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Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show

383 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 198 ratings

Unique business problems call for genius solutions. Go behind the scenes with today’s world-class leaders who dared to bring revolutionary ideas to life. Learn how they met their challenges head-on and how you can translate their lessons into your own real-world business success—whether you’re leading a start-up or Fortune 500 company. Host Manuj Aggarwal is the founder of TetraNoodle Technologies. When not interviewing industry leaders for Bootstrapping Your Dreams, he provides revolutionary strategies for his clients based on data science and human psychology, even in a socially distant economy.

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#349 Mastermind Behind AI Revolution and Billion-Dollar Startups

March 06, 2024 17:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB

Welcome to our latest episode where we're thrilled to introduce our distinguished guest, Reza Rassool.  Reza stands out as a pioneering force in the tech world, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions and dynamic leadership. As the Founder and Chair of Kwaai, Reza is at the forefront of democratizing AI.  His vision and leadership in this developer community are shaping the future of accessible AI technologies. Reza's tenure as the CTO of RealNetworks is marked by a remarkable pivo...

#348 From Hollywood to Bestselling Author: A Conversation with Kimber Leigh

February 07, 2024 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB

Kimber Leigh, an award winning producer/actress/journalist and author.  Kimber has produced more than 20 film shorts and has an acting span covering more than 40 films both short and long in value.  She has also garnered a Telly award for excellence in journalism. Her production work includes producing over 240 TV Episodes for In Session (filmed live at the Microsoft Store) as well as The Animal Rescuers/Global Rescuers show. Kimber is best known for her award winning film work for the s...

#347 A Conversation with Yan Wu, Fintech Visionary and Investment Guru

January 31, 2024 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Yan Wu is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in finance, technology, and artificial intelligence.  As the Co-Founder and COO of Bond Financial Technologies, Inc., he has played a pivotal role in raising over $42 million in investments from prominent institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Coatue, and Canaan Partners.  Bond is a groundbreaking banking-as-a-service platform that empowers both consumer and enterprise clients to enhance their customer experiences by embe...

#346 Leading Through Transformation: A Conversation with Telecom Visionary - Edward Castañeda

January 24, 2024 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

Edward is an award-winning executive with a remarkable track record in telecommunications, engineering, and IT leadership.  Edward was named Senior Manager of the Year at a Fortune 50 company, T-Mobile. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. He's known for orchestrating some incredible market turnarounds regionally and nationally. At T-Mobile, as the Director of Engineering Operations, he's not just overseeing projects; he's managing a customer base of over 5 million people and leading a t...

#345 Journey from IBM to the Cutting Edge of Health, FinTech, and AI

December 15, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Pete Martinez serves as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the SIVOTEC group of companies and holds the position of Chairman at RaiseLink, an innovative enterprise operating at the intersection of Health, FinTech, Technology, AI, and Big Data. During his impressive 32-year career at IBM, Pete held various leadership roles, including Vice President of Global Business Services and Senior Location Executive for IBM South Florida.  Notably, he was a part of the original IBM Personal Computer te...

#344 Inside the Mind of an Inventor: Sandeep's 180 Patents and Beyond

December 07, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB

After earning a Ph.D. in 1988, Sandeep entered the electronics industry, where he was fortunate to lead incredible teams that invented and built technologies and products that we use every day via cell phones, Bluetooth, mobile-satellite systems, software for cars, and semiconductors.  He is a Fellow of IEEE and a named inventor on 180 patents. After a long and fruitful career in executive roles at Ericsson, Sony-Ericsson, Freescale, AMD, and BlackBerry he returned to consulting and the sta...

#343 From Business Mogul to Navy Captain: Anita Huberman's Astonishing Journey

November 29, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Anita Huberman is an extraordinary leader with a remarkable track record spanning three decades of service.  For 17 years, she has served as the President & CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade, a position she has held with unwavering dedication.  Her leadership has made a significant impact on one of Canada's largest cities, serving over 6,000 member contacts. Anita's list of achievements is truly impressive.  She has received numerous accolades, including being named one of the Top 50 Wome...

#342 Scaling Success: Insights from a Serial Entrepreneur and Business Coach | Randall Craig

August 31, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

Randall is a serial entrepreneur, coaches CEOs on scaling their business, and leads the Braintrust Professional Institute.  He shares his unique perspective through his eight books (one a best seller), 600+ articles, podcasts, keynote speeches, virtual presentations, and advisory relationships.   He has helped global organizations solve their toughest problems, and helped many innovators scale.   Randall serves on both corporate and not-for-profit boards, and frequently appears as an expe...

#341 Unveiling the Emotional Source Code of Successful Leaders with Dov Baron

August 24, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB

Dov Baron is the founder and CEO of Dov Baron International. He is a preeminent expert in helping leaders create life-and-work meaning. His models and strategies of the Emotional Source Code and the Anatomy of Meaning are used by leaders in business and government worldwide. Dov has been named a Top 30 Global Leadership Guru five times and an Inc. Magazine Top Leadership Speaker twice.  He is the creator and host of two popular podcasts, “Leadership & Loyalty, which has been named the #1 p...

#340 Breaking Ground: Inspiring Success with Anthony, Founder CDO Group, Inc.

August 17, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

Anthony Amunategui, the Founder of CDO Group, Inc.  CDO Group is an industry leader providing a full range of corporate construction development and project management services. Since its inception in 1998, they have represented hundreds of clients in a wide range of varying industries in all 50 states. Anthony started his career painting houses during college, he unexpectedly caught the attention of a Project Manager at a Discovery Zone, where his exceptional efficiency and craftsmanship ...

#339 Entrepreneurial Trailblazers: Insights and Inspiration with Jeremy

August 03, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

Jeremy is a seasoned serial entrepreneur passionate about creating and assisting companies and startups.  With expertise in commercialization, manufacturing, and various business aspects, he has successfully built three companies over the past 15 years.  His skills span capital raises, site selections, tax incentives, overseas procurement, brand development, e-commerce solutions, and more.  He is well-versed in day-to-day company management and board-level advisement.  Known for his prof...

#338 From Zero to $30 Million: Unveiling the Revenue Machine Mastermind and AI Business Growth Expert

June 20, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

Introducing our next podcast guest, an extraordinary revenue generator and business growth expert.  Ryan Staley has achieved remarkable success, building revenue machines from scratch and achieving multiple exits. He has won an astonishing 18 President's Club awards, generating over $150 million in revenue and closing 35 deals worth $500,000 or more.  His expertise extends to interviewing over 200 Tech CEOs and teaching 800+ revenue leaders enterprise sales.  Don't miss out on his incredi...

#337 Digital Transformation Insights: Conversations with Ted Souder

June 15, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

Our guest today is a seasoned expert in digital transformation, entrepreneurship, and business strategy, with a remarkable background in one of the world's most renowned companies.  With over 20 years of experience at Google, Ted Souder played a pivotal role in shaping its success story and now shares invaluable insights with entities worldwide.  Please welcome Ted, a visionary leader and strategist dedicated to guiding organizations into a bright, digital-first future. During their exten...

#336 The Art of Making Things Happen: Conversation with Steve Sims, Founder and CEO of Bluefish Luxury

June 13, 2023 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Meet Steve Sims, founder, and CEO of Bluefish, a luxury concierge service that provides once-in-a-lifetime experiences for its ultra-exclusive clientele. Steve has worked with some of the world's most influential people, including Sir Richard Branson, Elton John, Elon Musk, and many more.. The Real Life Wizard of Oz who has left a mark with his best-selling book, Bluefishing: The Art Of Making Things Happen, and awe-inspiring speeches at Fortune 500 companies, The Pentagon, and Harvard- tw...

#335 The Visionaries: Conversations with Brian Podolak, CEO of Vocodia, and Kevin Harrington, original shark on Shark Tank

June 08, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB

Podcast Guest 1: Brian Podolak Brian Podolak, the founder, and CEO of Vocodia, is a renowned figure in contact center innovation.  With a background in engineering, he tackled challenges faced by call centers and sales departments, revolutionizing the industry with innovative solutions.  Brian's ability to harness emerging technologies has driven startups to rapid profitability, including achieving $70 million in annual revenue for an online medical services company in under 3 years.  Hi...

#334 Fulking Awesome Business Growth: Turning Ideas into Action for Extraordinary Success!

June 06, 2023 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

I'm Fulking Awesome....🏆 Welcome to the "Fulking Awesome Business Growth" podcast, where we turn ideas into action and help business owners overcome challenges to achieve incredible growth. I'm your host, Dave Fulk, and I'm here to guide you through the world of entrepreneurship and share valuable insights that will revolutionize your business. As a seasoned expert in operational management, sales, marketing, and creating efficient systems and processes, I've earned a reputation for being ...

#333 Raw and Real Entrepreneurship: Unveiling the Truth of Building Successful Businesses

June 01, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

Susan, the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of RadiusAI, stands proudly among the 2% of tech startups that have a female founder, as revealed by a study conducted by Work Bench. As a leading figure in the computer vision artificial intelligence industry, Susan's company focuses on human-centric AI, utilizing computer vision to empower frontline workers in the retail and healthcare sectors for enhanced job efficiency. The enterprise clients that RadiusAI collaborates with benefit from improved top and b...

#331 The Wi-Fi Revolution: Insights from Group VP, and Chief AI Officer of $10.33B company

May 31, 2023 03:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB

Bob is Group VP, Chief AI Officer, and CTO enterprise at Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks is a $10.33B company with over 11,000 employees from 50+ countries.  Juniper network is leading the revolution in networking, serving a range of customers, including the top 100 Global Service Providers, the Global Fortune 100, and 30,000 other enterprises. Bob also co-founded Mist Systems, a start-up with $27.2M in revenue, which focused on building a machine learning platform in the cloud to help ...

#332 The Wi-Fi Revolution: Insights from Group VP, and Chief AI Officer of $10.33B company

May 31, 2023 03:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB

Bob is Group VP, Chief AI Officer, and CTO enterprise at Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks is a $10.33B company with over 11,000 employees from 50+ countries.  Juniper network is leading the revolution in networking, serving a range of customers, including the top 100 Global Service Providers, the Global Fortune 100, and 30,000 other enterprises. Bob also co-founded Mist Systems, a start-up with $27.2M in revenue, which focused on building a machine learning platform in the cloud to help ...

#330 OwnerShift: Guiding Big-Thinking Entrepreneurs to Create the Future They Want with The OwnerShift Coach

May 23, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

In this podcast, we speak with a seasoned entrepreneur and coach who has spent 30 years guiding big-thinking entrepreneurs and CEOs to create the future they want. As the OwnerShift Coach, our guest is on a mission to help 1000 entrepreneurs create companies worth more than $20M each, and to pay it forward by helping others do the same. Having founded, grown, and sold two waste treatment, recycling, and disposal companies generating more than $500M in revenue, our guest brings a wealth of e...

#329 The Entrepreneurial Success of Delk Enterprises Achieving Financial Freedom Through Diversification

May 18, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

Jeremy Delk is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for disrupting industries. Since 2001, his businesses have earned hundreds of millions in revenue, created hundreds of high paying American jobs, as well as other notable distinctions. Jeremy is also a bestselling author and popular public speaker.    He jumped into entrepreneurial ventures with the naivety of a child and the tenacity of a tycoon. He started day trading at the age of sixteen, learning and failing with each trade. It is this...

#328 Conversation with 2012 London Olympic Medal Winner - Dorothy Lee "Dotsie" Bausch

May 16, 2023 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

After concluding a prolific professional cycling career that produced a medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, eight US national championships, two Pan American gold medals and a world record, Dotsie Bausch has become a powerful influencer for plant-based eating for athletes and non-athletes alike. Named by VegNews in 2019 as one of the top 20 most influential vegans in the world, she utilizes her degree in plant-based nutrition to inform her impassioned messages as an advocate on behalf of...

#331 From the Boardroom to the Field: A Journey of Executive Coaching

May 11, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

Welcome to our podcast featuring an executive coach who has a passion for both coaching executives in the boardroom and coaching kids on the soccer or football field at night. Our guest's journey to becoming an executive coach began with a love for football and a desire to become a football coach. However, after realizing the sacrifices that come with being a football coach, our guest's dream died for almost a decade and a half until they discovered the world of executive coaching seven year...

#327 Non-linear approaches to problem solving with Amisha Patel

May 09, 2023 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB

In this episode of our podcast, we're joined by a former university professor who has found a unique way to help innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs succeed. Our guest has adapted ideas from philosophy to assist individuals in aligning with deeper human capacity and achieve their goals. With over 1000 clients from around the world, including executives, public figures, health professionals, and entrepreneurs, our guest's approach has proven to be effective in various industries. As a tra...

#326 The Growth Gamechanger: Insights on Marketing, GTM, and Leadership with Robin Daniels

May 04, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MB

Robin Daniels is an experienced executive with a proven track record in growth, marketing, GTM, and leadership development. He has spent over 20 years in the US and UK, holding executive leadership roles in high-growth companies of all sizes, including Matterport, WeWork, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Box, Veritas, and Vera. As a fractional and consultative Growth, Marketing, and Leadership Advisor, Robin helps businesses deliver epic results through innovative, fun, and highly differentiated activ...

#325 Know How To Make Impossible, Possible by Founding Member & Global Consultant at Silicon Valley Alliances

May 03, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MB

Kimberly Wiefling has extensive experience in the R&D and manufacturing of complex systems of hardware, software, firmware, chemistry, and physics. She’s held leadership positions ranging from NPI Program Manager to VP of Program Management & Organizational Effectiveness for a Xerox Parc spinoff, and has helped companies from startups to Global 1000 successfully grow and – more importantly - SCALE. A physicist by education, she has found that many of these are “human” problems that don’t req...

#324 Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI and Data: Tackling Health Inequity and Building a Better Future | Kevin Longoria | Manuj Aggarwal

January 13, 2023 18:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

In this episode, we will be exploring the ways in which artificial intelligence and data can be used to address health inequity and improve healthcare for all. We'll discuss the ways in which AI and data can be leveraged to identify and address health disparities, improve access to care, and create more personalized and effective treatments. In addition to discussing the practical applications of AI and data in healthcare, we'll also be examining the ethical considerations and potential cha...

#323 The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building Wealth | Brion Crum | Manuj Aggarwal

January 10, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MB

Brion Crum is VP of Wealth Development at Caliber Companies - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brioncrum/   Support the show Follow me on Facebook ⬇️ https://www.facebook.com/manuj.aggarwal ❤️ ID - Manuj Aggarwal ■ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manujaggarwal/ ■ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realmanuj ■ Instagram: ...

#322 Master Modern Leadership and Team Management with CEO Jonathan Hale | Manuj Aggarwal

January 06, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MB

Enhance your leadership and team management abilities with expert insights from CEO Jonathan Hale. Learn the latest generation of skills and strategies to drive success in the modern business world. Tune in now for valuable advice and guidance on how to lead and manage your team to success. Connect with Jonathan Hale CEO of Thoroughbred - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanlhale/ Support the show Follow me on Facebook ⬇️ https://www.facebook.com/manuj.aggarwal ❤️ ID - Manuj Aggarwal ■ L...

#321 Counter entrepreneurial burnout and Loneliness | Christene Marie | Manuj Aggarwal | Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show

January 01, 2023 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MB

Counter entrepreneurial burnout and Loneliness | Christine Marie | Manuj Aggarwal | Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show Follow Christine Marie on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christenemarie/ Christene Marie is the CEO & Founder at Starin Strategies | Branding & Marketing Strategy Expert | Emotional Intelligence Advocate | Global Speaker & Thought Leader Please feel free to drop your thoughts about the podcast on any of our socials, what other topics you would like us to cover, guest ...

#320 How Smart Passive Income Can Help You Take Control Of Your Life And Financial Future | Pat Flynn & Matt Gartland

December 23, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

Pat Flynn is the founder of Smart Passive Income as well as a bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, industry influencer, and startup advisor.  Pat has founded several ventures like SPI Media, The smart passive income podcast, Switchpod, and FuseBox.fm to name a few.  Pat started the Smart Passive Income blog with the intention to help online entrepreneurs get started and stay on the right path. Pat uses his experience to help others answer the questions he once faced and shares the tools ...

#319 Know How To Convert Passion Into a Billion Dollar Brand? | Coyote Ugly's CMO

December 20, 2022 18:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

Leejon Killingsworth is the Coyote Ugly Saloon's chief marketing officer, retail officer, owner, and partner. The Coyote Ugly Saloon is a drinking establishment in the United States and the inspiration for an international chain of bars known for its bartenders dancing on the bar. It was the setting for the 2000 film Coyote Ugly. It is one of the most well-known bars in the world, and it is expected to be the first billion-dollar bar brand in history. Leejon has contributed to the massive s...

#318 Know What Data Can Do for Your Business With Mentor to #1 Accelerator Globally - Christopher Coyle

December 17, 2022 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MB

Christopher Coyle is the Founder and CEO of TAO (Tethra Advisors & Officers). TAO is an Emerging Tech, Circular Economy & Data/Analytics Consultancy which Chris founded in 2020. Christopher is an accomplished Executive with over 20 years of diverse cross-functional experience spanning multiple industries. Chris currently is a consultant/ advisor/ mentor for organizations such as Newchip Accelerator — which is the #1 online accelerator program with a global reach; Spectronn — where he handle...

#317 The Future of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence With Ex VP of Advanced Analytics R&D with DR. Radhika Kulkarni

December 10, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

Dr. Radhika Kulkarni is an Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Advocate for Universities and Organizations and she is active in the area of Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. She is the 2022 INFORMS President – INFORMS is the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics. Radhika worked as Vice President of Advanced Analytics R&D at SAS for 35 years, where she was in charge of the world’s leading analytics software product portfolio. She has witnessed the g...

#316 What should you know about Apple Search Ads

November 25, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

Apple is actually going to start its own ads platform, and they are going to start showing ads to Apple product users. So Apple obviously has become a huge powerhouse when it comes to gaining the attention of people.  Now, the thing is that last year, Apple made a change in their policy they stopped sharing detailed information about consumers, with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, and other social media platforms.  So what that did was it sort of limited the ability of these social m...

#315 Data Is The New Oil

November 24, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.12 MB

Data is the new oil, it's the new gold. And if your company is not leveraging data to secure your future, then you're missing out your competition is going to take you over, look around.  See, which are the biggest companies most profitable companies around Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.  All these companies are actually data companies. They collect huge amounts of data about their customers, about their consumers. And then they figure out what exactly their customers want, and t...

#314 How Companies Can Scale Their Customer Service

November 03, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 982 KB

Conversational AI is taking over the world. And what that means is that companies can scale their call centres, their customer service departments to a massive scale without hiring a lot of customer service representatives. Not only that, but they can standardise and really personalise the conversations based on what the consumer is looking for. This not only provides readily available customer service to the clients, so the wait times go lower, but it also provides exactly the solution that...

#313 Fintech Companies In Trouble

November 02, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.12 MB

FinTech companies are changing the world that we transact, how we exchange money, how, and how we move money internationally and domestically. But there is a great threat to this industry, cybersecurity, you know, cybercrime is on the rise. And it has increased by 1000s of percent in the last three years. The primary target for cyber crimes tends to be financial institutions, or companies dealing with finance technology. Why? Because that's where the money is. You see the malicious user, kno...

#312 Is Conversational AI As Good As Humans

November 01, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

First of all conversational AI is here to stay. AI is getting better at everything. As the technology is maturing, we are able to, you know, create more and more powerful algorithms as we are collecting more data and understanding the world better.  The idea behind this is conversational AI is becoming so good that it is practically indistinguishable from a real human.  And even when you start talking to a chatbot, or an AI system, it is smart enough to know its own boundaries, so it can a...

#311 Are You Aware Of The Power Of Data

October 31, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 849 KB

Most companies are unaware of the power available to them today through the digital tools and frameworks available today.  Not only that, when some companies actually implement a data analytics program, they're not mature enough to leverage the insights and implement them in their business.  So this is called the Data maturity level. Support the show Follow me on Facebook ⬇️ https://www.facebook.com/manuj.aggarwal ❤️ ID - Manuj Aggarwal ■ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manujaggar...

#310 How To Turn Your Passion Into a Real Business With Gayle Martz

October 21, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MB

When you are taking a pet with you on a plane — remember that you are doing something extraordinary. And only one person is responsible for your fantastic experience. Gayle created the soft-sided pet carrier category with her iconic SHERPA bag and led a successful business she built from the ground up for decades. This a brilliant example of turning a passion into a new business. Gayle Martz invented the Sherpa bag for all modes of pet travel in 1989, forever changing the pet travel experie...

#309 AI Won An Art Competition

October 20, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.27 MB

AI-generated art. Now today AI has become so powerful. It is generating art, it is generating text, it is even writing full books.  And this trend is going to continue. As AI becomes more powerful, it is going to start taking over repetitive tasks that humans have been assigned for centuries, not only the repetitive tasks, which are mundane tasks, but which take more creativity and more thinking, because AI algorithms are becoming powerful enough that they have that cognition power that hum...

#308 Why It Is Important To Find A Good CO-Founder

October 19, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 957 KB

Co-founders are the support system, which can make or break your startup. I have so many stories of how co-founders came together and filled in the gaps for each other and supported each other in the startup journey. But I also have a lot of stories where the co-founders were not compatible. Their personalities did not match each other. And just like a bad divorce, it ended up in disaster.  Support the show Follow me on Facebook ⬇️ https://www.facebook.com/manuj.aggarwal ❤️ ID - Manuj Aggar...

#307 Why Brand Building Is So Important

October 18, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

As startup founders, one of the biggest challenges we face is to have enough people around us who can believe in our mission, who know us, like us, and can trust us with the solution we are bringing to the marketplace — it is going to work, and it will create the impact that we are claiming it to create. So if you’ve good communication skills — you can build your credibility and express your vision in clear concise terms, which make sense to even a 10th-grade child. Support the show Follow ...

#306 What Risks And Sacrifices Do Startups Demand

October 17, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.15 MB

Startups are like a baby — you’ve given birth to an idea. Now you need to raise that baby until it becomes an adult.  That is equivalent to a self-sustaining, growing, and healthy business, which is generating tons of cash flow. You’ve to think like a parent. Parents give everything that they've got to raise a kid, they let go of their sleep, comfort, and finances. Similarly, in a startup world, you may have to push yourself to the boundaries that you may not even realize.  You’ve to do th...

#305 What I Do When Things Get Tough

October 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.12 MB

I talk to myself — I tell myself that I have surmounted so many challenges in my life. And yet here I am standing. So the answers lie within, what am I capable of?  What are my strengths? What am I good at? What kind of people have I surrounded myself with? Who can I reach out to for help? Do I reach within and find the answers that I'm looking for?  And I do this because over and over, life has taught me that answers are not out there. All the reality that exists and the results we see in...

#304 What I Care About The Most

October 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB

Above all else, I care about my family, friends, and team. I learned that family is forever no matter what kind of hardships you face in life.  And I tell my clients as well — if you want to find success in life, care about the people around you because the more giving you are, the more helpful you are to people around you who depend on you, and look upon you as a leader.  Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. What are some of your core values in life? Share wit...

#303 What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong About Marketing

October 10, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MB

Let me share a story about a startup founder who came from Fortune 500 and started a very innovative company. He was so successful in raising funds and building credibility that he lost the point of why he was doing this startup in the first place.  He forgot to focus on the customers. He was still thinking in the way that fortune 500 companies think — developing a huge range of products and partnering with large corporations which are like whales.  These whale clients move very slowly. So...

#302 Negotiate Like FBI’s Lead International Negotiator Chris Voss

October 07, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator and currently CEO of the Black Swan Group which specializes in solving business communication problems using hostage negotiation solutions. Chris wrote the national best-seller — Never Split The Difference, which was named one of the seven best books on negotiation.  Chris has used his extensive experience in international crises and high-stakes negotiations to create a one-of-a-kind program and team that applies these globally proven techniques...

#301 What Do Entreprenuers Fear

October 06, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.11 MB

The only fear is fear itself for a startup founder and entrepreneur.  Business is full of uncertainties but as business owners, we’ve to recognize one thing — business is all about taking calculated risks.  Meaning you only risk your money, time and energy that you’re willing to lose, even if it doesn't work out.  The experience of going through that journey will be enough to pay off. And the second thing is, the reward and the impact that you can make is so much bigger, that everything t...

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