Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.  You're assigned a robbery detail.  Your job? Find him. The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Sunday, October 9th. It was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out a robbery detail. My partner is Frank Smith, the boss's chief of detectives, Thad Brown. My name's Friday. We're on our way out from the office. It was 206 a.m. when we got to the corner of Cinnabar Street and Grand Avenue. The Brinton Hotel. Well, I just done what he told me. I figured there was no point in getting myself all roiled up. Didn't see where that would be helping matters. Yes, sir. Whatever he said, I done it. Hey, you fellas looking for a room? Police officers, this is Frank Smith. My name's Friday. Are you from robbery? That's right. Robert's, 1.516. Mm-hmm. You answered the call? Yeah. The description's out. Metro's sending a couple of cars to help us look for the suspect. All right, good. Anything else I can do for you? No, not right now. Okay. I'll take care of the report. Thank you. We'll check with you. All right. You know, I sure would've been wrong about you, too. What's that? I never would've guessed you was cops. Salesman, that's what I put you boys down for. I see. Ladies ready to wear. Guess I would've missed the boat this time. Yes, sir. Would you tell us about the holdup, please? I thought their mother officer's already let you in on it. We'd like to get the details from you if we could. Oh, well, I ain't got nothing better to do. Stuck here till 7 a.m., anyhow. I wonder if we could have your name. Boxer, Tom Boxer. That's B-O-X-E-R.  What time did Robbie take place? Oh, 40, 45 minutes ago, around 120, somewhere in there. Wasn't 130 yet, I'm sure of that. Oh. You see, I was listening to the radio. Stan Swift. Who's that? You know, Stan Swift. He's on every night, midnight or 6, 7 nights a week. Oh, yeah. The nights go swifter with Swift. That's how he puts it. Gives a time signal every hour and every half hour. Remember him giving the 1 a.m.? Hadn't given the 130 yet, so it must have been around 120 when this fella come into the hotel. What'd he do? Walked up to the desk. Yes, sir. I didn't even know he was there. Not at first. I was sitting down in that chair, kind of, had my back away from the door. Didn't hear him, neither, on account of being plugged in. What was that? To my radio. Oh, I see. This here gadget, see, see? It's into ear, like, like so. Yeah, I understand.  Other end attaches to the set, like, like so. Mm-hmm. You mean that's a radio? Sure is. You've never seen this kind before, huh? No, sir. Transistor. That's what they call it. Regency transistor. Ain't got no tubes. That's what makes it so small, you see? Cat around in your pocket, if you'll mind, too. I see. Real good told, though. Plenty of volume, if you want to let it out. Yes, sir. Now, if you'd just tell us about the robbery, would you, Mr. Boxer, please? Well, ain't that what I've been doing? Yes, sir. You said this man walked up to the desk? That is right. Maybe stood there a couple of seconds before I sensed him. Mm-hmm. Unplugged myself, got up and asked him if he wanted a room. He said he did, single. Yes, sir. Checked the boxes to see what was vacant. Had we're back to him while he was checking, didn't he? He opened up his satchel. Mm-hmm. Must have been carrying the gun there, in the satchel. Anyway, when I turned around to register him, I found myself staring into the barrel. Shotgun it was. All right, go ahead, please. This is a stick-up, he said.  I didn't know whether he meant business or not, and I sure didn't aim to test him to find out. Mm-hmm. Yes, sir, I said, you just tell me what you want, and I'll do it. Yeah. I ain't no coward, you understand, but I ain't no hero, neither, especially when I'm facing up to a shotgun. Sure. Like the man says, only real heroes are dead heroes. Yes, sir. Me, I just assumed go on living. That's why I done exactly what he told me. Give him the money from the cash drawer here. See? Hand it all over to him. Didn't try to hold none back. Yes, sir. How much was there? $50, $60, somewhere in between there. Mm-hmm. What happened then? Well, he told me to enter more pockets, lay the stuff on the desk. You did, huh? I emptied them. I didn't have more than three or four dollars in change. He scooped it up with the other money, shoved it into his satchel. I see. Then he said to me to come out from behind this desk. Walked me over to the elevator, told me to get inside and ride up to the top floor. That'd be the third. You see, the hotel's three stories high. Yes, sir, I understand. I suppose I could have got off on number two. He wouldn't have known the difference. Floor indicator down there don't work. Mm-hmm. But I didn't see where I'd be gaining anything by it, so I done what he told me. I rode up to three. How long did you wait there? Oh, till I seen him leave the hotel. Mm-hmm. From the windy end of the third floor hall? Did he drive away? No, just rolled off. I don't think he had a car. I see. Turned the corner and that was the last of him. Mm-hmm. What did you do then? Took the elevator back down, called the police, listened to the radio while it was waiting. Yes, sir. Figured it might as well take it easy till the cops come. Wasn't more than five minutes for them officers walked in. Little while later, you fellas walked in. I guess you know when that was. Yes, sir. Now, Mr. Boxer, could you tell us what he looked like? Huh? The man who held jet. Oh! Well, I told them, other fellas, the ones wearing uniforms, they said they'd send out his description. Yes, sir. I understand. We'd like to have it, too. Okay. Oh, young fella, 25 to 30-odd judge.  Not as big as you, though. Somewhere in between. Yes, sir. Black hair. Didn't catch the color of his eyes. Well, that's about all. How was he dressed? Oh, suit. Striping it, I think. Maybe dark blue with a gray stripe. Bow tie. Kind of dapper. Mm-hmm. Have any scars? Not where you'd notice them. He said he carried the gun in a satchel, is that right? Must have been where he had it. Didn't actually see him take it out, though. Back was to him at the time. How big was the satchel? Oh, medium-sized. About so long. Any initials on it? No, not so far as I can recall. What about the gun? How big was it? This long, maybe. Single barrel, sawed off. Could you tell him, Ake? Well, I ain't no expert on shotguns. Yeah. Would you know this man if you saw him again? Sure, I'd be a fool not to. Why? I'd like to have him come down to the city hall in the morning, Mr. Boxer, if you would. But what for? Want to show you some photographs, see if we can pick him out. You mean this morning? Yes, sir, if you would. It's Sunday. Yes, sir, that's right. You felt his work on Sunday? Well, we're not the only one. Well, what do you mean? He did. Frank and I checked with the patrol officers who had answered Mr. Boxer's call. They told us that a search of the immediate vicinity had failed to turn up anyone who answered the suspect's description. 3.16 a.m., the crew from the crime lab finished up their investigation. There were no useful fingerprints or other physical evidence in the lobby of the hotel. 7.38 a.m., we checked the suspect's M.O. and the description with the stats office. They came up with 18 possibles. We pulled the packages from our eye and took them back to the office. Well, it looks like it might rain. Pretty early in the season, isn't it? Well, the paper says we're going to have a wet winter. All right. Real good for skiing, I guess. Yeah. That's what you need. Lots of moisture. Heavy snow. You never go skiing. No. Well. I thought about taking it up a couple of years ago. Faye blew her stack. No. Said I'd probably break my neck the first time I tried. Sometimes I think she worries more about me than she does about the kids. Good morning, gents. Hi, sir. Hope I haven't kept you waiting. No, sir. Not a bit. How are you today, Mr. Boxer? Sleepy. Usually get a couple of hours' cat nap during my shift. Kind of missed out on it last night. Yes, I'm afraid you didn't. Even after all you fellas left, somehow I just couldn't doze off. Listen to Stan Swift on 6 a.m. Mm-hmm. I'll bet you I know more about Egypt than a real live Egyptian. Well, you got them pictures you wanted to show me? Yes, sir. Right over here. It's all right if I sit down. Yeah, go right ahead. There you are. This the pile? Yes, sir. Take your time. Look at each one as long as you like. Okay. Pretty tough bunch of boys. Yeah. No, it's not him. Mm-hmm. Noop. Noop. Oh, hey. Wait a minute. There is a resemblance. He looks something like this one here. Is it the same man, Mr. Boxer? Oh, no, no, no. Not the same. Yes. Similar type, though. Does that help you any? Might. Want to go through the others? Sure, sure. Now, you see this fella? Yes, sir. He's not the same type at all. No. The other one I pointed out was, you can see the difference yourself. Yes, sir. Ah, not him. Not him, either. Noop. Oh, now, this is closer to him. Sir. Not as close as that one, the other one, but closer. Yes, sir. Now we're getting further away. No, no, it's none of these. Is that all you've got? Afraid so. Well, it's the best I can do for you. Now, this one here, the one I pointed out first. Yeah, we understand, but it's not the same man you see. Well, I never said it was. Just said they were similar. Yes, sir. Well, I'm sorry we wasted your time. Oh, it was no waste of time, not as far as I'm concerned. Huh? Remember when I tell you about how I try to guess what different folks do for a living? Yeah. Looking at all these pictures will be a big help from now on. How's that? I'll know a crook when I see one. On the following Sunday, October 16th, two more hotels were held up by a shotgun bandit. Both robberies occurred during the early morning hours. Both hotels were small. The description of the suspect and his M.O. indicated that he was the same man who had robbed the Brinton Hotel. Frank and I continued our investigation, but we failed to turn up any leads. During the next week, all hotels in the downtown area were alerted. Sunday, October 23rd, the night manager of the Schaefer Arms near the corner of Broadway and Clay reported that he had been robbed at approximately 3.30 a.m. He confirmed the bandit's description and M.O., but was unable to add anything new. The next morning, October 24th, we had a conference with Chief Brown. Doesn't sound to me like you're any closer to him than we were two weeks ago. What do you got? Well, not much. What's happened? Description. Pretty general, isn't it? Freight so. What else? Well, now he's only worked one area. The hotels are within a mile of Pershing Square. Nothing to keep him from spreading out, is there? So far, he hasn't used a car. You figure he pulled these jobs on foot? Looks that way. Then he must live downtown somewhere. Anything about the hotels that might give us a tip-off on his next move? Yeah, they're all small, only one person on duty. We've marked all the possibles here in the map. You want to take a look at it? Yeah. Okay, right here. These are the ones he's already hit. Here. Here. Over here. Tight little group? Yeah. Those indicate all the other hotels of a similar nature in the downtown area. Uh-huh. Well, he works on Sundays, huh? That's right. What do you got planned for this Sunday? Well, we'll stake out as many as we can. We've asked Metro to give us a hand. We feel you will have enough men to cover about, oh, 20 likelies, maybe. You plan to run the stakes from midnight till 6 a.m. when he hits, it's usually between 2 and 4. How's that sound to you? About all we can do. Yeah. I want you both to stay on this between now and Sunday. See if you can't pick up a lead somewhere. We will. Informer's been able to give you anything? Nope. They're holding out? No, I don't think so. I don't know who he is. Well, maybe the stakes will work. Maybe. Wait a minute. Let me see that map again. Right here. Funny. See here? No. You said these are the places he's already robbed? That's right. All right, together. Draw a line from one to the other and you'd have a square. Yeah. What's this right in the middle of the square? That's the Argus Hotel in South Broadway. That's one he hasn't hit yet. Looks like your best bet, then. Yeah, that's the way we figured it. Who's going to cover it Sunday? Well, Smith and I thought we'd take it. That's a coincidence, huh? Just who I was going to suggest. During the rest of the week, we continued our investigation, but we failed to turn up any additional information about the suspect. A few minutes before midnight on Saturday, October 29th, men from Metro and Robbery Division staked out 22 locations in the downtown area. Sunday, October 30th, 12.05 a.m. Frank and I ended the lobby of the Argus Hotel and we walked up to the desk. Sorry, we're full up. Life talk to manager, if we can. I said we're full up. We're police officers. Huh? This Frank Smith, my name's Friday. Oh. Can we see the manager? I'm the manager. You own this hotel? Me and my husband. Oh, maybe we better talk to him. Go ahead. If you can find him. Isn't he here? Nope. Would you know where he is? Nope. Not getting drunk, probably. Let me see. I work nights. He works days. He don't tell me where he goes at night. I don't tell him what I do during the day. That's our arrangement. Mm-hmm. He don't make for a real happy marriage, but it keeps us from killing each other. Yes, brand. Is there somebody who could take over for you here tonight? Nope. Now you're sure your husband didn't say where he was going? We don't talk. Oh. He wants me to know something. He writes me a note. He leaves it on the desk and I do the same for him. I see. We exchanged no words for the last two years. Mm-hmm. Saves a lot of wear and tear on the nervous system. He never said nothing worth listening to anyway. I see. Well, what do you fellas want? Well, ma'am, several hotels have been held up downtown lately. Yeah. You were warned about it, weren't you? George was warned, left me a note. I see. Well, there's a chance he might come here tonight. He does. I'm ready for him. Mm-hmm. Got me a gun. Pistol. Keepin' the cash drawer, see? Yes, ma'am. I know how to use it, too. He shows up. I'm ready for him. Is there someplace we could wait in case he does? You don't have to. I don't need no protection. Told ya. I've got a gun. Yes, ma'am. So's he. Mrs. Argus finally agreed to let us stake out the hotel. She showed us into a small room off the lobby. From there, Frank and I could see anybody who entered. During the next four hours, only two people requested accommodations. They were both middle-aged men, and neither one of them in any way resembled the suspect's description. What time you got, Joe? No. See, it was five after four. Hmm. The latest they ever pulled a job was 3.30. Yeah.  Maybe. Mr. Argus Hotel, go here. Are you guys in there? Yes, ma'am. Somebody wants you on the phone. Okay, I'll be right over. In the booth. Yes, ma'am. What's that address? Yeah, I got it. Thanks. Right. What's that? Looks like we've staked out the wrong places. Yeah. All night cafe on South Main, the owner was held up. He's pretty badly wounded. Sawed off shotgun. Frank and I drove over to the Joplin Grill at the corner of Main and Vincent Place. We talked to the patrol car officers who had discovered Fred Joplin's body. They told us Joplin was unconscious when they found him. They said that they'd call an ambulance, and that he'd been taken to Georgia Street receiving hospital. We telephoned the hospital and asked them to be available for questioning. 4.42 a.m., Lieutenant Lee Jones and the crew from the crime lab began their investigation. Frank and I went back to the office. October 30th, 10.17 a.m., Georgia Street reported that Joplin had recovered consciousness. We drove down there and talked to Dr. Sebastian. He said that Joplin was suffering from shock and loss of blood. He also said that Joplin's right shoulder was severely lacerated and that there was a possibility the arm would have to be amputated. 10.46 a.m., we interviewed the victim. He sat down the stool and asked for a cup of coffee. I turned around, picked up Psylex, started filling the cup. Time I finished he got his gun out. I guess he had it in that bag he was carrying. He told me it was a stick-up. I said to give him the money from the registrar he'd shoot me. I didn't say nothing. He stood there kind of staring at him. He raised up his gun. Shotguns was. I mean business, Mr. That's what he said next. I mean business. I still didn't say nothing. I just stood there with a cup of coffee in my hand. I started moving and I said, boy, sounded real low and mean. Didn't seem to match his face. Sort of a pleasant-looking fella. Voice would mean no. Yeah. Started gesturing with that shotgun, pointing toward the register. That's when I let fly. Hm? With a cup of coffee. Smashed it right into his face. I see. Must have given quite a jolt. Yes, sir. Didn't keep him from shooting me, but it sure wrecked his aim some. At least ways I'm still here. Don't remember nothing after that. I see. Sure, he had him a good one, though. Them coffee cups ain't the lightest things in the world. Yes, sir. I understand. Not to mention the coffee itself. It's gold and hot it was. Mm-hmm. Right here. That's where I belted him. Right in the jaw. Used to be a ball player, you know. Is that right? Wasn't a pro exactly, but I had a first-rate pitching arm. Left did Joplin. That's what they used to call me. Back in Junction City, Kansas, it was. Mm-hmm. Local merchants sponsored our team. Pitched 16 winners one season. Best record in the league. Yes, that's very good. Well, I ain't lost all my technique. At least, I sure whapped him with that cup. Yes, sir. Doc's saying a thing to you fellas about how I'm doing. Well, just that you're getting along. He'd make up his mind about my right arm yet. What? Whether I'm going to lose it or not. No, sir, he didn't tell us. Yes, in a way, I'm kind of lucky. What? Being left-handed. We asked the victim, Fred Joplin, to describe the suspect. The description he gave us tallied with what we already had. 11.17 a.m., Frank and I went back to the office. I can't figure it out, Joe. What? Well, I had to switch from hotels to a cafe. Well, maybe he tumbled to our steakhouse. Yeah, I thought sure he'd try the Argus, though. It's the right spot for him. I get it. Robbie Friday. I see. Yeah. Anything else? Mm-hmm. Well, I'll give us something to go on anyway. Thank you. Right. Lee Jones in the lab. What's he got? Well, Joplin was right. He sure didn't miss with that coffee cup. They find the pieces? More than that. Found a broken front tooth. Analysis of the broken tooth revealed that it was part of a lower incisor. From what we learned of the suspect, it seemed likely that he would make an immediate effort to have the tooth replaced. For the next three days, Frank and I interviewed Dennis in the immediate vicinity of the robberies. Thursday, November 3rd, 3.17 p.m., we questioned Dr. Clinton Potterfield in his office on the second floor of the Marsh building. Yes. Yes, I believe I had such a patient last Monday. Broken incisor? Yes, that's right. Could you tell us what he looked like? Oh, a young man, about 30, nicely dressed, seemed very pleasant. Did he say what had happened to his tooth? Yes, he did, automobile accident. Oh, I see. He knocked it against the steering wheel. Uh-huh. He wanted a new fitting right away. Yes, sir. He agreed to make him a temporary as soon as I could. It should be finished tomorrow. Mm-hmm. He offered to pay me extra if I'd hurry it up. I told him you can't rush a new bridge, even a temporary. Yes, sir. Did he give you his name and address? Well, not me personally. My receptionist takes care of those details. Yes, I understand. Would you mind checking with her? No, not a bit. Excuse me. That's about time. We've got a break. Yes, sir, it is. Yeah, just like the paper said. It's going to be a wet winter. Here you are, gentlemen. I had a copy down for you. Thank you. Philip Sieber. Yes, that's correct. His address is right there, too. Yeah. Well, at least we know one thing now. What's that? Well, he skipped over the Argus Hotel. Yeah? He lives there. 3.58 p.m. Frank and I drove over to the Argus Hotel and we talked to the owner, George Argus. He told us that Philip Sieber lived on the second floor, room 23. He said that Sieber was a quiet young man who had been staying at the hotel for the past six weeks. He also told us that Sieber worked nights and was probably in his room now. We took the elevator up to the second floor. There it is. What? Full. I sure don't know what this is all about. Yeah, he's clean, Joe. All right, turn around. Okay. Where's the shotgun?  I'll see what I can turn up. All right. You got in the right combustion in here. Yeah. Now, what would I be doing with the shotgun? Why don't you tell us?  Boy, you cops sure make the darnest mistakes.  Yeah, sure. Look, there's nothing in that bureau except my clothes, there, fella. Yeah, what about this? Well, it's just a satchel. That's all. It's locked. Where's the key? I don't know. I lost it. Break it open. Yeah. Hey, that's a good bag. It's not worth anything to you without a key, is it? All right, Sieber. Let's go. How the heck did that get in there? You don't know. I told you I didn't. Yeah.  Well, you've got one now. Oh, I must have picked up the wrong bag by mistake. Sure. That's what happened. All right. Come on, Sieber. Okay, okay. I'm coming. Got your hand? Be all right. Look at that. Huh? You must have bad ones. What's that? Another tooth missing. The story you've just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On March 12th, trial was held in Department 98 Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. Philip Herbert Sieber was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree, five counts, and received sentence as prescribed by law. Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment for a period of not less than five years in the state penitentiary. Because of the viciousness of the suspect, it was decided that the terms would run consecutively. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.


So we're going to now ask about Linda's first chakra. Second chakra. Ooh, second chakra. Linda's third chakra. Fourth chakra. Now fifth chakra. Fifth chakra has a lot to do with communication. Linda's sixth chakra. Sixth chakra. Seven chakra. It's like she knows me. Hi guys, this is Linda from Brain Education TV. Today I have invited a very special guest for a very exciting, special experience that I'm so happy to share with you on this YouTube channel. Today we have Jen from Sedona Wellness Cafe in Sedona, Arizona. Jen is a brain education instructor and she's also an intuitive reader based out of Sedona. So I wanted to bring her on to show you guys some more faces and people who are in our brain education community. So today I'm getting my chakras read by Jen. She has a very cool method that I have never tried yet. I've never done a chakra reading before. So I'm very excited. We're going to see how this works and what my energy state is right now. And if you guys are interested in getting chakra readings, I know Jen obviously does these in person in Sedona. If you ever come by, come by the Sedona Wellness Cafe and she also does them online. So that's what we're going to experience today. We're going to do the online version of the chakra reading of checking up your chakras. Yes. I'm kind of nervous. What if they're all blocked? No such thing.  That's true. That's true. It's natural for us to have a little bit of, you know, just some imbalance. So with chakras everything is about balance or how your energy is moving in the same direction. So chakra means wheel and Sanskrit. So we have seven major wheels in the body and it doesn't take much for one wheel to get thrown off. So it's kind of like, I give the example of, you know, when you're at a grocery store and you get that shopping cart and it looks great, the one wheel. And they're like, yeah, like why? Dang it. So it's the same thing with your chakras. Okay. You can have balance, but then one throws it off and then it just kind of throws off the balance for the rest of them. It doesn't mean anything is bad. It just means that they can be rebalanced. Okay. Sounds great. I'm excited. So what do we do? So today, since I knew you were coming, I wrote down your name. Is that how all the readings start? So in person, I would actually do more than a kinesiology or we ask your body, but in this is simple. It's simple. It's just all about energy. So you're giving out an energy, we're tuning in to that energy and then your body tells us or your energy tells us here virtually. So I thought it would be a little bit clearer to your viewers because they can't tell when I'm pulling apart your fingers, right? If you're doing an O-ring, what you're experiencing. So I thought I'd do something a little bit more visual. Sure. Okay. So we're going to start with your name and here is my pendulum. So I have a pendulum that I like to work with that has all seven chakras, but if you have a pendulum at home, you can also try this. Can you tell our audience what is a pendulum? So pendulum, it's kind of like something that it goes back a long time. I don't know the history of pendulum, but you can use it to ask questions for yourself or you can use it to ask questions about other things. Usually yes or no or balance or imbalance. So it's kind of like a divining, similar like divining rods, just kind of connecting to that energy. So energy is around us. We are energy. Everything is one. So now this is like tuning into yours and we get to see what's happening. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start out with Linda's name and we're going to ask the pendulum. Do I need to do anything? No. You get to just sit. Just sit and hang out. All right. I can do that. So I'm going to rest my elbow here so you can see that I'm not moving my arm. So I'm going to put my arm here like this and I'm just going to let the pendulum go. And we're going to ask for your natural rhythm or your natural shape. So you can see, can you see? I don't know if you can see. Yeah. It's moving. It's moving and what direction is it moving in? Clockwise for me. Yes. Very clockwise. So your name, Linda, your energy is moving clockwise, which is what we want it to be. But some people, it's okay if it moves another way. It's just this is your pattern. So not everyone is clock. Not everyone is clockwise. What are some other patterns we can see or you see? I've seen side to side. I've seen diagonal. I've seen opposite direction. But usually people who are balanced will have more of a clockwise. Interesting. Yeah. So it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad even if it's going a different direction. That's just yours. And it could be just an indication of your sliding down. Okay. That's very interesting. So for you, you have clockwise. Okay. So I have here seven chakra cards. And I don't know if you can see them, but they're all a different color and they have a different symbol on it. And the colors that we use is a little bit different than the Sanskrit colors. This chakra belt comes from Asia, Korea, where the biggest difference is this one heart chakra, which is gold. And typically it's green. But we have golden hearts. Yeah. We say golden heart in green education. Yes. So that's what we're using today. Cool. So first chakra. So we're going to now ask about Linda's first chakra. The first chakra is root chakra as well. How we're grounded and connected. So can you see that? So if you can't see it clearly on the camera, the root chakra is matching Linda's initial shape. Oh wow. It's really big. Yeah. Really big means that you are grounded. So when your root chakra is balanced, you feel more decisive and clear. And then you also don't get attached too much with judgment. That's me. I'm very decisive. I'm very like, I know what I want. I know what I don't want. Exactly. So that that really helps you and you're really good just from knowing you. You're really good about discernment versus judgment. Yeah.  This is so cool guys. Good for you. So now second chakra. It's like she knows me. You're kind of on this. Second chakra. Oh, second chakra. Very big again. Can you see that? Wow. So second chakra also very balanced. Big dungeon. Very good. So you're very creative and you like to express yourself. But also solutions come to you quickly. Yes. I'm a problem solver guys. So when this is imbalanced, usually you get stuck on the problem and you're looking at the problem, problem, problem, problem, and then of course you track more problems. So you give birth to ideas very quickly. You're very creative in that. So good job. So far so good. So now let's check your Linda's third chakra. Third chakra. Linda's third chakra. It's not moving. So it doesn't mean that it's bad nor does it mean that it's closed. It just means that, you know, you had a lot going on. So your body doesn't quite have the energy here. It's tiny. I can see it's small. Very small. Yeah, if you guys look at it closely, it's very small. Not as big as the others. So that just means that needs a little bit more power here. So what is the third chakra stand for? Third chakra has a lot to do with emotions which your body is holding and also the energy you put out. So I know you just finished up a pretty big weekend workshop with some amazing people. So you used a lot of your energy. You gave out a lot of energy. So now your third chakra is just a little bit on the lower side. That's so cool. You can see it clear. It's like difference. They're not all the same. So what we can do is I want to just have you do something really quick to help bring it back in place. Okay.  So I'm going to have you do third chakra tapping. Okay. All right. So right here. Yep. Solar plexus and make sure you exhale. And while you're doing this, imagine in the space a beautiful orange colored ball shining and allow yourself to exhale out and stagnant energy through your mouth and allowing that beautiful orange light to expand and surround your organs, releasing any of the emotional information that your organs are holding. Good. And you're going to come just breathe it out and feel that sensation. And it doesn't take too long. The main thing is that you have really good focus. Now just slowly stop. Okay. That was about like a minute only. That's probably less. Okay. But you have good focus so we can do it pretty quickly. Okay. Do you want me to breathe or anything? Do I just just first just notice how you feel? I feel tingling in my body. All over my body. Good. I feel a lot calmer. Do you feel like you have a little bit more energy now? And is it radiating from your solar plexus? I feel warm here. Like oozing out to my body. Good. So now let's check again. Okay. Open your eyes. So once more. Let's check Linda's third chakra. Third chakra. Third chakra right away is moving. Oh yeah, it's a little bigger. It's a little bit bigger. So how do we have you do it a little bit longer? You would have seen it's gaining momentum but you would see it swing equally as big as the other first two. Wow. But it's doing a lot better. Can you say that? So this is the power of the brain. As soon as you focused, you're focused and you connected to your body and you exhaled out whatever it was you were holding there. Who knows, right? Right. Then you were able to replenish that energy and once more activated the third chakra. So congratulations. That's really awesome. Well I could really feel the difference and then the different shows and the reading too. Yes. So now let's check fourth chakra. So fourth chakra is really important for us to feel. Yeah, look at that. So your fourth chakra is balanced which means that you come from a place of heart-centered love. Yes, for yourself and for others. I love you guys. So can you see this? It's nice and big. Wow, that's really big. Yes, it's the same size as the first two.  Yeah, I don't hate outside things but I hate things about myself. Exactly. I still hate. Yes. So it's still all around that. So when this is balanced, yeah you're in harmony with yourself as well as others. Okay, now fifth chakra. Fifth chakra has a lot to do with communication. Communication and it's also tied to your first chakra. So if your first chakra is weak, naturally your fifth chakra will be weak. And look at that. Of course it's big.  Can you see that? Yeah. So with your fifth chakra, if it's imbalanced, a lot of times it will be like you feel like you're saying the same things to the same people and they don't get you. It's not them, it's you. So that's one of the things. But fifth chakra, I want to talk a little bit about this. This is one of the hardest ones to open. Wow, why is that? Just because fifth chakra, it's a lot about communication. I don't know if you've seen the movie Love Heels. Yes, of course. You guys have seen Love Heels too, right? I talked about it on my YouTube channel. So there's a scene where I'm doing the fifth chakra opening with Dana. Yeah, she's in there. So most people when they're given, they're asked to yell, most people cannot yell. That's true. Yeah. Most people have suppressed so much.  Quiet. Don't be seen, not heard. Right. Don't say anything. Don't say anything. You're upset. Don't say anything. So then we continue to do that. So with fifth chakra, it starts to come out in other ways, such as not being able to really communicate clearly. A lot of times when you want to express your emotions, you get stuck. Like it feels like a lump.  And then also, just a lot of times, stupidness communications. You know what I mean? A lot of times it's like we're actually saying the same thing, right? But we're not saying it the same way. So then people get upset. Yes, I think you're saying two different things, but you're actually saying the same thing. Right. So this chakra is a really, really important one. And I want to do a video for your viewers later. We're going to utilize your fifth chakra to help balance the rest of them. Sounds great. Yay. Okay. Six chakra. So let's check Linda's sixth chakra. Six chakra. And again, starts to move nice and big, which means that you are tuned into your intuition. Yes. I like to think I am. Yeah. So here's something that's really important. Most people have really good intuition, but they don't listen to it. Right. So a lot of times, even you who are watching at home, you like, you get that feeling or a download, right? Like, I should do this. But then if these are not open, you second guess yourself. Because you cannot trust. You're not grounded. Right. Or you have too much emotions. I see. So you miss opportunities or you talk yourself out of things where your spirit is just like, this is what you've been asking for. Let me help you. And then you're like, no. How many times do we doubt ourselves? Yeah. When we feel something or we receive some message. Right. And a lot of times it's because we're holding on to past information. Makes sense. Yeah. So good job on that. And now seven chakra. Last one. Seven chakra. Seven chakra. And the second seven chakra. Good. Alrighty. Opening wide. Very good. So you're highly intelligent and you are, you're receiving a lot of knowing. Does that make sense? When I say knowing. So can you explain that? So a lot of times when this is getting more into like that sixth sense, that inner sense. So we say this is heaven's key or up here, right? Right. Top of your head. So you are in tune with your larger self who is giving you that guidance and it's coming in. And because the rest of them are, you are doing a good job about keeping balance, then you kind of get like suddenly you know stuff. Like you're looking at something and suddenly you have this, like you don't know where this information came from, right? So a little bit, it's tight and a little bit close to intuition, but it's a little bit different. I see. Does that make sense? Like suddenly you're like, you just know. Intuition feels like it's coming from inside whereas knowing seems like some guidance is helping you from outside, right? Yes. That's a good way to describe it. So when you have the two combined, it's fantastic that those two things are more developing that now sixth sense or more into that like psychic realm, which all of us are psychic, by the way. All of us have this ability. We've just not developed it or we haven't been given the tools to really be able to explore it and express it. So can we talk a little bit about what most people will have? Yes. And then I have a question before you do that. Okay. So my natural direction was clockwise. Yes. And then let's say that you're going through the different chakras and then let's say that one of them, all of them went clockwise for me, but what if it started going counterclockwise or what if you were hovering over one of the chakras and it started going like side to side, which is not my natural rhythm? What does that mean? So it's more like an imbalance. So it's never like, you know, good or bad energy. It's not about that. Intuitive, I mean, inherently, there's no good or bad energy. Okay. Energy is flowing or stagnant or balance or imbalance. Okay. So when you have say something like that and we're holding it and we're going in the opposite direction, then you would have a bigger imbalance. I see that makes sense. Or if it's just there or how we started with third chakras, small, it's balanced, but it's weak. All right. So it's just how the energy is flowing into that state. So going back to these two, these two, these two, mostly these two, very, very important. Chakra one and two. First and second. So if you want to really live a balanced life, balance these two. These two is your foundation. Makes sense. So when your power is here, then it supports your emotions, then it supports your, you know, everything else, your intuition, your feeling. So if we can help the world, let us balance our first and second chakras. One and two, guys. One and two. Well, Jen, this was so cool. I've never had a chakra reading done before, but it was very enlightening. I learned a lot about myself. I learned a lot about some of the exercise that I can do to balance it for brain education. So for our audience who wants to connect with you, like whether you guys have some plans to come to Sedona, make sure you check this place out in person. That's the best way Sedona Wellness Cafe and uptown Sedona. But if you don't have the ability to travel to Sedona right now, as you mentioned at the beginning of this video, she does these online. Yeah. Kind of like how we're doing it like this. She does them online so she can get your name and then do the chakra test too. So how can people connect with you for those? The easiest way is Instagram. You can reach us on Sedona Wellness Cafe on our Instagram or Facebook. Okay. That's probably the easiest way. So social media seems like the best way to connect with them. So I will leave a link in the description below for their Instagram and their Facebook pages. So if you guys are interested also to check your chakras by brain education instructor and intuitive reader Jen, then you can check it out there. Yeah. And we'll go more into it, you know, talking more in depth about each thing. So you'll have more time. Right. So this is just like a summary, but for your session, if you guys sign up, it will be more in depth and catered to exactly what you need because your energy is not going to be the same as mine. All right. Well, Jen, thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for coming on. And I hope you guys found this interesting and I hope you guys get a chakra reading by Jen because I learned a lot and I think you'll learn a lot about yourself too. We'll see you next time. Bye.


Hello everybody welcome back to another iPhone tutorial and this one I am in iOS 17 and I'm going to show you how I created and then I sent awesome stickers just like this look at this this is a text message I just sent to my brother and I'm like sending him stickers that I created from my own photos these are my own stickers how did I do it let me show you very quickly let's go to the front screen here like I've done all right the first step click on photos like I'm going to do here when you do that you're either in your library or you're probably in your albums whatever pick a photo that you like so I'm gonna of course pick one of my puppy dog Kingston because that's literally how I roll I'm gonna select this one here and now I've got my video or I've got my picture in front of me what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna hold down on the image and I'm not gonna let go and you'll notice that this is one of those live images so it has like a couple seconds of him doing his thing now what I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna hold down and then I'm gonna push up now what I've done here is I basically said hey this is what I want I want the bulldog and you'll see here that apple has selected my bulldog so I'm gonna move it down or just move it a little bit and you'll see here when you do that you get four options copy look up add stickers share you'll also see that you get that nice halo effect around the edge of whatever you're gonna make into a sticker click on add sticker like I'm gonna do here and then presto it's added in a sticker that said you can now go one step further and add an effect from just a basic sticker so I'm gonna click on add effect and look at this now I've got it set to let's go with a shiny sticker so here we go I've got Kingston doing shiny things and also you can click on this live button here up here right beside stickers and that allows it to either be an animated sticker so it moves around or it doesn't move around and I think some of these effects like the shiny one you can't have it moving around but you can have it I believe for like this one here for the original and let's see if comic works comic looks like it does not work so right now at the moment it's still in beta you can get the movement with the original sticker so you can have that I'm going to click on done and then there's the sticker and if I wanted to send if I wanted to click on that sticker and hold it down presto we've got a custom sticker and I'm going to go ahead and show that to my brother Mike so I'm going to go and send him one more sticker go to so I went on the text here I went to my brother's phone I'm going to hit the plus on the bottom left I'm going to click on stickers and then I'm going to send him the latest version of Kingston I'm just going to drag and drop that in and well enjoy buddy there's Kingston doing Kingston things that's all there is to it thanks


physics channel for physics please subscribe my channel hello and welcome back to another episode of physics partner today I would like to discuss the very interesting machine called centrifugal governor a centrifugal governor is a device that uses centrifugal force to regulate the speed of an engine let's make a quick revision about centrifugal force it is the apparent outward force on a mass that is undergoing circular motion this force is a result of the body's inertia and not a physical force acting on it you can experience different example on centrifugal forces it was first developed by James Watt in the late 18th century of use in a stream engine the basic idea behind the centrifugal governor is that as the engine speed increases centrifugal force causes two weighted arms to move outward this movement is then used to control the engine's throttle which regulates the amount of fuel and air going into the engine the size behind the centrifugal governor is based on the principle of centrifugal force which is the outward force that act on an object moving in a circle as the engine speed increases the weights on the governor arms move outward causing a linkage to move the throttle which decrease the flow of fuel to the engine this in turn causes the engine speed to decrease until the weights move inward causing the linkage to increase the flow of fuel and stabilize the engine speed let's see the physics formula associated with the centrifugal force one of the key formula you can see on the screen is f is equal to mv square over r where f is centrifugal force m is the mass of the body v is the velocity and r is the radius this formula explains how the centrifugal governor is able to use centrifugal force to control the engine speed you can see here on a screen there is a symbol called omega omega typically refers to the angular velocity of a rotating object in the context of a centrifugal governor the angular velocity of the governor weighted arms is directly related to the engine speed as the engine speed increases the weighted arms move outward increasing the angular velocity of the governor this increase velocity in turn causes the throttle to close decreasing the engine speed until the angular velocity of the governor stabilizes so I can say that omega may not be directly associated with the centrifugal governor itself but definitely it is a key factor in the governor's operation as it helps to regulate the engine speed let's talk about the real-life application of this governor there are a variety of real-life applications for the centrifugal governor including its uses in a stream engine as well as in modern engines such as those found in cars ships and aircrafts the governor is also used in various mechanical system to regulate the speed of rotating shaft during my whole research on this topic I couldn't find any specific criticism or deficiency related to the centrifugal governor while there may be some criticism or shortcomings associated with the device but still it is widely recognized as a significant invention that played a key role in the development of this steam engine and other mechanical system so I think it's enough for today so thank you very much for listening and watching I hope you enjoyed the video I hope this video is useful for you so take care of yourself and don't hesitate to write an email if you have any question curies suggestion and even classes are required take care of yourself meanwhile see you in the next video goodbye


And welcome to the fourth installment of our Entrepreneurs' Exchange Web Chat series. I'm the Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Program at the U.S. Department of State. Before I introduce our guest speakers, we encourage you to check out www.startthespark.org to learn more about President Obama's initiative to promote entrepreneurship around the world. I'm excited to be joined live in our Washington studio by our distinguished guest, Dante Despartes, founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, and Sandra Cojeda, founder and CEO of Pelcor and our IVLP alumni, who is connecting with us from Lisbon, Portugal. Both are here today to share their unique experiences and to answer your questions. I'd also like to extend a special welcome to the International Exchange Alumni who join us from around the world, including those gathered at our American Corners, to watch this live program. Now, while we wait for your questions to come in, let's hear briefly from our guests. Dante Despartes is the founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategy, risk and capital management firm that focuses on mid-market opportunities, market expansion and innovation. So, Dante, you've built an important business that's useful to entrepreneurs. Can you give the audience more insights into your business model, please? Sure. Thank you. Thank you, Karen. And I should say, Buatarji. It's nice to be here today. So, Risk Cooperative was formed to try to address the issues of a lot of evolution in the capital markets around risk, investment, and funding a business throughout the various stages of its growth. So, from the very early stages, from the startup phase down to I'm finding there's few customers, to now I need to get much more complex longer-term financing to secure growth, we wanted to level the playing field in that because as you may imagine, since the financial crisis, the traditional financial institutions have moved upmarket. So, banks, traditional lenders, investors have made it much more complex and so there's a higher barrier of entry for entrepreneurs and small to mid-sized firms to get capital. And in that void, the second big trend, in that void there's a lot of proliferation right now of alternative funding models from crowd funding to grants to incubators to accelerators to traditional angel investors and friends and family networks that entrepreneurs can tap into. And so, the third big trend right now is an issue of complexity. So, just as in the beginning, so too today in 2015, entrepreneurs around the world are faced with the key challenge of what is the funding source that's right for me? What is the funding source that's available to me locally? How do I secure that for the long term without giving up the business, giving up all the assets and the shareholding that you have in the company? So, at the end of the day, the true solution for most entrepreneurs is their own wherewithal, their own wits and grit that got them started in the first place. Thank you. I met Sandra last year when I led a U.S. private sector business delegation to Lisbon and bought one of Sandra's beautiful cork purses. Sandra, can you tell us about your product lines and explain how you have scaled your business? Hi, Karen. Hi, Dante. For me, it's a pleasure to be with you. Good day and good attack to Portugal. So, my brand called Spell Cork and I began to... 20 years ago, I began to work in a cork industry. I am the third generation of that cork industry from a family business. So, 10 years ago, I wanted to do something different with cork. So, I created Spell Cork and I began to develop a new line of bags, umbrellas versus hats in cork. I was the first one in Portugal and first one in the world. So, at that time, 10 years ago, it was a big challenge for me because here in Portugal, people see it cork like a usual thing, but cork is a unique material. So, use cork and see like a fashion bag, like a fashion brand, or that you can do a fashion brand with it. It was a big challenge. 10 years later, I professionalized better and more my brand, my company. Now, I have a design department inside my company. We developed all the designs of our collections and all the marketing we do at home. And now, we are in the big challenge to export and to export more and better Spell Cork to the United States and other parts in the world. So, now that Spell Cork is a fashion brand in Portugal, we want to make it Spell Cork a fashion brand around the world with cork ski. Okay. Thank you, Sandra. Let's turn to our audience of exchange alumni and entrepreneurs watching from the American corner in Lisbon. Sejam bem vindos. Welcome to the program. I'm sure your group has plenty of questions for our guests. Is there a question from Lisbon? Pretty quiet group right now. In the meantime, we'll take some other questions coming live from social media at the chat space. Our first question is raising capital of the most important component of starting a business? So, I'm happy to take that question. And ultimately, what I always advise entrepreneurs at the very earliest stages of building their business and their idea, that you need to build a business you want to run and not a business you want to fund. There's a huge trend right now among entrepreneurs that manipulate the most successful entrepreneurs that they see around them. And there's a big danger in that because it's very easy to say, I want to be Elon Musk from Tesla or I want to be Sandra Correa in Pelcor. The challenge, of course, is that if you only think about how to fund your business, you're only going to think about the business from the investor's vantage point. And when you think about a business you want to run, you almost don't care whether you have the capital or not. What your primary priority is, I have a solution that the market values. I have customers and I've positioned the product at a price or the product or service at a price that the market can afford. I mean, after all, the greatest source of capital for your company is people buying the goods and services you provide. And that's the hardest test for most startups and most early-stage entrepreneurs to cross, is I have a viable product or service, somebody out there is willing to pay for it, and that's the strongest source of capital. Once you've crossed that bridge, then you could start turning to these other sources of capital that are available to grow the company, to provide inventory, to staff up and things like that and to enter new markets. But the first order of business is, does the market want it from a consumption vantage point? I have a question for you along those lines, Sandra. How did you validate that you had a viable product that the Portuguese would buy when you were starting to manufacture your purses out of cork? Karen, I would like also to complete the answer, don't they, for the first question. Oh, certainly. In my opinion, one of the most important things that entrepreneurs must have in their own business is to have the passion and to be in love with what they do with their business, with their idea, because they can have marketing, they can have sales, they can have everything, and of course, the capital will arrive. But if they are not passionate, they won't go further. So for me, passion is very important. So don't they, this is only to complete your answer. Thank you, Sandra. That's so true. For the second, for the question you did at the beginning, it was like a street work, because people would not use it to see cork like a fashion product. So it took me many years to invest, not in the marketing, but also in a one-by-one connection with people, because when people saw the product, they said, wow, this is cork. And you know, when you see that, imagine an umbrella, a cork umbrella. So they said, wow. And then it's a tale, it's a story that I needed to tell. And until today, each new customer, I need to tell this is cork, and the story from the trees where it comes from and where we want to go. So it was not easy, but I have the passion for this unique material. And because I have the passion, I talk about it with passion. So people got in love. Fabulous. Here's another question from our viewers. How do entrepreneurs raise capital for their business in Portugal? Answer that. In Portugal, we entrepreneurs raise capital through the traditional ways, like the loans from the bank. This is the oldest more traditional. But because we had a crisis, economic crisis in Portugal, so entrepreneurs need to change. And now they are using the investment funds, how do you say, like Portugal Ventures, like Betai, they are investment funds that support the new business. But of course, you need, the entrepreneurs here need to have a good business, a good marketing from their business, and they must have a good pitch. If they have a good pitch, so it will be more easy to have these funds from these investors, capital investors. But in my opinion, I know that in America, crowdfunding is growing a lot. Here in Portugal, we are not using it. But I think crowdfunding, it will be the future here in Portugal. And because in crowdfunding we can have two types of crowdfunding. We can have the oldest one by donation when people can invest and buy a product from the entrepreneurs' company and by donation. Or the new trend, the investment crowdfunding, where any person can be a shareholder of a new project. So I see that, like the future. So in Portugal, we have many work to do about crowdfunding, but I think it will be the future. And now in Portugal, at least at last now we have this year we had the shock tank here. We had five entrepreneurs, the TV Syria here, which is one, so I think that is another opportunity. Tremendous. Before we get to more of our questions, I want to give a shout out to the American Center in Baku. Hello Baku, and thanks for joining the program. Ainez Zeguesi from Benin, West Africa wants to know, how can the government help small businesses raise capital? Dante and Sandra, what are your thoughts on that? That's a great question. Thank you and Benin. The governments have an important role to play in leveling the playing field for small businesses because the truth of the matter is at the earlier stages of your company the failure rate for small businesses is relatively high. And so the role that governments play, and again it's global, in collaboration across countries, is in leveling the playing field, de-risking some of the earlier stage investments, and most importantly, it's about giving small businesses access to markets. Again, I go back to the earlier message that just like Sandra described a moment ago, you need to have products and services that somebody wants to consume. It's not enough to have an idea. You need to also have something behind that idea. And then once you have that, there's a number of government programs globally, and I would like to think that in Benin as well, these types of programs exist, that help create access to markets, that help create access to capital, and that in some respects, the governments also act as a guarantor, a financial guarantor. In the event the small business has any type of financial difficulties in repaying loans and in sort of repaying any of its obligations. So the government is a very important leveler of the playing field. And your thoughts on that question, Sandra? Here in Portugal, government supports most of all the start-ups company through the incubators, but we don't have any big programs in our government policy, because our government policy, as I told you, we had this crisis, so they cut in some ways for that support, but they are supporting mostly the start-ups to begin. If you have a business with two, three years, four years, the help, the support they give are not like the money itself, but they support the project. I can give an example. Here in Europe we have the money that comes from the European community. So if you have a good product, if you have a good export strategy, so you can present that strategy to the government, and the government goes through the European community to support your business in 45%. This is the help. Our government, they don't give the money, but they give you several ways for you to grow up, and you need to show that you have a very good strategy. That's a great answer, too. Here's another great online question for our speakers. What are the qualities of a good entrepreneur? Well, I think the first one is no fear of failure. I think the hardest step often for an entrepreneur is the first one. It's to make the step that that's your life choice is to be entrepreneurial. And then as Sandra rightly said earlier, passion, trial and error, this kind of tireless, tireless dedication to the product. But I think the subtler, those are all sort of the recognized traits of an entrepreneur in the market that we recognize for being passionate risk takers. The subtler traits are probably more important, which is that they're very attentive. So if they get negative feedback from the market, really, really good entrepreneurs understand the value of small improvements and not necessarily trying to leapfrog everything. And that's probably what exactly some of the audience and the participants around the world have experienced in their businesses, they've presented something very little that will make the difference between success and failure. And so really good entrepreneurs in addition to being passionate and in addition to being risk takers and eternal optimist, I think there's also a lot of value that you see in them in terms of subtlety and getting the small things right as well. Perfect. Sandra, your turn. Sue Aves. For me, yes. I'm 100% with Dante. And for me, an entrepreneur must be first a visionary, a dreamer. And like Dante said, must be an optimist because it's not the easy road, it's a hard road. But if we act without fear and if we believe in our business and if we work 24 hours a day that your business from the entrepreneur will succeed. So these are qualifications that they are the basis. Money is not the principle. The principle is to be a dreamer, visionary and believe in your business.  So this is like a great step-working. Okay, onto our next question for Dante and Sandra. What alternative funding models are available? So I think as Sandra rightly said earlier that there is a proliferation right now of alternative funding models. Some of them are very, very innovative and not entirely available around the world but if you look ahead five years I think models like crowd funding are very compelling and they present an opportunity where the playing field is leveled completely. Any organization that has access to a crowdfunding platform of any size can effectively get their product access on that platform and try to raise capital that way. But in addition to that one of the areas that I like a lot is to use the crowd mechanism to test whether your product has interest in the market. So sort of if Pelcourt was developing a brand new product, perhaps a beautiful briefcase that I would love to buy putting that product in sort of a beta test in one of these platforms to see if there's sufficient demand is probably a more interesting funding source than trying to get investors who love your business model. So that's one evolution that I think will continue to see evolving around the world. Another one that is more pragmatic and practical is for small businesses and entrepreneurs to tie up to established companies. So many, many large firms around the world if you look at their supply chains and if you look at all of the firms that feed into their products often those companies are supporting a very, very large supply chain in an ecosystem of smaller businesses and that's a readily available source of capital that in many respects is completely global as well and often the entrepreneurs will have readier access to those decision makers in larger companies to try and promote and sell their products to support those bigger firms and so it's an all ship rising kind of situation. Would you like to add anything, Sondra? I agree 100% with Dante and I can give you an example now on the crowd crowd-rising I have a new product, Dante A brief taste? So it is my new product is not under the name of Belfort it's another name and it is on crowd-rising and I can tell you that in one month it will it's a success so I'm just waiting to produce and to share to launch in the market so even for companies like mine that always have a strategy have their own investment and they are not startups so we can use other ways like the crowd funding in different ways and second just to complete your answer I think I have here a crazy idea imagine we have 2, 3, 4 entrepreneurs they have different business but that business they are in the same business or the same area so if they make an association or if they join together perhaps they can build one business and have more fundraising I know in Portugal association like this it worked on the farmer sector who knows in another sectors if these entrepreneurs can join in one in this case they will have more ways to have the fundraising just a crazy idea I love that, that ties back into talking about how what the qualities of an entrepreneur are and I think that one is definitely collaboration and that speaks to that subject we have another question this is Ricardo Vanea from Argentina and he asks the US has been considered a unique place to start a business because of the capital market structure that facilitates startups access to capital do you think that is still the case today and how can foreign startups utilize this system so that's a great question Ricardo from Argentina the truth of the matter is as Sandra has outlined my own experience in starting my company is that it is difficult everywhere and it's difficult even in the United States so yes we have a very vibrant capital market we have a complete evolution of all of these mechanisms from crowd funding to crowd sourcing to accelerators, incubators and you name it having said that 95% of startups in this country again at the earliest stages do not get funded and so that doesn't mean that every single entrepreneur who sets out in the US and around the world is going to fail on the contrary the ones who succeed are the ones who fail forward as they say the ones who try to raise capital for the first iteration of their business model realize they need it to adapt it either to investors or to the market and then they go out again with the second and third and fourth model and so the reason the persistency of some of these very very successful serial entrepreneurs and clearly there's an ecosystem in places like Silicon Valley increasingly the DC metropolitan area is another hub for entrepreneurship in the United States the key thing is that there's an ecosystem and so what I would encourage around the world is this notion that never go it alone it's so much easier when you have someone to fall back on and you have cohorts that think as groups on how to solve problems whether they're market based or funding based that that's how you overcome many of the obstacles but by default it is it is a business of overcoming challenges to be a successful entrepreneur Dante and Sandra an online viewer wants to know how do you balance the trade off between fending your business and running your business that that is a big challenge because the answer is passion and if I I am in love with my business I have first to look for funds and to run the business first I need to have a great team working with me I need to have professionals working with me I can't do every single loan a telephone is not one person company Belcor it's my company but it's built in many workers I have so this is the first step is to have professional and good co-workers with me that they can support the business at the stage that I can manage the big decisions and run run the business and also at the same time looking for new funds and new products new markets because this never stops I began my my path in the running the business to bigger export to United States so to go to United States to sell my products there to open the market there here in Portugal I need to have a very good team and I trust in my team and they trust me this is for me to move the balance I need to have it's a trust on my team so I can run the business and go for what comes for the funds for new markets like that thank you very much we have another online viewer who has a question for us can I access capital from foreign sources and what are they that's a great question I know that there are a number of let's say U.S. sponsored activities to support small to mid-sized enterprises overseas private investment corporation has established an SME fund that is designed to support small to mid-sized enterprises around the world also that are available to entrepreneurs from around the world I'll give you one example so there's an entrepreneur that I've been working with here in DC originally from the Central African Republic his name is Gabino and he has a very promising start up a very promising technology that will harness solar power and keep store the energy over long cycles which will effectively provide an off grid energy solution primarily in Africa and so upon learning of Tony Elumelu's activities and his entrepreneurship program I connected the dots and this young man was then identified as one of the participants in this program to raise a thousand entrepreneurs across Africa and so in addition to having a little bit of capital to support his business coming again from a foreign source if you will it's now plugged him into an ecosystem of his peers he's working very closely with Tony Elumelu and a number of others in that type of program and so I think these types of models are very compelling but it goes to the real fundamental issue of how do you fund your business and it still boils down to relationships having having people who can help you combat the complexity of what sources do I use from where but there's so much available right now in support of entrepreneurs from around the world another viewer, thank you very much another viewer wants to know how can I take my business to the next level first it is important to see what is the next level if the next level needs a big investment so that entrepreneur needs to first have a good marketing strategy to know the next step what he wants to do so can evaluate it and do a business plan on that the result of that next level and most important is to see and to know if the next level he wants to achieve in one year or five years or ten years and to make a business plan for that time after it it is important to choose different funds if it is a big fund, a big investment that is needed so my advice is to go to the traditional business angels because it implicates a big investment if it is not a big investment it is a small one so that entrepreneur has the crowdfunding and other ways that he can use and she and don't forget in the United States special not in Portugal so much but in the United States if the entrepreneur is a woman so they have lots of opportunities because there are lots of investment funds who supports woman business and growing woman business so you know depends in different stage for me important is to see if you are next level you must study your next level and to see to have a good strategy a good business plan and define if it is only for a year or five years and then you can decide the best fund and like Dante said networking relationships are the open doors so catch any opportunity you have because sometimes we go for an opportunity we see is that probably that business angel and perhaps we have another one on the other side that is the best for our business Thank you so much Sandra Pixie Carlisle on Twitter wants to know from both of you what was your number one challenge when finding funding to build or sustain your business that's a great question for me the number one challenge was once I have identified investors that were ready to support risk cooperative the number one challenge was that I needed to secure funding not to do it alone that for me was the point of no return it was this has to be a collaborative effort hence the name and I didn't want to build a business alone through the early phases so my requirement was I need to bring a great internationally recognizable team with me and from that platform we would then guarantee the investors a strong return so that took time to secure and now that we're outside of the earlier days of the business my goal is not to have to dilute the company any further and get any additional investments and so our plan is really to use the market and to practice what we preach use the market to get the funding to build the business fabulous Sandra my big challenge was my first fund that it was from the traditional bank but in that traditional bank fund my challenge was to speak about products that doesn't exist in the market because my raw material is cork so it was not easy to convict my investors that I want to work cork and they asked me but wow you see that answer so I think it was my biggest challenge is when you have a different product when you have a different business then you want to sell not only for the customer but special to your investors so that was my first challenge was to make that my investors believe that I wanted to make cork into a different product and you certainly got traction with that Sandra, part of Banes before we get to more of your great questions let's go back to our viewing group in Lisbon for a question Lisbon, go ahead and ask that question that's burning on your mind that's okay, hi so first of all, pleased to meet you and thank the organization for this opportunity to have this discussion and to be able to ask you some questions so my name is Antoine Falcom I'm a research engineer here at Union Over and I'm currently also project manager for research groups that we have with the European Space Agency I'd like to know your views we've been discussing here about entrepreneurship and businesses as you know research is not really known to be as profitable but what I'd like to know is your views and Dante's views if possible about research and alternative ways to find capital and to be able to finance the research that we've been doing so that's my question I'd like to know your views on that thank you very much that's a great question we have to remember that the greatest great advancements in business and therefore in society have often come from the silent heroes right, where they were researching a sort of a vaccine or whether you're researching a business model or doing really complex advance engineering often these are the silent heroes I think there's a lot of encouragement at least that I'm seeing in the academic community for example Harvard Business School in the United States is planning a joint campus with the engineering school so to put together the business minds and the lab coats the research minds to start working together and figuring out how to accelerate the R&D process and then to get anything coming out of research labs around the world into the market so the issues there are the same I mean you need to fund your research you need to have long term visibility on the project so you need all of the same ingredients as a researcher as an entrepreneur you need a long horizon you need capital for that horizon for the work and the various stages of the work and you know maybe Sandra in Lisbon you may know of a bit more about where the research then connects to the market and sort of we get we get this great gentleman's work out in open view Ok, thank you Lisbon for the question Dante, like you said here I go to explain not so in an academic way but in the business way how we proceed with research or how we here we help the research to have funds usually and I can share with you in our cork business my company we have a great connection with universities and their labs their labs as you know they do research in different materials and also with cork so when we want something or they have a new research in cork they come to us and they go to sell their research and if that research combines with what we need so we we fund with the research to have the results of that new idea and or new product or because research is linked with innovation it is not a material thing but it is something that every area in the business world needs is research so I think like you said they must have the business model they must be known the companies must be outside their world so the companies here can see and buy their research but my opinion is that the future is hand by hand between the research and the companies that already have the products and how to innovate their own products and research must be continuous also they must do a lot of marketing I would like to add something to that our national science foundation which is also a US government agency is able to pair up with universities in the United States and then those universities have cooperative research with another university abroad one example of this is University of Porto in Portugal is aligned with University of Texas in Austin and they're developing some renewable energy solutions and so that's another way where researchers can internationally collaborate on solutions that can then be capitalized on patented and put into the marketplace we have a question from Venezuela now and Laura Rojas asks Dante and Sandra what is the best source of capital for an early startup angel investors or crowdfunding that's a great question from Venezuela and I guess the answer is it depends there's no as probably you've seen so far in today's program there is no one size fits all approach the good news is that if you get your pitch ready and your material ready for one source of capital be it a crowdfunding platform or an angel investor or a bank or friends often you could use that across all platforms and so what I would recommend to Laura and Venezuela is to get the best business case ready the best description of what you're trying to fund and how and then put it out across all of the options that you have locally available to you and explore the international ones as well because frankly that's how you're going to improve the odds of getting the funding that you need I agree with Dante 100% and Laura if you if you want to look for funds like Dante said that if you have a very good pitch a very good business plan so you go to you go to to try all the opportunities you can try the business angels you can try the bank you can try the crowdfunding because if you have a good business plan or a good pitch you go to have the funds you need and imagine you can have from crowdfunding and you can have from business angels so opportunities are a lot another online viewer asked how do I know if my business has enough capital to sustain itself or if I have to seek outside funding sources Dante or Susan Sandra well you know and and this is this is the truth so most early stage firms and most companies growing you know through that cycle of start up to scaling the business often the there's two things that you can control in your company either you sell more or you spend less and so I would encourage entrepreneurs as they get past the earliest stages and they start to have turnover and sales and operating cost it's very important to have internal controls of your usage of funding right so think of it this way that if your business needs to go to outside funding sources it's often a sign of either much more market demand for your products and services therefore you need outside funding or and this is the risk it's a sign that you're not managing your capital well in the first place and therefore the burden is on the entrepreneur to figure out how to have really strong financial controls great financial reporting internally to understand exactly how long you have how long can you survive if all if the market stops and people stop buying your products and services because you shouldn't go to funding because you've exhausted all of your internal sources you should only go to funding when you really have a very strong market signal that you can grow and then you go outside because remember outside capital always will have a demand whether it's a bank you have to have interest rates if it's an equity investor you have to give up a stake in your firm and then you have another bunch of people that you have to answer to in addition to your friends whose couches you might be sleeping on we have another question oh please Sondra no no I agree with Dante great thank you Pixie Carlisle on Twitter asks in your experience do investors want a complete business plan with proof of past successes prior to funding a business that's a great question as well my advice is again build businesses entrepreneurs of the world that you want to run and you know while I often have and I'm probably the last and only person here to say this I've often enjoyed the process of writing a business plan I've never written it from the vantage point of I'm going to present this hundred page document to an outside investor and I think that in this day and age investors are much more savvy than asking you for your hundred page business plan if you can't say your business model and your value proposition very briefly I think you already lost people's interest at that point and so don't build the hundred page business plan build very succinct very crisp stories of why you what are you doing why the market loves you the track record behind you matters but if you focus on the market all the rest somehow I don't want to say that it's easy at all but all the rest somehow falls into place thank you very much I can for me for me Karen the market is also the big answer and for any business when you do a business plan another issue that is very important is the the volume of the market, the market volume because the potential market to see the one the entrepreneur has already in their business and the one that the entrepreneur can achieve and how he goes to achieve that market because the the volume of the market is very important to make the scale of the future of their own business thank you so much Jaffer an online viewer wants to know do you have any recommendations for young entrepreneurs are there any specific funding sources for those under the age of 18 that's a great question so I think twofold I mean one entrepreneurship by default knows no age no national boundary either and I think we're in an encouraging era where we're solving very big problems through entrepreneurs energy scarcity income inequality we're solving some of the world's key issues and entrepreneurs are front and center on that stage and so it's encouraging to see that there's a young viewer out there who's asking this question and my view would be your most important attribute as a young entrepreneur is not to have any fear of failure and that to believe that no matter what happens that you could reinvent yourself because one your age and hopefully a long and promising career will prove that you would have gone through many many many versions of yourself and therefore versions of your business now can you fund the business under the age of 18 I suppose it depends on if someone younger than 18 could enter contracts and sign agreements and work with a bank and have collateral and so if you're under 18 and you have all of those things in place then call me because you're so far along the line already I have some experience in this there's actually a really great source that you can look up online and if you Google teenage entrepreneur there's this American entrepreneur who's really fabulous who does these podcasts and they're specifically targeted toward that age group also in Denver, Colorado in the Mountain States in the United States there's an America town and they have banking legal advice everything and then they kick you out when you're 21 and so you've got to get it while it's hot I have a friend who has a 13 year old who has started a company called SoupCoup that is that goes to that bank in order to get loans and scale his business and so there are resources in the US but then you can also go on Google to Teenage Entrepreneur and listen to those podcasts they're really effective it looks like we're running out of time now so I'd like to ask Dante and Sandra one final question today Ines Aguayse from Benin wants to know if Dante or Sandra have any suggestions of resources specific to entrepreneurs in Africa Dante let's start with you on that one that's a great question I think the first step you know to quote Nike is just do it and as I mentioned before Tony Elumelu has recently launched this challenge and backed it with a hundred million dollars of his own money to support a pan African era of entrepreneurs and I'm very very enthusiastic about the work that he's doing and I'm very enthusiastic because he represents someone who not only has been very entrepreneurial in his career in banking and in finance but he's now putting back so to speak and a lot of African diaspora around the world and I've managed to connect a few of my friends and network with Tony he's looking very much inward across Africa and so that was a very encouraging model there's a hundred million dollars of potential support for early stage companies and that type of effect can really create an entire generation of entrepreneurial leadership across Africa do you have anything to add to that Sondra? Yes I can share that I don't know in Africa the details but I can share what I am doing here in Portugal after my IVLP program that I did in the United States the new beginning I create a new beginning for Portugal and what we do in the new beginning for Portugal we join entrepreneurs and we mentoring them to the next level and we help them to be more professional without money it's only a mutual seeing it's a share not a charity but we help each other and with our networking and we make all the development of their dreams to come true and to their business to grow up so this is a method this is a project that we are developing in Portugal and I think this method can be we can develop in Africa we can develop in any part of the world because it's made of human beings and human beings that they have they are entrepreneurs and they have experience and they can share and mentoring others and also raising money if they need fabulous thank you so much and thank you Dante and Sandra before we close I'd like to hear your final thoughts and anything you'd like to leave with our viewers today Dante let's start with you okay so let me create an analogy on how to think about capital in your business so your business is the airplane long runway capital is a fuel that you're putting into the airplane too much of it in the beginning will make it harder for you to take off ironically because you're not focusing on the right things and the road ahead of you but obviously you need both you need a long runway and you need the fuel sufficient to take off and to make your business work and so I would say that right now we're in a very very promising time there's a proliferation of models that are blossoming literally all over the world from crowdfunding to early stage opportunities to fund a business to different banking and collaborative models that Sandra described with associations and clubs and the best entrepreneurs are the ones that aren't afraid of failure and that they literally expose themselves to all of it every one of those relationships every one of those funding opportunities opens up entrepreneurs to probably the most important element which is a little bit of luck serendipity right that if I didn't have this conversation today I would not have had that funding source and so I would encourage people to really put themselves out there and to put their ideas out there and their businesses out there and to do it as Sandra said earlier with passion and that's the key Perfect answer and your ads Laundra I subscribe everything Dante said and for me my advice is that entrepreneurs you must share your thoughts you must tell your needs and you must be also persistent you must be resilient if it is your dream if it is what you want you don't give up you go and you share with other people because don't be closed on your own open to the world and one one last idea act with passion and when you create something or your business don't think only in your country think that you are in the world and the world is bigger so you can also scale your business for different countries with different cultures so you have a big market value waiting for you thank you thank you very much that wraps up our web chat for today Dante and Sandra I'd like to thank you so much for joining us it was truly an engaging discussion and one that I hope will leave you inspired I'd also like to thank our live audience in Lisbon our viewing group in the American Center in Baku as well as all of you who joined this program from around the world a recording of this program will be available on international alumni exchange website and our Facebook page if you want to keep learning about entrepreneurship the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit is happening in Nairobi, Kenya on July 25th and 26th this year it will be the sixth annual gathering of entrepreneurs from all stages of business development business leaders, mentors and high level government officials for more information visit www.ges2015.org although it's too late for entrepreneurs to apply now there are still some openings for investors stay tuned for our Entrepreneurs Exchange interactive program thanks again and have a great day