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S1 Ep67: Why Meeting Customers In Person Changes Everything
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What happens when you release a new product, and none of your customers seem to care? That&#39;s what happened to David Politis. He started BetterCloud in 2011, and its simple product was a big hit. But David thought he could go bigger, creating a product that would help companies was a wide variety of their cloud computing needs. So he poured a lot of money and time into building this new product,...
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S1 Ep66: He Killed Off A $30 Million Business—And Thrived!
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Andy Monfried&#39;s company Lotame was thriving, but he saw trouble on the horizon: His industry was changing. Lotame was a major player in the complicated world of digital advertising, and although there was plenty of growth still to be had and plenty of money still to be made, Andy knew that his company&#39;s long-term future was going to be rocky. So he made a difficult, gut-wrenching decision. Rath...
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S1 Ep65: How Gen. Stanley McChrystal Protects His Time
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Every entrepreneur struggles to manage their time, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) knows that challenge especially well. He previously commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and now oversees a 90-person consultancy called the McChrystal Group. How does a guy this busy keep on schedule? In this episode, we learn how McChrystal uses a calendar with the level of rigor only a former military gene...
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S1 Ep64: He Hired The Wrong People. Now What?
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When Joshua Tetrick founded his plant-based food company JUST, his goal was to disrupt the entire food industry—and to do that, he decided, he&#39;d hire industry outsiders. He didn&#39;t want people with lots of food-industry experience, who&#39;d just carry all the marketplace&#39;s old assumptions with them! But then his company began having massive problems, and losing massive amounts of money. And Joshua ...
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S1 Ep63: The Secret to Working With Family or Friends
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In this special episode, host Jason Feifer gets personal. Whenever he tells people that he wrote a novel (Mr. Nice Guy) with his wife, their reaction is always the same: &quot;You&#39;re still married!?&quot; To celebrate the release of the book, Jason and his wife Jennifer Miller talk about how they built a healthy working relationship while also strengthening their marriage, and what it takes for everyone ...
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S1 Ep62: Start A Company, Figure Out The Business Model Later?
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When Ari and Gavi started Indiewalls, a company that wanted to manage sales of art on cafe walls, they hadn&#39;t fully thought through just how difficult it would be. But that turned out to be for the better: Because they were willing to dive into this crazy industry, they were able to meet people who wanted art, understand the marketplace, and then transform into an entirely different company. Th...
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S1 Ep61: How Comedian Nicole Arbour Thrived Despite Chronic Pain
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Millions of people know Nicole Arbour as a comedian, actor, model, YouTube celebrity, and Instagram influencer—but until recently, she was afraid to reveal another side to her: Years ago, a car accident had left her with chronic, debilitating pain. She worried that if people knew, they wouldn’t want to work with her. Or, she feared, she’d become defined by her disability. But now she’s talking....
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S1 Ep60: The Difference Between &quot;Any Sales&quot; And &quot;The Right Sales&quot;
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When Jean Thompson stepped in to save Seattle Chocolate Company, she slammed the gas on a rapid expansion -- selling into stores nationwide, and locking in enormous private-label businesses. It seemed like the solution... until her company was rocked by financial instability, and she discovered that not all sales are good sales. In this episode, we understand what was wrong with Thompson&#39;s expa...
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S1 Ep59: How Malcolm Gladwell Solves Problems
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When you think of Malcolm Gladwell, you surely think of something: an author, a journalist, a podcaster, a speaker. But Gladwell doesn&#39;t. &quot;Self-conceptions are dangerously limiting,&quot; he says. If he defines himself as any one thing, he believes, he&#39;ll shut out opportunities he didn&#39;t even know existed. In this conversation with Gladwell, he explains how he approaches problem solving -- by being ...
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S1 Ep58: Why It Took Dunkin&#39; Donuts 10 Years to Build the Perfect New Cup
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Sometimes, the simplest ideas turn out to be the hardest. That was the case at Dunkin&#39; Donuts, where the company wanted to eliminate its Styrofoam cups and replace them with something more environmentally friendly. They thought it would be easy -- but the change took 10 years, countless prototyes, meetings with competitors, and a deep study of how people hold cups. This is the inside story of t...
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S1 Ep57: The New Product Doesn&#39;t Work. Do We Scrap It?
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If you&#39;ve watched a commercial or movie recently, you&#39;ve likely seen Score a Score&#39;s work: It connects the biggest studios with musicians to compose original music. But for many years, its founder refused to think of his company as a music company. He wanted it to be known a tech company -- and this led him to build a very tech-focused product for his clients, with lots of whiz-bang. He spent m...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1535353200" data-format="short_date">Aug 27, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep56: Should Entrepreneurs Lie? (And How A Lie Saved Stonyfield Farm)
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Here at Entrepreneur magazine, we hear a lot of stories about how entrepreneurs founded their companies. Many tend to follow a similar format. Someone has an idea. They take a bold risk to make it a reality, often sacrificing a fair amount of time, money, and relationships in the process. They become incredibly resourceful. They outsmart their competition. And at some point... they lie. It&#39;s so...
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26m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1534748400" data-format="short_date">Aug 20, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep52: Metta World Peace: Combating Hate with Peace
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Metta World Peace, former NBA star turned entrepreneur, sits down with David Meltzer to share his thoughts on empowering the next generation to come together and rebuild, as well as how to deal with the negative perceptions of others.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1533651578" data-format="short_date">Aug 07, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep55: How Tony Hawk Learned To Protect His Brand
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If you know one skateboarder, it&#39;s Tony Hawk. That&#39;s not by accident: Tony Hawk is a branding genius. But he didn&#39;t start out that way. He began with a lot of branding slips and falls. In this episode, Tony explains how he learned to protect his brand—and how every entrepreneur can too.
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17m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1533538800" data-format="short_date">Aug 06, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep54: Why This CEO Fired Himself
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When Matt Bodnar became CEO of Fresh Technologies, he took over a failing company and saved it from disaster. That felt great. Then he hit a wall: He couldn’t seem to get this company to grow, or to fix its internal culture. He began suffering from self-doubt. He’d always wanted to be a CEO, and he initially seemed good at it, but now here he was… failing! After a lot of soul-searching, Matt ca...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1533538800" data-format="short_date">Aug 06, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep53: Her Company Was Growing, So Why Was It Failing?
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Just Between Friends is a nationwide franchise that runs consignment events. About a decade ago, it experienced a crazy jolt: It sold more franchise units than it ever had... and that fast growth nearly bankrupted the company. Why? Because here’s the difficult truth about growing a business: Not all growth is equal. Sometimes, growth in one part of your business can harm another part of your bu...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1532934000" data-format="short_date">Jul 30, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep52: Why Freshbooks Launched A Competitor To Itself
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Mike McDerment saw the future, and it wasn’t bright. His accounting and invoicing company, Freshbooks, was doing well with customers -- but behind the scenes, its software code was a mess and it wasn’t able to innovate as quickly as it needed to. But fixing this problem was tricky. If he ordered his team to hit pause and fix the code, years could go by and Freshbooks would lose ground to its co...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1532329200" data-format="short_date">Jul 23, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep51: She Raised Millions From Investors... Then Almost Lost It All
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Raquel Tavares, founder and CEO of a ghee company called Fourth &amp; Heart, had just finished raising a round of funding -- and then her team looked at the company&#39;s numbers and realized they were almost out of money. How did this happen? The answer is simple: The company wasn&#39;t properly tracking its inventory and cost of raw materials, and now it was in a terrible bind. What does an entrepreneur ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1531724400" data-format="short_date">Jul 16, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep50: How MailChimp&#39;s CEO Became the Leader His Company Needed
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As a company grows, its needs change -- and that means a leader must change as well. This is commonly accepted wisdom about leadership, but it&#39;s easier said than done. MailChimp&#39;s founder discovered that when his once-scrappy company reached about 300 employees, and, in an achingly awkward staff meeting, he discovered that he hadn&#39;t transformed into the leader those 300 people needed. What foll...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1531119600" data-format="short_date">Jul 09, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep49: How to Survive When the Money Runs Out
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It&#39;s perhaps the most terrifying situation an entrepreneur can face: Suddenly, the bank account is nearly empty. You can&#39;t pay your staff. You can barely keep the lights on. What now? This is what Saima Khan faced with her high-end cooking company Hampstead Kitchen. She charges a small fortune to cook intimate dinners for industry titans, celebrities, and even world leaders—but then a change in...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1530514800" data-format="short_date">Jul 02, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep48: What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From The Bicycle
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Entrepreneurs must embrace change, or risk becoming outdated. In this episode, we offer a cautionary tale from history: What happened when entrepreneurs of the late 1800s tried to resist a newfangled invention called the bicycle? This episode is a special rebroadcast of a podcast called Pessimists Archive, also hosted by Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer. For more like it, sear...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1529910000" data-format="short_date">Jun 25, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep47: Nobody Believed In His Vision. But He Knew Better.
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Everyone who’s experienced setbacks, rejection, and frustration will ask themselves the same inevitable question: “What if the naysayers are right?” Mike Rothman did that. As he built his company Fatherly -- a media site for dads, which is a market everyone told him was nonexistent -- he was told “no” over and over again. But instead of quitting, he made strategic decisions that enabled him to ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1529305200" data-format="short_date">Jun 18, 2018</span></span>
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S1 Ep46: Califia Farms Had To Start Saying, &quot;We&#39;re Out Of Product&quot;
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Califia Farms makes a popular line of plant-based milks, yogurts, and coffees—but they became too popular, too quick. In 2017, demand began significantly outstripping supply, and so the company had to do something it hated to do, but that was critical for its long-term health: It had to start telling retailers &quot;no,&quot; while it fixed its entire production system.
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17m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1528700400" data-format="short_date">Jun 11, 2018</span></span>
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17m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep45: When Your Staff Can&#39;t Agree On a Vision for the Company
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Orchard Mile, an online shopping site, had a promising platform and a talented team. But they had two very different ideas about what the company should prioritize. How CEO Jennie Baik made tough decisions to bring them together.
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1528095600" data-format="short_date">Jun 04, 2018</span></span>
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19m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep44: Keep The Company Running During A Personal Crisis
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It&#39;s a question almost every entrepreneur will at some point face: How do you keep a company stable while you&#39;re pulled into a personal crisis? For Chris Carter, founder of Approyo, that question came shortly after his startup launched -- when his daughter developed epilepsy. After working himself to exhaustion, Chris stepped back and retooled how his company operated and how he was treating hi...
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16m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1527490800" data-format="short_date">May 28, 2018</span></span>
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16m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep43: Build An Audience Without Advertising
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If you want to learn how to succeed without traditional advertising, ask someone in the &quot;adult&quot; industry. Why? Because most advertising channels—including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and more—are closed to them. That&#39;s what Polly Rodriguez learned when she founded Unbound, a company that makes and sells adult products. Most platforms won&#39;t take her money, so she had to get creative... and bu...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1526886000" data-format="short_date">May 21, 2018</span></span>
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18m
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<a class="text-decoration-none" href="/posts/6854286-saving-a-damaged-brand-remember-about-com"><div class="Episode-list-grid card-body pan">
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep42: Saving A Damaged Brand (Remember About.com?)
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How do you give new life to an old company? Bring new vision to a place that lost its own? And how do you bring your team -- and your new audience! -- along for the change? Those are the challenges Neil Vogel faced when taking over the old internet giant About.com and transforming it into a thriving company called Dotdash.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1526281200" data-format="short_date">May 14, 2018</span></span>
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<a class="text-decoration-none" href="/posts/6844334-selling-the-product-that-everyone-said-was-impossible"><div class="Episode-list-grid card-body pan">
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep41: Selling The Product That Everyone Said Was Impossible
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Selling perfume online seems impossible. After all, people need to be able to smell it, right? And when former Ralph Lauren executive Eric Korman launched his online perfume company PHLUR, he ran smack dab into that problem. Industry peers thought he was crazy. He hung in and devised a solution: an ingenious a mix of smart e-commerce strategy, science, photography, psychology, music, and storyt...
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16m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1525676400" data-format="short_date">May 07, 2018</span></span>
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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S1 Ep40: People Love Your Idea, But It Doesn&#39;t Make Money. Now What?
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People may like to shop for cars online, but they still want to test drive them in real life before buying. So when the online car sales company Shift launched, it created a system its founders were sure would win customers over: They hired “car enthusiasts” -- guys just really passionate about cars -- to drive a car to a customer so they could test drive it together. The car enthusiasts were a...
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1525071600" data-format="short_date">Apr 30, 2018</span></span>
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19m
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How to Name Your Company — Or Fix A Bad Name
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A company&#39;s name is one of (if not the) biggest early decisions a company founder will make -- and they often get it wrong. Google was first called BackRub, Best Buy was Sound of Music, eBay was AuctionWeb, and Policygenius was KnowItOwl. In this episode, Policygenius&#39;s founder walks us through the rigorous process she went through to scrap a confusing name and create one that led to success.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1524466800" data-format="short_date">Apr 23, 2018</span></span>
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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He Took A Lowbrow Product, And Made It Luxury
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Sean Dowdell loved tattoos, but he hated tattoo parlors. They were dirty, uninviting, downmarket, unprofessional and often sexist. So when he set aside his music career to start his own tattoo parlor, he needed to find a way to make a traditionally lowbrow product appeal to a high-end, but still edgy, audience. A decade later, he’s now opening glitzy tattoo shops all over the world. Here’s how ...
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16m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1523862000" data-format="short_date">Apr 16, 2018</span></span>
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16m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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The Business Model Doesn&#39;t Work—So Change It!
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What happens when your customers are willing to use your product, but they&#39;re not willing to pay for it? Answer: Your business model may be wrong. That&#39;s what Ilir Sela learned after launching Slice, a company that helps local pizzerias sell online. He found plenty of early customers, but they weren&#39;t paying their invoices. As he dug deeper, he realized the problem wasn&#39;t them -- it was him. An...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1523257200" data-format="short_date">Apr 09, 2018</span></span>
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18m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #eaebeb; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/31419786/1400x1400/c" />
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The Curse of the Problem Solver: You Can&#39;t Solve It All
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Patrick Llewellyn discovered that his design company, 99designs, was only fulfilling some of his customers&#39; needs. He wanted to fill more, so he created a spinoff brand called Swiftly. But in doing so, he created a major problem for himself: He was stretching his resources too thin, and confusing customers about which brand they should use. In the end, he discovered the Curse of the Problem Sol...
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20m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1522652400" data-format="short_date">Apr 02, 2018</span></span>
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How A Company Becomes A Thought Leader
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When Daniel McCarthy cofounded the music licensing company Musicbed, he had a big idea: &quot;I don’t want customers to just think about Musicbed when they think about music licensing. I want them to think about Musicbed when they’re trying to get inspired.&quot; Accomplishing that would require a lot of experimentation, spending money with no sure ROI, and launching (and closing) a magazine. In this epi...
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1522047600" data-format="short_date">Mar 26, 2018</span></span>
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19m
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They Were Acquired... And Then The Buyer Went Bust
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The apparel startup Richer Poorer thought it had found the perfect deal: A fast-growing e-commerce brand wanted to buy it, offering an influx of cash and resources while leaving the founders in control. But after the deal went through, a nightmare scenario folded: The new parent company started to collapse. In this episode, we learn how Richer Poorer&#39;s founders put the wheels in motion to get o...
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17m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1521442800" data-format="short_date">Mar 19, 2018</span></span>
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17m
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How Three Entrepreneurs Started On The Fast Track
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Every entrepreneur’s journey starts with a big problem. That first hurdle—and hopefully, that first solution. Small and sometimes simple as it may be, this first moment contains so much ingenuity and inspiration, and captures just how resourceful entrepreneurs must be to continue along their path. Today, we’re telling three mini-stories of first-time challenges: how the creator of the Butterie ...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1520838000" data-format="short_date">Mar 12, 2018</span></span>
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The Entrepreneur’s Identity Crisis: “Am I My Company?”
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Glenn Kelman thought of himself as a software guy. Then he became CEO of a real estate company called Redfin, but insisted on seeing it as a software company. Confusion reigned. Cultures clashed. For Glenn, it would come to highlight an often-unspoken business challenge: Entrepreneurship means exploring unknown paths, sometimes leading entrepreneurs to a very different place from where they sta...
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1520236800" data-format="short_date">Mar 05, 2018</span></span>
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How Do You Find Your First Customers?
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How do you find your first customers? It’s a question first-time founders are often flummoxed by. But Keith Krach has developed a tried-and-true strategy—starting during his days at Ariba (which sold for billions), and extending into his current time as chairman of Docusign. In this special live edition of Problem Solvers, taped at Entrepreneur Live in Los Angeles, Keith explains how to turn a ...
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21m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1519632000" data-format="short_date">Feb 26, 2018</span></span>
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Tripping.com&#39;s Problem: Their Popular Service Wasn&#39;t Making Money
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Jen O&#39;Neal and Jeff Manheimer launched a social network called Tripping.com, which quickly became a frustrating puzzle: It was very popular, but impossible to monetize. What does an entrepreneur do when they&#39;ve hit upon something people love, but that they won&#39;t pay for? In this episode, we learn what the duo did next—abandoning part of their vision, but building a booming business in the process.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1519027200" data-format="short_date">Feb 19, 2018</span></span>
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The Danger of Profitability: It Masks Deeper Problems
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From the outside, Cogent Entertainment Marketing looked like a success: It got early into the influencer marketing game, quickly signing big clients and making good money. And because profits were high, founder Mark Zablow was afraid to make any changes—even as major leadership problems in his company began wreaking havoc. In this episode, we explore how Mark finally fixed his culture (while st...
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22m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1518422400" data-format="short_date">Feb 12, 2018</span></span>
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22m
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Ask This to Build Better Connections at Networking Events
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What happens when you’re trying to sell to consumers, but your best customers are actually other businesses? Furniture-maker Poppin’s answer: It radically transformed itself to meet this new customer. That meant changing its brand voice, marketing, products, and supply chain. In this episode, we explore how and why it made the switch—and became the go-to furniture maker for Facebook, Snapchat, ...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1517817600" data-format="short_date">Feb 05, 2018</span></span>
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How Transparent is Too Transparent?
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Beck Besecker believes in transparency. So much so, that he calls Marxent, “aggressively transparent.” That means everyone can talk to everyone else. Everyone has a voice. Everyone has access to management. Most important, everyone is trusted. There’s an assumption that the employees of Marxent are professional, responsible, mature adults, and thus they’re completely capable of taking bad news ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1517212800" data-format="short_date">Jan 29, 2018</span></span>
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How A Young, New, Female Boss Took Over Her Male-Dominated Company
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Chrissy Monaco was basically raised at Monaco Ford, her dad’s car dealership. Then in January of 2017, she took over as co-owner and new boss—now in charge of men she’d known all her life, some of whom weren’t immediately comfortable with it. She knew her task: New leaders have limited time to set a company’s culture and get people on board with their vision, before doing so becomes far harder....
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1516608000" data-format="short_date">Jan 22, 2018</span></span>
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He Said Yes Too Many Times, Then Learned to Say No
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Entrepreneurs love to say yes—to new ideas, to new opportunities, and to new markets. But yes can be dangerous: The wrong yes will compound itself, stretching a company thin and clouding its sense of purpose. Hamilton Powell learned this the hard way: As he built his watch company Crown &amp; Caliber, he said yes so often that he was soon working 100-hour weeks and burning out his employees. Then h...
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Tami Halton Pardee started out working in Hollywood—an industry known for crushing hours and sociopathic behavior. Then she left to work in real estate in Los Angeles—another industry known for crushing hours and sociopathic behavior. But instead of going with the flow, she decided she’d work differently, structuring her company to allow her employees a better work-life balance, and being kind ...
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Every entrepreneur wants a loyal fanbase, a group of repeat customers who will evangelize their favorite brand. But superfans come with challenges: They love a company exactly the way it is, and they do not want it to change. That was a problem for Tough Mudder, whose obstacle course races were attracting primarily young, fit men. To grow as a business, it would need to attract different kinds ...
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In its first four years, Tyson Lawrence’s logistics company reached $5 million in sales. “Everything I touched turned to gold,” he says. But then the golden touch disappeared, and his growth stalled. Why? When he looked into it, he discovered a disaster in the making: His biggest client, a national retailer that helped his company grow so fast, had become its biggest problem. And to help his co...
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For many entrepreneurs, the stretch between Halloween and New Year’s is when teams get stressed, systems get strained, and even the smallest inefficiencies amplify into crises. But if a company builds itself well enough to survive into January, it’ll be in great fighting shape for the rest of the year. That’s what happened to popular New York-based cupcake company Baked By Melissa, whose disast...
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Here’s a thought that’s going to make you crazy: Somewhere in your business, in a place you’ve completely overlooked, there’s a major opportunity you’re passing up. On this episode, we explore how it happened to Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach. His company makes a hugely popular study platform for students, and yet for a while, Glotzbach was ignoring an opportunity to triple his advertising reven...
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