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Bay Area Ventures

Bay Area Ventures

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 Bay Area Ventures is a show about the San Francisco Bay Area way of doing business. It is a rebroadcast of my weekly show of the same name on SiriusXM's channel 111 Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School.

Bay Area Ventures covers all aspects of what makes working and living in the Bay Area unique and special. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, from politics to public policy, from venture financing to mergers & acquisitions, and even to the lifestyles of those living and working in the Bay Area, I try to cover it all in order to help you apply the great practices of the Bay Area to your ventures. The show airs live on Monday’s from 4:00pm to 6:00pm Pacific Time and is broadcast via satellite radio from our studio at the campus of Wharton|San Francisco (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s San Francisco Campus on the Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco)

Every live show includes two feature guests for up to one hour each. Each of the Bay Area Venture podcasts on Spreaker covers one feature guest interview from the show. In addition to the feature guest, each month I host an “M&A Moment”, with Rick Climan, of the Weil law firm and every quarter I host a Bay Area Council Quarterly Update with Jim Wunderman of the Bay Area Council.

The M&A Moment is a look at top merger and acquisition deals involving at least one Bay Area company, as well as an exploration of strategy, tactics and financing inherent to this exciting multi-billion dollar business practice. The M&A Moment is available as a separate podcast here on Spreaker at www.spreaker.com/show/the-m-and-a-moment.

I welcome your comments and questions about these shows. I am available as an advisor, board member or consultant to your company, as well. You can find contacts to me on this page or go to www.donaldlandwirth.com.Copyright Donald Landwirth Economie
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    • 0017 Alex Lubinsky - Rentberry 20170522

      0017 Alex Lubinsky - Rentberry 20170522
      Jun 20 2017
      Even with advent of online listing services, the fundamental means of renting an apartment hadn’t changed for decades, that is, until Rentberry came along (www.rentberry.com). Alex Lubinsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Rentberry joins us on this addition of Bay Area Ventures to tell us how his new startup is radically changing the process renting or leasing a property for both the renter and the landlord.

      Rentberry goes beyond simply listing properties and leaving it up to each individual renter and landlord to find each other and make a match. Instead by allowing the landlord to host an auction for their property, Rentberry is creating a new paradigm for facilitating the transaction. This new and highly transparent process gives information to the renters to see just how much a property in their desired location is renting for and allows landlords to optimize their revenue to meet the true demand for their market.

      Rentberry started in a handful of cities and is now expanding across the US. Demand is very strong and Alex is dealing with scaling his company as well as adding new features to improve and enhance the service. In the episode you’ll learn how Alex came up the idea and how he and a handful of co-founders got the company off the ground.

      In addition to talking about the company, we also talk about how Lubinsky funded his startup and how he left a career in international investment banking and mergers and acquisitions to start Rentberry because of a problem that he and his co-founders ran into.

      As always, I welcome your comments and feedback. If you have questions for Alex or me please feel free to reach out and we’ll do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible.

      Recorded on May 22, 2017, on SiriusXM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School. Bay Area Ventures airs live on Mondays at 4:00pm Pacific Time, 7:00pm Eastern Time. For a list of upcoming and past guest information visit www.donaldlandwirth.com and click on the Show link.

      #auctions #Realestate #innovation #rentals #gigeconomy #Marketing #landlord #renter #apartment #lease #entrepreneurship #startup #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley
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      38 min
    • 0016 Paul Charney and Erica Fortescue - Funworks 20170522

      0016 Paul Charney and Erica Fortescue - Funworks 20170522
      Jun 4 2017
      Paul Charney, an advertising creative expert and former improv comedian, is the founder of Funworks www.howfunworks.com. Along with his Creative Architect, Erica Foretescue, Paul joins me on this episode of Bay Area Ventures. Funworks helps their clients discover their true message by hosting "fun workshops" where a group of comedians who are experts in improvisation techniques work with the clients to bring out stories, images and issues.

      Together they have put together a series of great advertising campaigns for companies like HP and Comcast, many of which you will likely have seen.

      In addition to talking about the company, we explore what makes a company's message memorable. We also talk about how working in the San Francisco Bay Area is unique and what are some of the best attributes that make it so. Finally, we talk about some of the neurological aspects of communication and how a company can build a culture of trust with its customers and its employees.

      As always, I welcome your comments and feedback. If you have questions for Paul, Erica or me please feel free to reach out and we’ll do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible.

      Recorded on May 22, 2017, on SiriusXM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School. Bay Area Ventures airs live on Mondays at 4:00pm Pacific Time, 7:00pm Eastern Time. For a list of upcoming and past guest information visit www.donaldlandwirth.com and click on the Show link.

      #Advertising #Improvisation #Comedy #teambuilding #Marketing #FunatWork #Leadership #entrepreneurship #startup #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley
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      50 min
    • 0015 Special Follow-up Edition Part 2 – Plaehn and Chung 20170424

      0015 Special Follow-up Edition Part 2 – Plaehn and Chung 20170424
      May 29 2017
      This is Part 2 of our special Bay Area Ventures follow-up episode where we check in with guests from the first three seasons of the show. We start off part 2 with Martin Plaehn, CEO of Control 4, Inc. (www.control4.com). Martin made his first appearance on Bay Area Ventures in August of 2015. Back then, Control 4’s annual run rate was about $160 Million. For 2017, the company’s first quarter revenues were over $50 Million which puts them on a healthy $200 Million trajectory. Also, Control 4’s stock has more than doubled since his last appearance on our show.

      Control 4 manufactures automation systems and software for smart homes and offices. They are one of the fastest growing companies, if not the leader, in the emerging Internet of things and connected home technology sector.

      Martin is a thoughtful, smart and concerned CEO who has lectured on leadership and has been at the helm of some of earliest and most famous tech companies including RealNetworks, Viewpoint Digital and Bungee Labs. In this interview we learn what changes have occurred at Control 4 since his last appearance and how Martin has adapted his management style to deal with them. We also learn about how he divides his mind-share to achieve everything required of him as a manager and board member.

      In the second half of the show we’ll follow-up with Mark Chung, Co-Founder and CEO of Verdigris Technologies, Inc. (www.verdigris.co). Mark was a guest back in February of 2016. At the time, Verdigris was a young startup running on seed capital but already shipping product and generating revenue. Today, Verdigris is fresh off of a recent $7M Series A financing with backers such as Verizon and Jabil Manufacturing.

      Mark and his brother started Verdigris after an incident in their home where their electricity bill spiked for some unknown reason. They developed a monitoring system that can automatically detect every type of device on an electrical circuit and track and monitory its electric usage. Today, they’ve developed an industrial strength product used by hotels, factories and other commercial customers around the world. The technology sends a customer’s energy usage data up to The Cloud and Verdigris’ software helps those customers track usage and anomalies helping them to cut their energy usage by as much as 50% in many cases.

      Mark talks about the challenges of doubling his company’s headcount, building a world class sales team and scaling fast. It’s a real success story and Mark shares his philosophy of how to handle the stresses and challenges of being the leader of a fast company.

      Mark is a brilliant engineer who has worked at AMD, PA Semiconductor and Netlogic. PA semiconductor was acquired by Apple while Mark was there and Netlogic was acquired by Broadcom. Either he’s been very lucky at choosing companies to work for or, more likely, these great companies spotted Mark’s enormous talent. Now you can be the judge.

      This is a jam-packed show with a lot of takeaways for your business.

      As always, I welcome your comments and feedback. If you have questions for Martin, Mark or me please feel free to reach out and we’ll do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible.

      Recorded on April 24, 2017, on SiriusXM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School. Bay Area Ventures airs live on Mondays at 4:00pm Pacific Time, 7:00pm Eastern Time. For a list of upcoming and past guest information visit www.donaldlandwirth.com and click on the Show link.

      #IoT #HomeAutomation #SmartHomes #Homelink #Alexa #GoogleHome #EnergyUsage #EnergySavings #ClimateChange #CloudComputing #Leadership #entrepreneurship #startup #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley
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      37 min
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