The final delivered pitch at TechAlliance’s 60-Second Pitch Competition at Voices.com. My good friend Zamir won with a fantastic pitch of his joy-creating product VidHug. Here is a link to the podcast: My pitch wasn’t my best. It wasn’t my worst. And, I learned a lot in the process of putting the pitch together, delivering […]

I’ve got quite a few important demos and pitches coming up. This includes the TechAlliance 60-second pitch competition at Voices.com. I’ve been conceptualizing and building Speak for several years now and spent many years before that honing my marketing skill set and practices. Trying to distill everything I’ve been working on for years into 60 […]

In this episode of Speak with Tyler Bryden, Tyler shares his thoughts on psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in over 200 species of mushrooms. Psilocybin mushrooms have been used in therapeutic settings to treat a wide variety of ailments and disorders including cluster headaches, obsessive-compulsive disorders, anxiety, depression, and addiction. But, although there […]

This week, I had the opportunity to go down to the Collision Conference (thank you Ryan!) which for the first time ever was held in Toronto. You could feel the significance of it taking place here in Toronto and Canada. Toronto is increasingly becoming a leader in technology and startups and to see people from […]

Did my first podcast in a bit! I speak about the different paths we can take in our lives, the fulfillment that comes from loving what we do, and loving the process regardless of the outcome. I also give an update on Speak and share some reasons why we have been successful with early pitches […]

After some time off, Tyler talks about information overload, the hero’s journey, and Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. He worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009 Yang2020 Transcript (Unedited) […]

Tyler speaks about working on Speak and the need for product builders to share their idea and get feedback early. Partway through, Tyler discusses neuromarketing whether Facebook has had a positive or negative net effect on the world. Tyler also looks at some more mental models around making decisions including opportunity cost, confirmation bias, loss […]

Tyler provides an update, talks about the new branding and name of the podcast, and shares some early details of Speak, his exciting new project. Check out the podcast on iTunes with the link below: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/speak-with-tyler-bryden/id1396635219?mt=2

Tyler starts exploring mental models, an explanation of someone’s thought process about how something works in the real world. Tyler takes a look at the Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO of DuckDuckGo’s article “Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful” and learns about mental models in the explaining, modelling, and learning model categories. Transcript (Unedited) Okay, I think […]

Tyler talks about the highly anticipated Elon Musk and Joe Rogan Podcast on the Joe Rogan Experience. He also discusses the Supreme Court Hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, the second Republican Judge possibly put into place during the Trump presidency. Lastly, Tyler pays his respects to Mac Miller, a significant hip-hop artist that has passed away. […]