51. A Tale of Two Valleys | Martin Babinec | Founder of TriNet (NYSE: TNET) & Author of More Good Jobs

A Tale of Two Valleys with Martin Babinec

51. A Tale of Two Valleys, host William Glass sits down with Martin Babinec, an industry titan, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and Author. Martin discusses his two contrasting valleys, Silicon Valley & the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. You’ll hear the challenges that Martin overcame at the helm of TriNet leading through the boom and bust of the dot com bubble and how he overcame a failed IPO ultimately leading the company to over $1B in annual revenue before passing the reigns. Martin shares some of the keys to his success and what is necessary to build a strong startup community. His book More Good Jobs outlines the keys to building a tribe and ultimately how to change an entire economic region.

About Martin Babinec

Martin Babinec founded TriNet a Silicon Valley-based company in 1988, serving as CEO for 20 years and continues as a large shareholder and board director. TriNet’s cloud-based HR services now cover 17,000+ clients, generates $4+ Billion in annual revenue and is listed on the NYSE under ticker TNET.  Relocating to his hometown of Little Falls, New York, Martin founded and has active roles with UpVentures Capital, StartFast Ventures, and nonprofits Upstate Venture Connect, Entrepreneurs Across Borders, UpMobility Foundation, and the Upstate Jobs Party.  He is a past recipient of the SVBT Silicon Valley Entrepreneur of the Year Award and his book More Good Jobs was published by Lion Crest in October 2020.

Martin has experienced the ups and downs of entrepreneurship overcoming tremendous obstacles and now is on a mission to change the trajectory of an entire region.

Connect with Martin Babinec

The Book: MoreGoodJobs.org

Direct Investment in Startups: UpVentures.com

Upstate Venture Connect, non-profit supporting Upstate NY startups: UVC.org

Entrepreneurs Across Borders, international non-profit supporting startups in developing countries: EABorders.org

Upstate Jobs, a PAC building political engagement to increase Upstate NY’s talent retention: UpstateJobs.org

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50. Producing Creativity with Jim Carter

Producing Creativity with Jim Carter

50. In Producing Creativity, host William Glass sits down with Jim Carter, the founder of Legacy West Media. Jim discusses how repetitive physical injuries forced him to change his life’s path away from athletics and embrace his natural creativity. We discuss the power of travel and developing deep connections with a diverse set of people and how those connections not only bring Jim joy but also provide opportunities in his business. After only a few months of founding his business, Jim talks about how he was forced to pivot due to COVID, move across the country twice within a year and get married to his incredible wife Caroline. Jim brings incredible energy to the conversation and is someone I truly admire.

About Jim Carter and Legacy West Media 

Jim Carter is the Creative Director & Producer of “City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles” an art exhibit exploring legendary artists portraying the culture of LA. Jim has worked with “A list” artists and filmmakers for over 10 years. He grew up on movie sets and comes from a family of academy award-winning artists. He represents 10 world-renowned artists, including his father Rick Carter, who is a 2-time academy award winner for his Art Direction of Avatar and Lincoln. Jim uses his passion for fine art, visual storytelling, world cultures, marketing, sports, and entertainment to create genuine connections between his clients and global audiences.

His firm Legacy West Media specializes in artist representation and media partnerships. The mission is to tell stories through art exhibitions and media partnerships. Being 4th generation Hollywood, LWM takes great pride in representing top talent and connecting the right artist with the right audience. The company’s goal is to not only bring profit to their artists but to inspire the communities that view their art.

Connect with Jim Carter & Legacy West Media

City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles: https://vimeo.com/467913670

Jim McHugh Artist Video: https://vimeo.com/460820808

Legacy West Media Website: https://legacywmedia.com/

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50. Producing Creativity with Jim Carter, Founder of Legacy West Media

50. In Producing Creativity, host William Glass sits down with Jim Carter, the founder of Legacy West Media. Jim discusses how repetitive physical injuries forced him to change his life’s path away from athletics and embrace his natural creativity. We discuss the power of travel and developing deep connections with a diverse set of people and how those connections not only bring Jim joy but also provide opportunities in his business. After only a few months of founding his business, Jim talks about how he was forced to pivot due to COVID, move across the country twice within a year and get married to his incredible wife Caroline. Jim brings incredible energy to the conversation and is someone I truly admire.

ABOUT JIM CARTER

Jim Carter is the Creative Director & Producer of “City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles” an art exhibit exploring legendary artists portraying the culture of LA. Jim has worked with “A list” artists and filmmakers for over 10 years. Jim grew up on movie sets and comes from a family of academy award-winning artists. He represents 10 world-renowned artists, including his father Rick Carter, who is a 2-time academy award winner for his Art Direction of Avatar and Lincoln. Jim uses his passion for fine art, visual storytelling, world cultures, marketing, sports, and entertainment to create genuine connections between his clients and global audiences.

His firm Legacy West Media specializes in artistrepresentation and media partnerships. The mission is to tell stories through art exhibitions and media partnerships. Being 4th generation Hollywood, LWM takes great pride in representing top talent and connecting the right artist with the right audience.The company’s goal is to not only bring profit to their artists but to inspire the communities that view their art.

City of Dreams: A Portrait of Los Angeles: https://vimeo.com/467913670

Jim McHugh Artist Video: https://vimeo.com/460820808

Legacy West Media Website: https://legacywmedia.com/

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49. Empowering the Gift of Giving with Kelly Keurzoneff

Empowering the Gift of Giving with Kelly Keurzoneff

49. In Empowering the Gift of Giving, host William Glass sits down with Kelly Keurzoneff, founder of Givelist. Kelly discusses the importance of social impact and how we can better support our fellow humans in times of need. She discusses the challenges of being a solo-founder (the loneliness) and how to continue to build your business without a co-founder. In addition, Kelly shares the founding story of Givelist and how consumers today care more about the social impact the companies they support have on the world.

WATCH on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qeSikTC04b0

There were some differences between mine and Kelly’s volume that we’ve adjusted as best we can in post-production. For the best experience, we recommend watching this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qeSikTC04b0.

About Kelly Keurzoneff 

Kelly Keurzoneff is the founder of Givelist® and the owner of a marketing consulting business. She grew up in Indiana, went to college in North Carolina. Then spent 10 years in Los Angeles learning everything marketing and advertising. In Los Angeles, Kelly worked for media and tech companies, two of which were startups. It was her time at Hulu, though, that was most formative and inspiring, and which she credits for launching her more serious interest in entrepreneurial endeavors.

Kelly is a first-time founder looking to encourage giving, foster kindness, and build social capital by creating a tool that makes gift-giving a fun and frictionless experience.

Givelist® is a universal wish list, an all-purpose online gift registry, allowing users to connect & contribute to one another’s lives simply & easily. It also provides a vehicle for more direct and transparent giving of items to those in need or non-profit organizations. Great for both consumers and retailers, it has the added benefit of reducing waste and returns, which otherwise accounts for billions of dollars in unusable/unsellable goods.

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48. Competing When You Have Nothing to Lose with Tom Libelt

Competing When You Have Nothing to Lose with Tom Libelt

48. Competing When There’s Nothing to Lose, host William Glass sits down with Tom Libelt, founder of Smart Brand Marketing. Tom dives into the concept of building an antifragile business that not only survives during uncertain times but thrives. He also gets into the benefits of being lazy and spending more time thinking versus spending all of your time hustling. One example of that approach is him sitting down on the podcast today. In addition, Tom opens up about the power of niches and how finding a small group of motivated customers is one of the best ways to build a business.

The notion of building an antifragile business comes from Nassim Taleb a famous writer who specialized in risk analysis. 

About Tom Libelt 

Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists.

Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. He has helped published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding.

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48. Tom Libelt – Competing When There’s Nothing to Lose

48.Competing When There’s Nothing to Lose, host William Glass sits down with Tom Libelt, founder of Smart Brand Marketing. Tom dives into the concept of building an antifragile business that not only survives during uncertain times but thrives. He also gets into the benefits of being lazy and spending more time thinking versus spending all of your time hustling. One example of that approach is him sitting down on the podcast today. In addition, Tom opens up about the power of niches and how finding a small group of motivated customers is one of the best ways to build a business.

The notion of building an antifragile business comes from Nassim Taleb a famous writer who specialized in risk analysis.

About Tom Libelt

Tom Libelt learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. Seeing all this as a young man motivated him to never want a job and keep moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists.

Tom spends most of his time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Courses. He has helped published around 5000 Kindle books, built a successful SEO & online course marketing business, partnered with a Muay Thai champion, owned a coffee shop, a retail store, a record label, created a documentary, and released two albums with five hits on top ten Polish radio. All of it was bootstrapped and done with zero outside funding.

Connect with Tom Libelt & Smart Brand Marketing

Website: https://smartbrandmarketing.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomlibelt

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBMPodcast/

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47. William Glass – Solving Financial Literacy: Guest Appearance on the Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast

47. Solving Financial Literacy, host William Glass is interviewed on The Bacon Bits ’n’ Bytes Podcast by Karen Swyszcz. Together they discuss why financial well-being and financial literacy are so important as well as the vision for Ostrich.

On that note, Ostrich is approaching a public beta release and will of course give early access to Silicon Alley listeners who want to be the first to join the Flock!

Be on the listen for further updates in the coming weeks about how to get that VIP early access.

The Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast is a business and technology podcast. Karen Swyszcz is the co-founder ofKaibigan Connection– an organization that is dedicated to connecting Filipinx entrepreneurs and professionals.

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47. Solving Financial Literacy with William Glass | The Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast

Solving Financial Literacy: Guest Appearance on the Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast

47. Solving Financial Literacy, host William Glass is interviewed on The Bacon Bits ’n’ Bytes Podcast by Karen Swyszcz. Together they discuss why financial well-being and financial literacy are so important as well as the vision for Ostrich.

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46. The Art of Productive Screen Time with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay

The Art of Productive Screen Time with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay

46 The Art of Productive Screen Time, host William Glass sits down with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay, co-founders of Artebula. Together they discuss the power of creativity and how promoting creative children lead to future innovators. From there we explore the challenges facing parents and children with the current content platforms and how Artebula is focused on promoting productive screen time by combining technology, art, and science.

You’ll also learn the challenges and benefits of going from solopreneur to teampreneur and how to effectively work as a team across multiple continents.

About Laura Page-Hamelin

Laura Page-Hamelin is a passionate businesswoman and entrepreneur. Laura worked in the corporate world as a marketer but felt most comfortable being an entrepreneur. When her fourth child was born with a rare auto-immune disorder she decided to stay home permanently and to fund this choice she used her digital marketing talents to found a successful, boutique digital marketing agency, Social Jibber Jabber. In 2018, Laura identified a pain point in the children’s art and education market and with a five thousand dollar government grant began the foundations for what would later become Artebula Inc.

About Graeme McKay

Graeme McKay is the technology lead at Artebula and brings significant experience in both healthcare informatics and finance product design and development. Additionally, Graeme has worked with innovative start-up companies including eFilm and Radimetrics, as well as industry leaders Bayer Healthcare and JP Morgan Chase. Graeme holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computing from the University of Strathclyde and is a certified Scrum Product Owner.

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45. Ned Lomigora – Developing the Perfect Product: How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

45. Developing the Perfect Product: How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), host William Glass sits down with Ned Lomigora, Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Founder of Cape Ann Tech to discuss the illustrious MVP. In today’s episode, Ned walks us through how to develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), the common pitfalls, and why it is so crucial when developing a new product. We spend the last 20 minutes really diving deep into personal finance and some of the challenges with income inequality that face both individuals and the American Democracy.

Ned Lomigora is a serial entrepreneur who discovered his love for startups while developing Auto ID RFID technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work there had a direct correlation with the creation of RFID technology that was later adopted by Electronic Product Code as a global standard.

After a stint at several software companies, in increasing levels of responsibility, Ned co-founded his first startup in the computational biotech space with generous funding from the company he was working for at the time. After a successful exit, Ned took on a co-founder and CEO role of another startup in the publishing industry. After a successful exit out of that venture, Ned was asked to run a company in the biotech equipment space.

After several years in that role, Ned felt a strong pull back to his software roots, and so he started his current company, Cape Ann Tech. The impetus that started Cape Ann Tech was Ned’s frustration with the overly transactional nature of outsourced software development services business. Cape Ann Tech provides exceptional quality software, with a mission to develop long term partnerships with all its clients. Cape Ann Tech clients range from Fortune 500 companies to startups.

Website: https://www.capeanndevelopment.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedzadlomigora/

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