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Ross Youngs On Sustainability and Productivity-Enhancing Products
3/07/2023
Ross Youngs, founder and CEO of CardNoter and the Univenture family of companies, joins Brendan today to talk about the CardNoter product, as well as some ways promotional products distributors and printers alike can be more environmentally friendly with their promotional products.
The CardNoter is a notebook that includes sleeves for business cards, making it easy for users to store information in one location at trade shows and networking events. Over his career, Youngs has focused on how promotional products distributors can provide products that their end-users will use, but can do so with a clear conscience knowing they’re using eco-friendly materials and practices.
How to Pivot your Business After Industry Obsolescence
9/29/2022
After the crash of the compact disc industry, Ross Youngs, CEO of Univenture, shares how his team was able to diversify quickly and reinvent the company to drive revenue.
Everyone Loves A Platform, Especially Biotech Investors
8/29/2022
Venture investment in biotech can be a long, arduous, high-risk undertaking. But two scientists from UCLA and Caltech have found a way to boost the cancer drug development pipeline.
Their platform, 1200 Pharma, taps into medical and scientific breakthroughs to help bring potential cancer drugs to patients in record time. Today, the platform is able to accelerate the pace at which drugs are created and potentially bring more therapeutics to market.
Todd Thomson, COO, and CFO of Kairos Ventures, which specializes in early-stage biotech and invested in 1200 Pharma in 2017, sits on the board of the budding startup. The platform uses chemistry technology from Caltech and biomarker-driven assays from UCLA to speed up its drug development and clinical approvals.
1200 Pharma, and platforms like it, are becoming the darlings of the biotech venture world. Unlike investing in singular drugs, venture firms are pouring money into biotech platforms that can more or less make their own therapeutics. These self-containing machines have been seeing the lion’s share of venture funding in the past three years.
Read MoreSustainable Packaging – A need for Innovation in packaging
8/12/2022
“Sustainable alternative options and market demand will drive production capacity because until there is a need and cost justification, new source availability will lag” says Ross Youngs, CEO of Univenture, a multifaceted firm that works to develop sustainable packaging.
Youngs noted that bio-based sustainable options such as polylactic acid (PLA), bio wax coated papers, and laminations of paper cellulose bioplastics are all potential options for packaging.
How to Create an Innovative Strategy with Ross Youngs
7/12/2022
Innovation is what sets market leaders ahead, but most business owners view it as a luxury. It can feel like your day-to-day responsibilities are too demanding to focus on innovation.
If you want to succeed, you need to start with an innovative strategy that solves problems for your customers and for you. Our guest today can help you do just that.
Our guest today is Ross Youngs, President of Univenture and Founder and CEO of his most recent venture, Biosorta.
Ross is a lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, has had companies on the Inc. 500, has solved industrial problems, and is on the verge of solving biomedical issues as well.
Ross will bring interesting perspectives on bringing new products to market in practical ways.
Owner Interview: Disruptive Innovation Isn’t Just for Big Business with Ross Youngs The Revenue Throughput Podcast || Episode 53
9/09/2021
Today’s guest is Ross Youngs, CEO of Univenture and a long-time entrepreneur. He has successfully taken businesses from small investments to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Today’s we will be talking about disruptive innovation and how it’s not a game that is only for the biggest companies like Microsoft or Apple but is actually something you can follow with a couple of key steps.
Ross has spent over 30 years inventing products, technologies, and processes for a variety of industries, and holds over 75 patents worldwide. He is driven to innovate by a focus on what is better, faster, and less expensive.
Ross’ recent major innovations include an R&D 100 Award for collaboration on biopolymer technologies. In 2009, Biosortia was awarded a $6 million ARPA-E grant for its algal harvesting technology, which helped lead to the development of Biosortia’s drug discovery platform.
After listening to today’s episode, check out https://www.biosortia.com/ to learn more about Ross Youngs and Biosortia.
Dirty Secrets of Small Businesses
8/30/2021
Today we were joined on the show by entrepreneur Ross Youngs. For those long time listeners of our show, you know we are big fans of Inc. Magazine as well as their annual list of the fastest growing private companies. Well, our guest today is a member of the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame!
Ross shared a lot of great stories and perspectives with us during the show including some key lessons he’s learned along the way:
- Staying disciplined vs. bouncing around
- Keeping your eyes open for opportunities
- Focus on making things better, faster, cheaper, and differentiated, and
- Importance of relationships
In addition Ross shared some stories about getting a couple of laws passed in the state of Ohio and why it’s important for small business owners to be involved in the political process. Ross also gave us some insights into what he is currently working on with Biosortia.