Alexander is the owner of Smart IT, a company he founded with a group of close friends while still at university. Smart IT builds custom software and web applications for small-medium business and supplies the development and support teams for prominent enterprises internationally. With the team behind Smart IT, Alex…
Dave M. Simons is a bootstrapping, no-code app building husband and father of two. Never having learnt to code, Dave began p2p Business Awards as a side-project; something to keep an active mind learning after the 9 to 5 grind, and generate a little extra income. Identifying that small businesses…
Dmytro Okunyev is the founder and owner of Chanty, a team chat app that makes it easy to communicate and collaborate in the cloud. Dmytro started toying with the idea of a chat app back in 2012, when he launched a start-up called iPhone Icon Design. He realized that team…
Stay open to feedback, as it allows you to be ahead of the curve. Brian Freeman is the CEO and founder of Heartbeat, a marketplace that features 250,000 brand ambassadors and connects brands with real consumers to run influencer-style campaigns at scale on Instagram. Where did the idea for…
Julian is a seasoned entrepreneur who started his first (mini) enterprise at the tender age of 8. Fast forward almost half a century, and he is now the founder and CEO of jisp, a lifestyle app that digitises products and experiences to bring the best of online into physical spaces….
Alek Matthiessen grew up in Atlanta Georgia and graduated from Brown University in 2016. He worked at Snapchat, then left to found a startup which he sold in 2019. While in college, Alek was always building businesses. He started with a few CPG companies and quickly realized that they were…
Vern Weitzman is a serial entrepreneur and an avid consumer of new ideas, principles, and innovations in technology. Vern started his career as a software engineer for Control Data in 1981 where he was involved in early public switched networks and X.25 packet switching. After a series of joint ventures…
Surround yourself with amazing people, treat them well, and entrust them with responsibility. Sean Weisbrot is an American entrepreneur with a degree in Psychology from the University of Florida. After graduating in 2008, he immediately moved to China to begin teaching personal growth and development, positive psychology, and cross-cultural…
A single mother of two boys ages 10 and 12, grief is no stranger to Kim Libertini. Over the past 10 years, Kim has lost her grandmother, father, mother, marriage and then most recently, in 2015, the man she considered her life partner died suddenly after they had been traveling…
Max Kamenkov is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of SplitMetrics, a company that builds innovative products for mobile publishers. SplitMetrics is headquartered in Minsk, Belarus and also has offices in San Francisco and Europe. The company’s software solutions, SplitMetrics and SearchAdsHQ, are powerful and easy-to-use tools for mobile growth. SearchAdsHQ…
Hold yourself accountable because no one is going to give you your dreams, but don’t live for those few monumental moments either. Cait Pearson moved from Pennsylvania to Portland, Oregon in 2016 with only two bags, and a dream to be a food photographer. Without knowing a single person…