Season 1

This interview is with Mike Cronin (@michaelccronin ), Technology Reporter for Austin-American Statesman. He’s an award-winning investigative journalist with two decades of experience across beats including technology, startups, finance, growth and...

Following up on last week’s episode with Melissa about how Marketing Consultants work, today I’m bringing to you the audio from a recent video from Sujan and I, What To Ask Marketing Consultants before hiring them, i.e. making sure you’re...

Melissa Huisman (@mk_huis) is the Founder of Diamond Block (https://diamondblockcreative.com/) , a creative agency that works with small business and startups to clarify their marketing strategy, fine-tune messaging and positioning, and then...

Art Markman, is a professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations, a new set of the interdisciplinary curriculum at the University of Texas. ...

Remember when the beard wasn’t a thing? That is when Eric Bandholz, along with his kickass cofounders Lindsey Reinders and Jeremy McGee, started Beardbrand. It started off as his solo project, one of many, then became a collaborative side-hustle,...

Born in Chicago, and raised in Memphis, Vernice wanted to be a cop since she was a young girl. She did that by taking a break from Middle Tennessee State University and joining the Nashville police department - becoming the first female...

My roots allow me to connect with two entrepreneurial ecosystems, US and Pakistan. It has allowed me to connect with both successful and aspiring entrepreneurs in Pakistan, do workshops when I visit, and also interview the ones that are helping...

For people listening who don’t know what SXSW is, it’s a 10-day festival about all things tech, film, and music in the middle of March in Austin, TX. That’s the simplified answer. More than 70,000 people come down to Austin for this, and the...

This episode I interview Tolly MosLEE, Co-host of the ILYSM Podcast + Todd Nevins, Host of Go Hunt Life Podcast, and Jamal, founder of Big Mouf Media about why podcasts are a big part of the future of consumption, what makes a good podcast, and how to...

This is a recorded talk over at the TechMap Cofounder Event. A sought after public speaker, Melanie is the founder and CEO of Wellshift, a corporate wellness company, the Founder of WELL, wellness events for the community, and International Potluck....

Today, whenever that is for you, I am sitting down with Gordon Daugherty, Managing Director is Cap FAC, Investor, and recovering Startup Executive. Over a 29-year career, Gordon has worked at Startups in Strategy, Operations, Marketing, in multiple...

Melinda Garvey founded Austin Woman Magazine 14 years ago, then ATXMan, and now Daily Dot, a daily podcast about kickass women all over the planet. Melinda has served as Entrepreneur in Residence for McCombs Business School, has won awards by other...

Funding funding funding. When do you need it? How do you get it? Rich friends? Rich uncles? Our network? Where does the damn money come from? And also, what can you start doing right now so that when you do need the injection of cash 1-2-3-4-5 years...

We can't not work with people, regardless of who we are, or what we do. Corporate job. Entrepreneurship. Hell, we even plan our vacations with people. . And it can be hard, especially in a business. How do we make sure we treat our partners well? How...

Building a product that people actually want to pay for is, as they say, hella hard. Today, I'm having a conversation about how to figure out if what you're building is something people will pay for - along with ample mention of ice cream.

never fall in love with your idea, fall in love with the problem. Great entrepreneurs have identified, observed and exploited a problem. How they do it which is your idea is less important. But if you can identify a profitable problem and then figure...

Dealing with the F-word in our lives.

Everything’s gunning for our attention all the time. At works, meetings, projects, coworkers, IMs, Emails, Deadlines. Just outside of work, it’s friends, family, bills, things to do around the house, chances to go out, brunches, meetups,...