#020Episode 20 of the Silicon Alley Podcast, Finances in Feverish Times, Andrew Holliday Cofounder of Ostrich sits down with host William Glass to discuss the impact of COVID-19. Andrew discusses how Coronavirus disrupted his travels through South America and the importance of being prepared. Andrew and William discuss strategies on how you can weather the storm and discover the hidden lessons in the crisis.

This episode is a bit of departure from the typical Silicon Alley Podcast shows you are used to it is much needed right now to discuss COVID-19 and how to make the most out of this tragic situation.

Andrew’s Ostrich Backstory:

Andrew first heard about the idea of Ostrich late in 2017 from William, whilst still working in Private Equity in New York City. Two years later,he decided to leave that world behind – literally. Andrew left NYC,set course forSouth America, and has since been putting his financial knowledge towards helping more than just the wealthiest members of society.

See Andrew’s travel journey at TheHollidayExperiment.com

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Ostrich is a personal finance app that curates information specific to you and uses the power of positive social accountability to help you define, set, & achieve your financial goals. Sign Up for the Ostrich Betaat www.GetOstrich.com & follow @TheOstrichApp on IG, FB & LinkedIn.

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#019 Episode 19 of the Silicon Alley Podcast, Nine Figure Exit to Living Your Best Life features William Moore Founder of Doorstep Delivery, Moore Momentum, and Rollins Rentals. Will discusses how being a misfit as a kid led him to develop an entrepreneurial mindset which led him to start a successful student rental business out of college. During the mid-2000s real estate boom, Will quit a lucrative sales job to start Doorstep Delivery. Ultimately the company sold for $330 Million in 2019.

Now, Will is taking all of the lessons he learned over the past 25+ years into his new business Moore Momentum. A book and app that focuses on helping people live their best lives. There are 5 cores that Will discusses as being the key to living your best life – mindset, career & finances, relationships, physical health, and emotional health & giving back.

Will’s Official Bio:

Will Moore graduated with honors from Rollins College. Soon after he created Rollins Rentals with another fellow alumnus – Jay Gaiser – focused on providing quality off-campus college-friendly homes to students from his alma mater.

Next came Doorstep Delivery, a restaurant delivery service comparable to Grub Hub or Door Dash. DD quickly became the largest RDS in the South East with 19 branches.

Whether it’s real estate, restaurant delivery, or one of the other ventures he’s helped pioneer, Will has always had an uncanny knack for capitalizing on trends before they happen. And his newest venture is no exception. He is tapping into the current momentum of the up-and-coming generation finally realizing that there’s no shame in wanting to be their best selves.

But this isn’t as much a business venture as it is a movement. His purpose: Help others become the best version of THEMselves so they can pay it forward to help the world become the best version of ITself.

As a successful business entrepreneur, Will has discovered that a person’s career & finances are just 1/5th of the equation. REAL HAPPINESS involves “firing on all cylinders” in the FIVE CORE areas of your life.

Connect with Will Moore at www.mooremomentum.com

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#018 Episode 18 of the Silicon Alley Podcast, Building a Successful Marketing Agency While Paying Off $100,000 Debt in 3 Years features Evan Knox the CEO & Founder of Caffeine Marketing, & CaffeineLabs. Evan helps small businesses nail their marketing and achieve incredible growth. Evan walks us through his journey of living an affluent middle-class life in Georgia and having all of that disappear in his teenage years. As a 12-year-old, Evan sold a $22,000 pair of earrings in his grandfather’s jewelry store and the seeds of entrepreneurship were planted.

Not only is this episode packed with Evan’s compelling story, you’ll also hear practical advice you can apply to your life and business. Prepare for a value-packed episode.

Evan’s Official Bio:

Evan Knox is the Founder of Caffeine Marketing and CaffeineLabs. Caffeine Marketing makes profitable marketing easy for small companies. CaffeineLabs is the education arm of the Caffeine family and gives entrepreneurs the exact blueprint to run in order to grow the company they’ve been dreaming of.

Connect with Evan on evanknox.com and caffeine.marketing

Follow Evan on Instagram @evanbknox and @caffiene.marketing

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#017 In episode 17 of the Silicon Alley Podcast – It’s Poker, Not Chess: The Art of Scrum, we hear from Fabian Schwartz. Fabian a project management veteran who built a business teaching the Scrum framework to companies outside of technology. Scrum Colombia is the only Scrum trainer in the country and has delivered incredible client results. To help spread proper Scrum, Fabian has written a book Your Scrum Playbook: It’s Poker, Not Chess.

About Fabian

For more than 20 years, Fabian Schwartz worked in the tech industry as a program manager, developer, tester, project manager, and trainer. He has also taught IT and project management at South American and European universities for the past 15 years. Over the past decade, he has translated his love of training and efficiency into a thought leadership and public speaking role and has taught Scrum to more than 30,000 people. After becoming an early advocate of agile, he became an expert in all facets of Scrum, having pioneered Scrum outside of software. Fabian is the co-creator of the Scrum in Hardware guide and has worked directly with Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum. Fabian has an MBA from Macquarie University in Australia as well as degrees from Germany and the UK. He has pursued continuing education from Stanford University & Harvard Business School. Fabian has helped many businesses from small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies leverage agile and achieve goals more effectively throughout Europe, Australia, the Americas. He is the only Scrum trainer in Colombia.

About the Book – It’s Poker, Not Chess – https://amzn.to/3bof97h

Have you ever heard business being compared to a game of chess? If you’re a leader in any sector, you know business today feels more like a chaotic game of poker–one where you can’t see all the cards and you’re sure some opponents have an ace up their sleeve.

This book shows you how to use Scrum to create a winning hand from the cards you’ve been dealt. From a Scrum strategist and educator with years of experience across a variety of sectors, you’ll learn how to complete more work in less time while delivering better value to clients. By assembling the right team, creating the right ecosystem, learning to avoid the clutches of Frankenscrum, working with a Backlog and Sprints, and by using the rest of the Scrum Framework, you may just find yourself playing a whole new game at your business–one that helps you respond to a quickly changing business landscape and poises you to win.

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#016 In episode 16 of the Silicon Alley Podcast – Fired to Building a Coaching & YouTube Business, we hear from Sarah Lee a native Thai speaker who went from working at Fulbright Thailand to the corporate world before being fired from her job unexpectedly. Sarah took that opportunity to answer the entrepreneurial calling that had been inside of her all along. Now Sarah has built a language learning coaching business and a successful YouTube channel that has already resulted in an upcoming collaboration with a US university professor.

Sarah’s energy and the way she approaches both life and her business is inspiring. You’ll truly enjoy hearing Sarah’s approach to manifestations and the law of attraction. Sit back and enjoy listening to Sarah Lee!

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