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095: Going Big With Nanoparticles - Leading A BioTech Company 0
Dec 17, 2015
 
Today's Podcast:
 
Kerriann Greenhalgh, CEO & Founder - KeriCure, Inc
 
I love interviewing Founding CEOs because I get to speak with highly intelligent, impact leaders who are doing great things for others...and Dr. Kerriann Greenhalgh is a great example. She is using the power of nanoparticles to revolutionize wound care and even bring new life to old antibiotics. And, she is an equally amazing leader. Listen as she explains how she put all this together and her helpful tips about how to vet outside vendors and providers...her "buyers' club" is pure genius.
094: Producing Paleo Products With Powerful Profits 0
Dec 15, 2015
 
 
Today's Podcast:
 
Jordann Windschauer, CEO & Founder - Base Culture
 
Jordann is the type of person you can listen to and in the first 5 minutes you are inspired. I enjoyed speaking with her because her determination and passion for all things paleo is so encouraging. And, you'll like her wisdom on not saying no, how to deal with her young age in a "good ole boys" industry, and some of these great quotes:
  • "Challenges render strength"
  • "I wasn't performing well in my job because I was baking from 7PM until 3AM and then waking up and going to work from 8 to 5 and then working out in between...it was pretty hectic for awhile."
  • "I don't understand...the word no...I can't wrap my head around it."
  • "I get told no everyday."
  • "We're not doing it the normal way."
  • "The rules are not necessarily in stone."
  • "I've had to learn that my age is not a limiting factor."
  • "I would say the most important thing is to lead with honesty."
  • "You never know what's going to happen...if you are honest and vulnerable...you put yourself out there...a lot of people appreciate that and will help you."
  • "Be you, be who you are."
093: Leading Through Growth Issues & New Recruiting Tips 0
Dec 10, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Raj Sheth, CEO & Co-founder - Recruiterbox
 
It was a lot of fun to have Founding CEO, Raj Sheth, come back a second time on the podcast. He and his team have done a great job growing his business and I wanted all of you to hear an update on his company and his journey From Founder To CEO. Raj also talks about some updated hiring tips his team have collected as well as some great insights about the advantages of using an applicant tracking system (ATS).
092: Helping Social Entrepreneurs Spread Their Message 0
Dec 8, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Marc Angelo Coppola, Founder & CEO - Valhalla Movement
 
Marc's superpower is the ability to identify the strengths of others and find a place on his team for them to leverage their strengths. He has an amazing ability to build multiple businesses that all have a common thread. Listen as you also learn about his perspective on CEO focus.
091: Disrupting The Hiring Assessment Industry With Plum 0
Dec 3, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Caitlin MacGregor, Co-founder & CEO - Plum

You can probably tell from my voice in this interview, that I am really excited about this company, Plum. I have a fair amount of experience with assessments for selection and Plum is really shaking up this older industry. What's even more fascinating about what they are doing is that they are led by a Co-founding CEO who really understands herself, her skills, her strengths, and her limitations in a way that I rarely see. But, then again, she is the CEO of an assessment company. :) So, I highly recommend you listen very carefully to Plum's value proposition, Caitlin's knowledgable insights about hiring, and how she has conquered being "too agreeable." You'll also hear her say:

  • "I see myself as a fixer."
  • "A job post should be a marketing tool..."
  • "We just won a pitch competition..."
090: Team Goals + Team Alignment + Team Focus = Calendly 0
Dec 1, 2015

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Tope Awotona, CEO & Founder - Calendly

Tope Awotona wanted an easier and better way to schedule meetings. So, he created it. A few years later he is having GREAT success with Calendly.  And, he is really crushing it with a "freemium" business model that has twice the paid upgrade rate as other software as a service platforms. He also talks about his 3 Big Tips About Prioritization & Team Alignment, and these quotes:

  • "I believe that you get what you given into any given situation."
  • "...we actually took a pause...from the time we launched the product...and did not add a single feature until we were really able to really sort out the requests...what what really a deal breaker for people...versus what was a nice to have..."
  • "90% of being the boss is repeating the same thing over and over again."
  • "Charge more, charge earlier."
089: SPECIAL: How Can YOU Send Gratitude To Your Team, More Easily? 0
Nov 26, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Martha Huntley, Founder & CEO - WeGUSH

I am very excited to share this Thanksgiving Day special episode with all of you around the world. In this episode we have the uplifting and inspiring story of Founding CEO, Martha Huntley, who is on a mission to help people expand the expression of gratitude around the world. This innovation platform is the perfect story to help us all think about expressing appreciation more often. However, it's not just for Thanksgiving, Martha's platform continues to expand as users connect and share gratitude 365 days a year. Hear her talk about:

  • Why she is so passionate about her company.
  • How she found her team members.
  • What she learned about sharing her business idea.
088: Hiring & Onboarding A New Leader - Jamal Motlagh 0
Nov 24, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Jamal Motlagh, CEO & Co-founder - Acustom Apparel
 
This is the FIRST time we have had a previous guest on the show for another interview. The reason? Jamal's debut on the show was in March 2015. He gave a revealing interview which led to over 2,500 downloads - our largest downloaded episode yet. Plus, Jamal shares some incredible accomplishments since we last spoke with him about his journey From Founder To CEO. He talks about:
  • Opening a new store in LA.
  • The process he used to hire a Manager for his LA store.
  • The process he is using to onboard his new LA Manager
  • What he continues to work on as he matures as a CEO.
 
087: Bryan Miles - "Own things, Don't run things" 0
Nov 19, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Bryan Miles, CEO & Co-founder - Miles AG
  • "I feel like God has had a hand in our business."
  • "I'm a pretty decent vision caster."
  • "No business is ever stagnant...you are either in growth or decline."
  • "While everything looked good, I hoped for more."
  • "Are you on 'Hope Island' with this prospect?"
  • "The day that the business doesn't need you day to day is the day that you start owning your business."
  • "I have more peace today..."
086: From Founder To "Virtual CEO" 0
Nov 17, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Chris Ducker, Founder & CEO - Live2Sell / Virtual Staff Finder / Youpreneur
 

The one and only, Chris Ducker,  shares his management and leadership advice in this revealing interview. His journey from Founder to "Virtual CEO" has had some huge successes and a personally challenging time period when he suffered through burnout. Listen as he talks about his journey and these powerful quotes:

  • "Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas."
  • "A lot of business owners don't have enough self awareness of them."
  • "I am a bad manager but I am good at seeing those diamonds in the rough from a hiring perspective."
  • "I hire people to do the things that I can't do."
  • "I can't manage so I hire people that can manage for me."
  • "I hit burnout in late 2009...when I truly became a CEO..."
  • "When you hit burnout...it truly is a life changing event...I realized I was micromanaging."
  • "Once I started truly acting like a CEO, more and more opportunities have come my way."
085: From Army Cavalry Officer to Co-founder to CEO 0
Nov 12, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Joseph Kopser, Co-founder & CEO - RideScout
 
  • "The three things that I learned most in the military...how to build teams...how to solve problems as quickly as possible...learn not to sweat the small stuff."
  • "...it came to...the dark days...the day we only had 729 dollars left in the bank and we had six people who had to pay the rent and make payroll..."
  • "...at the end of the day...nobody was shooting at us, nobody was dying, and nobody was getting injured...and so when you put into that kind of perspective it makes the trials and tribulations of startup life a lot easier to tolerate and to weather through."
  • "...as an entrepreneur...especially a Founding CEO...you're going to do the moral equivalent of pitching a tent in the dirt in the middle of the desert..."
  • "We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously."
  • "You go asking for money and your going to get advice, you go asking for advice and you have a better chance to get money."
  • "I truly believe that we can make our communities a better place."
  • "I also learned to let go."
  • "Just build teams."
084: From Pilot To Founder & CEO of BIG School Fundraising Company 0
Nov 10, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Matthew Miller, CEO & Founder - School Spirit Vending
 
Matt has built an incredible company with a win for schools, communities, and his team members. They sell over 7 million stickers a year while helping schools raise funds. He also talks about how learning personality profiles help him grow as a leader.
083: From Blogging King To Founding CEO Of 8-Figure Online Kingdom 0
Nov 5, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Brian Clark, Founder & CEO - Rainmaker Digital
 

Brian is digital entrepreneur royalty. He has created MASSIVE value for MANY businesses for MANY years and because of that he has earned tremendous success as a Founder and CEO. You may know him for his WILDLY successful copyblogger platform. But, as a leader he has grown that one platform to a multimedia company that contains many brands all under the Rainmaker Digital umbrella - a complete marketing technology platform. As with all our guests, he gets detailed about his personal journey from Founder to CEO and talks about:

  • This quote: "Whether you write a word ever, studying copy writing will make you a good business person...because it makes you focus so much on your customers and clients, or prospects..."
  • This quote: "I was a great marketer...but, I didn't understand how to manage people..."
  • This quote: "I've always had trouble with delegating...back in 2002 to 2005 I was the classic E-Myth case study..."
  • This quote: "Letting your team do their job is such a crucial step..."
  • This quote: "Every single person in this company, all my partners, all our employees, they came from the audience I created."
  • This quote: "Getting talent...that's the whole thing."
  • This quote: "Take good care of the people you've got because you don't want them running off."
  • This quote: "When you pack your schedule to the brim with meetings and phone calls and and desk work...and don't allow yourself to think, that's when you make bad decisions."
082: Lasers, Birds, & Interns, Oh My! 0
Nov 3, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Steinar Henskes, Founder & CEO - Bird Control Group

He speaks about:

  • This quote: "I really took the lean startup approach...I developed a very simple product...sold it to farmers because they were the easiest customers. From the money I earned from that we started to develop more and produce more...so really bootstrapping..."
  • This quote: "One trick I discovered....if we had a certain development project...I outsourced to our main contractor..."
  • This quote: "I spend my time at hiring, marketing, strategy, and business development...sometimes a little product development."
  • This quote: "The sales funnel is not something that I would not want to manage."
  • Hiring:
    1. "In the beginning what was very difficult for me was to get the right people on board on the team....I actually learned...that you should aim for the best and do not compromise."
    2. "Just aim for the best."
    3. "I made...some mistakes hiring people who were not very competent..."
    4. "I gave too much responsibility to people who were not up to the job."
    5. "Interns can not be...part of your core team...they should have a project to finish..."
  • Granting equity:
    1. "When you are successful as a company...people...want a piece of the pie..."
    2. Use it to "commit people to a longer period of time."
    3. "Do not make the decision too soon."
081: AI+Focus+Transparency=Recipe for Success for Dennis Mortensen 0
Oct 29, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Dennis Mortensen, CEO & Founder - x.ai
 
What do you get when you add ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to FOCUS with a dash of RADICAL TRANSPARENCY? Your get a Danish Founding CEO name Dennis Mortensen and a high performing team who are on a mission to democratize the personal assistant. Dennis gives us a peek into his "AI" world, what leadership mindset his brings to scaling his company, and why he shares bank statements with his team.
080: "Your number one job is to hire great leadership teams." 0
Oct 27, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Brian Wong, CEO & Co-founder - Kiip
  • He shares his insights about:
  • Where he got the idea for Kiip.
  • Why he enjoys management.
  • How he uses his youth to his advantage as a young CEO.
  • His favorite "management moments."
  • What he thinks the job of Founding CEO actually is.
  • Why he thinks it's so important to finish what you started.
  • What he learned about building an executive team.
079: Using LinkedIn to Build a $45 million logistics company 0
Oct 22, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Dennis Brown, Founder and former CEO - Logistic Dynamics
 
  1. How he used LinkedIn to grow his $45 million company
  2. His unwillingness to giving up control in order to grow the company.
  3. This quote: "You can't do it alone."
  4. This quote: "I started hiring to my weaknesses and giving them more control."
078: How to Build a Lobster Empire 0
Oct 20, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Jim Tselikis, Co-CEO & Co-Founder - Cousins Maine Lobster
 
  1. How he and his cousin, Sabin, divide the CEO responsibilities.
  2. How assessment tools helped he and his cousin, Sabin, build a strong relationship.
  3. Why they chose the franchise route.
  4. "It's about how to make this better and how to humanize this."
  5. How to navigate being friendly with staff and holding staff accountable.
  6. "We've stayed true...to what we've done with our product with our sourcing with everything with our supply in our family in Maine...keep the brand consistency...proud of that."
077: Three Keys To A Successful Exit 0
Oct 15, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Doug Lyon, Founder and Chief Happiness Officer - Paqui
 
 
3 Keys To A Successful Exit
076: SPECIAL: The POWER of Founding CEO Reflection Time 0
Oct 13, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Bret Hurt, Owner - Hurt Family Investments
 
 
The power of CEO reflection time
075: What's it really like to be a BIG VC Backed CEO? 0
Oct 8, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Apu Gupta, CEO & Co-founder - Curalate
  • "I think that consumers and brands really like each other, if they respect each other."
  • "I was frankly really scared to start a company."
  • "That pressure for growth never leaves...it becomes a part of your every day"
  • "The tech industry...it's like the only industry on the planet where growing 100% year over year is considered ok."
  • "You have to grow...the pressure to grow is non-stop, you think about it every moment of the day."
  • "I can't bring myself to lose other people's money."
  • "These people have placed their faith in me...to make good decisions on their behalf."
  • "People look to you to be the CEO at a time when you still don't look to yourself as a CEO."
074: The importance of a CEO Confidant - Allyson Downey 0
Oct 6, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Allyson Downey, Co-founder and CEO - weeSpring
 
  1. Having your team members write down their core values and create a framework from which you can all work from...one of her company's core values is "keep it simple."
  2. How weeSpring grows...by partnering with other brands and companies that have an audience similar to their audience.
  3. How she spends her time: She tries to spend her time on vision and big picture strategy, but gets bogged down in the little stuff...but is now disciplined about not doing things that are not a good use of her CEO time.
  4. How being self-aware CEO has been key to her success.
  5. This quote: "Leadership comes from within...leadership is something you need to develop personally...be self reflective about your strengths and weaknesses."
  6. This quote: "As an entrepreneur I can have my worst day and best day in the same six hours."
  7. Why finding people that you can be open and candid with is an essential to your success.
  8. This quote: "Don't over innovative. If you are too innovative, you are not going to fit into anyone's life or budget."
073: SPECIAL: Founding CEO Leadership Challenges for 5 Customer-Funded Business Models 0
Oct 1, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Dr. John Mullins, Associate Professor of Management Practice - London Business School
 
 

Founding CEO Leadership Challenges for 5 Customer-Funded Business Models

072: Shark Tank Alum Builds Cake Empire By Taking Care Of Her Team 0
Sep 29, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Kim Nelson, CEO & Founder - Daisy Cakes
 
  1. How just asking got Daisy Cakes on the "Price is Right" TV show.
  2. The challenges of finding employees who have the same sense of ownership as you do.
  3. How focusing on a quality product has fueled her success.
  4. How focusing on strategic marketing has kept her in front of new customers.
  5. How being fair to her employees has helped keep turn over low.
  6. How to handle good employees who takes took much "ownership" and becomes emotionally attached to their job.
 
071: "You can run a business or you can grow a business," says Joshua Dorkin 0
Sep 24, 2015
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Today's Podcast:
 
Joshua Dorkin,CEO and Founder - BiggerPockets
 
  1. How trust is the currency that has fueled his success.
  2. What prompted him to expand his revenue stream: "I couldn't count on one stream of revenue..."
  3. How an "unwillingness to die" got him from Founder to CEO.
  4. How figuring out the intrinsic motivators of his people has helped him be a better CEO.
  5. When a consultant helped him shift his focus from working in the business to working on the business. - "You can run a business or you can grow a business."
  6. How hiring more people for his team has challenged him...and some of the tips that he has learned along the way.
  7. How deflating it is when you get excited about hiring a great person and and then it doesn't work out.
  8. A delegation mindset to get over: "Nobody is ever going to care about things the way you do."
  9. The tricky job of hiring at the right time - "Build up a staff to scale."
 
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