“If you build it, they will come — if they can find you.” Founders, entrepreneurs, and big idea people quickly realize that creating a great product is only a small part of their newly discovered challenges to building a company. You quickly move from “visionary” to the company Swiss Army Knife, solving an array of problems – from office furniture to partnership agreements, from hiring the best talent to finding your customers. The challenges are never ending, the answers typically expose another problem. We can’t solve everything, but how turning your idea into a product and then taking the product to the right market – and even growing that market – are right in the sweet spot of this podcast. Founders, and those who support them, weigh-in on how to solve these problems and where to turn for answers. Household names and those that aspire to be share insights, strategies, and some occasional hair pulling frustrations on what it means to be a founder — and why almost all of them will do it again!
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Episode 19 - What Leadership Really Means with Jeff Eggers
Leadership is a crowded book topic. A lot of authors have already laid down their ideas about leadership, but Jeff Eggers, together with his co-writers, has given us a different view in the new book “Leaders: Myth and Reality”. In this episode, Jeff talks about the various people they pr...
Read moreEpisode 20 - A Business with a Purpose with Villy Wang
The primary purpose of growing a business is to generate revenue – lots of it, but, that may not always be the case. A non-profit social enterprise has the ability to give you both revenue as a business and fulfillment as a life’s mission. Most founders tend to focus too much on the monetary...
Read moreEpisode 21 - Dispute Resolution and Mediation with Larry Friedberg & Colin Rule
How does a problem turn into an opportunity? Early-stage founders only have the positive road ahead in mind. As the company grows however, problems and disputes are bound to grow in magnitude as well. If you do not have policies and guidelines in place and fail to resolve the problem satisfyingly wi...
Read moreEpisode 22 - Doing It Right with Jiwon Hong
We often hear how practice makes perfect to the point of it being a cliché but the importance of constant practice cannot be denied. Being a founder is not an ordinary feat and if you want to succeed, you really have to put in the hard work and have to be extraordinary. This episode is about embrac...
Read moreEpisode 22.5 - Toddcast #3 - Founder's Fear
Fear is a basic emotion that haunts many individuals and cause them to stop on their tracks, and a founder like yourself is no exemption. Your journey as a founder can be beset by fear and it is important to know what forms they take and at which particular stages so that you become aware of them an...
Read moreEpisode 23 - Authenticity in Marketing with Stacey Epstein
How much should you be watching over your shoulder to your competitors? When you are just starting out, it’s easy to keep looking at what your competition is doing, wanting to make sure that you’re getting ahead and surpassing whatever it is they’re doing. If you want to really sta...
Read moreEpisode 24 - Workforce Diversity and Inclusion with Lily Zheng
Lily Zheng empowers employers to create inclusive workplace environments through policy recommendations, trainings and best practices. She is also a diversity and inclusion consultant, executive coach, and design researcher who helps people and organizations transform their positive intentions into ...
Read moreEpisode 25 - Marketing 101 for Startups with Devin Redmond
What would be the best way to approach marketing if you are a startup? Well first off, you have to acknowledge the importance of marketing in helping you achieve business success. Unfortunately, most founders tend to underestimate such importance and then end up realizing too late what was lacking. ...
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