FREE SUMMIT
Startups: Funding and beyond 2022
Adapting to the new reality. Execution and growth challenges. Managing investor expectations.
The virtual summit took place on Wednesday-Thursday, April 6-7 from 8.45 am to 2.00 pm EST.
You have the opportunity to watch the recording after registering.
*After the sign-up process is completed, you'll receive an extra bonus from Glorium Technologies: a free e-book.
6 Reasons Why You Should Attend:
12 industry-leading speakers from the best companies across the globe
Valuable insider information you can implement to your business today
Over 10 productive hours of startup growth and development content
Immediate access to all content on April 8th 2022
Full permanent access to all HD recordings
Learn about the best new tools that will improve your future and current projects
For Whom?
Startup owners
Learn how to transform your startup by growing faster and scaling smarter.
Investors
Stay on top of the latest trends in technology and tech companies so you can make better investment decisions, with a focus on setting and reaching sustainability targets.
Growth experts
Learn how to help businesses achieve growth even faster by building an experimentation and growth engine so you can drive results.
Corporate Executives
Optimize your corporation’s strategy amidst unstable geopolitical conditions – from armed conflicts between nations to trade disputes to energy security and environmental concerns.
Speakers:
12 Top Experts Will Give A Talk
Nabil Kabbani
Growth CEO | Future Of Fintech | Digital Transformation Leader | Electronic Payment Innovation
Jennifer Glass
Business Growth & Marketing Consultant/Coach, Author, Trainer, Speaker | Founder & CEO Of Award-Winning Agency
Shirish Nadkarni
Serial Entrepreneur And Author Of From Startup To Exit - An Insider's Guide To Launching And Scaling Your Tech Business
Troy Sandidge
Strategy Hacker | Author Of Strategize Up | Host Of Top Marketing Podcast | Digress.Fm
Schedule
Day 1 - Wednesday - April 6 (Eastern Time UTC-5)
opening Opening by host
introduction Introductory Speech
About speaker
Andrei Kasyanau
talk Startup Pitch Hacks: Fix your pitch deck and get pre-seed investment
- Resources for building the perfect pitch deck
- Who investors are and what investors want they really want to hear
- Investor outreach: Targeting, Outreach, Sequenced Emails and Following up
- Step by step actionable steps to building the perfect startup pitch deck
Taylor Ryan
About speaker
Taylor Ryan
Start-up Founder, CEO of the Award Winning Digital Agency
6x Start-up Founder with 14 years of digital growth experience Originally from Washington, DC, Living in Denmark for the last ~6 years. CEO of the Award Winning Digital Agency, KlintMarketing.com and Online Masterclass with 6500+ Grads, GrowthSecrets.org. VP of Marketing for WeGro - Complimentary Alternative Medicine Crypto Project 100+ Keynotes over the last 3 years. Finalist - Ecosystem Hero of the Year - 2020 Denmark (Nordic Start-up Awards). Built and scaled the marketing behind 4 start-up exits in 5 years. Crypto and Web3 Expert, Start-up Junkie, Growth-Hacker, CEO, Founder, Corporate Innovator, Digital Marketing Agency Owner, Angel Investor, and Mentor.
talk The Growth Playbook for Reaching and Gaining Paying Customers.
- How important growth hacking is from the start of your business.
- How to effectively build an experimentation and growth engine to create immediate results from the beginning.
- How to achieve quick learnings throughout the iterative process.
- Hacking growth throughout the stages of your company.
About speaker
Carol Tran
talk Growing ARR from $0 to $1 million +
Four Major Topics:
- Creating a Sales Process From Scratch
- Balancing speed vs protecting runway
- Dream Big But Don’t Let Your Big Dreams Crush Your Team
- $1+ million ARR
Jorge Andres Gamboa
About speaker
Jorge Andres Gamboa
Startup Owner
Jorge is a former attorney who was voted a Rising Star in Employment Law (an honor bestowed on the top 2.5% of practicing attorneys under 40). Jorge then left the law to work in tech sales. His most recent position was VP of Growth at Doorkee where he managed a sales team of six. Jorge was the first sales hire at Doorkee and his team brought the company from $0 to $1.1 million ARR, and is poised to be acquired.
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talk Client Copier / Donor Duplication
Fill rooms with your Ideal Client, Customer, Donor. All you need is a Yellow Tablet, # 2 Pencil and PhD-Pigheaded Determination ®
- Create a Vision of Your Ideal Client, Customer, Donor
- Think "Amish" and allow others to fill rooms with those ideal individuals
- Think "OPM" and allow others to cover all your related costs
Mark Chamberlain
About speaker
Mark Chamberlain
Author, Colonial Benefits Counselor, Speaker, Vision Board
Author, Colonial Life Benefits Counselor, Speaker, Vision Board Mastermind University Founder, What If U Global, Benchmarking Reverend Russell Conwell. Retired Merrill Lynch VP Junior Achievement Board member, past president President Men’s Group, 1st Presbyterian Church. Wilkes University graduate, Urban Affairs, 1974 USMC ’68-’70, Viet Nam, Purple Heart Recreation.
talk How to win after your capital raise
- How to prepare for a capital raise (how to prepare the company)
- Managing expectations during the negotiations
- How to scale, where to spend the money (marketing, software, staff)
- Executing with excellence
- Shortcuts to execution success
- Communication and dealing with boards
Nabil Kabbani
About speaker
Nabil Kabbani
Growth CEO | Future Of Fintech | Digital Transformation Leader | Electronic Payment Innovation
Mr. Nabil Kabbani is a global CEO in Fintech and a multidisciplinary global leader with a distinguished career in technology-enabled business services. He started his career in banking, and card issuing. He then spent twelve years at Western Union, in key Executive roles where he helped to grow to a multi-billion-dollar public company working from various locations in the U.S., Beirut, Dubai, Paris and Brussels. Nabil has subsequently led a venture capital funded money transfer startup which grew through nine acquisitions to become a major player in the fintech industry. Nabil was CEO of a payment processing company in e-commerce prior to joining ACT Holdings.
talk The Art & Science of Achieving Product Market Fit
- How to prevent failing to achieve product-market fit
- The importance of riding technology or global macro trends to displace incumbents
- The value of conducting customer discovery in a highly disciplined manner
- The key metrics to track to determine if you have achieved product-market fit
Shirish Nadkarni
About speaker
Shirish Nadkarni
Serial entrepreneur and Author of From Startup to Exit
Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15+ million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by BlackBerry in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users. Shirish started his career at Microsoft where engineered the acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.Com which became a leading web portal in the early days of the internet. Shirish is the author of "From Startup to Exit - An Insider's Guide to launching and scaling your Tech business".
closing Final word
Day 2 - Thursday - April 7 (Eastern Time UTC-5)
opening Opening by host
talk How Content Strategy Drives Innovation: Writing, the Ultimate Consumer Touchpoint
- Why startups must focus on their voice and their vision
- How content is critical to business strategy
- Why content positions you as a differentiator
- What you need to execute a solid content strategy
- What you don’t need (aka what most companies do that sabotages them versus drive them forward)
Jacqueline DiChiara
About speaker
Jacqueline DiChiara
Editor. Journalist. Podcaster
Jacqueline is a Boston-based content strategist in the health and life sciences sector at The Bliss Group. She is formerly of Oliver Wyman, where she was a healthcare editor and journalist. She is also a board member at World Unity Inc. Jacqueline is an ordained revered and host of the Enough-ism Podcast about meditation, mindfulness, and having enough already just the way you are. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with an A.B. in English and Theatre Arts, Fairleigh Dickinson University with an M.A.T in education, and The University of Metaphysical Sciences with a master’s in metaphysical sciences.
talk Minimize Distraction to Maximize Results
- Shiny object syndrom
- Meetings that could be emails, emails that should have been a meeting
- Multiple communication channels are just a handful of the distractions and pressures that plague startups and prevent growth.
Taylor Shanklin
About speaker
Taylor Shanklin
Branding & Growth Strategy | CEO @ Barlele | TEDx Speaker | Podcast Host
Accomplished and energetic marketing leader with a solid history of achievement in leading teams, corporate marketing, product marketing and growth strategy. I lead with agile marketing processes, and a scrappy roll-up-your-sleeves attitude. My Clifton Strengths Finder test results say I'm a futurist. Areas of expertise include strategic growth planning, branding, podcasting, video marketing, collaboration with product teams, and building creative, curious and happy marketing teams.
talk Quickly Grow Your Leads & Sales the EASY Way
- Know how to create an irresistible offer to have people want to work with you
- Know how to create the partnerships that can catapult you to success
- Know how to stop wasting money on marketing that doesn't work
- Know how to stop losing money and cannibalizing margins
Jennifer Glass
About speaker
Jennifer Glass
Business Growth & Marketing Consultant/Coach, Author, Trainer, Speaker | Founder & CEO Of Award-Winning Agency
Jennifer R Glass is the CEO of Business Growth Strategies International. She is a business growth expert who works with small to medium-sized businesses to help them find the money they are leaving on the table. Because of the work that Ms. Glass has done over the last 15+ years, she has been featured in numerous media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC & Fox, recognized as a leader in business by more than 1,000 organizations, the Small Business Development Center and SCORE. Ms. Glass is the author of multiple works including her “It’s the Bottom Line that Matters” series (with a podcast under the same name) and her “Building a Winning Mindset” book. She has also contributed to several other books from leading thought leaders. Business Growth Strategies International provides a robust and best-in-class solution for business owners looking to grow their business and revenues.
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talk How to scale a revenue focused paid advertising program efficiently
- Avoid common pitfalls
- Refuting marketing dogma
- Employees vs. Contractors
Max Thilen
About speaker
Max Thilen
VP of Growth at Opascope
Former derivatives trader who made the leap from quantitative finance to quantitative marketing. Focused on helping businesses grow through a revenue focused, data driven approach to advertising. Drove 8mm in ARR at Opascope with zero paid advertising. Growth leader at Opascope, a multidisciplinary marketing agency solving complex business problems and managing more than 100mm in paid media spend across search, social, television and outdoor for clients ranging from industry leading cloud providers to political organizations and everything in between.
talk Go To Market Strategy for New B2B Innovation- Scaling for Success
- GTM Planning (customer personas, marketing, sales, channels)
- Getting past the pilot. Early Adoption for new technology and the challenges and considerations to prepare for
- Regional and International Expansion, when does this make sense and tips for success
- Keeping lean as you grow (how to leverage outside resources)
Sandy Agnos
About speaker
Sandy Agnos
Global Product & Marketing Executive | GTM & Strategy
Sandy Agnos is a global commercialization leader with both breadth and depth in B2B marketing, product marketing, strategy, product leadership, and business development for emerging technologies (Robotics/SW, AI, IoT). She has introduced and scaled robotic solutions to multiple verticals such as retail, healthcare, commercial floor care, hospitality, and manufacturing around the world. Sandy has grown and supported a robotic fleet into the thousands. Customers have included Walmart, Kroger, C&W and Softbank Robotics.
talk Strategies To Create A Brand Amplifier & Growth Accelerator For Your Business
- Learn how to optimize your business for scalability, simplicity, sustainability, through my C.L.O.V.E.R. Business Framework™
- Understand how to better market your business with my D.A.R.T. Marketing Methodology™
- Discover how to drive growth, increase revenue, and build brand equity through my L.E.A.D.S. Generator Blueprint™
Troy Sandidge
About speaker
Troy Sandidge
Strategy Hacker | Author of Strategize Up | Host of Top Marketing Podcast iDigress.fm
Troy Sandidge is an award-winning marketing strategist who has spent over 12 years building sustainable strategies and scalable systems, generating millions in revenue growing Startups, SMBs, B2Bs, and Fortune 500.
talk Setting proper funding expectations through best practices for estimations
Dmitriy Stepanov
About Dmitriy
Dmitriy Stepanov
Co-founder and CTO at Glorium Technologies.
Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Scrum, Embedded Software, Object Oriented Design, SQL, and Medical Devices. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Product Development from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Hosts
Javy Martinez
About Javy
Javy Martinez
Hosting Dope Startup Events for Early Stage Founders & Startups
Javy is a serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, and philanthropist. He is the CMO, Director of Events and Host for Kamp - the go-to startup experience for any early stage founders looking to launch or scale their startup. Javy also founded The Single Parent Family Foundation, which provides family support programs & resources to single parent families in Dallas county who are living at the federal poverty level. Javy is a Venture Partner and Dallas Chapter Director for Founder Institute Texas. He is also the Co-Founder of Javannah Capital International and Sports Media Promotions which is the parent company behind Dallas Cowboys Player Talk Show "Inside The Huddle" where also serves as the Executive Producer.
Jenna Charlton
About Jenna
Jenna Charlton
Product Owner, Tester
Jenna is a software tester and product owner with over a decade of experience. They've spoken at a number of dev and test conferences and is passionate about risk-based testing, building community within agile teams, developing the next generation of testers, and A11y. When not testing, Jenna loves to go to punk rock shows and live pro wrestling events with their husband Bob, traveling, and cats. Their favorite of which are the 2 that share their home, Maka and Excalipurr.
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