Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck. He has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 25 years. Barry knows the formula for taking your company to the next level! This is a business radio show where we talk about all the craziness of small business. It’s that craziness that actually makes it exciting, interesting and totally unpredictable. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--33 ...
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Segment 1 starts at 0:00 AI will fundamentally change the landscape of various industries But how and when? My guest is KP Reddy who is the author of "Creating the Intangible Enterprise", an AI expert, founder and CEO of Shadow Ventures. With a background in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Reddy has become a global autho…
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#802 Vulnerability in Leadership: Why It’s the Secret Sauce for Success
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Segment 1 with Ricardo Jimenez starts at 0:00. Some people say that failure, if you can survive it, if you can move on from it, is the best teacher in small business. My first guest is Ricardo Jimenez is a Puerto Rico- and Barcelona-based writer, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Since 2014, he has performed direct investments in over 30 tech…
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#801 Breaking the Silence: How Entrepreneurs Can Combat Panic Attacks and Online Negativity
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Segment 1 with Dr. John Dyben starts at 0:00. The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has recently called for warning labels on social media platforms, and there have been a number of research and consumer articles recently about the dangers of social media, particularly to our youth. I wrote a blog post on this but there were few comments. So …
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#800 How Kat DeLorean Plans to Build a New DeLorean Motorcar
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Segment 1 with Kat DeLorean starts at 0:00. Kat DeLorean's father John created the iconic DeLorean sports car, best known as the time machine from ‘Back to the Future.’ Her Mom, model Christine Ferrare wanted her to get into modeling but she quit to give her child what she never had—a chance to grow up not famous. Decades later, years after taking …
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#799 She Visited Every State - This is What She Learned
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Segment 1 with Dafna Michaelson Jenet starts at 0:00 What if you traveled around the country to each state for a week all in one year and met people just like you and people that weren’t at all like you. Dafna Michaelson Jenet did just that and was featured on "Sunday Morning" as a result. The question "What would you do if you won the lottery?" wa…
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#798 How the NFL’s Master of Disaster Shows Leadership in a Crisis
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Segment 1 with Dr. Thom Mayers starts at 0:00 In a calm sea, every person is a pilot. But what happens when there is a crisis? What happens when your leadership is really tested? Dr. Thom Mayer has been a leader in times of crisis for over 25 years, navigating some of the most significant challenges imaginable. On top of being the Medical Director …
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#797 The Most Powerful Confidence Formula for Small Business Owners
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unmoved by the new Nazi regime's anti-Jewish doctrines, leads the fight to participate in the 1936 Segment 1 with Regina Bonds starts at 0:00 When small business owners start a business, they have to have a lot of confidence; but as they come up against the market, customer acceptance, employees leaving, their confidence gets shaken. What is the be…
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#796 Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them and How to Stop Them in Business
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Segment 1 with Bill Eddy starts at 0:00 When we all went to grade school and high school there always were bullies – when we entered college, they were there too as they are in every business in America. But since Donald Trump became president in 2016, bullies again seem to be on the rise and in many organizations and parts of our society, and it m…
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Segment 1 with Gary Kusin starting at 0:00. I remember when my kids were growing up, my youngest son Daniel visited Gamestop the day it opened up near our home. He said that now since we were so close to Gamestop, our home would be more valuable. I am not sure about that but certainly GameStop has had a big effect on the gaming industry and the sto…
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#794 Why People are the Hardest (and Most Rewarding) Part of Small Business
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Segment 1 with Lisa Ealy starting at 0:00 Here is the hard truth; at the core of every thriving business are its people. But managing and leading people are also the hardest part of the business…and quite honestly one of the top reasons entrepreneurs sell their companies- the people wear them out! Lisa Ealy is the CEO and Founder of Purple Squirrel…
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#793 Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy on Profiles in Mental Health Courage
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Segment 1 with former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy starts at 0:00 I have many times talked and written about my struggle with depression and anxiety over the past 40 years. How it affected me, my family and my businesses- and we have featured other people over the last 15 who have had the courage to combat a similar struggle which is all too comm…
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#792 Pedaling into the Unknown: Exploring the Culture of Cycling
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Let me be upfront. This show has nothing to do with small business but everything to do with my other love: cycling. The Pandemic Bike Boom led to over 54 million American bike riders pushed cities across the country to focus on new bike lanes and bike safety! The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in human history. It can literally transpor…
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#791 Do You Become a Billionaire Only If You Invent Something New?
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Segment 1 with Liz Elting starting at 0:00. Do you have to invent something entirely new to become a successful entrepreneur? Liz Elting, is an entrepreneur, business leader, and bestselling author. She founded TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room in 1992 and served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world's largest language solutions compan…
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#790 How To Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World
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Segment 1 starting at 0:00 with Justin Jones-Fosu. Let’s face it, we live in a divided world. This happens in business and our personal life. Staying in our own bubble isn’t the solution. So how do you have these difficult conversations. When Justin Jones-Fosu is not summiting life's metaphorical mountains, he's literally trekking around world, whe…
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#789 How Hope and Hunger Impact Your Happiness and Business Success
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Segment 1 with Alphonsus Obayuwana starting at 00:29. If there is a happiness formula, I know that every Small biz owner would want to have that, In this segment I interview Alphonsus Obayuwana, MD, PhD, CPC, is a physician-scientist, a happiness coach, and the founder and CEO of Triple-H Project LLC. He is the author of The Happiness Formula: Usin…
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#788 Get Quiet: 7 Simple Paths to Finding Out Truly Who You Are
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We’re living in frenetic times. Amid all the busyness and the FOMO, you may also feel directionless and overwhelmed. Maybe you know there’s more to life, but you have no idea what that “more” is. Maybe you sense there’s a message you need to hear, but the noise of everyday life is drowning it out. My guest is coach and healer Elaine Glass, who is t…
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#787 What Happened to DEI in American Business?
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SEGMENT 1 with Chloe Valdary starting at 0:18. Diversity, equity and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI. You would think that all of these things would be good for American business and society at large. But ni longer; more and more companies are coming under attack for having a DEI policy. Chloé Valdary who is the founder of the Theo…
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#786 Save Yourself from 25 Years of Mistakes with Lovesac Founder Shawn Nelson
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SEGMENT 1 with Shawn D. Nelson, starting at 0:00: What would you do in your business differently if you could do it all over again? Shawn D. Nelson is the author of Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story. He is the founder and CEO of the Lovesac Company, which designs, manufactures, and sells …
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SEGMENT 1 with Josh Greene, starting at 0:00: Its lonely at the top, especially as a solopreneur. Where and to whom does a business owner turn? Josh Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Groove where he builds on his passion for community, helping solopreneurs find the support and human connection they need to accomplish great things. …
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#784 Crucial Steps for Small Business Acquisition Success
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SEGMENT 1 with Elliot Holland, starting at 0:00: I spend a lot of my time these days helping business owners buy and sell companies. Almost always, buyers and sellers are never prepared for the process. Elliott Holland is a Harvard Business School alum & expert in the small business acquisition space. Elliott helps entrepreneurs do t…
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#783 Think Remarkable: Make the Leap from an Average to Exceptional Life
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SEGMENT 1 with Guy Kawasaki, starting at 0:00: As we get more experienced in our careers, some of us give up on truly making a difference in our work and other people’s lives. That has never happened to my next guest. He’s here to help us transform our lives and make a difference. Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the …
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#782 Elon Musk's $44 Billion Twitter Takeover Failure
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When Elon Musk first announced his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, the billionaire tech mogul believed that his ownership of the company would restore free speech to the masses and even help to preserve humanity. Then, almost immediately, everything went sideways. Kurt Wagner is a Bloomberg journalist who used his years of knowledge an…
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#781 How Many Failures Does It Take to Stop an Entrepreneur with an Invincible Mindset?
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SEGMENT 1 with Akeem Shannon, starting at 0:00: I love to share comeback from failure stories since we can all relate to that… Akeem Shannon has had more than his fair share of failures, fall downs, setbacks, and hurdles. But through failing again and again, he found himself inching his way toward success. From college dropout to CEO o…
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#780 How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams
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SEGMENT 1 with Mike Michalowicz, starting at 0:00: It has never been harder to build successful teams. With the challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-scheduling, and generational divides, business leaders bend over backward searching for solutions that work. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless te…
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SEGMENT 1 with Alexandra Watkins, starting at 0:00: What is the key to picking the right brand name for your company and the products inside your company? Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. If you have ever eaten a Wendy’s Baconator, you have literally eaten her words. For nearly 20 years…
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#778 Internships that Can Actually Provide Value to Your Company
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SEGMENT 1 with Robert J. Khoury, starting at 0:00: With few professional job opportunities, lots of job seekers and employers are now turning to “the internship.” As a small business owner, how do you make sure the internship benefits your company, and as an intern, how do you make sure you can do meaningful work? SEGMENT 2 with Jac…
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#777 The One Meeting that Shouldn’t Be an Email
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SEGMENT 1 with Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, starting at 0:00: A lot of people in small business don't really like to get together with their team members on a one-on-one basis. Is it necessary? What can be gained from it? SEGMENT 2 with Katie Desiderio and Michael Frino, starting at 21:10: For most small business owners, it is …
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#776 Influential Moments in Tech History with Bill Raduchel
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SEGMENT 1 with Bill Raduchel, starting at 0:00: What is it like to be “in the room where it happened” for some of the big moments in tech history like the launch of iTunes or a bid to buy Apple? Over more than half a century at the forefront of the technology revolution, Bill Raduchel encountered them all as a pioneering executive fo…
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SEGMENT 1 with Amy Padnani, starting at 0:00: Let’s kick off the new year with an interesting story about being first. What drives some people always want to be first? Here's the untold story of Mr. First himself. Amy Padnani, a journalist for the NY Times, works on a series that tells the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were…
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#774 Navigate Uncertainty by Focusing on What Never Changes
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SEGMENT 1 with Morgan Housel, starting at 0:00: Many people say that the only constant in life is change. In fact, I wrote an entire book called Changemasters to help people make the changes they want. Our next guest says that some things don’t change and that’s what we should focus on. SEGMENT 2 with Sabrina Starling, PhD, star…
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#773 How to Utilize eBay to Boost Your Small Business Sales
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SEGMENT 1 with Adam Ireland, starting at 0:00: Many entrepreneurs and startups make the same mistake. They believe that if they build it, people will come. Well, I am here to tell you, it doesn’t happen that way. You need a go-to-market strategy to figure out how you are going to get in front of your prospects. Marketplaces can help y…
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#772 Is it Difficult to Sell a Small Business in 2024?
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SEGMENT 1 with Lindsey Day and Mark Williamson, starting at 0:00: Transactions within the small business sector have been prevalent in 2023. According to the latest BizBuySell’s Insight Report, small business acquisitions increased by 2% in Q3 2023 compared to last year. What other small business acquisition trends took shape in 2023,…
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SEGMENT 1 with Steve Strauss, starting at 0:00: For many years now, the barrier to starting a business has been much lower than it used to be. Some entrepreneurs do it while they are still working at their full-time jobs and call it a side hustle. What are the keys to getting a side hustle off the ground? Steve Strauss has some great…
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SEGMENT 1, starting at 0:00: Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or have you tried to reason with your partner, employee or customer with disastrous results? Do certain people just rub you the wrong way? Did you ever feel in business that you were “surrounded by idiots”? Knowing how to communicate with your customer…
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#769 Can Psychedelic Mushrooms Help Entrepreneurs Find Success?
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Now for something completely different. I can honestly say that in the 15 years of doing this show, we have never covered this topic. Can Psychedelic mushrooms help the performance of entrepreneurs and small business owners? Rob Grover and Gary Logan are the founders of The Journeymen Collective, the company creating luxury guided magic mushroom re…
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#768 The Story of a Sexual Wellness Company and the Dark Side of Cult-Like Companies
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What do orgasms, business, and cults have in common? I’m sure not many of us thought about that until a new documentary on Netflix aired called “Orgasm, Inc: The Story of OneTaste.” When does a business become a cult and can a cult be a business? Ellen Huet is an award-winning journalist who currently writes for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Busines…
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#767 Stop Wasting Your Investor Meetings & Start Mastering Storytelling
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SEGMENT 1 with Donna Griffit, starting at 0:00: The story you tell as a small business and more importantly as a startup will influence your ability to attract customers and investors. Here to help is Donna Griffit who is a World Renowned Corporate Storyteller, Pitch Alchemist, and Best-Selling Author of “Sticking to My Story – The Alc…
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#766 What’s going on with the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) for Small Businesses?
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A lot of small businesses have applied for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) from the IRS and received hundreds of thousands and sometimes even millions of dollars. The IRS recently took the unusual step of announcing it was suspending any new applications for the ERC program because they believe it is filled with small businesses fraudulently ap…
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#765 The ChatGPT Millionaire: Making Money Online Has Never Been This Easy
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Many small business owners simultaneously fear ChatGPT and want to figure out how to use it in their business. Here to help is Neil Dagger, an English author with a BSc in Computer Science from University College London. He wrote the #1 best-seller “The ChatGPT Millionaire: Making Money Online Has Never Been This EASY.” -- Visit Barry's Blog for co…
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#764 Jeopardy Champion Amy Schneider on Making History and Being Fearlessly Curious
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SEGMENT 1 with Amy Schneider, starting at 0:00: What is it like to be the biggest female champion on Jeopardy and know so much about everything? Amy Schneider shares her experience making history and living a life of boundless curiosity. SEGMENT 2 with Rita Flores, starting at 16:30: The single thing that can separate you fr…
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#763 Successful Restauranteur Turned Prisoner Highlights Ethical Challenges in Business
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SEGMENT 1 with Eric Ly, starting at 0:00: More and more companies are doing background checks, but the process is a mess. It either takes too long or the information is incomplete. Eric Ly created one world-famous company as a cofounder of LinkedIn and he wants to do it again. SEGMENT 2 with Joseph Costanzo, starting at 14:15:…
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#762 A Journey Through Chronic Pain and Anxiety: Congressman Adam Smith's Story
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SEGMENT 1 with Adam Smith, starting at 0:00: I am always thankful when a public figure comes out and talks about a painful journey they have been on especially when it comes to mental health. We have a candid conversation with Congressman Adam Smith about his journey with chronic pain and crippling anxiety and his experience with a br…
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#761 Are Your Employees, Customers, and Vendors Lying?
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SEGMENT 1 with Andrea Beach, starting at 0:00: Why do employees, customers, and vendors lie? The reality is that most of us lie sometimes. What are the signs someone is lying and what do you do about it? SEGMENT 2 with Tanya Alvarez, starting at 18:15: We all struggle to accomplish our short-term goals. But science says that…
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#760 Things You Wish You Knew Before Selling Your Company
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If you are interested in selling your company, what do you have to do now to plan to sell it profitably? Jason Hendren is the author of “Things I Wish I Knew Before I Sold to Private Equity.” He is a sought-after CEO coach, speaker, and exit-planning advisor. He is an award-winning entrepreneur and has extensive expertise as a buyer and seller of b…
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#759 Inventing the Barcode: How a Team Created World-Changing Technology
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SEGMENT 1 with Paul V. McEnroe, starting at 0:00: Can you imagine business functioning without the barcode? Ten billion or more times each day, electronic scanners read data encoded in black-and-white codes—barcodes—printed on or affixed to physical goods. Where did the ubiquitous barcode come from? Our guest, Paul McEnroe, shares what i…
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#758 How to Overcome the Yips in Sports and in Business
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SEGMENT 1 with Eileen Canney Linnehan, starting at 0:00: Have you ever heard of the Yips? Olympic athlete Simone Biles calls it the twisties. We all get them - when anxiety grips you so hard it freezes you. You know how to do it, you practiced it, but when the time comes, you can’t do it. Think of a basketball player who can’t make a…
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What is it like to start one of the greatest outdoor companies in the history of the world? Hap Klopp is the founder and 20-year CEO of The North Face. Subsequently, he has managed his global consulting company, with clients from startups to billion-dollar corporations and teaches entrepreneurship. He is here to share his entrepreneurial journey an…
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#756 How to Sell Your Business for Maximum Returns
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A lot of small business owners want to sell their company. Mark Achler, Managing Director of MATH Venture Partners, shares how to maximize your return in this can't-miss episode. He is the author of the new book, "Exit Right: How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Your Return and Build Your Legacy." -- Visit Barry's Blog for complete show notes. Become…
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#755 Is Real AF the Solution to Authenticity on Social Media?
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Segment 1, starting at 0:00: Social media platforms seem to be shifting…and soon there will be a new one on the block called RealAF – introduced by actress and model Arielle Raycene. Segment 2, starting at 12:00: Marketplaces are notoriously hard to start. Do you bring the buyers or the sellers first? But once they get starte…
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#754 Build Your Business with Community-Led Growth
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SEGMENT 1 with Lloyed Lobo, starting at 0:00: There are a lot of ways to grow a business. Many people use product-led growth or sales and marketing-led growth. But what about community-led growth? Lloyed Lobo shares how he grew his business using his community. SEGMENT 2 with Kevin Flynn, starting at 23:15: I’ve been usin…
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