Explore Jason Skeesick's journey from Army veteran to successful entrepreneur on The Jens Heitland Show. Discover key insights on building robust businesses, overcoming obstacles, and driving success with effective strategies and community building.

In the podcast episode, Marco Torres, Founder of MarketingBoost.com, discusses the importance of incentive-based marketing for startups and solo entrepreneurs. Drawing parallels from McDonald’s and Amazon, he emphasizes the significance of adding value to offers through “Value-Add-Incentives” as opposed to providing discounts. With a community of over 27,000 business owners in his Facebook Group, Marco’s insights focus on boosting sales and scaling businesses with affordable subscription programs and value-added marketing techniques.

Alexander Hertel is the CEO and Founder of Public Value Hub an NGO that is focused on creating social impact through entrepreneurship. Over his career Alex worked as reporter in different media companies such as MDR and ARD in Germany and as well abroad in Central Eastern Europe.

In our conversation Alex shares the story how he got to build the Public Value Hub we talk about RestartUA a program that helps displaced people from the Ukraine to start a social business in Germany and how this fits into the Public Value Incubator

Gabbie Kelly has a background in financial auditing, corporate accounting, and serving clients as a fractional CFO, [Name] has a wealth of experience in the financial industry. However, what she finds missing is the opportunity to help business owners navigate their day-to-day operations and make informed decisions that are critical to their success.Gabbie wants to make a difference, providing the tools and knowledge that business owners need to thrive.

Cielo and Niklas are the founders of ChocNchoc a chocolate startup that is changing the way how we experience chocolate.

Both of them grew up in large corporations like Jacobs and Mars and they still work next to running their chocolate startup.

David Martinez de Lecea is a Consultant, entrepreneur and investor with a unique combination of business management expertise and deep technological acumen focused on Artificial Intelligence. David is Founder and CEO of the Startup Exirio the wealth insight app.

Hugo Pickford-Wardle is a social entrepreneur on a mission to help the next generation start their careers with the skills to bring their ideas to life and financial freedom to pursue those ideas.

Chris Joyce is the founder of 24 companies in high tech, consumer goods, health, and manufacturing. His products have been sold in more than 11,000 stores in 23 countries. He has users of his tech products in 148 countries across the globe. His newest venture is Gusher. Gusher helps Entrepreneurs to build startups without raising capital.

Announcing a new Startup that is democratizing Leadership Education.

In this episode I will go deeper into the background of SUCCEED.

What is the mission, the problem we want to solve and more.

Explore SUCCEED: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

#leadandsucceed

Niraj Kapur, LinkedIn top Voice in Sales, Trusted Sales Coach and LinkedIn Trainer joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship. Niraj shares sales advice for startups on how they can use LinkedIn and the importance of relationship management.

Sid Mofya, Executive Director at Draper Venture Network - a global alliance of our member funds, who are present on all continents, former Kauffman Fellow and musician joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Sid shared his story growing up in Sambia living in the UK and Tanzania before moving to Silicon Valley. We talk about which problems startups should solve, how startup founders develop, funding of startups and dive a bit into education and music.

Michael Wilkinson Founder and COO @ Everything has an incredible background from starting as an intern at crowdcube.com where he successfully managed 100+ fundraises totalling £50m+ in his first assignment then launching his own consulting business supporting startups in fundraising and today being part of the founding team of Everything - the financial experience that younger generations actually want.

Frank Peralta Product Designer and former professional Basketball player. Frank works in the Automotive industry and discovered a circular opportunity to integrate materials from the automotive industry into fashion. We talk about his story and how he sees Peralta Clothing developing.

Matheus Provinciali, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manager of Start UB and Associate professor of the Barcelona University and former professional football player from brazil joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship

Of course we talk football and look into how he used the football skills to build his startup and teaches at Barcelona University. We explore the Concept of Start UB and how they support students to build startups.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to generate business impact?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

Definition of impact!

How to change a business model?

How to generate quick success to convince my manager?

You always talk about leadership and empowerment. What about the business?

How to get started with innovation?

How to measure success in innovation?

Is innovation important for business success?

Sina Landorff (Mrs. Positivity) Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach for Founders and Managers joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

We explored how leaders can be developed in startups, the 10 skills of great leaders and we discussed the 5 key tips for every entrepreneur which she explains in more detail inside the episode.

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A new format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

This time I will share insights from the Mobile World Congress and the Five Years From Now conference in Barcelona where I listened to plus 50 startup pitches and took notes.

Ivan Jimenez Head of Innovation at Mutualidad Abogacía and Seed Investor at BackFund joined me to talk about mental adaptation, corporate innovation and how corporations can work with startups.

Marta del Castillo, CEO of Spain Startup - South Summit joined me to talk innovation.She shares her inspiring story from living on 4 continents in different circumstances. We I talk about the importance of purpose driven organizations , Female Leadership as the core skills and of course innovation in startups and corporates.

Together we explore their stories, the innovation ecosystem and of course THE CUBE and how especially Andres and his teams use radical innovation to support companies. And how they learned from uber to build and operate a workation spot as THE CUBE extension.