Automotive and aerospace designer Tim Huntzinger turned entrepreneur takes you on his journey of co-founding an EV startup called XOTO. The company recently introduced a 3-wheel on-road electric “scooter” built to have greater stability to avoid skids and front wheel drive for enhanced control and maneuverability.

Hear how he gathered his team, went from concept to prototype to production---protected his IP, and learned the ropes to engage with investors.

Tim offers a designer’s approach to navigating the path from career product innovator to risk-taking entrepreneur following a dream.

When an entrepreneur takes the road less traveled, it is literally true for Colin Godby, co-founder of Dust Moto, an innovative startup launching a high-performance electric dirt bike. Colin’s entrepreneur journey began as a young power sport enthusiast which led him to be an off-road co-driver in international competitive events including the Baja1000 and the TransSyberian Rally.

Colin shares how he used his mechanical engineering background to transfer his professional experience and passion for motorsports into a new product---that he believes will attract more dirt bike enthusiasts and expand the sport. He describes his team’s process of product innovation that resulted in a new bike design with features that significantly enhance user experience.

Josh Brown is an entrepreneur, inventor, founder, and CEO of Dropshot, a smart scoring platform designed to enhance Pickleball scorekeeping– the fastest-growing sport in America. Josh applied his 14 years of software engineering experience to address a pain point of passionate pickleball players like himself---how to keep score that easily eliminates on-court confusion and scoring squabbles.

In our discussion, Josh shares how he moved from product idea to market testing to Kickstarter success through manufacturing to market introduction. He shares his entrepreneurial and product design approach, offering insight to others pursuing product innovation.

Kasey Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of Helpr, a global technology company transforming corporate caregiving benefits, shares how their company scaled its services using digital technology to achieve great success. Helpr now serves Fortune 500 companies such as Clorox and Snap through its enterprise platform and is in 45 countries. Hear how Kasey and her partner saw the opportunity offered by digital technology to grow their model and the steps they took to become a global technology company.

Broc TenHouten, Co-founder and CEO of Intrinsic Power, Inc., is a leading authority on the challenges of distributed energy and a technical leader and manager of electric vehicle technology commercialization. Hear how his startup identified and solved major pain points impacting consumer use of EVs, while addressing capacity challenges facing our country’s electrical grid. Broc offers great insight about the future of electric vehicles and his approach to launching a tech startup.

Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic exemplify national challenges requiring a new approach to achieve the most effective technological solutions.

NobleReach Foundation’s CEO Arun Gupta is taking on those challenges, heading a nonprofit startup with half a billion dollars in endowment. Founded as a spinoff of LMI, NobleReach offers a new and ambitious model to drive American innovation through the collaboration of academia, and the private and public sectors.

Arun is a highly successful venture capitalist, a best-selling author of Venture Meets Mission, a Faculty Lecturer at Stanford University, and an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Georgetown University.

He is marshaling the U.S.’s brightest entrepreneurs to drive this innovation model.

Serial entrepreneur Byron Bennett began his entrepreneurial journey in high school, never expecting that one day he would lead a venture called Zergratran to build in Columbia an alternative to the Panama Canal. He shares the challenges he is facing which include raising funds for a venture of significant scale. His stories of earlier ventures illuminate the unique path of an entrepreneur while offering insight helpful to aspiring and fellow entrepreneurs.

Vitaly Golomb is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who most notably co-founded HP’s corporate venture arm. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sofielabs, the next-gen CRM that uses AI to automate the sales process.

Hear how AI was applied to the costly weak link of sales and how their startup strategically emerged from stealth to take on Hubspot and Salesforce which dominate the CRM market.