Founder Story

Our guest this week is Wade Shearer, an experienced software designer and creator of a Utah based tech community called Product Hive and the Front conference for product managers and designers. Wade has done some amazing things for the tech community in Utah. You’ll learn how he and his co-founders took a different approach with their group to build the community and events.

On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Ben Harris, founder of Nickel Dime Supplement Club. You’ll hear how Ben taught himself how to be an online marketer, including how he built relationships with influencers on YouTube to drive leads to his workout supplements on amazon. you’ll also hear   how Ben eventually sold his first business and built his second business, Nickel Dime Supplement Club.

On this week’s episode I’m joined via Skype by Vanessa Quigley, Co-founder of Chatbooks. A tech business that takes your instagram or camera photo roll and places it into a quality photobook. Vanessa and her fellow chatbookers have sold over a million books in the past couple of years alone. 

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On this week’s episode I’m joined by Tyler Richards, co-founder of Dev Mountain. A code, design, and QA education company. You’ll hear how Tyler and his friends came together to start the business and how they grew from a single class of students to an organization employing over 100 people. Music on this episode from the usuals, Andrew Applepie, Joakim Karud,and Tycho.

On this week’s episode of Founder Story I’m joined by my old friend Kemp Goodwin. One of the most solid like-able good people you could ever meet. Although we’ve been friends for a number of years I haven’t talked to him in depth about his business until now. Kemp is the founder of Big Boy Movers. On this episode you’ll hear how Kemp got the idea to start a moving company and turned it into an operation employing more than 40 people.

This week I'm joined by Jon Richards from Nomatic and Matix labs. You'll hear how Jon took $200 and a trip to Jo-Ann's fabric store to launch a series of successful business on kickstarter. You'll also hear keys to successful marketing on Facebook and the importance of good timing.

Music By: Andrew Applepie https://Andrewapplepie.com Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/JoakimKarud Tycho http://tychomusic.com

On this week's episode I'm joined by Cubby James creator of the wildly popular restaurant Cubby's. On this episode you'll hear how Cubby's has grown from 1 location in Provo to 8 along the wasatch front in 5 years.

You'll also hear how Cubby met Utah Jazz Coach Quinn Snyder 15 years ago and how they've gotten back in touch recently to create a signature burger named after coach.

Music from Andrew Apple Pie, Joakim Karud, and Tycho.

Hey guys, welcome back to Founder Story. This is season 1, episode 6, with Todd Olson from Pendo.

On this episode, you’ll hear how Todd started Pendo, and grew the company from a few friends, to a team of 109 people in 3 years, and how they’ve raised $45 million dollars for their company in the past year alone.

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Music on this episode from Andrew Apple Pie, Joakim Karud, and Tycho.

On this week’s episode of Founder Story, you’ll hear how Dave Clark with OM Digital took the idea of a Photo Booth, and a $13,000 investment from his siblings, and turned it into an international experiential marketing company, whose customers include Nike, Vanity Fair, and Luis Vuitton.

Music By: Andrew Applepie https://Andrewapplepie.com Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/JoakimKarud Tycho https://tychomusic.com

On this episode you'll learn how Taylor and his brothers took their love of woodworking from their garage in Idaho to the TV show Shark Tank and how they’ve grown a very successful eyewear company, that has a boots on the ground approach to giving back. You’ll also hear how Taylor's leveraging Kickstarter to launch successful businesses including his latest, Range Travel Goods. At the end of the episode, I’ll announce the winners of our giveaway.

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Andrew Applepie Andrewapplepie.com

Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/JoakimKarud