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THE Q FACTOR

Gregg S. Fisher

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Welcome to The Q Factor, where host Gregg Fisher, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Quent Capital, leads listeners through the rapidly evolving landscape of data-driven leadership and innovation. This award-winning podcast series dives deep into the profound impact of data on every facet of life in the 21st century, navigating the intricate intersection of data and humanity. In every episode, Fisher engages with business luminaries and thought leaders to explore the delicate balance between t ...
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The Moms Podcast

Compass Media Networks

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Denise Albert and Melissa Musen Gerstein, THE MOMS, are co-creators of a multi-platform lifestyle brand featured on TV, online, in print, in taxicabs and previously hosted the nationwide radio program The MOMS with Denise & Melissa on SiriusXM. The MOMS have also created a town hall event series called Mamarazzi®. The MOMS host events and raise awareness for important issues such as Human Trafficking alongside Jada Pinkett Smith, Breast Cancer Awareness with The Susan G. Komen organization a ...
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Jeff Price (Founder TuneCore, spinART Records and Audiam) and journalist Ted Gerstein (Author: Bomb Squad, Former Producer ABC News Nightline) explore the behind the scenes mechanisms of the music industry allowing artists, producers, record labels, songwriters and technology innovators to make money off music. Learn why $30 billion dollars is generated off of music and whose pockets it ends up in.
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In this podcast we interview startup founders & players supporting early-stage EdTech startups from across Europe in 20+ minutes. The podcast is brought to you by the EdTech Garage, a community for early-stage European EdTech startups where founders can scale up faster through the founder community, matchmaking and specialized resources. Learn more on edtechgarage.org and follow us on LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/edtechgarage/. Host: Frank Albert Coates Music: Ehsansation
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Elections, lobbying, voting, and campaigning today are intense and filled with increasingly complex rules and resulting legal disputes. “Early Returns: Law and Politics with Jan Baran” spotlights players on the field, including political professionals, activists, election officials, lawyers, and journalists, eliciting their insights and personal experiences. Join Jan and his guests as they tackle current controversies in law and politics. Jan Baran is a partner at Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchi ...
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Many see the freedom in free trade as a sacred American value. But in their groundbreaking new book, INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES, Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher make the case that there is simply no such thing as free trade. They present overwhelming research arguing for a formal and forceful US industrial policy. Fasteau and Fletcher jo…
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A very unusual and historic week of political and legal events just preceded America’s Independence Day. The Supreme Court of the United States ended its term with pivotal decisions, including a number that affect former President Donald Trump, the pending legal cases against him, and the 2024 presidential election. Indeed, the justices have ruled …
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In this episode: ⁠Frank Albert Coates⁠ is talking with ⁠Gustav Grimberg who is the co-founder of Ezri, a company dedicated to developing AI tutors that transform online learning. With a background in human-computer interaction, Gustav has long been passionate about creating technologies that are natural and intuitive for human beings to interact wi…
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"Nothing about biology makes sense unless it is seen in the light of evolution." In this episode, host Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital speaks with Dan-Avi Landau, one of the leading cancer researchers and data scientists in the world. In this fascinating conversation, Landau zeros in on cancer's anarchic role in the story of human evolution, and desc…
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In this episode: Frank Albert Coates is talking with Arnaud Blachon who is the co-founder and CEO of Rise Up, a specialist provider of learning software solutions that help organisations stay up-to-skill. With an engineering background he began his career as an application developer and in 2014, he co-founded Rise Up with his brother Guillaume, aim…
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Arguing before the Supreme Court increasingly has become a specialty of an elite group of lawyers. A former Scalia judicial law clerk, Kannon Shanmugam has argued 38 cases at the court. In this episode, Jan speaks with Kannon about his Midwest upbringing, his route to being a lawyer, his exceptional career, and his times before the Supreme Court. T…
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On the opposite coast from Silicon Valley, New York is making their own massive investment in artificial intelligence. The Empire A.I. Consortium is a $400M public-private initiative designed to transform Buffalo into a global center for A.I. research. My guests are two of the project’s architects, UB Professors Venu Govindaraju and JinJun Xiong, w…
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In this episode of Early Returns, Jan Baran speaks with Former Virginia Governor and U.S. Ambassador, Jim Gilmore. They discuss his career in public service, his rise in Republican politics with the popular Virginia car tax reimbursement, and staying true to his roots and passion for foreign affairs and policy. As Ambassador to the Organization for…
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In this episode: Frank is talking with Mindaugas Petrutis, the CEO of Coho, which is enabling companies to curate peer groups at scale. This came as a spin-off from On Deck, the global startup community for founders. For Mindaugas, his journey in community building began nearly a decade ago, creating spaces for meaningful interactions and learning …
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In this episode: Frank is talking with ⁠Noam Gerstein, the CEO of the bina school - a fully online primary transnational school for kids aged 4-12. Noam started university at 16 in Tel-Aviv, worked for physichians for human rights. Founded, bootstrapped and exited a business at 26. Then did more than 7+ years of global K-6 research that culminated …
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At this point in a presidential election year, the national conversation would usually be focused on which candidates are wrestling for their party nomination. But, as we know, this year is different. Even though primary elections still remain and the nominating conventions won’t occur until late summer, the 2024 candidates for president appear to …
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In this episode: Frank is talking to Lula de León, a designer, teacher, entrepreneur and mother. She is the CEO and co-founder of Leemons, a startup born in May 2021 with the goal of transforming the digitalization of learning in educational centers with its innovative SaaS LMS platform. We talk about: How the lack of innovation in the LMS/LXP segm…
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As with the previous two season kick-offs of Early Returns, we welcome the third season with the newly elected 2024 chair of the Federal Election Commission, Sean Cooksey, who is a republican. The FEC consists of six bipartisan commissioners with no more than three from the same political party. It takes the vote of four commissioners to take any m…
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In this episode: Frank is talking to Nick Hernandez who is the CEO and Founder of 360Learning, an advisor and investor in the SaaS technology industry. He has been running 360Learning now for 10 years and grown it into one of the leading LMS platforms for corporate education. He has also secured over 200M EUR in funding from funds such as SoftBank …
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In this episode: Frank is talking to Michal Hudeček who is the CEO of Levebee and a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in online business. Levebee makes learning easier, more effective and fun for kids in areas such as math, reading and languages. His background combines deep technical knowledge with business skills proven by multiple…
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In this episode: Frank is talking to Michaela Horvathova who is the co-founder and Chief Education Officer at Beyond Education. The company empowers students 10-21 years old with the 21st century competencies, or so called "soft skills” through research-based programs and 1st scientifically validated assessment. She is an international education po…
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In this episode: We are talking to Andy Ayim who is an entrepreneur, investor and an expert angel being the founder of the Angel Investing School. He is coaching founders to help them achieve product market fit and is a leading voice for integrating diversity and inclusion into portfolios of investors. He has invested in over 17 startups and also r…
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In this episode of Early Returns, Jan speaks with Bradley Smith, professor at Capital Law School, former Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) Chair, nationally recognized expert on campaign finance and the First Amendment, and the Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Free Speech (“IFS”). IFS defends rights guaranteed by the first amendment of t…
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In this episode: We interview Christophe Mallet, who is the CEO & co-founder of Bodyswaps, a VR platform that brings realistic simulations and AI-enabled feedback to soft skills training for educational institutions and corporate clients. Christophe has long experience in the immersive technologies and digital marketing fields and is based in Londo…
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In this episode, Jan speaks with Jill Holtzman Vogel, the managing partner of Holtzman Vogel and a Virginia State Senator. Jill started her law firm 21 years ago as a sole practitioner specializing in political law. It now has over 40 lawyers in four states. Jill also has devoted 16 years of public service in the Virginia Senate. Jill speaks openly…
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How do successful businesses value their people? In today's data-driven world, this isn't a question that competitive business leaders can afford to leave un-quantified. Today's guest is one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject. Harvard Business School professor Ethan Rouen has just published a game-changing paper called "The Stock Market…
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In this episode: We interview ⁠Hanna Celina, who is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Kinnu. The startup is developing an app for curious people to learn effectively with the goal of changing the way billions of people learn. She holds a PhD in Computer Science specialized in Human-Computer interaction design, has a background from Future…
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It appears that policy changes are being resolved in the courts, and most specifically at the Supreme Court. If we look at recent court decisions involving abortion, the Affordable Care Act, Environmental Protection Act and gun rights, many people believe these decisions are politically motivated, especially when the politicians and media help to p…
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This episode examines an important government agency that helps keep our voting systems current, transparent, and reliable. The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (“EAC”) has existed for a little over 20 years. It was created in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election and the Florida vote recount. In today’s political climate of distrust …
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If you're running out of earthly investment ideas, perhaps you're simply not aiming high enough. Look to the Low Earth Orbit, says Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, Founder and CEO of the Aurelia Institute, and one of the most brilliant young thinkers we've ever had on THE Q FACTOR. Ekblaw joins host Gregg Fisher for a mindblowing conversation about the extraordin…
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In this episode: We interview Thomas I. Tveteraas Helgø who is the founder of Society Lab, a Norwegian digital learning agency that helps increase an organisation's ability to lead transformation. We talk about: Why it is more than ever crucial to focus on learning to support transformation in companies, what the actual competitor of corporate lear…
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In this episode: We interview Matteo Penzo who is a serial entrepreneur and a former executive at frog, a global design and strategy firm. Today Matteo leads the team at zick learn, which is a startup making enterprise learning fast, efficient and fun through text based micro-learning delivered to any chat client on the market. Matteo is based in M…
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The future may be dreamed in leaps and bounds, but it's built in small, well-considered steps. Today's guest is AJ Meyer, CEO of the delightfully-named Pickle Robot. They have one product: a robot that unloads trucks. And by focusing on one small slice of the supply-chain problem, Meyer and his team have built the foundation for the future, one in …
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Political activity and lobbying have become not only full time, but also highly regulated. That also means that election campaigns as well as lobbying activities are getting under way for the next election cycle. To talk about the demands and challenges of advising companies on political law, Jan speaks with Wesley Bizzell, a lawyer who has spent o…
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In this episode: We interview Jesper Bergmann, co-founder and CEO at startup Teacherspace, who makes it easy for teachers (in K12) to get quality feedback on their classroom by providing them with mentors and unique qualitative and quantitative insights. Jesper is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. We talk about: The challenges of being a teacher and la…
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This episode marks the start of the second season of Early Returns. We have been privileged to interview interesting guests and welcome a large and growing audience of listeners. We have discussed laws about foreign election interference, representation of the president during the Mueller investigation, the perspective of a journalist who covers le…
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The lead up to the 2022 election cycle was a very active two years, coming off of a very divisive 2020 election which included pandemic-related election changes and election deniers. Our guests, Jessica Furst Johnson and Jason Torchinsky, both political law partners at Holtzman Vogel, join Jan to review the legal issues that arose during this recen…
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In season 2 we interview business angels investing in European EdTech startups to understand their investment thesis, what advice they would give startups seeking funding and how founders should approach these types of investors. In this episode: We interview Anette Bø Andreassen who is an angel investor and partner at Sagene Tech Ventures, a pre-s…
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In season 2 we interview business angels investing in European EdTech startups to understand their investment thesis, what advice they would give startups seeking funding and how founders should approach these types of investors. In this episode: We interview Erensah Ayanlar, who is the Chief Customer Experience Officer at Mesmerise, a company deli…
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The pandemic didn't change everything, but it certainly hit the accelerator. The future of work has arrived. Or has it? What are the trends worth paying attention to, and investing in, as we navigate this once-in-a-generation, or perhaps, once-in-a-century transition, to a fully-automated, work-from-home, semi-virtual, wholly-digital work life? Que…
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The first Monday in October is the traditional beginning of a new Supreme Court term. This week the nine justices began hearing cases that involve our constitutional rights and that shape U.S. law. Each term, the Supreme Court seems to be tackling the big issues including abortion, gun rights, voting rights, affirmative action and the checks and ba…
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In season 2 we interview business angels investing in European EdTech startups to understand their investment thesis, what advice they would give startups seeking funding and how founders should approach these types of investors. In this episode: We interview Dr. Melody Lang from MPA Education, an advisory and investment company dedicated to the fu…
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We are now back after a long summer holiday and ready to kick off the fall of 2022 with a new season of the EdTech founders podcast. This season we will focus on an area where early-stage founders have many questions; namely getting funding from business angels. We will interview business angels investing in European EdTech startups to understand t…
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The 2022 mid-term elections will decide the fate of 435 House seats and 33 Senate seats. With 90 days remaining before election day, Early Returns welcomes nationally respected nonpartisan voting analyst, Nathan Gonzales. As editor and publisher of Inside Elections, Nathan has studied and analyzed campaigns and elections for over 20 years. He share…
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This is the 11th and final episode of the first season of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage. Keep listening until the very end for a bonus remix from our DJ friend Ehsansation. Can you spot who is remixed? In this episdoe we interview Marie Verchère, who is the co-founder and CEO of Upskyld a personalized learning app that uses audio to plug into …
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Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1972, a group of men were arrested here in Washington for breaking into the offices of the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building. The event was seen as odd. It was not heavily reported at first; but, it unleashed, over the following two years, major congressional and grand jury investigations, n…
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In the 10th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Robin Guerit, the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Flowchase, based in Belgium. The company is helping English learners speak confidently through blended-learning tools for pronunciation instruction. They are working with both higher education institutions and corporat…
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In the 9th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Aleksandra Maravic, founder of Beyond the Box, a subscription based skills platform for enterprises based in Italy. Her vision is to eliminate the skills mismatch by 2030. We talk about: Attracting customers & talent, the power of accelerators & mentors, feeling lonely as a found…
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It has been six years since Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign was accused of colluding with Russia to win the White House. Those allegations have caused a tidal wave of legal battles—ranging from congressional inquiries, to a Special Counsel probe led by Robert Mueller, an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, and multiple prosecutions. In …
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In the 8th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Jack Daly, founder of 8BitCADE & STEM studio, based in the UK. 8bitcade makes fun, DYI, game consoles to teach STEM topics. They offer their services in the K12 segment in a B2C model. We talk about: The future of STEM education, being a designer, agility & time to market, using …
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Under the Constitution, each state establishes the time, place, and manner of holding an election for Senator or Representative unless Congress passes a nationwide change of the rules. State laws on how to register and vote, where to vote, and how and when votes are counted vary widely. COVID and the 2020 elections caused many voting changes and co…
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In this 7th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Eduardo Nunes, CEO of Kendir Studios, a company based in Porto, Portugal. Kendir Studios is a development studio for educational role playing and adventure games. They offer their services in the K12 segment in a B2C model. We talk about: Impact of gamification on learning, the …
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In this 6th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Miska Noponen, CEO of Annie Advisor, a company that proactively finds students in need of support and helps them when it's most impactful, increasing student satisfaction and decreasing dropout rates. They offer this service for K12 and Higher Education schools & institutions an…
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In this 5th episode of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage we interview Alex Tep, founder of Bunsen, a company building a B2B marketplace for school supplies for K12 and Higher Education, based out of London, UK. We talk about: Challenges of teachers in K12 in the UK, selling into education institutions, finding business angels, building marketplace…
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