Pete Wilkins, Managing Director at Hyde Park Angels and author of Purpose + First Entrepreneur, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Over the course of his career, Pete has worked with all kinds of business leaders, young founders and everyone in between. One of the main drivers of success (and failures) he’s observed in his…
Mike Doyle, co-founder of new glamping resort Off Map, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Fresh off his previous business Rent Like A Champion, Mike took his expertise from the rental markets and got right to work on a new company focused on the outdoorsy, increasingly popular glamping experience. Mike shares his honest thoughts on…
ActiveCampaign CEO and founder Jason VandeBoom joins Scott back on the pod to talk about the latest news – announcing a whopper $240 million Series C round led by Tiger Global to scale up its operations and continued growth with customers (up to 145,000 active customers). As an 18-year old business, ActiveCampaign is hardly an…
Quevos co-founder Nick Hamburger has taken his company he started out of his college class and kitchen to the stage of Shark Tank in a few short years. And won! Nick comes back on the show to talk about what’s changed with Quevos, leadership lessons that no one prepares you for, how he got a…
Label Insight co-founder Dagan Xavier joins the show to talk with Scott about the how his company is providing better, clearer information to consumers to find products that match what they need (or eliminate what they can’t have). Simultaneously they empower brands with better data on their core consumers. A win-win, imagine that! Dagan shares…
WHOOP is not like any wearable you’ve had before, in fact on its face it doesn’t tell you anything. But the technology behind it collects some of the most accurate health monitoring data on the market, including daily personalized fitness, sleep, and recovery data delivered to you in real time It’s what differentiates from any…
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is often trotted out without much explanation much like “AI” or “machine learning”. But if you take IoT as the the ability for your devices or your company’s devices to communicate with each other – Hologram is the SIM card that allows that connectivity to occur efficiently. Hologram.io uses…
When we think cybersecurity, we tend to think big data breaches like Target or your parents setting their passwords as “password”. We skip over the the prime target for many attacks – small businesses. Attacks against SMBs make up almost half of all cyber crime, and has seen gigantic spikes with the pandemic in 2020.…
Pop-up ads and auto-play videos have been inundating our feeds and web scrolls for over a decade, with no end in sight. That’s why we’ve seen tremendous growth in ad blockers – over 2 billion use an ad blocker of some kind. This is poised to become an existential crisis for marketers that rely on…
For more than 150 million paying subscribers, Netflix is a beloved content provider, offering access to hit shows like “Stranger Things” and “Narcos” and many others. But in fact, the company’s backstory rivals the kind of suspense-filled dramas that streaming sensations are made of. Today Netflix is a household name. But back in 1997, streaming movies…