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Interview with Kareem Ahmed Sheik- Cofounder and Chairman of Crivly.

Kareem Ahmed Sheik is a masters student in computer science, an Entrepreneur and a freelancer. City where you’re from: I’m from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh,India. Hobbies: Watching anime(One piece, naruto etc), Playing chess Favorite quote: You must be the change you wish to see in the world- Mahatma Gandhi Twitter: @md_crivly Why did you decide to become

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Adam Warr: Trying to Pilot The Young Pilot

Background Hey Adam, thanks for joining us on today for an interview. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Adam Warr, and I’m currently a 4th year business student at Cal Poly SLO concentrating in Financial Management.  I earned my Associate of Science in Business Administration at Modesto Junior College, whereupon I transferred

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The Yu Twins: What We Learned From Building A 7 Figure E-commerce Company

Larry and Perry are internet entrepreneurs and online marketing experts. They started experimenting in business back in high school, but due to ‘shiny object syndrome’ and too much booze (half kidding), they failed to gain any serious traction for the first couple years. Their first “serious” business was a web design agency they launched sophomore

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YCombinator Alumni Mihir Deo is Turning Salespeople Into Superheros

Mihir Deo is the co-founder and COO of the YCombinator backed company Elucify. Elucify is a free and crowdsourced database of business contact information meant as a free resource for salespeople. He previously was an early salesperson at Dropbox and graduated from the University of California-Berkeley. City where you’re from: San Jose Hobbies: Fitness, Cricket, 49ers

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Mike Craddock; “I had £3.64 in my Bank Account, with Nothing Particularly To Lose”

City where you’re from:  Nottingham Hobbies: Football, Business, Content, Social Media, Travelling, Activities Favorite quote: Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard Twitter: https://twitter.com/FearCrads Background Why did you decide to become an entrepreneur? I had £3.64 in my bank account, with nothing particularly to lose. If the company failed, I’ve have £0 instead.

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Paul Ames: “Is The Skye Really The Limit?”

Paul Ames is a Career Counselor who operates “Skye’s The Limit Career Counselling” based in Perth, Australia. Paul is a contributor for the “Influencive”, has been featured in various national and international media- The Age, West Australian, WA Today, SMH, Motivate Me Podcast, Youngpreneurs Podcast, Careermetis Podcast and many more. Paul thrives on helping professionals

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Jeremy Miller is Not Your Average 18 Year Old

At the age of 7 Jeremy was already in the process of patenting two inventions. His parents did not have the time or money to carry out that process. Jeremy and his parents did not know where to go so the patents did not go through.There wasn’t a “Shark Tank” in 2009. In 2015 Jeremy

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Emerging Shark Joel Contartese Shares His Secret To Success

Hey Joel, where are you from? I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I moved to Miami, FL in 2000 when I was 9 years old. I have since had the pleasure of living in New York and now residing in Los Angeles. What are some of your hobbies? I like Networking, Learning, Creating. I love

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Chelann Gienger: From High School Student To Business Owner In Three Days

At 20 years-old, Chelann Gienger is a serial entrepreneur focusing her ventures on inspiring and empowering others to chase their dreams and goals in life. Two weeks before graduating with her AA in college, Chelann opened NUYU Juice Bar along with 3 other partners at the age of 18. Under a year later, she launched

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Trevor Oldham is Becoming the Lion and Motivating Millions of People Every Day

Trevor Oldham is a 20-year-old entrepreneur who’s had eleutheromania ever since he can remember. Trevor is the co-founder at Become The Lion. He’s been a contributor for Addicted2Success, Influencive, and The Daily Positive. Trevor’s on a mission to influence millennial’s to take charge of their life and achieve the desired freedom in their life.

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Quinn Underwood is Innovating the Global Health Space

Quinn Underwood is a serial entrepreneur in the field of global health, working to leave an indelible mark on the world. He founded his first non-profit at the age of 15 – now with chapters around the world, it’s as unstoppable as he hopes to be. Besides being involved in the non-profit sector, Quinn is

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Meet Bhupinder Nayyar the Founder of the Popular Site Bameslog

Bhupinder Nayyar, co-founder and COO of free publishing website Bameslog. Catch him on Instagram and LinkedIn for heaps of helpful material on Entrepreneurship, marketing, and productivity. City where you’re from: Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. Currently in: Bangalore Hobbies: Reading, writing, meditating, long walks, journaling.   Favorite quote: “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas

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Strategy Expert Kyle Brost Shares The Three Keys to Thinking Strategically

Kyle Brost is a Founder and Principal Consultant at Choice Strategy Partners, a firm specializing in strategic thinking. At Choice Strategy Partners they take organizational strategy to the next level by facilitating the strategic planning process and then developing strategic thinking skills in the organization through training and coaching. He is also the CEO of

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Jay Kim: Hacking Your Way To Freedom and Fitness

Jay Kim is a full-time investor and entrepreneur.  He is the host of the popular podcast The Jay Kim Show, and the founder of Hack Your Fitness, the complete fitness & lifestyle solution for busy professionals and entrepreneurs.  He works with world-class athletes and other high performers to help them achieve fitness results that are

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Started From the Jungle Now We’re Here: A Startup Journey from Barcelona to Nicaragua to SF with Luis Montalván

College dropout/drop in, Economist and wanderluster; Luis Montalván is the founder of Vynil, a mobile app that dares you to trip and matches you with the most amazing experiences in Latin America because let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want to travel to sick places? Nice meeting you Luis, I love connecting with other Latino entrepreneurs. Let’s

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How Juan Patron, A Young Entrepreneur, Is Innovating Miami Businesses

Juan Patron is one of our generation’s leading business innovators.  Assisting in making your ideas come to life, Juan Patron desires to take you and your business to new heights. Through innovative marketing strategies, Juan Patron will propel your company into a variety of markets nationally and internationally. Early life At an early age of twelve,

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Robbie Page, Managing Partner at Ad Valorum and Professional Athlete, Shares His Best Entrepreneurial Advice

Robbie Page is a Managing Partner of Ad Valorum, Chief Marketing Officer of Tenzo Tea, and plays Professional Beach Volleyball on the AVP. City where you’re from: Rochester, NY Hobbies: Reading, Volleyball, Guitar, Adventuring and Exploring Nature Favorite quote: “Vision is the source of leadership, the expansive dream state where everything begins and all is

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Rahul Kanojia: Bringing a Massive Cultural Shift in The Indian Education System

Rahul Kanojia is an IT engineer from Mumbai University. He is also an Entrepreneur, Educationist, Speaker, Freelance programmer and a Web developer. Lastly, he is the Youth General Secretary at International Humans Right Council (Mumbai area). In this interview he shares a bit more into Diplomas, a project with which he plans to completely change

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The Power of Personal Branding: From Near-Death Tragedy to Triumph with Cherie Aimée

Cherie Aimée is a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and Near-Death Survivor. She was dead for 90-minutes and now represents the future of medical science and technology. She is a Brand Ambassador for various companies and organizations and contributing writer for the fast-growing media outlet, Influencive. Cherie is Advisor to entrepreneurs and CEO/Founders of small

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Alejandra Garcia Giving It All on the Field

Hey Alejandra, very glad to have you here. Why don’t give us a quick intro about yourself? I’m 20 years old and from Sacramento,CA. I started playing competitive softball when I was 10 years old (for the California Breeze). Prior to that I played baseball from 4-10 years old and competitive baseball while I played

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Abtin Masseratagah: The Digital Pioneer with 25 Million Daily Impressions

Abtin Masseratagah was one of the original influencers and creators that learned to leverage social media to control what everyone is viewing, with campaigns as large as 25MM impressions per day. City where you’re from: Born and raised in Toronto, Canada Hobbies: Weight lifting, Film, Hamburger Enthusiast Favorite quote: “Loyalty is a two-way street. If

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Nikhil Malankar, the Indian Entrepreneur Who Wants to Disrupt the Gaming Industry

Nikhil Malankar is a 23 year old Indian Entrepreneur who started his journey from GameEon, an Indian game development company. He took an exit from his role as the CEO of GameEon and currently he is running Tell Me Nothing, an entertainment website and is working on his next games under Next Move Digital LLP.

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Ariel Gutierrez Survived the Cuban Regime and Taught Himself 3D Modeling

Ariel Leonardo Gutierrez is the founder of Ariel Designs, which focuses on transportation design and 3D CAD modeling. He is currently studying at University of Florida to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Through the Miami Dade College (MDC) Honors program, he obtained an Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. At MDC, he served as

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Shikhar Srivastava: The Builder of Brands! #SAVAGE

Shikhar is a Satirist, Science Communicator, Sci-tech Blogger, Sonneteer, Rationalist, and Futurist. Having so many projects going on at the same time, Shikhar Srivastava is hard to keep track of. In this interview, we talked about the importance of reading and where to find skilled people to get your projects done.  Where are you from? I am

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19-Year Old Jason Wong Makes a Quarter Million Dollars off Internet Memes

Jason Wong was a Tumblr influencer with over a million followers who decided to turn his digital influence into cash. Learn more about him during this engaging and super insightful interview. One liners City where you’re from: Born in Hong Kong, currently residing in Irvine, California Hobbies: Spa, trying new restaurants, traveling Favorite quote: “You miss

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Austin Vaday: An Inspirer, Motivator, and Visionary

When I first met Austin Vaday a few years ago, it instantly struck me how passionate and dedicated to his projects he was. Austin studies Computer Science at UCLA and is currently building Aquaint, a social network that lets you seamlessly find other people’s social media profiles in one place, by making one profile with

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Steve O’Dell Killing the Game with Tenzo Tea and Ad Valorum

Steve O’Dell is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Tenzo Tea and Managing Partner of Ad Valorum. He has been a good friend of mine ever since we crossed paths at UCLA during our undergraduate studies. In this interview, Steve shares a bit about his story with his matcha company and also provides a great angle

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Manu Goswami: One of the world’s most accomplished teens

Manu Goswami is a 19 year old sophomore studying at the University of Toronto. He is an award winning serial tech entrepreneur and innovator, UN Youth Ambassador, early stage tech investor, LinkedIn campus editor, social media personality and TEDx speaker. Swish, as they know him, is one of the world’s youngest venture capitalist as a

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Koven Wei and His Clothing Ventures

Photo credit: Ryan Ng, IG: @dinoooo.r Hey Koven, great having you here today. Can you give us a short intro about you? My name is Koven Wei and I am 18 years old. I recently graduated early from high school in order to pursue my ventures and I am currently running my own clothing brand and

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Jeremy Slate – Create Your Own Life

Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to.  He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using Online social networking to build an offline relationship and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy. It is because of Jeremy’s

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Joey Hubbard Shares His Passion for Music with Future Sharks

Tell us about your upbringing, what got you into music?  Growing up just outside of Calgary I was active in music from a young age. Starting in piano when I was 6, quickly I progressed to violin, and then guitar. As I was actually home-schooled for my elementary years, music was an extremely large part

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Richard Lorenzen of Fifth Avenue Brands, a Truly Inspiring Story

Richard Lorenzen is a one of the top millennial entrepreneurs and investors in America. He’s the founder and CEO of Fifth Avenue Brands, a public relations firm in New York City. He was ranked by both Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 50 most inspiring entrepreneurs. Richard is also the author of

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Josh Steimle: Speaker, Writer and BAUS entrepreneur

Uhmm where do I begin… Put simply, Josh Steimle is a straight BAUS.  As a writer, speaker and businessman, Josh is a relentless entrepreneur that has written over 200 articles for Time, Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur, among others. He is also the author of of Chief Marketing Officers at Work, which contains interviews and insights from

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Andy Hine Found His Dream Job After Working 107 Other Jobs

Andy Hine is the founder of MedalDisplays.co.uk and MedalDisplays.com.au. In this interview, he goes over what made him ditch his jobs and finally start his entrepreneurial journey. Most of the time, we won’t find out what we truly like until we try many things. Let’s hear it from Andy to see what he went through

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Helping the Homeless. A Very Motivational Story with Sam Sawchuk

Sam Sawchuk is the co-founder of Sandwich for a Story, an initiative which focuses on using Virtual Reality as a tool to help immerse people coping with homelessness in job interview settings. Sam is also a TEDx speaker, startup advisor and contributor to major publications including the Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Influencive, HustleTime and Startups.co.

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Sameer Jafri: Getting a Shark to Invest in Your Idea

Sameer Jafri is one of my good friends at UCLA. We met freshman year and connected because of our mutual interest in entrepreneurship. In 2014, Sameer started Twazer, an online marketplace for college students to buy and sell their items through a clean mobile interface. He has been hustling for quite a while and recently

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