Lay of The Land

Our conversation this week is with Michael DeAloia — CEO at Evergreen Podcasts  — on the business of podcasting, building a media company here in Cleveland, content creation, and Cleveland startups!

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Our conversation this week is with Scott Colosimo  — Founder at Cleveland CycleWerks & LAND Energy  — on Cleveland manufacturing, commitment to design, and the future of motorcycles, electric vehicle…

Lay of The Land's 47th conversation is with Stan Garber & Alex Yakubovich — Co-Founders of Scout RFP (now known as Workday Strategic Sourcing) — on serial entrepreneurship and Scout RFP’s journey fro…

Our conversation this week is with Steve Potash  — Founder, President, and CEO of OverDrive.

Steve founded OverDrive here in Cleveland back in 1986. Over the last 3 decades Steve has led OverDrive to …

 Our conversation this week is with India Johnson — Founder of UAVistas.

With a background in biology and computer science, India Johnson is an unmanned aerial systems pilot, entrepreneur, public serv…

Our conversation this week is with Jake Bailosky  — CTO & Founder of OnStation — on revolutionizing how road workers locate and communicate in the field.

Jake spent 10 years as a construction project …

Our conversation this week is with James Barnes Jr. — Founder & President of Immaculate Cleaning — on building Northeast Ohio’s fastest-growing janitorial services company.

James launched his first su…

Our conversation this week is with Charlie Lougheed — Co-founder & CEO of Axuall, a Cleveland-based company which recently closed on $10.4mm in financing.

Axuall is a bot-enabled, real-time HR data ne…

Our conversation this week is with Aaron Grossman — Founder & CEO of TalentLaunch.

TalentLaunch, which Aaron founded back in 2016 after over a decade working in the staffing industry, is a network of …

Our conversation this week is with Brian Zimmerman — CEO of The Cleveland Metroparks. 

As CEO of the Metroparks, Brian is responsible for the management of over 24,000 acres of green space in Northeas…

Our conversation this week is with Aaron Christopher (A.C.) Evans — co-founder & CEO of Drips.com recently ranked one of the 20 fastest-growing companies in North America.

Drips is the first conversat…

Our conversation this week is with Dan Collins — Founder & CEO of Wastebits (based in Akron) — on building a software waste-management company and bringing technology to the trash industry.

Dan is a v…

Our conversation this week is with Brent Zimmerman — Co-Founder & CEO of Saucy Brew Works, a Cleveland-based production brewery and brewpub with roots based in the Steelman building off 29th and Detr…

Our conversation this week is with Shane Bigelow — CEO at CHAMPtitles — Cleveland-based startup, which has raised over $17.5 million in funding, on digitizing the process of vehicle titling. 

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Our conversation this week is with Kate Volzer — Co-Founder and CEO at Wisr, an education technology company based here in Cleveland which was acquired by EAB back in March of 2021.

Wisr, which specia…

Our conversation this week is with Jacob Sheridan — Co-Founder and CEO at TPA Stream, an insurtech software company based here in Cleveland having raised ~ $4mm in capital.

TPA Stream is focused on au…

Our conversation this week is with Charu Ramanathan, PhD  — Co-Founder and CEO at vitalxchange, based here in Cleveland having raised over $2mm in capital.

vitalxchange and Lokyata are the latest iter…

Our conversation this week is with David Edelman  — CEO & Founder of Thrivable, based here in Cleveland. 

David is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who developed the vision for Thrivable through h…

Our conversation this week is with Terence McCarron — CEO & Founder of OpinionRoute LLC, a Cleveland, OH-based Market Research Data Collection Services and Sample Technology firm. 

Terence’s career sp…

Our conversation this week is with Lindsay Watson, CEO & Founder of Augment Therapy.

Augment Therapy was founded in 2017 when Lindsay — who is a pediatric physical therapist from Chagrin Falls, Ohio —…