Tacos & Tech Podcast · The Making of an Exit - How I Sold My Company
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Building a company isn’t easy, and neither is selling one. Hear from local entrepreneurs-turned-Tech Coast Angels investors about the trials and tribulations they faced selling their own companies.
TCA is the largest angel investment group in the country that has fueled new innovative companies since 1997, with one of its most active memberships in San...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Taking on the Future of 5G with Serial Entrepreneur Cleve Adams
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Cleve Adams is a serial entrepreneur, with his latest venture being CEO of VOXOX, a cloud communication services company that innovates communication across networks and devices. VOXOX utilizes both 5G data and AI in its technologies.
Cleve found himself in tech after following a girl (now his wife) from Southern California to the...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Connect All Spotlight with Jasmine Sandler
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Jasmine Sadler is the Founder and CEO of The STEAM Collaborative, which focuses on advocacy for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education through an artistic lens. The STEAM Collaborative works with community-based organizations, informal educators, and museums to design, implement, and manage team education programs.
Growing up in Detroit,...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Bringing the Classroom to Learning Enthusiasts with Steven Cox
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Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO of TakeLessons, a virtual marketplace that connects learning enthusiasts with instructors in topics ranging from sign language to music, business skills and chess. TakeLessons helps instructors simplify marketing and manage their business with integrated communication tools.
Steven tells about how he first...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Connect All Spotlight with Meri Birhane
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Meri Birhane is the Founder and CEO of Meri Consulting Services, a professional firm that helps service providers, startups, and sales professionals book meetings through a proprietary tech sales playbook and LinkedIn coaching.
Meri tells us about how she worked her way through tech sales positions, gaining confidence with each sale up until she felt ready to...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Investing into your Future with Christopher Mizer
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Christopher Mizer is the President and CEO of Vivaris Capital, an alternative asset investment company designed to fund growing tech firms and real estate properties.
Christopher dives in and shares his journey from life as an investment banker to becoming the CEO of Vivaris Capital. Having grown up in a small town in Ohio, Christopher was never exposed...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Building Community Through the Workplace with Felena Hanson
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Felena Hanson is the Founder of Hera Hub, a spa-inspired, shared work space and business accelerator centered around female entrepreneurs.
Felena takes us through her journey founding Hera Hub as an entrepreneur. Rewinding back to 2010, she was running a small marketing and consulting firm as well as teaching students part-time at a fashion...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Modernizing the Home Service Industry with Roland Ligtenberg
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In today’s tech driven environment, service-based businesses need access to the tech tools to help them meet customers’ needs. Roland Ligtenberg, Co-Founder and SVP of Growth and Innovation at Housecall Pro provides an overview of how his company has grown to be a leader in businesses digitization, which is especially important during the...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Strengthening our Startup Community with Danea Ramos and Anahi Abe-Brower
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As entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly popular career choice, the role of startup accelerator programs has become even more critical as they work to promote growth for small businesses. One such local accelerator that’s making a big impact on the San Diego startup community is Connect All at the Jacobs Center. This episode...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Connecting & Protecting Communities Through Internet with Cox
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Given how much technology has been integrated in our daily lives, the Internet is constantly connecting us to friends and information through devices ranging from our smartphones to our laptops. However, we don’t give much thought to the vast network of infrastructures involved that allow us to take advantage of this resource. Cox...
