows creatives to brand their talents to a mass majority of consumers they would normally not have contact with. CrownMob has several features that enable users to make hair care decisions with unparalleled technology.The feedback tool allows users to read reviews from previous customer of the subscriber to make a more informative decision and keep control over buying power.The booking tool allows users to book a stylist/barber with the click of a button for connivence.The gallery tool allows users to view first hand the level of talent the stylist barber has. We look to brand creativity and expertise to create an environment of using CrownMob subscribers to increase their book of business.   Invest in CROWNMOB. Learn more in CROWNMOB'S crowdfunding campaign! https://wunderfund.co/projects/crownmob/

Andy Steggles is the President & Co-Founder of Higher Logic, a leading cloud based community platform company serving associations, nonprofits, businesses and member-based organizations worldwide. Before starting his software company, Andy spent ten years serving as the Chief Information Officer at the Risk & Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) where he headed their technology and social strategy initiatives. Andy is also a military veteran serving in the British Royal Navy for 10 years.

Andy Steggles is the President & Co-Founder of Higher Logic, a leading cloud based community platform company serving associations, nonprofits, businesses and member-based organizations worldwide. Before starting his software company, Andy spent ten years serving as the Chief Information Officer at the Risk & Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) where he headed their technology and social strategy initiatives. Andy is also a military veteran serving in the British Royal Navy for 10 years.

Andy Steggles is the President & Co-Founder of Higher Logic, a leading cloud based community platform company serving associations, nonprofits, businesses and member-based organizations worldwide. Before starting his software company, Andy spent ten years serving as the Chief Information Officer at the Risk & Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) where he headed their technology and social strategy initiatives. Andy is also a military veteran serving in the British Royal Navy for 10 years

Mohamed Kamara is the founder of Inovcares, a platform that is at the forefront of moving healthcare towards a consumer-centric system by aligning itself with patients' interests.  He shares how overcoming the grief of his sister dying during child breath ignited him to take up the gauntlet and create an innovative healthcare solution. It was through this personal tragedy that led Mohamed to educate himself on the Telehealthcare solutions. Throughout the interview, you'll learn stories how his personal motto, "before you build anything go and test it first," kept him from falling in the many pitfalls of building a technology solutions as a Non-Technical founder. He goes into detail how to build services packages focused on profitability.   Key Highlights "Before you build anything go and test it first" The importance of the customer discovery process Bootstrap funding   Tools & Resources Mentioned in the Show: AWS Hyperion Financial Management     Favorite Business Book Marke

Nick Potts is the Co-Founder of ScriptDrop. ScriptDrop offers a prescription delivery service that makes the delivery process easier for both pharmacists and patients.  In this episode you will hear how Nick leveraged his domain expertise and industry experience to secure funding before building the first iteration of ScriptDrop.  Nick shares his experience learning the industry and understanding the problems facing pharmacies and patients.  How the $300 billion dollars in unfulfilled prescriptions provided the insight to recognize the opportunity and build a solution to help fix it!  From moving back home to save money as he built his idea, emailing over 200 potential investors, and connecting with his CTO and Co-founder, Larry Scott.     Key Highlights Securing funding for the idea pre-product Finding the right team and the perfect co-founder Customer discovery process and product-market fit helps to scale the product quickly Understanding the importance of reaching out to the

The 5 Key Things to Consider When Building a Website by: Jurnell Cockhren The majority of people are lost in regards to what they need or want in a website. Given the trends in our current digital age, we base a company's legitimacy on the appearance of their website. With the emergence of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, we have expectations on the usability of a company's website. As visitors and users, we have developed notions on how websites should cater to us. But what happens when we are the ones that now want to provide the masses with a website? You must be thinking, Where do I even start?. Don't worry, everyone is having or have had that exact thought. Below are 5 items to guide you when considering building a website. 1. Website Goals  What are you trying to achieve with a website? Yes, that's hard question. Below are a few examples on how to answer it: E-commerce (you want people to buy products/services from your site) Blogging (Community building, informing

Who is VetsWhoCode? VetsWhoCode is a veteran operated 501c3 charitable non-profit, dedicated to filling the wide chasm between technical expertise needed and available with early stage transitioning veterans and active duty military spouses through software development training and education. We are utilizing our online setup to train veterans anywhere, but we are so much more. We are a team of people with hybrid tech skills and a lean mentality, focused on helping veterans not only learn how to program, but get jobs in the field and to do it without the unnecessary bloat that other nonprofits take on. From a Brand Strategist who has worked with Fortune 500 Companies, to a Head of Operations that understands how to grow and build companies, to little old me, who got thrown into this because I simply wanted to help my fellow veterans, which is the most important part of this nonprofit. 75% of the team is veterans, and we provide what you need to surpass our successes and learn from our failures. 'Cause if we

Stephanie Cummings is an experienced entrepreneur, business leader, and philanthropist. Throughout her career, she has focused on the betterment of others within the Nashville community as well as across the country, and internationally. She was inspired to start Please Assist Me after finding it hard to balance working full time, attending school at night, and planning a wedding simultaneously. After talking to numerous individuals who were also overwhelmed with tasks and seeing many women leave the workforce due to the stress of family responsibilities, Stephanie was inspired to provide an affordable service that allows working professionals, busy moms, and others who need help, to find balance.   Key Highlights: Using APIs and Plugins to getyour website up and running quickly The importance of having a launch plan Finding your target market before you start building a solution Tools & Resources Mentioned in the Show: Accuity       Connect with Stephanie!   Pleaseassistm

Chris talks about raising $6 million for Review Trackers, his first few businesses, and the learnings that have helped him build Review Trackers from the early stages of an idea to the successful company customers love today. Chris discusses how he talked to 100+ customers before building one line of code.  He shares his experience using the Lean Methodology approach to building his company.  He explores details about moving to South America to start his business and coming back to the U.S. and winning his first customer when they didn't even have way to accept payment.   Startups are hard, but Chris explores how resources like the gener8tor accelerator, a great team, and a visionary mindset led contributed to Review Trackers high growth. He credits the importance of fine tuning your "pitch" as the first step to build a high growth startup outside of Silicon Valley. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter @InnovatorTribe Top Three Tools BitesizePR - https://bitesizepr.com/ Google Analytics - ht

Marcus Cobb is the founder of Jammber, a platform that manages the entire music production process.  He shares the story of moving from Chicago to Nashville 2 months after buying a home for his startup to join an accelerator program.  It was through the accelerator program that the team was able to make connections to some of their largest customers, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group.  In the episode he also shares the story of the moment that led to a pivot that secured 25 letters of intent from customers without a single line of code. This pivot led to the company raising over $1MM in funding.   Key Highlights How Jammber secured first customers and investors The importance of the customer discovery process Decision making process and approach How to calculate risks and execute efficiently Tools & Resources Mentioned in the Show: Project Music Accelerator     Favorite Business Book "Pour Your Heart Into It" by How

Ashlee Ammons is the co-founder of Mixtroz, an app that helps meeting attendees easily connect and engage with one another; all while helping the event host learn more about them based on the responses to customized questions. The mother-daughter co-founding team leveraged their domain expertise to build their technology based startup in Nashville, TN.  With a background in event production and HR management the dynamic team has went on to raise $200k for their company.  In this episode Ashlee shares the "aha" moment that sparked the idea.  She shares how they met their development team, their approach to customer discovery, as well as the grit and persistence that has propelled their success.     Key Highlights: Leveraging domain expertise to build solutions using technology Finding a development team Assessing skillsets and team member strengths to identify roles of team members Process of creating the initial minimal viable product(MVP)   Resources & Tools Mentioned

Toye Adeyemo and Ahmad Murrah share their journey building the Innovator Tribe: Outside the Bubble community for the very first time. Within the episode, you will learn the Why and the How that is driving the Co-Founders to bring together valuable resources specifically for Non-Technical Founders outside the Silicon Valley bubble. You definitely don't want to miss out on the SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT at the end of the show too!   Key Highlights Recognizing the importance of leveraging one's domain expertise How failing led to succeeding Two Major Special Announcements!   Tools & Resources mentioned in the show www.zoho.com www.wavve.com www.calendly.com www.zencastr.com   Connect with Innovator Tribe on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! www.InnovatorTribe.com IG: @InnovatorTribe Facebook: Innovator Tribe Twitter: @InnovatorTribe   Music by Calid B | @CalidB Photo Credit | @lakeshorephotos    

Prior to building the startup Cinchapi, Jeff Nelson, Co-Founder and CTO at Blavity, combined talents with Morgan Debaun, Aaron Samuels, Jonathan Jackson, to created the most culturally relevant venture-backed technology and media company aimed at building beautiful products and experiences for black millennials. Through a series of cascading connections, Jeff shares the backstory about how the founders met and eventually decided to build Blavity after working on over 10 earlier ideas. He also shares a story of the founding team "sticking to their guns" when a potential investor tied their investment in the company to the team changing the name from Blavity. Right now Jeff is excited about his new startup - Cinchapi. At Cinchapi, Jeff is building a platform to help people understand data, then use data more effectively to solve problems in a variety of places. Cinchapi is fascinated in how the accessibility of data is key to solving some of the World's most challenging problems. He dives into the major differe

Iman Oubou is the founder of Swaay Media, a digital publication for women with entrepreneurial pursuits that focus on elevating, spotlighting, and inspiring women that want to start their own businesses and challenge the status quo.  Her website Swaay.com garnered over 300,000 visits in its the first day!  In this episode she shares how she built Swaay.com and how she went from a Biomedical Engineer to 'Miss New York' to host of the successful podcast "Entrepreneur EnVogue" to tech entrepreneur.  She discusses the steps the led to her success as a podcast host and CEO of Swaay.com.  She also shares the story of leaving her corporate job and then going on to raise over $500k for her startup.   Key Highlights Organizing and prioritizing her product roadmap Finding resources and mentors to help build the idea Bringing on the right talent that believe in the mission of the business Discovering product market fit   Tools & Resources Mentioned in the Show Trel

Sheena Allen is the Co-Founder of Capway, a financial technology startup that focuses on the financial health of the unbanked and underbanked.  Prior to Capway Sheena launched Sheena Allen Apps, a mobile app company that has created apps that have garnered millions of downloads in the app store.  In this episode Sheena discusses the inspiration behind her new startup Capway, a company that was inspired by her own experience growing up in Mississippi and the lack of financial services she saw in her own community. Sheena also shares how she went about building her first mobile app that got her 3 Million+ downloads, her experiences raising money for her companies, and how she finds and connects with the right mentors and builds her teams.     Key Highlights: Leveraging your own unique perspective to take a different approach to solving problems using technology Securing "smart money" investors that will provide value to your startup Steps to building the right team to get from ide

Salma Amin Saad, Co-Founder of Andariya, strives to provide content for the socially conscientious, information hungry and worldly Sudanese and South Sudanese audiences at home and beyond.  Andariya was created to address the images and narratives being told and shared about Sudan and the Sudanese people and diaspora.  In this episode we get insights into the challenges as well as the benefits of building a tech startup in Sudan.  Salma shares several keys to the success of Andariya as well as how she met her co-founder through through social media. She shares how they worked to overcome challenges such as economic sanctions that prevent them from leveraging online marketing and how they decided to focus on other areas to strengthen their brand.   Key Highlights: Creating processes and systems to scale your startup quickly and efficiently Finding and connecting with experts and advisers to help hone and fine-tune your idea How their business model evolved as they learned mo

Justin Lawrence is the Co-Founder of LBE Global, a digital consulting agency that bridges the gap between the creation of a product to the launch of the product. As a technical co-founder Justin shares his experience building his own tech startups as well as his experiences helping other entrepreneurs launch businesses.  He shares tips to attract potential co-founders and employees to bring your idea to world.  In the episode he goes into the importance of having a clear vision on the problem you are trying to solve and the narrative your brand represents.  Lastly he shares ideas that will optimize and help launch your product more effectively once the product is created.   Key Highlights: How to get developers to buy into your idea and help you build your vision The importance of having a launch plan Finding your target market before you start building a solution Having a clear vision of the problem you are trying to solve Tools & Resources Mentioned in the Show: Trello 'LTV' - Li