StartupJab

Join us for lucky episode 13. We’ll talk a little about raising money, a little about motivation and why we work, and maybe a little Xbox and Barbie thrown in for good measure. We’ll also take questions from the audience and the mailbag.

Live on October 26 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT.

WeWork Used These Documents To Convince Investors It’s Worth Billions: http://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/how-wework-convinced-investors-its-worth-billions#.id3nWbo20

WeWork CEO: The best advice I ever got came from my wife: http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/wework-neumann-best-advice/

After 59 years, Mattel gets it right: the new Barbie ad is awesome: http://www.catchnews.com/culture-news/after-59-years-mattel-gets-it-right-the-new-barbie-ad-is-awesome-1445076134.html

The paradoxical, pressure-filled quest to build a “personal brand”: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122910/my-paradoxical-quest-build-personal-brand

Xbox Elite Controller: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/controllers/elite-wireless-controller

We’ll be joined by award-winning comedian and writer Brock Wilbur of the Brock Party podcast. We’ll talk about the business of being funny, making a living as a comedian, why beards are the best, and maybe also chainsaws. His podcast has 10 times as many episodes as ours so he must know what he’s doing. We dare you not to laugh.

Join us live on October 21 at 1pm EDT/10am PDT.

We were joined by two brilliant women who are building a digital marketing and communications consulting business: The Good Lemon. We know that the startup space is different (and in many cases more difficult) for women. Come listen to some folks who are more qualified than we are to talk about that.

Megan and Katie will shared their perspectives and answered questions from the audience about what it’s like as women starting their own business, how to get a business up and running quickly, and graciously gave us some free digital communications advice.

Megan and Katie also mentioned two of their clients during the show. Those links are here.

Flashband

https://flashband.org/

Phillips Black Juvenile Justice

http://www.phillipsblack.org/juvenile-justice/

Originally aired October 12 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT.

More original artwork by friend-of-the-show Mr. Wonderful.

The stellar Lauren Worley took some time out of her busy day at NASA to talk with us about the business side of space. We also talk about water on Mars, commercial space exploration, The Martian (and dust vs lightning storms), communications and marketing in space, other targets for exploration, preventing asteroids from hitting Earth, and the process of breaking big stories from the outer limits.

Originally aired October 5 at 1pm EDT/10am PDT.

NASA’s Software Catalog

https://software.nasa.gov/

Project Apollo Archive

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

NASA’s Office of Space Economics

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/spaceeconomics

Gizmodo Story: NASA’s free software

http://gizmodo.com/get-software-for-designing-rockets-and-piloting-drones-1705786298

NASA’s Prizes and Challenges

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/openinnovation

NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-asteroid-grand-challenge-turns-two

NASA’s LAUNCH initiative – partnership with Nike and others

http://www.launch.org

NASA’s The Real Martians

https://www.nasa.gov/realmartians

Stop Digging Your Own Hole! – by Mr. Wonderful

We talked about water on mars, how to hire top performers, our favorite interview questions, why culture matters, and why free beer and ping-pong don’t.

Originally aired September 28 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT.

“Let’s Get Digital”

James Li joined us to talk all about Encore Alert, social media, marketing, 500 Startups, and even a bit of hiring. He also gave us an exclusive scoop on an upcoming Encore Alert feature release coming later this week. Sol joined in to ask and answer a few questions about social media and MINR.

Also, we’d like to send out a special thanks to Mr. Wonderful for our first ever fan art.

Originally Aired on September 21 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT.

Dominique joined us to talk about her business, personal finance for entrepreneurs, unpaid interns, and how your first experience with money shapes your attitudes towards money.

Originally aired September 15 at 3pm EDT/12pm PDT.

We took questions from the audience during an open, office hours style session.

Originally aired September 9 at 4pm EDT/1pm PDT.

We talk about the business side of eSports, upcoming games, and the future of the industry.

Originally aired September 4 at 2pm EDT/11am PDT.

After some hilarious antics trying to get a webcam working on Windows 10, Ryland and Frank give some insight into mission statements, working for yourself, balancing a relationship with a startup, and the value of co-working spaces. Also goldfish & space yachts.

Originally aired on August 31 at 3pm EDT.