Limpert Tech on iHeartRadio 8/5/23 - Mike Moynihan, Baseball Collector on YouTube

Rick talks with “Baseball Collector” from YouTube.

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Mike Moynihan, Baseball Collector on YouTube took in the lead in organizing the Unofficial Content Creators Night at the 43rd National in Chicago. The gathering was attended by men, women and kids, all looking to share ideas about their thoughts on YouTube and podcasting and just have a great night talking sports collecting and more.

Mike has a great YouTube channel where he keeps viewers updated on his collection and many projects he has ongoing. He and other content creators are doing a great service promoting the hobby and educating those that tune in multiple times a week.

Here’s a two-minute segment with Mike, Baseball Collector.

Limpert Tech on iHeartRadio 4/8/23 - Ophir Gaathon, Chief Executive Officer of DUST Identity

A great interview this week.

Rick talks with Ophir Gaathon of Dust Identity.

Under the NCAA name, image and likeness (NIL) policy, among other benefits, college athletes are able to profit from signing autographs and essentially selling their jerseys and wares as collectibles. Having products of college athletes on the market in season ramps up excitement and growth of the industry. But the NIL also presents inherent challenges including the need for athletes to know which jerseys, helmets, and so on are theirs and which autographed wares are authentic and not knock-offs. For the individual athlete, there are not a lot of good options out there for authenticating their own products and protecting their investment.

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At DUST Identity, the answer to this challenge is small — nanoparticle small. Using engineered diamond particles embedded in high-performance polymers, DUST gives physical “things” — products, parts, and packaging — an unclonable fingerprint to offer full tracking, indisputable authentication, tamper-free validation, and data transparency throughout the object’s entire lifecycle. Compared to existing identification methods, DUST is more cost efficient at less than $0.01 to apply at scale.

Ophir Gaathon – Chief Executive Officer

Ophir Gaathon is a supply chain security expert who has a deep understanding of the complex security challenges associated with global value chains. In his current role as CEO, he is responsible for the company’s overall vision and strategy, product commercialization, and overseeing technology and R&D initiatives. Prior to launching DUST Identity in 2018, Ophir was the CEO and founder of Diamond Nanotechnologies for seven years, where he developed the underlying technology for DUST with his cofounders. Prior to that, he was a Research Affiliate for the Synthetic Neurobiology Group in the MIT Media Lab for 3 years and served as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics’ Quantum Photonics Lab in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University and B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. He has led research projects at MIT and Columbia, and he holds several patents.

Limpert Tech on iHeartRadio 10/8/22 - Mike Gioseffi, Sports Collector, Card Shop Live

Rick talks with sports collector, Mike Gioseffi this week.

“Heavy hitters” have launched a comprehensive platform for international trading.

The recently launched Card Shop Live is a mobile and web marketplace for buying, trading, and selling sports cards, memorabilia, and collectibles. Created to attract serious collectors as well as new hobbyists, the Card Shop Live platform brings enthusiasts together to discover, chat and purchase easily from the palm of your hand, 24/7. Now, users have access to live streaming shopping, live breaks, interviews, exclusive events, and auctions, giving people another way to browse, sell and buy in an environment that is often found offline.

Founded by Gioseffi, co-host of the podcast Sports Cards Nonsense on The Ringer, and five other sports and culture enthusiasts, Card Shop Live completed a funding round, which secured $1.5M, and was led by SGC. This round of financing will further enable the company to refine its technology, grow its relationships with trusted partners and vetted sellers, and create new tools to support its growing community as they reimagine the shopping experience.

“Trust, quality, and community have been our top priorities when designing and launching this new live streaming marketplace,” said Gioseffi, President of Card Shop Live. “I have been collecting for 25 years, and I wanted to ensure a fun and safe way for people to expand their collections, so we have heavily focused our seller vetting and curation process to make sure our community has the best shopping experience.”

Card Shop Live’s community-first approach has led them to integrate features, including chat, direct messaging, and user forums on products that provide a more interactive and transparent shopping experience. Currently, there is a curated selection of vetted sellers with shops that offer live breaks, auctions, and exclusive events for trading cards and comics. Soon they will be expanding their TCG selection of sellers, with additional hobby shops coming soon.

Built by some of the most trusted names in collecting, including Gioseffi. With investors including SGC the most trusted name in sports card grading ( https://www.gosgc.com/) Card Shop Live is currently the only spot for participating in Panini blockchain sports card breaks! With the Panini blockchain integrated into the (app. https://www.panini.es/shp_esp_es/blockchain.html)

The platform allows sellers to sell products in real-time to users. Their live auction technology also allows users to upvote what product they want listed next. Users can also participate in NFT sports card breaks and also chat and direct message other users to discuss trading during a break.

Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on ALT 105.7 and iHeartRadio 8/6/21 - Rich Mueller, Sports Collectors Daily, 2021 National

Rick is joined by Rich Mueller of Sports Collectors Daily for this iHeartRadio Extra.

A record-breaking National has wrapped up in Chicago. Sports Collectors Daily and Rich Mueller had it covered wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor.

Rich comes on to give his impressions and a wrap up!

Thanks to Rich for coming on!

Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on ALT 105.7 and iHeartRadio 4/17/21 - Brandon Steiner, Sports Collecting Expert, Athlete Direct

Rick is joined by a legend in the sports collecting universe this week, Brandon Steiner.

Sports Memorabilia Expert Brandon Steiner and 'Athlete Direct,' an innovation on his CollectibleXchange.com site which will allow fans to purchase memorabilia of all kinds directly from players and coaches. 

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** Skyrocketing price of trading  cards vs value? Danger of investment? See this article by Hal Bock
https://www.nysportsday.com/2021/02/27/bocks-score-protect-to-collect/
** Covid and Sports, one year laterState of Collectibles industry
** Latest items on CollectibleXchange visit https://collectiblexchange.com/
***Value of collectibles

Brandon Steiner, who revolutionized the sports memorabilia and collectibles industry during 32 years as founder of Steiner Sports, is transforming the industry once again with the innovative CollecibleXchange.com.  The dynamic sports marketplace is set to launch “Athlete Direct” with enormous sports figures as Mark Messier, Walt Frazier, Sue Bird, Tom Coughlin, Aaron Boone andLou Holtz leading the way. "Athlete Direct" gives the players and coaches a “one-stop-shop” to sell memorabilia – autographed, game-used and commemorative items – directly to their fans. In addition, collector's will be able to have their own photos, jerseys, balls and the like  personally signed autographed by the athletes. And that's not to mention fan experiences for zoom one-on-ones to such video greetings as birthday messages

 “This was always the big picture I had in my mind,” says Steiner. “I found that over the years, there was too much of the same thing, hundreds, thousands of balls and jerseys signed by the same player. People bring collections to us, and are disappointed in their value because players just signed so much. Now we are away from the volume and give propriety to high end exclusive stuff; those ‘hard to get,’ cool, pieces. We’re trying to work on not only collectibles but also private items – from exercise machines to skin care products to healthy snacks.”