#outsidethebubble

Chris Campbell, Founder & CEO, at Review Trackers

Chris talks about raising $6 million for Review Trackers, his first few businesses, and the learnings that have helped him build Review Trackers from the early stages of an idea to the successful company customers love today.

Chris discusses how he talked to 100+ customers before building one line of code.  He shares his experience using the Lean Methodology approach to building his company.  He explores details about moving to South America to start his business and coming back to the U.S. and winning his first customer when they didn’t even have way to accept payment.  

Startups are hard, but Chris explores how resources like the gener8tor accelerator, a great team, and a visionary mindset led contributed to Review Trackers high growth. He credits the importance of fine tuning your “pitch” as the first step to build a high growth startup outside of Silicon Valley.

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Top Three Tools

BitesizePR - https://bitesizepr.com/

Google Analytics - https://www.google.com/analytics

Evernote - http://evernote.com/

Cool Resources

Genr8ator - http://www.gener8tor.com/

Startup Chile - http://www.startupchile.org/

Renita Bryant - Founder of SIGHTSSET & MyndMatters Publishing

Renita shares her story of taking the leap from a comfortable corporate job to building a company that boasts Fortune 100 companies as clients.  She talks about following her passion and how that led her to create two companies. The first company SIGHTSSET leverages her expertise in marketing and research and the second company stems from her passion for writing and her desire to publish her work.

Renita’s first entrepreneurship venture began at Florida A&M University where she and another classmate successfully launched HipHop Enterprises. They discovered an opportunity manage talent for Florida A&M University key annual events.

After concluding her first entrepreneurial venture, Renita built a successful career in Corporate America. Her collected numerous accolades within Corporate America, but her entrepreneurial aspirations never vanished.  

Renita explains the importance for aspiring entrepreneurs to ask themselves three fundamental questions:

What are your fears?

What is your why?

What is your  “Walk Away Number?”

Recognizing an opportunity from her corporate experience, she shares the story about capitalizing on the unfilled market needs due to her cultural awareness of the target audience and Corporate America’s lack of executing initiatives tailored to the target audience. Also, Renita shares how she had to pivot from her original business model as she built her company.

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Top Three Tools

Accounting/Bookkeeping tool

Customer Feedback/Survey Tool

Branding/Design Tools

Fun Facts

Favorite Book

The Alchemist by Paulo Cuehlo

Hype Song

Bring Em Out by T.I.

Georgia by Ludacris

Contact Info

Sightsset consulting - sightsset.com

Myndmatters consulting - myndmatterspublishing.com

Introducing Innovator Tribe Outside the Bubble

Innovator Tribe: Outside the Bubble is a show about bridging the gap between the inspiration of an idea to the creation of a product.

Each week Ahmad and Toye will connect you with entrepreneurs who are innovating outside of the Silicon Valley bubble. Stay tuned because the first episode will drop very very soon.

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