From Founder To CEO

From Founder To CEO

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From Founder To CEO episodes

  • 072: Shark Tank Alum Builds Cake Empire By Taking Care Of Her Team
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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.
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      30 min
    7. 071: "You can run a business or you can grow a business," says Joshua Dorkin
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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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        36 min
      10. 070: Nathan Chan, Publisher of Foundr Magazine, Gets Personal About His Leadership Journey
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        Today's Podcast:
         
        Nathan Chan, Publisher and Editor - Foundr Magazine
         
        1. His startup story - "We choose the path we are least afraid of."
        2. How his two strengths - (a) Having an eye for talent (b) Being vulnerable and letting people help you - helped his grow his company.
        3. How using contractors helped him boot strap his growth.
        4. How his refreshing humility helped him grow Foundr Magazine.
        5. The challenges of being "firm" and holding others accountable when they may not meet expectations.
        6. How to balance giving team members room to grow and avoid mistakes from negatively impacting the business.
        7. How his experience with interns taught him how to let go, learn to work with others, and leverage his time and impact.
        8. Why hiring is so challenging and some tips to make it easier.
          9. 31 min
        9. 069: Can you balance consistency with opportunism to grow? Matt does.
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          Today's Podcast:
           
          Matt Barba, Co-founder & CEO - Placester
          • He viewpoint on sales: "We tried to sell from day one...we sat down and listened to people's businesses."
          • The power of face-to-face communications despite our tech tools.
          • How "Good old fashioned hard work and executing" built Placester.
          • How he spends his CEO time (He shares some interesting percentages of where he spends his time).
          • How he balances consistency and discipline with being open to "bluebird opportunities" to grow his company.
            • 25 min
          • 068: SPECIAL: Getting team buy-in for a pivot & entering new customer segments
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            Today's Podcast:
             
            Marc McLaughlin, International Partner & Business Strategy Designer - Business Models Inc.
             

            1 - GETTING TEAM BUY-IN: If, as a Founding CEO, you must relook your business model, how can you engage your team to embrace the business design model process…how can you get buy-in to relook the company business model?

            2 - NEW CUSTOMER SEGMENTS: If, as a Founding CEO, you are leading a successful company and you want to set your sights on new and unreached customer segments, but you do not have the budget to invest heavily in traditional market research, what can you do?

            31 min
          • 067: Forbes' 30 Under 30 Growth Hacker Is Reinventing Online Education
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            Today's Podcast:
             
            Mattan Griffel, Co-founder & CEO - One Month
             

            1. How necessity drove him to create his amazing company.
            2. This growth technique: students sharing their work with their friends.
            3. How the different phases of growing a business require different skills from a CEO.
            4. How important mastering these management challenges are to your success: communication, collaboration, clarity of roles, processes, accountability
            5. The importance of understanding your CEO strengths and weaknesses.
            6. The importance of being a good listener.
            7. Why thinking through things before taking action as a CEO is so important.
              8. 30 min
            8. 066: Can Empathy & Data-Driven Marketing Create Revenue? - Andrew Krebs-Smith Says Yes!
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              Today's Podcast:
               
              Andrew Krebs-Smith , CEO & Founder - Social Fulcrum

              1. The power of data-driven marketing.
              2. "Our ideas are often wrong...we need to test different approaches."
              3. "You tend to get pulled in the direction that the leads come."
              4. Matching client workload with employee capacity: leading and lagging indicators
              5. How allocating work functions amongst your team creates focus and growth.
              6. How empathy helps resolve conflict, hiring, and communication overall.
              7. Bringing on partners that compliment your strengths.
              8. BONUS: You won't want to miss his BIG Pinterest GOLDEN Marketing Nugget at the end of the interview.
                9. 36 min
              10. 064: How Laura Roeder leads the blistering fast growth of social media management company, Edgar
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                Today's Podcast:
                 
                Laura Roeder, Founder & CEO - Edgar
                 

                 
                1. "Product/market fit is really about all or nothing...it works or it doesn't."
                2. "If you can get some people to buy, you can get more people to buy."
                3. It's really important to leverage the audience that other people have built.
                4. "Most of my time is definitely spent on strategy."
                5. "To me, strategy means, is everyone at the company working towards the same goal and do we have our game plan clearly defined?"
                6. The importance of focus
                7. The challenges of hiring
                31 min

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