Michael Strong, author & founder of FLOW, got his start in the public sector until the school he was working with lost its funding. Michael explains how this experience launched his academic entrepreneurial journey starting schools across the country as a ‘recovering intellectual.’ iV interviews Michael to learn how being forced out of a school helped him start FLOW – an organization that is designed to bring tribes of business people together with tribes of do-gooders. All in the name of liberating the entrepreneurial spirit. … CREATED BY: On the Road with iV (Ingrid Vanderveldt, Lyn Graft). Ingrid Vanderveldt (Host), Lyn Graft (Director/Producer), & Chance Carpenter (Virtual Producer).

From the beginning, Krisstina Wise, has always had a vision and dreamt big despite life happening as this successful women entrepreneur likes to put it. iV learns exactly what the ‘Good life’ means to Krisstina & how that translates to building her real estate startup as well as KW’s top 3 lessons learned. Krisstina has some deep insights into the people you hire, partner with and surround yourself with and how that is part of her vision.

Founder Krisstina Wise, learned some hard lessons on starting funded tech companies prior to launching the Goodlife Team. This time she self-funded and chose a more conservative bootstrapping approach in building her real estate company while simultaneously applying some of those technology & contact management lessons learnedto build her boutique real estate firm. Learn how she has quickly built a $30M firm that is designed to go scale on this segment.

The founder of Brainpark made a bunch of money early in his entrepreneurial career in one of his startups, but on the day his son was born Mark Dowds lost it all and had to start over. iV interviews Mark to learn what how he delt with it, how he teamed with his partner, Bobby John, to start Brainpark & how much they put in to get it going. Mark shares a bit about his new investment strategy and how he pursues sales in this economy.

Jesse Harris shares some lessons learned while running this Youth Festival – business principals to not giving up to following your passion to help yu succeed. Plus how he deals with those tough days and dealing with rejection and using his own product to inspire himself.

The founder of NFFTY, Jesse Harris, shares some of the money and resource information on what it took to get the first film festival going and how he keeps it going today. Jesse is also candid about the fact that he is still figuring it out and the BIG challenges he faces. He is slowly turning this ‘young’ festival into the ‘go to’ destination for companies that want to reach this demographic. Plus how passion, emails and aspiring minds keep him going & how he bagged VIRGIN AMERICA!