Growing Ovation | 500 Startups B24 | Bridging Digital Consumers and Physical Businesses

500 Startups batch 24 company.Ovation is a customer experience and engagement platform for brick and mortar businesses.Brick and Mortar (B&M) businesses have no good way to engage with their customers. While online businesses know their happy customers and can live chat with their unhappy ones, there are 5M B&Ms stuck with using painful receipt surveys, antiquated loyalty apps, and good old fashion complaining. As a result, B&Ms are getting blasted online with negative reviews (each negative review costs a business $300-$500!) and losing billions in repeat business.Ovation changes all that. Consumers interact with our simple tools in the moment that incentivizes them to rate their experience and give their contact info. Then we enable business owners to turn unhappy customers into fans with instant SMS chat (funneling unhappy customers away form online reviews), fans into loyal customers with automated deals (while prompting them to leave positive online reviews). Ovation customers get 2-3x less 1-star reviews, 5-10x more 5-star reviews, and 5-10% more revenue.
    
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Ovation

Speaking and writing on Dating, Relationships, and Confidence, Zack has harvested the lessons he learned on his journey of 1,000 dates to finding his wife into a fun-to-read engaging book. Some laugh, some cry, but all finish Dating Never Works...Until it Does.
    
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Bowl of Oates

Was in the top 1% of applicants to be accepted into the globally ranked 500 Startups accelerator program and investment portfolio. 


About us

  500 Startups is a global venture capital seed fund with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley. 

500 Startups is the #1 most active seed fund in the world. 

We believe successful internet startups are born from usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution.

Starting a company is not for the faint of heart. Founders must be audacious, innovative, and disruptive. At 500 Startups, we challenge ourselves to also embody those qualities in how we help startups through both our seed fund and our startup accelerator program. In no particular order, that means:

- Building best-in-class resources for usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution
- Creating a diverse network of experienced and operationally-focused mentors. 
- Partnering with key platform companies and services that will help our startups. 
- Pushing the envelope on how we do investments. 

We typically invest between $25K-$250K USD in our first check, however we also make selective follow-on investments at Series A/B of up to $1M USD. We also aim to be innovative in our investment model. Check out Moneyball for Startups, the inspiration for our investment thesis. 

We're based in Mountain View, California but our companies, mentors, and advisers come from 60+ countries around the world. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our blog for the latest updates.

No, we're not your ordinary VC.

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      500 Startups
  

Developing strategies to be implemented globally affecting organizational structure, property maintenance effectiveness, and technology.Worked with over 50 stakeholders in 20 countries to rewrite global process for planning, developing, building, maintaining, and redeploying buildings across the world. Started an innovation group helping employees share and helping managers implement ideas from around the world. 
    
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About us

  "This work is so liberating: to be employed in an organization wherein we have the ultimate freedom to use true principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in our work each day. Having access to all truth and applying it in our daily performance is the most liberating thing I know. This truly is the work of the kingdom of God."​
 - Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide -- to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings, giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances, our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in the Kingdom.

Find your fit within Church employment here: https://www.lds.org/church/employment


      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  

Working with big data and social media consulting with fortune 50 companies. - Created financial model and strategy on a $30B decision for a large telco to migrate customers- Developed customer experience strategy across billing platforms for fortune 50 company affecting over 75% of their entire revenue
    
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KiLife Tech is a company creating innovative technologies that keep families close. Creators of the KiBand, a bluetooth kids smartband that connects to a parent's smartphone.- Innovating creative tech solutions through human-centric design- Product developement, research and marketing - Awarding winning product and business model including 1st Prize at the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest and richest student start-up competition in the world. Winner of over $650,000 in cash and prizes
    
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Former President and current board member of international NGO whose mission is to strengthen families in Eastern Europe. While still at BYU, founded the organization and for the next five years ran operations and vision-fulfillment consisting of overseas and domestic relationships, marketing, organizational development and strategic positioning. Providing programs for victims of domestic violence through group therapy, manicure training, computer literacy and art therapy courses.
    
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Courage to Hope

Imply Labs is a software as a service company that develops predictive social commerce technologies. We have a recommendation engine that translates social media streams into product recommendations. Imply Labs built GiveEmThis.com, a gift idea recommendation engine that was featured in Mashable as one of the top ten gift apps, WSJ, PCWorld and Wired Magazine. Also launched TwitterPIE.co, a Twitter personality inference engine.
    
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Imply Labs

Assisted the founders and director of the NYC office in winning the business of Dunkin' Donuts. Worked heavily on new business acquisition and strategy for 4 clients. Never got too casual on Fridays.


Naked Communications

Oversaw multiple accounts ranging from the crazy strategic to just plain crazy...with a little bit of regular in between. From large clients like Fox-Walden Media and VW to small clients like BYU Athletics Department and ORCA, the head-to-toe strategic approach was set up and set in motion.


BYU AdLab

Founding and charter member of BYU Analytics, the first group at BYU to engage in professional big data projects as consultants.

Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, United States, is a private, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the oldest existing institution within the LDS Church Educational System, is America's largest religious university, and has the second-largest private university enrollment in the United States. Approximately 98% of the 34,000 students at BYU are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The university's primary focus is on undergraduate education, but it also has 68 master's and 25 doctoral degree programs, including a Juris Doctor program.

Founder & CEO at Ovation

Ovation

Founder & CEO

Bowl of Oates

Author / Speaker

500 Startups

Batch 24 Company Founder (Ovation)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Innovation Strategy Consultant

PwC

Customer Experience Management Consultant

KiLife Tech

Co-Founder and Advisor

Courage to Hope

Co-Chairman Board of Directors and Founder

Imply Labs

CEO & Founder

Naked Communications

Strategy Intern

BYU AdLab

Account Executive

Brigham Young University

Marketing and Innovation

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Brigham Young University

Advertising Management

BS

Newark Academy