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3WM Software is dedicated to creating technology to help people communicate.
Their patent pending technology can help you to understand what people around you are saying, whether you are traveling to a foreign country for leisure or business, or you’re a person with a disability, which affects your hearing.
Using their online web services extend business and other organization can easily add live captioning to any presentation.
Using their app, you’ll can able to type out a message in your own language and have it played aloud in a foreign one. Alternatively, you can also play the message in your own language.
Stephen Woerner, Co-founder and CEO of 3WM Software
Show Notes:
- 00:31-1:52: Jim introduces Stephen Woerner, Co-founder and CEO of 3WM Software and a senior at West Virginia University.
- 1:53-3:05: Woerner gives some insight to his background and personal life, his West Virginia roots and a little about his company, 3WM.
- 3:06-3:11: What’s one thing you’re most excited about for your company?
- 3:11-3:32: Woerner talks about how he’s most excited about graduating from school so that he can devote more of his time to the company.
- 3:33-3:57: What’s your worst business moment so far?
- 3:58-5:32: Woerner takes us back to high school and his worst entrepreneurial moment so far.
- 5:33-5:45: From that experience, what would you say is your one takeaway?
- 5:46-6:11: “Don’t let excitement cloud your judgment.”
- 6:12-6:35: When did your company get kicked off?
- 6:36-6:52: “October 2017”
- 6:53-7:04: Talk to us a little bit about your software and what your doing?
- 7:05-9:25: Woerner describes the mission of 3WM and what they’re all about.
- 9:26-9:32: What would you say is your best business moment so far?
- 9:33-10:56: Woerner talks about the senior design expo at WVU and how good it felt to see the hours that him and his partner put in when they delivered a successful presentation.
- 10:57-11:20: What is your 30 second elevator pitch for 3WM?
- 11:21-11:59: Woerner says the 3WM sees the market for language translation and speech to text in real time and wants to provide that for people from international business men to people with auditory disabilities. “We want to unite the world through our software and technology.”
- 12:00-12:24: What would you say is the best thing about doing business here in West Virginia?
- 12:25-13:05: “The underdog mentality is definitely one of my favorite parts about finding a West Virginia company.”
- 13:06-13:35: Share with us the vision you have long-term for your company.
- 13:36-14:25: “We really want to expand… to help people with other sensory disabilities.”
- 14:26-14:28: What’s your biggest challenge in that regard?
- 14:29-15:27: “Trying to find funding.”
- 15:28-15:37: What got you into creating this?
- 15:38-16:41: Woerner talks about his experience with kids that have special needs in his classes and how he values his independence and wants to provide the same to people that suffer from these disabilities.
- 16:42-17:35: Jim pauses to recognize the wonderful sponsors of Positively West Virginia.
- 17:36-17:47: What do you want people to know about what you do?
- 17:48-18:32: Woerner mentions that he wants people to know he’s a nice guy. He also talks about how he wants to hear people’s feedback on what they’re doing as a company as he tries to be open as possible.
- 18:33-18:45: What’s one piece of advice you’d give to new business owners?
- 18:46-19:35: “I would recommend looking into the Young Entrepreneur’s Act”
- 19:36-19:48: What’s one thing you do everyday that contributes to your success?
- 19:49-20:14: “Every morning when I wake up, I make a list of everything that absolutely has to get done today.”
- 20:15-20:21: What’s one resource you use that you cannot live without?
- 20:22-20:59: Github.com
- 21:00-21:08: What’s one book you’d recommend to aspiring business owners?
- 21:09-21:54: “Getting Things Done” David Allen
- 21:55-22:01: If you could meet anyone in West Virginia, who would it be and why?
- 22:02-22:26: “John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco,” Woerner says it would be cool to meet the head of this massive company who happens to be a WVU alum and achieved this high level of success despite having dyslexia.
- 22:27-23:08: Where can people find out more about your company?
- 23:09-23:37: Woerner mentions their Facebook and Twitter, as well as their website.
- 23:38-Close: Jim thanks Stephen for joining him on today’s episode of Positively West Virginia and once again recognizes the wonderful sponsors of the show that allow these awesome stories to be told.