Don Springer Your Business, Product, and Go-To-Market Innovation Guide
Don is a business and product leader, working within enterprises and startups for over 25 years. He has spent that time designing, building, and launching many new and innovative technology solutions and growing them into market leaders.
Don excels in mentoring and advising leadership teams to help them develop compelling product strategies with go-to-market plans to quickly learn, iterate, and achieve scale. Don's approach adheres closely to Lean Startup principles with a heavy emphasis on following a buyer-centric and market-facing approach.
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Tim Wolters Your Product and Technology Innovation Guide
Tim Wolters is an inventor and serial entrepreneur. He's founded and successfully exited three software/SaaS companies. His most recent endeavor is founding an accelerator program called CrowdSolve. He is both a mentor and alumnus of Techstars and has helped numerous companies think through their product, technology, and go-to-market strategy, and has worked extensively advising companies on how to employ artificial intelligence and machine learning within their businesses and products.
Tim advocates Lean Startup Formation/Execution, product vision, intellectual property, business strategy, and capital formation.
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Ara Howard Your Technology and Product Innovation Guide
Ara is a prolific problem solver, a bleeding edge technology adopter, and a minimalist architect. His background includes designing large-scale 24x7 satellite processing systems, studying greenhouse gas emissions, analyzing poverty and population growth from space, building lean technology stressing startups, and contributing countless solutions to budding developers.
A hacker at heart, he has spent the last 20+ years as a leading voice in the Ruby community and as a dedicated contributor to open source communities. Ara is an ardent believer in the power of tech to address needs at both the community and global level. As a TechStars and Unreasonable mentor he's encouraged more aware technology and consideration for the real power of the internet.
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Brad Warkins Business, Growth, and Operations Innovation Guide
Brad is an experienced C-suite executive with a strong history of partnering with visionary founders and entrepreneurs to grow their companies. An experienced builder, grower, and integrator, he has 30+ years of experience as a change agent, fueling rapid innovation and transformation to drive growth.
Brad thrives at managing change and has a deep background in knowing how to grow companies throughout the company lifecycle, navigating technology innovation and product reinvention. His strengths are in technology transformation, business strategy shifts, M&A strategy and execution, international growth, and business development. As a business owner, former big-4 consultant, and corporate executive, he possesses a broad perspective and base of experience.