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A pleasure to welcome Mark Weinstein, CEO and Co-founder of Sgrouples, to today’s show!

Sgrouples, your OWN private network. No spying, no tracking, and no stalking!

SHOW NOTES + HIGHLIGHTS:

1. Is online privacy dead?

2. Do you have internet ADD? Has the web made thing simpler for you?

3. Why they are scrupulous about protecting user privacy…

4. But is transparency a good thing? Or not?

5. Mark speaks to the trend towards privacy globally…and what that means going forward.

6. There is room in the world for both models…Facebook’s open communication, and Sgrouple’s privacy model, where you choose who sees what.

7. “The privacy Bill of Rights…”

8. How do we really know that our data and communications are going to remain private?

9. How do you become profitable? Can you make money offering privacy, and NOT having an advertising-based model?

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A pleasure to welcome Danny Simon, CEO and co-founder of JobSync.com, to the show today!

Danny has taken JobSync from an idea on an iPad to a market-changing recruiting innovation relied on by Fortune 500 companies to find great talent.

SHOW NOTES:

1. Danny talks about the challenges that organizations like JobSync.com have to overcome to get large policy-ridden organizations to adopt new disruptive technologies.

2. The ability for an organization like JobSync to datamine extensive databases to connect candidates with searches does have the long-term probability to transform sourcing and recruiting.

3. Danny talks a bit about the technology behind JobSync.com.

4. Danny talks about how he built his team that is changing recruiting and sourcing, and how the idea was germinated.

5. The difference between active and passive job candidates, and how JobSync.com can serve both.

6. An organization will spend $3,500 to fill any given position…so you can begin to see how an outfit like JobSync.com can transform the hiring and recruitment process, which does it for less than $500.

7. Danny talks about striving for simplicity, and how achieving that is critical towards arriving at transformation.

8. He also sheds some light on the vital importance of naming a board of advisors that has relevant experience, connections, experience, and a willingness to shoot straight…

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A pleasure to welcome Raj Sheth, CEO and co-founder of RecruiterBox.com, to the show!

Recruiterbox is the easiest way to receive and manage job applications to your company. It is more efficient than email and simpler than any other recruitment software [from their website]. You can find Recruiterbox.com on Twitter as well…

SHOW NOTES:

1. How large and small organizations are benefitting from online and cloud-based software solutions.

2. “This is the way we think recruiting should be.” Recruiting should be simple and NOT complex, even if you are a larger organization.

3. The power of simplicity in business, software, etc…

4. There is data to suggest that the more simple a tool and/or process, the higher the adoption rate of it’s usage…

5. Collaborative recruitment, simplicity, and the Recruiterbox app…

6. Raj shares why online and cloud-based software such as this, will transform the recruitment industry.

7. Truly transformative technology saves not only cash, but time. And Recruiterbox.com can save 10X time… Why this matters…

8. Fears and anxiety about cloud security still hold some people back… Is this fear warranted?

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A pleasure to welcome Ron Davis and Charles Davis to the show. Respectively, Ron is the President, and Charles the CFO of SIVAD Business Solutions. SIVAD leverages experience coupled with hardware and software technology to provide solutions that automate the processes used by organizations to run their day-to-day business.

SHOW NOTES:

1. “Our mission is to find problems. And then using technology, we craft solutions to solve the problem. It is NOT the other way around.”

2. We discuss the crucial role technology plays in transforming marketplaces. Gone are the days where you hire more employees to drive production. Technology makes organizations more efficient, thus saving money.

3. Ron and Charles discuss the four sectors they serve: government, education, commercial, and health care.

4. “We are looking for niche problems in niche markets.”

5. SIVAD works with one of the largest school districts in the country, and they share the challenges of working with a system of that size…and how technology impacts the project.

6. SIVAD’s work ranges from small organizations to Fortune 100 companies. We discuss the importance scaling work matters in transforming markets.

7. SIVAD does their own podcast, and they use it to learn from the market to craft their market-influenced solutions.

8. SIVAD does a lot of work in county elections, helping county election boards provide more accurate elections, with the vote count done faster, and improving the voting process for voters themselves…all with few people and resources.

9. One of the ways SIVAD has tried to truly transform their service delivery is to hire people who have worked in the industries they are targeting, who really understand the day-to-day grind, who really understand the issues…and that has made all the difference.

10. Charles recommends for the organizations that CAN do this, and sell B2B, setting up a virtual organization has made ALL the difference in how SIVAD is transforming its market.

11. Don’t set up a Board of Advisors full of YES MEN. Formulate a board that will challenge you, but also support and cheerlead for you.

12. You can learn more about SIVAD Business Solutions here.

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Sami Jajeh

A pleasure to welcome Sami Jajeh to the studio. Mr. Jajeh is lead researcher, Board Member and Past President of TER, and principal of the Arketi Group. The main items up for discussion today were TER’s Annual Atlanta Technology Executive Compensation Survey, and learning more about Technology Executives Roundtable.

TODAY’S SHOW NOTES:

1. Sami discusses the mission and purpose of TER, the Technology Executives Roundtable, and what makes it one-of-a-kind amongst the technology associations in Metro Atlanta.

2. Exclusivity is the distinction that makes TER special. Invitation-only, for tech companies, achieving a certain amount of revenue.

3. Sami shared a typical agenda at a TER meeting, and listed several of the discussion topics covered at a typical meeting.

4. We discussed the coordination of groups such as TER and TAG, to make Georgia a technology mecca.

5. Sami outlined the purpose of TER’s Annual Atlanta Technology Executive Compensation Survey.

6. Lots of interesting findings from the survey, but most interesting was that founder ownership and founder equity, was increasing. This means less dilution is occurring, which is a good trend.

7. We discussed the different types of compensation seen in the survey, from base compensation, bonuses, stock options, and benefits.

8. Sami explains why this survey matters to the Georgia technology community, especially with regards to recruiting top talent into your organization.

9. Sami walked through the team, the process, and the methodology of putting the research and survey together.

10. You can find more information about the Technology Executives Roundtable, as well as get information about the survey itself at www.ter-atlanta.com.

11. You can email Sami at sjajeh@arketi.com. Arketi’s website is arketi.com.

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Lee Waters

A pleasure to welcome Lee Waters to the show. A veteran of the contact center management space, Lee co-founded both Clear Harbor and Receptivity Group.

On the show, we discussed the following topics:

1. Lee grew Clear Harbor from 2 to 1200 people. Lee shares how that happened. It wasn’t about just building a business…it was about building a business culture.

2. The importance of stress-testing by simulating work environments to determine keen understanding of both technology and process.

3. The impacts of outsourcing – and its role in business transformation.

4. The Atlanta Technology Angels, and what they do to help the startup community. And does does ATA help with the availability of startup capital to help fund the tech community in Georgia.

5. What angel investors look for when considering angel investments. What are the best pieces of advice when pitching ATA…

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