Latest Disruptive startups Podcast Episodes
#72 Is it a Culture Problem or a Hiring Problem?
That Will Never Work - October 25, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsThis week’s guest Pat’s business centers on one of the most hyped and controversial investment forms ever – crypto currency. His company The Giving Block is at the forefront of crypto-philanthropy, bringing a new generation of investors together with non-profits. Despite market turbul...
#71: Is Pre-Revenue Funding a Pipe Dream?
That Will Never Work - October 18, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsMany great entrepreneurial ideas were spawned in response to the pandemic. For this week’s guest Kyle it all began with him wondering how he could recreate the in-person feeling of reading bedtime stories to his child in Canada when he was stuck in Texas while the borders were shut. H...
#70: How to Get Your Business Buzzing
That Will Never Work - October 11, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsMany people dream about their passion project becoming a full time gig but Allison is one of those rare people who made it a reality. Her love for honey bees became the Siller Pollinator Company and the initial momentum was gratifying. But growth has stalled and this has her at a junc...
#69: Should You Buy or Lease Your Location?
That Will Never Work - October 04, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHave you ever wondered what people do with the advice that Marc gives them on the show? Well, David Silberman, co-founder of PingPod, is here to tell you just that. The first time he and Marc talked, David was trying to strategize the growth of his ping pong venue business and one of ...
#68: The Premium Product Conundrum
That Will Never Work - September 27, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHow earth friendly are the so-called “earth friendly” products? In the opinion of this week’s guest Justine Potashnik - not very. But she believes she has the answer in her Advanced Soapberry Formula, derived from Himalayan tree nuts. A product like this has a higher cost to create t...
#67: Let Go to Grow
That Will Never Work - September 20, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsBelissimo Hats has achieved something rare in today’s market – the company has an enthusiastic celebrity following without ever having to pay a dime in influencer marketing money. They can count mega stars like Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg among the fans who just love to post about weari...
#66: How to Become a Pitch Pro
That Will Never Work - September 13, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsFaith has a patent pending product and she thinks it’s time to take it out to investors. Trouble is, as an Entrepreneurship & Marketing Junior her live pitching experience for The Shaving Step was limited to student pitch contests. So what does that mean now that she wants to get rea...
#65: The Wedding Industry is Worth Billions – What Could a Break-Up Industry be Worth?
That Will Never Work - September 06, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsNatasha’s dream wedding went up in flames just before the big day. As she picked up the pieces of the breakdown of her nine year relationship, she had a realization: she was in way more need of all those items from her gift registry now than she had ever been when she and her fiancé we...
#64: Did it Work? Catch Up Special: Bolder Adventure Park
That Will Never Work - August 16, 2022 10:42 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHave you ever wondered what people do with the advice Marc gives them? This week’s guest Paul Fontanelli was in the planning stages of his Bolder Adventure Park when he appeared as one of the first guests on the show. His business is an ambitious indoor venue out of Grand Prairie, Tex...
#63: Stop Thinking and Start Doing!
That Will Never Work - August 09, 2022 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsSometimes entrepreneurs get so caught up in making their idea perfect, they forget to collide it with reality. Is that what’s happening to this week’s guest Reilly? His site Fleur.ai seeks to disrupt and democratize the art world. But it’s been tough. It’s an idea he and his co-founde...
#62: Resurrecting the Great American Movie Drive-In with an Urban Twist - Feat. Special Guest Mitch Lowe
That Will Never Work - August 02, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsBen is stuck. He’s the founder of outdoor pop-up concept WEDriveIns, which repurposes disused urban parking lots as drive-in movie theaters. City officials have been gratifyingly swift to support the project which provides Covid safe entertainment and brings customers to shopping areas...
#61: The Six Month Work Year
That Will Never Work - July 26, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsMatt has an intriguing question - can a founder work just six months of the year and still have a successful business? Frightmare - his UK based scare attraction - turns a great profit every year. But while the event itself is seasonal, he’s realized that to be a success the business ...
#60: How to Turn Your Kitchen Side-Hustle Into a Brand
That Will Never Work - July 19, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsKrystina decided to take the leap and try to make her home- bakery business her full time gig just before the pandemic hit. While most people would have hit pause, she instead reimagined her offering and The Messy Cookie home kit was born. Big names like Wayfair and Ebay jumped on...
#59: Entrepreneurship Isn’t Brain Surgery… Or is it?
That Will Never Work - July 12, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsSome industries don’t want to be disrupted, but that doesn’t mean you should step back from the fight! This week’s guest Alex Koefman knows he has a solution that surgeons like him all over the world need – but he needs to form partnerships with medical device companies in order for hi...
#58: Success is in Sight - Now What?
That Will Never Work - July 05, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsWhen bars and pubs across the world closed during the pandemic, so did their game nights… For this week’s guest Mark Walsh it was a heart-stopping moment as British pub quizzes were his business. He immediately set to work reimagining this unique style of trivia entertainment for remo...
#57: How to Overcome Resistance to Change
That Will Never Work - June 28, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsThere are few industries more resistant to disruption than education… But despite the odds, this week’s guest Benny Boas seems to be making some headway. He’s the founder of Upright Education, a bootcamp-style program aimed at helping adult learners rapidly re-skill in tech. The cou...
#56: When your Biggest Competitor is Inertia
That Will Never Work - June 21, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsCity red tape seems so baked into American life, that it stopped being a problem people even bothered trying to solve. But when Covid hit, it forced the opportunity for change. Businesses – especially restaurants - faced fast changing regulations and had to be able to get the new permit...
#55: How to let go When You’re the Founding CEO
That Will Never Work - June 14, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsWhere to put the mountains of trash humans create is a problem that only seems to keep growing. Recycling is one part of solving the problem… the other is having consumer products last longer so we don’t create as much garbage to begin with. That’s the thinking of this week’s guest Chr...
#54: The Boutique Approach to Taking on the Big Box Stores
That Will Never Work - June 07, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsStephanie’s cracked the hardest part – her Austin, TX, designer boutiques have seen record growth this past year despite the pandemic. She knows for a fact she’s taking sales away from the big hitters like Nordstroms, Revolve and Amazon - her customers just prefer the personal touch sh...
#53: My Meeting with Jeff Bezos. Is Netflix for sale?
That Will Never Work - June 07, 2022 06:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsIn the summer of 1998, Reed and I flew up to Seattle to meet with Jeff Bezos to discuss nothing other than potentially selling Netflix to Amazon. It was a decision that would have serious implications. Listen to me tell the whole story in this free chapter from the audiobook of the inte...
#52: Start-Up Stress Special: Mental Health for Founders
That Will Never Work - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsWhen you look at social media it seems like founders all live like rockstars. But this belies the reality. The truth is, being a founder can be one of the toughest, loneliest tasks you’ll ever face. It’s not just the long hours and financial pressures… studies show three quarters of ...
#51: Finding Your Subscription Sweet Spot
That Will Never Work - May 24, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsKarl is faced with a puzzling subscription problem: he has plenty of downloads of his Cofeesup app – but his conversion rate from free trial to paying customer is surprisingly low. His solution to lift up neighborhood cafes over the mega marketers like Starbucks seems like a no brain...
#50: Does it Take Money to Make Money?
That Will Never Work - May 17, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsIs the old adage still true, that it takes money to make money? That’s what this week’s guests Lauren Arshad and Jen Cefaly are trying to figure out. They are the co-founders of Los Angeles based Design Hive, an edutainment company that creates hands-on STEAM workshops for both kids a...
#49: Using Sampling to Unleash Your Niche!
That Will Never Work - May 10, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHow best to unleash your niche? That’s what has Paul stumped. He’s the founder of a company called Cicero Learning, a business that helps families with the problem of global education access on a bespoke basis. It’s an educational method referred to as “World Schooling” which has be...
#48: Can Free Consumable Products Make Big Profits?
That Will Never Work - May 03, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsIs it possible to make big profits from a free consumable product? This week’s guest Josh Cliffords certainly thinks so. By selling ads on the side of bottles he’s been able to establish his brand FreeWater at lighting speed in his hometown of Austin, Texas. His flair for posting viral ...
#47: Could This Rival Kumon?
That Will Never Work - April 26, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsIt’s no secret that the pandemic hammered small businesses - especially those with brick and mortar locations. But this week’s guest, Angela, wasn’t going to let her thriving math enrichment business close, even when her store had to. As a prime example of the power of the pivot, she...
#46: Can you Create a Repeatable, Scalable Business When Your Business is You?
That Will Never Work - April 19, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsShe’s worked with celebrities like Kendall and Kylie Jenner, brands like Adidas and magazines including Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue… She's even been a judge on Miss USA. But fashion photographer Sophie Elgort has hit a career juncture faced by many would-be entrepreneurs: how do you ...
#45: Betting your Idea will Disrupt the Market? Here’s what You Need to Know.
That Will Never Work - April 12, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsArmy vet Cooper is the founder of SoBet, a new peer-to-peer sports betting and social media platform that targets the elusive Gen-Z consumer. But it’s a pitch that Marc has heard a thousand times before… and most of those pitches failed to make it. Can this West Point grad prove both...
#44: Could this be the world’s youngest start-up?
That Will Never Work - April 05, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHow do you support entrepreneurial spirit in your child? That’s what Marc explores in this week’s episode with the help of the first ever quartet of co-founders to appear on the show. Elementary schoolers Julianne, Zachary, Maxfield and Mark have created beverage brand Astronade and c...
#44: Could this be the World’s Youngest Start-Up?
That Will Never Work - April 05, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 112 ratingsHow do you support entrepreneurial spirit in your child? That’s what Marc explores in this week’s episode with the help of the first ever quartet of co-founders to appear on the show. Elementary schoolers Julianne, Zachary, Maxfield and Mark have created beverage brand Astronade and c...
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