Mary Lemmer of Improv4 shares how Improv (http://www.improv4.com) improves startup culture and trains leaders. Improv4 uses improv and comedy techniques to train entrepreneurs, and startup teams to work together better and have more fun at work.

Audrey Grubman & Christina Kramlich of Parkside Advisors discuss Incentive Stock Options, the Qualified Small Business Stock Tax Exemption, and other Financial Planning Strategies for Startup Founders & Employees.

Joel Gragg of ORIX (https://www.orix.com) discusses how growth stage startups use debt as part of their capital structure. Joel also talks about how greater predictability in startup revenue and customers unlocks more and more low-cost loans, enabling startups to fund their growth without giving up lots of equity.

Eric Frazer & Richard Seaberry of Decisely (http://www.decisely.com/) discuss Startup Benefits & Human Resources. Decisely is an online benefit brokerage and HR services firm that focuses on startups and small businesses.

David Bergeron, a second-time guest (!!!) discusses T3's analytical approach to the 2019 Startup Real Estate Market, how bigger companies like Amazon, Facebook & Google are changing the market and the rise of Remote Teams. (https://www.t3advisors.com/)

Paul Lappas of Intermix (https://www.intermix.io/) comes by to explain how his company gives developers and data scientists a single dashboard to monitor mission-critical data. Paul lived this problem as his previous company so Intermix is built from the ground up to help spot bottlenecks in your data pipelines, detect troublesome queries, or fix slow analytics. The Compnay's customer list is the "who's who" of the last stage startup world. It's been exciting to see the company take off!

Michael Tannenbaum of Brex (https://brex.com/) comes by to discuss startup corporate credit cards. Michael ran finance at SOFI before joining Brex and he learned first hand how painful and inefficient corporate credit cards can be. Brex has streamlined the process, made founder personal guarantees unnecessary and made integration with Quickbooks really easy. It's a great credit card solution that Kruze Consulting recommends!

Brian Mullen of InfluxData (https://www.influxdata.com/) comes by to discuss the Company's Open Source Time Series Database for Metrics & Events. Brian is a Twilio veteran and identified InfluxData as another key developer empowering service. Brian shares interesting customer stories on how InfluxData is being used across DevOps and in the Internet of Things world.

Michael Chapp of Utomic (https://www.utomic.com/) talks about the entrepreneurial journey and his Company's iphone protection hardware. Utomic has a community focus in addition to being a successful startup and Michael shares their programs in the podcast. It's an inspirational story about how a startup can help build the community and great products.

Haje Kamps is a Hardware VC at Bolt VC (https://bolt.io/) but in this podcast, Haje gets back to his journalist roots by interviewing me (Scott Orn)! Don't worry, I'm not getting a big head. This is something Haje suggested and we've had a lot of requests for this so we went ahead and did the interview. It's a lot of fun and we bounce around a ton of startup topics. Thanks, Haje!