Dandelion Chocolate co-founder Todd Masonis shares how DTC brands can learn business tactics from successful tech startups.
Yesterday
The Retail Strategy That Lets Us Compete With Home Depot (Inventory Advice)
<p>Matthew Burrows didn't start Plant Material with a big budget, but through strategic inventory management and real-time tracking, he's built a three-location business growing 50% year-over-year. Today, the business competes against giants like Home Depot and Lowe's, taking pri ... Show More
29m 5s
Nov 18
How I Made $1 Million In 1Hour After Our Worst Year In Business
<p>SET Active founder, Lindsey Carter has nailed a well-timed, high in demand, product drop. Now the team sells out millions worth of products in the matter of hours. In just seven years, she's built a celebrity-loved athletic wear brand that generates $1 million in under an hour ... Show More
40m 2s
Feb 2015
Building a lucrative business with no ideas, no expertise & no money with Dane Maxwell
After being scammed online for $12,000 in his early twenties, Dane went on to launch 6 profitable software products over the span of seven years, starting with just $123 in his bank account. He started these businesses without any ideas, without writing a single line of code, and ... Show More
47m 9s
Oct 2017
So, You Want to Join a Startup
Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist who teaches entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, knows from personal experience and having funded many startups that there’s more than one way into that world. You don’t have to have a technical background. Excellent communication skill ... Show More
26m 39s
Dec 2020
Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story
Today’s episode is with Dave Girouard, the CEO and co-founder of Upstart, an AI-powered lending platform that recently went public. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business.
Here at F ... Show More
1h 3m
Nov 2020
Product lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health — Ayo Omojola on going “unreasonably deep”
Our second episode is with Ayo Omojola, VP of Product at Carbon Health. Previously, he was the founding product manager on the banking team for Cash App at Square, where he co-created the Cash Card and helped build out Square’s technical banking infrastructure. He’s also a former ... Show More
1h 11m
May 2022
[REDIFF] – Thibaud Elzière - eFounders - Quand ne lancer que 3 à 4 boites par an devient frustrant
<p>Thibaud Elzière est peu connu du grand public. </p>
<p>Et pourtant Thibaud est un entrepreneur hors norme, une rock star chez les puristes du digital. </p>
<p>Le genre de type qui ne paye pas de mine, qui fait ça par passion plus que pour l'argent, et qui pourtant ne ... Show More
1h 39m
Jun 2022
Creating Startup Ideas (Classic)
In this episode, I talk about how to think of startup ideas and cultivating the mindset of a business brainstormer. And if you're interested in hearing more about the formation and growth of Notarize, check out my previous episode, What to Learn from a Business That 10x'd in 5 Qu ... Show More
12m 18s
Mar 2024
571. If I Started a New Product Business, Here are the Steps I Would Take
After 20 years of coaching product bosses and running my own product businesses, I can immediately recognize certain gaps and missteps that happen in almost every new business. Recently, I thought of it in a different way: What kind of checklist would I put together if I were sta ... Show More
30m 58s