Startup Grind Columbus

Startup Grind Columbus hosts monthly startup events to teach, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, and meet new hires and investors in Columbus or our 200 other startup communities around the world. In this episode we feature Bill Balderaz, Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Investor, and founder of Futurety. Throughout his career he has had the opportunity to work in industries in their very earliest stages. In 1998 (the same year Google was founded) Bill was working in search engine optimization, online advertising and eCommerce. In 1999 he worked for one of the first companies developing HTML based on-line learning. In 2005, five years before the iPad was invented, he worked on a concept for a tablet-based electronic health records software. Bill also started working in social media and viral marketing in 2006 -the same year YouTube and Twitter were founded. As founder of Webbed Marketing and President of Fathom's Healthcare division, he had the chance to work in the early stages of social media advertising, mobile