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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Evan Sohn, starting at 0:00: The biggest problem for most small businesses this year is to fill the open positions they have in their company. What is the best way to do this?
SEGMENT 2 with Chris Brady, starting at 18:30: We are going to cover a topic that we have never covered on the show: Bitcoin for your small business. What relevance does it have to small business, their customers, and their vendors?
SEGMENT 3 with Neal Shenoy, starting at 35:45: Edtech boomed during the pandemic as educators rushed to educate kids remotely. But what will happen now that Covid is nearing the end and federal funding will come to an end?
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More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Evan Sohn is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Recruiter.com, an on-demand recruiting platform providing flexible talent acquisition solutions that scale from startups to the Fortune 100.
1:15 – Why is it so hard to find people these days? Two years ago unemployment was at an all-time high. What happened?
4:30 – Why are people quitting their jobs?
7:45 – It’s no longer a full-time job to find a job, it’s a full-time job to find people.
12:15 – Traditionally, there are two ways to hire. Now, there’s Recruiter.com. How does it work?
15:30 – Is difficulty finding people a perennial problem for businesses?
Segment 2: Chris Brady is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, humorist, and businessman. He is the author of a new book called “The Bitcoin Bride.”
18:30 – Why should small business owners care about Bitcoin?
20:45 – What is Bitcoin? How do you get Bitcoin for your small business?
24:30 – Bitcoin is actually a hedge against inflation. If more companies adopted it, would that help inflation?
26:30 – Which businesses are using Bitcoin now?
30:00 – What is the status of the Federal Reserve looking at a digital currency?
32:45 – Can you envision a day where the whole world is on a digital currency?
Segment 3: Neal Shenoy is Co-Founder and CEO of BEGiN, the parent company of HOMER. Neal manages the company’s purpose and vision, sets its strategy and execution plan, recruits talent, and manages strategic relationships with investors and partners. Neal has built a team with deep industry expertise across organizations like Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Scholastic, Barnes & Noble, Pearson, and Mattel. He has helped guide HOMER to be one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most promising platforms for early childhood literacy and language learning.
35:45 – What were the factors that led to the Edtech boom during the pandemic?
40:45 – Does early childhood education help close the education gap?
43:30 – Why did you start BEGiN?
46:00 – What suggestions do you have for entrepreneurs stepping into the edtech space?
48:15 – What are the greatest challenges for BEGiN and the business world in general?
