Latitude

This week on the podcast we talk to Chris Smith, Vice President and tHe gUy tHaT DoEs tHe tHiNgS, from Community Beer Works.

Rather than our traditional episode, this week we recorded that seminar, the Q&A and we take a deep dive with two CTO’s who have grown their startups into dozens of engineers and developers respectively.

This week on the podcast, host Nate Benson talks to Hadar Borden from Blackstone Launchpad, Powered By Techstars, at the University at Buffalo.

This week on the podcast our host Nate Benson talks with Adam Stotz, CTO of Trove. Trove uses predictive data science and uses it to help startups and data analyze and organize their data so it can be used efficiently.

Today, Kevin is the Managing Director of the Founder Institute, which is represented in 180 cities across the world and has helped launch 3,500 startups.

This week on the podcast we talk with Elijah about deploying their cold storage lockers on the campus of University at Buffalo, how the students are making use of the access to secure food storage and how the company plans to grow.

This week on the podcast, hosts Nate Benson and Darren Treadway talk with Martin Group Founder Tod Martin about growing a premiere branding and communications agency, innovations his company has made, what it takes to succeed in a competitive market, how to methodically scale and letting the entrepreneurial spirit flow through leadership.

Dan Miner has been covering the Buffalo tech and startup scene since 2012. He’s seen successes, failures, hills, valleys, IPO’s and closures. This week on the podcast we talk with Dan about the early days of the resurgent Buffalo startup ecosystem, what has changed, how the Buffalo business community can get involved and what more needs to happen from what he’s seen in other cities.

So you have a startup idea, great! Now what? You’ve probably talked to some friends and family, but you’re going to need some capital to get off the ground.

Buffalo is awesome, especially in the eyes of those who live here. Awesome Buffalo is awesome as well. Part of the worldwide Awesome Foundation platform, Awesome Buffalo provides $1,000 grants to those looking to do social good in the city.

Bob Willer is a man of many talents. He’s a former professional hockey referee. He’s a founder. He’s the CIO of an ed-tech startup in Buffalo. And the Ice Cream Machine Guy at said startup.

This week on the podcast we head back to the 43North Finals where we hosted a live edition of Latitude with the 2018 follow-on funding winners Femi Secrets and Kangarootime.