After several of our companies were acquired, we wanted to give back to humanity by helping everyone lead happier, healthier and more productive lives. Victor Chapela is the Founder of Suggestic, a digital health company helping type 2 diabetics through precision lifestyle and nutrition interventions that leverage genetic data, mobile…
I love helping people improve – my passion really comes through when I’m leading through teaching. We have such a great community of people in Zambia that are hungry for career opportunities, so we’re doing the most we can to help them learn and improve themselves. Dimitri Zakharov is CEO…
Meet Dimitri Zakharov – CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Enterprises
Talk to your customers and get feedback. It’s much easier to ask consumers what they want then it is to guess and check. Ryan Charnov is the Founder of Giftfluence, a crowdfunding platform that enables charities to raise money through online shopping. Prior to founding Giftfluence, Ryan was a consultant…
Listen to feedback. Take it on board. After graduating in Political Science from Nottingham University, Isabel worked for several years as a Teach First teacher at an academy in West London. Working in schools, Isabel coordinated numerous social enterprises to increase opportunities for students, amongst them, Jamie’s Farm and First…
Treat relationships as the most valuable asset your company “owns,” and constantly work to keep those relationships alive and strong, whether they have a clear and immediate ROI to your financial bottom line or not. Chris Miller started his professional life as a community organizer in Illinois before going on…
I recommend everyone to just TRY it. No matter how crazy an idea sounds or if people tell you that it makes no sense, you should always try it yourself. Diana Sierra is the Co-founder and CEO for Be Girl, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering women by design. She…
Fail. We need to celebrate failure because if you are not failing, you are not growing. Tina Hovsepian, a designer and philanthropist, graduated from the University of Southern California with her Bachelors of Architecture in 2009. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Tina always had a consuming interest in humanitarian…
The best way to bring ideas to life is to focus on rapid prototyping and failing fast, so to speak. Mark Courtney is a social innovator and servant leader who has made a career for himself out of his vision for solving social issues, combined with his extensive enterprise solutions…
Trust your gut. As an entrepreneur, no one will ever care as much about your work as you do; yet, everyone will have an opinion. It’s so important to trust your gut and follow it, even if it goes against the advice of those you greatly respect and trust. Matt…
Learn how to sell, sell, sell. Sales are the oxygen of every business, and all of your employees are in sales. The more wine we sell, the more people we can help. Improve your pitch. Meet new customers. Always be ready to tell your story, even though you’ve told it…