Go and Grow Podcast - learn how entrepreneurs, startup founders, and industry leaders launch and grow products and companies
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsThe Go and Grow Podcast is where you’ll learn from inspiring entrepreneurs and industry leaders about how they launched their companies, products, and campaigns and the marketing and growth tactics they used to increase users, revenues and profits.
In each episode, I'll interview entrepreneurs, startup founders, and industry leaders about how they came up with their business or product idea, what they did to get it off the ground, and the marketing and growth strategies they used to grow.
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End of Season 1 (Bonus episode 003)
December 07, 2016 06:00 - 5 minutes - 7.29 MBThis episode marks the end of Season One. We're going to take a break, and I want to talk about why. I’ve been guilty of lacking focus and spreading myself too thin. I haven’t been making enough progress on what really is important to me in the business world: launching and growing a startup. So I’ve decided to make some changes and focus more of my attention on that ONE thing, and, unfortunately, that means something has to give. I love speaking with startup founders and entrepreneurs, ...
Developing a Personal Brand and Mastering Social Media, with Leonard Kim of InfluenceTree (Ep 60 )
November 30, 2016 06:00 - 45 minutes - 52.3 MBToday's guest, Leonard Kim, is managing partner of InfluenceTree. At InfluenceTree, Leonard and his team teach people how to position their brands, get featured in publications and grow their social media following. Leonard is recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top Digital Marketer and Top Youth Marketer, and by Red Letter Resumes as a Top Personal Branding Expert. He went from being almost homeless to becoming a personal branding expert whose content has been read over 10 million times. H...
Growth and content marketing strategies from top online marketer Larry Kim of WordStream (Ep 59)
November 22, 2016 06:00 - 44 minutes - 51.6 MBToday's guest, Larry Kim, is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of WordStream, a marketing software company managing over a half-billion dollars in annual ad spend for over ten thousand customers, and he shares marketing insights to over a million visitors every month at his WordStream Blog. Larry also developed free tools for Facebook ads & AdWords used by over a million marketers worldwide; is a leading contributor to Inc. Magazine and Search Engine Land; keynoted dozens of marketing e...
How to analyze whether your content and social media marketing is working, with Allen Gannett of TrackMaven (Ep 58)
November 16, 2016 06:00 - 42 minutes - 49 MBToday's guest, Allen Gannett, is a leader in the science of marketing and creativity, and a sought-after investor in innovative technology companies. He is the Founder and CEO of TrackMaven; a General Partner at Acceleprise Ventures; and he is a frequent writer on creativity, leadership, and marketing with his work appearing in Fast Company, The Washington Post, The Next Web, and more. TrackMaven is a marketing data and intelligence platform used by some of the world’s biggest brands, incl...
How small businesses can collaborate to reach larger scale through agglomeration, with Callum Laing of Unity-Group (Ep 57)
November 09, 2016 06:00 - 54 minutes - 63.2 MBToday's guest, Callum Laing, has started, built, bought and sold half a dozen businesses in a range of industries across two continents. He is a partner in the Private Equity firm Unity-Group, co-founder and Director of The Marketing Group PLC, a Director of the Key Person of Influence program in Asia, and an author of two books. Callum wrote Progressive Partnerships: The Future of Business, a widely acclaimed book identifying the evolution of business from competition to collaboration, an...
How to innovate and develop products that your customers need, with Dana A. Oliver of Medtronic (Ep 056)
November 02, 2016 05:00 - 49 minutes - 69.4 MBToday's guest, Dana A. Oliver, recently retired from his position as Senior Director of Research & Development at Medtronic. With 30 years of experience and an impressive track record of revenue generation, Dana’s latest book Mantra Design is a must-read for every new product development professional aspiring to introduce premium priced, patent protected, market share leading products. He also has one previous book, Mantra Leadership. Dana is now an independent consultant helping companies...
Super-Serving Small Communities & Utilizing Pay-Per-Call Ad Models, with Drew Massie of AttorneyFone and LeadGen Ventures (Ep 55)
October 26, 2016 05:00 - 52 minutes - 73.6 MBToday's guest, Drew Massie, is Founder and CEO of AttorneyFone, which provides marketing and technology services for attorneys, and LeadGen Ventures, which helps startups with product development and go-to-market strategy for call generation and lead generation. Drew is an experienced entrepreneurial technology and business development professional, and he has impressively managed to grow his businesses while raising a family. We're going to learn how startups can take advantage of a pay...
Helping others lead their best life with authenticity and intention, with realtor and coach Rachel Adams (Ep 54)
October 19, 2016 05:00 - 46 minutes - 64.8 MBToday's guest, Rachel Adams, is a Realtor, Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Coach. In just 3 years, Rachel Adams made Wall Street Journal’s list of Top 1000 Realtors in the US. To the outside world, her "Facebook life" looked perfect, but her reality was a different story – until one conversation changed everything. She wrote a book and created a program called Lost to Found in 90 Days that is changing lives all over the world. While real estate is in Rachel's blood, her greatest joy com...
From Food Stamps to Freedom, and Four Steps to Close a Sale, with Aaron Janx (Ep 53)
October 12, 2016 05:00 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBToday's guest, Aaron Janx, is an in-demand Business and Sales Mentor for coaches and consultants around the world and in many different industries. Aaron owns and operates three businesses, including a successful real estate investment company, which has provided him the financial freedom necessary to follow his passion. Aaron's passion is mentoring coaches and consultants in lead generation and sales so that they can rapidly grow a strong, six-figure practice. Before Aaron jumped into ent...
The power of podcasts for finding and converting your ideal customer, with Tom Schwab of Interview Valet (Ep 52)
October 05, 2016 04:30 - 37 minutes - 52.5 MBToday's guest, Tom Schwab, is Founder of Interview Valet, a concierge-level podcast booking service. Tom helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and solo-prenuers get featured on leading podcasts that their prospects are already listening to. Then he shows them how to turn listeners into customers. Tom is also the author of CONNECT: Grow Your Business as a Podcast Guest and the creator of the CONNECT Online Course. If you want to learn more about Interview Valet, receive free training f...
What an angel investor looks for in a startup and the role of education in entrepreneurship, with John Richards of Startup Ignition (Ep 51)
September 28, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBToday's guest, John Richards, has a ton of things going on. He’s a prolific angel investor and has invested in companies such as Omniture, Domo, FundersClub, and many others. John founded the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at Brigham Young University, and most recently co-founded Startup Ignition with his son to teach budding entrepreneurs what they need to know to launch a startup. If Startup Ignition or the last name Richards sound familiar, that might be because I spoke with...
How culture can make a business more successful, with Saxon Baum of WeVue (Ep 50)
September 21, 2016 05:30 - 48 minutes - 39.5 MBToday's guest, Saxon Baum, is Co-CEO and head of sales at WeVue, a Tampa, Florida based software company that helps bring organizational culture to life through the power of mobile photo and video sharing. WeVue launched as a consumer product more than four years ago, while Saxon was going to school at the Miami University of Ohio. The idea was sharing cool, fun cultural events in a semi-private setting, before Instagram hashtags or Snapchat stories were a big thing. However, they had the ...
How to launch a business while traveling the world and maximize promotion of your content, with Dave Schneider of Ninja Outreach (Ep 49)
September 14, 2016 05:30 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBToday's guest, Dave Schneider, is cofounder of Ninja Outreach, a new and innovative Blogger Outreach CRM. It's a way for marketers and small businesses to find bloggers and reach out to them for content marketing and influencer marketing purposes. We're going to learn how Dave launched Ninja Outreach (with two co-founders he has never met), why good promotion is a key differentiator in a sea of web content, and how to effectively use split testing to grow business revenue. You can also a...
The Power of Blogging for (and as) a Business, with Dayne Shuda of GhostBlogWriters.com (Ep 48 )
September 07, 2016 05:30 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBToday's guest, Dayne Shuda, is Founder of GhostBlogWriters.com. Dayne’s first job out of school was as a catalog manager for a large footwear catalog. He then started blogging on the side and today, Ghost Blog Writers has about 50 remote team members writing for business blogs. We're going to learn how Dayne started ghost writing for business blogs, why he quit his job to turn that into a business early, and how blogging can grow a business. You can also access this episode at http://goa...
How to build and market a successful online course, with Greg Smith of Thinkific (Ep 47)
August 31, 2016 05:00 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MBToday's guest, Greg Smith, is the Founder and CEO of Thinkific, a software platform that makes it easy to create, market and sell online courses. Greg was working as a corporate lawyer for one of the largest law firms in the country when he launched an online course as a side project. He then left his law job to jump into online education and Thinkific full time. Since then, Greg and his team at Thinkific have helped thousands of coaches, authors, speakers, and companies create and sell th...
How to generate passive income with Amazon FBA and quit your day job, with Jon Haver of BrandBuilders.io and Listing Eagle Software (Ep 046)
August 24, 2016 05:00 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBToday's guest, Jon Haver, is Co-Owner of BrandBuilders.io, Owner of a few Amazon Private Labels, Founder of Listing Eagle Software, and Founder of AuthorityWebsiteIncome.com. Jon is a 31-year-old husband, father, engineer, sports fan and huge geek. He has been pursuing an entrepreneurial lifestyle so that he can spend more time with his family, and for the last 8 years he has built up many businesses and a healthy passive income portfolio. Along the way, he has helped hundreds of others do...
How to find the right co-founder and raise funds for your startup, with Alejandro Cremades of Onevest (Ep 45)
August 17, 2016 05:00 - 48 minutes - 67.4 MBToday's guest, Alejandro Cremades, is author of the best-selling book The Art of Startup Fundraising and currently leads the vision and execution for Onevest as its Co-Founder and Executive Chairman. The Onevest ecosystem supports founders and investors in building successful ventures from formation (via CoFoundersLab and now FounderDating) to financing (via 1000 Angels). We're going to learn how Alejandro has grown one of the largest communities of entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and ...
How to earn passive income from vending machine franchises, with Matt Miller of School Spirit Vending (Ep 44 )
August 10, 2016 05:30 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBToday's guest, Matt Miller, is Founder and President of School Spirit Vending, a business that helps schools and their clubs or organizations raise money more simply. SSV does hassle-free, year-long fundraising and installs sticker machines at no cost to the schools. SSV now has machines in over 2,000 schools in more than 30 states, and they have raised over $4 million for education since its inception in 2007. School Spirit Vending’s franchise model also provides a proven and profitable...
Grow your website traffic with these actionable SEO tactics from the Coolest Guy in SEO, Kris Reid (Ep 043)
August 03, 2016 05:00 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBToday's guest is Kris Reid, CEO of Ardor Media Factory and Ardor SEO. Kris is also known as the Coolest Guy in SEO. Back in the day, Kris was a Software Engineer who has worked across the world for variety of companies, from small tech startups to giant conglomerates like Visa. He took a hiatus from the corporate scene to backpack around the world, and during his tenure as a traveller, he learned the art of Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) and started developing tools to help people ran...
NYT Bestselling Author Tucker Max on going from a**hole author to entrepreneur, and how to write a book without writing one
July 27, 2016 05:30 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBToday's guest, Tucker Max, is co-founder and chairman of Book In A Box. If you're not familiar with Tucker, he has written three #1 NY Times bestsellers that have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. He is only the third writer (after Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Lewis) to ever have three books on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller List at one time. We're going to learn about how Tucker Max successfully transitioned to an entrepreneurial lifestyle through constant messaging, about ...
How to optimize the workspace and build new platforms and marketplaces, with Elizabeth Dukes of iOffice (Ep 041)
July 20, 2016 05:30 - 50 minutes - 70.3 MBToday's guest, Elizabeth Dukes, is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of iOffice, the fastest growing 100% SaaS integrated workplace management system platform and App Marketplace dedicated to facilities management. Elizabeth champions the use of SaaS technology to empower the workforce and create the most productive workplaces on earth. We're going to learn how Elizabeth validated the need for an integrated workplace management system, built the iOffice App Marketplace and repeatedly ...
Launching, growing, and selling a company for $20M in just three years, with Tyler Richards, Co-Founder of DevMountain and Startup Ignition (Ep 040)
July 13, 2016 05:30 - 59 minutes - 83.2 MBToday's guest, Tyler Richards, is Co-Founder and VP of DevMountain – a 12-week coding bootcamp that teaches entrepreneurs with no coding experience the skills developed in a typical 4-year degree – and Co-Founder of Startup Ignition. Tyler successfully sold a dating software startup to a Microsoft-backed company in the summer of 2013 and he has brought that expertise to DevMountain, which sold to Capella Education Company in May of 2016 for $20 million. We're going to learn how Tyler and...
How to grow monthly revenue from $10k to $200k in less than a year, with Andrew Guttormsen, Head of Growth at Teachable (Ep 39)
July 06, 2016 05:30 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBToday's guest, Andrew Guttormsen, is Head of Growth at Teachable, which is the easiest and most beautiful way to create and sell online courses. When Andrew joined Teachable, the company was making about $10,000 per month in recurring revenue. Andrew implemented marketing strategies that increased monthly revenue to over $200,000 per month, in just under a year, and that number continues to grow. We're going to learn how automating business processes can increase revenue, how businesses ...
Scott Duffy of Content.Market on working with Tony Robbins, selling a company to Richard Branson, and helping entrepreneurs (Ep 038)
June 29, 2016 05:30 - 49 minutes - 69.2 MBToday's guest, Scott Duffy, is an entrepreneur, business growth expert and Best-Selling Author of Launch!, a roadmap for building great companies. He began his career working for best-selling author and speaker Tony Robbins and went on to work for several big media brands like CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FOXSports.com. Next, he founded Smart Charter, an online booking tool for private aviation, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Today, Scott’s mission is to help ...
How to grow and sell a company for half a billion dollars, with Rick Rudman of Tracx and Vocus (Ep 037)
June 22, 2016 05:30 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBToday's guest, Rick Rudman, is Chairman and CEO of Tracx, the leading social business cloud for building brands, driving new business and improving customer experience in the new social economy. While a lot of companies try to solve one problem related to social media, Tracx helps businesses with the full life cycle of social. Prior to Tracx, Rick was the Chairman and CEO of Vocus, a leading provider of marketing and PR software. Rick founded Vocus in 1992 and, under his leadership, the co...
Developing your brand as an authority, scaling content marketing strategies & the power of podcasts, with Jerod Morris of Rainmaker Digital (Ep 036 )
June 15, 2016 05:30 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBToday's guest, Jerod Morris, is VP of Marketing at Rainmaker Digital, which provides tools and training for content marketers and digital entrepreneurs. Rainmaker Digital is the company behind Copyblogger, StudioPress, Synthesis, Rainmaker FM, and the Rainmaker Platform. In his role as VP of Marketing for Rainmaker Digital, Jerod creates educational content and digital products that help people develop and grow rewarding, profitable online businesses. The content Jerod creates includes The...
Growing a startup without funding and optimizing growth with analytics tools, with Christopher Gimmer of Snappa (Ep 035)
June 08, 2016 05:30 - 31 minutes - 44.3 MBToday's guest, Christopher Gimmer, is Co-Founder & CEO of Snappa.io, the easiest graphic design tool you'll ever use. He's on a mission to help marketers and small business owners create amazing designs without the help of a graphic designer. Less than a year after launch, Snappa.io has over 40,000 signups, ~7,000 active monthly users, and nearly 1,000 paying customers, and they still haven't received any funding. We're going to learn how Christopher validated his product idea through cu...
How to validate your product idea and achieve early growth without traditional marketing, with Kristian Bouw of NotionTheory (Ep. 034)
June 01, 2016 05:30 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBToday's guest, Kristian Bouw, is co-Founder & CEO of NotionTheory, a startup that helps startups validate their businesses and acts as their personal tech team or “stand-in CTO.” A developer, designer, and serial founder, Kristian has led the development and delivery of over 30 products to market. He frequently speaks on startup topics and is mentor to a host of companies. Kristian tell us how to validate product ideas, why you need to ask for money to adequately validate a product, and ...
From rocket scientist to online entrepreneur, and how to get tons of press coverage, with Harry Campbell of The Rideshare Guy (Ep 033)
May 25, 2016 06:00 - 55 minutes - 77.4 MBToday's guest, Harry Campbell, is founder and CEO of The Rideshare Guy, the largest blog for drivers and other on-demand workers across the world with over half a million pageviews a month. Harry used to be an aerospace engineer, and he started driving for Uber and Lyft as a money-making hobby. In this interview, Harry shares how he turned passion for his hobby into an online business. Harry adds a personal touch to every part of his business: the brand, the marketing and the direct comm...
Qualifying leads, growing sales revenue and scaling your business, with David Anderson of Nitro Sales Team (Ep 32)
May 18, 2016 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBToday's guest, David Anderson, is Founder and Sales Consultant at Nitro Sales Team, where he has formed a community that teaches business owners how to qualify leads, close deals, and increase their revenue. David has over 12 years of sales experience: he started door-to-door sales when he was only 14, and he started making money off of his first website in 5th grade. David has also been homeless multiple times in his life to chase his dreams as an entrepreneur. David emphasizes the fund...
How to grow from an idea to 1 million users, manage a remote team, and make the internet easier, with Wade Foster of Zapier
May 10, 2016 06:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBToday's guest, Wade Foster, is co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the easiest way to sync data between web apps. Wade is an alumni of the University of Missouri, Startup Weekend, and Y Combinator. He now runs Zapier from the San Francisco Bay Area. Zapier focused on revenue growth after graduating Y Combinator, and it has grown to nearly 1 million users with only a little over $1 million in funding. The service is also growing to include more multi-step Zaps to further improve the lives of thei...
How to be creative and what it means to sell your future, with Jason Zook (Ep 030)
May 03, 2016 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBToday's guest, Jason Zook, is best known for being the guy that made over$1,000,000 wearing t-shirts for a living and selling his last nametwice. He wrote the first ever fully sponsored book, calledCreativity for Sale, and most recently sold his future. Wehad a great time talking about how everyone can tap into theircreativity. Jason's current endeavor is all about buying his future. For$1,200, the purchaser buys everything he has created in the pastand everything he will create in the futu...
How to create a online subscription business from scratch, with Ravi Jayagopal of DigitalAccessPass.com (Ep. 029)
April 26, 2016 06:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBToday's guest, Ravi Jayagopal, is co-Founder & co-developer of DigitalAccessPass.com, a membership plugin & Marketing platform for WordPress. Ravi also hosts the SubscribeMe.fm podcast, and he is the author of two books: "Subscribe Me: Making, Marketing & Monetizing Online Digital Content with Membership Sites, Online Courses & Recurring Subscriptions," which he just launched this year. He also wrote "No Business Like E-Business." Ravi walks us through an important sequence he believes con...
Attracting women to STEM education and producing hardware products, with Makeda Ricketts of PinkThink (Ep 028)
April 19, 2016 14:46 - 44 minutes - 62.5 MBToday's guest, Makeda Ricketts, is the Founder and CEO of PinkThink. PinkThink is an interest-oriented and peer-supported web and mobile platform that makes (S)cience, (T)echnology, (E)ngineering, and (M)ath education powerful, relevant, and engaging for girls. PinkThink is known for creating cStyle Bracelets, a wearable that kids can code to change colors based on things like ambient light and body temperature. PinkThink has won numerous awards, and Makeda was recently named Maker of the Y...
From pro poker player to daily fantasy sports entrepreneur, with Matthew Chatlin of OwnThePlay.com (Ep 027)
April 12, 2016 06:00 - 54 minutes - 75.9 MBToday's guest, Matthew Chatlin, is Founder and President of daily fantasy sports website OwnThePlay. He raised close to $1 million, launched a multitude of new Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) products, and has driven huge growth in OwnThePlay and a new game called WholeCard. Matthew was a successful stock trader at age 13 and scored an internship with Prudential in Manhattan at 19, which taught him that he did not want to run his own hedge fund. So he made a natural move to a career in poker. Ma...
How to market NY Times-bestselling books and grow the #1 rated U.S. hostel, with Brent Underwood of Brass Check and HK Austin (Ep 026)
April 05, 2016 12:16 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBToday's guest, Brent Underwood, is a marketing expert at Brass Check, where he has created and executed online marketing campaigns for over 20 New York Times bestselling books. Brent is also the founder of HK Austin, a co-living and co-working space in the heart of Austin. For 2015, HK Austin was the #1 rated hostel in the United States. We're going to learn Brent's strategies for content marketing, the author's role in book marketing, how the business of hostels is changing, and how anyb...
The power of strategic partnerships and how to be an elegant entrepreneur, with Danielle Tate of MissNowMrs.com (Ep. 025)
March 29, 2016 06:00 - 36 minutes - 51.1 MBToday's guest, Danielle Tate, is Founder & CEO of MissNowMrs.com, author of "Elegant Entrepreneur: The Female Founders Guide to Starting & Growing Your First Company," and a self-confessed "accidental entrepreneur." Danielle talks about how MissNowMrs obtained its first customer after only 30 minutes and was profitable from month 1. She tells us the importance of partnerships in growing her company and how entrepreneurship is the pathway for women to define success. You can also access th...
What I learned from blogging for 30 consecutive days (Bonus ep. 002)
March 25, 2016 18:49 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBI recently ran an experiment to see if I could blog for 30 consecutive days to see if it could become a habit. You can read more about why I did it here. I had fun and learned a lot, which you can read about here. Thanks for listening!
The power of cold emails for customer acquisition and how to write the perfect email, with Alex Berman of InspireBeats (Ep. 024)
March 22, 2016 06:00 - 36 minutes - 51.1 MBToday's guest, Alex Berman, is the Chief Marketing Sumo for InspireBeats, a Lead Generation, Lead Research, and Personalized Prospecting Solution for Startups. Alex is responsible for generating over $21 million dollars in B2B leads. He and the team at InspireBeats have sent over 1 million cold emails to create leads for startups and software-as-a-service companies in the last two years. Alex is going to tell us why e-mail isn't dead, how he acquires leads and customers through cold e-mails...
Improving human performance with data, technology and meta learning, with Robin Zander (Ep. 023)
March 15, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBToday's guest, Robin Zander, has an incredibly unique background. He is an author, educator and strategist who holds titles such as Director of Design for Dance, Member of the Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab, and an Acrobat for the San Francisco Opera. He was formerly the Director of Operations of Socos LLC, founder of Move Autism and Producer at V.I. Creative. With a diverse background ranging from management consulting to circus performance, he has spent his career working with individuals a...
How to start and grow an online course to over $300,000 in revenue, with Paul Jarvis (Ep. 022)
March 08, 2016 07:00 - 39 minutes - 55.4 MBToday's guest, Paul Jarvis, is a freelancer evangelist and founder of Creative Class, an online class that teaches freelancers how to run their businesses better. Creative Class has over 1700 students and counting, and it has accrued over $300,000 to date. We're going to learn how Paul launched a small course then scaled it over time, strategies for content marketing, the importance of continually marketing content, and tips for building your own online course. You can also access this epi...
Pivoting your startup, growing through email marketing, and calculating customer acquisition cost, with Ryan Buckley of Scripted.com (Ep. 021)
March 01, 2016 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBToday's guest, Ryan Buckley, is a serial entrepreneur who has started (and folded) several companies. He is co-founder and Head of Partnerships at Scripted.com, a marketplace for writing and original content focused on helping marketing and sales teams run faster and more efficiently. We're going to learn how Ryan pivoted his business, turned his former customers into Scripted's content supply, designed hugely successful e-mail marketing campaigns, and calculated his customer acquisition co...
Destroying risk aversion and building startup communities, with ex-poker player Derric Haynie (Ep. 20)
February 23, 2016 06:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBToday's guest, Derric Haynie, is a serial entrepreneur, ex-poker player of 10 years, and self-described expert decision maker. He is CEO and co-founder of Splash Online Presence Management and Splash U, a community of community builders. After leaving the poker scene in early 2015, he's been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs at the very start of their journey. He speaks and write about growth marketing and the power of building a community. Derric tells us about how his professional poker...
How to take a startup from idea to exit 4 times, with David Cancel (Ep. 019)
February 16, 2016 08:00 - 59 minutes - 82.4 MBToday's guest, David Cancel, has founded five companies and sold four. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Drift, where he’s helping marketers transform their relationships with customers to drive retention & growth. David previously founded Compete, Lookery, Ghostery, and Performable. David's parents were both immigrants, and it was from them he learned his impressive work ethic. He learned to find an obsession and channel it towards success. David warns us against starting a business b...
How to raise over $300K on Kickstarter and build a huge email list, with Cathryn Lavery and Allen Brouwer (Ep. 018)
February 09, 2016 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.8 MBToday's guests, Cathryn Lavery and Allen Brouwer, are founders of BestSelfCo and creators of The Self Journal, a powerful yet simple daily planner to help you structure your day, enjoy life, and reach your goals more quickly than you thought possible. Cathryn and Allen launched and completed a Kickstarter campaign for The Self Journal in Summer 2015. The campaign had a $200,000 stretch goal, which they absolutely destroyed with pledges totaling $322,695. We're going to learn how these acco...
How to get inside your customer's head and growth-hack your business, with Nick Kullin (Ep. 017)
February 02, 2016 08:00 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBToday's guest, Nick Kullin, is founder of Second Flight Academy: a premier 8-week 1-on-1 growth hacking and marketing training program for business owners and marketers to learn how to accelerate their marketing efforts while saving their marketing cost. Nick was passionate from a young age. He started his first business before graduating high school, and quit his high-salary job to start another. Nick is incredibly open with us, sharing a lot about his life and providing a number of solid ...
What John Legere, Chip Kelly, and Donald Trump have in common, and what entrepreneurs can learn from them (Bonus Ep. 001)
January 29, 2016 09:00 - 11 minutes - 17.1 MBJohn Legere, Chip Kelly, and Donald Trump shun traditional thinking, experiment with new approaches, and stick to their guns. And that's why I'm fascinated with them. In this bonus episode, I talk about how the T-Mobile CEO, NFL head coach, and Republican presidential candidate blazed their own path to success and what entrepreneurs can learn from them. You can access this episode and the accompanying blog post at http://goandgrowpodcast.com/bonus001.
The story of Startup Weekend - how a single event grew into a global startup movement - with Andrew Hyde and Marc Nager (Ep. 016)
January 26, 2016 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBToday's guests, Andrew Hyde and Marc Nager, are responsible for founding and growing Startup Weekend, the "world's most powerful community-building platform." Startup Weekend began in 2007 in Boulder, Colorado. Andrew had the crazy idea to build a startup in a weekend, and more than 80 people showed up to participate in the first 54-hour event. Now there have been over 4,000 Startup Weekend events all over the world that more than 250,000 entrepreneurs have attended. We're going to learn ...
From medical doctor to Time Doctor - Rob Rawson on startups and productivity (Ep. 015)
January 19, 2016 08:00 - 41 minutes - 57.9 MBToday's guest, Rob Rawson, was formerly a medical doctor and always an entrepreneur. He is Co-founder and Chief Productivity Officer for Time Doctor, and CEO of the outsourcing website Staff.com. Rob originally created Time Doctor – an app that keeps track of how much time you're spending on different tasks, apps, and websites to assure productivity – so that his employees could work from home, while maintaining his peace of mind as their employer. Now, Time Doctor has over 10,000 users. ...
From TechStars startup to TechDay - Alec Hartman on the value of accelerators and community for startups (Ep. 014)
January 12, 2016 08:00 - 37 minutes - 52.6 MBToday's guest, Alec Hartman, explores the value of startup accelerators, the importance of community in the tech industry, and how he's helping entrepreneurs with TechDay. Alec is a TechStars alumni, the co-founder of Digital Ocean, and founder and CEO of TechDay, a series of events that allows startups to demonstrate the innovative products that they are building, and helps to develop innovative tech communities. We're going to learn why community is so important in the tech industry, and...