#thePawdcast
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDiscussing all things entrepreneurship, startups, creativity, businesses, innovations, self-awareness and everything in-between. Hosted by Joshua Davidson, Eddie Contento and Chris Coleman. Brought to you by ChopDawg.com.
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Episode 040 — Brett Hagler on Bringing Change to The Status Quo with Non-Profits
February 14, 2017 22:24 - 58 minutes - 89.9 MBImagine living without a safe home, having your family exposed to life-threatening dangers, no clean water, living in your own filth. This is real life for over 828 million families living in slums without adequate housing, in need of a better solution. With this understanding Brett Hagler of New Story Charity knew he needed to help find a solution. His solution came in the form of a nonprofit — New Story Charity. Not only would it provide incredible housing to those who need it the most, b...
Episode 039 - How The Co-Founder Of LeadPages/ConvertPlayer Engages & Scales
February 06, 2017 17:46 - 38 minutes - 59.7 MBIn less than four years, Simon Payne's company grew from just two other founders and himself; to over one hundred and fifty employees worldwide, with over $38,000,000.00 in venture capital raised. In case that isn't impressive enough for you, Simon would soon after that leave his company, challenging himself to do it all again with his second venture. This time, all by himself. We're joined this week by Simon, the founder of both LeadPages and his newest company, ConvertPlayer, to discuss ...
Episode 038 - How To Fine-Tune Purchasing Habits When Launching A Startup, According To Cole Oliver
February 02, 2017 16:59 - 1 hour - 100 MBWe're joined this week on #thePawdcast with entrepreneur, football fanatic, shoe connoisseur, and finance enthusiast, Cole Oliver, to discuss CHDR, a free, automatic financial management startup that helps you make the most out of your money. Cole founded CHDR (pronounced cheddar) to solve a real issue that he was facing as a college student. Spending too much money after a night on the town, he wanted to understand better his purchasing habits. The solution? CHDR, the app. CHDR breaks down...
Episode 037 - How Alex Berman Stacked $1M Of Revenue In Just 6 Months For A Dev Shop
January 31, 2017 15:50 - 1 hour - 118 MBImagine being the one responsible for generating an additional $9,000,000 in leads for your company, and in less than one business quarter at that. Not unbelievable enough for you yet? How about closing over $1,000,000 in additional revenue for that same company, in less than six months. Surely, you do not believe this is something one person could do. However, for one man, the guest on #thePawdcast for this week, Alex Berman, this is simply the norm. Alex Berman dives deep into his past, ...
Episode 036 - Erik X Raj Explains Why Most Entrepreneurs Are Bad Communicators
January 25, 2017 15:14 - 1 hour - 145 MBIt's remarkable to think how underrated communication is when it comes to leadership, management, and of course, entrepreneurship. Most aren’t taking the time to appreciate this skill, or more importantly, learn to better apply this incredible asset to their daily lives. Without being able to communicate properly, express feelings, and share ideas, no matter how talented your team is, no matter how driven you are, you're setting yourself up to fail. That is why this week's episode of #thePaw...
Episode 035 - Rei Wang On Why Most Mainstream Investors Ignore Student Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2017 19:33 - 1 hour - 123 MBImagine a student-run venture fund, backed by a prestigious venture capital firm, focused on supporting the nationwide community of student entrepreneurs. Seems cool, right? Here is the best part, you don't need to imagine this. It already exists, and it is called the Dorm Room Fund, backed by First Round Capital. We're joined this week on #thePawdcast with the Director of the Dorm Room Fund, Rei Wang and discuss all things student entrepreneurship, investing, raising capital and educatio...
Episode 034 - Pam Didner On How To Become An Expert In Your Field & Write A Best Seller
January 02, 2017 17:26 - 1 hour - 118 MBWe're back and more excited than ever to bring you Season Two of #thePawdcast. We can't believe it's already been a full calendar year since we started. This year, it is going to be better even than the last. We will have new guests, returning favorites, new episode themes and so much more! Without further ado, let's jump into Season Two. We're kicking things off in 2017 with the talented Pam Didner, who is a well-known, best-selling author, professor, keynote speaker, and arguably one of t...
Episode 033 - How Lisa Wang Is Helping 15,000 Women Break Into A Tech Scene Dominated By Men
December 05, 2016 17:40 - 1 hour - 201 MBThirty-three episodes later, and we're finally calling 2016 a wrap. We end this year with a bang, as we are joined by the talented, motivating and inspiring serial-entrepreneur, Lisa Wang. Not only is Lisa a 3x National Champion and U.S. Hall of Fame Gymnast, but she is the founder of SheWorx, a global collective of ambitious female entrepreneurs that are redefining leadership. We cover how Lisa became who she is today. What motivated her to not only become a gymnast, becoming a hall-of-fam...
Episode 032 - How Geoff Desreumaux Runs The Most Popular Social Media Blog In Europe
November 14, 2016 17:28 - 1 hour - 166 MBIt's not every day that you can say you have the king of all things social media on #thePawdcast, but today isn't your ordinary day. We're joined this week by the one, the only, the talented Geoff Desreumaux straight from London to discuss all things social media, social networking, trends in the industry, and of course, WeRSM (We Are Social Media). We cover Geoff's origins, how he began WeRSM, how social media has grown from just a way to connect with friends to literally one of the bigges...
Episode 031 - Michael Gasiorek of Startup Grind On How Startups Need To Market Themselves
November 07, 2016 14:33 - 1 hour - 169 MBIf you're a fan of #thePawdcast, you're most certainly a fan of Startup Grind. After all, it only makes sense right? Arguably two of the most impactful startup-related, content generating platforms on the internet (wink wink!). This week's episode we interview the Editor in Chief of Startup Grind and our good friend, Michael Gasiorek. A lot of incredible content is jammed into this hour and a half long episode. We discuss Michael's personal journey towards Startup Grind, growing up in New J...
Episode 030 - How Tucker Max Is Changing The Way Entrepreneurs Write Their Books
November 04, 2016 23:12 - 1 hour - 108 MBYou're in for a treat this week, #PawdcastNation! We're joined by best-selling author, father, and entrepreneur, Tucker Max of I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell and Book in a Box! We begin this podcast by diving deep into Tucker's past. We ask about his upbringing. We talk about the experiences that lead him to write. We discuss how his career accidentally started thanks to email forwarding, how he was turned down by every major publisher in the beginning, how he utilized the infancy of the in...
Episode 029 - How Ryan Rutan of Startups.co Has Built An Ecosystem For His Customers
October 31, 2016 13:48 - 1 hour - 156 MBClarity. Fundable. Launchrock. Zirtual. Odds are, if you're a fan of #thePawdcast, you're a fan of and/or a user of one of these incredible products! That is why this week's episode of #thePawdcast is so exciting. We are joined by serial entrepreneur, Ryan Rutan, who is also the Chief Innovation Officer of Startups.co, the company behind all of them. We discuss Ryan's background, his story, how his career drove him to be a part of the founding team for Startups.co. We discuss how Startu...
Episode 028 - How John Gavigan Of 43North Has Lured Startups To Move To Buffalo
October 10, 2016 15:24 - 1 hour - 128 MBCould you imagine being in the position where you run a startup competition that gives out over $5,000,000 in capital to startups each year? For our guest on this week's episode of #thePawdcast, this is the norm. Meet John Gavigan, the Executive Director of 43North in Buffalo, New York. This episode is jammed-packed with great content. We chat about how to stand out and win a startup competition such as 43North, and what not to do when competing. We chat with John about his own personal beli...
Episode 027 - How Tyler Adams Won The Amazing Race While Running A Startup
October 06, 2016 15:22 - 1 hour - 111 MBImagine being in the position where after months of hard work, you're about to launch your brand new startup to the world, when you're flown to the other side of the world to immediately begin filming the Amazing Race on CBS? For serial entrepreneur Tyler Adams, this is exactly what happened to him, We're joined this week on #thePawdcast with the Amazing Race (Season 26) winner, and serial entrepreneur, Tyler Adams. Tyler's focus today is being the Senior Product Manager for BCG Digital Vent...
Episode 026 - How Melissa Schipke Changed The Way Alumni Communicate With Their Universities
September 30, 2016 21:56 - 1 hour - 136 MBEpisode 026 - How Melissa Schipke Changed The Way Alumni Communicate With Their Universities by ChopDawg.com
Episode 025 - Ryan O’Connell of YEC/Forbes Councils On Relationship Building
September 20, 2016 21:26 - 1 hour - 128 MBDo you leverage your relationships enough? Are you someone who needs to improve their networking skills? Are you attending way too many networking events? Do you belong to a passionate community that has your back? These are just some of the many topics that we have this week on #thePawdcast with Ryan O'Connell, the Vice President of both the YEC and the Forbes Councils! We dive deep into a plethora of topics revolving around relationship building when it comes to business. We discuss...
Episode 024 - How Maneesh Sethi Found Market Acceptance For Pavlok
September 16, 2016 16:52 - 1 hour - 150 MBIt isn't every day that your company is featured on Shark Tank. It isn't every day that you are told to "get the f*ck outta here” by Kevin O'Leary either. Hell, it isn't every day that you decide to start a hardware company that literally shocks people. All of this is the norm when it comes to serial entrepreneur Maneesh Sethi of Pavlok. We explore how he is causing big changes in the lives of thousands of customers around the globe. We dive deep into Maneeh's origins. We chat about hacki...
Episode 022 - How Anthony Maher Is Building Philadelphia’s Startup Scene
August 08, 2016 22:34 - 1 hour - 164 MBThis week on #thePawdcast, we're joined by Anthony Maher, co-founder of one of the fastest growing coworking brands in the world, Benjamin's Desk. We discuss quite a bit on this episode. We chat extensively about Anthony's original career as a professional athlete playing soccer throughout the United States. We discuss how Anthony got involved in real estate, the lessons he learned while in real estate, and how he uses this skill-set today when it comes to his many coworking locations. We ch...
Episode 021 - How Michal Sadowski Leveraged Quora & Reddit To Be Competitive
July 30, 2016 20:19 - 1 hour - 114 MBWe're joined this week on #thePawdcast from the talented and serial entrepreneur, Michal Sadowski who has founded not only the YouTube of Europe but the popular social networking and analytical company, Brand24! We dive deep into the discussion about how the entrepreneurial scene compares and contrasts with that of the United States market. We discuss the exhilaration and struggles that was building an incredibly successful company, selling that same company and then losing all of your money...
Episode 020 - Dan Hanrahan On The Marketing Science Of Email Signatures
July 24, 2016 17:20 - 1 hour - 114 MBOne of our favorite things about #thePawdcast is hearing what makes people tick, what they are most passionate about, why they do what they do. The answer for Dan Hanrahan is that the art behind email signatures and how to utilize them to generate more revenue is what makes him tick, what keeps him up at night, what has helped him create the company Sigstr that is growing consistently, at an exponential rate, raising investor capital and generating millions for their customers around the gl...
Episode 019 - How James Michael Sama Built His Brand By Being Authentic
July 19, 2016 20:55 - 1 hour - 111 MBHope that you're having a fantastic week, #Pawdcast nation! You're in for a treat, this week. We're bringing you our good friend and the incredibly talented James Michael Sama onto the show. James is literally, the definition of the word gentlemen. He is an entrepreneur who has built his entire personal brand around modern dating, which we discuss quite extensively about on this episode. We chat about how the dating scene has drastically changed in recent years, how to go about building a tr...
Episode 018 - How G. William Handal Gets His Clients To Keep Coming Back
July 01, 2016 21:16 - 1 hour - 133 MBThough he is hands-down, one of the most talented and successful entrepreneurs in the United States, G. William Handal often keeps himself behind-the-scenes and let his work do the talking for him. Today, we pull him out of the shadows and into the limelight, to pick his brain and see what exactly makes G.W. tick! When we say this episode is actioned-packed full of incredible content, that would be understating the fact. This episode of #thePawdcast features everything from G.W.'s immigrant ...
Episode 017 - How Jen Groover Learned The Art Of Storytelling While At QVC
June 22, 2016 21:41 - 1 hour - 115 MBYou're in for a treat this week. We're joined by the talented, successful and serial entrepreneur Jen Groover for this episode of #thePawdcast! Jen shares with us her entire entrepreneurial story. We discuss about the early days of the fitness revolution in the business industry, about how Jen learned the art of storytelling while working for the QVC network, discovering the concept of manifestation and emotional balance, becoming a thought-leader for women and entrepreneurs, the origins be...
Episode 016 - How Shelley Prevost Raised A Family While Building Her Company
June 18, 2016 15:58 - 1 hour - 122 MBIt's not every day that you have a psychologist, meets investor. meets entrepreneur. meets mother. and meets writer on the show, but it isn't every day that you have the privilege to have the talented and incredibly ambitious Dr. Shelley Prevost on the show either! On this week's episode of #thePawdcast, Shelley discusses with us her entire career path from studying in school to become a psychologist, becoming both a partner and the Director of Happiness for an investment firm, starting her ...
Episode 015 - How Kevin Kruse Was Able To Get Mark Cuban’s Attention
May 21, 2016 23:56 - 1 hour - 204 MBIt's not every day that we have a serial entrepreneur on the show. It's also not every day that we have an NY Times best-selling author on the show. It's especially not every day that you have both of these things all wrapped up into one individual, but, today isn't like most days. We're indeed joined this week on #thePawdcast by the absolutely incredible, motivating and hard-working Kevin Kruse. We discuss all things about Kevin's story of becoming an entrepreneur (hint, it deals with a on...
Episode 014 - Tom Kuhn of Google Discusses The Different Ways We Are Programmed
May 13, 2016 22:47 - 1 hour - 183 MBMissed us? We sure have missed you #Pawdcast nation over our two-week hiatus! We're back this week and bringing you another incredible episode with none other than Tom Kuhn of Google in Mountain View, California. This exciting episode covers Tom's personal story of growing up in Chicago, leaving his roots to move west, what it was (and has been) like working for both GE and Google, the hiring process at Google, being a part of Google's team, working on Google Apps and Google for Entreprene...
Episode 13 - Christie Pitts On How Startups Can Attract Verizon Ventures
April 26, 2016 17:44 - 1 hour - 122 MBHave you ever considered having your company talk to a corporate venture capital firm? Have you ever wondered what a VC firm is looking for in a company? If so, this is the episode for you! We're joined this week by the incredible Christie Pitts of Verizon Ventures. We discuss all things VC-related, from working alongside a corporate VC, how to pitch an investor, what to do (and not to do) when pitching to an investor, how to stand out from everyone else, and what to expect from working alon...
Episode 12 - Peter Reinhardt On Going From Zero To A $27M Series B
April 16, 2016 16:29 - 1 hour - 120 MBYou're going to love this episode of #thePawdcast, #Pawdcast nation. We're joined this week by one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley; Segment, with their CEO and co-founder, Peter Reinhardt. Peter discusses with us his personal story on starting Segment, the year and a half of failure that his founding team and him faced during the early growing stages of Segment, what it was like going through Y-Combinator and working alongside Paul Graham, how Peter has managed to be the C...
Episode 011 - How Brad Aronson Grew His Business By Timing The Market
April 13, 2016 18:03 - 1 hour - 146 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we’re joined by our good friend and the incredibly talented Brad Aronson. Brad is the founder of the former interactive advertising agency i-FRONTIER, which was sold to aQuantive in 2002 and then Microsoft in 2007. Since his entrepreneurial journey has come to a close, he has now become an angel investor, teacher, someone that gives back to the Philadelphia community both through the local school district and Big Brothers Big Sisters, an author, and of course,...
Episode 010 - Dan Centrone On Balancing Creativity While Building A Business
March 29, 2016 23:53 - 1 hour - 124 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we’re joined by our close friend and talented Director, Dan Centrone of Dan Centrone Films. We discuss with Dan becoming an entrepreneur at an early age in Philadelphia, relocating to Los Angeles as his video production company grew, his balance between creativity and operations, having and working alongside a business partner, where he sees the video production business going, virtual reality and so much more. This is an incredibly energetic, value-packed epi...
Episode 009 - Matthew Murrie Talks About How To Fix Higher Education
March 22, 2016 23:28 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBWe're joined on this episode of the #thePawdcast with long-time English professor and five-year veteran entrepreneur Matthew Murrie, the founder of the What If Conference. We discuss on this episode incredibly high-level topics such as how to fix higher-level education, not only for entrepreneurs but as a society, the biggest successes and failures in Matthew's career, how one goes from being an English professor to being a full-time entrepreneur, the struggles of understanding if you're real...
Episode 008 - How Lalita Ballesteros Made Viral Content While At Lyft
March 15, 2016 18:55 - 59 minutes - 95.8 MBWe have a very exciting guest for this episode of #thePawdcast, the talented Lalita Ballesteros! Lalita has had an incredible entrepreneur journey through her short career so far. Starting in real estate flipping houses to working alongside Seth Godin, being an early employee for Lyft, working with the American Embassy, creating a viral video and written content daily to living all around the world. She offers great tidbits on how to live life, approach people, embrace your personality and fo...
Episode 007 - How Shaan Puri Grew Blab To 3.9M Users In A Year
March 09, 2016 16:29 - 1 hour - 143 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we're joined by none other than Shaan Puri, the founder and CEO of Blab. We discuss with Shaan about his entrepreneurial journey from his days at Duke University, Shaan opening up his very own sushi restaurant, moving to San Francisco, the origins of Blab, his thoughts and advice on being a hands-on CEO in a hypergrowth startup, his thought-process behind on-demand and real-time video streaming applications such as Blab, where his company and product Blab is g...
Episode 006 - John Boitnott of Inc. Magazine Talks About How To Grab His Attention
March 01, 2016 23:42 - 1 hour - 135 MBWe're joined on this episode of the #thePawdcast with the incredibly talented John Boitnott, who writes (and has written) for major publications such as Inc Magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Insider, VentureBeat and more. We discuss with John about his career over the years, his passion for writing and technology, his thoughts on living in Silicon Valley over the years, the potential startup bubble, his suggestions on how to have startups pitch to the media, h...
Episode 005 - How Todd Miller Attracts Large Brands To Become Marketing Clients
February 16, 2016 01:56 - 1 hour - 169 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we are joined by the incredibly intelligent Todd Miller, one of the co-owners and CXO of the Archer Group based out of Wilmington, Delaware. As CXO of Archer, Todd oversees a highly diverse team of specialists including experts in design, creative, UX, brand and content strategy, social media, performance marketing, and front-and-back-end development as well as the overall culture of the company. We discuss everything from how to hire team members, how to grow...
Episode 004 - How Wayne Sutton Is Tackling The Diversity Problem In Tech
February 11, 2016 14:29 - 1 hour - 112 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we are joined by none other than Wayne Sutton. Wayne has founded Tech Inclusion, a conference dedicated to exploring innovative solutions to diversity and inclusion in tech through speakers, consulting and workshops, and BUILDUP, a non-profit designed to support an inclusive ecosystem of entrepreneurs through educational workshops and fellows program for underrepresented tech founders. We chat with Wayne about his successes and struggles as an entrepreneur, hi...
Episode 003 - How Andrew Brandt Turned His Love For Sports Into A Business
February 02, 2016 19:08 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBOn this episode of #thePawdcast, we are joined by the great Andrew Brandt of ESPN and Sports Illustrated. Andrew takes us through his career, accomplishments, and stories from over the years. We discuss his time representing professional athletes, becoming one of the youngest general managers in all sports for the Barcelona Dragons, joining the Green Bay Packers as their Chief Financial Officer, starting his own company the National Football Post, to his current status of teacher, writer, med...
Episode 002 - How Jeff Slobotski Created The Silicon Prairie From The Ground Up
January 17, 2016 15:30 - 1 hour - 101 MBOn this episode, we are joined by the talented Jeff Slobotski who has help founded multiple different companies/organizations over the years such as Silicon Prairie News, the Big Omaha Conference and most recently, Router Ventures, an angel fund focused on finding game-changing companies in the mid-west United States. We discuss everything from why Jeff has remained in the mid-west throughout his career, his personal entrepreneurial journey, Jeff’s goals and ambitions for Router Ventures, wha...
Episode 001 - How Asbury Park Was Rebuilt By Local Entrepreneurship
December 30, 2015 21:28 - 1 hour - 132 MBWe’re joined on this episode by the talented team who run Merchwerks — Bret Morgan, Danny Croak and Gregory Edgerton. Merchwerks, based out of Asbury Park in New Jersey, operates multiple different businesses, websites, events and companies such as Bands on a Budget, Cowerks, Asbury Agile Conference, Asbury Fresh, the Jersey Shore Tech Meetup and much more. We discuss everything from how to delegate multiple businesses, how to deal with management structure, becoming an entrepreneur, how to r...