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We are celebrating our 1st year 🎗 Here is what I wish I knew before starting Credit: at the beginning stage, your company will not have any credit. Therefore, it can be extremely hard to move freight, unless you already have a big driver base that trusts you. In many cases, you can offer the drivers payment before the delivery, and they will still refuse to book, because of lack of trust. Niche down: choose a small niche, and start doing research. Learn the common issues that shippers face in this specific niche. Come up with solutions to those issues. Focus on these solutions, when doing cold calls or sales in general. Overhead: As you start growing, you will get many calls and emails from companies offering services (tracking services, TMS, marketing, customer leads, business optimizations, credit improvements, etc.). Most of these services will have a binding contract, meaning you will not be able to cancel these services unless the contract ends (some can last up to 3 years). Think twice, before accepting any of these services, because most of your customers can switch to a competitor in any day. This can result in a situation of low cash flow and high overhead, potentially leading to bankruptcy.

Right in the feels as I approach 15 years with Microsoft.

Today we celebrate our 4 year anniversary 🎉🎊🍾 We are very proud of what we've achieved as a team and look forward to what the future holds. Here's to the next 4 years.. #companyanniversary#celebration#yorkshirebusiness#construction#yorkshirebuilders#growingbusiness#success#teameffort#fouryears

Together We Can Achieve Everything......

When I started my career, I wanted to stay in the same company for a really long time (at that time, this meant 15 to 20 years). Because that's what everyone around me seemed to be doing. They joined a company, maybe shifted a couple of times, and then stayed in the same organization till they retired ✅ What I understood later was, though everyone around me was doing this, it was not the norm. After some research (though not very in-dept, I must admit), I found that on an average, people change their jobs every 2 to 5 years 🤷♀️ So very naively, I thought, "Ok, let me also do that. It's what everyone seems to be doing and it's working for them" (I was in my early twenties, so no judgements there 😁) It took me many years to understand the truth behind it all. The truth being, it is not a mandate to changes companies every 2 or 3 years, nor is it a mandate to spend 20 years of your career in a single organization. There is no mandate (yes, there is no secret ingredient 🐼). So after many failures, hasty decisions, & short-term thinking I realized, the best way to decide how long to stay in a place is by choosing the option that aligns with your long- term career goals and short-term priorities. Do what's best for you at that moment but without losing focus on your future aspirations 💪 This is what I did when I joined Leadle as a part-time consultant 2 years ago. And if someone invented an affordable way to time travel, I would go back to the "me" 2 years back and profusely thank her, because this is one of the best decisions I have ever made 😎 The last 2 years with Leadle have been nothing short of an adventure. I'm so looking forward to what the next 2 years have in store for me 👀 🚀 #leadle #leadliteforlife #2years #workanniversary #career #focus #storycontinues

Entrepreneurship is a self-discovery process. I found on myself unexpected social and business skills I thought incapable of as an asperger. Not here to save the world or to disrupt a market, just to get things done for our clients and customers, and to impact positively some people's lives by creating works with purpose and giving better financial conditions. Simple, basic.

Since September 1, 2018, I have been at DirectTrust as President and CEO - and the time has flown by.  As I take stock now, we have grown four times bigger by most measures. The number of Direct Secure Messages sent and received per quarter has gone from about 50 million to over 200 million.  Our network has grown from fewer than 1 billion transactions cumulatively, and recently passed 4 billion.  Our team is 4 times bigger, as is our annual budget. I am so proud of our accomplishments.  We became an ANSI accredited standards development organization, acquired SAFE Identity, and this year, merged with the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).  I have long made it clear to my Board that we wanted to pivot to a focus on TRUST while driving the use and usability of Direct.  Today we offer multiple services to our members and the industry including accreditation, HITRUST assessment and technical trust services for Direct Secure Messaging, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and TEFCA.  We collaborate with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), CMS, HHS, WEDI , The Sequoia Project, CommonWell Health Alliance, Civitas Networks for Health, CARIN Alliance, and many more organizations as well as our members. Our membership today is extremely diverse beyond even the HIT companies, payers and providers in the healthcare sector to include app companies, social care organizations, and identity companies.   Our standards efforts include work to enable sensitive information exchange within the community even beyond healthcare. We are engaging with cloud fax vendors to establish standards for trustworthy exchange of data by fax. We are working with the remote online notaries to enable trusted communication of health documents.  We are building out new accreditation programs to improve trust in the consumer health application ecosystem to add to our portfolio of accreditations that assess compliance for nearly 100 healthcare companies large and small.  You should watch us, we are just getting started! Special thanks to my team to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude - Kelly Gwynn, Lee Barrett, Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, MBA, CHPC, CHTS, Kyle Neuman, Alexander Young, Susan Flynn, Ronald S. Moser, Debra Hopkinson, Stacy Clements, Taylor Gaunt,  Mischelle Curtin, Lesley Berkeyheiser, Tom Hanks, CCSFP, PHIAS, Mark R McLaughlin, CCSFP, CHQP, Rick A. Moore, PhD , Felix Ofori, Larry Watkins, Stephen Weiss and yury vayman.  Thanks to my board members past and present who helped us make this all possible, and to the EHNAC Commissioners.  And thanks to our Legal and regulatory advocates, Jodi Daniel, Bryan Brewer, Stanley Nachimson, Doug Peddicord and Sophia McLeod.  Special thanks to Ginna (Yost) Wotowey Wotowey for helping us assemble a great team and to David Kibbe who founded the organization in 2012.    I have had a great time here.  Time flies when you are building a trusted ecosystem!

Glad to celebrate my work anniversary with Panorama Consulting Group! We are in unprecedented times, but being a part of the technology change that is shifting the world on how we conduct business via manufacturing, supply chain and more is awesome!!! Take your next ERP project or AI systems to higher heights with the best consultants in the world!! #ERP