Mark Beylin is the Founder of The Bounties Network, which allows anyone to put up a crypto bounty to incentivize people to complete a task assigned by the creator of that bounty. In the interview, Mark shares his story, discusses early startup projects he created, working with Etherium Co-Founder Joe Lubin at ConsenSys, the important of cryptocurre…

Aater Suleman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flux7, a cloud consulting firm that helps enterprise clients adopt new technologies. In the interview, Aater shares the story of starting his company, how they acquired early customers, and more. If you'd like to listen to my other show, Stories, please visit thestoriespodcast.com or search "stories shawn …

Mike Shultz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cybernance Corporation, a SaaS company that helps equip organizations to manage their cyber risk. In the interview, Mike shares the story of starting his company, his greatest challenge, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond …

Michael Portman is the Co-Founder of Birds Barbershop, a chain of barbershops based in Austin. In the interview, Michael shares the story of how he and his co-founder Jayson went from being a screenwriter and a wall street trader, respectively, to opening their first barbershop in Austin. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools t…

Marc Smookler is the Founder and CEO of IdealSpot, which provides local data insights for businesses to make better decisions in commercial real estate. In the interview, Marc shares how he got the inspiration to start IdealSpot, best practices on customer acquisition, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help bus…

Tom Kieley and Clint McRee are the co-founders of SourceDay, a cloud-based supplier portal to help companies better manage their supply chains. In the interview, Tom and Clint share how they got the idea for SourceDay, how they acquired early customers, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate…

Diego De Stefano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trip Loop, a mobile app that streamlines group travel communication for group travel managers. In the interview, Diego shares how he got the inspiration to start Trip Loop, his greatest challenge, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads.…

Blake Garrett is the Founder and CEO of Aceable, which produces mobile educational courses with a focus on online driver's ed. In the interview, Blake tells the story of moonlighting when he first started his company, why they pivoted from mobile games, tips on going through government approval processes, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpon…

Will Mitchell is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rabbet, whose software helps manage the construction finance process of real estate projects. In the interview, Will tells the story of starting his company, his greatest challenge, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you…

Matt Randall and Maria Miller are the co-founders of Life by Spot, which provides short-term episodic life and injury insurance. In the interview, Matt and Maria share how they got started, how they acquired early customers, and how they overcame challenges in their industry. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help busine…

Lisa Falzone is the Co-Founder and CEO of Athena Security, which develops a gun detection technology using artificial intelligence that can alert authorities in real time while a crime is being committed. In the interview, Lisa shares the inspiration behind starting her company, best practices on acquiring customers, her greatest challenge, and mor…

Daniel Senyard is the Founder and CEO of Shep Travel, which helps companies monitor and save on business travel bookings made on consumer sites. In the interview, Daniel discusses how he acquired early customers for his company, the importance of having and gaining industry expertise from key investors and advisors, his greatest challenge, and more…

Patrick Terry is the Founder and Owner of P. Terry's Burger Stand, a chain of restaurants in Austin that serve all-natural burgers and fresh-cut fries. In the interview, Patrick talks about his life-long dream of opening a burger stand, his greatest challenge with the business, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to…

Bryan Bittner is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Staging Solutions, which provides digital furnishing of home photos. In the interview, Bryan talks about the challenges of being first in a market, how he acquired early customers, the advantages of doing direct sales, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help busine…

Stephanie Boone is the Founder and CEO of Wondercide, which creates natural pest protection for pets. In the interview, Stephanie talks about her inspiration for starting the company, how she acquired early customers, her thought process on whether or not to raise investor capital, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tool…

Henry Yoshida is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rocket Dollar, that provides self-directed IRAs to allow individuals to invest in asset classes of their choice. In the interview, Henry talks about how they acquired early customers, the importance of how one phrases written content, what he wish he would have known when starting his company, and more. --…

Bill Welch is the Co-Founder and CEO of Apptronik, an advanced robotics company based in Austin. In the interview, Bill talks about different technologies his company is building, including an exoskeleton armor suit similar to the iron man suit, how they acquired early customers, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools …

Hardik Jain is the Co-Founder and CTO of GenXComm, a company that makes wireless technology that cancels radio interference. In the interview, Hardik tells us how the company first started, how they acquired early customers, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you…

Marcus Carey is the Founder and CEO of Threatcare, a cybersecurity startup based in Austin. In the interview, Marcus emphasizes the importance of learning how to sell, building a personal brand, the "give first" moto he learned in Techstars, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. …

Leah La Salla is the Technical Founder and CEO of Astral AR, which builds drones that stop bullets. In the interview, Leah talks about pivoting her company to drones that stop bullets, how they got their first customers, the importance of building relationships with uniformed police officers, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a su…

Andrew Chen is the Co-Founder and General Counsel of Vyopta, which provides monitoring & analytics software for an organization's communication environment including voice, video, and meeting rooms. In the interview, Andrew talks about initially starting out as a professional services company to better understand customer pains, the importance of p…

David Schofman is the Co-Founder and CEO of PureWrxs, which provides OEM Certified Pre-Owned IT networking hardware solutions. In the interview, David talks about his history as an entrepreneur, how he initially got involved in certified pre-owned products, and more. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses gene…

Jaime Fitch is the Co-Founder and CEO of OnlineMedEd, a clinical learning platform that provides online educational videos for medical students. In the interview, Jamie tells us about how he got started started by creating content prior to launch, how he got his first few customers, and his broader vision for the company. ----- Partners Wishpond – …

Charles Thornburgh is the Founder and CEO of Civitas Learning, which uses predictive analytics and machine learning to help colleges and universities improve their graduation rates. In the interview, Charles tells the story of how he got his early customers and what his greatest challenge has been building the company, among other insights. ----- P…

Ernesto Lamaina is the Founder and CEO of Adia, an app that connects businesses and job seekers. In the interview, Ernesto discusses the advantages of partnering with an incumbent in the staffing industry and how they acquired their first customers. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. Wi…

Randy Cohen is the Founder and Chief Energizing Officer of TicketCity, and also the owner and Chief Energizing Officer of Z'Tejas Southwestern Grill. In the interview, Randy tells the story of selling his first group of tickets more than 3 decades ago and also what it takes to stay relevant in the ticketing business for 30+ years. ----- Partners Wi…

Leah La Salla is the Technical Founder & CEO of Astral AR, which builds drones that stop bullets. In the interview, Leah talks about growing up in Illinois, her dad's influence on her as an engineer and his Hell's Angels affiliation, why she pivoted to drones that stop bullets, and much more. You can find the show notes and photo I took of Leah on …

Brian Wulfe is the Founder & CEO of Effective Spend, a digital marketing agency based in Austin. In the interview, Brian tells us the story of how he started his agency and also shares some marketing best practices on PPC, SEO, and digital PR. ----- Partners Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wis…

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I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.

I'm currently in the process of starting a new company. This season I take you on a day-by-day journey of my progress.