#405 Tero Ojanpera (Co-Founder, Vision+)

What's the best approach to being disruptive? How do you take a simple idea and make it fantastic? Mr. Ojanperä will help us better understand these techniques as our guest today! Tero has a strong and versatile 20+ year long experience in mobile industry; he had been focused on stimulating innovations, developer activities and building new businesses for most of his professional life.Vision+ has developed an unique financing model to investing in IPR industries to maximize the value to both developers as well Fund’s for investors. Vision+ funding will create an opportunity for new players to take part in the value chain and help developers to improve their share of the value chain and keep the IPR’s. While obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, James Siminoff founded Your First Step International, Inc., a company that assisted entrepreneurs in bringing ideas from concept to fruition. In 2000, the company pivoted to building and operating global wholesale Voice over IP networks in developing countries. In 2005 – perplexed by the archaic nature of voicemail – Jamie founded the world’s first voicemail-to-text company, PhoneTag. In September of 2009 PhoneTag sold to Ditech Networks. In 2010 Jamie took on email and founded Unsubscribe.com to help email users clean commercial email from their inboxes. In 2011 Unsubscribe.com was sold to personal security company, TrustedID. Have you ever watched a video and wondered, “Where did he get that jacket?”, “Where did she get that purse?” or “Who is that actress and what else has she been in?” There HAS to be an easier way to find out rather than spending hours on Google, right? The answer to all of your questions is finally here. VIDZEY is the in-video storefront that allows Hollywood to connect with its viewers – instantly. Sean Kilbane oversees strategic partnerships and new business development at VIDZEY. Most recently, Kilbane worked in international reality TV sales at Electus, Barry Diller’s start-up company. In addition, his experience at Burns Entertainment & Sports Marketing in Chicago and United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills gives VIDZEY its connection to Hollywood. Brian Feldkamp oversees strategic growth and business operations at VIDZEY. In addition to his work as a business strategies consultant at Seracon Consulting, Brian has started several businesses of his own – including a Health and Fitness Company, an e-commerce company selling nostalgic t-shirts, and a travel booking website.