Episodes
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
THTW Season 2 Ep. 3 Jay Johnson
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Two-time founder, Jay Johnson, joins us to talk about his latest venture, Prep Intel, how the college admissions process has changed over the years and how founders need to be thinking about building their startups. Jay drops a ton of wisdom so don't miss this episode!
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
In simplest terms, we break down the current state of venture capital funding, provide some context around this "reset" and what that means for founders trying to raise from VCs.
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
THTW Season 2 Ep. 1 : Matt Jaeh
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
IT'S BAAAAACK! Our "This Has to Work" reboot is now live with a heavyweight guest- Matt Jaeh. Join us for Ep. 1 of Season 2 and hear how Matt went from being a computer technician and musician to co-founding a successful startup to leading one of Techstars' premier accelerator programs.
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
An Acquired Taste Ep. 3 - How Small Startup Ecosystems Stay Small
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
We focus on how to make startup ecosystems bigger- but do we know what's keep them small?
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
An Acquired Taste Ep. 2 : Don't Make These Startup Biz Dev Mistakes
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
The four reasons your startup business development efforts fail. They are simple and very avoidable...
Monday Feb 12, 2024
An Acquired Taste Ep. 1
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Why the "it's better than nothing" mentality is hurting your startup community
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
In this episode of This Has to Work, Tyler Hatcher, Community Manager with Joonko joins the show to talk about the importance of diversity and inclusion in your organization. Tyler talks about some of the initial steps you can take to recognize and support more inclusivity and diversity, why positive change around D&I has been slow and how Joonko is using technology to help companies hire qualified and diverse candidates.
Monday Mar 02, 2020
TWTW Ep. 14: Tony Summerville- What it Really Takes to Scale your Startup
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
In this episode of This Has to Work, Tony Summerville, Founder and CEO of Fleetio joins us to talk about the critical things you need to do as a founder to help your company and team scale. He also talks about how culture plays a role in everything they do, why growing from $100k to $1m was actually harder than going from $1m to $10m, the ways he has changed as a leader during that time and why it's important to take time and reflect on your success.
It's an episode packed with first-hand experience from one the Southeast's most successful founders. Hit the play button now...
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
THTW Ep 13: Mike Goodrich- Social Impact Investing
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
In this episode of This Has to Work, learn what social impact investing is, the role it's beginning to play among mainstream investor and why you can expect to get market returns for those investments. Mike Goodrich joins the show to talk about what he's found in the impact investing space throughout the country and how more people, not just investors, can get involved.
Monday Jan 20, 2020
THTW Ep 12: Martha Underwood
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
In this episode of This Has to Work, Martha Underwood, Head of Retail at BBVA Compass talks about what it takes to create meaningful corporate innovation, why intrapreneur is not a dirty word, how unnecessarily bad rental car customer experience is and that Chick-Fil-A might be one of the most innovative companies in any industry. All that and Martha's expertly chosen bumper music on this episode of This Has to Work!