Can Do: Essential Business Lessons

Can Do: Essential Business Lessons

By Arnie ShermanBusiness
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Can Do: Essential Business Lessons episodes

  • Can Do: The Hacker's Life
    The CEO of Missoula, Montana’s LMG Security spends her work days finding ways to break into companies, then writing reports about what she finds. Meet author, lecturer and “security badass,” Sherri Davidoff . Influenced by the tradition of white-hat hacking at her alma mater, MIT, Davidoff is known as ‘Alien’ in the cyber-sleuthing world. After outing herself last year as Alien, she became the subject of a new book called Breaking and Entering , which profiles her adventures in the world of data
    32 min
  • Can Do: Seizing An Adventurous Life
    Brian Morgan has a superpower: he’s figured out how to turn his wanderlust into a thriving business. In 1999 he created Adventure Life , a Missoula, Montana-based travel business offering clients personalized tours around the globe. Morgan defines adventure travel as “Going somewhere that’s going to put you out of your comfort zone a little bit, and something that’s really going to introduce you to cultures and environments that you’re not familiar — that’s the core part of adventure.”
    34 min
  • Can Do: Helping Take Start-Ups To The Next Level
    Will Price’s motivation for founding Bozeman, Montana-based Next Frontier Capital in 2015 is deep-seated: he’s a member of an extended Montana family, and like many, work early in his career sent him far away from the state. By giving tech start-ups the capital they need to stay and create jobs for the next generation of Montanans, Price’s goal is nothing short of a reversal of the Treasure State’s historic brain-drain.
    39 min
  • Can Do: The Sweet Life
    Robin Béquet’s goal: “To make the best caramel anyone’s ever had. Period.” After 17 years and five recipe upgrades, she just might have achieved her goal. Béquet Confections , manufactured in Bozeman, Montana, has won a clutch of national awards. You can find their chewy, chocolate, chipotle or Celtic sea salt caramels on the shelves of over 1,000 gourmet stores.
    27 min
  • Can Do: The Fickle Business Of Sushi
    In 2009 Drake Doepke was living in Kauai as a self-described “beach bum” when he decided to move back to Montana and open a sushi restaurant. Nine years later and without any prior business experience, Doepke owns three successful Asian restaurants in Montana. Learn from Doepke about the "trails by fire" of starting a business from scratch, on this episode of "Can Do: Lessons From Savvy Entrepreneurs" with Arnie Sherman.
    26 min
  • Can Do: Opening A Worldwide Audience For Montana Businesses
    Many Montana entrepreneurs looking to enter into the global market turn to Brigitta Miranda-Freer , executive director of the Montana World Trade Center . The MWTC is located on the University of Montana campus in Missoula, and offers an array of services to assist businesses in taking their products into the world. Learn how Montana businesses can successfully operate on an international scale. Brigitta Miranda-Freer shares advice from her 20-year career in economic development and
    33 min
  • Can Do: Managing Happy Customers Around The Globe – From Montana
    Just seven years ago, the Missoula, Montana business-technology consulting wing of Advanced Technology Group (ATG) consisted of two people in a basement. Today, ATG employs more than 130 people in its quote-to-cash billing solutions center. What is “quote to cash?” It’s the process of fine-tuning a customer’s interaction with a company from start to finish - or the “full lifecycle of managing a customer, through buying something from your company,” explains Claude Sammoury , ATG’s vice president
    34 min
  • Can Do: Making A Product Good Enough For Your Dog
    Spencer Williams , founder of West Paw , was just 23 years old when he began manufacturing pet toys in Bozeman, Montana. The newly-minted entrepreneur reveled in the chance to try out new, untested strategies, which in turn fueled his entrepreneurial drive. “That’s what gets me excited about business,” Williams says. In the 22 years since, Williams has stuck by another founding motivation for getting into business: positively impacting his community by hiring employees locally and making a
    33 min
  • Can Do: Rebranding A Company In the Fintech Market
    When Zoot Enterprises hired Eric Hathaway three years ago, the financial services technology provider needed to refresh its entire brand, and Hathaway thrives on change. “I love to help businesses move to the next level – it drives me,” says Hathaway, Zoot’s vice president of marketing. Hathaway, who has a global business leadership resume including Credit Suisse, Standard & Poor's, Microsoft and T-Mobile, helped Zoot reposition itself in the “fintech” – financial technology – market and
    38 min
  • Can Do: Adventure-Seeking CEO Helps People Aquire Alternative Loans
    “Captain Dave” is a licensed river guide and environmental scientist who’s sailed across the Atlantic and picked bananas on a kibbutz in Israel. But his alter ego, Dave Glaser , is the president and CEO of MoFi , a Missoula-headquartered non-bank lender that has provided more than $500 million to entrepreneurs and organizations across the Northern Rockies region.
    28 min

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Can Do, MTPR's podcast on business and entrepreneurship hosted by Arnie Sherman is in its fifth season. This season will feature the same informative interviews and the lessons Montana business owners…