Craig Dubitsky
CEO, Hello Products
"The Apple of Personal Care"
How many companies do you know that start out wanting to make ‘people-friendly products’ in a mature segment like toothpaste and mouthwash? How does a company enter, carve out a niche and create such a buzz (without a marketing agency) that it is now in major stores including WalMart, Target and Walgreens?
We are going to be speaking with Craig Dubitsky, who founded Hello. He was a founding member of METHOD products (liquid soap, etc.), the spherical lip balm maker EOS Products Craig was named by AdAge as one of the ...
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Robbie Baxter
Author of the 'Membership Economy'
CEO.10 - Creating ‘Forever Customers’ and Predictable Revenues
The marketplace is changing, business models are changing and everybody is looking for predictable revenues. Can you really have such a thing as a ‘forever customer’? Well, there is a way, and many companies are embracing this model. Could your business model (where in the value chain you monetize your customers, and how much) be morphed into one where you have predictable revenues and 'forever customers’? Is this the new way of doing business that you must embrace? Listen to Robbie Baxter, author of the MEMBERSHIP ECONOMY and learn how...
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Joseph DeSimone
Co-founder & CEO
CEO.9 - Re-imagining manufacturing – The New Face of American Manufacturing - DeSimone, Carbon3D
Listen to Joe & Phil DeSimone discuss how they took Joe’s passion for science, and experience in building companies to identify a market opportunity. Learn how one talk by a leading competitor convinced them that the market opportunity was HUGE. Hear about how they set goals that immediately differentiated them from the rest of the industry. Their machines enable manufacturing of small lot sizes in various locations, making manufacturing location less relevant to the supply chain. Explore if having academics on your team could better help you manage...
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Ben Kirshner
CEO, EliteSEM
CEO.8 - Attracting & Retaining Talent in a Services Company - Ben Kirshner, CEO, EliteSEM
Conversation with Ben Kirshner, CEO EliteSEM
Attracting, retaining and motivating employees in a services business is essential for success. If the employees are millennials, it is all the more difficult. Learn how the best place to work at, according to Entrepreneur Magazine, has spectacularly low churn and high satisfaction. Learn how they avoid using recruiters, and instead use their culture to attract potential employees; and use clear values and a unique interviewing process to hire the right people.
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