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May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
6 min
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.

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024
11 min
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.

Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
41 min
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.

Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 2024
7 min
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.

Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
29 min
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

Apr 16, 2024
Apr 16, 2024
6 min
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.

Apr 11, 2024
Apr 11, 2024
36 min
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.

Apr 9, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
17 min
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.

Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
25 min
In this episode, Corey Anand, founder of Kaya Care, talks about how it takes an organization three years or more to build a constructive culture around mental health, the role generative AI can play in mental health support and the economic imperative of fostering psychological safety for employees.

Apr 2, 2024
Apr 2, 2024
11 min
Free trials convert to paid contracts less than 25% of the time. They don't work... In this episode, we'll give you some strategies to get your customers to commit to paying for your product. This approach will increase customer engagement, retention, implementation success and REVENUE!
