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David Wang explains the new course for Smashnotes.
November 08, 2022 04:41 - 59 seconds - 1.43 MBDavid Wang (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theprofitableside) is joining Smashnotes team to lead our community and advertising efforts. Here David explains what we want to achieve, and how you could get involved. If you have any questions, shoot him an email [email protected]
The best in Smash Notes feed on April 8, 2020
April 08, 2020 22:10 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBLatest from the front lines of Smash Notes feed, your one stop show for new delightful pieces of knowledge, extracted out of your favorite podcasts, and all the podcasts you've never heard of. Links to each highlighted episode, below. Ryan Petersen from Flexport - freight shipping around the globe and lessons in startups. Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - from a small town girl to a successful business women. Matthew Walker on Joe Rogan Experience - sleep, drugs and alcohol, and how to ...
What's going on with the world today?
March 19, 2020 02:37 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MBHey listeners, another day, another day. Lucky you've got Smash Notes! This is a quick summary of this Sunday's newsletter, covering: - Chamath and Jason talk social, political and economical ramification of Covid-19 - Wil from Startups.com on surviving despite dozens of competitors - How to eat Chipotle the correct way - Noah from Code Story podcast on doing startups while raising 3 kids in Texas - Evan Williams on future of publishing ps. Want your podcast to sound awesome? Try Clip...
How to make a billion dollars, the Coronavirus panic, Jason Calacanis and Scott Galloway go head to head, family of 4 living out of a van and more.
March 13, 2020 02:38 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBHola! This is a short summary of what you would find in the Smash Notes newsletter this week. Please take a look at the full newsletter for all the links and details, and if you are not yet a subscriber to the text version, please sign up here. Enjoy this episode, send me your feedback (to: [email protected]) and if you have a fever, please see a doctor. Till next week, Kirill Zubovsky p.s. Are you a VC? Do you have a fund you are just dying to get rid of ? Call me ;)
Best of Last Year, plus My Favorites!
January 01, 2020 23:34 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBTop 3 podcast episodes of 2019 by engagement ============================================ #1 - My Dad Wrote a Porno Also, the story for how Smash Notes become a porno hit. #2 - Sleep is your super power with Matt Walker #3 - Below the line, Remote Work with Hiten Shah My favorites ============ #1 - Slack CTO Cal Henderson on GeekWire. #2 - Urgent Care is forked! To get paid, hospitals get creative. #3 - Christopher Michel / Photographer / Entrepreneur Big Announcement ===========...
Management and Storytelling lessons from Tony Fadell - Tim Ferris Show #403
December 24, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MBOh hello there, old friend. Smash Notes podcast is back in business! Taking notes is a tedious process, and however much I like to give you the best podcast summaries on the internet, I often run out of time. This newest edition of Smash Notes is an attempt to find a middle ground where I can provide the most value you to, while also spend less than a million hours to put it all together. Stay with me , and I'll find the sweet spot, I promise. Meanwhile, in today's edition is a summary ...
Special interview with Mubashar Iqbal, Product Hunt Maker of the Year for 2016 and founder of Pod Hunt, WILL ROBOTS TAKE MY JOB, plus 80 other projects.
September 20, 2019 00:13 - 39 minutes - 36 MBMubashar Iqbal is a developer, dad, and a maker who just cannot stop creating products on the internet. He is the guy behind Pod Hunt, Product News, Practical MVP and quite literally, 80 other projects. Some of them sold, some shut down, and some are making him passive income. He's been featured on Lifehacker, The Next Web, Mashable, Fortune and more. Today Mubs joins us on SmashNotes to talk about his latest project, PodHunt, the life of a serial maker, what it takes to stay focused on hi...
Tim Ferris Interview with Charles Koch of Koch Industries
September 12, 2019 08:00 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBCharles Koch is a billionaire, political donor, philanthropist, and the CEO of Koch Industries. In this Tim Ferris Interview with Charles Koch, he shares a lot about his personality, his upbringing , entrepreneurship, politics and more. If you liked this episode, please tell Tim Ferris.
Paul Graham talks about Y Combinator (back in 2009)
September 11, 2019 18:30 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBToday, Y Combinator is a runaway success. Having created $100B+ in valuations and almost 100 startups valued at over $100M each, Y Combinator is now a brand, a symbol of success, and a guiding start for the others. Back in 2009 though, it was still a fairly unknown company, doing something weird and different from the typical venture. Listen to Paul Graham, the founder, talks about YC, it's future potential, and ways in which founders could stay mean and lean to crate the next billion-dollar...
What's the $400 problem and why are Americans paying loan sharks instead of buying vegetables?
September 10, 2019 12:00 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBHustlin’ Tech is a new show from a16z. It feels a bit like blatant promotion for A16Z startups, but if you read between the lines, it's also full of great undiscovered gems. In this brief installment of Smash Notes, Ben Horowitz and Shaka Senghor talk about the state of payday loans and how Earnin is changing it. If you are not yet a subscriber to Smash Notes mailing list, please subscribe ~> http://smashnotes.com/subscribe Till tomorrow!
Eric Ries on Toxic founder image and Marc Nager on startups in small town Colorado
September 09, 2019 23:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBWhy don't the founders in Silicon Valley ask for help? The answer is "Toxic Founder Image", and the desire, the need to constantly maintain a positive image. Take a read ~> https://smashnotes.com/p/below-the-line-with-james-beshara/e/3-eric-ries-psychological-journey What is it like to be running a startup from small town America? Marc Nager, the founder of Startup Weekend, says the times are changing for the better. ~> https://smashnotes.com/p/give-first/e/marc-nager-dave-mayer-on-building...
Does remote work make you happy? Jason Calacanis, Entrepreneurship, apprenticeships, and social norms. - Smash Notes Podcast August 23 2019
August 24, 2019 06:41 - 16 minutes - 7.73 MBThank you for listening to SmashNotes.com - You are awesome! In this warm summer edition: The lost art of apprenticeships, and how and why Dan Mall is growing a new breed of designers by teaching them to do everything. Remote Work Report from Hiten Shah, and advice on how to make your own company more productive. Jason Calacanis on how to prepare your kids for life from the young age, and how the Elon Musk school is doing it. Rosie Sherry, the maker behind the Ministry of Testing, and w...
The Portal, The Mob, Advice vs. Encouragement, History of Smash Notes, Photography and what makes the perfect picture - July 31, 2019
July 31, 2019 08:51 - 22 minutes - 21 MBThank you for subscribing to Smash Notes. In this week’s episode: - The story of how a mob forced one entrepreneur on a path of lifetime profitability - Why Science is in danger and how to fix it - The story of how Smash Notes was born - Hiten Shah and Steli Efti advice on giving advice - Christopher Michel on what it takes to capture the perfect image If you have not heard Smash Notes guest segment from last week, check out Stewart Alsop III and his take on a conversation with Peter T...
Stewart Alsop III explores the life in Silicon Valley through a conversation between Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein - July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019 18:30 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBToday's Smash Notes is brought to you by Stewart Alsop III. He is the host of Crazy Wisdom podcast where he explores creativity, stress and spirituality. Stewart grew up in Silicon Valley but found it too much of a bubble, so he left to explore the world outside. In this episode he explores the past, the present and the future of the Silicon Valley through a conversation between Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein, as well as a short segment from Stewart's own podcast. Take a listen, see what yo...
My dad wrote a porno, startups and happiness, teaching kids about consent. - July 19, 2019
July 19, 2019 21:39 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBThank you for subscribing to Smash Notes weekly. You can find all the segments mentioned in this episode right here - Smash Notes - Top Podcasts for 2019 - Week 29 ~ In this episode ~ * Why are people searching for porno and landing on Smash Notes? Turns out, there is a podcast called "My Dad Wrote A Porno" and it is hilarious. You have to listen to this week's episode of the Smash Notes podcast to get the juicy audio bites, but the gist is this - someone's dad wrote a really bad porn sc...
Existential dread, screen time, drugs and venture capital - July 10, 2019
July 11, 2019 02:29 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBThank you for subscribing to Smash Notes podcast. This week's episode is one of the best to date. Here is what's included. Happiness: Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a company that helps creatives make money from their passion. Sahil has gone from being the second employee at Pinterest, to being featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, to living in a small town in Utah with a failing startup and fading glory in hands. All of that has taught him a thing or two about life, and the univer...
Vaccines and Healthcare in America - July 1, 2019
July 03, 2019 20:37 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBIn this episode of Smash Notes I am focusing on healthcare, and primarily the cost of care, and how anti-vaccination groups are putting us all in danger. Sounds interesting, come along for the ride! Urgent Care or a Hospital, where should you go? Imagine yourself working with a table saw, a sharp circular blade spinning in the middle. You push a piece of wood through, yawn, and the next thing you know the blade is launched deep into your bone. Yayks! This is the story from a podcast call...
Melinda Gates on the future. Justin Kan on startups and happiness. Sahil Lavingia and Bryce Roberts on living in Utah. - June 17, 2019
June 19, 2019 22:55 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThank you for subscribing to Smash Notes weekly, your one stop shop to learn something new. In this update, you will hear about living in the future, being a startup founder, life under Mormon influence, and tips on growing a podcast audience. 🎇 A quick shout out to Below The Line for crossing 10,000 downloads! James Beshara is doing a great job using Smash Notes to promote his podcast, and it shows. Now, this week's summaries. What is the world going to look like in 2030? Melinda Gat...
Machine learning, Education, Constitution and Startups. - June 10, 2019
June 11, 2019 03:11 - 11 minutes - 11 MBThank you for subscribing to Smash Notes weekly. Every update is a little different. If you see something you particularly like, please let me know. Click to see all the top choices for this week in one place. What is in this update? In no particular order: Business: Why would a multi billion dollar business be suing a small coffee shop, and what does it cost to defend yourself from a frivolous lawsuit? Startups: Working on an idea, are you? What should you validate first? Ryan Hoover...
Science, Stress, Long Distance Running, Startups and Small Business. - May 27, 2019
May 28, 2019 20:17 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBSmash Notes update for week 22 of 2019, in no particular order. Business: Have you heard of a company called One Month? They are a Y Combinator company that sells coding courses, with the aim to go from zero to completion in just one month. Here co-founder Chris answers a question on How do you price a product, subscription vs. one time pay? If you are running an online business or are thinking of doing a code school, he's got a good point. Science: Bill Nye the Science Guy has a ne...
May 20, 2019 - Can you drink your own pee?
May 20, 2019 18:46 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBShould you drink your own pee? How does pooping work? When is a good time to give up on your startup? What advice to give as a mentor? What does coffee have to do with strong opinions on the internet? All of that, in this episode of Smash Notes. If you have suggestions on what should go into the next episode, please email [email protected] or find us on twitter @SmashNotes.
May 13, 2019 - Weekly summary of the best podcasts on the internet
May 14, 2019 09:24 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBThis week's episode of Smash Notes features serious science, health, entrepreneurship and money. Listen and you will find out why sleep is actually extremely important for your body, why Melinda Gates nearly quit Microsoft, how a tiny startup is saving our planet and more. At the end of the episode you will also get to hear a music piece by Cade Legat. If you are into Dance & EDM, you just might digg it. Take a listen and enjoy!
May 6, 2019 - Weekly summary of the best podcasts on the internet
May 06, 2019 21:19 - 8 minutes - 4.15 MBIn this episode we have the story of Justin Kan drowning in the Pacific Ocean, Chamath Palihapitiya telling his investors that he's not a slave, Lambda School founder Austen Allred sharing his story on going from broke to woke in one simple Kickstarter, the startup boy Naval Ravikant sharing his wisdom on wealth, and more.
What is The Smash Notes podcast?
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