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The Stool of Innovation: An Acquired Taste Ep. 16

Just like a stool needs at least three legs to be, well, a stool... Your innovation culture needs these three "legs" as well. Listen in for how to build a scalable and stable innovation cycle in your organization.

Behavior is More Important than Experience When Hiring for your Startup

Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance. So why are we still using resumes to judge talent? In this episode, we talk about focusing on a person’s key behavioral attributes and how that approach attracts talent that is more likely to be successful.

What if You're Wrong? 5 Strategy Mistakes Founders Make- An Acquired Taste ep. 14

It's hard to be a founder. You're making important decisions every day about how to move your company forward. In this episode, we discuss common strategy mistakes founders make. Listen until the end for a suggestion that can help your strategic capacity scale more quickly.

Why a Lack of Self Awareness may be Holding You Back - AAT Ep 13

It feels like our collective self-awareness is at an all-time low…  In this episode we talk about some real-world examples and the consequences of that behavior. Plus, the benefit of having people in your life that will call you out when you deserve it.

When Keeping it Real Goes Right : Nate Schmidt - THTW S2 Ep. 10

Nate joins the show and talks about his startup journey, what went right, what went wrong and how he views his experience as a founder, investor, mentor and community-builder. Nate keeps it 100 (as the kids say) so don't miss this episode.

Ditch the Pajama Pants and Get Back to the Office: An Acquired Taste Ep. 12

If fully-remote work is more important to you than having the best opportunity to advance your career, best of luck. Why fully remote work is probably killing your career and the data proves it.

When Ambition Meets Execution- Brooke Gillis : THTW S2 Ep 9

Brooke shares what her team has accomplished over the last year at the Innovation Depot, why community building around density has been key to the Depot's renaissance and her vision for fostering the growth of Birmingham's startup ecosystem

If You're not Selling Middle-Out, You're Doing it Wrong - An Acquired Taste Episode 11

Bottom up selling doesn't work and top-down takes too long. In this episode, we discuss why "middle-out" selling may be the best way to sell into enterprise-level customers.

Users Must be Allowed to Break Your Product if you Want to Succeed THTW Ep.8 with Ian Hoppe

Ian talks about how he sets direction for his growing team, how to utilize guerilla tactics to generate user adoption and why customers breaking your product can be the fastest way to product market fit.

You're Bad at Networking (and may not even know it) AAT Ep. 10

For many people, their network will be key in finding their next job, mentor, biz dev opportunity or investor. Networking is important for everyone but people have gotten lazy, sloppy or even disingenuous in their networking behavior. Listen in for the cardinal sins to avoid and how keeping the "old school" touches can improve and strengthen your network.