Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds. New episodes on Mondays and Thursdays for free. Listen 1-week early and to all episodes ad-free with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or ...
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The Podcast for those who want to Build & Improve their business via stories of entrepreneurs that have built their own businesses!
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How I Built It - Case Studies & Coaching for Creators and Solopreneurs
Joe Casabona, Podcast Automation Coach
This one's for all the busy solopreneurs who can't spend more time on their business. Each week, host Joe Casabona talks about how you can build a better business through smarter processes, time management, and effective content creation. He does this by bringing on expert guests, and sharing his own experience from 20+ as a solopreneur. With every episode, you'll get insights, great stories, and 1-3 actions you can take today to build a better business.
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Welcome to 'How I Built My Small Business,' where I delve into unfiltered conversations with small business owners, revealing their humble beginnings, challenges, and game-changing advice. This podcast is a labor of love, aiming to inspire and empower small business enthusiasts and anyone curious to know the original spark of entrepreneurs' ideas, how much revenue small business owners make, their profit margins, specific strategies used to grow, challenges faced, major wins, and so much mor ...
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Every week, Podcast and Automation Coach Joe Casabona gives you a tool, tip, or trick to help you be a better creator in 6 minutes or less.
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「How I Built This」は米国の公共ラジオ放送、ナショナル・パブリック・ラジオ(NPR)が配信する番組で、掃除機で知られるダイソンの創業者ジェームズ・ダイソン氏ら著名な起業家が、自らのサクセスストーリーをインタビューに答えながら語るポッドキャストで、米国でもリスナーから幅広く支持されています。今回制作しました日本語版は、豊富なビジネス取材の経験を持つ日経BP総合研究所上席研究員、品田英雄氏が番組案内役を務め、起業家の肉声を伝える番組の魅力をそのままに、日本語で紹介します。 番組ではジェームズ・ダイソン氏の他、オンライン百科事典ウィキペディアの創設者、ジミー・ウェールズ氏や写真共有アプリのインスタグラムを創業したケビン・シストロム氏とマイク・クリーガー氏のインタビューを11月15日(月)からまとめて配信します。 https://www.1242.com/project/hibt/
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This podcast describes my business called dream sweetly. Here you will find what I did during this process and the struggles I faced Cover art photo provided by Rasmus Mikkelstrup on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@rasiquiz
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How I Built My Fundraising Consultancy - the stories behind the people driving results in the nonprofit sector
MarketSmart
How I Built My Fundraising Consultancy is a bi-weekly interview podcast with fundraising consultants. Hear how individual consultants and consulting firm leaders got their start. Learn what it takes to launch your practice, the tools you’ll need, and the hardships you may face. Discover what it takes to build a fundraising consultancy. Check out How I Built My Fundraising Consultancy by MarketSmart.
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Gipsyhearts - How I travelled 12 countries and built my business
Gipsyhearts - How I travelled 12 countries and built my business
Welcome guys, I’ll introduce you to some very intimate stories about my travels through around 12 countries, my reflections on life and my journey becoming an entrepreneur! www. Gipsyhearts.com
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“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
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The popular science fiction idea of beaming someone instantly to another location was part of David Nussbaum’s inspiration to design a “holoportation box.” His company, Proto, invented a device the size of a telephone booth that projects a hologram-type image so realistic it appears someone is standing inside... This week on How I Built This Lab, h…
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Disrupting the Backyard Pool Industry with this Innovative Shipping Container Design - Paul Rathnam of ModPools | 208
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208. ModPools | Paul Rathnam was diagnosed with a learning disability early in his life, Paul Rathnam persevered through all the challenges and reached success by becoming the business owner of a unique and innovative company called ModPools. His very first company was ModPro, which customizes shipping containers for a variety of client's needs. Co…
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Ross Jacobson - Navigating Hollywood as an Indie Producer with 3311 PRODUCTIONS
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Ross Jacobson is the co -founder CEO of 3311 Productions, a company of film lovers who take movie making seriously, but not themselves. Ross went from the entry level job as tape librarian at Magical Elves, the producer of Top Chef and Project Runway, to leading the company in just four years. Ross is a film industry veteran who has brought films t…
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Tools Check-in: What am I using so far in 2024?
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My grandfather came to the United States from Italy in 1949 and worked in New York City for much of his life — primarily in construction. For as long as I can remember, he had this big, metal toolbox. And when he passed away, he gave it to me, and I still have and use it to this day. Pop had that toolbox for decades. When he found something that wo…
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The Levels Effect: A Biowearable Startup that Empowers People to Take Control of Their Health | 207
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207. Levels Metabolic Health | Josh Clemente spent the first half of his professional career working at SpaceX and Hyperloop– two companies, one founded by and the other supported by Elon Musk. At SpaceX, Josh spent six years working on rocket and spacecraft systems, while at Hyperloop, Josh worked on infrastructure level engineering and life suppo…
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MGA Entertainment: Isaac Larian
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Isaac Larian moved from Iran to Los Angeles at age 17 with just a few hundred dollars, and went on to build one of the biggest toy companies in the world. Along the way, he took on Barbie with a wildly successful line of punky dolls called Bratz — a success that touched off an epic legal battle with Mattel. Today, at age 70, Isaac is still the CEO …
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How DiamondBack Truck Covers Survived (then Thrived) after 10 Years of Challenges: A Convo with Ethan Wendle | 206
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206. DiamondBack Truck Covers | Ethan Wendle in 2003 was attending an Engineering Entrepreneurial class when he met Matt Chverchko. They partnered in a classroom project that grew from a garage operation to a real full-time enterprise. Thus, DiamondBack Truck Covers was born. Ethan attended Penn State University from 2000 to 2003 and took up Civil …
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Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
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“Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop.” That’s what organizational psychologist and podcast host Adam Grant believes, and he offers a new framework on how we can elevate ourselves and others in his latest book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things. This week on How I Built This Lab, in…
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The Light Bulb Moment that Led Grant Morgan to Build R-Zero. A Biosafety Co that Delivers Hospital-Grade Disinfection. | 205
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205. R-Zero | Grant Morgan was developing a powerful UV-C disinfection device capable of destroying over 99.99% of pathogens to make commercial space as safe as possible for employees and customers. Grant, along with his co-founders, runs R-Zero Systems, which is a biosafety company dedicated to making safer everyday spaces and common places. Among…
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Melissa Martinelli - Crafting DRINK SUPERFRAU! Getting into 400+ Stores and Fighting Climate Change, One Sip at a Time
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Melissa Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Superfrau. Melissa was an immigration lawyer and pivoted to crafting delicious Super Sodas made from surplus fresh whey that is generated during the youghurt fermentation process. She has been featured on the Boston Globe, was a speaker at the Tufts University Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute, and…
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Designing & Developing Engaging Games for Learning w/ Stephen Baer of The Game Agency | 204
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204. The Game Agency | Stephen Baer launched The Game Agency 13 years ago and The Training Arcade 3 years ago, Stephen Baer has developed award-winning games for new-employee on-boarding, sales and product training, leadership development, safety, security, compliance, systems & processes, customer service, and many other training topics. Listen to…
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If you told 19-year-old Larry Liu that his hobby re-selling used electronics “for fun” would someday help him build a multi-billion-dollar company, he probably would have laughed. He was an electrical engineering student in Shanghai at the time. His goals were to land a corporate job and go to grad school in the U.S. He did both, starting with a jo…
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Rethinking Our Relationship with Time and Money with Khe Hy
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I abhor hustle culture. Telling someone to work a full-time job, then go home and work more all for some goal that keeps changing is, in my opinion, how to lead an empty life. I’m worried that, even in 2024, we continue to fetishize making money and hustling. So I decided to take it to Khe Hy. Khe, if you don’t know, worked hard – as he puts it, he…
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Succeeding in Digital Marketing & SEO with Igor Avidon of Avidon Marketing Group | 203
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203. Avidon Marketing Group | Igor Avidon is a digital marketing expert with a decade of experience in online marketing & advertising. He is also the founder of Avidon Marketing Group, which is a boutique SEO company. His career began with a personal interest in helping his family's business survive the 2008 economic recession. During this period, …
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AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
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Imran Chaudhri and his wife Bethany Bongiorno are responsible for bringing some of the most widely-used screened products to market—like the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. And while these devices have connected humans like never before, Imran and Bethany couldn’t help but wonder about the downsides of spending so much time tethered to screens. Afte…
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Disrupting the Solar Industry with a Community Solar Model - Aviv Shalgi of Solar Simplified | 202
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202. Solar Simplified | Aviv Shalgi is a serial entrepreneur, and is the CEO of an energy tech startup Solar Simplified, which is a platform that matches renters and homeowners who care about the environment and want to save money on the electricity bill with local solar farms. For more than 6 years, Aviv has been a Board Member, Mentor, and Adviso…
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Mark and Anne McGinty - Netting seven figures in months hanging Christmas lights with SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY LIGHTING, INC.
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In this special episode, join me, Anne, and my husband Mark as we co-host a journey down memory lane, reflecting on the origins and evolution of San Francisco Holiday Lighting, Inc, a full-service holiday lighting and decor installation company. Mark, with a background in carpentry, and myself, formerly a sales representative for a nationwide oral …
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The Ficks Factor: How Ron Alvarado Crafted a Hard Seltzer that Stands Out from the Crowd | 201
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201. Ficks Beverage | Ron Alvarado co-founded Ficks Beverage Co, the leading manufacturer of better-for-you bar products with its line of pure fruit juice hard seltzers and wellness-focused cocktail mixers. They are based in San Francisco, California, and currently expanding their two main products to national retailers such as Whole Foods, H-E-B, …
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Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
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Mark Sisson made a big bet on mayonnaise, and won: four years after launching his Paleo-friendly condiment company Primal Kitchen, he sold it for $200 million. He succeeded partly because he drew lessons from his previous failures and accomplishments - as a marathon runner, Ironman triathlete and coach, frozen yogurt proprietor, sports supplement f…
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Aligning Your Values to Set the Right Goals with Tanya Alvarez
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What do you want your life to look like? Last week I talked about how not being intentional is kind of like driving a car without the GPS. But goal setting without knowing what you want – that’s a bit like driving a car without having a destination in mind. Well, today, Tanya Alvarez is going to help us figure out the destination – you can think of…
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Launching a No-Code Website Platform with David Chen, CEO of Strikingly | 200
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200. Strikingly | David Chen dropped out from the University of Chicago to start Strikingly along with his two co founders, Teng Bao and Dafeng Guo. They moved to Silicon Valley with $100 in their pocket and were accepted into Y Combinator after eating ramen noodle in their 1-bedroom apartment for 5 months. Strikingly is a Y Combinator-backed start…
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Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
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Gene Berdichevsky and his team have been working for over a decade to solve a major problem: Lithium-ion batteries are not getting any better. They power our cell phones and laptops and nearly every other modern, rechargeable device—and at this point have reached their energy-storing limit. This week on How I Built This Lab, Gene discusses a new ap…
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The Future of Video Chat: Fritz Brumder on His Adventure from Brandlive to Zipcan | 199
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199. Zipcan | Fritz Brumder is an entrepreneur, video strategist, avid skier, proud dad & husband. In 2010 Fritz Brumder co-founded Brandlive, the leading SaaS live video events platform for brands and retailers. In 2020 he co-founded Zipcan.com - the fastest way to enable video chat inside your website or application. Zipcan's vision is to bring v…
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Kelsey Sheofsky - Building SHELTER CO., a high-seven-figure glamping and outdoor event production company
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Kelsey is the owner of Shelter-Co, a full scale event production company with luxury canvas tents and beautiful furnishings to boot, that has gained a reputation for well-designed, thoughtful, and environmentally conscious productions. Prior to starting Shelter Co, Kelsey cold-called Alison Hotchkiss of Alison Events to see if she had any job openi…
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From Philly Frenetic to KeyMark: Jim Wanner’s Journey from Team Mascot to Artificial Intelligence Expert | 198
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198. KeyMark | Jim Wanner is the founder and Chief Expectations Officer at KeyMark, an intelligent automation systems integrator headquartered in Liberty, SC. KeyMark delivers capture (OCR), workflow (ECM), case management, virtual collaboration and robotic process automation (RPA) solutions to businesses and government organizations. KeyMark helps…
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Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
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In 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel—yes, that Jack Daniel—how to make Tennessee whiskey. After diving deeper into the story, Fawn ended up purchasing the farm in Lynchburg, Tennessee where Nearest had taught Jack how to distil…
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Why I’m Killing my Membership
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Not being intentional in your business is a bit like getting in your car and driving without the GPS. Sure…you generally know where you’re going. But what if a road is closed? What if there’s avoidable traffic? A GPS can help you navigate around those things. When you’re intentional about your business, you go from wandering aimlessly, taking any w…
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How Ron Holt Grew Two Maids & a Mop from a Single Location to a $40 Million Franchise | 197
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197. Two Maids & A Mop | Ron Holt founded the original Two Maids & A Mop inside a 250 square foot office space on April Fools' Day way back in 2003. In their first year of operations, they cleaned less than one hundred homes and only staffed a few part-time employees. It took the business eighteen months to make its first dollar in profits and took…
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The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
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What if you could no longer trust the things you see and hear? Because the signature on a check, the documents or videos presented in court, the footage you see on the news, the calls you receive from your family … They could all be perfectly forged by artificial intelligence. That’s just one of the risks posed by the rapid development of AI. And t…
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The Ups and Downs of Dating and Entrepreneurship: A Chat with Lori Cheek, the Founder of Cheekd | 196
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196. Cheekd | Lori Cheek is an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of Cheekd, a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Cheekd uses a cross-platform low energy Bluetooth technology, which fosters hyper local engagement. The app connects people in real time, versus virtual time. After working in architecture, Lori came …
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Loren Vandegrift - SPECIAL EPISODE: Insights from BUSINESS EXITS broker on sales, values, and trends
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Loren is a Parter at Business Exits and has sold over $300 million worth in businesses over the past six years. Prior to brokering business deals, Loren was the founder CEO of a technology strategy consulting firm that he exited after thirteen years. After his own terrible experience as a seller, Loren was motivated to create a better and more auth…
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Building a Niche Fundraising Platform with Howard Gottlieb, the Founder and CEO of Read-A-Thon | 195
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195. Read-a-Thon | Howard Gottlieb is the founder and CEO of Read-a-thon but in the office, everyone just calls him the Big Cheese. Howard spends most of his waking hours obsessing about how to make Read-a-thon the absolute best school fundraising idea anywhere on the planet Earth. Their goal is to have every elementary school and school library in…
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