Failure - the Podcast
A podcast exploring innovation and failure, primarily in business contexts. The show discusses why ventures fail and what can be learned from those failures. It invites listeners to visit innovationblab.com for additional content. Each episode likely features case studies or interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators.
Episodes
Who Needs Humans?
This trainwreck of a podcast has nearly achieved its eponymous singularity: failure. With no recent episodes to point to, we can’t book guests — so Mark had an idea: hire AI chatbots. Two interviewed well, Copilot and Claude. The fact that they can hold a spoken conversation and remember context almost passes as intelligence. They can’t do snark yet, but they’re more articulate than most of us. Ha
Chatbots Gone Wild!
Your teen’s staring at the phone, again. Wonder what’s going through their head. Let’s have a listen: Okay, so like... what could possibly go wrong? I’m spilling my guts to a therapist. We’re connecting. No judgment. No stares. I tell her everything. Stuff I don’t tell myself. It’s insane, like she sees into my brain. Not like my parents. They’re f’ing clueless. The best part? I
It's Not an Emergency
After a brief hiatus, during which the team from Failure - the Podcast/Innovation Blab/5-Minute Update contemplated their umbilici (think, M.C. Escher), we found ourselves at the Yale University School of Medicine to continue our exploration of the health care system. Our intent was to learn about urban health care from an emergency room perspective, and we had an outstanding guide: Dr. Arju
NonProfitPalooza
Today’s episode, NonProfitPalooza, might better be titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Overachievers.” Our guests are Marissa Fayer and Brody Galloway, both of whom founded and actively run MedTech nonprofits. Were that not enough, they also hold day jobs.Marissa Fayer is the founder and CEO of HERhealthEQ, an organization dedicated to reducing the equity gap in access to healthcare fo
Corporate Espionage
This episode of the "5-Minute Update" extends our discussion of ethically-informed licensing to enterprise software customer data. That's a mouthful. Let us explain.As our dedicated listener(s) will appreciate, the "5-Minute Update" recently explored whether technology licensing agreements might prove a viable mechanism for right-sizing the growth of AI from a risk/benefit perspective.
Buyer Beware
Whether for autonomous vehicles or “smart” consumer products, government regulation may be too little and too late when it comes to right-sizing the growth of AI from a risk/benefit perspective. Can the private sector do better — and, if so, could technology and data licensing agreements provide a viable mechanism for regulating AI in consumer products? Join a panel discussion on the e
Gift or Grift?
Our Guest: Suman Lal
Public Health Reflux ... er ... Redux
We’d thought we’d learned from a prior guest to this august podcast that Big Pharma could provide cures for more diseases, if only flaws in America’s third-party payor health care system could be fixed. Today’s guest is not so sure of that. Dr. Seth Powsner, a professor at Yale and a practicing ER physician, says that it’s really a question of will: the collective will of a nation to s
Drugged Out
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast (a/k/a Innovation Blab) as they stumble upon the dark underbelly of Big Pharma. Our guest, Imran Nasrullah, has 25+ years of experience in the industry, specializing in drug licensing and business development. He tell tales that few know or want to believe. One in ten thousand, for example: 9,999 candidate drugs tested and rejected f
Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 2: The Singularity is Nigh.
Who knew?Join the Innovation Blab (a/k/a Failure - the Podcast) in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Singularity is Nigh.” Our special guests are … well … special. Milind Sawant is an AI guru, currently with Siemens Healthcare and leading a team of 50 engineers and a $15M budget to drive AI integration into medical systems. It’s no surprise
Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 1: Broken Down Cars.
Who knew?Join Innovation Blab/Failure - the Podcast in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Singularity is Nigh.” Our special guests are … well … special.Sydney Robinson is CEO and co-founder of Vessl Prosthetics, an Ontario-based startup that is hellbent on improving the lives of below-knee amputees and on proving that not all orthope
Nasty, Brutish and Short
Catch them on a good day, and we suspect that many an entrepreneur would say that bootstrapping a business is like a bowl of cherries, pits and all. Leaving aside the independently wealthy, that more traditional approach may destine the enterprise to slower, bounded growth. A lifestyle business. One that’s likely to yield more pits than flesh early on, but that with the right mix
The Question
Ask an entrepreneur: “what keeps you up at night?” They’ve heard The Question before and have an answer at the ready. But they’ll make you wait through a feigned moment of reflection before they launch into it.Investors play the game, too. Get a group of them together and, invariably, one of them will pose The Question whenever an entrepreneur does a pitch. All present will
Blab, yes. Innovation, not so much.
Election fever. With all the news, who can avoid it? Not a news ticker scrolls by without a mention of Biden's age, Trump's trials and RFK's betrayals. We're not immune to it. So when a scheduled guest went AWOL, we figured we'd talk about the first thing that came to mind. Suffice it to say that MAGA conservatives aren't the only ones who hang out in echo chambers.
Teaching Innovation
Join us in a discussion with Diane Bouis, director of MedTech Innovator, the world’s largest life science startup accelerator program.
Make Innovation Great Again!
Not that we have a vested interest, but we’d suggest that Joe Biden make a go at it with a blue baseball cap sporting the acronym MIGA. You know, “make innovation great again!” Speaking of innovation, today’s guest is John Daniels, a tinkerer turned entrepreneur who is daring fate by joining the Innovation Blab in a discussion of his latest venture. It’s developing a rapid diagno
The University Perspective
Welcome to Innovation Blab, a new series of podcasts (…keep fingers crossed…) offering the B-side to Failure - the Podcast. Yes, Mark will be back, and we hope to put up both Innovation and Failure posts in the coming days (months, more likely), but as they say about the alleged clandestine romantic relationship surrounding appointment of the special prosecutor in the Georgia election interferenc
And, now, for something completely different....
It's not often the team from Failure - the Podcast gets serious. Sure, there was the time Mark stole an air mask from Jet Blue and hooked it to a canister of helium. He was impersonating Marjorie Taylor Green for our "Fly Me to the Moon" episode, but forgot to put oxygen in the mix. Thankfully, the EMTs had a spare pig's brain on board for the transplant. And, how about when Mic hired Rudy Giu
You Gotta Listen
You gotta listen if you are in Sales. And, after all, who isn't? Join the
team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Cal Reichwein, former
star with the Lafayette Cougars mens basketball team and, now, an emerging
star on the Hubspot sales team.
Back in 5…
“Back in 5….” What does that mean? Our kids say it on the way out the door,
when beef tongue is the evening fare. Do they mean minutes? Never seems
that way.
We get it. Not everyone likes beef. It’s a little like this podcast,
though, we suspect beef may have more adherents than Failure - the Podcast.
Tongue? That’s a different question, at least if you’re talking bovine….
Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz ...
No, it's not the ice cream. It's the podcast. This one, and you can be sure it's in bad taste. But, hey, don't be too disappointed. Before reality sunk in, we did offer you the briefest glimmer of hope. That's more than a certain congressperson from Georgia has done for you. What is today's podcast, other than the usual meaningless banter? There is that, of course. But, there is more, too.
Fun with Numbers
Sounds promising: fun with numbers. If not the mathematicians and physicists, certainly the accountants might get something from this podcast. And, if not them, the actuaries will have a field day. Think about it: a podcast even an actuary could love. Stultifying.Well, not so fast. If you’ve not learned anything from the last four years, it’s that labels can be deceiving. Take “Super Happ
Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three ...
It took a little doing, but the team from Failure - the Podcast think they found the first use of that magical phrase "testing, testing one, two, three.....". No, it wasn't in 2010, when Biden dropped the F-bomb on an open mic while introducing then-President Obama's eponymous health care bill. Nor, was it when Sleepy Joe muttered "God save the queen" at the close of the 115th Congress in 2017, af
Your Mailbox is Full
Yup, the team from Failure – the Podcast has been busy, too. End of year, and all that.When we weren’t worrying about systemic election fraud, it was that “undemocratic coup“ that the New York Post was railing about. But, with vaccine distribution started, the pandemic relief bill signed and the defense bill ... well … we’ll just see…, it’s time to move forward.We might’ve been busy, but that does
Grand Designs
Fintech intelligentsia light up when they hear about new payment processing platforms, sometimes referred to as "rails." It's an allusion to moving goods via railway with tracks, switches, sidings and all those other things grandpa used to reminisce about but that you've never actually seen in person — save for that one harrowing flight out of Midway Int'l in January 2015, when you swore you
It's a Process
Some things just take a long time. The campaigning. The lawsuits. The voting. The lawsuits. The counting. The lawsuits. The re-counting. The lawsuits. The certifications. The lawsuits. It’s a process. And, after all, nobody said democracy was easy. In fact, had the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck had the
Secret Networks
It certainly seemed that the team from Failure - the Podcast went into Covid-induced hibernation these past few months. We might say that we spent them on a promotional tour to shore up flagging subscriptions in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, with Joe Rogan putting the last few bricks into his “blue wall” of podcast fame in those hotly-contested markets — a wall, we will note
If Memory Serves ...
Before starring as the criminal mastermind, Wo Fat, in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O, Mark Dacascos emceed the Food Network hit, Iron Chef America. Though he probably never uttered the words himself, Dacascos will forever be associated with the iconic opening line “if memory serves me correctly …” that launched the Iron Chef brand into camp TV lore.If memory serves us correctly, it was a
The View from On High
Have you ever looked out over the Midwest farmlands while taking a cross country flight? Just another pretty view, you ask? The guests of today’s podcast think not.Whether the swamp lands in our nation’s capital or a cornfield in the Midwest, a picture can be worth a whole lot. Sure, a satellite photo might give you some insight into the corruption that is Washington DC, but a cornfield from on hi
Battle Royale
It takes a lot to rile the team from Failure - the Podcast — especially, when they’re recording an episode. So much so that one wonders whether they spend more time listening to themselves than to their guests. (Yeah, we get it. It’s a process, and at Mark’s age, a slow ship to turn.)But riled they were. In fact, Dave almost had a conniption arguing the benefits of angel investing over, what, equi
Scratch the Itch
We were curious. Just what is a skeeter? In the midwest it’s slang for mosquito. Perhaps, everywhere. Wikipedia thinks so. It lists “skeeter” as one of the top off-book expressions for the little disease-carrying buggers. Regardless, nobody seems to like them. Nobody, except the birds and the bats. Fish and frogs, too —- though, the latter might not be with us much longer, if the chytrid fungus ha
Dirty Laundry
Jennie Nigrosh’s epic failure on ABC’s “Shark Tank” in 2013 is the stuff of legends. The rising entrepreneur and founder/CEO of eco-friendly laundry-bag maker The Green Garmento got her legs cut out from under her during taping of the ABC reality show. Though she walked away without a penny from “the sharks,” her business took off. The Green Garmento, a multi-use alternative to plastic dry cleanin
Karen
This episode has nothing to do with Amy Cooper. In fact, it doesn’t mention any Karens or their victims. Amy’s dog was named Henry. He’s not in this podcast. Last we heard, he was back with the cocker spaniel rescue league. They are not mentioned in today’s episode, either. This episode has nothing to do with coronavirus. Nor, vaccines, anti-vaxxers or Betsy DeVos. In fact, although the episode wa
In the Beginning
So, let’s talk Internet. For sure, it had a beginning. Conventional wisdom says Al Gore gets the credit. The facts say otherwise — but who listens to them anymore. Haven’t you ever wondered how the Internet got started? The team from Failure - the Podcast hasn’t either. Given the number of times we repeat that old saw about Veep Gore, we really should, though. Our guest, for today’s
Steal this Podcast
Abby Hoffman would not be pleased. The Vietnam War-era activist and author of the iconic work, Steal this Book, had values after all. So why might today’s episode of Failure - the Podcast have Hoffman rolling in his grave? Perhaps, it’s because Hoffman was anti-establishment, whereas our guest, Jason Kraus, is an investor and author of Prepare 4 VC. He is a capitalist. Worse yet — we’re channeling
Timing. Timing. Timing.
“Timing. Timing. Timing. …. ?” Yep. You read well.It got the team from Failure - the Podcast thinking about the seafood wholesaler/restaurant supplier who opened his new business three days before the lockdown. By any standard, this was a no-brainer. People like fish, but don’t like to prep, cook and clean. Restaurants are good at that. The product’s known: no need to create a market, like, say, H
Appendix A
It’s tricky how the same word can mean so many different things. Take the word “is,” for example. At a low point in his presidency, Bill Clinton came up against a perjury charge when his own lawyer, Robert Bennett, told a federal judge that “there is absolutely no sex of any kind” between Clinton and then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Confronted with the obvious lie, Clinton argued that the
Some Things Aren't Easy
Some things just aren’t easy. Try explaining the presidential caucuses, for example. Even the NY Times has trouble with that one. Just because you’re a pro, doesn’t mean the words come easily. Writing an intro to this podcast has proven no exception. Regardless, join us in a discussion with Ron Murphy, CEO of Boston-based medical device company Theromics, and perhaps it will all come together for
Silence Would be Golden
We thought long and hard about publishing this podcast. With no guest in the mix, we were torn between 45 minutes of absolute silence (“dead air,” as they say in the business) and the same of pointless chatter between Mark and Dave. (We tried to drag Mic into the fray, but he said he’d be busy cleaning the rotary dialer on his cell phone). We consulted the oracle to see which would best help our f
Corporate Boards
Just like the title says, today’s episode is about corporate boards and … get this … corporate board failure. Fancy that: truth in advertising. Corporate board failure. Is it possible? What do boards do, after all? If their mission is to rubber stamp the CEO, that leaves a big margin for error. You’d practically have to have sat on the board of directors to Theranos to run into trouble. O
A Politician and a B-School Instructor Walk into a Bar ...
Notwithstanding what you may have thought about college psych, communications and business majors, the instructors who teach those disciplines can be as nerdy as any academician. Take the guest of our latest episode of Failure - the Podcast. Elaine Chen is an instructor on technology innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management at the Sloan School. That’s MIT’s prestigious B-school. (OK,
No Holding Back -- The Entrepreneur's Life
Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship can be a scary thing. Seasonally speaking, you could think of it as the Halloween of job changes: it’s best for young or the steel-nerved. (Yeah, we left out ignorant and desperate, but go with us here ....). For those who have what it takes, the plunge can be well worth it. Not only for the excitement of building a business from scratch but, for the lucky f
A Fistful of Dirt
Back in the day, the sale of land was consummated by a ceremonial act: the buyer gave to the seller a fistful of dirt from the property being sold. It was beauty in its simplicity. And, what could possibly go wrong? Either the buyer delivered the dirt or she didn’t. Well … the parties might have different understandings of the tract being sold. The supposed sale of the “back nine” of one man’s yar
The Great Unhack (or, How to Avoid Another "Trappuccino")
Listeners more erudite than us — yes, grammarians, it could be “we” — are undoubtedly familiar with Carole Cadwalladr. Her work was the subject of the recent Netflix documentary “The Great Hack,” exploring the weaponization of social media.The Cadwalladr and Netflix work adds further fuel to an on-going debate: would society be better off regulating Facebook, Twitter and the like as proposed by ce
Success Breeds Success
Our guest walked in saying he had so many failures, he kept a notepad to remember them. Even showed us the pad. Our mistake was we didn’t look closely. Surely, though, we should have known something was up when he said he had already listened to some of our episodes. In retrospect, we had to wonder whether that was casual listening — or something more akin to Belichick and Brady watching Rams vide
Make Education Great Again!
You’d think the team from Failure - the Podcast would learn. Screen, screen, screen. We have to screen our guests before making the invite. Certainly, we have to have a word or two with them before pressing the record button (assuming we remember to do that, at all). We think Mic’s confusing his cold calls for Failure - the Podcast with those for our favorite angel investment group. Instead of bri
Another MIT Party!
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in an irreverent tour of an MIT party, and learn — once again — what startups think about failure.
A Bamboo Bike Falls in the Forest …
We first met our guest, Randall Levere, in 2012. He had just launched Erba Cycles and was geared up (get it? geared up) to sell a new breed of bicycle — one that was not only environmentally friendly to ride, but also to produce. And, it was downright fine looking. Randall was a guest on our first podcast, The Tech Entrepreneur, and graced us with a discussion of turning a passion into a business.
The Storyteller
Before every good sale, there’s a story. For investors, it’s no different. You might think that all they want from the first meeting is the entrepreneur’s story. But, often, they have to tell stories of their own. After all, in some markets, willing investors are easy to come by. So whom to choose? The teller’s story may decide. Join the Team from Failure - the Podcast as venture capitalist
The Team Gets Schooled
You’d think that after 40+ episodes, the Team from Failure - the Podcast would know a thing or two about failure. We certainly thought we did, until we met today’s guest: futurist, speaker, author and leader Tom Koulopoulos. Turns out that Tom’s all about success through failure. Who knew? Perhaps we should have done some research on him, first. Anyway, we quickly learned that Tom travels the glob
The Poetry of Failure
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they explore a writer’s world with Ken Briodagh, a story teller and adventurist in the Connecticotian mold of Mark Twain — but with a tech twist.
Custom Rugs, Online - That’s a New One!
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion of the custom rug business. If you’re like us, you’ll learn about an online business you might never have imagined. But, on the other hand, who would have thought there was money to be made online in shoes, pre-packaged meds, or you name it …..
What, No Sharks?
Navigating life is challenge enough. Failure, it seems, is waiting at every turn. Most would imagine that living with a disability would only add to the worries. AccessSportAmerica has long recognized that resilience is the foil to the fear of failure. The Boston-based charity’s mission is to inspire people with disabilities. One of its key teaching aids: windsurfing! Join the Team from Failure -
Seven Co-Founders, Huh?
Seven is a big number when it comes to co-founders. You have to expect that most startups will go a few pivots before finding their niche. Try it with seven co-founders, and the number goes up exponentially.Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as the wind their way through the story of media and entertainment start-up ROTU with co-founder Jason Parks. He and the company are onto something, now
Don’t Count on Investors to Cover Your Backside
As listeners of a certain age will appreciate, when a man’s yearly physical goes beyond the “now, cough!” stage, things can become downright awkward. What more need we say, here, about the prostate exam? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Christopher LaFarge and learn that circles of torment are neither the exclusive realm of hell nor the health care system. From an entr
Doing Well by Doing Good
“Conversations” are a favorite topic of this podcast. This includes not only those attendant to new product introductions, but also those between entrepreneurs and investors. Today’s episode delves into both. Our guest, Brandale Randolph, is doing well by doing good. His business, 1854 Cycling Company, is built around the notion that a local business operating in the heart of the city can end reci
All is Well that Ends Well
Sebastien Mannai plans to bring oil wells into the 21st century. His company has not suffered any failures yet — or, at least, not any he would admit to — but Sebastien is hoping to prevent oil pump failures. His is a “good news” story. It’s not one we like to hear too often at Failure - the Podcast, but on a day when it seems like the world is going to hell in a handbasket, maybe this is just wha
Mass Challenge
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they fumble through a discussion of women’s bra’s with Athena Kasvikis, founder of Dreamweaver Intimates, as she readies to disrupt a highly profitable segment of the $1 billion women’s bra market. (Ok, actually, just Mic, Mark and Dave fumbled — Susan carried on per usual, though, with a smirk).
A Broken Link in the Blockchain
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Frank Gillett, of Forrester Research (yes, you heard his name before on this podcast — apparently, he did not learn the first time), as he takes us down the tortured road of an emerging technology. Whether the supposedly unsinkable Titanic, a foolproof Iranian nuclear reactor, the Internet of Things or, yes, even the blockchain, we shou
Eat and Run
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as we attempt to discuss our eponym with Derek Canton, founder of paerpay.com, a dine-and-dash startup that hopes to make eating and running profitable for everyone. We failed. He didn’t. It could go either way for you.
Pet Peeves
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they muddle through the life and times of Artur Sousa, whose many pivots may have resulted in one of the greatest businesses known to man and beast alike: adopets.com.
Failure in Health Care
Some would argue that “failure” is merely a label and that each of us is free to define the term as we wish. A prior presidential administration declared ketchup was a vegetable. Is the meaning of failure so fluid — and, if so, what does that say about attempts to define it for purposes of evaluating our health care system? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they explore this issue with p
Too Big to Fail?
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Tom Curry, the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.
Failing to Learn
Notes for Podcast #29:Read about our guest and his prior business.Listen to Podcast #21 for Roger Kahlon’s view equating starting a business with skiing.
The Powers that Be
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a conversation with Jeffrey Conklin of the consumer insights and data analytics giant J.D. Power and learn how it helps keep established players in industry from failing.
What's Up Doc?
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Susan Conover, of the Boston-based startup LuminDx, as they work their way through a discussion of the ups and downs of starting a business in the healthcare space.
Chef's Table
The team from Failure - The Podcast is easily distracted, esp., when the recording session is during dinner. Join them as the explore the wonderful world of food (and restaurant failure) with chef Peter Agostinelli.
Some Guys Have all the Luck
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast as they help a serial entrepreneur wade through a never-ending tale of deceit, fraud and redemption.
An MIT Party!
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in an irreverent tour of the party floor, and learn what startups think about failure.
This Guy has Worked with Them All
Join us in a discussion with management consultant extraordinaire John Stempeck, of Avalon Associates, for a raucous tour of some of the iconic businesses of the late 20th century. You’ll leave with a better appreciation for the Great Recession that followed in the early 21st century.
Virtual Reality is a Failure ... ? Probably Not.
Virtual reality, ... augmented reality, ... mixed reality, ... oh my! Is this just more hype from the tech industry, or is there really something to this? Grand View Research says that the market for virtual reality and alternative reality (VR/AR) was just under $1B in 2016 and predicts that it will grow many, many times that amount in the next several years. Tech Crunch puts the market at just ov
To MBA or not to MBA. That is the Question.
What’s the value of an MBA when it comes to starting a business? Join the team from Failure - The Podcast and judge for yourself.
And Now ... A Word from an Entrepreneur
A prior guest of the podcast likened markets to conversations. The entrepreneur introduces a product. The buying community accepts or rejects it. The entrepreneur tweaks and reintroduces the product. With luck, the buying community accepts it with more gusto. This back and forth, a conversation of sorts, continues until the entrepreneur and buying community reach "agreement" on what the product ou
The Pros from Dover
Jack of all spades. Master of none. Sometimes an enterprise — whether a startup or a multinational — can’t or shouldn’t try to do everything. Product design for example.If a company’s forte is ... say ... farm equipment, it ought think twice before getting into the baby products market, for example. Sure, maybe the latest wheat thrasher won the company accolades at the 2018 Iowa Power Farming Show
A Bit of Blockchain
A discussion of blockchain with Seth Berman, an expert on cybersecurity and criminal law. Join us, as Seth works his way through the intricacies of blockchain, bitcoin, and all that jazz.
Practicing What You Preach
The team of “Failure - The Podcast” isn’t immune from failure. Join us, and learn how we recovered (or not!) from our own failure when recording a session on the downfall of Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Algorithm is the Thing -- How a Tech Company went from Chasing an IPO to Failure.
The excess of the early 2000's was something to behold. Lying between the so-called Great Moderation of the 1990's and the Great Recession of 2008, money was flowing into the economy from everywhere. Spending was the order of the day, whether for consumer goods, automobiles, houses, or you name it. There would always be more money it seemed, and few wanted to be left out. Investors were no excepti
"Corporate" Venture Capital? Who knew?
Just when you thought you understood venture capital, along comes "corporate" venture capital a/k/a CVC. You’ll love how Wikipedia defines it: "The definition of CVC often becomes clearer by explaining what it is not." Huh? Digging deeper, the long and short of it is this: corporate venture capital is an investment that a company -- typically, a large player in the field --
Failure by Committee
You've probably heard the old expression: "a camel is a horse designed by a committee." Our guest, Ted Finn, lived it. Not with camels, but with footwear. Ted is a serial entrepreneur in that industry. Before starting his current company to bring the power of the internet to the insole, Ted ran a worldwide women's shoe design and manufacturing business. After a string
Some Thoughts on Pitching
The marketing pros will tell you that there's a right way to pitch and many wrong ways. That may be. But when you are on the front line, things change. Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. That applies to pitching, as well. That doesn't mean you shouldn't plan, of course. But you'll have to be flexible when it comes time to de
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