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Profit TalksThe English Teacher Who Built an Education Empire - Carlos Wizard - Profit Talks #14Carlos Wizard Martins is a serial entrepreneur best known for founding Wizard English School, the biggest franchising of English language schools in the world, which he sold for 2 billion Reais (over 700MM Dollars) in 2013. He is now dedicated to other businesses in the education and food industry. He is also author of several books, the latest one being “Refugees: A Mission of Faith and Love”, where he tells the story of his humanitarian mission to assist refugees from the Venezuelan to the Brazilian border. We talk about his fantastic life story, from humble origins in Curitiba, Brazil, to joining The...
2021-04-0948 min
Profit TalksThe Power of Business War Games in Strategic Planning - Drew Miller - Profit Talks #13Dr. Drew Miller is Director of Advanced Analysis Applications, he has served as a management consultant, due diligence analyst, and business wargaming professional for several decades. He has a PhD in Operations research from Harvard University and has taught in university business schools. We talk about business war gaming as an alternative to the conventional strategic planning of a company, how it simulates and creates much richer analysis for the company to address future events, about the applications of it in education, about multi criteria decision analysis as a very useful but underrated tool, and much more!
2021-03-2348 min
Profit TalksSales Compensation Best Practices - Elizabeth Evans - Profit Talks #12Elizabeth Evans is a sales compensation senior manager for a Fortune 500 company with over 30 years of experience broadly on compensation management and over 10 years with sales compensation. We talk about how motivation to perform well at a job mostly not salary related, how nonetheless the form of compensation has a strong effect on sales performance, how bonuses for compensation for individual performance is better than team performance based bonuses, how you can prepare yourself professionally to become a sales compensation manager, and much more!
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2021-03-111h 00
Profit TalksRaising Money for Startups - Anastasios Avranas - Profit Talks #11Anastasios Avranas is an entrepreneur with solid experience as a partner and advisor for several start ups. His professional background is in investment banking and corporate finance and his current venture is called Interfima, a professional network of banking, insurance and healthcare specialists. We talk about the difference between the 3F´s, Seed capital, Venture Capital, and Private Equity; about what entrepreneurs should do to look for funds, how they should prepare themselves to present their business, how to negotiate their equity stake with fund managers, how the COVID-19 crisis has actually created a boost for startups and funding p...
2021-03-0451 min
Profit TalksPeople Management and Selection Process - Marcelino Hermida - Profit Talks #10Marcelino Hermida is an executive with over 15 years of experience acting in senior roles in the Education Industry, in lower and higher education, including Human Resources, and Organizational Development. Marcelino tells us about his experience as an education executive, the main qualities a leader must have from his perspective, what he looks for when he is running a selection process, how the education industry has been affected by the pandemics, how there are many great opportunities for entrepreneurship because of the crisis, and much more!
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2021-01-1637 min
Profit TalksBrasil Paralelo - The Company Which Defied the Standard Way of Doing Business - Profit Talks #09Flavio Barretto is Head of Customer Success and responsible for the partnerships of Brasil Paralelo. Brasil Paralelo is an independent, cultural movie production company in Brazil, with over 20 million views on its movies, with a very unique and successful subscription-based business model for cultural production. We talk about how Brasil Paralelo was created in 2016 amidst the political and economic crisis Brazil was going through, how the purpose and mission drive their people to great great movies and their ultimate success as a company, their unique subscription based business model, how they experienced tough financial problems in the beginning of 2020...
2020-12-2454 min
Profit TalksInvestment Banking and M&As - Sebastian Tandazo - Profit Talks #8Erick Sebastian Tandazo is Vice President in Alpax – a boutique investment bank based in Latin America. He has more than 10 years working in corporate finance advising clients from multiple locations in Latin America. We talk about how the investment banking business works, how a company should prepare itself to start an M&A process, how the M&A process itself works, the difference between a financial partner and a strategic partner, the different methods of valuing a company, the importance of understanding the why of using certain financial indicators such as EBITDA rather than simply knowing wh...
2020-12-041h 01
Profit TalksUnleash Your Inner Company - John Chisholm - Profit Talks #07John Chisholm is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor in the Silicon Valley. He founded the online software companies Decisive Technology, now a part of Google, and Customer Sat, now part of Confirmit. He is a trustee of MIT and the Santa Fe Institute, and past President and Chair of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association. He is also an advisor of Hayek Global College. We talk about John´s greatest challenge in life which was leading his tech company through the dot.com bust crisis, about how passion and perseverance work together to develop entrepreneurship, how discovering a customer´s...
2020-11-1954 min
Profit TalksThe American Entrepreneur Who Started a Surfing Business In Brazil - Mark Lund - Profit Talks #06Mark Lund is an American born, Brazilian entrepreneur best known for the 20 years he marked the north coast of São Paulo with his two ventures: the confectioner Le Moussier, which opened stores in several cities of São Paulo, and later a high-end surf store located in Maresias called “Legends”. He now gives lectures at top universities in the USA such as Babson, and was featured at Harvard Business Publishing on his unique “lifestyle” and entrepreneurship philosophy. We talked about his initial cultural shock as he moved from US to Brazil in his youth, how he later learned to...
2020-11-111h 06
Profit TalksTurning Clients Into Die-Hard Fans with Jean-Baptiste Jaussaud - Profit Talks #05Jean-Baptiste Jaussaud is an entrepreneur and economist, President of Compagnie Générale des Savonneries et des Huileries, and Founder of MuSaMa - the Museum of Marseille Soap. He is also the co-founder and chair of the school of Legitimacy Entrepreneurship at the Aix Marseille Université. We talk about concepts of risk, brand resilience and entrepreneurial legitimacy; in the finance, lifestyle (cosmetics, fashion, gastronomy, tourism), biotechnology and media sectors, how he has revived old brands into new models of business by buying cheap trademarks into profitable business, and much more!
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2020-11-0458 min
Profit TalksHow Corruption Arises And How It Operates - Mike Masoud - Profit Talks #04Mike J. Masoud is an international expert in anti-corruption and an executive of The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI). He is a senior instructor and researcher for The AACI in the fields of internal control, governance, and corruption prevention methodologies. We talk about the concept of corruption, at which conditions it happens, how it operates, the most common types, how to prevent it, and much more!
The AACI's blog: https://blog.theaaci.com/
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2020-10-2155 min
Profit TalksAI Technology Today And Its Challenges For Implementation - Diego Toledo - Profit Talks #03Diego Toledo is a software architect at Hulu. He worked on Ericsson, EA, Disney Interactive, and Activision as Software Engineer, becoming a specialist in technology. The knowledge about A.I. and its aplications in business are the future. We talk about the challenges of implementing artificial intelligence in business and how it can change the world.
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2020-10-1054 min
Profit TalksThe Story of DonaJo a Business Built from Scratch - Raphael Costa - Profit Talks #02Raphael Costa, COO and co-founder of DonaJo Fitwear. One of the biggest exporters of apparel from Brazil to USA. Raphael talks to us about his journey as an entrepreneur, from the beggining of having the idea of bringing to US a fashion style of women clothing as seen in Brazilian gyms, to using the skills he learned in college to draft the first business plan, seeking the first investment with his father in law, the best practices of people management he used to scale the business, his dreams for the future and much more!
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2020-09-1945 min
Profit TalksHow to deal with corruption in your business with Burke Flies - Profit Talks #01L. Burke Files, is an international business financial investigator, speaking with us about how to deal with corruption in your business. Burke is also an advisor and a Founding Professor of Hayek Global College. Burke talks to us about the role of the financial investigator in uncovering fraud schemes in companies, and what he as an investigator does to recover the assets, covers the best practices for mitigating risks of fraud in the companies, such as segregation of duties, and having people at key control positions take vacation leaves from time to time, also shares some interesting stories...
2020-09-061h 18