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Beeper acquired by Automattic, fintech's decline and YC's lack of LatAm founders

Equity - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 321 ratings
Today, the Equity crew dug into Automattic buying Beeper for $125 million. Recall that the WordPress parent company bought Texts.com last year for $50 million. Elsewhere in deal-land, Proton bought Standard Notes, and we recently discussed the Wonderschool-Early Day purchase. More, please! In t...

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#345 George Lucas

Founders - April 12, 2024 12:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 984 ratings
What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com You can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast.  You can also ask SAGE ...

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Attracting the Life you Want

FemCity - April 11, 2024 19:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Join us as we explore the art of attracting the life you want with Debbie Heiser, a seasoned entrepreneur and valued member of FemCity Founder’s Circle. Can everyone manifest the life they want? Debbie shares her expertise on focusing our energy on what we want, not what we don’t. She emphasizes...

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The first step of a flywheel

Startup to Last - April 11, 2024 17:47 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
 In this episode, Rick explains how he’s getting more hands on with marketing. 

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Building Full Funnel on Amazon

In the Sauce - April 11, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 73 ratings
Vanessa McPhill is a Freelance Marketer and Amazon Ads Manager Partner who works with brands to craft online and offline strategies to drive awareness and growth. On this episode of ITS, Vanessa walks Ali through Amazon: How to think about it, why a full-funnel approach is key, why it's a retail...

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#750 What is the Most Simple OS for <$5M?

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle - April 11, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 435 ratings
The hard part shouldn’t be how to implement an OS in your organization. The hard part is answering the question: Are the right people in the right roles at your company? In this episode, Dan and Ian share their own OS that’s extremely simple. It’s called GPS. They’ll explain how GPS helps you pu...

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How To Monetize A Newsletter

The Tim Stodz Podcast - April 11, 2024 11:48 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 25 ratings
In this video, I give you a behind the scenes breakdown of my latest newsletter, The Census. I explain the purpose of the newsletter and how it relates to my work in the behavioral health field. I also share my monetization strategy, which includes selling click-through rates to sponsors, hostin...

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Brett Martin: Lessons on Failure

Danielle Newnham Podcast - April 11, 2024 11:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
Today’s guest is founder and VC Brett Martin who I first started following ten years ago when we were both in the mobile space. Brett is currently Co-Founder of Kumospace and co-founder of Charge Ventures. Kumospace is a venture backed virtual office space platform that provides immersive and i...

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Episode 612 Oban MacTavish from Spade

Bank On It - April 11, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 39 ratings
This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio & video production system. If you’re looking to jumpstart your podcast miniseries or upgrade your podcast or video production please visit www.ListenDeck.com. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all...

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A $60M venture fund with a twist, and more startup-on-startup acquisitions

Equity - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 321 ratings
Today on Equity’s startup-focused Wednesday show, we dug into the Multiverse-Searchlight deal that reminded us of the Wonderschool-Early Day transaction that we covered on the show a few weeks back. We also dug into the latest Guesty round, which was both large and interesting from a financial ...

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100. What You Need to Know About Your Health: Expert Dr. Sharon Malon

LIBERTY ROAD with Nada Jones - April 10, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Dr. Sharon Malone is a nationally known expert in women’s health and the author of Grown Woman Talk. She is the Chief Medical Advisor at Alloy Women’s Health, a telehealth company that focuses on women over 40. Before joining Alloy, Dr. Malone was a partner at one of the oldest and most successf...

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How to get B2B buyers to respond with a more human-to-human approach with Adriana Tica

B2B Marketers Can Laugh - April 10, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
This episode is powered by Planable. Head over to Planable.io and sign up for a no strings attached free trial. If you don't know Adriana Tica, you should. She is one of the best b2b copy writers on the planet. In this conversation, Adriana shares: - the importance of writing to one person and...

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S7E6 - Johannes Weber, Founding Partner @ Ananda Impact Ventures

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology - April 10, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Johannes Weber is the Founding Partner at Ananda Impact Ventures, the leading impact venture capital fund with a pan-European investment remit, managing ca. €200 million in four Core Impact Funds, with backing from notable institutional and private investors. They back technology businesses comm...

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Giving old wood new life with Ben Christensen from Cambium

Found - April 09, 2024 14:18 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
If you’re not in construction or in the middle of a renovation, you might not think much about wood waste but in 2018 alone landfills in the US received 12.2 million tons of wood. Most of this is useful material that could be reused, but the lack of infrastructure means the wasted wood can't alw...

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Scaling Up: The Essentials of Start-up Founder's Success with Feras Alhlou | Ep. 167

Inter:views | Cracking The Entrepreneur Bottleneck - April 09, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes
Scaling up a start-up is a delicate balance of Skills and Sacrifice, embodying the essential qualities required to navigate the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. Beyond a visionary idea, founders must possess the skill set and be ready to make the sacrifices necessary with consistency to ach...

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Grow your brand through awards with Top Note Tonic Water

Food Founders® Podcast - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes
Hear why Top Note has leaned in on getting awards of recognition to help drive the focused growth of its Tonic Water brand. Mary and Ainsley dive into building a premium brand and what to focus on when building a brand good enough for Michelin Star restaurants, premium bars and discerning audien...

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Scaling with Mycelium: How Bob Hendrikx changes the funeral industry with Living Coffins

Start to scale. Startup and Scale-up Founder Stories. - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes
Let me introduce Inventor, Biodesigner and Entrepreneur: Bob Hendrikx. With a background in Architectural Engineering Bob strives for a world in which we work in symbiosis with nature. In 2020 he founded Loop Biotech, on a mission to revolutionize the funeral industry - through coffins that tur...

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#133 | Empowering Transformation, Mindset Shifts and Cultural Diversity with Jess Tayel

Agile Ideas - April 08, 2024 21:00 - 44 minutes
Embark on a journey with Jess Tayel and Fatimah Abbouchi, a seasoned change and transformation thought leader boasting 25 years of global experience. Having worked in 15 countries and collaborated with esteemed organisations such as Google, Boeing, and Apple, Jess brings a wealth of insight into...

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Spotify’s new AI playlists, the US’s latest chip deal, and a shot at data privacy

Equity - April 08, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 321 ratings
Now that we are finally past Y Combinator’s demo day — though our Friday show is worth listening if you haven’t had a chance yet — we can dive into the latest news. So, this morning on Equity Monday we got into the chance that the United States might pass a real data privacy law. There’s movemen...

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Sephora Accepted This Beauty Brand Before They Launched

Female Founder World - April 08, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
Bread founder Maeva Heim is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Maeva Heim grew an impressive career in corporate beauty when she grew sick of working with brands that weren’t speaking to women that looked like her. She didn’t know what the product would be, but ...

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The Best Question for Leaders to Ask | E156

Leadership is Feminine - April 08, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratings
In another episode of Leadership is Feminine, Kris Plachy delivers powerful insights and thoughtful musings about a favorite topic: goals. Showcasing her natural finesse for leadership coaching, Kris frames a magic question that serves as an effective tool to realign our focus - "What is the goa...

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Zahra Zanjani - The Hustle Behind Cubo Modular

Hustleshare - April 07, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Zahra Zanjani is the co-founder and COO of Cubo Modular – a company that aims to provide sustainable, affordable, and dignified housing for all by creating and producing bamboo house kits. Listen in as Zara shares her captivating origin story, tracing the influence of her first-generation entrep...

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What we've learned from the women behind the AI revolution

Equity - April 06, 2024 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 321 ratings
The AI boom, love it or find it to be a bit more hype than substance, is here to stay. That means lots of companies are raising oodles of dollars, a healthy dose of regulatory concern, academic work, and corporate jockeying. For startups, it means a huge opportunity to bring new technology to be...

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Squared Away: Michelle Penczak, CEO & Founder

Hitting The Mark - April 05, 2024 21:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
Michelle Penczak was my assistant for 3 years. Today she runs a 400-people strong brand employing military spouses that made #297 on the Inc 5000 last year. Squared Away is rooted in a mutual bond between people and philosophies and is doing what I keep advising most everyone to be doing: The br...

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EdTech Startup Showcase: Pedagog.ai founder Priten Shah on transforming teaching and learning with artificial intelligence

#PrincipalPLN - April 05, 2024 15:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Welcome to the EdTech Startup Showcase, an original series produced by the Be Podcast Network. This series is all about spotlighting and amplifying some of the most innovative emerging companies in edtech. We'll bring you the first five episodes of the series directly in this feed. To...

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From YC to IPO: Winter 2024 Demo Day, Rubrik and Ibotta

Equity - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 321 ratings
What a week, everyone. Two full days of Y Combinator demo day activity kept us busy, but the latest accelerator cohort’s launch was far from the only big story in startup-land. Today on the Equity’s Friday news roundup, Mary Ann, Becca, and Alex gathered to dig into favorites from the hundreds o...

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A Lesson on Mindfulness with Dr. Ellen Langer

Voice Lessons Podcast - April 05, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
In this Lesson On Mindfulness, Dr. Ellen Langer, known as the "mother of mindfulness," shares her profound insights on mindfulness, its impact on our lives, and how it enhances leadership, especially for women. Dr. Ellen J. Langer is the author of more than two hundred research articles, and t...

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Kevin Wagstaff: Relentlessly Stay In Front of Your Customers

My Biggest Lesson - April 04, 2024 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
This week Adam speaks with Kevin Wagstaff, co-founder and President at Spectora, a top rated home inspection software. Kevin, alongside his brother, bootstrapped Spectora to an impressive 8,000 current customers on the platform! Previously he held positions at Charles Schwab, HomeAdviso...

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Steven Spielberg

Founders - April 04, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 984 ratings
What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com You can read, reread, and search all my notes and highlights from every book I've ever read for the podcast.  You can also as...

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Climbing the Wealth Ladder

The Tim Stodz Podcast - April 04, 2024 16:07 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 25 ratings
In this video, I discuss the concept of the wealth ladder and its importance in my journey of adding new sources of income and creating businesses. I encourage viewers to read an article on the wealth ladder by Nathan Berry. I explain the five stages of the wealth ladder, from freelancing to in...