Okay I think we will start now our non-isothermal reactor design graphical design only one part is left I hope you have understood okay or did you enjoy doing that it is so beautiful I say very simple very simple way of doing things but it is not easy for you to do on your own because I think I have drawn the lines just like that but you have to calculate those lines and then you have to draw and this activation energy and also you know this delta h r s will give you help particularly the units because you have activation energy coming there in k values and k by mistake if you not able to put even proper dimensions you will never get those lines so that is why you have to be very careful in drawing those lines anyway today I will give you also one exercise so that you know you will practice how to draw those lines and we will draw I will give the exercise only for irreversible reaction because that is slightly complicated no reversible reaction reversible reaction which is complicated but then I think you know when you do complicated things non uncomplicated things are very simple so that is the reason okay good so the last part that is left in graphical design is is there an optimal design for this you know using graphs okay analytically also we have the same question is there an optimal design okay what do you mean by optimal design what do you mean by optimal design ya okay that minimum volume that is possible for a given conversion or maximum conversion that is that is possible for a given volume okay and if it is multiple reaction what is the optimal problem there this is straight forward single reaction when I have multiple reaction ya it is not the volume there it is the yield there okay yield or selectivity I mean both are same the way you define okay ya so there the question is but you do not worry about whether the reactor is smaller or larger there okay so that is why you always question there that okay how much yield I can get because that particular product may be having very very high cost so that is why even if you forget about the total volume of the reactor by producing more and more of that particular compound in terms of yield okay then you have to I mean then you may your plant may get lot of profit so that is the reason why that question is different there right but still you have to also find out what is the volume of the reactor for that equivalent yield that equivalent yield given by what conversion and use that conversion to again calculate the volume using the same procedures what we have done so here now optimal design what we discuss is that if it is irreversible exo or endo what is the optimization here so I have here X A versus T graphs so now for irreversible you know what kind of graphs you get what kind of graphs you get like this you get good yeah now how do I use this information for getting minimum volume for the given conversion what is the strategy you have already some some information in your brain okay so when do you get the minimum volume excellent okay so when the rate is maximum where do you get rate maximum here at the high temperatures at the highest temperature that is possible because as the temperature is increasing here the rate is increasing this is R okay so that means I can go on drawing till that end you know the line and then draw draw draw draw that the temperature but is there a limit highest temperature you know the first question what I asked you was what do you mean by the minimum volume here when do you get so if you remember the design expressions and you remembered and you told that when you get the highest rate then you will get the minimum volume and the highest rate will be given by here highest temperature because temperature is involved here okay yeah so and what is that highest temperature that is possible another question here so the highest temperature means is it you told that highest rate do you get this rate at one temperature or at various temperatures in this case we are talking irreversible reaction so that means what for irreversible exothermic or endothermic what should be the now strategy very good I am very happy that you are able to answer all correctly exothermic or endothermic what is the strategy I mean you know the temperature you said corresponding to a particular temperature you will get the highest rate okay so now what is that temperature and what kind of temperature scheme I should have in the reactor is it one temperature so that means what do you call that if you throw out the reactor if you have one temperature that is one you should have isothermal temperature highest that is possible this is T max okay how do I decide now the T max yeah you come at the end but before that taking care how do I choose that T max you have ideas I say already you know I told you also just think conversion is fixed for a given conversion how do I choose that increase will be different that's why we told that T max after certain temperature after certain temperature you don't have a choice because after certain temperature the reactor may decompose rate won't be that much increasing oh no here as temperature again you are coming back to the other wrong answer because we already decided that as temperature increases rate will be the rate will be increasing continuously again you cannot say rate decrease after some time no so no telling rate is there rate of yeah how do you decide that operating temperature Abhishek already given the answer yeah highest temperature reactor should be stable that means what is the factor that comes materials of construction that is one other one products are the the reacting should be a stable yeah at high temperature they may be side reactions which you don't like okay even though there is a multiple reaction sorry single reaction so at one point of time you don't know you know there may be a separate another reaction coming that not possible you should not allow that then any other thing that is what he said I think you know that is the materials of construction beyond which the you know the material should withstand that kind of temperature okay and also another thing the product formation and also charring of the products you know some of the products may get burned and everything you get only carbon okay at the end so that is why we don't want carbon including reactor if you go beyond certain values okay so that is why T max is decided by now yeah materials of construction yeah that is one and also side reactions and number three charring of products yeah this is true even for heterogeneous reactions the similar things only what same rules can be extended but if it is catalytic reaction what is the fourth one catalyst should withstand I think most of the time catalyst will control material of construction and all that there is no problem okay catalyst will control because catalyst should not be thermally deactivated so catalyst deactivation okay so all these things will come for this irreversible so it is very easy now for us to remember that okay graphical design will tell me that I have to go for highest temperature because the rates are increasing as I increase the temperature and now the scheme should be isothermal that means throughout the reactor I should have the same temperature now the question is how do I maintain that that particular temperature because throughout I should maintain the same highest possible temperature how do I do that if it is exothermic reaction or endothermic reaction okay yeah I think before answering those questions please take these yeah I think you know the optimal design optimal design means you know minimum volume or maximum conversion depending on what is the parameter which we are going to use optimal design depends on the optimum temperature progression which minimizes V by F A naught for a given conversion the optimum may be an isothermal or it may be a change in temperature in time for batch reactor, along the length in P F R and stage to stage for a series of M F R okay next part you can write it is important to know what this progression is because it is the ideal which we try to approach with a real system it also allows us to estimate how far any real system departs from the ideal okay good next part please write the condition for optimum temperature progression in a given type of reactor is as follows whatever the composition always have the system where the rate is maximum very simple rule so I think inverted commas if you started you just close it okay so that means you know I mean whatever may be the composition you look at the temperature where you get the maximum for the temperature what is the maximum rate so when you are putting together all these rates for example in a P F R okay all the maximum rates then the reactor volume will be minimum because in the denominator average of all that rates only will be there if it is a P F R if it is batch same thing again batch and P F R simply replaced by you know space which is replaced by time okay yeah and if it is M F R we have only one rate and also you know one temperature and one conversion correspondingly so we know how to find out that maximum rate because we know what is the corresponding temperature and conversion and also corresponding rate so whether that is highest or not okay so now next one what you just write is after that the locus of maximum rates is found by examining X A versus T graphs okay that is what what we have done here this is X A versus T graph right and now we thought that rate is increasing as you increase the temperature so you can go and go further whatever temperature you want but we have restrictions these things so you have to choose the highest any one of the one okay the lowest of these things because even if catalyst is getting deactivated and materials of construction it may withstand may be 2000 degrees Celsius but catalyst is getting spined up to 600 you cannot go there okay so that is lowest of this we will decide which one will be the or side reaction may be taking place at 550 degree solo right so that is one what you have to choose and within that now you have to try to get this what is the minimum volume for a given conversion or vice versa the other also is true okay good so now for irreversible reactions please take this for irreversible reactions that we have already discussed for irreversible reactions the rate always increases with temperature at any composition so the highest rate occurs at the highest allowable temperature this temperature is set by materials of construction side reactions catalyst deactivation etc good excellent so now the second one this is the first one irreversible we have now endothermic endothermic reversible reaction endothermic reversible okay yeah before going to that endothermic reversible you see here yeah I think this practical thing I wanted to ask you how do you maintain this isothermality if I have a plug flow it is easy to maintain in mixed flow right yeah so whether I have to heat or cool to get that temperature if it is highly exothermic but you know sometimes if the rate is low beyond certain temperature I have to remove some heat and then maintain the temperature so that I will get the highest rate that is no problem but for plug flow and also batch reactor what do you do just I want you are thinking that is all I think you know how do you imagine this see by putting just blindly one heat exchanger like this this is plug flow yeah so may be this is out you can put in the other way also no problem yeah so this way this is of course f a not entering f a coming out so now how do I maintain that isotherm that means every cross section I should have the same temperature then only you will get the real optimum that is the reason why I told this is the ideal situation that is the most ideal case and now how do you maintain that kind of temperatures I think theoretically we have also told you there is no isothermal condition anywhere in plug flow unless you put infinite number of heat exchangers that means every small cross section I have to take and then I have to put an heat exchanger to effectively control the temperature in that cross section okay and cross sections you can put infinity along the length so right so that is the reason why you don't have that kind of ideality so that is why you have to know in reality you will just go slightly away from the ideality that is what no that is what I think all of us do okay when you are very you are all young when we are all very young one of what we imagine is that the most beautiful girl on this planet should be my wife okay true boys girls also same thing the most handsome guy on this planet should be but the reality is different okay reality is totally different okay because I think how many most beautiful girls you can find out in this on this planet so whoever you get is most beautiful for you okay so that is the that is the actual adjustment with the ideal world correct no minute yeah so that is what is the ideality you know deviation from ideality that is what you know what we can do here so one way of doing that is if I have exothermic reaction how do I maintain but this is very nice very beautiful if I have exothermic reaction how do I maintain isothermality so that means every number of the heat exchangers I cannot put so I have to go to some finite number may be 10 may be 5 how do I do that how we do is you cannot cross this because the moment you cross some one of these things will control and you know you get spoil the entire reaction so you start as much as possible yeah if it if you are using adiabatic reactor that is one of the simplest ones instead of putting jacket around you put adiabatic reactor no jacket or no heat transfer no no heat removal system around the reactor but you do all that heat transfer after the reaction that section is over so that means you use now multi stage small portion heat exchanger small portion heat exchanger how much is the small portion that depends on again your heat transfer and coolant and all that so you start that means adiabatic system you are using reactor is adiabatic but in between you have heat exchanger so if it is exothermic reaction I will start even this is also a parameter even T not also which one is the correct T not also is a parameter through optimization one can find out that so now because it is adiabatic exothermic how it moves it moves like this okay but then I have to that means I have to see my calculations that the temperature increases along with the along the length of the reactor with conversion and then it goes to maximum this value correct no beyond that I cannot go then what I have to do heat exchanger I have to use when I am using heat exchanger there is no reaction right so then what kind of line I can draw here how it can come down okay it can come down because I think conversion I told you there is no reaction so what should be conversion same it is same so now it has reached this conversion so that means again how far you have to go again it is a optimization problem and then you let us say that you found that and again you go here and again go here so what is the type of reactor now what we have here section yeah this is heat exchanger again another section heat exchanger another section like that you know how many you need so this is the reactor and it need not be same length sometimes you know it will be decreasing in progression sometimes it will be increasing in progression probably if it is endothermic reaction now endothermic reaction what do you do it is not true isothermal how it is isothermal because I cannot get that kind of isothermal okay yeah I think this question is good so good yeah to really become isothermal I have to move only yes that is why we are telling we have infinite number of times right no here I have put but that means I have to start here go here start here go here start here go here so that means infinite number I want what do I say yeah I know the assumption is that you know there is no the moment it comes out of the reactor okay out of the reactor we have to assume that there is no reaction which is not correct particularly for homogeneous reactions okay that is correct for catalytic reaction because there is no catalyst no reaction that is why you know I think that sulphate dioxide to sulphate trioxide also it is used I will tell you that one later so like this but now if I have endothermic reaction what do I do I start with this point that is highest possible right but now temperature decreases though this goes this side so this one so this goes this side right that means temperature falls and also conversion of course is increasing then you have to see where you have to again heat now because you have to be on this line as much as possible then again so like this till your conversion that is the line that is the final conversion okay so like that you have to do see how thrilling it is if you really do because you are not doing you don't really enjoy it okay I don't know whether it is fortunately not doing or doing you know unfortunately not doing because this is what is true chemical engineering I say there are so many things there are so many wonderful wonderful things that are happening right and people have been using this already but only thing is I think even at this point of time I know you will get excited provided you have interest in designing this chemical engineering equipment so that is how what we do for exothermic or endothermic and red one I will write is endo and this white one we will write as exo so that is how and as I told you infinite means you will practically lie on this that is isothermal throughout many can turn so inside you have definitely there is some small variation of temperature but if I take this kind of length from here to here there may be 15 20 degrees variation but if I take very close here and then try to do there may be only one degree variation so practically almost you may get isothermal conditions when you go to the overall length so that is how for exothermic endothermic it is done okay good now reversible this is endothermic reaction reversible what is the kind of x versus 2 you get here this is x a versus 2 okay then we have r equal to 0 something like this correct know this is r equal to 0 that is equilibrium it is 0 equilibrium conversion and corresponding temperatures good so now if I draw this will be like this again how the rate is it cannot touch there yeah so rate is increasing like this only r equal to 0 may be r equal to 1 here so like that it increases now what is the condition for here optimal progression that means even here we can clearly see that as temperature is increasing rate is increasing so limit is again tmax yeah straight tmax so this is tmax oh my god okay so now of course here again if you want to be exactly on the line so there will be infinite number of heat exchangers along the length okay but this is endothermic it is very easy now to draw because we have already done here so we start with the highest rate I mean highest yeah temperature corresponding to that highest rate right so then I will draw like this like this like this if I am going for yeah may be the conversion required is this much yeah then I need 1 2 3 reactors and 3 heat exchangers okay good so this is actually not that thrilling when compared to your reversible exothermic reversible exothermic you know the plots here xa versus t here yeah this is r equal to 0 and we know that as temperature is increasing you will have conversion falling equilibrium conversion itself is falling and you cannot cross equilibrium conversion so that is why conversion falls in a reactor where temperature is increasing and the rates if you calculate and then plot you may get something like this yeah rates are increasing like this this is 1 okay 10 100,000 10,000 okay this is 10 to the power of 4 I will just start okay in between you have the lines yeah so here this is exciting the reason is that it is not blindly as temperature is increasing you have you know rate also increasing right rate is increasing there is no problem at all as temperature is even compared to this rate this is definitely more right so but the achievable conversion decreasing that is thermodynamic limitation that is why this is one problem where kinetics and thermodynamics both play a role okay there also it is playing but this is quite dramatic in the sense that you cannot cross thermodynamics here right so that is why what we do here is that we start at high temperatures okay we start definitely at high temperatures yeah okay by the way before that when we start at high temperature will come later but what are the maximum rate curves here maximum rate line will be connecting this maximum this is locus of maximum rates maximum rates some of you may not be easily you know may not be understanding this one that easily why they are called actually this is a different rate this is different rate this is different rate and I am telling that that is the maximum rates okay if you plot x versus t it is not quite obvious but x versus t is the best way for design right so but actually if I plot rate versus temperature and this line is this line is nothing but dou r by dou t equal to zero that maximum locus line okay that is what you can actually derive you cannot actually differentiate that and try to find out the temperature and corresponding rates okay or corresponding conversion also okay good so yeah this is the one and just to tell you I mean so that you know your imagination will be easier it is not that easy to imagine that how these lines are coming this is coming but that comes if I just draw a line if I just draw a line yeah if I just draw a horizontal line what is the meaning conversion is the same that means I am now talking about at a particular conversion right let us say 60 percent conversion how the rates are changing okay how the rates are changing see this is t starting from normally we do not start from initial you know absolute temperature zero but imagine that you are starting from absolute temperature zero so what is the rate there zero okay right then there is slightly more rate then slightly more rate then slightly more rate at that conversion any line horizontally it will go through all this history right so this is slightly lower slightly higher more higher then what is happening after crossing this again it is decreasing how do I plot this that means I have to plot this for a given conversion rate versus temperature how do I plot that this is rate versus temperature so how do I draw that so yeah so it may go may not be parabola exactly right so this is what then what is this point how do I get this point how do I get mathematically you cannot say d it should be doh why all that is happening at one conversion x this is at x constant x a constant correct x a is the parameter so similarly if I draw another line may be somewhere above right what do I get above this I get or below this I get conversion below it below it yeah I mean if I draw this here below that below that because these rates are definitely smaller than these rates if I go here these rates are much higher so that means lower conversion if I go to lower conversion that is what is reversible reaction because at higher temperature you get high rates but conversion will be lower that same thing only is reflecting there so then if I draw another line here and another line here so how in which direction I have to show the conversion how it is increasing from top to the this is x a increase so this is what what we are telling you know these points are nothing but doh r by doh t equal to 0 and that is what is the line which you get now I think is understood otherwise you know even last year also some people are asking sir you are telling this but we are not able to get what is this doh r by doh t that is what is the line so there if I plot r versus temperature it is easy for me to tell I mean for you also it is obvious because doh r by doh t that is where what you are but here there is no doh r by doh t that means that this line is doh r by doh t but r is as a parameter that is coming there right but if you plot the same information in this x versus t now you have three parameters know now I take at a constant r and then plot all that information then you will get this maximum line okay so that is why good so this is the one now under these conditions what we normally do is our okay our information tells us that go to the highest temperature that is possible because even though conversion is is less but rate is high and in my design expression I have this rate in the denominator so I have to have definitely more but if you want to get more conversion what you do you have to come back now so that means maybe I am starting some somewhere here right and it is again let us say adiabatic reaction that is easy one so then you have going like this right but if I proceed like this this is the maximum conversion I get but my maximum conversion may be somewhere here this is the conversion which I want okay for my design may be 85% 90% is the conversion which I want so then what I have to do I will start as far as possible the highest even I can start here right but where do you start is also optimization problem t0 what is the first t0 otherwise the overall may not be optimal unless this is t0 is optimal right so in this case let us assume that this is optimal and then yeah it is one reactor this is one reactor PFR right so then I have reactor and then I have to now cool this till what point here it is very clear to what point we have to cool the reason is you will get this information from what is called dynamic programming aris is very famous for that you only gave these conditions but didn't we gave this condition what I am going to write a little bit later is the condition without mathematics by simple logic he has written that condition because we know for optimality dou r by dou t equal to 0 so similar condition he has is also wrote for this optimality which has been proved by later with people you know with actual mathematics okay that condition I will tell but because it is a there is no reaction in the heat exchanger this is cooling now it will go and stop only at this point because the rate is same this rate line correct only one rate I have right on this it has to stop only on this otherwise it is not economic okay but by logical common sense I think you know then we had that one even without doing mathematics also you could tell that that it has to stop only on this reactor line and they did lot of work on this particular exothermic reversible reactions particularly for catalytic reactions catalytic reactions we can definitely guarantee that the moment you come out of the reactor there is no reaction so that is why you have to have the same conversion same rate but only temperature is decreasing because you are no cooling the entire reaction mixture then you draw again parallel line where you have to stop again depends on the mathematical nothing then you have this line now because this line this line right so then if you want this conversion again you have to go further maybe you have to just stop there okay it may not be economical but I think correctly if you draw this then you will also go there and then that finally it has to be you know for optimality the general common sense is that we have to be both sides of this maximum this is this side this is this side if you are only one side you will never get optimum right so the condition for this to be optimal the condition for this to be optimal that means this casc crossing this side is integral of course you have to be if I say this is A this is B dou of 1 by minus r A by dou t into dx A equal to 0 this condition you get from yeah dou by dou t okay 1 by this is 1 by minus r A okay of course which also can be written if I just expand that this will be A to B 1 by minus r A whole square into dou t into dx A equal to 0 same thing okay so that is the condition so in fact this one will be a condition where if I plot this one for example dou r by dou t versus x A okay I am plotting this right how it should be because the area should be 0 so that means there somewhere it should be positive somewhere it should be negative so it will be like this where this is A this is B okay so positive area this area must be equal to this area so that is the condition so that means you do this try to find out the rates and differentiate and then try to find out this area going on crosses goes and at this point you have to stop here if you are doing graphically if you are doing by dynamic programming that will automatically fix the corresponding temperature okay good so this is the one so that means this is exactly what is happening in SO 22 SO 3 plus half O 2 SO 3 this is gas this is gas this is gas all gases and it is a catalytic reaction and they use adiabatic reactor I will tell you I think why adiabatic are used a little bit later when you are coming to individual reactors okay adiabatic reactors are generally used if you do not have very high exothermic heat so that means around 25 to 30 kilocalories per mole that is medium if you have 60 70 kilocalories per mole that is very high 60 70 kilocalories that is highly exothermic right so almost isothermally you will get if you have 5 6 or 10 kilocalories per mole delta HR I am talking about delta HR okay so those conditions yeah so this is what is this and even this line how to get is simply differentiate this like what I have minus r A equal to simple reversible reaction K 1 C A minus K 2 C R dough R by dough T because K 1 is nothing but K 1 0 E 4 minus E by RT you know by minus E by RT and K 2 also is simply K 2 0 E 4 minus E 2 by RT that you have to differentiate that I can give in the examination this dough or by okay yeah I think maybe you have class


What's going on everybody, Dato Doi here with another Dragon Ball FighterZ video for you today, and this time I wanted to talk about the things that could be added to Dragon Ball FighterZ that would make it even more fun than it already is. I mean, don't get me wrong, I really love Dragon Ball FighterZ, but there's always room for improvement. So in today's video I'm going to be talking about five things that could be added to Dragon Ball FighterZ that would make it even better than it already is. Now remember, these are just five things that came to me after playing the game for a long time, so if you have any other ideas about how Dragon Ball FighterZ can be improved, that I don't list in this video, please feel free to let me know in the comments down below. With the introduction out of the way, let's get into my list. Starting off with something small that wouldn't really affect me personally, but I know a lot of people were disappointed with this aspect of the game, and that is to make the single player harder. As somebody that's only played the single player through once, I can definitely say that the game is way too easy. In fact, it feels like there was a disconnect between the priorities during the single player campaign. It seems like a lot of the fun would come from collecting these different badges in order to power yourself up in order to be able to take on certain strong boss fights, but instead you could probably win through all of these fights with no badges equipped in very low level characters anyway. With a single player structure like this, the game would definitely benefit from taking advantage of harder fights so that the player has to strategically plan their routes through the map in order to make sure that they collect enough experience slash badges to take on the final boss of that stage. As of right now, the single player in Dragon Ball FighterZ is great if you want to see interesting character interactions, but very lacking if you're hoping to get any sort of exhilarating gameplay. For number two on my list is another small fix that they could implement, and that's being able to search for party matches in groups. I don't know how many of you have had the opportunity to play with two of your friends and go up against another team of three, but it can be a lot of fun. The only problem is you have to set those up manually, and they did end in an area for searching for party matches, but unfortunately you can't search in groups, which doesn't really make that much sense to me. Why would you queue up for a party type mode when you're searching for single players anyway? It kind of makes the searching for a party mode function useless because you're not really going to find any matches there because most of the people playing party matches are already in teams of three and are just looking for another team to go up against. Maybe being able to queue up together wouldn't fix this problem entirely, but it definitely would make the searching function a lot easier to use. Now that we're on to number three, we're starting to get into the big improvements to the game that would drastically alter the way it's played online. And for this I went with a resetting rank system. I feel that a rank system that resets once every two to three months keeps players involved and keeps the player activity in ranked higher, allowing people to find games easier than they would have if we just have stagnant rake placings like we have now. Rank systems that reset keep better players coming back so they can constantly prove that they're still number one, and it allows newer players a chance to hop into the ranked leaderboard without knowing that they'll never catch up to the best of the best. Of course it should be reset with different gaps in mind. The best of the best facing off against players just jumping into Dragon Ball Fighters for the first time would set a very bad precedent against those newcomers and probably wouldn't make them want to try ranked again. But I believe if this system is done right it could easily lead to more players being on ranked, and I think it would be more interactive for the players of the game. But of course in order for a system like that to actually mean anything they would have to start punishing rage quitting. Now although this is only my fourth suggestion on how to make Dragon Ball Fighters better this is by far my biggest problem with the game. As of right now rage quitting doesn't cost you any points and it also doesn't give any points to the person that was going to win that match. So what this allows for is people to just rage quit out of any matches they want and still keep their points. Now in the game right now we have a branding type of system where constant rage quitters will have their name labeled purple and then players can see their name and back out if they choose to and not face that person. But that really isn't good enough. All they have to do for this is just take the points away and give them to the person that was going to win anyway. It really doesn't sound like that hard of a fix so I think Bandai should definitely implement this one sooner rather than later. And number five on my list of things that could be added to Dragon Ball Fighters to make it an even better game is by far my biggest suggestion and should probably be saved for later on down the line whether it be a big update or just a new iteration of Dragon Ball Fighters. And that being that more assists should be added for each character. Having at least three assists really opens up a lot of the lab world for this game. People would be testing stuff with each character all over again and it would feel like a brand new game had come out. And it can also do wonders for a character's viability. Of course every character is pretty good in Dragon Ball Fighters right now but a character could really go from low tier to high tier just by having a god like assist. I mean look at Super Saiyan Vegeta. He may not be much on his own but his assist is just that good that people want to play him. And that could even happen to your favorite character if they would add more assists. And with that my list is pretty much over. Once again Dragon Ball Fighters is a phenomenal game and these are just some ideas I had for how it could be even better. Go ahead and leave me your thoughts on how Dragon Ball Fighters could be improved in the comments below. And while you're down there remember to leave a like and subscribe. I'm Dato Doja and I'll see you in the next one.


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Hello, I'm Pastor Joey Rogers and welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. We're glad that you've joined us today. I want to take you into the recent Prophecy Files Bible Prophecy Conference and a little excerpt from the message that I brought, Let There Be Light. I can assure you this message will be a blessing to you. So here's a little excerpt and then I'll be back in just a moment. Einstein's theory of relativity that he studied of course says that the induction of light is what is required for all things to exist, matter, whether it's the chair, the bottle of water, the Bible, you have this microphone, so forth and so on. But Einstein dealt with some other equations and the scientists did and they're running, they've run equations now and experiments where they've taken the protons and reduced them down to what they call pions and they said, we're going to try to speed that up to the speed of light because Einstein said at the speed of light, at the speed of light that matter, whatever that matter is, the chair, the person, whoever it may be, decays in less than 28 billions of a second, 28 billions of a second. Some smart guy calculated it out to be 1920 feet, approximately a quarter of a mile. And so they ran the experiments. And they've only been able to get up to 99.99999 percent because nothing can exceed the speed of light. Nothing can exceed the speed of light. It dissipates. It is no more. It has to change. Are you with me? What happens if you take an object with mass, a person, a chair, whatever, and move it faster and faster? Well, Einstein's thought was that when it gets to the speed of light, the clocks stop, time stops. What are you saying? When time reaches the speed of light, that's called eternity. No time. Clocks stop. In fact, he said if you were to push through that, it would literally slow the clock down until it stops. And I sat the other night for your sakes and listened on YouTube to six different physicists tell me about this whole experiment. And when the scientists took the smallest subatomic pion and made it travel up to the speed of light but couldn't get it any further, they concluded, not by that experiment, but by the experiments that they ran around it, that at the speed of light, clock stops, time stops, the atom is moving, but it moves into eternity where there is no time. And if you were here yesterday, you heard Bill Federer say a day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. It's still moving, but it feels like I'm not, but we go into a slow effect, a slow moving effect, but we're just moving in a different form. So at the speed of light, mass breaks down, and your body cannot survive the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second. Mass cannot pass through the speed of light. At the speed of light, things change. So I say to you again, when time reaches the speed of light, that is eternity. Let me say it a different way. Einstein had no idea that he was speaking something. The scientists who are conducting the experiments don't understand it. We're just doing experiments. But when time, as we know it right now, and some, I just read an article last night where somebody said, have you figured it out that time is moving faster? It feels like, I mean, I hope you all know that 13 weeks from now, I think it is. It's Christmas. Have you bought your gifts yet? Have you opened up an account on Amazon? What are you doing? You better hurry and get it before somebody else does because it'll be here before you know it. They already have Halloween stuff out. Time. So when time reaches the speed of light, you go into slow motion, it feels. But I'm moving faster than ever before. In fact, light speed. Here's what I want to say. When time reaches the speed of light, that means you've stepped into eternity. Let me say it another way. When time reaches the speed of light, things change. Let me say it another way. When time reaches the speed of light, it is the Einstein explanation of the rapture of the church. Consider this, ladies and gentlemen. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. For the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible, this mass shall put on incorruption, no mass, and this mortal shall put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is I staying? O grave, where is I victory? Ladies and gentlemen, when time reaches the speed of light, we're going to be gone, and it could be any second now. Get on your feet and shout, let there be light. You've been hearing an excerpt from the message that I brought, Let There Be Light, at the recent Prophecy Files Bible Prophecy Conference. I can assure you you'll want to hear it in its entirety, and I'm glad to make it available at pacesimly.org. The entirety of the message, in fact, the entirety of the conference is there available for you right now. You can be blessed by all of the information and be ready for the next great event on the calendar of God, the return of Jesus Christ in the rapture of the church. I encourage you to go there at pacesimly.org to get all that information. Till the next time, remember Jesus Christ is coming soon.


I am Dr. Madhav Sansgiri, consultant urologist at Manipal Hospital Goa. Today I will be talking to you about kidney stones which is one of the commonest problems tackled by urologists in our country today. Kidney is an organ which is very important for the function of the human body. It is shaped like this. This is just a model to explain to you how the kidney is. Kidney is an organ which is placed in the body on the flank on each side and it performs the action of filtration of all the impurities from the blood and all these impurities are passed out in the urine through the urinary passage. The main symptoms of kidney stones are pain, blood in the urine, urinary blockage and in very severe cases renal failure. The patients present in an emergency with severe pain due to blockage of the urinary passage by the stone. The blood in the urine occurs because the rough stone causes injury to the lining of the passages and hence there is blood in the urine. Once the patient comes with pain, usually the first line of treatment is to give the patient adequate painkillers and then we do some investigations. The investigations which are done are a urine test, a urine analysis to see if there is any infection, any blood in the urine or any crystals suggestive of what type of stone formation it is. Blood tests include serum creatinine which is an indicator of the kidney function. The most important investigation for diagnosis of kidney stones is an ultrasonography or a CT scan. This is an imaging modality which will give us a clear idea of retrograde intra-renal surgery. Accordingly the patients are put on specific medical treatment if any of these tests come positive. Also the patient has to be advised to drink plenty of water which is about 10 to 12 glasses or about 2 to 2.5 litres per day. The intake has to be increased during the summer and more hot months and there is excessive sweating and more loss of fluid from the body. Dietary restrictions are also very important. Some foodstuffs like shellfish, prawns, red meat should be restricted from the diet as well. Along with this dietary restrictions, fluid intake and medical treatment, patients should be also subject to regular follow-up and check-ups if they are forming stones recurrently. Then usually 3 to 6 monthly imaging modality like an ultrasonography should be done to see if the patient is forming stones again. I work in this department at Manipal Hospital.  We have the entire range of flexible endoscopes, dedicated OT with an image intensifier, an excellent holmium laser. We have the finest equipment for keyhole and laparoscopic surgery and all kinds of stones are treated here in our department. In addition to kidney stones, we are also a centre of excellence for treatment of all kinds of urinary malignancies, cancers of the kidney, prostate, bladder, testes, etc. And we conduct a large number of procedures on a very regular basis here in our department.


in their absence at my amazing team at ELEEC. And yeah, thank you for all, for the recognition. Like, it feels amazing to be recognized. I'm so proud of myself. I'm celebrating myself today. I guess some of the ease that have been impacted through our work. I also celebrate you guys with us tonight. Thanks, guys. Congratulations once again to our second honorary award winner of the evening. And the noya, I know I said that I was not with you, but I'll actually need your help once again. So let's welcome back again, once again, the noya to help me recognize and celebrate our next honorary award winner. So ladies and gentlemen, the next honorary award winner that we'd like to recognize is none other than Nabiri Juma of Sharia Kidanjani Unlimited. Income earners through mobile formats, websites, call centers, and SMS solutions. Ladies and gentlemen, introduce the Nabiri Juma that feels like giving and supporting. That's what tonight is all about, gifting and celebrating our nominees and our honorees. So to help me present the next award that I'd like to invite, Bonoia Monet Setorra. All right, let's give it up for Bonoia Monet Setorra, who will help us present the next award. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me congratulate our next honorary award winner, who is none other than Marnell Jonas, our League Advisory Consultancy. Somebody is to create access to financial services for SMEs and Hantia Organizational Sustainability through financial education, and she currently runs a masterclass for SMEs through partnership to provide a unique platform that educates small business owners. Let's give it up once again for Lauren Marnell and Jonas and our League Advisory Consultancy. And here's your lovely honorary award for the amazing work that you're doing, and you guys look at the photographer. We have to get this moment.  To hear a few words from Laurenel, her assistant award winner of the evening, and we're going to ask you to stand here as a killer as you receive your award from Dr. Martha. You can see not that hair is definitely working. Look at, see that beautiful, beautiful mane of hair. All right, so Sina and Dr. Martha, I'm gonna kindly ask you to make your way over to the middle so we can get a nice photo. Just come here at the center. What does the award mean to you tonight? You can use this mic over here. You're not surprised, I just wrote a small speech in case. So, ladies and gentlemen, today is for the bold, for the fearless, for the maddened and the poor team. At Natna Hair, we're not just about beauty and lifestyle, we're power girls to dream and act, walk in confidence, crucial thinking, and making informed choices. Here's to breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation. Thank you for organizing this. It means a lot to us three. Thank you so much. And once again, a big, big congratulations to our first honorary award winner, Sina, representing Eritrea. And we're gonna have Mr. Abbey just walk us through this, you know, because it's very particular. He likes things to be on point. So, Mr. Abbey, the stage is yours. Mr. Abbey, what's that? That's what everyone said. There's some $5,000 that we're getting very soon, so. Is that right, Martha? Yeah. Well, it's okay. This is the process and I want, because you see, this is the moment. We travel old to be. Now, the Osha camps here is holding two things, the medallion and the truffle. The medallion is given to the presenter. The presenter must stand such a man. Ooh. Ooh. Now, if I'm right, it's okay, I'm done. So, this way. So, I'm taking a few of the photos I'm gonna grab you over. Now, the presenter takes the medallion, is a box, he takes it, Osha takes the box back, puts on the night off the winner. Osha steps back and gives the truffle to the presenter. Then the presenter gives it to the winner.  When you're going, you take your truffle as you're going. So, let's sit here. This is your moment. Take a shot. I'm going to learn this. I'm going to try to learn. Are we okay? Yeah. Thank you so much for all of our nominees. I hope you have taken notes. Thank you so much, Dr. Michael, for assisting us with the first honorary award. There's something I'm kind of excited now to see women receiving all this. But I have something to offer to you. I'm inviting all of you to come to the medallion. I'm involving hospitality, I'm telling you, accommodation is big. Just come. Thank you so much, Dr. Michael.


Welcome to DAV Shark Tank. I'm your host and director of DAV Patriot Bootcamp, Nick Brophy. This program is designed for military veterans or spouses to showcase their innovative business ideas and secure investment right here today. Inspired by the popular TV show Shark Tank, this dynamic event brings together a panel of accomplished veteran investors, industry experts, and successful entrepreneurs who are eager to support and invest in veteran-led businesses. Today, we're bringing together three of our veterans who stood out from our DAV Patriot Bootcamp cohort in the spring in the field of pitching. Just as a reminder, the top contestant today will win $1,500 and non-dilutive capital, which is most entrepreneurs' favorite kind of capital. The runner-up will also win $1,000 and the third place veteran coming in third will win $500. And while there is no obligation, these no obligation rewards may help them pursue their important ventures, each entrepreneur was offered intensive one-on-one coaching to improve their ability to sell their ideas to customers and to future investors. Each contestant will have approximately two minutes, exactly two minutes, and we'll show you how to pitch and take a limited number of questions from our judges. Should they go over there a lot of time, I will, in the most annoying way possible, let them know via cowbell. But before we begin, I'd like to introduce our panel of judges for today's competition. Our first judge, Marilyn Jackson, is the CEO of UnderGrid Networks, a digital technology and engineering firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She has spent over two decades in senior level assignments innovating and ushering Fortune 500 companies into the digital age. Before founding her company, Marilyn served as one of the leaders of Verizon Innovation Vertical Team, which served as the forward-looking think tank for new digital product services. There, she led the creation of commercial and product development relationships with content providers, content service providers, wireless infrastructure companies, and mobile carriers. Previous senior positions include those with IBM, Cisco, and the Department of Defense. Marilyn has also worked with GSMA, a global organization that unifies the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop, and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Marilyn now focuses her efforts on providing connectivity solutions related to the industrial Internet of Things, extended reality, and everyone's favorite artificial intelligence. She is an expert in the impacts of technology on the global connected economy. Marilyn is an Air Force veteran, veteran spouse, and DAV Patriot Bootcamp alumnus. Marilyn, welcome to DAV Shark Tank. Thank you very much. Next, want to introduce another experienced judge on the panel, Al Nardsliko, CEO of Gigatech, has mentored a number of successful executives and helped companies build and maintain high performance management teams throughout the years. He is a highly respected leader, innovator, and visionary with a rare ability to motivate and inspire. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Al worked as an engineering consultant at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the Advanced System Design Group. He received his degree in computer science and information systems from the State University of New York Empire State College. In 91, he co-founded Systems Made Simple. Under his leadership, Systems Made Simple grew from a startup to an industry leader with hundreds of employees and more than 350 million in sales before its entrepreneurial American dream sailed to Lockheed Martin in 2014. Al, welcome back to Shark Tank. We're happy to have you. Thank you. Glad to be here. Lastly, a newcomer to the DAV Shark Tank family on the panel is Chris Lafever, CEO of ISI Professional Services, also a marine service connected disabled veteran and the president and CEO of ISI Professional Services, which is a full service consulting firm with the purposes of shaping tomorrow's solutions today. As the service disabled veteran owned small business, ISI combines its large business capabilities with small business agility, delivering quality consistent solutions for its clients. ISI's solutions range from planning and management and facilities, engineering, real estate and logistics to leadership development and executive coaching. Chris brings two decades of leadership experience across defense and civilian sectors. And as CEO, he sets a people first tone for the company through and defines its long-term strategy. He has a bias for action and leading ISI and is never satisfied with the status quo. Chris assumed his leadership position during ISI's 20th year of operation and despite ISI's historical success, he challenged how the company was structured and delivering on his promises. And since 2015, Chris's leadership has resulted in transformational change and significant growth, i.e. 400 and plus percent in revenue, 153 percent or so in employees. And ISI has been named in consecutive years by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation, one of the best places to work in Virginia, also earned a designation as a Virginia Values Veterans at V3 Employer and our very own Disabled American Vets DAV Patriot Employer. Chris, welcome to DAV Shark Tank. Thanks, Nick, glad to be here. We're happy to have all three and Marilyn, Al, and Chris are living examples of the quality of instruction and mentorship available within the DAV Patriot Food Camp ecosystem. We're extremely grateful for their sacrifices and their commitments and what they do for us to make this program what it is today. And now, what we're all waiting for, I think the contest, right? This is what we came here to see. So a reminder of the rules. To start the program, I will take a moment to introduce each participant by name. Once they begin to speak, they will then have two minutes to present their pitch before the dreaded cowbell. And you will hear the cowbell if we hit the two minute mark, that's a guarantee. So I hope we're all ready. We're gonna get started with our first contestant and our first contestant just so happens to be Philip Bragg of 1350 Distilling. After 27 years in the Marine Corps, including four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Philip retired and decided to turn his passion for distilling into a business. He and his partners built 1350 from the ground up and have created nine award-winning spirits, as well as a first-class tasting room that is a Colorado Springs destination spot. Even though they opened their doors five months before COVID, a very difficult time. They have dominated their local market and are ready to expand into new markets. So ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you Philip Bragg, 1350 Distilling. Phil, take a deep breath because the timer starts when you do. Okay, greetings. Hi, my name is Phil Bragg. As mentioned, I served in the Marines for 27 years to include four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm a self-caught distiller. And I'm the founder and head distiller at 1350 Distilling in Colorado Springs. You see, I spent most of my adult life making people miserable, and now I get to make them happy. So what's 1350? 1350 stands for the 13 stripes and 50 stars of our own glory because we're a military and first responder themed distillery. We have nine award-winning products and each one of these products is dedicated to a different branch of the military or our first responders. For example, we have men-and-man vodka, wingman gin, guardian bourbon, Leatherneck whiskey, and our double gold award-winning code for bourbon. Just to name a few. We also give back to the community. We have pledged 10% of our profits to local and veterans charities. And to date, we've given thousands of dollars in cash, product, and in-kind donations to charities across the nation. You see, we believe that giving back is an essential element of the 1350 spirit. We opened just before COVID and the three years despite all of that, we have 1.2 million in revenue. We're in over 120 restaurants and bars. We have over 5,000 followers on social media with a 4.9 rating on Google. We have dominated our local market and we're ready to grow. What we need is partners to help us get into new markets.  Together, we can make sure that every patriotic American can taste the difference and make a difference with 1350 Distill. Wow, Phil, that was literally down to the millisecond. I was getting ready to pick up the cowbell. Excellent job. At this time, I'd love to extend the opportunity for the judges for the next five minutes or so to ask a couple of clarifying questions to Phil. So without further ado, Marilyn, any questions for Phil? Yes. So Phil, where does your product normally sit on what show? Yeah, I mean, we typically sit on the top shelf. We're considered a premier spirit. And do you do online shipping of your product or is it general retail? We have both right now. We do have an online option. Unfortunately, liquor sales is very complex. So our distributor sells online direct to consumer to 35 states plus the District of Columbia. And then we're available from a retail perspective here in the state of Colorado. So have you mapped out like, I know that all the different states have different laws relating to liquor sales and whatnot. And there's a lot of controls in each state is very different. Have you sort of mapped out a territory where you feel there's low hanging fruit that you're going to have a best chance of penetrating your product within that marketplace? Yeah, absolutely. We have a plan over the next two years to move into different markets. And as you said, we're focusing on the ones where the markets are best in tune to this type of product and this type of distribution. So we just find an agreement with the state of Arizona. That's going to be our first state. And then we're looking at a lot of states in the Midwest like Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota. Because like you said, they have much more laws that are much more akin to a small producer like ourselves. Yeah, and then the logistic aspect of it, keeping it close by also helps with spreading it out. Yeah, definitely challenging to go nation. Yeah, I think for a product like this, a big part of it's a story. So we want to make sure that we can support those markets with my own personal involvement, the involvement of our other owners that we can actually be in those markets and support the products while they're out there. Do you have one that's red, white, and blue labeled? I mean, you've got the national wrapper wrap.  You should have one bottle that's pure red, white, and blue. Yeah, yeah, I mean, we've looked at that.  Yeah, yeah, for sure. It feel great, great pitch.  So question for you, what defines that domination and how are you going to replicate it to actually scale outside of the local market? Yeah, that's a great question. So what we've defined saturating or dominating markets, we pretty much saturate every legitimate account that will carry our type of product. Obviously, there's a whole range of different retail outlets in both on-premise and off-premise, and we're not going to be in every one, right? We're a marquee brand for a particular type of customer. So once we got to the point where we realized we had pretty much been in every account like that in our local area within our range, that's when we decided to go to our next phase, which is expanding on the market. So I think there's a couple of things to make that happen. First is you've got to find the right partners. Because of the unique nature of the alcohol industry, it's unlike any other product that we sold, we have to have the right partner at the right place. They have to believe in our product, they have to believe in our story, and we have to be able to partner and be able to support them in their market as well. Because really, there's no bones about it. There's a lot of good risky out there, right? What we want to do, what we have found that people are drawn to the product by the brand, and then they commit to it because of the taste. And so you really got to be out in those markets, support those people that are on the ground and get the product in people's mouth. One last question for you. So are any of your mixtures patented? None of the mixtures are patented. We do protect them with their trade secrets. And we do have trademark protection on all of our branding as well. Perfect. Excellent questions by the judges. At this time, I'd like to invite the judges into their breakout room to tally up their scores. And while we do that, within this five-minute period here, we're gonna invite somebody onto the monitor with us here to talk, ask a couple of questions, get to know a little bit more. So I'll remind you though, before we start that, that you can sign up to get updates on any kind of entrepreneurship programming that DAB offers at www.patreotbootcamp.org. We encourage you to connect with us on social media, specifically LinkedIn or Facebook at DAB, Patreon Bootcamp, where you can also find, if you happen to miss this programming, if you're someone who misses this, it'll be on the news feed on those social media profiles. So I encourage you to join with us there. So today, we're joined by an incredible, the amazing Mr. Ray Antonino, chief expectation center for permits.com. He is a mentor of ours who taught the pitch class at our spring cohort that we had in Lehigh, Utah, back in May, and has so generously offered his time continuously as a mentor, providing follow-up training with our finalists prior to this DAB Shark Tank. Welcome, Ray. Hey, thank you for having me. I'm gonna give a little background on it, if you don't mind, but Ray, if you don't know, is an Army veteran. He's a founder three times over, a two-time TechStars alumnus. And as he puts it, and I think we all think it's really funny, but also true, a master of mistakes. And at 20 years old, Ray owned a car dealership or started a car dealership. By 30, he was a licensed home builder, and by 40, tech entrepreneur. So he knows a thing or two about this. When he's not working on his current company, permits.com, Ray subscribes to the ethos of hashtag give first, and he mentors startup founders and small business owners worldwide. And he's helped our contestants, as I've mentioned a few times, today. Ray, along with his amazing wife, Rebecca, not only run a great company, but they're extremely dedicated volunteers who've supported numerous DAV Patriot Bootcamp events, along with many other events across the country and locally. And Ray actually recently completed our DAV Patriot Bootcamp accelerator challenge that we had earlier in August. So Ray, what I wanna ask you is, what did you think of Phillips Pitch, and what might we expect from our next two finalists? Well, first thing was, I love that he had a story for each of the nine offerings. That's a very important thing in entrepreneurship, is we have to tell that story, and it's up to that CEO, the person in charge of the company to do that. And I think he did a really great job. Even the brand of 1350 and how it came to be. I love that he was succinct in his answers. It allowed for a lot more back and forth dialogue between judges. He got opportunities to learn more and to answer more. It's all about an onion. You can't peel the whole onion at one time, just allowing it to unfold one petal at a time. So it was really a problem for that. And I love a statement he made about, he recognized that the entrepreneur, pardon me, that his customers are drawn to the brand, but that they return as a result of the taste. I love that. I didn't hear that before, and I felt that was a really important part of it. Yeah, and what do you think we can expect for our next two finals? I mean, you did some coaching with them. So you have a little bit of an indication of what we can expect. Yeah, my biggest thing for them was just making sure that they hit the key markers. What is the problem, the solution? What makes them different in a novel way? What, if any traction they have, and by traction, not just revenue, traction can be de-risking in early stage startups. So I think we're gonna see that in a succinct delivery. We've already started with Phil here. He did a great job. So, yeah. Good. So, I mean, as I mentioned prior, you've taught the class, you teach a segment about pitching at our boot camps. Why pitching? What inspired you to help so many entrepreneurs explore the world of pitching? Yeah, well, I sucked at it. I was terrible at it. I was going through tech stars out of Austin, Texas, and we had to prepare for pitch day. And it's a mammoth event. And you're gonna be on the main stage and it's just a lot of, and I was terrible at it. And I was so fortunate to have really good mentors in that program to break down my barriers and then to finally get to a pitch that was executed live on stage. And I think what happened for me was I started realizing I came back home. By the way, where are we on time, Nick? Just so I'm cognizant of it. We're good right now. Yeah, I came back home from being away from tech stars. I witnessed every facet of entrepreneurial journey, even missionaries that struggled with their pitch for how they raised capital. And I just said, you know, I'm a big believer in give from where you can. You don't have to wait until you hit the lottery to give whatever it is you think you're gonna be great at giving. You can give from where you can. And so I just took the education's learned while in tech stars and applied that to helping entrepreneurs. And it's just as rewarding for me as it is for them because it reminds me of the things that I need to be focused on in my own business. So yeah, it's been, I find it rewarding. So that's why I love doing it. Great. And again, we're thankful to have you as a mentor, as somebody who sacrifices and commits your own personal time for the betterment of others. We couldn't be more grateful for that. I just noticed that all the judges came back in. So we're gonna move on to our next contestants pitch. And if you haven't had the chance to meet Ron or see him online, because he's pretty active, like Phillip, Ron, he's active. He's a dynamic results oriented leader. Ron Nussbaum, the CEO of now known as Builder Combs is a conductor of change that never accepts the status quo or an excuse. After serving in the Marine Corps, he went on to add over a decade of experience in the construction industry. Ron has cemented himself as a visionary and as a leader in construction. Working in many facets from field, sales, leadership, management, you name it. He is the host of construction champions podcast and the founder CEO Builder Combs, formerly known as Nut Nest. Ron uses his knowledge and experiences to help others grow and change the overall mindset around construction, pushing the industry into the 21st century and removing the old stigmas and limiting beliefs around construction. Ladies and gentlemen, wanna welcome Ron Nussbaum to our program. Ron, fire away and remember the timer starts when you do. Look, we have all had communication breakdowns. We know what it's like to be on both ends of it. The construction industry has been plagued with this since day one, causing bad experiences, bad reviews and even causing contractors to go out of business. Hi, I'm Ron Nussbaum, founder of Builder Combs. We provide a dead simple method for contractors to communicate with their customers. I'm leveraging over a decade of experience in residential construction, from digging the hose to running the company to provide a simple solution that we've looked at as a complex problem. Over 50% of contractors have no technology for operating their business at all. We have identified this as a broken area. We have focused on solving communication for these more than 1.1 million contractors. Every contractor's got a Facebook page and every contractor's been on at least Instagram or LinkedIn and we know that. So rather than reinvent the wheel, we've used that experience. We've created an intuitive experience without all the clutter. We are excited to have 202 users with 160 yellows users onboarded in the last eight weeks and proud to say we've converted six to paid users. With a win today from DAV Shop Tank, it will help a bootstrap startup focus on converting free trial users and creating processes to repeatedly create success. We didn't have to build something revolutionary. We just had to build a simple solution, one that everybody could use.  With BuilderComs, it doesn't have to. I apologize. Thank you, Ron. That was wonderful. Again, we're gonna open it up for a few minutes of questions from our judges. Chris, what did you think about Ron's pitch? Ron, supper five, first foremost. Appreciate your service. Good pitch, clearly passionate industry subject matter expert. The biggest question that I have for you coming out of the pitch is it's tied to construction, primarily residential construction industry, got it. Focused on communication, but who's using it? Is the contractor using it? Is industry using it? Or if contractor with their clients or to acquire new clients kind of have a gap in some fogginess around who the end user is. Yeah, absolutely, Chris. Great question. So contractors and builders are end users. And what we have found is that newer contractors within the last five years is all ideal customer and all fastest growing demographic currently. Who are they communicating with it? They're gonna use BuilderComs as a platform to communicate with whom? They're customers. So we're a customer facing communication platform that allows builders and contractors to effectively communicate with their homeowners in their clients. And when we say communication, we mean from pictures to documents to all text communication and videos as well. To include quotes, contracts, prices, tracking, gotcha. Okay, thank you. So, Ron, hi again. Good to see you. Can you tell me a little bit more about your revenue? Yeah, can you tell me more about your revenue streams? Yeah, so we're $97 a month for up to five projects and $197 for unlimited projects. Is that your only source of revenue? Yes. Your subscription model? Yeah, we are rolling out with the rebrand, a private label starting September 1st where we will be private labeling on software. Okay, pass it over to you. Oh, you're on mute. Sorry, who are you private labeling it for? Who's gonna be actually selling it as their product? So we have a couple of different franchises that are interested in private labeling it to their franchises. And one thing that we have found out is that bigger construction companies would like to have their name on it. So not necessarily that they would be selling it, they would be utilizing it as their product for communication with their customers, but they would like to say ABC contractors on it. Sure, because if they're interacting with their customer, they wanna market their brand to their customer as they're interacting with them. Have you looked at what competitive, what's the competitive landscape like for this product? So the competitive landscaping is text messaging and emails. It's changing how people have done it for years. Well, no, there's a number of products out there. Actually, my wife owns a construction company and she uses a product called Builder Trend. And I know there's a number of others out there because I did the analysis for her to help find the best one. And at the time, there's a number of products that support contractors and their communication with their customers. So I was wondering how detailed have you looked at that? Yeah, absolutely. So what you're speaking to our is CRMs. Correct. We're not a CRM, we're a communication platform. And we work really well with CRMs. Communication has been an afterthought for almost every CRM that's been built. And we will continue to work with them and work on integrations with them to just provide us full round solution for the construction industry. So on that note, are you looking to bring in any emerging technology such as artificial intelligence? Because I would think that a level of intelligence on top of your customer information would give you a differentiator or some other factor that would differentiate you from the market. Yeah, absolutely. Our product will have just like what Grammarly has when we talk about tone detection, Builder comms has as well and we'll continue to develop that. Any more questions from the judges? I know you referenced you have 202 users and you've converted six to subscription users. What's that customer acquisition cost right now? Obviously it's gonna be really high because the low number of current customers but have you projected that out a little bit? It's actually absolutely free. I am getting all my users from Alignable and Facebook groups that I'm a member of. So I am not paying for customer acquisition at all at this time. Any other questions? Since your bootstrap, yeah, one last question. I'm sorry, Nick. Since your bootstrap, what's your biggest challenge that you're facing today in terms of your... The biggest challenge that we face is just brand recognition. We are a bootstrap startup. We are the newer company out here that's headed into construction tech. So it's a growing market and we all position ourselves as being a leader in that but when you're a bootstrap startup, it's a grind. Yeah, it is. Well, if there's no more questions then why don't we take a moment to push the judges off into their breakout room to tally up their scores? And I see they're moving there now. Thank you, Ron, again for your pitch today and fielding those tough questions. Again, while the judges submit the scores for Ron, we have invited another mentor, another Patriot Bootcamp mentor to the program today. His name is Neil Willis. He's gonna have a little bit of a chat with us. Ask him some tough questions, hopefully. So if you don't know Neil, Neil is a serial founder, serial entrepreneur with specialization and SaaS, so software as a service based tech companies. He has successfully created and scaled multiple companies, some with annual revenues approaching 20 million. Neil loves creators and creating businesses that provide great value to people and to create a lasting and positive impact on society. He is a former enlisted turned officer in the United States Air Force and a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Neil, thanks for coming to our program. Yeah, man, I'm happy to be here. Happy to have you. What do you think is the most important advice an entrepreneur can get to be successful in pitching? I think a lot of it is take a position of humility.  Now, I think if you're honest about your numbers, you've done your market research, you know where your product fits and kind of how you're positioning your product and your service, then it'll resonate a whole lot with people who are investors, potential investors or partners. I think there's a tendency to kind of go the other direction with that, but I would encourage people to maintain that humility and that'll speak louder than words. Is that, would you consider that to be a common mistake or are there a series of other common mistakes or heavy learning curves that somebody learns in that? I think it is. I think it's a very common mistake. I think people want to end up investors, especially if you're a PE firm or VC firm, you want to develop a relationship of trust with the owner or the leader of the company. And I think when you don't believe the numbers they're positioning or don't believe the story that they're portraying, it ends up becoming, it puts some doubt inside that trust. That's got to be first before they'll agree to a kind of position with a wallet or a check. So you've got to position that trust relationship. You've got to build that first and do it with honesty, do it with humility, but also do it with confidence. I don't mean to be so, to position yourself weekly, but to see, okay, I'm confident of what I'm positioning here. I'm exercising this from a position of humility. And I think you'll end up building that trust relationship first, ultimately leading into an investment relationship. Right. So a lot of people are kind of like they're technical geniuses with great ideas. And of course we're picking on some of our friends in the engineering and tech fields, but there can be introverted in lax sales and or pitching experience. Do you have any advice or resources for people who are extremely uncomfortable pitching their ventures? I was one of those. I was a double E at the academy and I knew formulas and numbers and circuits and things of that nature, but to get in front of a group to be able to do a pitch is kind of like a race that a while ago, he made a lot of mistakes with that. And I'm right along with her with him. And I think a lot of what I learned through the years is not just a practice of being in front of a group, but I read a lot. I did a lot of reading. And I looked at some of the from a business standpoint reading business books that were very relevant and what I was trying to be able to educate myself on and became very educated on the topics I was gonna be that related to what I was pitching to. So I think I've heard that there was a saying that says the difference you hear, the difference you year after year are the people you meet in the books you read. And so I became a big prolific reader. So not only presenting, but also reading to build my level of knowledge in business because I came from a technical background. I'm still faking it as a CEO.  But because of my love of reading and love of learning and self-improvement is actually, you know, allowed my business to succeed as well. How can you, so I know you have some pitching experience. Can you tell us about a memorable one like one that went really well or one that went really poor or one that you scored a big chunk of cheddar? Is there one that stands out to you? I can tell you one that went very poor because it was, I'd started a business back in 1998 after moving from being at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. And I was starting the aviation company which ultimately became the largest in the Southeast US. But my first pitch was in front of a school district. It was for $850,000 contract for a school. And I had got the equipment that I was demonstrating the night before, was trying to set up, nothing worked. Nothing worked. I went to do the demonstration, the streaming devices and stuff that we were doing and the network equipment, it was at nothing worked. I literally did my presentation with business cards. And that's the only thing I had. But as I said earlier, I was very honest about it and I exercised humility, but also knowledge of what I was talking about. And ultimately I won the contract. You know, so my first job for my new AV integration company was a $850,000 contract that I'd presented with business cards. Wow, awesome. Well, Neil, thanks for sharing your experiences with us today. I see that the judges are back. We're really excited that you were able to join us today and share with us that a little bit of knowledge. And we hope to get more knowledge out of your head in the future. Absolutely. I'll be honest. All right, man. All right, y'all be good, thank you. Thanks. So the judges are back and so we're gonna move on to our third and last contestant. And if you don't know, if you don't know William, William Hill that is of uncharted territory, William started his career working as a phlebotomist in Minden, Louisiana, while actively serving in the United States Navy Reserve where he deployed to Afghanistan. Once he returned back from the deployment, William was able to complete nursing school in 2015 where he began working in the intensive care unit. After several years working bedside, William decided that he wanted to do more for his community. And in 2019, he established the first location for uncharted territory, which is a company that's taking individuals from a minimum wage to a livable wage by providing quality and affordable healthcare training in 12 weeks or less. Uncharted territory has since grown into an established business that continues to serve and help those in need. Today, uncharted territory offers a variety of entry-level health careers and proud partners with some of the premier organizations across the country. Phenomenal, William, I'm gonna turn it over to you. Good luck. And remember, clock starts when you do. Can you imagine going to work each and every day, not being able to meet your family's basic needs? In 2021, the US Census Bureau released a report saying that 38 million Americans are living in poverty. Hi, I'm Dr. William Hill. Growing up in rural Louisiana, I watched my family struggle living paycheck to paycheck. I decided I did not wanna live like that. So I decided to join the United States Navy, so Go Navy, as well as can further my education by becoming a registered nurse. After working in the ICU for several years, I decided I could and wanted to do more for my community. So I decided to establish uncharted territory solutions based out of Houston, Texas in 2019. Uncharted territory solutions focused on gaining, helping individuals gain entry-level employment by getting recognizable credentials for courses such as CNA medical assistance, lobotomy, and many more. Uncharted territories really focused on pushing the needle by providing rapid training for those recognizable credentials so that individuals can go from that minimum wage to a livable wage. I would like to sincerely thank DAV for the opportunity and thank you all for listening. All right, thank you, William. Judges, I turn it over to you for questions for William. Yeah, what is it you actually sell? So we have a fully functional vocational training school. Okay, so it's mainly a training program. This is primarily one of the- A school, yes, okay, so training program, yes. How many students do you have a year? What do you have? Are you currently running classes or- So last year, I think we had 125 is the exact number, but over 100. This year we're on pace to go over 250. Okay. So William, can you explain your revenue model? So we really, so starting off, of course, we wanted to really help the community, but we figured out with the ongoing crisis with employment as well as inflation, we decided to transition and try to partner with the nonprofits who have the scholarship funding. So now that we're doing that, we're seeing a bit more traction because we have to charge a little bit more because of all the reports and compliance things that come into dealing with federal funding. So our model has since transitioned, but we aim to do about a 30% profit for each course, but I'm guilty of having a heart. So sometimes I do cut prices to try to help people, but for those nonprofits, we don't really do that. We just try to keep the standard prices across the board. So there's no confusion. Is all of this in classroom or do you offer a virtual as well? So we have hybrid online and in-person. We have all three. Okay. Well, listen, I think a 30% margin is not bad, especially starting out and especially for the domain, but it's still got a scale for that to be anything, obviously above and beyond 100 students a year. So what are you doing right now to market? So right now we do a lot of digital marketing and then I'm always in a community networking. So we have students come from all over and word of mouth is starting to pick up because of unique design with the hybrid and online training. Now how about, I mean, listen, the labor market is a complex and very competitive one right now. So even from an instructor standpoint, I mean, if this were to scale, I mean, from your current professors or trainers that you have now, I mean are you at a good scale for the 100 plus a year that go into the 250 and how are you gonna find your next leaders and teachers? So we're doing pretty good in that department. So because I was a nurse on the floor, I knew a ton of nurses and I typically hire nurses because they can train in multiple employment occupations. So right now we have about eight on staff that are as needed. And as we scale, we'll be able to bring more and more on. So we're doing pretty good as far as like labor. Thank you. So your revenue, I'm sorry, your overhead for this has to be pretty high.  The revenue does cover, it gets kind of tricky. The highest portion is always gonna be supplies for like books as well as like the actual medical supplies depending on which program they're using. But outside of that, and payroll of course, outside of that, we don't really have much of a cost. Specifically if we're doing like an online training or hybrid then that helps us because we don't have to have an instructor up there each and every day. What are you actually training on now? Can you, in a short and sweet, what are your training mostly focused on what demographic, who? So we do all healthcare. So that's gonna be anyone, our ideal time is gonna be looking for either a new career or just graduating at school or transitioning from college because we have a lot of kids that don't complete college or maybe they wanna be a nurse in the future. So maybe they wanna take medical assistant or CNA to kind of get in the field. What's the timeline from a new student coming in to sort of let's say the lowest level certification to the highest level certification? How long are they in your coursework? I mean, it really depends on the course but programs and shortages is gonna be six weeks. That's gonna be like CNA or phlebotomy all the way up to 12 weeks, which is gonna be like pharmacy tech or medical billing and coding. And you cover all the research right now that you just mentioned? I can't hear you. You cover all of those courses, all those certifications, you cover those all right now? Yes, we have about eight different programs. Okay. Have you looked at whatever funding might be available for COVID awareness, that kind of thing? Yes, that's why I mentioned the nonprofits because typically funding goes to a nonprofit and we aren't a nonprofit. So we have to partner with the nonprofits. So why would I choose you over some other educational means like a community college? Because we have the community feel.  Well, with our program, I'm directly involved. You're talking to me, the program director who has the knowledge to help you get to the next level. Because a lot of students come in and they don't know what they wanna do and they don't know what they don't know and somebody might have scammed them because there's a lot of scam schools popping up. Well, I just tell them the truth and try to help them get to that next level. And that helps me, you know, help them but also that's how I get my blessings just by being honest and real. Well, thank you. Yeah, judges, thank you. Those, wow, William on the grill, tough questions, tough questions all around by the judging panel. So I think I speak for William when I say, let's push the judges off into their room so they can tally up their scores. But thank you for all those questions. Thank you for fielding those questions, William. They were tough. So while the judges are doing their thing, we're gonna take a few moments to shout out a few announcements that we have for our community, for those of you who are watching. First, I know the judges just pushed off into their breakout room, but I do wanna extend a public thanks of gratitude to our judges, Al, Marilyn and Chris for dedicating some time for all of their contributions to the program or for volunteering time and time again for our program. So we're very, very grateful for that. 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I guess I get a little bit of a charge of actually seeing someone I'm working with to grow. It's almost like, if you're a father and you actually see that happening and what you actually teach, you actually see them using and doing it whether they're playing baseball or in sports or whatever the case may be.  And so I think when I've got a group or a younger entrepreneur that I'm trying to be able to teach some certain things and seeing them using what I'm teaching them, it gives me a little bit of a, it kind of honors me in what I've taught them too. So I love the feeling of actually what I get by helping. Yeah, for me, it comes down to having a tough start in life. And at the end of the day, having an uncle that was a retired Marine Corps Gunny stepped up, pulled me out of a dark place and he was there for me through the end. So when I pour mentoring into others, I understand where they are, they're in their journey and I wanna pour everything I can into them to see them succeed. Well, once again, I can't thank you guys enough for coming on here and sharing your thoughts with us. Thank you for being part of our community first and foremost. I noticed the judges are back. So we're gonna go ahead and get to the scores. If we can, so I wish I had a digital drum roll or so, but we're gonna do this in reverse order. So what would that be? First runner up, runner up, winner, okay? So the first runner up for the $500 is coming in at Ron Nussbaum, Noosebomb, sorry, Builder comms. Congratulations, Ron, for the $500 win. Put that towards all your business ventures. We're happy to be supportive of that. Our runner up is going to be Phillip Bragg, 1350 Distilling. Congratulations, Phil, use that thousand bucks to help push your venture into the future. And then lastly, our winner for today is William Hill Uncharted Territory Solutions. So congratulations to all of you guys, $1,500 to William, $1,000 to Phillip, $500 to Ron. Thank you all so much for participating in today's DAV Shark Tank. Thank you again to our judges. Thank you again to our special guests, Neal and Ray. And if any of those who joined us, thank you for showing support to our finalists as well. It's difficult enough to narrow this field down, but it's important to note that these funds, the funds that these folks received are gifted to DAV by the Patriot Poop Camp Board of Directors is totally insignificant, frankly, in comparison to the instruction that they received through DAV Patriot Poop Camp. So from those of you who are watching out in cyberspace and beyond, thank you again for joining us today. And until next time, I know we're a little early. Until next time, everybody activate, mentor, create and grow, Patriot,