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Dashboard: The Benefits of Childcare, AI, and Silly Marketing
This week, Gene Marks talks about three very different topics. First, he explains how helping employees find affordable health care can actually gene…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Silicon Valley Bootstrapper Tells All
Episode 207
This week, in episode 207, special guest Sharon Gillenwater lets us in on some dirty little secrets about Silicon Valley. She’s the founder of two bu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Dashboard: Dear ChatGPT: Do a SWOT Analysis of My Business
This week, Gene Marks reminds us once again that AI tools by and large still aren’t ready for prime time, but he does find a handful of people doing …
1 year, 11 months ago
Beyond Trust Falls: An Event Planner Plans an Offsite
Episode 206
This week, in episode 206, Shawn Busse, Jay Goltz, and Jennifer Kerhin talk about what it takes to plan and execute an employee retreat—especially in…
1 year, 11 months ago
Dashboard: What We Can Learn from CrowdStrike
This week, Gene Marks explains the global tech outage: what actually happened, how seriously we should take it, and what business owners should do (b…
1 year, 11 months ago
When They’re Not Quite Bad Enough to Fire
Episode 205
This week, in episode 205, Paul Downs, Liz Picarazzi, and Jaci Russo discuss how they review employees and how they make the hard calls when someone …
2 years ago
Dashboard: What Are You Seeing Out There?
As CEO of MultiFunding, Ami Kassar sees a lot of small business P&Ls, and he sees how banks are responding to loan applications. And in his view, the…
2 years ago
Family Businesses Aren’t Dysfunctional. They’re Disastrous
Episode 204
This week, in episode 204, Jay Goltz and special guest Cathy Caroll talk about family businesses, with Jay asserting that they are even more combusti…
2 years ago
Dashboard: Don’t Sleep on the SSBCI
This week, John Arensmeyer, founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, reminds us that the State Small Business Credit Initiative is sending billion…
2 years ago
A Successful Owner Chooses an Innovative Exit
Episode 203
This week, in episode 203, special guests Laura Anderson, founder of Local Ocean, and Peter Koehler, her succession-planning advisor, explain why Lau…
2 years ago