Podcast Episodes

123: Startup Growth Pains, Marketing Strategies, Buying & Selling Companies with Wil Schroter

Wil Schroter never set out to become an entrepreneur. In fact, he didn't have that much interest in business in the first place. But in 1995, he foun…

9 years, 9 months ago

122: How Timbuktu Labs Created the Most Successful Publishing Kickstarter Campaign in History (Crowdfunding Series Part 6)

After working in the children's media industry for over five years, there was something that was bothering Francesca Cavallo. She found herself askin…

9 years, 9 months ago

121: How Willi Footwear Raised $36,232 to End Flip Flop Blowouts (Crowdfunding Series Part 5)

A unique product snags attention. A boring product does not.

Brad Munro says crowdfunding is most successful when you have the former—something innova…

9 years, 9 months ago

120: The Master of Systems (Michael Gerber) Shares How to Scale Your Business

Thirty years ago, Michael Gerber released a book called The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About it.

It carried within it lesso…

9 years, 10 months ago

119: How Who Gives a Crap Raised $66,000 by Sitting on a Toilet (Crowdfunding Series Part 4)

Simon Griffiths sat down for what he believed in and, it turned out, parking it on a toilet was an epic marketing win for a good cause.

Griffiths and …

9 years, 10 months ago

118: How Canary Raised 20x it's $100,000 Goal on Indiegogo (Crowdfunding Series Part 3)

The Canary team didn’t start their company with crowdfunding. In fact, they had been working on the idea for roughly a year before turning to Indiego…

9 years, 10 months ago

117: How the Oto-Tip Campaign Raised $77,000 to Disrupt the Cotton Swab Industry (Crowdfunding Series Part 2)

A team of doctors and engineers wanted a safer alternative to Q-Tips, so they created it. By understanding where potential users were coming from and…

9 years, 10 months ago

116: How Eskil Nordhaug Raised $123,000 to Change Mobile Video (Crowdfunding Series Part 1)

The problem Eskil Nordhaug wanted to solve for people was simple. Videos taken with smartphones or small cameras are notoriously shaky.

So he simply l…

9 years, 11 months ago

115: How to Build a Millennial Brand with 10M Monthly Visitors with Derek Flanzraich from greatist.com

There's a common thread in a lot of entrepreneurs' stories: They were facing a problem, couldn't find the solution they were looking for, so went ahe…

9 years, 11 months ago

114: What it Takes to Build America's Largest Wine Brand (Barefoot Wine) with Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey

When you think about wine, you most likely imagine stern-faced sommeliers, or parties where tuxedos and hors d'oeuvres on silver platters are the nor…

9 years, 11 months ago