Inc.
How to Build Brand Awareness Without Social Media
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- How to Build Brand Awareness Without Social Media
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- 43:04
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For many small businesses, social media is the only way to reach customers. But are echo-chamber algorithms stopping you from reaching the right customers? Beatrice Dixon talks with Rachel Roff, Founder of Urban Skin RX, about creating inclusive marketing campaigns, and come away with proven strategies for freeing your brand’s dependence on social media.
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- What Women Founders Still Have to Prove
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- 28:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Anu Duggal has funded the businesses of hundreds of women—and has seen multiple hundred-million-dollar-plus exits. Now, she’s trying to make a statement.
For our season opener, we sat down with Anu Duggal, the founding partner of Female Founders Fund, a seed-stage venture capitalist fund focused on providing early-stage funding for startups by women entrepreneurs. Female Founders Fund has invested in more than 75 companies, including the digital financial service Tala, the razor company Billie, and the women’s health care company Maven Clinic. Ten years into running her fund, Duggal says she still has something to prove: “We’re really trying to make more of a statement than your typical VC fund that’s only looking for returns.”
Since starting Female Founders Fund in 2014, Anu has been a helping hand for female founders, but how is she navigating what companies to invest in during an elec...
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- How to Test a Hypothesis with Bill Smith of Shipt
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- 27:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When serial entrepreneur Bill Smith relocated his family across the country to build his third startup, the seedling of an idea for his next startup was born. In 2019, Bill founded Landing, the first membership-based leasing model for flexible living. He has since scaled the business to cities around the country with a network of thousands of apartments. Along the way, he’s amassed $255M in funding and been named Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup, all while making renting your next apartment as easy as ordering takeout. Prior to Landing, Bill founded, scaled, and exited three companies, including the online grocery delivery marketplace, Shipt, which sold to Target for $550M. Bill shares his advice on navigating negotiations, how he discovered product-market fit by asking customers to pay before his product was even built, and why true partnership is critical for a successful acquisition.
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- Using Public Relations and Marketing to Catapult Growth
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- 31:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On today’s episode host Aisha Bowe talks with the iconic Bobbi Brown. 25 years after she sold her namesake cosmetics company to Estee Lauder, Bobbi is back with Jones Road Beauty, a cosmetics company focused on clean, high-grade formulations for all skin types and tones.
Entrepreneurs realize that at all stages of growing a company, it’s tough to make sure your hard work gets the media attention it deserves. This episode offers hard-earned wisdom about shaping a media and marketing plan for your business from launch through sale in an ever-changing media landscape.
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- How to Shift Consumer Sentiments with Ethan Brown of Beyond Meat
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- 27:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In 2009, Ethan Brown, Founder & CEO of Beyond Meat, faced a dilemma at a rest stop on I-95. Struggling to find a healthy meal for his young children, he realized he had to make a change. That same year, he launched Beyond Meat, the world’s first plant-based meat company, with a mission to drive a global shift from animal-based to plant-based products. Its flagship product, the Beyond Burger, was crafted to look, cook, and taste just like traditional beef. Since then, the company has expanded its offerings and now sells a variety of plant-based products in over 130,000 locations across 65 countries. Today, Beyond Meat partners with major brands like Panda Express and McDonald’s. Ethan shares his predictions for the evolution of the $1+ trillion dollar global meat industry, how he tackled go-to-market for an entirely new food category, and why he believes truths only get truer as his business grows.
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- How to Take Calculated Risks with Jenny Just of Peak6
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- 31:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- What does it take to become one of the few self-made billionaires in the US? According to the visionary business leader Jenny Just, it starts with a comfortability with taking risks. After just giving birth to her first child, Jenny took a risk and founded her first business, Peak6, in 1997. Peak6 began as a proprietary options trading firm and has since grown into a multibillion-dollar financial services and technology giant housing the next generation of products and service brands including PEAK6 Capital Management, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, PEAK6 InsurTech, and Zogo. On top of these achievements, Jenny also co-founded Poker Power—a company she launched with her daughter Juliette to teach poker and empower women to master the art of risk-taking. Jenny shares how stock rewards could address the persistent issue of financial literacy in our country, why she believes her repeated failures have led to invaluable lessons throughout her career, and how she contin...
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- This Hands-Free Shoe Is Tackling a Multibillion Dollar Industry | Inc.
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Mike Pratt spends a lot of time trying to make life easier. His idea to make shoes hands-free has challenged a multibillion dollar industry and landed his brand, Kizik, at number 407 on our list of this year's 5,000 fastest growing companies in America.
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- The Man Behind the Wheel of Driverless Trucks | Inc.
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For Don Burnette, the autonomous vehicle debate was always about cars, but what about trucks? That thinking helped his startup, Kodiak Robotics, to become No. 20 on our list of the 5000 fastest growing companies in America.
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- Her Dog Was Sick. His Cure Became Her Successful Business | Inc.
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When Katie Spies's dog, George, started getting sick, she switched him to a raw diet and noticed a near-instant improvement. Katie created her raw dog food brand, Maev, from his cure and this year it landed at number 19 on our list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in America.
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- These Founders Quit Their Jobs to Teach Millions to Crochet | Inc.
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For Justine Tiu and Adrian Zhang, crocheting isn’t just about making a cute thing. They built their crochet kits and their business around the goal of teaching people a new skill, helping them land their company The Woobles, at number 19 on our list of this year’s 5000 fastest growing companies in America.
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- How to Use Constraints to Your Advantage with Peter Beck of Rocket Lab
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- 35:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How does an entrepreneur without a college degree manage to build a rocket company exploring life beyond earth? Just ask Peter Beck, the Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of Rocket Lab, a Nasdaq-listed leading launch and space systems company. At an early age, Peter’s parents taught him that no ambition was too big. So he began building rockets, steadily increasing in their size and complexity. In 2006, Peter founded Rocket Lab and has since grown the company into a global organization of 1,800 employees, taking the business public in 2021 with a market cap north of $2.3B. Rocket Lab’s capabilities span the space economy and Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the most successful small launch vehicle globally. Peter shares why he focused on credibility and capability in the early days of company building, how constraints ensure Rocket Lab doesn’t outspend its peers, and why he thinks some regulation is needed in the space industry.
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- Managing Cash Flow to Drive Startup Success
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- 46:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On today’s episode host Aisha Bowe talks with the two founders of Farther: Brad Genser and Taylor Matthews. Farther is a technology-centric wealth management firm -- combining expert knowledge with cutting edge tech to create a more holistic approach to money management for their clients.
In all stages of its growth, your company’s success or failure will be determined by how you manage its cash flow. This episode offers hard-earned advice from founders about how to make sure well-managed cash flow lets your company scale to its next level.
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- Flashback: Why Data is the New Code with Alexandr Wang of Scale AI
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- 32:51
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- As a freshman at MIT, Alexandr was struck by his classmates' interest in AI. But he realized that despite all that AI technology could solve, there was no solution for managing AI-related data. So, at 19, he dropped out of college and started Scale AI. Scale now helps customers like Pinterest and Toyota accelerate the progress of AI and has grown to a valuation of $3.5B. Alexandr shares how AI is changing software development, why he believes in surrounding yourself with optimistic people, and how he learned to get comfortable with not being able to do everything at once.
Original Air Date 04-7-2021
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- Brewing Success: Lessons From La Colombe Founder Todd Carmichael
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- 34:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Welcome to Inc's From the Ground Up Summer programming! While we’re hard at work on season two of the show, we wanted to keep bringing you astute conversations , courtesy of our live events throughout the year.
In this segment we have Editor In Chief, Mike Hofman in a fireside chat with La Colombe Coffee Founder, Todd Carmichael at Inc's Founders House in Philadelphia. Carmichael transformed La Colombe from a local Philadelphia roaster into a global coffee powerhouse. We hear about the journey that began with opening a local coffee shop, led to a $900 million sale to Chobani, and transitioned with the decision to step down as CEO to start a new venture, Rebel Beverage Labs.
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- Flashback: Why Failure is a Path to Progress, with Will Ahmed of WHOOP
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- 42:12
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- As a D1 athlete, Will Ahmed became obsessed with the idea of recovery. How do you unlock human performance, and what data would you need to do so? This interest led to the creation of WHOOP, the next gen wearable technology. Will started WHOOP in 2012, immediately after graduating from Harvard College. Since then, he's raised over $100M in funding, saw 7x member growth in the last year alone, and has been worn by the likes of Lebron James and Michael Phelps. Will shares how the product was born out of his own over-training as an athlete, why he believes WHOOP is fundamentally a data company, and why the most important part of being a CEO is figuring out who to listen to—and when.
Note: This episode was recorded in early March, just as the Covid-19 outbreak took hold of the U.S. Since then, WHOOP has been leveraging their data to aid in health research (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__finance.yahoo.com_news_whoop-2...
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- How to Question Everything with Ara Katz of Seed Health
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- 31:22
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ara Katz’s respect for the power of science began in high school when her mom was diagnosed with cancer. After founding her first business, Spring—the mobile commerce startup that helped launch Apple Pay on the iPhone—she set out on a new challenge: creating a consumer health company deeply rooted in science-backed research. Its mission? To lead the field of translating breakthrough science into innovations that impact every aspect of our health related to the microbiome. Founded in 2016, Seed Health is the microbiome science company pioneering innovations in probiotics and living medicines to impact human and planetary health. With 800%+ revenue growth in the last 3 years, Seed has quickly become one of the most trusted and beloved synbiotic brands on the market. Ara shares why she believes science isn’t finished until it's widely understood, how we have the power to significantly change health outcomes if we focus on the microbiome, and why her favorite interview question is:...
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- How to Achieve Hospitality at Scale with Noah Glass of Olo
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- 33:22
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- What if restaurants were empowered to deliver a personalized experience each time a guest walks through the door? That’s the idea that underpins Olo, a leading open SaaS platform powering over 700 restaurant brands. Noah Glass founded Olo in 2005, drawing on his experience working from the ground up as a restaurant server, cashier, and delivery driver. Today, Olo is a publicly listed company empowering hospitality at scale. Noah shares how he convinced skeptical restaurant vets and customers that online ordering was the beginning of the future for restaurant tech, why he believes going public was the right idea for his business, and how he made the decision to drop out of HBS to pursue building Olo.
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- Becoming the Best Leader for Your Growing Company
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- 41:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Aisha Bowe talks with Shan-Lyn Ma, co-founder and co-CEO of Zola. One of the biggest challenges of being the founder of a high-growth company is adjusting to the changing demands of leading that enterprise. This episodes offers advice on how to navigate growing and managing teams through all of the stages of a company and how those needs change as a company progresses. It also features hard-earned wisdom about these journeys.
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- How to Strengthen your Mental Armor with Lindsey Vonn
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- 29:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Growing up, Lindsey Vonn’s parents instilled two important lessons: her mom taught her the importance of finding positivity in every situation, and her dad taught her that any ambition is achievable with a clear plan and dedication. So, at the age of 9, she confidently stated her goal to become the greatest ski racer of all time. Her dad helped her write a 10-year plan to make it to the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Today, she is one of the most decorated American ski racers in history and was the first American woman to win a gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Beyond ski racing, Lindsey is a NYT bestselling author, the founder of the Lindsey Vonn Foundation—a nonprofit championing girls through scholarships, education, and athletics—and the creative force behind Apres Productions. Lindsey’s career is a powerful lesson in a differentiated kind of entrepreneurship—one defined by grit, determination, and above all else, consistent work ethic. Lindsey shares ...
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- How to Capitalize on Information Asymmetry with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo
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- 30:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Andrew Lacy first encountered whole-body imaging as a patient. In just one hour, he learned more about his health than the American healthcare system had taught him in his entire life. He wondered to himself: why isn’t this technology accessible for everyone everywhere? So he started Prenuvo, the company pioneering proactive whole-body imaging for the early detection of cancer and other diseases—with one 60-minute exam. Prenuvo leverages cutting-edge MRI hardware and software, advanced AI research, and the world's largest database of whole-body imaging to empower patients to proactively manage their health. Andrew shares why information asymmetry amongst physicians was the tipping point that convinced him to start his third entrepreneurial endeavor, how he approached customer acquisition in an entirely new healthcare category, and why he believes humility is a critical quality for repeat entrepreneurs.
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- Flashback: How to Lean Into the Impossible with David Rogier of MasterClass
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- 26:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Growing up, David's grandmother instilled an important lesson: that the only thing someone can't take away from you is your education. So when a mentor of David's offered to back him as an entrepreneur, he decided to bring the joy back to education and build a school that everyone would want to attend. In 2015, he launched MasterClass, which now provides classes from 100+ of the world’s best practitioners (from Serena Williams to Martin Scorsese). MasterClass has grown into one of the largest online learning platforms in the world and was most recently valued at nearly $3 billion dollars. David shares why a childhood stutter impacted his entrepreneurial ambitions, why starting with the best teachers was critical to his business strategy, and the importance of getting two opinions (and no more) when making a hard decision.
Orignal Air Date: 09-22-2021
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- Flashback: How to Adopt a Learner’s Mindset with Rachel Carlson of Guild Education
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- 28:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- What if workers could acquire new skills and training, without taking on debt? That’s the value Guild Education strives to provide. Guild Education unlocks opportunities for America’s workforce through education and upskilling and counts Fortune 500 companies (such as Chipotle, Disney, Walmart, and Taco Bell) among its partners. Since founding Guild in 2015, Rachel has scaled the business to reach working learners in all 50 states and has helped prevent over half a billion dollars in student debt. Rachel shares how COVID-19 has accelerated the future of work, why she decided to make Guild a Certified B Corporation instead of a nonprofit, and what she learned from working on political campaigns.
Original Air Date: 07-07-2021
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- Building the Best Entrepreneurial You
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- 50:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Patrick Dossett, co-founder and CEO of Madefor, talks with Bea Dixon about how his time in the Navy SEALs prepared him for founding his own startup and his tips for success. Discover ways to think differently about how you lead and grow your business.
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- The Property Brothers Rate Famous Office Spaces
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- 3:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Design duo Drew and Jonathan Scott, review on-screen workspaces, from 'Mad Men' to 'Succession.'
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- A Fresh Start: Starting a Company Again
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- 47:20
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Ever wonder what it takes to start a second company? For our last episode of the season, we wanted to take a look at what it’s like to start up from scratch—to scale it, to take it public, to become a household name. And, after all that, to decide to do it all over again. So we sat down with Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, and Mike McNamara, former CEO of Flex. Their new company is called Samara, and their first product is an accessory dwelling unit that can be transported and placed on the property of a typical home. It’s called the Backyard. They spoke about all the challenges of starting a company again, but also about how much easier it is to accomplish certain goals, such as gaining the trust of venture capitalists and hiring employees.
Read this story and see full transcript on Inc.com. (https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/how-a-blind-date-got-airbnbs-joe-gebbia-his-next-co-founder.html)
To read more about Samara (https://www.s...
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- Flashback: How to Craft a Viral Product, with Ivan Zhao of Notion
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- 35:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- As we all strive to increase our productivity, it's no wonder that productivity startup Notion has taken off. Since co-founder and CEO Ivan Zhao launched a prototype a few years ago, Notion has gained a cult following of over one million users. With a team of less than 30 employees, the company has already achieved a sky-high valuation of $800M. Ivan shares his approach to democratizing software, why he believes engineers are the scribes of our time, and why he moved to Kyoto to reboot the company in its earliest days.
Make sure to follow Ivan on social at @notionhq and @ivanhzhao.
Orignal Air Date 11-20-19
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- Alex Rodriguez Says Young Founders Should Check Their Egos | Inc.
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The baseball legend and entrepreneur spoke to Inc. about what he looks for when investing in founders, the secret to his longevity, and why its important to enjoy the journey.
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- AI Tools, 'Weird Economy,' and Reddit's Unusual IPO: This Year In News For Founders
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- 31:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- From a business news standpoint, the first few months of 2024 had it all: the rare IPO of a social media company, a very strange economic situation facing founders, and enough developments in artificial intelligence to train a new LLM. Inc.'s editors have been chewing over all of it.
In this roundtable episode of From the Ground Up, we hear from Inc. reporter Ben Sherry about the state of AI use in the American workforce, the latest in the AI safety debate out of Silicon Valley, and what's going on within OpenAI.
Inc.'s new Editor-in-Chief, Mike Hofman, discusses the unusual state of the American economy, and how entrepreneurs are feeling amid wildly mixed signals from the Fed, consumers, and what seems like a cooling labor market.
We also examine what's happened at Reddit since its March IPO--and how the massive community-based social network ...
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- Flashback: How to Put Kindness First with Sarah Friar of Nextdoor
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- 31:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Do you know your neighbors? When Nextdoor was founded in 2008, 50% of Americans knew one or none of their neighbors. Fast-forward and Nextdoor now connects 81 million neighbors across 11 countries, building both digital and real-world connections. Sarah Friar joined Nextdoor as CEO in 2018 and took the company public in 2021 under the ticker symbol KIND. Sarah shares how her childhood in Northern Ireland during The Troubles gave her a lifelong belief in the local power of community, how Nextdoor leverages AI to encourage kindness on the platform, and why one of the company's biggest moments to date was bringing together 18 million people in person around the Queen's Jubilee.
Original Air Date: 6-14-23
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- Creating a Roadmap to Profitability
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- 44:14
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- It’s hard to plan a trip when you’re not sure how to get there. So, it helps to ask for directions. For Your Next Move, founders who’ve successfully charted a course to long-term financial success and big valuations share the paths they took—and also how they were able to right-size their roadmap as their companies grew. In this episode, host Aisha Bowe interviews Suneera Madhani, Founder and CEO of Worth AI.
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- Preparing for Demand Shocks
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- 18:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- There is such a wide range of shocks that can happen to your supply chain and to the demand for what you’re making. Can you ever truly prepare? What kinds of projections are most useful, and how can you set yourself up for success if you do have the ability to anticipate a surge in demand?
We decided to ask someone who has worked with many companies, large and small, to make their supply chains more diversified and flexible. She’s also something of a supply chain influencer (the LinkedIn variety, not TikTok!). She’s Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group.
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- How to Understand your Users with Shivani Siroya of Tala
- Runtime
- 31:37
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Shivani Siroya started Tala not because she wanted to build a company, but because one problem consumed her thoughts: 4 billion people were excluded from the traditional banking system and lacked access to essential financial tools to help them use, protect, and grow their money. After conducting over 3,500 interviews with micro-entrepreneurs globally during her time at the UN Population Fund, she witnessed firsthand the vast purchasing power overlooked by traditional financial institutions. So in 2011, she founded Tala, the first holistic financial platform designed uniquely for the global majority. Today, Tala is responsible for originating over $5 billion in credit access to a population that was previously blocked from traditional banking resources. Shivani shares how she reimagined traditional credit underwriting to serve a new population, why user experience needs to be at the heart of product development, and how Tala gained the trust of a population that was traditionally turne...
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- Demand Surge
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- 36:08
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- No matter how sturdy your supply chain is, sometimes, crisis hits. And sometimes, it's due to something that seems positive: A sudden surge in customer demand.
For The Woobles and founder Justine Tiu, a huge order of her pre-started crochet kits was delivered with flaws. Could she get her customer orders out on time? For Bobbie infant formula co-founder Laura Modi, it was a nationwide formula shortage that caused her to rethink her customer communications--and cut off new orders on her website altogether. Hosts Diana Ransom and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin unpack all the complex supply-chain management issues and customer communications strategies that come with a sudden surge in demand.
Article and Transcript (https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/surging-demand-nearly-broke-their-businesses-what-they-learned-is-a-case-study-in-resilience.html)
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- How to Disrupt a Trillion-Dollar Industry with Paul Monasterio of Kalepa
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- 28:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- What does it take to disrupt a trillion-dollar industry? According to Paul Monasterio, Co-Founder and CEO of Kalepa, it starts with a fresh outsider’s perspective. In 2018, Paul launched Kalepa with its flagship product, an AI-powered copilot empowering commercial underwriters to write more profitable business, faster. And just a few years in, Kalepa has been recognized as one of the most innovative insurtechs in the world by FinTech Global. Paul shares why he believes insurance is the safety net that propels the world’s growth, how AI will enhance—not overtake—underwriters’ abilities to evolve with an increasingly complex world, and why a product demo should be used to create real value for potential customers.
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- Building a Company for the Next Generation
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- 50:17
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Today’s episode comes from the Your Next Move vault and is a conversation between Bea Dixon and Tim Brown. Tim is the co-founder and co-CEO of AllBirds -- a mission-driven clothing brand focusing on innovating around sustainable materials.
In their conversation, they cover Tim’s evolution from professional soccer player to entrepreneur and how to build a strong team.
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- The Evolution of Social Mission
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- 31:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- This week, we’re following up our discussion about how to make sure your mission fits your business with an interview with one of the most fascinating sustainability experts working today: Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy. Patagonia has been one of the most notable brands in environmentally responsible business practices and production for decades, and Vincent has been with the company, evangelizing about what makes Patagonia unique, since even before it was called Patagonia.
Host Diana Ransom talks to Stanley and is told some stories from Patagonia's history that we've never heard before, revealing tipping points that caused the company to adapt its social mission from outdoor-enthusiasm to one that includes a sustainable supply chain and responsible manufacturing, and led to the adoption of a profit-donation model as well. He shares his perspective on making a company's mission more than just a statement, but a way of ...
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- How to Own the Problem with Hari Ravichandran of Aura
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- 29:08
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- When serial entrepreneur Hari Ravichandran discovered that his credit score had taken a hit due to identity fraud, he realized that consumers were facing an increasing burden to protect their digital safety—and there wasn’t an existing product that provided a holistic solution. So, as an engineer by training and an entrepreneur by nature, he set out to solve this problem for consumers. In 2017, he founded Aura, the company dedicated to simplifying digital security for families. The business has since scaled to over one million users worldwide with celebrity-backers such as Robert Downey Jr. Before Aura, Hari was the Founder and CEO of Endurance International Group, a publicly-traded global hosting and email marketing company, valued at $3.5 billion with more than 3,500 employees worldwide. Hari shares the astounding data that children are spending nearly 50% of their waking hours in the digital world, why a frictionless product experience was crucial to their go-to-market strategy,...
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- How to Harness the Power of Curiosity with Trevor Martin of Mammoth Biosciences
- Runtime
- 32:08
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- While Trevor Martin was an undergraduate at Princeton, he decided on a whim to take a class called Integrated Science, a course dedicated to encouraging students gifted in physics, math, or computer science to pursue an academic focus in biology. Unbeknownst to him, this class would end up being the catalyst that led him to his successful career as a biotech entrepreneur. After receiving his PhD from Stanford in 2017, Trevor founded Mammoth Biosciences, the platform revolutionizing CRISPR-based synthetic biology products across therapeutics and diagnostics, with the ultimate mission of finding permanent cures for diseases. Trevor shares his favorite mantra: “Let others say no,” how biotechs need to strike the right balance between commercializing their products and researching the next generation of products, and why Mammoth’s go-to-market strategy facilitates the flywheel needed to build a generational business.
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- Building Your Team
- Runtime
- 47:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Hiring and retaining the right team to help your company grow is essential at all stages of a well-run business. This episode offers detailed advice on how to build and retain a highly effective leadership team, from what roles to prioritize hiring for to how to find the best talent to meet your company’s needs. It also features hard-earned wisdom from a founder, Seth Goldman, who has worked at all life cycles of a company from launch fresh from business school to exit to rebuilding again.
Seth Goldman is Co-Founder of Eat the Change®, a planet-friendly snack and drink company that recently launched Just Ice Tea, a line of organic bottled tea to go along with the company’s Cosmic carrot snacks. Seth and his co-Founder, Celebrity Chef Spike Mendelsohn are also co-founders of PLNT Burger, a plant-based quick-serve restaurant that offers delicious burgers, fries, and soft-serve. Seth is also the Co-founder of Honest Tea and Chair of the board of Beyond Meat. In ...
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- Nailing Product Market Fit
- Runtime
- 29:56
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Which should come first, your killer idea or your ideal customer? So many questions about finding product-market fit were raised by our fascinating discussion with Michelle Cordeiro Grant of Gorgie, and Steven and Brittany Yeng of Skrewball. Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spoke with Jeff Bussgang, a venture capitalist and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he teaches a revered class all about product-market fit called Launching Technology Ventures. He has fascinating thoughts on why your early-stage startup should be an experimentation machine; the effect AI has had on startups testing their market; and some of the ethical considerations that put pressure on this process and disproportionately affect BIPOC and women founders.
Learn more:
Read this story and see full transcript on Inc.com (http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/your-startup-should-be-an-experimentation-machine-accordi...
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- Why Suneera Madhani Prioritizes the Product Roadmap | Inc.
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The founder of Stax and Worth AI relies on collaboration to execute her product roadmap.
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- How to Prepare for the Future of AI-Workers with Nami Baral of Niural
- Runtime
- 29:10
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- As the world of work becomes increasingly global, how can technology fuel the transfer of funds around the world? In 2022, Nami Baral started Niural, on a mission to build a generational product that enables businesses to manage payroll, HR, benefits, payments and compliance in 150+ countries—all in one powerful system. Nami is no stranger to leveraging AI in financial services. Prior to Niural, Nami founded Harvest, a fintech company that built the first AI superagent to reduce debt for American consumers. Harvest was acquired by Acorns in 2021. Nami shares how her upbringing in Nepal taught her that dreams should have no ceilings, why she is focused on building a product 100x more useful than the competition, and how she cultivates employees that work like owners.
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- Find Your Fans
- Runtime
- 44:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Build it and they will come? It’s not so simple. Hosts Diana Ransom and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spoke with founders who took two totally different approaches to a core business concept: finding product-market fit. They spoke with Michelle Cordeiro Grant, founder of the sugar-free energy drink Gorgie, and Brittany and Steven Yeng, founders of the peanut butter liquor brand Skrewball whiskey, about how they identified their markets, strategies they used to get their items on shelves, and how they applied consumer feedback to adjust what they were selling.
Learn more:
Michelle Cordeiro Grant’s website (https://michellecordeirogrant.com/)
Gorgie (https://getgorgie.com/collections/the-energy-drinks)
Skrewball Whiskey (https://www.skrewballwhiskey.com/)
Inc. podcasts (https://www.inc.com/from-the-ground-up)
Episode recap and full transcript (https://www.inc.com/ar...
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- How to Build Conviction with Jett McCandless of project44
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- 29:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- From selling everything he owned to meet payroll to achieving a $2.7 billion valuation, Jett McCandless' journey with leading logistics company—project44—has been a story of grit and determination. Founded in 2014, project44 now operates the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands across 170+ countries. Jet shares how global supply chains could be weaponized amidst an increasingly hostile geopolitical climate, why communication, accountability, and resourcefulness are non-negotiables when it comes to hiring, and how a $120 donation changed the trajectory of his life.
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- Leveraging Your Business’ Profit, Purpose, and Power to Thrive
- Runtime
- 50:17
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Today’s episode comes from the Your Next Move vault and is a conversation between Lindsay Blakely and Gail Becker. Gail is the CEO and Founder of CAULIPOWER -- a food company that started with frozen pizzas with cauliflower crust.
This company, that started in Gail’s kitchen, quickly grew into a full line of vegetable-based frozen foods that can be found in Whole Foods, Walmart, and Target.
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- Cracking the TikTok Code Part 2: How We Got Here
- Runtime
- 32:28
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- During her time at SXSW this year, Diana Ransom sat down with Shira Lazar, video blogger, personality, and founder/host of the web series “What’s Trending,” to discuss her journey in the creator economy space. Shira also gave Diana personal tips and strategies on how to capitalize on trends, using vlogging as a creative outlet, and how to be the face of a brand through social media outlets.
- Title
- How to Go Slow to Go Fast with Sami Inkinen of Virta Health
- Runtime
- 30:15
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Growing up on a farm in Finland and training as a physicist, the path to entrepreneurship might not have been an obvious one for Sami Inkinen. But to date, he has founded two companies: Trulia, the online real estate marketplace that IPOed and eventually sold to Zillow Group in 2015, and Virta Health, the modern healthcare solution on a mission to reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people. If that weren’t enough, Sami is an endurance athlete who has completed seven ironmans and set a record for rowing 2,750 miles from California to Hawaii to raise awareness about the dangers of the American diet. Sami shares how a personal health scare motivated him to launch his second company, how leaders must get comfortable making decisions with the absence of perfect information, and why going slow actually allows you to go fast when building a company.
- Title
- Creating an Effective Brand Narrative
- Runtime
- 44:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Building the right narrative about your brand can be the difference between success and failure for your business—no matter how strong a product you are offering. This episode offers detailed advice about building a successful brand narrative. It also features wisdom from the founder of Farmer’s Fridge, whose work as a traveling salesman motivated him to create a company to solve the problem of finding healthy food options while on the road.
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- When Men Lead Women Focused Brands | Inc. #womenleaders #interview #founders
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Piersten Gaines, founder of Pressed Roots, shares the problem with the women's underwear industry and why it's important to have women in leadership roles.
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- Title
- What You're Missing Without Women in Leadership Roles | Inc.
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- From inhabiting leadership roles to thinking critically and with empathy, women's unique skillset can't be underestimated.
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