Inspiring Founders #1 - Sol Lipman, PieFi, and the Future of Startups in Santa Cruz

Meet Raymond Cheng, Founder and CEO at Decrypt Compliance, a Silicon Valley Startup providing compliance audits and certifications for small and medium sized businesses. If your startup wants to do business with the government, public universities, health care, or any other highly regulated industr…

AI can generate an answer instantly — but that doesn’t mean it’s answering the right question. In this episode of Inspiring Founders, I sit down with Benjamin Baer of DecideWise in downtown San Jose to talk about “decision intelligence” — the tools and practices companies use to operationalize AI i…

Welcome to another episode of the Inspiring Founders Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Ashley and today we are heading over to San Jose to learn how SJSU supports Startups and Small Businesses at the south end of Silicon Valley.Join Edgar Ceron, Director of the Silicon Valley Small Business Developme…

In this episode of Inspiring Founders, Wayne Fenton shares lessons from decades in big tech, multiple startups, and now founding a deep tech company in Santa Cruz. We explore what it really means to become “default alive” — surviving the early stages of a startup long enough to reach product-market…