That Will Never Work
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That Will Never Work
How many times have you been told “that will never work”? Probably not as often as Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph. The veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, investor, speaker and best-selling author has founded or co-founded half-a-dozen successful startups and mentored scores o...
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#72 Is it a Culture Problem or a Hiring Problem?
This week’s guest Pat’s business centers on one of the most hyped and controversial investment forms ever – crypto currency. His company The Giving B...
#71: Is Pre-Revenue Funding a Pipe Dream?
Many 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 re...
#70: How to Get Your Business Buzzing
Many 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 ho...
#69: Should You Buy or Lease Your Location?
Have 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...
#68: The Premium Product Conundrum
How earth friendly are the so-called “earth friendly” products? In the opinion of this week’s guest Justine Potashnik - not very.
But she belie...
#67: Let Go to Grow
Belissimo Hats has achieved something rare in today’s market – the company has an enthusiastic celebrity following without ever having to pay a dime i...
#66: How to Become a Pitch Pro
Faith 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 li...
#65: The Wedding Industry is Worth Billions – What Could a Break-Up Industry be Worth?
Natasha’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 ha...
#64: Did it Work? Catch Up Special: Bolder Adventure Park
Have 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 Adv...
#63: Stop Thinking and Start Doing!
Sometimes 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...
#62: Resurrecting the Great American Movie Drive-In with an Urban Twist - Feat. Special Guest Mitch Lowe
Ben is stuck. He’s the founder of outdoor pop-up concept WEDriveIns, which repurposes disused urban parking lots as drive-in movie theaters. City off...
#61: The Six Month Work Year
Matt 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...
#60: How to Turn Your Kitchen Side-Hustle Into a Brand
Krystina decided to take the leap and try to make her home- bakery business her full time gig just before the pandemic hit.
While most...
#59: Entrepreneurship Isn’t Brain Surgery… Or is it?
Some 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...
#58: Success is in Sight - Now What?
When 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 mom...
#57: How to Overcome Resistance to Change
There are few industries more resistant to disruption than education… But despite the odds, this week’s guest Benny Boas seems to be making some headw...
#56: When your Biggest Competitor is Inertia
City 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 t...
#55: How to let go When You’re the Founding CEO
Where 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 othe...
#54: The Boutique Approach to Taking on the Big Box Stores
Stephanie’s cracked the hardest part – her Austin, TX, designer boutiques have seen record growth this past year despite the pandemic. She knows for...
#53: My Meeting with Jeff Bezos. Is Netflix for sale?
In 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 w...
#52: Start-Up Stress Special: Mental Health for Founders
When 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 o...
#51: Finding Your Subscription Sweet Spot
Karl 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...
#50: Does it Take Money to Make Money?
Is 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....
#49: Using Sampling to Unleash Your Niche!
How 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 fami...
#48: Can Free Consumable Products Make Big Profits?
Is 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...
#47: Could This Rival Kumon?
It’s no secret that the pandemic hammered small businesses - especially those with brick and mortar locations. But this week’s guest, Angela, wasn’t...
#46: Can you Create a Repeatable, Scalable Business When Your Business is You?
She’s worked with celebrities like Kendall and Kylie Jenner, brands like Adidas and magazines including Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue… She's even been...
#45: Betting your Idea will Disrupt the Market? Here’s what You Need to Know.
Army 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...
#44: Could this be the World’s Youngest Start-Up?
How 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...
#43: Did Marc just get Career Envy?
James is an adventurer in both life and business. But when your career is breaking world records how do you turn that into a sustainable business?
#42: Data Driven by Design
How do you get your creative team on board with using data to help drive their decisions? That’s the question facing Katie, co-owner of Studio 882, a...
#41: Super Coffee: How to Scale Culture in a Family Business
Jordan DeCicco created Super Coffee in his dorm room when he was only 19 years old. He dropped out of college to go full-time on his side-hustle and n...
#40: Can a Product Aimed at Classrooms Turn a Profit?
Education major Erin has developed a fun new STEM product for kids with her Boeing engineer business partner – a quad drone kit for kids to build and...
#39: How to Sell a Product Before you Make It
Grad student Ivana needs Marc’s help to figure out a big decision – should she spend $10,000 on a mold for her time saving lab tool Flasky? Or is the...
#38: Marketing a Minibar for Meds
As entrepreneurs, engineers have an enviable advantage - they can easily build prototypes of the products and services they want to bring to market. B...
#37: Repeat After Me: Ideas, Not Apps
Ahhh the ‘idea stage’: when you’ve identified the problem your business is solving, and you’re ready to bring your vision to life. And what better way...
#36: Finding The Backbeat For Your Budding Business
As we settle into life in a (hopefully) post-pandemic world, there are a ton of newly launched businesses that are facing a pivot point. These are the...
#35: Started in the Garage and Now We’re Here
Today it’s a crash course in getting your business out of the garage and into the showroom, so to speak. Laurie and PJ, partners in business and life,...
#34: Arming David To Take on Goliaths
What do you do when the world’s biggest tech players think they’ve already solved a problem - but you think you can solve it better? That’s what today...
#33: Life After Launch
It sounds like a great problem to have, really. You’ve stood up your dream business, creating a sustainable and profitable entity that’s delivered on...